Mysteries

By Billy Coffey (Thomas Nelson)

With the “profound sense of Southern spirituality” he is known for (Publishers Weekly), Billy Coffey draws us into a town where good and evil—and myth and reality—intertwine in unexpected ways. Everyone in Crow Hollow knows of Alvaretta Graves, the old widow who lives in the mountain. Many call her a witch; others whisper she’s insane. Everyone agrees the vengeance Alvaretta swore at her husband’s death hovers over them all. That vengeance awakens when teenagers stumble upon Alvaretta’s cabin, incurring her curse.

By Jaime Jo Wright (Bethany House Publishers)

Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin, in 1908. When clues lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a post-mortem photographer to gain access and assist groundskeeper Simeon Coyle in photographing the patients and uncovering the secrets within. However, she never expected her personal quest would reawaken the legend of Misty Wayfair, a murdered woman who allegedly haunts the area and whose appearance portends death. A century later, Heidi Lane receives a troubling letter from her mother–who is battling dementia–compelling her to travel to Pleasant Valley for answers to her own questions of identity.

By Ace Collins (Abingdon Press)

When your entire future is destroyed, why would you bother to rebuild? Leslie Rhoads is on the verge of having her dream of becoming a supermodel come true. But before she can step into the spotlight, she is assaulted and disfigured. Without her perfect face, she is lost, and no amount of surgery can ever make her what she once was. Trying to hide her face from the world and on the verge of suicide, Leslie meets Angel—a young girl who is inexplicably able to break through the hurt and show Leslie that love truly is blind. But as she starts to rebuild her troubled life, Leslie’s fears resurface.

By Valerie Hansen (Love Inspired)

The Danger Within by Valerie Hansen released on Jan 31, 2006 is available now for purchase.

By Marilyn Brown Oden (Abingdon Press)

“An intriguing story of international espionage with just the right amount of inspirational seasoning!” -Fresh Fiction Murder and Conspiracy–From the French Quarter to Eastern Europe to the White House It begins with a single gunshot, and Bishop Lynn Peterson watches in horror as a good friend, who is a member of the New Orleans Saints, collapses on the street. When a medal the player wore—a medal Lynn had promised to return to the man’s family—disappears, Lynn is thrust into a suspenseful and fast-moving journey through four assassinations, an attempt on her life, conflicts with a mysterious and ancient society, and a behind-the-scenes conspiracy that reaches all the way to the White House. The turbulent, unstoppable intrigue challenges Lynn mentally, physically, and spiritually as she engages in a desperate battle with an opponent who is just as determined to kill as Lynn is to stop him even though she has no idea where—or who—he will strike next.

By T. L. Hines (Bethany House)

Would You Run Into a Burning Building? Candace “Canada Mac” MacHugh lives a ghost of her former life. Once a proud Butte, Montana, miner who daily risked her life setting explosives, she’s now a garbage collector in her dying hometown. Her beloved father is dead and she doesn’t speak with her mom. Canada Mac is alone. Longing for the past.

By Christy Barritt (River Heights)

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By Christy Barritt (River Heights)

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By Dani Pettrey (Bethany House Publishers)

Coast Guard Flight Medic Brooke Kesler is ecstatic to watch her friend and mentee graduate from medic A-school, but her elation turns to anguish when men in ski masks open fire on the crowd. CGIS Agent Noah Rowley is rocked to the core when he learns of a mass shooting raging on his Coast Guard base. Still, the shock is nothing compared to the heart-wrenching fear when he learns the woman he loves is at the graduation. Fortunately, his team rapidly ends the shooting melee, and Noah discovers Brooke is still alive. Once assured she’s okay, he quickly turns to learning who is behind the attack.

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.