Munch Mancini is a busy woman, juggling her job, a fledgling business and single motherhood, but she hasn't forgotten her old friends like Ellen Summers. Munch and Ellen were young and foolish together, but somewhere along the line Munch went straight and Ellen went to prison. Now Ellen is about to be freed from the California Institute for Women. She'll have another chance to make a life. Or will she? Just a day before her release, her world falls apart when someone tortures and murders her mother and stepfather. Ellen may be the next target. Friendship, loyalty, motherhood, men and even Munch's sobriety are put to the test as she embarks on a harrowing mission to catch a killer and save Ellen.

No Man Standing

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Barbara Seranella

Mystery

Robert Hale Fiction

It sounded like an accident. Sandy Wakefield, Flint's uncle, had died in a mining mishap. A short fuse or a mistake was the cause, according to both the town marshal and the mine owner. However, after Flint and Johnny Wakefield pay their respects, they begin to suspect foul play.Sandy was trying to improve conditions for the miners, who are treated little better than slaves, working at long and dangerous jobs for pay that barely keeps the wolf from the door. Then Flint and his brother discover the stripped body of an unknown man along the trail.When they seek to learn his identity, the life above ground gets as dangerous as below. Ultimately, Flint will have to die before there can be "A Reckoning at Orphan Creek"!

A Reckoning at Orphan Creek

Terrell L. Bowers

After World War I, two final stragglers return to North East Scotland to pick up their old lives: Mary Cowie, once a "gutter quine" or fish gutter, who served with the Elsie Inglis Scottish Women Hospitals field units; and Neil Findlay, once the best fishing boat skipper in Buckie, now a shell-shocked wreck. They hope the old life will cure them, but find they have changed too much to settle down again. This is a story of a fishing community following the herring shoals around the coast in their steam drifters, and is rich in local characters like Aggie, the young war widow; Jonathan, the local doctor; and Eric, the skipper who retired too soon to make way for his sons. The shadow of the war refuses to go away for any of these but, with change, comes opportunity. Mary and Neil find their tribal and personal loyalties tested to the full as the herring fishing industry struggles to recover.

The Wind from the Sea

Literature & Fiction

Neilson, Mark

Genre Fiction

<p>PI Frank Doy's short-break holiday in Prague is rudely interrupted when he steps into a street fight outside his boutique hotel and helps a man being badly beaten in an attempted abduction. The unfortunate victim is Leon Podolsky, a wealthy Russian dissident based in the city. He and his two sisters run a global business empire and publish an online Russian-language newspaper critical of the Kremlin. Frank meets the Podolskys at a time when they are under siege. A grateful Leon offers Frank security work, partly back in England where the family have acquired a ruined country mansion, The Chesters, in Northumberland. But first he wants him to provide back-up at peace talks in Montenegro. The talks don't go well. Leon's assassination is narrowly averted. And security arrangements at The Chesters fail to stop a devastating arson attack. Beset by betrayal and intolerable pressure, the job is turning out to be far more than Frank had envisaged. It is time to change tack and go on the offensive. And where better to start than Prague, where it all began?</p>

One Damn Thing After Another

LATUS, DAN

At seventeen, Dot Pickett is young to be taking on the role of trail boss on a cattle drive. But Dot's life has been hard, and he has learnt to be brave, resourceful - and occasionally ruthless. Now he has successfully led a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas and is setting off for home with the bag of gold owed to the Texan ranchers. But Dot has fallen foul of a notorious outlaw family and he knows that they will try to ambush him. Then when Dot goes to the aid of a young woman, the gold disappears and he embarks upon a quest to retrieve it. Dot's search takes him on a long trail of danger, deception and intrigue, leading him from Abilene deep into the bayous of Louisiana, where his courage and determination are pushed to the extreme in order to survive and reclaim the cattlemen's gold.

The Long Trail (A Black Horse Western Extra)

ARMSTRONG, JOHN

United States