by M.C. Beaton (2013)
"When Jane Wetherby offers PC Hamish Macbeth a holiday at her 'Happy Wanderer' health farm on the isle of Eileencraig, he is more than happy to accept. Unfortunately the visit doesn't prove to be the pampering experience he had been hoping for. Windswept Eileencraig is inhabited by hostile islanders, many of whom would be more than happy to be rid of the 'Happy Wanderer' and its proprietor. And the company at the health farm is hardly better. The volatile party includes an ex-husband, an illicit lover, and Morag Todd, an unadulterated snob who criticizes everybody and everything. So when Morag is found lying at the foot of a cliff with a broken neck, no one seems too broken up about the event - leaving it up to Hamish to solve the death of a snob"--Publisher.
Archer Mayor
Hiding the rookie inexperience that rendered a homicide case from the beginning of his career unsolvable, Joe Gunther discovers the case's murder weapon and begins tracking a killer who possesses a nature more brutal than anticipated.
Denise Mina
Alex Morrow traces a wealthy businesswoman who's vanished from her Glasgow home to a little seaside town, where a dead body in the lake is only one of many clues that all is not as peaceful as it seems.
Ilsa Mayr
Singer Merrilee Ingram returns to her roots in the Appalachian town of Browne's Station, Kentucky, determined to recover memories of the fire that killed her mother when Merrilee was four. But Merrilee's not welcome in town, and evidence of that escalates from a warning note to a copperhead on her front porch. Despite that, Merrilee presses on, uncovering long-buried secrets and making her past more dangerous in the present than ever before.
Jefferson Parker
A detective with a unique gift, a tragic suicide and big city corruption -- 'The Fallen' is the stunning new thriller from the author of 'The Blue Hour': 'a great writer! he's amazing' Lee Child.