Dear Readers,
Following is a list of mysteries published this month. I have noted where MBTB would have shelved each title, please see the bottom of this window for a key to MBTB's sections.
Author | Title | Price | MBTB section | Series | Theme |
Abbott, Victoria | Sayers Swindle |7.99 | SB | Book Collectors | Adler-Olsen, Jussi | Purity of Vengeance | 26.95 | SHOT | Dept. Q | Denmark |
Barbieri, Maggie | Once Upon a Lie | 24.99 | CHER | Maeve Conlon | Bates, Quentin | Chilled to the Bone | 26.95 | SHOT | Officer Gunnhildur | Iceland | Becker, James | Lost Testament | 9.99 | EOS | Chris Bronson | Benison, C.C. | Ten Lords A Leaping | 25.00 | SB | Father Tom Christmas | Bentley, Jennie | Home for the Homicide | 7.99| SB | Home improvement | Berry, Steve | King's Deception | 9.99 | EOS | Cotton Malone | Blackwell, Juliet | Home for the Haunting | 7.99 | IA | Haunted Renovation | Block, Lawrence | Burglar Who Counted the Spoons | 14.99 | HB | Bernie Rodenbarr | Bradley, Alan | Speaking from Among the Bones | 15.00 | ONCE | Flavia de Luce |
Cass, Laurie | Lending a Paw | 7.99 | SB | Bookmobile | Clancy, Tom | Threat Vector | 8.99 | EOS | Jack Ryan Jr. | Clemens, Judy | Leave Tomorrow Behind | 14.95 |CHER |Stella Crown | Connelly, Michael | Gods of Guilt | 28.00 | FC | Mickey Haller | Conrad, Hy | Mr. Monk Helps Himself | 7.99 | PTC | Monk TV show | Coyle, Cleo | Billionaire Blend | 25.95 | SB | Coffeehouse | Craig, Elizabeth | Quilt Trip | 7.99 | SB | Southern Quilters | Crosby, Molly | Great Pearl Heist | 16.00 | ONCE |
Davies, David Stuart | Brothers in Blood | 14.95 | CRIM | Davis, Krista | Murder She Barked | 7.99 | SB | Pet hotel| Dilts, Catherine | Stone Cold | 25.95 | SB | Rock shop | Dunn, Carola | Heirs of the Body | 24.99 | ONCE | Daisy Dalrymple |
Elkins, Aaron | Dying on the Vine | 7.99 | SB | Gideon Oliver | Ephron, Hallie | There was an Old Woman | 14.99 | CHER | Estleman, Loren D. | Roy and Lillie | 14.99 | ONCE | Judge Roy Bean / Lillie Langtry|
Ferris, Monica | And Then You Dye | 7.99 | SB | Needlecraft | Fowler, Christopher | Invisible Code | 26.00 | YB | Peculiar Crimes Unit |
Gage, Leighton | Perfect Hatred | 14.95 | SHOT | Insp. Mario Silva | Brazil| Gerritsen, Tess | Body Double | 9.99 | MED | Rizzoli & Isles | Grafton, Sue | Kinsey and Me | 9.99 | CHER | Stories| Greenwood, Kerry | Electra | 14.95 | ONCE | Greek myths Grippando, James | Blood Money | 9.99 | RD | Jack Swteck |
Haas, Derek | Right Hand | 15.00 | EOS | Austin Clay | Hall, James W. | Going Dark | 25.99 | HB | Thorn | Florida| Halter, Paul | Crimson Fog | 19.99 | SHOT | France | Hamilton, Donald | Shadowers | r | 7.99 | NOIR | Matt Helm | Hart, Carolyn | Cry in the Night | 7.99 | CHER | Non series | Haynes, Dana | Ice Cold Kill | 9.99 | HOME | Daria Gibron | Hess, Joan | Murder as a Second Language |25.99 | CHER | Claire Malloy | Hicks, Jonathan | Demons Walk Among Us | 16.95 | ONCE | WWI| Holloway, Emma Jane | Study in Ashes | 7.99 | IA |
Jackson, Lisa / Bush, Nancy | Sinister | 7.99 | TALL | Jaffarian, Sue Ann | Secondhand Stiff |14.99 | WW | Odelia Grey | James, David | Not so Model Home | 7.99 | SB | Amanda Thorne | Jardine, Quentin | Pray for the Dying | 26.95 | SHOT | Bob Skinner | Scotland |
Katzenbach, John | Traveler | r | 15.00 | CRIM | Kellerman, Jonathan | Guilt | 9.99 | FC | Alex Delaware | Knott, Robert | Ironhorse |9.99 | HB | Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch | Western | Koontz, Dean | Innocence | 28.00 | HOR | Krajewski, Marek | End of the World in Breslau | 15.95 | SHOT | Eberhard Mock | Poland | Kramer, Julie | Shunning Sarah | 7.99 | CHER | Riley Spartz |
Laukkanen, Owen | Criminal Enterprise | 9.99 | EOS | Carla Windermere | Lawson, M.A. | Rosarito Beach | 26.95 | EOS | Kay Hamilton | Leon, Donna | My Venice & Other Essays |26.00 | SHOT | Essays | Leonard, Elmore | Bounty Hunter | r | 14.99 | CRIM | Western | Leonard, Elmore | Escape from Five Shadows | r | 14.99 | CRIM | Western | Leonard, Elmore | Forty Lashes Less One | r | 14.99 | CRIM |Western| Leonard, Elmore | Law at Randado | r | 14.99 | CRIM | Western| Levine, Laura | Death by Pantyhose |7.99 | WW | Jaine Austen | Lewis, Mitchell Scott | Evil in the 1st House | 14.95 | IA | David Lowell | Astrology Lloyd, Catherine | Death Comes to the Village | 15.00 | ONCE | Regency England | Logan, Kylie | Buttoned Up | 7.99 | SB | Button Box | Lustbader, Eric Van | Bourne Retribution | 28.00| EOS| Jason Bourne |
Mann, Don | Hunt the Falcon | 26.00 | EOS | Seal Team Six | McGilloway, Brian | Nameless Dead |12.95 | SHOT | Insp. Devlin | Ireland | McLean, Margaret | Under Oath | 7.99 | RD | Milchman, Jenny | Cover of Snow | 15.00 | CHER | Mitzner, Adam | Case of Redemption | 7.99 | RD | Dan Sorenson | Motte, Anders de la | Game |16.00 | SHOT | Henrik Petterson | Sweden|
Neuhaus, Nele | Snow White Must Die |14.99 | SHOT | Oliver von Bodenstein | Germany| Ohlsson, Kristina | Silenced | 15.00 | SHOT | Fredrika Bergman | Sweden| Oust, Gail | Rosemary and Crime | 24.99 | SB | Piper Prescott | Spice shop|
Pattison, Eliot | Mandarin Gate | 15.95 | SHOT | Shan | Tibet| Perry, Anne | Christmas Hope |18.00 | ONCE | William Monk| Christmas| Pronzini, Bill/Muller, Marcia | Spook Lights Affair |24.99 | HB | Carpenter & Quincannon | 1890s San Francisco| Purser, Ann | Found Guilty at Five | 7.99 | SB | Lois Meade | Purser, Ann | Scandal at Six | 25.95 | SB | Lois Meade |
Royal, Priscilla | Covenant with Hell | 14.95 |ONCE | Prioress Eleanor| Medieval|
Shelton, Paige | Merry Market Murder | 7.99 | SB | Farmer's market| Smith, Karen Rose | Staged to Death |7.99 | SB | Home staging| Stroby, Wallace | Shoot the Women First |24.99 | NOIR |Crissa Stone|
Taylor, Mary Ellen | Sweet Expectations | 15.00 | SB | Union Street Bakery | Tettensor, E.L. | Darkwalker | 7.99 | IA | Nicolas Lenoir | Victorian fantasy| Thomas, Samuel | Midwive's Tale | 14.99 | ONCE | 1600s England| Tinsley, Molly Best | Broken Angels |16.99 | EOS | Ukraine|
Woods, Stuart | Unintended Consequences | 9.99 | CRIM | Stone Barrington |
Zouroudi, Anne | Doctor of Thessaly | 15.00 | SHOT|Hermes Diaktoros | Greece| Key to store sections where MBTB would have shelved each title:
CHER = Cherchez La Femme ( By & about modern women) CRIM = Criminal Pursuits (Suspense and Crime Fiction) EOS = Enemies of the State ( Political thrillers) FC= A Fair Cop (American-style police procedurals) GOLD = The Butler Did It (Classic writers from Mystery’s Golden Age) HIGH = HIGH CRIMES ( Literary mysteries ) HB = Hard-boiled heroes ( From Sam Spade to Jack Reacher) Home = On the Home Front ( Northwest authors or locations) HOR = Horrors! ( Supernatural thrillers) IA = Illegal Aliens ( Science fiction or fantasy mysteries) MED = THE CUTTING EDGE ( Medical mysteries) NOIR = THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (Classic and Modern Noir )
ONCE = Once Upon a Crime (Historical mysteries) OTW = OFF THE WALL (Offbeat humor ) PTC= Prime Time Crime ( Related to movies or TV shows) RD = A Reasonable Doubt...at a reasonable price! ( Legal thrillers) REF = Reference works SB = Soft-boiled sleuths (Cozies with amateur detectives) SHER = Sherlockiana (By Doyle or about Holmes) SHOT= Shot on Location ( Featuring other cultures, both foreign and Native American) TALL = TALL, DARK & DEADLY ( Romantic suspense) YB = Yardbirds ( British police detectives) MBTB = MBTB Picks (Our selections of the years’ best paperbacks) |
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