Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski Confronts Tough Reality in Chicago Politics, Business & Her Own Family in "Hardball".

Sara Paretsky.
Hardball
Hired to track down a man who has been missing for forty years, V.I. Warshawski inadvertently unearths old skeletons from Chicago's history and her own family, a situation marked by a young cousin she has never met and the untimely death of a nun.

J.P. White.
Every boat turns south
Publishers Weekly says "This stylish debut novel from poet White (The Salt Hour) brings to mind John D. MacDonald's Florida noirs, but with a modern sensibility."

James R. Benn.
Evil for evil
A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery

Beverle Graves Myers.
Her deadly mischief : a Tito Amato mystery
Returning to the stage singing the lead role at the Teatro San Marco, Tito Amato is the only person who saw Zulietta Giardino pushed to her death from a fourth-tier box.

Richard Bach.
Hypnotizing Maria
"An exploration of deep spiritual and philosophical issues through the eyes of a pilot"--Provided by publisher.

Jacquelyn Mitchard.
No time to wave goodbye
In a book that revisits the family featured in the author's best-selling The Deep End of the Ocean, the Cappadora family is once again in peril after adult son Vincent's acclaimed film about the families of abductees leads to Beth Cappadora once again leading her family in search of the truth that can save a life.

Ann Cleeves.
Red bones : a thriller
In the aftermath of a young archaeologist's discovery of human remains that may be modern, Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate a case that is further complicated by the subsequent murder of an elderly woman.

Shandi Mitchell.
Under this unbroken sky
Out of prison, Theo Mykolayenkos tirelessly clears his untamed land on the 1938 Canadian prairie and begins to heal himself; his wife, Maria; his children; and his sister, Anna; but soon Anna's rogue husband, the scheming Stefan, returns, stirring up rancor that will end in tragedy.

Sheldon Russell.
The yard dog
Assigned to security work at a German POW camp in Oklahoma, a disillusioned Hook Runyon and his moonshiner sidekick, Runt, stumble on the dead body of a coal picker and uncover a dangerous conspiracy involving Nazi prisoners and stolen art.