Upcoming Mystery Hardcovers

Below is the list of some of the upcoming mystery hardcover titles as well as a few that have been recently released.  This list will be added to as more titles and dates are announced. If you would like to order anything from us, please send an e-mail to cncbooks3@gmail.com or you can go directly to our webstore at Creatures ‘n Crooks Books.

January

Thereby Hangs a Tail—Spencer Quinn—P.I.’s Chet, the K-9 school dropout, and his human buddy Bernie—1/5—$25.00

The Five Greatest Warriors—Matthew Reilly—1/5—$25.00

The Swan Thieves—Elizabeth Kostova—1/12—$26.99

The Betrayal of the Blood Lily—Lauren Willig—Pink Carnation series—1/12—$25.95

Iron River—T. Jefferson Parker—L.A. Deputy Sheriff Charlie Hood—1/5—$26.95

Blood Ties—Kay Hooper—Noah Bishop—1/26—$26.00

Sleepless—Charlie Huston—post-apocalyptic—1/12—$25.00

Death of a Valentine—M.C. Beaton—Hamish Macbeth—$23.99

The Red Door—Charles Todd—Inspector Ian Rutledge—$24.99

Treasure Hunt—John Lescroart—1/12—$26.95

A Fair Maiden—Joyce Carol Oates—1/6—$22.00

Snow Angels—James Thompson—Finland, Inspector Kari Vaara—1/7—$24.95

The Wolf at the Door—Jack Higgins—1/19–$26.95

Kisser—Stuart Woods—Stone Barrington—1/19—$25.95

The First Rule—Robert Crais—Joe Pike—1/12—$26.95

February

Heresy—S.J. Parris—16th-century Oxford University campus—2/23—$25.95

Aunt Dimity Down Under—Nancy Atherton—2/18—$24.95

Gator A-Go-Go—Tim Dorsey—loveable psychopath Serge A. Storms—$24.99

Fantasy in Death—J.D. Robb—Lt. Eve Dallas—2/23—$26.95

Broken Places—Sandra Parshall—also in trade paperback—veterinarian Rachel Goddard—$24.9

Bellfield Hall—Anna Dean—1805 England, spinster DidoKent—2/2—$23.99

The Spies of Sobeck—P.C. Doherty—ancient Egypt—2/2—$24.99

The Poisoner’s Handbook—Deborah Blum—nonfiction, the birth of forensic medicine in Jazz Age New York—2/18—$25.955

Split Image—Robert B. Parker—Jesse Stone—2/23—$25.95

The Midnight House—Alex Berenson—CIA agent John Wells—2/9—$25.95

Requiem in Vienna—J. Sydney Jones—1899 Vienna—2/2—$24.99

Last Snow—Eric Van Lustbader—political thriller—2/16—$25.99

A Night Too Dark—Dana Stabenow—Kate Shugak—2/16—$24.99

Wicked Craving—G.A. McKevett—Savannah Reid—$22.00

Winterland—Alan Glynn—Dublin—2/2—$25.99

Apple Turnover Murder—Joanne Fluke—2/23—$24.00

Wild Penance—Sandi Ault—Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild—2/2—$24.95

The Puzzle Lady vs. the Sudoku Lady—Parnell Hall—2/2—$24.99

City of Dragons—Kelli Stanley—1940 San Francisco Chinatown—2/2—$24.99

SPQR XIII: The Year of Confusion—John Maddox Roberts—ancient Rome—2/16—$24.99

March

The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag—Alan Bradley—Flavia de Luce—3/9—$24.00

The Alchemy of Murder—Carol McCleary—Nellie Bly teams up with Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde and Louis Pasteur—3/16—$24.99

The Divine Sacrifice—Tony Hays—Dark Ages Britain—3/30—$24.99

Loco Motive—Mary Daheim—Bed-and-Breakfast series—$23.99

The City of Lost Girls—Declan Hughes—$24.99

Hell Gate—Linda Fairstein—sex crimes prosecutor Alex Cooper—3/9—$26.95

The Bone Thief—Jefferson Bass—$24.99

Frame-Up—John F. Dobbyn—legal thriller—3/8—$25.95

The Golden Mile—Martin Cruz Smith—Moscow, Investigator Arkady Renko—3/2—$25.99

The Last Illusion—Rhys Bowen—Molly Murphy—3/2—$24.99

Our Lady of Immaculate Deception—Nancy Martin—new series—3/2—$24.99

The Highly Effective Detective Plays the Fool—Richard Yancey—Knoxville P. I. Teddy Ruzak—3/2—$24.99

The 24th Letter—Tom Lowe—3/16—$25.99

Liars All—Jo Bannister—P. I. Brodie Farrell—3/30—$25.99

Sick Like That—Norman Green—Bronx P. I. Allessandra Martillo—3/30—$25.99

The Last Fix—K. O. Dahl—Oslo police inspector Gunnarstranda—3/30—$25.99

The Bad Kitty Lounge—Michael Wiley—3/2—$24.99

No More Heroes—Ray Banks—3/4—$25.00

Known to Evil—Walter Mosley—New York P.I. Leonid McGill—3/23—$25.95

From Away—David Carkeet—comic—3/4—$24.95

Caught—Harlan Coben—3/23—$27.95

If the Dead Rise Not—Philip Kerr—Bernie Gunther—3/18—$26.95

Shattered—Karen Robards—3/23—$25.95

Deep Shadow—Randy Wayne White—Doc Ford—3/9—$25.95

A Thousand Cuts—Simon Lelic—British police procedural—3/4—$24.95

Think Twice—Lisa Scottoline—3/16—$26.99

Antiques Bizarre—Barbara Allan—Trash N Treasures series—$22.00

Cook the Books—Jessica Conant-Park & Susan Conant—3/2—$23.95

The Book of Spies—Gayle Lynds—espionage thriller—3/30—$25.99

The Teaberry Strangler—Laura Childs—Tea Shop series—3/2—$24.95

Blood Vines—Erica Spindler—3/2—$24.99

The Pallbearers—Stephen J. Cannell—Shane Scully—3/16—$25.99

April

One Was a Soldier—Julia Spencer-Fleming—Reverend Clare Fergusson & Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne—4/13—$24.99  This book has been postponed indefinitely.

The Killing Edge—Heather Graham—3/30—$24.95

The Fallen—Mark Terry—international thriller—4/5—$25.95

Dead Head—Rosemary Harris—Dirty Business series—4/13—$24.99

Canaan’s Gate—Kathryn R. Wall—Bay Tanner series—4/27—$24.99

The Bride Collector—Ted Dekker—FBI agent Brad Raines—4/13—$24.99

Eight Days to Live—Iris Johansen—forensics sculptor Eve Duncan—4/20—$27.99

The Exodus Quest—Will Adams—archaeologist Daniel Knox—4/29—$24.99

The 9th Judgment—James Patterson—Women’s Murder Club—4/26—$27.99

Deliver Us from Evil—David Baldacci—4/20—$27.99

Windward Passage—Jim Nisbet—has been compared to James Ellroy and Philip K. Dick—$25.95

The Black Cat—Martha Grimes—Richard Jury—4/6—$25.95

Haunt Me Still—Jennifer Lee Carrell—Shakespearean scholar & director Kate Stanley—4/15—$25.95

Infamous—Ace Atkins—Machine Gun Kelly and the early days of the FBI—4/15—$25.95

Silent Auction—Jane Cleland—Josie Prescott Antiques series—4/13—$24.99

A Twist of Orchids—Michelle Wan—Death in the Dordogne series—4/13—$24.99

The Inheritance—Simon Tolkien—WWII France and 1959 England—4/13—$24.99

A Murderous Procession—Ariana Franklin—medieval—4/1—$25.95

Scandal on Rincon Hill—Shirley Tallman—1880’s San Francisco—3/30—$24.99

Mint Juleps, Mayhem and Murder—Sara Rosett—professional organizer Ellie Avery—$22.00

Without Mercy—Lisa Jackson—thriller—3/30—$25.00

Holly Blues—Susan Wittig Albert—China Bayles—4/6—$24.95

A Witch in Time—Madelyn Alt—4/6—$23.95

May

Fever Dream—Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child—FBI special agent Pendergast—crossgenre with dark fantasy—5/11—$26.99

Reincarnationist #3: The Hypnotist—M.J. Rose—$24.95

Innocent—Scott Turow—sequel to Presumed Innocent—5/4—$27.99

Falcon Seven—James Huston—5/11—$24.99

Strip—Thomas Perry—5/13—$26.00

The Big Bang—Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins—5/14—$25.00

Fortuna—Michael R. Stevens—thriller—5/3—$25.95

Death of a Trophy Wife—Laura Levine—freelance writer Jaine Austen—$22.00

Dead in the Water—Meredith Cole—photographer Lydia McKenzie—5/11—$24.99

Through the Cracks—Barbara Fister—5/11—$24.99

Death Watch—Jim Kelly—British DI Peter Shaw—5/25—$25.99

The Poacher’s Son—Paul Doiron—Maine game warden Mike Bowditch—5/11—$24.99

June

So Cold the River—Michael Koryta—crossgenre with horror—$24.99

Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Objective—Eric Van Lustbader—6/1—$27.99

Justice in June—Barbara Levenson—legal thriller—6/7—$23.95

Set Sail for Murder—R.T. Jordan—TV star turned sleuth Polly Pepper—$22.00

The Devil Amongst the Lawyers—Sharyn McCrumb—Ballad, Nora Bonesteel—6/22—$24.99

The Lion—Nelson DeMille—sequel to The Lion’s Game—6/8—$27.99

Private—James Patterson & Maxine Paetro—an elite P.I. agency in L.A.—6/28—$27.99

July

The Caretaker of Lorne Field—Dave Zeltserman—7/8—$23.95

The Taken—Inger Ash Wolfe—sequel to The Calling, features Canadian Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef—$25.00

Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads—David Morrell & Hank Wagner, eds.—anthology of essays by modern thriller writers examining 100 seminal works of suspense—7/5—$27.95

The Grave Gourmet—Alexander Campion—$22.00

The Exile—Andrew Britton—thriller—$25.00

Shoulder Bags and Shootings—Dorothy Howell—fashion sleuth Haley Randolph—$22.00

The Whisper—Carla Neggers—6/29—$24.95

The Messenger of Athens—Anne Zouroudi—set on the Greek island of Thiminos—$23.99

August

The Viognier Vendetta—Ellen Crosby—fifth in the Wine Country series—8/3—$24.00

Dog Tags—David Rosenfelt—lawyer Andy Carpenter and a rogue German Shepherd police dog—8/25—$24.99

The Capitol Game—Brian Haig—political thriller—$25.99

The Postcard Killers—James Patterson & Liza Marklund—international serial killer thriller—8/16—$27.99

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