Mysteries

By Travis Thrasher (David C. Cook)

Solitary, North Carolina is one of those small towns in the Smoky Mountains that could easily be overlooked. Yet Chris Buckley can’t overlook anything since he’s just moved there and fallen for the wrong girl. He’s made enemies with the wrong people. He’s starting to have nightmares about very, very wrong things. Something is happening in this creepy little town, and it seems to somehow center around Chris.

By Brandt Dodson (Monarch)

The Body Of A Young Woman Is Found In A Dumpster In Chicago And Detectives Andy Polanski And Frank Campello Are Charged With Finding The Killer. The Two Are Polar Opposites. Polanski Is The Son Of A Disgraced Chicago Police Officer And Is Fastidious About His Reputation. He Has Also Recently Been Transferred From Another District Having Blown The Whistle On Some Corrupt Cops. Campello, However, Takes A Live And Let Live Approach To His Life And Job.

By Melanie Wells (Multnomah)

Peter Terry Returns A knock at her door. A bloody axe. A murder weapon in her own living room. The elusive white man with the slash on his back is out hunting again, chasing souls. Peter Terry is haunting minds, invading dreams, and wrecking lives.

By Melanie Wells (Multnomah Fiction)

Peter Terry Returns A knock at her door. A bloody axe. A murder weapon in her own living room. The elusive white man with the slash on his back is out hunting again, chasing souls. Peter Terry is haunting minds, invading dreams, and wrecking lives.

By Dineen Miller (Barbour Books)

Meet Lexie Baltimore, who is in the supernatural battle of her life. In obedience to God’s calling, Lexie uses her art and dreams to help others. But will she have enough courage to help herself when she becomes torn between her atheist husband and a godly man? A widower and a father, Pastor Nate Winslow is drowning in darkness. Will he resist his treacherous assignment to win Lexie’s heart or give in to the attraction between them? As events unfold, Lexie becomes entangled in a twisted plot. Will she overcome the evil assailing her or yield to the dark side?  *Winner of the 2013 ACFW Carol Award for Mystery/Suspense/Thrillers!    .

By Bruce Buff (Howard Books)

A scientist’s claim that he’s found the secrets of the universe’s origin encoded in DNA sparks a race against time to uncover the truth in this fast-paced thriller of science and faith, power and murder, loss and redemption. Dan Lawson, a former government cyber-intelligence analyst, is surprised to be contacted by his estranged friend Stephen Bishop, a renowned geneticist. Stephen says that he’s discovered amazing information within DNA, including evidence of a creator, and needs Dan’s help to protect his findings. Dan is skeptical and wonders whether he is being manipulated, or if the recent illness of Stephen’s only child, Ava, has caused his childhood friend to fall back on religion for answers to questions best left to science. Spurred by his desire for proof that life has meaning, however, Dan puts aside his doubts and agrees to help.

By Jaime Jo Wright (Bethany House Publishers)

Wren Blythe has long enjoyed being among the Northwoods, helping her father with programming at a youth camp. But when a little girl in the area goes missing, an all-out search ensues, reviving the decades-old campfire story of Ava Coons, the murderess, who still roams the woods. Joining the search, Wren stumbles upon the Coons cabin ruins and a rotting porcelain doll. But even more terrifying is seeing her name etched on the doll’s foot like a sinister omen. In 1930, Ava Coons has spent the last ten years carrying the mantle of mystery since she emerged from the forest as an eight-year-old girl, spattered with blood, dragging a logger’s axe.

By Sue Duffy (Kregel Publications)

After losing everyone she loves, concert pianist Liesl Bower has nowhere to go but to escape into her music. Searching for the peace she usually finds in her concertos and sonatas, Liesl can’t shake the feeling that she is being haunted by her past. and by someone following her.

By Irene Brand (Love Inspired Suspense)

A note from Nerissa Blanchard:Now that my twin has found love, she wants me to be as happy asshe is. She doesn’t know how blue coming home to this empty housemakes me. And our poor mother—I found her in the library, murdered. I’m thankful that Drew Lancaster was one of the first officers on thescene. He’s encouraging and supportive (and he’s handsome, too!).

By Andrew Klavan (Thomas Nelson Publishers)

The Search for the Map—and the secret behind its cryptic code—intensifies in a quest across time, space, and multiple realities. But what if the true treasure isn’t the map at all. what if the map marks something far greater? Something one world cannot contain? Those who desire to unlock that mystery are in a race to possess the secret—for good or evil.