Relax after Christmas with the new J.A. Jance or Ed Gorman mystery.

J.A. Jance.
Trial by fire
Taking a media relations position with the Yavapai County Police Department, former television journalist Ali Reynolds investigates a subdivision fire and the identity of an injured amnesiac woman, a case that unleashes a family drama and a remorseless killer.

Ed Gorman
Ticket to ride
Struggling with his father's illness and the end of a relationship, small-town Iowa lawyer Sam McCain witnesses the return of his community's first Vietnam casualty while reuniting with old friends at a Labor Day party that is shattered by a double murder.

Drew Karpyshyn.
Darth Bane : dynasty of evil : a novel of the Old Republic
A latest entry in the best-selling series that began with Path of Destruction and Rule of Two finds Darth Bane suffering the effects of using the dark side, doubting his apprentice for her apparent lack of ambition and pursuing an artifact with the power of granting immortality.

India Edghill
Delilah
Raised to be a priestess to the Five Cities ruling Canaan, a rebellion-wary Delilah sets out to capture reluctant Israelite warrior Samson, who falls in love with Delilah and forces the young priestess to question her heart and loyalties

Laurell K. Hamilton.
Divine misdemeanors
Refusing the throne of faerie in order to protect her unborn twins, Merry withdraws with her bodyguards to Los Angeles before encountering unexpected dangers from the factions of the faerie courts and her own worshipers.

Alexander McCall Smith.
La's orchestra saves the world
A stand-alone work by the author of the Isabel Dalhousie series finds divorcee Lavender fleeing World War II London and organizing an amateur orchestra that includes a talented Polish refugee who rekindles long-buried feelings

Angela Hunt.
Let darkness come
Working on a case that could make or break her career, attorney Briley Lester, defending a society wife accused of killing her abusive husband--the scion of one of the city's wealthiest and most influential families--stumbles upon a tragic, shocking secret that could prove her client's innocence.

Colleen McCullough, Sydney Miner.
Too many murders :a Carmine Delmonico novel
In 1967, the town of Holloman, Connecticut, the home of armaments giant Cornucopia, chief of detectives Carmine Delmonico investigates a dozen murders that may be connected to a spy passing Cornucopia's secrets to the Russians.