Dan Garvie’s life has been haunted by the crime hewitnessed as a child—narrowly escaping an encounter with a notorious serial killer. He has dedicated his life since to becoming a criminal profiler, eager to seek justice for innocent victims. So when his father passes away undersuspicious circumstances, Dan revisits his small island community, determined to uncover the truth about his death. Is it possible that the monster he remembers from his childhood nightmares has returned after all these years?

With his signature shock and suspense, Alex Northbrings us The Man Made of Smoke. In turn emotional, introspective, and utterly terrifying, this is a story offathers and sons, shadows and secrets, and the fight we all face to escape the trauma of the past.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Alex North is the internationally bestselling author of The Angel Maker, The Whisper Man and The Shadows. He lives in Leeds, England, with his wife and son, and is a British crime writer who has previously published under another name.

The Cadieux House has a dark past: in 1955, it was the site of the never-solved murder of its owner, Dennis Blaine. Cadieux himself was alleged to be having an affair with Dennis’s wife, the stunningly beautiful Rebecca. It seems like yesterday’s headlines, but then someone starts killing people with a connection to the house. The home’s new owner—bestselling novelist Brownwyn Merrick—may be using the house to launch a fictionalized account of the 1955 crime. But someone may not want her to. Just how far will Bronwyn’s armed bodyguard go to protect her?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Over the years, Richard J. Koreto has been a magazine writer, website manager, textbook editor. novel and merchant seaman. He was born and raised in New York City, graduated from Vassar College, and has wanted to be a writer ever since reading The Naked and the Dead. In addition to his novels, he has published short stories in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine,the 2020 Boucheron Anthology, and Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon. His current series features Wren Fontaine, an architect who finds mysteries in the historic homes she renovates. He and his wife have two grown daughters, and they divide their time between Rockland County, New York, and Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

From Scott Ellsworth, the author of The GroundBreaking, which was longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a riveting new account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. His latest is a page-turning, eye-opening account of the last desperate months of the Civil War, when the very future of the United States teetered on the brink amidst ideological clashes and political extremism.

But more than that, MIDNIGHT ON THE POTOMAC: The LastYear of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America is an incredibly timely read. For 1864-1865 was hallmarked by many sentiments the United States faces today: political upheaval, competing truths, and a nation trying to move forward in an age of extreme division.

About the Author :Scott Ellsworth is the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Game, winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He has written about Americanhistory for The New York Times, The WashingtonPost, and the Los Angeles Times. Formerly a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, he is also the author of The World Beneath Their Feet and Death in a Promised Land, hisgroundbreaking account of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. Scott lives in Ann Arbor, where he teaches in the Department of Afro American and African Studies at the University of Michigan.