by Philip Eliot | Mar 17, 2026 | Thriller & Suspense |
The Alex McKnight series had already hit bestseller lists and won awards—but this novel took things to a whole new level.”Easily Steve Hamilton’s best novel so far. . . . Everything is here?his trademark sense of place, vivid, resonant characters, and a plot that will break your heart.” ?Lee ChildAlex McKnight isn’t a man with many friends, but the few he has know they’re never alone in a fix. So when Vinnie LeBlanc asks for his help in taking a trip deep into the forests of northern Canada in search of his missing brother, he knows he can count on Alex. His brother had taken a job as a hunting guide for a rough crew of Detroit “businessmen.”The group was due back days ago, yet there’s been no sign of them, and there’s mounting evidence of something odd about their disappearing act. The trackless forests of northern Ontario, a land of savage beauty and sudden danger, keep many secrets, but none more shocking than the one that Alex is about to uncover. And the more closely Alex looks for answers, the more questions there become.Praise for Blood Is the Sky:”The best private eye novel?heck, maybe the best novel?I’ve read this year.” ?Harlan Coben”The best mysteries are about the past coming up out of the ground and grabbing the present by the throat. . . . Blood Is the Sky fills that bill and then some. This is his best yet.” ?Michael Connelly”Steve Hamilton writes tough, passionate novels with a strong emphasis on heart and humanity. His latest flat-out smokes. This is crime writing at its very best.” ?George Pelecanos
by Philip Eliot | Mar 17, 2026 | Thriller & Suspense |
The Braswell family had everything people would kill for: money, looks, power. But their eldest son, the family’s shining light, died in a bizarre fishing accident. And when he disappeared-hauled into the depths by the giant marlin he had been fighting-he took with him a secret so corrupt that it could destroy the Braswells.Ten years later, a huge airliner crashes in the steamy shallows off the Florida coast, killing all aboard. Helping pull bodies from the water, Thorn finds himself drawn into a bizarre conspiracy: someone has developed a high tech weapon capable of destroying electrical systems in a powerful flash. The terrorist potential is huge. How are the secretive Braswells and their family-owned company, MicroDyne, involved? And what does it have to do with the family’s obsessive hunt for the great marlin that killed their golden boy?With the Braswells, James W. Hall introduces one of the most evil and dysfunctional families in the history of fiction. And, along with Thorn, he brings back favorite characters from his earlier books, including Alexandra Rafferty and her father, Lawton Collins, a retired and increasingly dotty former police investigator whose methods of investigation result in his kidnapping. A story that bristles with all the heat and tension of a tropical Florida summer.
by Philip Eliot | Mar 17, 2026 | Action & Adventure |
Archaeologist Jack Howard races to locate the legendary Arc of the Covenant in this thrilling adventure by a New York Times–bestselling author.586 BCThe ancient world is in meltdown. In desperation the priests of the Temple look to the greatest navigators ever known to save their treasures. On a far distant shore, after a voyage more astonishing than any ever undertaken before, a Phoenician named Hanno flees for his life from a terrifying enemy, the place the prophets called the Chariot of the Gods . . .1943In the darkest days of the Second World War, Allied codebreakers play a game of life and death. For some, the stakes are even higher, a top-secret exchange of deadly materials between the Nazis and the Japanese that must be stopped at all costs. Yet even they know nothing of the ancient artifact hidden on board a ship whose fate they have just sealed . . .Present-dayMarine archaeologist Jack Howard and his friend Costas undertake one of the most perilous dives of their lives, hunting for Nazi gold. What they glimpse there, before a cataclysm that nearly destroys them, sets Jack on one of the most extraordinary trails he has ever followed—to a Phoenician shipwreck off England, to a WWII codebreaker with an amazing story to tell, to the ruins of ancient Carthage. He pieces together the truth of one of the greatest ancient voyages of discovery, one whose true purpose he could scarcely have imagined.Testament is the latest in the Jack Howard series from David Gibbins, who uses his real-world experience as an archaeologist to write thrilling historical novels.
by Philip Eliot | Mar 17, 2026 | Mystery |
A local busybody is silenced for good in this tale by “a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery” (Kirkus Reviews).In their Dorset village, neither Miss Campanula nor her friend Miss Prentice are known as lovable little old ladies. They’re waspish, gossiping snobby little old ladies, passionate only about their amateur theatrical productions, their narrowly defined opinions about how everyone else should behave . . ..and, perhaps, about the local vicar. But could one of them have been sufficiently unpleasant to provoke a murderer? For Miss Campanula has perished on her piano bench—and it’s unclear whether Miss Prentice may have been the actual intended victim . . .”A goodie.” —Kirkus Reviews”It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York Magazine”In her ironic and witty hands the mystery novel can be civilized literature.” —The New York Times
by Philip Eliot | Mar 17, 2026 | Crime Fiction |
Det. Inspector Thanet investigates a country vineyard tainted by murder in this British mystery from the CWA Silver Dagger Award–winning author.Sturrenden Vineyard is a few miles west of town, a lovely piece of land where tourists come to sip wine, tour the grounds, and enjoy the exquisite Kentish scenery. But Det. Inspector Luke Thanet is too busy for such frivolous activities, so his first visit comes with the introduction of a an attraction far more in keeping with his usual interests: murder.Vineyard owner Zak Randish has been found dead in his personal laboratory, where he’d been working late into the night to perfect the next vintage. His equipment is smashed and his blood stains every surface, mingling with the wine. Although outwardly happy, successful, and at peace, Randish had terrible secrets, and Thanet must uncover them soon, lest the vineyard’s tidy rows of grapes run red with blood as red as Sturrenden wine.An “absorbing” police produral, No Laughing Matter is another sterling entry in Dorothy Simpson’s long-running, award-winning mystery series (Publishers Weekly).Praise for Dorothy Simpson”A modern-day version of Agatha Christie.” —Booklist”Dependably pleasing.” —The Boston GlobeNo Laughing Matter is the 12th book in the Inspector Thanet Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
