The Ancient Dead
by Barbara Fradkin
A long-buried human skeleton. A photo of a cowboy in front of a weathered farmhouse. An uncle who’s been missing for thirty years. Amanda Doucette searches for connections —but someone wants to stop her.
Before She Disappeared
by Lisa Gardner.
Frankie Elkin is an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find missing people everyone else has given up on. She’s in Boston, looking for a missing teenage girl, Angelique.
A Match Made for Murder
by Iona Whishaw.
Two murders, two investigations. One in Tucson AZ where Lane Winslow and her new police inspector husband are honeymooning, the other back home in Nelson BC. The seventh novel in this series delivers twists and surprises while taking us back to the late 1940s.
Still Life
by Val McDermid.
A body pulled out of the sea. A skeleton found in a camper van. Historic Cases detective Karen Pirie’s investigations turn hot, as the past intrudes on the present.
We Were Killers Once
by Becky Masterman.
Truman Capote wrote a true crime account In Cold Blood. But did he get the story wrong? Was he manipulated by his main informant?
Drawing on factual sources, Masterman uses fiction to explore a different story. Retired FBI agent Brigit Quin thinks Capote missed the most important details. Her investigations put Brigit, and her husband Carlo, in great danger.
Death by Association
by Madona Skaff-Koren.
That muscular man in the wheelchair—was he faking his handicap? And now he’s been charged with three murders, and wants Naya Assad to help him prove his innocence.
Second in a series by Ottawa writer Madona Skaff-Koren, this page-turner will keep surprising you right to the end.