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  Cat Who Solved the Crime The: A...

  Hoang Nguyen

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  🐱 Whiskers is no ordinary cat. With a knack for being in the right place at the right time and an uncanny ability to read human behavior, this clever feline has a secret life as a crime-solver. When his owner, bookstore owner Lily Perkins, becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a notorious literary critic, Whiskers takes matters into his own paws. The police see an open-and-shut case, but Whiskers knows Lily would never commit murder—her throwing arm isn't that good, for one thing. Using his feline talents for stealth, observation, and knocking things off shelves at crucial moments, Whiskers follows a trail of clues that only a cat could notice. From a suspiciously placed catnip toy to the way certain visitors scratch behind his ears (the murderer, he deduces, does it all wrong), every detail matters. But when the real killer realizes Whiskers is onto them, this feline sleuth will need all nine lives to solve the case and save his human.

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  The Empire Theatre Murders

  Jack Murray

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  Music, Magic . . . Murder—1920's Golden Age mysteries don't come any twistier or funnier 
   
   
   
  October 1921. Kit and Mary Aston are asked by their friend, police artist Rufus Watts, to investigate threatening letters that have been sent to the performers in his family's seaside variety theatre. 
   
   
   
  They arrive to find out that temperamental magician, Javier Gonzalo, has lost his head, quite literally, mid act. 
   
   
   
  With the help of old associates, Chief Inspector Jellicoe, the newly promoted, Detective Inspector Wellbeloved, and Rufus Watts, Kit and Mary soon find themselves in the middle of a race against time before the murderer strikes again in a case where revenge is the motive and everyone is putting on an act. 
   
   
   
  After the Indiana Jones-like adventure in The Tangier Tajine, Kit and Mary Aston return to a more traditional murder mystery set in the world of post-war variety theatre just before the arrival of moving pictures and radio sounded the death knell to this wonderful realm of entertainment.

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  Christmas Presents

  Lisa Unger

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  Madeline Martin has built a life for herself as the young owner of a thriving business, The Next Chapter Bookshop, despite her tragic childhood and now needing to care for her infirm father. When Harley Granger, a failed novelist turned true crime podcaster, drifts into her shop in the days before Christmas, he seems intent on digging up events that Madeline would much rather forget. She's the only surviving victim of Evan Handy, the man who was convicted of murdering her best friend Steph, and is suspected in the disappearance of two sisters, also good friends of Madeline's, who have been missing for nearly a decade. 
   
   
   
  Harley Granger has a gift for seeing things that others miss. He wasn't much of a novelist, but his work as a true crime author and podcaster has earned him fame and wealth—and some serious criticism for his various unethical practices. Still, visiting Little Valley to be closer to his dying father has caused him to look into a case that many people think is closed—and some want reopened. 
   
   
   
  Since Evan Handy went to jail, three other young women have gone missing, most recently a young college dropout named Lolly. Five young women missing in the same area in a decade. Are they connected? Was Evan Handy innocent after all? Or was there some else there that night? Someone who is still satisfying his dark appetites?

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  Come the Dark Night

  David Tregarthen

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  In this sophisticated novel of suspense, a killer with a taste for literature lurks in the shadows of Oxford University . . . After a student is found decapitated in the cupola of the Sheldonian Theatre and a cryptic note in an unknown language is discovered, DS Kate Stewart and her partner turn to medievalist Dr. Jonathan Reynolds. He identifies the note as a passage from Beowulf and explains that the murder replicates a killing in the epic poem. Then a second, equally grisly murder escalates the situation. The victim is Tom, Jonathan’s former student and stalker. Horrified, Jonathan identifies the crime’s literary connection to another early English poem. Is the killer obsessed with medieval times—or with Jonathan? When another death suggests that a serial killer is working his way through the English Literature syllabus, both the police and the scholar are drawn into a baffling mystery . . .

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  The One Who Got Away

  L.A. Detwiler

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  The next chilling thriller from the bestselling author of THE WIDOW NEXT DOOR… 
  “Get out while you can. You’ll die here…” 
  Adeline Evans has recently moved into a home for the elderly. A safe space, where she can be cared for. 
  When she begins to receive cryptic and threatening notes, she is certain that someone is out to get her. 
  But the residents are warned against listening to a woman who is losing her memory. It would seem Adeline is tormented by the secrets in her past, and that the menace is all in her mind. 
  Until danger comes down the corridor and starts knocking in the night… 
  A compelling serial killer thriller from the bestselling author of THE WIDOW NEXT DOOR, perfect for fans of A.J Finn, K.L. Slater and Teresa Driscoll. 
  What readers are saying about The One Who Got Away: 
  “Wow! I totally loved this book! I was gripped from the very beginning and it never let go. Such a dark and twisted tale about real life scary situations.” 
  “A delicious domestic thriller!” 
  “Such a great read. The plot and storyline were very well done. I could not put it down. Read in one day.” 
  “Tense chilling kept me reading late in to the night. My favorite type of thriller: multi-layered and a twist on each page. Kept me guessing to the end.” 
  “I was totally gripped” 
  “It caught hold of me and had me hooked from the start . I was literally on the edge of my seat reading this book.” 
  “Literary magic… For lovers of a proper psychological thriller that truly lives up to its name, The One Who Got Away is the one you won't want to get away.” 
  “Oh my, what a little beauty this is!… The story escalates in intensity… a book that I couldn't put down. There are some real shockers to come and an ending that knocked the wind out of me!” 
  “An edge of your seat thriller.” 
  “I wanted to pick up where I left off as soon as I could.” 
  The rural town, once a symbol of tranquilly, now serves as the chilling setting for this top-rated thriller. The suspense and horror that permeate the small town are expertly woven into the fabric of this fiction. 
  For fans of Shani Struthers (Reach for the Dead Book Four), Ja Corrigan (Falling Suns), Sue Watson (The Empty Nest), Jonathan Janz (Lost Highways), and A. A. Chaudhuri (The Abduction). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  The Last Ride - DI Jan Talantire...

  Nick Louth

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  What happened to the missing victim? 
   
  On a midsummer’s night, a stolen car packed with teenagers crashes at high speed on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. DI Jan Talantire arrives at the scene to find the victims of the crash. 
   
  It appears to be a tragic accident until a worried mother turns up at the scene of the accident. Her daughter, Rhiannon, a friend of the joyriders, hasn’t been seen since the previous night. The account dovetails with the statement of the householder who claimed to see a girl running near the crashed vehicle the moment he emerged. 
   
  Was Rhiannon in the car with her friends when it crashed, and if she was, why did she flee? And where is she now? 
   
  A tense and gripping detective novel. Perfect for fans of Elly Griffiths and Sally Rigby

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