By E. W. Hornung

Arthur Raffles is a well-liked member of London society, and a countrywide wearing hero. As a cricketer he frequently represents England in try out suits. He makes use of this as an opportunity to devote a couple of burglaries, basically stealing necessary jewelry from his hosts. during this, he's assisted by means of his buddy, the more youthful, idealistic Bunny Manders. either males are consistently less than the surveillance of Inspector Mackenzie of Scotland backyard who's continually thwarted in his makes an attempt to pin the crimes on Raffles... This moment rip-roaring choice of brief tales approximately Raffles, the Gentleman Thief, has been in particular formatted for today's e-readers by way of Andrews united kingdom.

By Mary Higgins Clark

Within the gripping new novel from the Queen of Suspense, a lady is haunted via grisly murders separated via greater than a century, but by some means, inextricably linked...

Following a foul divorce and the trauma of being stalked, legal safeguard lawyer Emily Graham leaves Albany to paintings in ny. yearning roots, she buys her ancestral domestic, a Victorian condominium within the beach inn city of Spring Lake, New Jersey. Her family members offered the home in 1892, after one among Emily's forebears, Madeline Shapley, then a tender lady, disappeared.

because the home is renovated and a pool dug, a skeleton is located and identiWed as Martha Lawrence, a tender Spring Lake lady who vanished a number of years in the past. inside of her hand is the Wnger bone of one other girl, with a hoop -- a Shapley relations heirloom -- nonetheless on it. made up our minds to Wnd the relationship among the 2 murders, Emily turns into a probability to a seductive killer...who chooses her because the subsequent sufferer.

By Jonathan Kellerman

NEW YORK instances BESTSELLER • Don’t leave out the excerpt of Jonathan Kellerman’s The Murderer’s Daughter in the again of the book!

Jonathan Kellerman writes razor-sharp novels that reduce to the short. Now comes Motive, which pits psychologist Alex Delaware and murder cop Milo Sturgis opposed to a vicious legal mind—the variety purely Kellerman can deliver to chilling life.
 
Even having thousands of closed circumstances to his credits can’t continue LAPD police lieutenant Milo Sturgis from agonizing over the crimes that don’t get solved—and the sufferers who pass with out justice. sufferers like Katherine Hennepin, a tender girl strangled and stabbed in her domestic. A unmarried suspect with an effective alibi results in a lifeless end—one even Alex Delaware’s specialist perception can’t clarify. the one factor to do is stream directly to the subsequent homicide case—because there’s continually a subsequent one.
 
This time the sufferer is Ursula Corey: a profitable, appealing divorcée who’s been gunned down—not a theft yet an execution, a criminal offense that smacks of easy, savage revenge. And in addition to that theoretical purpose come robust contenders for the position of perp: the useless woman’s enterprise partner/ex-husband and her divorce lawyer/secret lover. yet simply as Alex and Milo imagine they’re zeroing in at the probably suspect, a extraordinary new clue stirs up eerie echoes of the unsolved Hennepin homicide. And the invention of one more crime scene bearing a similar taunting signature increases the threat of a serial killer on a venture, whose twisted strategy is surpassed in basic terms via his manipulative and crafty madness.

Praise for Motive
 
“Jonathan Kellerman has mastered the paintings of lean, evocative prose [in] a sequence that grows superior with each one volume.”—New York magazine of Books
 
“One of [Kellerman’s] most sensible works to this point . . . Motive is splendidly made, both well-driven via plot and personality, and shouldn’t be missed.”—Bookreporter
 
“[Motive] will also continue style veterans guessing. . . . The twists are either surprising and logical, and the byplay among the leads entertaining.”—Publishers Weekly
 
Praise for Jonathan Kellerman
 
“Jonathan Kellerman’s psychology talents and darkish mind's eye are a effective literary mix.”—Los Angeles Times
 
“A grasp of the mental thriller.”—People
 
“The mix of Alex Delaware [and] Detective Milo Sturgis . . . makes for the main unique whodunit duo in view that Watson and Holmes.”—Forbes

By Mary Daheim

Nestled within the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, the captivating hamlet of Alpine is getting ready for Thanksgiving, whereas Emma Lord, editor and writer of The Alpine Advocate, feels her spirits sink. there'll be no relatives or associates to proportion the day, yet a choice from Sheriff Milo evade at the Monday after the vacation weekend leaves her no time to wallow. 3 alarming letters, despatched to the sheriff from an nameless author, assert that the homicide conviction of Alpine resident Larry Petersen ten years previous used to be the results of a wrongful arrest. including to the miscarriage of justice, Petersen lately died in the back of bars. Then a fourth letter arrives, threatening retribution within the kind of one other death—most most likely Emma’s or Milo’s. Mary Daheim’s Emma Lord novel is a wealthy and genuine combination of small-town existence and chilling menace.

By Mary Anne Kelly

Home for the 1st time in a decade, a photographer is sucked right into a homicide investigation

Claire dozes within the hammock at the entrance porch of her kinfolk domestic in Queens, baking within the early morning warmth, and hardly ever glances up while a automobile drives by means of. Ten years in the past, she misplaced her brother, a rookie cop who made the error of attempting to cause with a mugger, and she or he left domestic to commute the realm. Now she is again, digicam in hand. the youngsters of the Breslinsky household—a cop, a photographer, a journalist, and an odd little boy—live in a kingdom of conscientiously managed chaos. yet anything is ready to throw the total local into whole disarray, the Breslinskys included.

The physique of a tender boy is located within the woods, molested, overwhelmed, and murdered. Claire can have obvious the killer riding away, and her look for him will positioned her relatives without delay within the line of fireplace.

By Phillip Margolin

They have been younger, well known, the proper couple—an all-American boy and a stunning cheerleader. however the younger ardour that led them to Lookout Park thatterrible night may turn out deadly. For Richie Walters the top got here speedily, as demise descended upon him in a savage orgy of awful violence. Elaine Murray may dwell lengthy adequate to benefit simply how fortunate her boyfriend were . . .

Two brutal slayings have rocked a surprised urban. however the murders are purely the nightmare's starting, flinging open a terrifying Pandora's field of sordid secrets and techniques and darkish revelations extra lethal than the bloodlust that lives within the rock-hard center of a killer.

By J. A. Jance

A riveting novel of darkish secrets and techniques and murderous rage that includes Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont from the New York Times bestselling writer of Betrayal of Trust

In demise, they have been entwined like lovers—a guy and a girl hideously slaughtered, then crammed right into a closet within the Seattle tuition District development. yet what looks a cut-and-dried crime of ardour, entire with an excellent major suspect, is going deeper than investigating detective J.P. Beaumont may possibly ever have imagined. For an accused betrayed husband is retaining anything stunning conscientiously hidden, a terrifying fact that’s warmer and extra sordid than extramarital intercourse. and a few secrets and techniques are extra deadly than murder.

By Andrew Pyper

Do not all young ones imagine there is a haunted apartment of their neighbourhood? are you able to bear in mind yours? What if, as a baby, you knew whatever undesirable particularly had occurred in that residence? What should you really observed it? then you definitely attempted to disregard it for the following thirty years. after which, in the future, you needed to return within that residence? Andrew Pyper's THE GUARDIANS is a ghost tale for grown-ups. organize to go into the Thurman residence on Caledonia highway. you've been warned...

By Michael Palmer

Within the tiny city of endurance, California, newcomer Dr. Abby Dolan has spotted a daunting syndrome between her emergency room patients.  It starts off with a baffling, probably minor set of signs, yet builds relentlessly until eventually it plunges its sufferers into insane, murderous rages.  As she searches for clues to this lethal secret, Abby's superiors make it transparent her probing is unwelcome.

Soon Abby will research simply how excessive the price of the reality may well be--and how a long way anyone will visit continue a deadly secret.  But she won't find the solution until eventually it really is too past due to avoid wasting her sufferers, her career...her existence.