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  The Disappearance of Ophelia...

  Vanessa Gordon

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  Archaeologist Martin Day had an affair with Ophelia Blue twenty years ago, and suddenly she is on her way to Naxos because she needs his help. He is excited to see her again, but also wary as his life now revolves around Helen. Ophelia, however, behaves perfectly - until she disappears after their first evening together without revealing why she had come. The police refuse to regard Ophelia as a missing person, nor is the difficult new Chief of Police, Inspector Kyriakos Tsountas, the kind of man to accept that her disappearance is connected to a strange local legend. The legend speaks of a lost ancient artefact known as the Kallos of Naxos. Only one man ever tried to find the Kallos, and he's dead. If Day is to find Ophelia he will need all his ingenuity and imagination, and quite possibly his courage.
  
  This is the fourth in the Naxos Mysteries series, in which many things come to a head for Martin Day in his search for the missing Ophelia.

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  The Fuhrer's Reserve

  Paul Lindsay

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  One after another, aged Nazis are being murdered in Europe, South America, and the United States. Enter FBI Special Agent Taz Fallon, who soon discovers the killings aren't the work of a vigilante bent on revenge for the Holocaust. Instead, they turn out to be part of an elaborate plot to put a new generation of Nazis into power. And the key to the entire scheme is a huge cache of paintings looted by Hitler from Jewish families during the Second World War.In The Führer's Reserve, Paul Lindsay weaves a tale of high stakes art smuggling, vicious homicides, and brilliant investigative prowess. Are Hitler's stolen masterpieces really hidden somewhere in Illinois?  Could a secret Nazi sympathizer, known only as der Kurator, actually sell these works of art to finance a new Fascist movement? Can agent Taz Fallon, working with a beautiful young art historian, risk destroying Rembrandts, Titians, Vermeers, and countless other treasures to stop a Nazi coup?  With a storyline as authentic as today's headlines, Lindsay a former, highly decorated FBI agent himself provides page-turning thrills and captivating insights into the way real world sleuths solve unimaginable crimes.  It's no wonder that USA Today has written of Paul Lindsay, "Step aside, John Grisham!"

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  The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch - A...

  Anne Enright

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  A novel based on the life of the nineteenth-century Irishwoman who became Paraguay’s Eva Peron, from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Gathering and Actress.   In the spring of 1854 in Paris, Francisco Solano López came to the house of Eliza Lynch to improve his French, or so he said. Eliza was nineteen, already with an ex-husband, and he was the young son of Paraguay’s dictator in Europe recruiting engineers for South America’s first railroad. By the time he returned to Asunción in 1855, Eliza was pregnant with his child.   In less than a decade, López plunged Paraguay into a conflict that would kill over half its population. By then Eliza was notorious—as both the angel of the battlefield inspiring the troops, and the demon whose rapacious appetites drove López’s fatal ambition. This is her story, in which “Enright artfully explores the power of beauty and the beauty of power, and finds them remarkably similar as neither leads to a good end” (Booklist).   “The magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez . . . springs to mind.” —The Guardian   “Water, an element as silvery and unpredictable as Enright’s extraordinary prose . . . transports Eliza from Ireland to Europe . . . to Paraguay and back to Britain.” —The New York Times Book Review

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  The Wisdom of Father Brown

  G.K. Chesterton

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  The Father Brown stories sit in relation to other detective literature much as the diminutive and seemingly unworldly Priest himself often sits; quietly, thoughtfully and often to be overlooked. However, when he at lasts speaks it is with such understanding of human knowledge that the self-styled sophisticates that surround him are dumbfounded.C.K Chesterton is not concerned with the procedural minutiae of the detective’s work, nor with leaving a trail of red herrings with which to keep us guessing. Father Brown reaches his conclusions through staring into the human psyche, indeed, at times, into the human soul.

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  Moment of Truth Low Price

  Lisa Scottoline

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  Attorney Jack Newlin comes home one evening to find his wife, Honor, dead on the floor of their elegant dining room.Convinced that he knows who killed her - and determined to hid the truth - Jack decides to make it look as though he did it.  Staging the crime scene so that the evidence incriminates him, he then calls the police.   And to hammer the final nail in his coffin, he hires the most inexperienced lawyer he can find, a reluctant rookie by the name of Mary Di Nunzio, employed at the hot Philadelphia firm of Rosato and Associates. 
  Unfortunately for Jack, hiring Mary may turn out to be his only mistake. 
  Though inexperienced, Mary doubts Jack's confession and begins to investigate the crime.  Her ethics and instincts tell her she can't defend a man who wants only one thing - to convict himself.  Or can she?  Smarter, gutsier, and more determined than she has any right to be, Mary decides to stock with the case.  With help from the most unexpected sources, she sets out to prove what really happened - because as any lawyer knows, a case is never as simple as it seems. 
  And nothing is ever certain until the final moment of truth.

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  Rivers to Blood - a John Jordan...

  Michael Lister

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  Would you risk your life to save a family member even if you knew they had committed a serious crime?What do a daring prison escape and a shocking lynching have in common? Only the inimitable John Jordan can figure it out!  John Jordan searches for an escaped prisoner, investigates a shocking murder, and confronts a sadist forcing his victims to violate themselves—but as he closes in on the criminal, a harrowing river rescue may take more than the depleted detective has left to give. 
  "Lister deftly juggles multiple plot lines in his sixth John Jordan novel" - Publisher's Weekly 
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  "Lister's sixth John Jordan novel offers the soulful and intuitive sleuth a barrage of crimes. Lister's impoverished, rural setting is deeply evocative of a Florida disappearing under the barrage of development" - Booklist

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