'The Scottish Prisoner'

A sex slave on the run in Belfast finds anything but safety with a Christian pastor, and a haunted detective may be the only one who can save her.


The Talk Show Murders

A Billy Blessing Novel

Al Roker and Dick Lochte

Delacorte, $26

New York TV host-turned-sleuth Billy Blessing faces his long-hidden past — and an unexpected string of murders — during a visit to Chicago.

An Uncertain Place

A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery

Fred Vargas

Penguin, $15

Is there a connection between a gruesome murder and an equally gruesome scene — a collection of shoes containing severed feet at London's Highgate Cemetery?

V Is for Vengeance

Sue Grafton

G.P. Putnam, $27.95

When the death of a department store shoplifter is called a suicide, Kinsey Millhone doesn't accept the verdict and heads out in her blue Mustang to find out what really happened.

Vigilante

A Shane Scully Novel

Stephen J. Cannell

St. Martin's, $25.99

Scully and his partner fear that there's a murderer in the LAPD after a high-profile critic of the department is found dead in her home. The last Scully novel by the author, who died last year.