by Mary Stanton (2010)
Law school hasn't prepared Bree to appeal cases for the dead. After inheriting her great-uncle's haunted law firm, she must now represent ex-banker O'Rourke, who supposedly killed himself after losing a fortune. But with a merry widow and evidence mounting, it's beginning to look like murder. So Bree and her team of angels begin to investigate. But Bree soon discovers that someone would rather see her deceased than debriefed.
Jonathan Gash
In Hong Kong, Kway Fay, tries to get by by communicating with her grandmother's ghost and keeping silent about the bribes she pays to survive, finds herself in the middle of a battle between underworld organizations.
Russell Hill
In 1949, Jake Hamrick, a 19-year-old who has been obsessed since childhood with the ivory-billed woodpecker, leaves Illinois for Louisiana accompanied by Robin, his tiny girlfriend. They search in the bayous where the bird was last reported, and Robin, as obsessed as Jake, dresses like the bird, smearing her naked body with white clay, wearing a cloak of black crow feathers, her hair in a red crest. Local hunters pursue Robin and Jake deep into the bayous, where they are harbored by Robert, an ancient black man.
Nicolás Obregón
Newly reinstated Tokyo Homicide Division Police Inspector Iwata works with reluctant colleagues to investigate the brutal murder of an entire family and other deaths that are identified as the work of the same killer.
Dawn Eastman
Katie LeClair has finally settled down as the new doctor in Baxter, Michigan. After years of moving, schooling, and training, she wants nothing more than to find a place she can call home, and a small town outside of Ann Arbor seems perfect. But that idyllic dream is immediately shattered when one of her patients is found dead. After years of moving, schooling, and training, Katie LeClair has finally settled down as the new doctor in Baxter, Michigan. She's building a new life, and has found a pair of business partners in a team of father and son family practitioners. When one of her patients is found dead-- and ruled a suicide, a result of the medication Katie had prescribed. But she doesn't remember writing it. Someone is willing to kill to keep part of the town's history in the shadows-- and Katie has been set up to take the fall.