SHAPE SHIFTER by Tony Hillerman

FIC/MYS

HILLERMAN

Lt. Joe Leaphorn has recently retired from the Navajo Tribal police. He receives a copy of an article about an old and priceless Navajo rug from the 1860's, when the Navajo people started their long walk home. Eventually the "woven sorrow rug" was purchased and displayed at a trading post. When that building burned down, the rug was supposedly lost as well. The insurance company paid the owner.

Now Joe's friend Mel Bork, who is investigating the owner of a supposed copy, has gone missing only to be found dead a few days later. An atmospheric and suspenseful read.

DEATH IN THE DEVIL'S ACRE by Anne Perry

PBK/MYS
PERRY, A.

A series of brutal murders takes place in the red light district of London during the late 1880s. Police Inspector Thomas Pitt is called to investigate to see if there's a tie between the murder victims: a middle aged doctor, a former footman, a very rich and titled gentleman, and a math teacher. All were stabbed in the back and mutilated.

Pitt and his wife Charlotte race against time to find the killer. The search leads them to aristocratic families with secrets to hide, as well as to the underside of Victorian London.

DEATH AND THE DEVIL by Frank Schatzing

FIC

SCHATZING

In Early Medieval Cologne, a petty thief, Jacob the Fox, witnesses Gerhard Morart, Architect of the New Cathedral, being pushed to his death from its scaffolding. He has been seen by the murderer, a longhaired, seemingly superhuman man who is a professional assassin. Jacob is now his target for he must protect a larger conspiracy which reaches to the very top of Cologne's government. This book features non-stop action as well as interesting details of Medieval Life.

HEARTS AND BONES by Margaret Lawrence

FIC

LAWRENCE, M.

This story of historical suspense takes place in post Revolutionary War Maine and features Hannah Trevor, the village midwife, a woman who lives with her illegitimate daughter outside the bounds of convention-a sort of Hester Prynne without apologies.

A brutal murder rocks the normal activities of the village when a young woman is raped and strangled, leaving behind a letter accusing three prominent men of being her murderers. One names is Daniel Josselyn, Hannah's former lover and the father of her daughter.

With Will Quaid, the village constable, Hannah sets out to discover the truth of the tragedy, and discovers her won heart's desire as well.