Mystery/Suspense – Page 4

River Whispers by Kathi Oram Peterson

Title: River Whispers

Author: Kathi Oram Peterson

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: April 21, 2011

ISBN: 978-1608611461

Size: 240 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Romantic Suspense

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Regi Bernard’s small hometown on the Snake River is good for some things (like fishing) but bad for others (like avoiding old flames). On one unlucky day, Regi runs in to the two men she least wants to see: Samuel Tanner, her first love, whose sudden rejection still stings decades later; and Ranger Curtis Romney, the man who trampled her daughter’s heart and reputation. But the next day, Regi’s luck is even worse. While trespassing on Samuel’s land to fish, she discovers a dead body in the willows. And when Regi reports the murder, she becomes the prime suspect.

Of course Regi knows she’s innocent. What she doesn t know is why the murder leads keep pointing to her, and she’s not going to sit around waiting while others find out. Unraveling a murder case in a small town where everyone and everything is interconnected is a tangled task at best. As Regi takes matters into her own hands, she finds the evidence points to multiple townspeople as the possible killer, including Regi’s own sister. With so many possibilities, Regi can’t get the job done without getting close to one particular suspect, Samuel, the man she’d hoped to avoid forever. The two of them will need more than luck if they’re going to clear their names and their past. And as Regi races to discover the truth about the murder, she may very well face her own.

Deception by LC Lang

Title: Deception

Author: L.C. Lang

Publisher: Self

Release Date: April 4, 2011

ISBN:

Size: ebook

Genre: Suspense

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Marcie Jackson is a state police detective. She has the weekend off, but her boss cancels it by giving her a case. She has to work the case alone, which she knows means her boss is setting her up to get rid of her. Still, she works the case anyway, just to show him she can do it. Marcie is suspicious when two FBI agents show up in her boss’s office, demanding to know what she is finding, while giving very little information why they are even interested.

The victim is an older female real estate agent. Marcie knows something more is going on when she finds a laptop computer and file hidden in a secret drawer in the desk of the victim’s home office.

Marcie enlists the aid of her friend, and former police officer, Rachael Mackey. Together, they move the case deeper when they use the information they found on the victims laptop. She hopes she can keep away from her boss and the FBI away long enough to find out what is really going on.

Sudden Peril by Frank Richardson

Title: Sudden Peril

Author: Frank Richardson

Publisher: Bonneville (CFI)

Release Date: April 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599554983

Size: 256 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Suspense

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Jamie Madero, an Arizona college student, is not yet ready to serve an LDS mission. Instead, he accepts summer employment with the Freemen Foundation, a group of civic-minded donors and inside investigators whose self-appointed mission is to monitor the activities of organizations that threaten the foundations of free society.

Jamie is still in training when he discovers that the group’s adversaries are ruthless in pursuit of their aims. Gradually, he comes to recognize the evil characteristics and methods of some of the world’s most powerful—and potentially most destructive—secret combinations. Jamie’s companions in this hazardous work are devoted men and women with special skills. They take Jamie into their confidence as he grows in commitment and abilities. But success comes at a terrible price.

As the team coalesces and crisis mounts, events reveal both deceivers and valued allies. Those intending to make the most crucial—and most perilous—contribution to the cause they embrace must do so from the inside. Jamie finds himself surrounded by friends who typify honor, virtue, integrity, and strength, and who are violently confronted by moral opposites. The contest becomes explosive. Even if good triumphs over evil, and that is by no means assured, the questions would remain, at what price, and who will live to see the outcome?

Treason at Lisson Grove by Anne Perry

Title: Treason at Lisson Grove (A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel)

Author: Anne Perry

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Release Date: April 5, 2011

ISBN: 978-0345510587

Size: 320 pages, hardcover

Genre: Mystery

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The man who lies bleeding to death in a London brickyard is no ordinary drifter but a secret informant prepared to divulge details of a potentially devastating international plot against the British government. Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with him, arrives a second too late, preceded by a knife-wielding assassin. As the mortally wounded man’s life slips away, so too does the information Pitt desperately needs. The killer in turn flees on an erratic course that leads Pitt in wild pursuit, from London’s cobblestone streets to picturesque St. Malo on the French coast.

Meanwhile, Pitt’s supervisor, the formidable Victor Narraway, finds himself accused of embezzling government funds. With Pitt incommunicado in France, Narraway turns to Pitt’s clever wife, Charlotte, for help. The man who badmouthed Narraway and ruined his career with innuendo can be found in Ireland—so Charlotte agrees to pose as Narraway’s sister and accompany him to Dublin to investigate.

But unknown to Pitt and Narraway, a shadowy plotter is setting a trap that, once sprung, could destroy not just reputations but the British empire itself.

He Loves Me Not by Christine Kersey

Title: He Loves Me Not

Author: Christine Kersey

Publisher: Self

Release Date: March 16, 2011

ISBN:

Size: ebook; 83,000 words

Genre: Suspense

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Stay away from him.

When college student Lily Jamison receives the ominous note, she convinces herself it’s a mistake. After all, she’s barely met the two men it could be referring to. But as she begins to fall for the man with the striking blue eyes, the disturbing messages increase.

Refusing to believe warnings from an anonymous sender and trusting her own heart, Lily presses forward with her relationship, eventually coming to understand the meaning behind the messages as she fears for her life.

Einstein’s Trunk by James Haberkorn

Title: Einstein’s Trunk

Author: James Haberkorn

Publisher: Cedar Fort

Release Date: March 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599554525

Size: 240 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Suspense

Rulon Hurt is a straightlaced, religious, and hardworking farmer from Idaho. Yohaba Melekson is a wild, worldly, and impossibly intelligent physics student from Switzerland. But when the two discover a trunk full of Albert Einstein’s secret writings, they learn that opposites attract in this electric tale that pits truth against lies, faith against knowledge, heart against mind, and an epic struggle for survival against the planet’s imminent destruction

Vengeance by Clair M. Poulson

Title: Vengeance

Author: Clair M. Poulson

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: March, 2011

ISBN:

Size: 272 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Suspense

A decade ago, eight-year-old Aubree Lansing peeked from her hiding place in the closet and saw the unthinkable: a dead body on her bedroom floor and a man standing close by with a gun in his bloodstained hands. A man she called daddy.

Aubree’s courageous testimony during the murder trial led to a hefty prison sentence for Stone Lansing — and placed a heavy weight on his daughter’s heart. When Aubree’s mother married Reginald Kern, one of Stone’s former defense attorneys, and the new family welcomed the birth of twins, it seemed that Aubree had left her tragic past behind. But at age eighteen, her nightmare suddenly resumes: Stone Lansing is out of prison, and he’s looking for the daughter whose words sent him there. In the wake of a death threat, Aubree flees with her twin half-siblings aboard the cruise ship Stargazer and finds protection in the care of its young sea captain. But there’s more than one menace closing in on Aubree, as the cold tide of vengeance threatens to drag her under.

Tangled Hearts by Roseanne Evans Wilkins

Title: Tangled Hearts

Author: Roseanne Evans Wilkins

Publisher: Create Space

Release Date: February 18, 2011

ISBN: 978-1456537791

Size: 336 pages, 5.5×8.5, softcover

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Series: Kansas Connection Series—Hidden in the Heart, Change of Heart

Serra Lanning, known as the Chaste Mormon Model Kara Kukaanei, grew up in Salina, Kansas. She is living a lonely life. Her parents have died and her sister, Brooke, hasn’t spoken to her in years. When Brooke shows up with her son in tow and asks Serra to watch him while she and her husband go on vacation to France, Serra’s whole life is turned upside down. Serra’s decision to hide from Brooke’s in-law’s create problems she doesn’t anticipate. When the tires to her new SUV are slashed, she knows she has more to fear than having her nephew taken.

The Assignment by Jean Holbrook Mathews

Title: The Assignment

Author: Jean Holbrook Mathews

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: February 2011

ISBN: 978-1608610817

Size: 304 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Suspense

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Sophie Adamson: the young, auburn-haired registered nurse kidnapped from a shopping mall with her Filipino roommate, taken hostage by the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf and compelled to administer medical relief to the wounded son of its kingpin.

Julia Wentworth: the middle-aged director of an international charitable foundation, recently shaken by the sudden death of her husband and the near-fatal injury of her son, sent by her respected employer to retrieve his abducted granddaughter, Sophie.

Diego Montalbon: known as “Monty,” the prestigious Metro Manila police detective Julia hires to lead the daunting rescue mission, whose rugged appearance and surefooted ways conceal private wounds of his own.

Three individuals whose paths converge in the stark realm of a terrorist underworld. Three lives that entwine amidst the rich beauty of Philippine culture. And one unforgettable story of how love and hope transcend even the most harrowing loss.

The Devil’s Plague by Michael R. Collings

Title: The Devil’s Plague

Author: Michael R. Collings

Publisher: Borgo Press (Wildside)

Release Date: February 5, 2011

ISBN: 978-1434412300

Size: 232 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Suspense

May not be eligible for a Whitney due to length. See note below.

The scene lay tranquil and peaceful–except for the young woman’s body, battered and broken at the foot of Porcupine Falls. Who was responsible? Was it the local boy, enamored and fearful of rejection; the stranger with the hidden past; or a serial killer? It’s up to Lynn Hansen, recently arrived from L.A., and her new friend, Victoria Sears, to explore the intimacies of death, and solve the mystery of the Devil’s Plague!

*This is a double-novel from Wildside/Borgo press. You read one book, then flip it over and read the other book. The other book is Driving Hell’s Highway by Gary Lovisi, who as far as I know is not LDS. I also do not know if the page count refers only to The Devil’s Plague or to both books.

Blackberry Crumble by Josi S. Kilpack

Title: Blackberry Crumble

Author: Josi S. Kilpack

Publisher: Deseret Book

Release Date: January 31, 2011

ISBN:

Size: 350 pages, 5.5×8, paperback

Genre: Culinary Mystery

Series: Lemon Tart (bk1), English Trifle (bk2), Devil’s Food Cake (bk3), Key Lime Pie (bk 4)

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Modern Miss Marple: A Magnet for Murder?
by Jane Seeley, feature reporter, The Denver Post

Local “celebrity” Sadie Hoffmiller has been involved in a number of unfortunate situations that have taken her to crime scenes from London, England, to Miami, Florida, and even in her own backyard of Garrison, Colorado. But is she truly an unwitting bystander in all these investigations? Or is she something more? Is she, perhaps, even the cause …?

The word is out about Sadie Hoffmiller’s amateur detective work, but it’s not the kind of publicity Sadie wants. When Jane’s article threatens Sadie’s reputation in the community, she accepts her first investigation-for-hire and travels to Portland, Oregon – if only to give herself some space from her whispering neighbors. And from Pete, who is sending her mixed signals about their budding relationship.

Sadie hopes the Portland air will clear her head, and she is eager to get to work for May Sanderson, who has suspicions about her father’s untimely death.

Putting her detective skills to the test, Sadie delves into a complicated past that includes a business partnership that didn’t end well, several unsavory family secrets, and more than a few motives for murder.

Sadie is afraid she might crumble under the pressure, but in a new place with new recipes, she finds herself more determined than ever to uncover the answers buried in scandal, insatiable appetites, and pure and simple greed.

Dearly Departed by Tristi Pinkston

Title: Dearly Departed (Secret Sisters #2)

Author: Tristi Pinkston

Publisher: Walnut Springs Press

Release Date: January 14, 2011

ISBN: 978-1935217893

Size: 270 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Mystery

Series: Secret Sisters

Ida Mae Babbit has done her community service and is a reformed woman—no more law-breaking for her. But when Arlette’s granddaughter Eden discovers a mystery in a fancy nursing home, Ida Mae—with the perfect excuse of a broken wrist and a broken ankle—hecks herself into the place. After all, it is for the greater good. Soon she’s buzzing around in her motorized wheelchair, questioning the residents and swiping files from the office. She’s bound and determined to get to the bottom of this case. But can she solve the mystery before she becomes the next victim?

Bumpy Landings by Donald J. Carey

Title: Bumpy Landings

Author: Donald J. Carey

Publisher: Bonneville/Cedar Fort, Inc.

Release Date: January 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599554136

Size: 256 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Mystery & Suspense

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Across the field, a couple of small planes cast long shadows as the sun inched its way toward the western horizon.

Then Jordan heard the sound he was hoping for. He looked out into the sky above the ocean where a small white plane with a red tail buzzed over the waves, flying parallel to the runway. As the plane flew past, Jordan imagined he was the one at the controls, with one eye on the airport and the other on the altimeter, waiting for just the right moment to turn into the base leg of the landing pattern.

All his life, Jordan MacDonald has dreamed of taking flight and soaring above the majestic mountains of his native Hawaii, but he doesn’t dare disobey his mother, who has absolutely forbidden him from flying. Suddenly everything changes when, spurred by the pain of a failed relationship, Jordan begins working toward the coveted pilot’s license. Just as he finds love again, Jordan’s lies start to close in around him, and he soon learns that a life full of dishonesty attracts more turbulence than he’s ever faced in the air.

Set against the exotic backdrop of the Hawaiian islands, this thrilling tale of romance and self-discovery is a perfect vacation from the average love story. Join Jordan as he tests the limits of friendship and finds out just how far his dreams can carry him. Entertaining and engaging, Bumpy Landings will take you to new heights with each turn of the page.

Smokescreen by Traci Hunter Abramson

Title: Smokescreen

Author: Traci Hunter Abramson

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: January 3, 2011

ISBN: 978-1-60861-183-6

Size: 288 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Series: Saint Squad Books: Freefall, Lockdown, Crossfire, Backlash

Taylor Palmetta has spent the past year in Europe building her art career and hiding from Navy SEAL Quinn Lambert, the man who broke her heart. But Taylor can’t seem to hide from trouble. When Taylor seeks safety with her family in Virginia Beach, a series of threats puts her on high alert— and puts Quinn into protective mode.

Despite the private loss that continues to haunt him, Quinn can’t deny his renewed attraction to Taylor. But just as the romance heats up, a plot against the very foundation of the American way of life surfaces, and Taylor’s paintings may hold the key. The Saint Squad is back in action as the team frantically tries to protect their nation’s security—and Taylor and Quinn search for courage to unlock the troubled past.

Isabelle Webb: The Pharoah’s Daughter by N.C. Allen

Title: Isabelle Webb: The Pharoah’s Daughter

Author: N.C. Allen

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: January 3, 2011

ISBN:

Size: 272 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Suspense

Series: Legend of the Jewel (bk 1)

After her gripping escapade in India, former Pinkerton spy Isabelle Webb launches a new adventure as she pursues a steamship en route to Egypt carrying two young stowaways: her teenaged ward, Sally Rhodes, and an unlucky girl named Alice Bilbey. Arriving in Suez, Isabelle and her companions recover the girls and unexpectedly encounter Isabelle’s own guardian from her youth, Genevieve Montgomery. Isabelle and her friends decide to join up with Genevieve upon discovering that she is funding an expedition to a burial site near Luxor with an entourage of Egyptology experts.

Unaware that their nemesis, Thaddeus Sparks, is also in Egypt as part of a jewel-hunting cadre, Isabelle’s group joins the expedition under ominous signs: a prophetic warning from a stranger, threats along the Nile River, and birthmarks that burn when the rare Jewel of Zeus is nearby. At the excavation site—a cave rumored to be the tomb of a pharaoh’s disgraced daughter—tension builds when several newcomers arrive. And as circumstances shift with the sands, Isabelle finds that some of the royal treasure in the ruthless pharaoh’s desert was buried for lethal reasons.

Kay’sville by Sheralyn Pratt

Title: Kay’sville (Rhea Jensen Series, Book 4)

Author: Sheralyn Pratt

Publisher: Cedar Fort/Bonneville

Release Date: December 8, 2010

ISBN: 978-1599554259

Size: 224 pages, 5.5×8.5, paperback

Genre: Suspense

Series: City of Angels (bk 1), Welcome to Stalk Lake City (bk 2), City Limits (bk 3)

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Utah. On Kathryn McCoy’s list of top ten places she never wants to live, it’s right up there at the top. When she accepts a job transfer to the Beehive state, Kathryn knows it’s a step down career-wise, but it also reunites her with her best friend, Rhea Jensen – the private investigator she’s learned to rely on for all her best scoops. And when a mother is shot in her own home, Kathryn turns to Rhea and the self-righteous Officer Dahl to get her exclusive on finding the evidence that will put the killer behind bars. But what Kathryn doesn’t expect is for Dahl to awaken the ghosts of her past that will set her on the path to healing.

Crystal Coffin by R.L. Tyler

Title: Crystal Coffin (Vince & Cat, book 2)

Author: R.L. Tyler (aka Rebecca Shelley)

Publisher: Wonder Realms

Release Date: December 3, 2010

ISBN:

Size: ebook

Genre: Suspense

Series: Heroin Guns (book 1)

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When the Japanese mafia abducts North Korea’s embalmed “Eternal Leader” as ransom for the return of a kidnapped girl, North Korea refuses to trade and threatens to attack Japan. Secret agents Vince and Cat rush to North Korea to rescue the girl, but a betrayal leads them into a trap. The world teeters on the edge of war, and the fate of one girl and a dead Communist leader will tip the scale.

Suspicions by Christine Kersey

Title: Suspicions

Author: Christine Kersey

Publisher: Self

Release Date: November 22, 2010

ISBN:

Size: ebook; 72,000 words

Genre: Suspense

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When a neighbor boy is kidnapped for ransom, Stacey Hunter is stunned to discover that circumstantial evidence points to her husband. Not able to believe he could be involved in such a horrifying crime, she sets out to discover who is really behind the kidnapping.

Complicating Stacey’s efforts is the odd behavior of her supervisor, Patricia Summers, who has taken a keen interest in Stacey’s husband. Though uncertain of her husband’s faithfulness, Stacey presses on with her investigation to flush out the kidnapper and is faced with losing everything she loves, as well as her own life.

Perilous by Tamara Hart Heiner

Title: Perilous

Author: Tamara Hart Heiner

Publisher: WiDo

Release Date: November 16, 2010

ISBN: 978-0979607080

Size: 265 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA Suspense

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Jaci Rivera has plans for her sophomore year: go to regionals with the track team, make the honor roll, and eat too much pizza with her best friends, Callie and Sara. Her biggest concern is Amanda, the pushy girl who moved in a few months ago.

What she doesn’t plan for is catching a robber red-handed, or being kidnapped. The desperate thief drags her and her friends 2,000 miles across the Canadian border. They escape from his lair, only to find that he has spies and agents watching their path home, waiting to intercept them and take them back.

Then Jaci finds out something about her family. Somethings which irrevocably connects her to the kidnapper, and makes her questin their chances of escape.

Cartels and Combinations by Mike McPheters

Title: Cartels and Combinations

Author: Mike McPheters

Publisher: Cedar Fort/Bonneville

Release Date: November 15, 2010

ISBN: 978-1599554877

Size: 256 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Suspense

Mike McPheters, author of Agent Bishop, is back with the harrowing account of a Mexican-American family caught in the crossfire between the Vultures, a dangerous drug cartel, and US Homeland Security.

Based on a true story, Cartels and Combinations proves the reality of latter-day evil and how we can find protection and peace in heeding the words of ancient and modern prophets and apostles alike.

No Way Out by Christine Kersey

Title: No Way Out

Author: Christine Kersey

Publisher: Self

Release Date: November 8, 2010

ISBN:

Size: ebook; 67, 000 words

Genre: Suspense

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Abby Breuner fears the worst. Pregnant with her third child, and having problems at work, Abby is alarmed when her husband, Eric, vanishes without any warning. The police seem unable—or unwilling—to help. And what appeared to be a close-enough-to-perfect life gets permanently turned upside down when she finds an ominous book and a large amount of cash stowed in a forgotten corner of her closet

Heroin Guns by R.L. Tyler

Title: Heroin Guns (Vince & Cat, book 1)

Author: R.L. Tyler (aka Rebecca Shelley)

Publisher: Wonder Realms

Release Date: November 2, 2010

ISBN: 978-1456357771

Size: 274 pages, 5.5×8.5, paperback

Genre: Suspense

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A personal nightmare.

A ruthless drug lord.

A country torn by war.

President’s Special Forces agents Vince and Cat go undercover into Afghanistan to do the impossible—shut down the flow of heroin from Kabul. But the mission turns deadly, launching Vince and Cat into the most harrowing adventure of their lives.

Chasing Pirates in Never Land by R.L. Tyler

Title: Chasing Pirates in Never Land

Author: R.L. Tyler (aka Rebecca Shelley)

Publisher: Wonder Realms

Release Date: October 19, 2010

ISBN:

Size: ebook; 12, 345 words

Genre: Suspense

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Short story. Not eligible for a Whitney Award.

An agent in forced retirement investigates a string of brutal murders while coming to terms with his wife’s death.

City Limits by Sherilyn Pratt

Title: City Limits (Rhea Jensen Series, Book 3)

Author: Sheralyn Pratt

Publisher: Cedar Fort/Bonneville

Release Date: October 8, 2010

ISBN: 978-1599554235

Size: 224 pages, 5.5×8.5, paperback

Genre: Suspense

Series: City of Angels (bk 1), Welcome to Stalk Lake City (bk 2)

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Not eligible for Whitney Award. Previously published.

In the third installment of the Rhea Jensen series, Rhea’s best friend Kay McCoy moves to Salt Lake City to keep a closer eye on Rhea, and Rhea worries that Kay wants things to go back to the way they were in Los Angeles – clubbing, dancing, and men. But when Rhea agrees to do a simple, harmless favor for Kay, she unwittingly sets off a series of events that ends up with a secret society appearing right at her door. The stakes are higher than ever – solving the case means more than just collecting her weekly paycheck. This time, it’s a matter of life and death.