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The Crypt Thief: A Hugo Marston Novel
Mark Pryor
May 2013
The second Hugo Marston mystery begins when two tourists are murdered in the famous Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The killer leaves the bodies untouched but moves deeper into the cemetery, where he breaks into the crypt of a long-dead Moulin Rouge dancer. In a bizarre twist, he disappears into the night with part of her skeleton. |
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I Hear the Sirens in the Street: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel
The Troubles Trilogy, Book Two
Adrian McKinty
May 2013
A torso in a suitcase looks like an impossible case.
But Sean Duffy isn't easily deterred, especially when his floundering love life leaves him in need of distraction. So, with Detective Constables McCrabban and McBride, he goes to work identifying the victim. The torso turns out to be all that's left of an American tourist who once served in the US military. What was he doing in Northern Ireland in the midst of the 1982 Troubles? |
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The Trojan Colt: An Eli Paxton Mystery
Mike Resnick
June 2013
What starts as a routine security assignment turns
out to be anything but for down-on-his-luck private eye Eli Paxton. Hired to guard the high-priced yearlings of "Trojan," a recently retired classic winner in Lexington, Kentucky, Paxton is no sooner on the job than he must respond to a fracas in the horse barn. |
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Corrupt Practices: A Parker Stern Novel
Robert Rotstein
June 2013
Parker Stern's legal career is on the rise. But when his mentor Harmon Cherry commits suicide, Parker begins experiencing stage fright so severe that he becomes paralyzed whenever he steps into a courtroom. Unable to work, he languishes at a coffee house that is owned by his former law partner (and occasional lover) Deanna Poulos. |
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Escape from Paris
Carolyn Hart
June 2013
The year is 1940. As England braces for invasion and the German army overruns Europe,
two American sisters in Paris risk their lives to save a downed British airman from Nazi arrest. |
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Brave Hearts
Carolyn Hart
August 2013
Catharine Cavanaugh is caught in a loveless marriage. Married to a British diplomat, she goes
through the motions of playing the dutiful American wife in war-time London, while nightly German
bombers bring terror and death to the city. Then she meets American war correspondent Jack
Maguire and discovers hope and love again in the midst of desolation. |
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Sugar Pop Moon: A Jersey Leo Novel
John Florio
July 2013
Jersey Leo is the quintessential outsider—an albino of mixed race. Known as "Snowball" on the street, he makes a living as the bartender at a mob-run speakeasy in Prohibition-era Hell's Kitchen. Being neither black nor white, he has no group to call his own. His own mother abandoned him as a baby. And his father—a former boxing champ with his own secrets—disapproves of Jersey's work at a dive owned by one of New York's most notorious gangsters. |
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A Killing at Cotton Hill: A Samuel Craddock Mystery
Terry Shames
July 2013
"Rodell wouldn't know how to investigate his way out of an outhouse with two doors," says attorney Jenny Sandstone. It's true. The chief of police of Jarrett Creek, Texas, doubles as the town drunk. |
