Joe Cashin, a city homicide cop recovering from an injury, returns to rural South Australia, and becomes involved in a case that raises troubling questions of class and race.

Rees, Matt Benyon…The Collaborator of Bethlehem

A schoolteacher in Bethlehem tries to avoid politics but becomes involved when a friend is unjustly arrested.

Connelly, Michael…Echo Park

Detective Harry Bosch, now in the Open-unsolved Unit, receives a call from the DA telling him a serial killer has confessed to several murders. Did Harry miss a clue that could have solved the case at the outset?

Box, C.J.…Free Fire

Fired from his job as Game and Fish Warden, Joe Pickett is hired by Wyoming’s governor to conduct an under the radar investigation in Yellowstone National Park.

Furst, Alan…Foreign Correspondent

An Italian journalist in Paris in 1939 finds himself drawn into the steadily more dangerous activities of the resistance.

Thomas, Will…The Limehouse Text

Discovering a pawn ticket that leads them to London's Chinatown district, Victorian enquiry agent Cyrus Barker retrieves a seemingly innocuous book that turns out be a rare stolen text containing martial arts secrets that are forbidden to the West.

Cox, Michael…The Meaning of Night

Convinced that he is destined for great wealth, power, and influence, Edward Glyver--booklover, scholar, and murderer--will to anything to reclaim a prize that is rightfully his, following a trail from the underworld depths of Victorian London, to posh estates.

Littell, Robert…Vicious Circle

In a near-future world in which a visionary woman U.S. president brokers a major compromise between Israel and Palestine, decorated Mossad officer Elihu works to hunt down a legendary terrorist who has taken a high-profile fundamentalist rabbi hostage.

Woodrell, Daniel…Winter’s Bone

Reaching her sixteenth year in the harsh Ozarks while caring for her poverty-stricken family, Ree Dolly learns that they will lose their house unless her bail-skipping father can be found and made to appear at court.

Chabon, Michael…The Yiddish Policeman’s Union

An alternate historical work based on a premise that Alaska became the Jewish homeland after World War II finds detective Meyer Landsman investigating a heroin-addicted chess prodigy's murder, a case with ties to an extremist Orthodox sect.

Walter, Jess…The Zero

Five days after a terrorist attack decimates his home city, Brian Remy struggles with gaps in his memory pertaining to a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a girlfriend whose name he does not know, deteriorating eyesight, and a new job with a shadowy intelligence operation.

Rising Stars

Bibliothrillers:

Gruber, Michael…The Book of Air and Shadows

Grossman, Lev…Codex

Cozies:

Penny, Louise…A Fatal Grace, Still Life

Hard-Boiled Detective Novels:

Hawke, Richard…Speak of the Devil, Cold Day in Hell

Historical

Downie, Ruth…Medicus

International Crime:

Church, James…A Corpse in the Koryo

Cotterill, Colin…Disco for the Departed

Somoza, Jose Carlos…Zig Zag

Legal Thrillers:

Arvin, Reed…Blood of Angels

Suspense/Thriller

Unger, Lisa…Sliver of Truth, Beautiful Lies

Meyer, Deon…Dead before Dying, Dead at Daybreak, Heart of the Hunter

Lindsay, Jeff…Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Spy/Espionage

Berenson, Alex…The Faithful Spy

Steinhauer, Olen…36 Yalta Boulevard, The Confession

Broadbent, Tony…The Smoke