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Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes.
Recovering from a gunshot wound, Copenhagen Detective Carl Mørck is assigned to cold cases and looks into the disappearance of a politician from a ferry.

Susan Wittig Albert, Mourning Gloria.
Herbalist China Bayles becomes concerned when a cub reporter disappears while working on a story about a deadly arson fire in a trailer park.

Donna Andrews, The Real Macaw.
Meg Lanslow finds her home filled with animals liberated from the local shelter after its no-kill policy is repealed, and then one of the animal rights activists is murdered.

Lawrence Block, A Drop of the Hard Stuff.
During Matthew Scudder’s first year of sobriety, an old friend in AA is gunned down while trying to complete the 12 steps by seeking forgiveness from those he wronged.

S.J. Bolton, Now You See Me.
As police seek a serial killer patterning crimes on Jack the Ripper, one detective begins to suspect a connection to a constable with a mysterious past.

Rhys Bowen, Naughty in Nice.
In 1933, Lady Georgie is sent by the Queen to retrieve a stolen snuffbox on the French Riviera, where she ends up modeling for Coco Chanel and being arrested as a murder suspect.

Jane Casey, The Burning.
The only woman on a murder squad investigating a serial killer who burns his victims bodies is assigned to look into the background of the latest victim who doesn’t quite fit the profile.

Richard Castle, Heat Rises.
NYPD Detective Nikki Heat pairs up with bestselling author Jameson Rook when a parish priest is found dead in a bondage club.

Michael Connelly, The Drop.
LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is puzzled when DNA links a 1989 rape case to a sex offender who was only 8 years old at the time. Meanwhile, a city councilman insists that Bosch investigate his son’s apparent suicide.

Colin Cotterill, Killed at the Whim of a Hat.
A Thai crime reporter reluctantly leaves the big city when her mother buys a rural resort, but her mood improves when two skeletons are found buried in a VW bus on a nearby farm.

David Dickinson, Death in a Scarlet Coat.
A dying doctor confesses to Lord Powerscourt that he falsified the death certificate of an Earl who was found dead on his horse before a fox hunt.

Gary Disher, Wyatt.
Expecting an easy jewel heist, Australian master thief Wyatt finds himself double-crossed.

Charles Finch, Burial at Sea.
In 1873, Charles Lennox is sent to Egypt when the deaths of five British spies threaten relations with France, but the voyage is interrupted by the murder of a sailor.

Earlene Fowler, Spider Web.
As Benni Harper organizes an oral history project for the Memory Festival, the town is disrupted by a sniper which triggers flashbacks in Benni’s Vietnam veteran husband.

Felix Francis, Gamble.
A former jockey turned financial advisor is shocked when a colleague is gunned down next to him at the Grand National, and he discovers a threatening note and some financial irregularities that may point to a motive.

Sue Grafton, V Is for Vengeance.
Kinsey Millhone ends up with a broken nose and two black eyes when she tries to stop a shoplifter who later dies in a suspicious suicide.

Steve Hamilton, Misery Bay.
On Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, PI Alex McKnight is asked by a police chief who dislikes him to help his friend find out why his son apparently killed himself.

Carolyn Hart, Dead by Midnight.
Bookstore owner Annie Darling disagrees with the official ruling that one of her employees committed suicide.

Reginald Hill, The Woodcutter.
A woodcutter’s son who became a successful entrepreneur loses everything when he’s convicted of fraud and child pornography and plots revenge on whoever framed him.

J.A. Jance, Betrayal of Trust.
The governor of Washington State asks J.P. Beaumont for help when a video of a girl being strangled is sent to her grandson’s cellphone.

Lene Kaarberbol & Agnete Friis, The Boy in the Suitcase.
In Copenhagen, a nurse is asked by an estranged friend to pick up a suitcase from a train station locker, where she finds a drugged boy who doesn’t speak Danish and is being hunted for unknown reasons.

William Kent Krueger, Northwest Angle.
During a houseboat vacation on Lake of the Woods, Cork O’Connor and his daughter are stranded on an island where they discover a dead girl and a live baby and find themselves hunted throughout the Northwest Angle.

G.M. Malliet, Wicked Autumn.
A disillusioned MI5 agent becomes a vicar in an English village and helps the local police when a bossy woman is poisoned during the Harvest Fayre.

Henning Mankell, The Troubled Man.
As an aging Kurt Wallender worries about becoming more forgetful, he finds himself entangled in a case involving Cold War intrigue when a retired naval officer disappears after telling him about a submarine incident in Swedish waters in 1980.

G.A. McKevett, A Decadent Way to Die.
PI Savannah Reid is hired to find out who is trying to kill a matriarch who owns a popular doll company.

Denise Mina, The End of the Wasp Season.
DI Alex Morrow discovers a connection between the savage beating death of a woman found with a large stash of cash and the suicide of a disgraced financier.

Carson Morton, Stealing Mona Lisa.
In 1911, a marquis recruits a team of thieves to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre.

Jo Nesbo, The Snowman.
Norwegian detective Harry Hole seeks a killer who makes snowmen in the victims’ yards.  

Louise Penny, A Trick of the Light.
After opening a successful exhibit at a Montreal museum, an artist finds a body in her garden and Chief Inspector Gamache is called in to investigate.

Ian Rankin, The Complaints.
Edinburgh DI Malcolm Fox investigates an allegedly dirty cop, who in turn is investigating the death of Fox’s sister’s abusive boyfriend.

J.D. Robb, New York to Dallas.
Eve Dallas is forced to return to her hometown when a pedophile she caught years ago escapes from Rikers and taunts her by taking a new victim hostage in Dallas.

S.J. Rozan, Ghost Hero.
PI Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith are hired by an art collector to find out about rumored new works by a subversive Chinese artist who was killed 20 years ago in Tiananmen Square.

C.J. Sansom, Heartstone.
In 1545 as England prepares for war with France, the Queen asks Matthew Shardlake to look into a wrong done to a ward of the court which may be linked to the incarceration of a woman in Bedlam.

Sally Spencer, Echoes of the Dead.
When a dying man who served 20 years for murdering a girl claims he was coerced to confess, DCI Monika Paniatowski tries to discover the truth and clear the name of her old boss, Charlie Woodend, who conducted the original investigation.

Dana Stabenow, Though Not Dead.
Kate Shugak’s elderly uncle dies and leaves behind a cryptic letter reading “Find My Father”—a man who disappeared long ago with a priceless icon—sending Kate on a search pursued by dangerous adversaries.

Michael Stanley, Death of the Mantis.
Botswana Detective Bengu tries to determine whether three Bushmen found standing around a dying Park Ranger in the Kalahari were responsible for his death.

James Thompson, Lucifer’s Tears.
Helsinki Detective Kari Vaara deals with family matters along with two complicated cases involving the murder of a Russian businessman’s wife and the possibility that a Finnish war hero was really a collaborator.

John Verdon, Shut Your Eyes Tight.
Former NYPD Detective Dave Gurney’s attempts to retire are once again interrupted when he’s asked to look into the case of a bride beheaded at her wedding reception.