Mysteries

By Claudia Mair Burney (Howard Books)

Amanda Bell Brown is a woman on the edge. How’s a woman supposed to nurse a broken heart when her pet sugar glider is driving her batty, or is that squirrelly? The deafening tick of her biological clock and having no Jazz to soothe her makes Amanda Bell Brown one frazzled forensic psychologist. When Lieutenant Jazz Brown shows up at Amanda’s door unannounced, her heart competes with her head as she struggles to do the right thing. Jazz says he wants to reconnect and make their relationship work. But there’s just one tiny problem: his ex-wife is found murdered – in his apartment.

By V. B. Tenery (CBC Publishing, a division of CBC Services)

Finding a killer in the middle of a blitz is murder. When a cryptanalyst in Britain’s top secret Code and Cypher School is murdered, alarms sound in the highest echelons of Parliament. Was it merely a lover’s quarrel that ended her life, or was she killed after telling the Germans everything they wanted to know? That’s what MI6 Agent, Commander Grey Hamilton must find out. He is joined in the chase by an old university friend from Scotland Yard, and a young American genius who has been singled out by the killer as his next victim. As the Luftwaffe escalates its reign of terror over London, the unlikely team dodges bombs while searching the Underground and London docks knowing failure is not an option.

By Erica Vetsch (Kregel Publications)

\”Jane Austen meets Sherlock Holmes in this new Regency mystery series

Newly returned from finishing school, Lady Juliette Thorndike is ready to debut in London society. Due to her years away, she hasn\’t spent much time with her parents, and sees them only as the flighty, dilettante couple the other nobles love. But when they disappear, she discovers she never really knew them at all. They\’ve been living double lives as government spies–and they\’re only the latest in a long history of espionage that is the family\’s legacy. Now Lady Juliette is determined to continue their work.

By Erica Vetsch (Kregel Publications)

Jane Austen meets Sherlock Holmes in this new Regency mystery seriesNewly returned from finishing school, Lady Juliette Thorndike is ready to debut in London society. Due to her years away, she hasn\’t spent much time with her parents, and sees them only as the flighty, dilettante couple the other nobles love. But when they disappear, she discovers she never really knew them at all. They\’ve been living double lives as government spies–and they\’re only the latest in a long history of espionage that is the family\’s legacy. Now Lady Juliette is determined to continue their work.

By Brandilyn Collins (Zondervan)

Sometimes the truth hides where no one expects to find it.   Joanne Weeks knows Baxter Jackson killed Linda–his second wife and Joanne’s best friend—six years ago. But Baxter, a church elder and beloved member of the town, walks the streets a free man. The police tell Joanne to leave well enough alone, but she is determined to bring him down.   Using her skills as a professional skip tracer, she sets out to locate the only person who may be able to put Baxter behind bars.

By James Scott Bell (Zondervan)

She thinks she knows who she is and what she wants, but when the web gets terribly tangled, is her game of deception a clever lie or a deadly trap? Two bodies in an isolated canyon on the edge of L. A. One with saddlebags filled with diamonds. That’s how it begins for Liz Towne, a stunning blonde with a devout husband who has given up a prime job for reasons Liz cannot understand—for “Mac” MacDonald, a Gulf War vet who’s done time in prison and is just now finding his way back to normal life—and for Roxanne “Rocky” Towne, Liz’s sister-in-law, who suspects things she cannot prove. All three are thrown together after a tragedy in Pack Canyon.

By Irene Hannon (Revell)

For three years, Kate Marshall has been grieving the loss of her husband and their four-year-old son in a boating accident. But when she spots a familiar-looking child on an escalator in the mall, she is convinced it is the son she thought was dead. With police skeptical of her story, she turns to private investigator Connor Sullivan. The former Secret Service agent is dubious but agrees to investigate. Digging into the case he discovers that the incident may have been no accident at all.

By Elizabeth Goddard (Love Inspired Suspense)

TRAIL OF SECRETS Jewel Caraway thought she’d left her mistakes in the past—but then her past arrives at her door. Though she’s thrilled to reunite with her estranged sister, something about her sister’s new husband makes Jewel uneasy. Does he know her secret? Is he the one behind the growing list of attacks against her? And if he is involved…does that mean her sister is, too? With nowhere else to turn, Jewel must rely on police chief Colin Winters—the first man to make the widow question her resolve to never love again. But will he stay by her side when her guarded secrets are revealed? Mountain Cove: In the Alaskan wilderness, love and danger collide.

By Patricia Bradley (Revell)

After being forced to kill an FBI agent gone rogue in self-defense while working in the violent crimes unit for the Investigative Services Branch, ranger Madison Thorn is comfortable with her move to the fraud and cyber division. At least numbers don\’t lie. So she\’s less than thrilled when a white-collar crime investigation in Natchez, Mississippi, turns violent. She could also do without being forced to work with former-childhood-enemy-turned-infuriatingly-handsome park ranger Clayton Bradshaw. When a woman who looks just like Madison is attacked on the same night Madison\’s grandfather is shot, it becomes clear that there is something much bigger going on here and that Madison herself is in danger.

By Randy Alcorn (Multnomah Books)

“Messin’ with me’s like wearin’ cheese underwear down rat alley. ”-Ollie ChandlerHomicide detective Ollie Chandler has seen it all. Done more than he cares to admit. But when he’s called to investigate the murder of a Portland State University professor, he finds himself going places he’s never gone before. Places he never wanted to go.