New Arrival: Remains to Be Scene, by R.T. Jordan

Just in is the debut novel by R.T. Jordan, Remains to Be Scene. This is the first in a projected series featuring Polly Pepper, a former television star who hasn't had a role in years. She finally gets a starring role when her long-time rival dies diving into an empty pool after the first day of shooting a show. Chaos soon shuts down production, and Polly tries to solve the mystery, to get her show going again.

R.T. Jordan is a senior publicist for Walt Disney Studios, and is currently working on the next Polly Pepper mystery.

New Arrival: High Profile, by Robert B. Parker

Just in is the new Jess Stone novel by Robert B. Parker, High Profile. This book also features the character Sunny Randall, the lead character of another Parker series. When a controversial right-wing talk show host is murdered, Jess Stone is thrust into the glare of the national media. When a young woman is murdered a few days later, the pressure gets even more intense.

You can learn more about Rober B. Parker and his books at his website.

New Arrival: Hell Hath No Curry, A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery, by Tamar Myers

Just in is the new mystery novel by Tamar Myers, Hell Hath No Curry. This is the fifteenth book in her Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries with Recipes series, featuring Amish-Mennonite sleuth and innkeeper Magdalena Yoder. A few days before he is supposed to be married, Cornelius Weaver is found dead of a heart attack, in the bed of another woman. Traces of a drug that could have induced the heart attack are found in his system. Mgadalena is called in to investigate, since the second-in-command of the police force was the "other woman" Cornelius was with!

You can learn more about Tamar Myers and her books at her website.

New Arrival: Murder on the Celtic, by Conrad Allen (Edward Marston)

Just in is the new nautical mystery by Conrad Allen, Murder on the Celtic. The husband and wife detective team of George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield investigate a number of thefts during their 1910 ocean passage from New York to London. Among the passengers who have been robbed is Arthur Conan Doyle, whose copy of the first Sherlock Holmes novel has disappeared.

"Conrad Allen" is a pen name of Edward Marston, well-known for his historical mysteries. He also writes mysteries with a golfer protagonist under the name Keith Miles. You can learn more about him and his books at his website.

New Arrival: The Commission, by Michael Norman

Just in is the debut novel by Michael Norman, The Commission. The chief of the Special Investigations Branch of the Utah Department of Corrections is called in when the chairman of the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole is shot to death in his driveway. The investigation leads toward a corrupt group of state prison employees, "The Commission".

The author is a former police officer and state parole board member, and a professor of criminal justice in Utah.

New Arrival: The Budapest Connection, by Henry C. Lee and Jerry Labriola

Just in is the first fiction collaboration by Henry C. Lee and Jerry Labriola, The Budapest Connection. Dr. Henry Liu, head of the high-powered Global Interactive Forensics Team, investigates the murder of three young women whose naked corpses are found arranged in a triangle at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal in New York City.

Henry C. Lee is famous for his forensic work on many high-profile cases, including the O.J. Simpson case. He and Jerry Labriola have written several nonfiction books together, and Labriola has also written other mystery novels. You can learn more about them at Henry Lee's website and Jerry Labriola's website.

New Arrival: The Collaborator of Bethlehem, by Matt Beynon Rees

Just in is the debut novel from Matt Beynon Rees, The Collaborator of Bethlehem. When a PLO fighter is shot by an Israeli sniper, a Palestinian Christian is arrested for being a collaborator. Omar Yussef, a schoolteacher, is not convinced that his former student is guilty of the crime, and fights to clear his name.

Matt Beynon Rees is the former Jerusalem bureau chief for Time Magazine, and also wrote the nonfiction book Cain's Field : Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East, about the Arab-Israeli conflict. You can learn more about Rees and his books at his website.

New Arrival: The Coldest Blood, a Philip Dryden Novel by Jim Kelly

Just in at the Hillsborough Public Library is the fourth Philip Dryden book by Jim Kelly, The Coldest Blood. Newspaper reporter Dryden investigates the deaths of several elderly residents during an extremely cold Cambridgeshire winter. He begins to suspect that these deaths are actually murders connected to the criminal investigation of an orphanage, and a murder from 30 years ago.

New Arrival, Dust, a Richard Grimes Novel by Martha Grimes

Just in at the Hillsborough Public Library is the 21st Richard Grimes mystery by Martha Grimes, Dust. Scotland Yard inspector Richard Jury and his amateur colleague, Melrose Plant, investigate the murder of a wealthy bachelor. Clues range from World War II codebreakers to author Henry James. Jury's romantic affair with a new Scotland Yard detective further complicates things.

You can learn more about Martha Grimes and her books at her website.

New Arrival: A Deeper Sleep, a Kate Shugak Novel by Dana Stabenow

Just in at the Hillsborough Library is the fifteenth Kate Shugak book by Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep. Kate Shugak fights to convict a man who has gotten away with previous crimes through witness intimidation, and possibly murder. If she can't put him away, even Kate and her family may be in danger from him.

You can learn more about Dana Stabenow and her books at her website.

New Arrival: Bad Blood, an Alex Cooper Novel by Linda Fairstein

Just in is Linda Fairstein's ninth novel featuring Manhattan prosecutor Alexandra Cooper, Bad Blood. An explosion in the tunnels beneath the city disrupts the trial of a man accused of murdering his wife. Cooper must discover how the explosion is connected to the defendant. She must also figure out how to hold her case together when her star witness is revealed to have been having an affair with the defendant.

You can learn more about Linda Fairstein and her books at her website.

New Arrival: Relative Danger, by June Shaw

Just in is the debut novel by June Shaw, Relative Danger. Cealie Gunther, pays a surprise visit to her son in Chicago, and finds her granddaughter in tears over the murder of her school custodian, possibly by a teacher. Amateur detective Cealie takes a job as a substitute teacher to get to the bottom of the mystery. The presence of her former lover, restaurant owner Gil Thurman, further complicates the situation.

This book is projected to be the first in a series featuring Cealie Gunther. You can learn more about writer and Red Hat Lady June Shaw at her website.