The Black Dove

10 best books like The Black Dove (Steve Hockensmith): Resurrection Men, The Bitterroots, Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal, Death of a Travelling Man, The Big Kahuna, Land of Wolves, The Geography of Risk: Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America's Coasts, Red Birds, Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North, The Country Life

Resurrection Men

Author	Ian Rankin
ISBN	0316608491

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group...

The Bitterroots

Author	C.J. Box
ISBN	1250051053

A riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar-Award winning author.

Former police officer Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. Guilty about not seeing her son and exhausted by the nights on stakeout, Cassie is nontheless managing...until...

Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal

Author	Renia Spiegel
ISBN	1250244021

The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's last days during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English, with a foreword from American Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt.

Renia Spiegel was a young girl from an upper-middle class Jewish family living on an estate in Stawki,...

Death of a Travelling Man

Author	M.C. Beaton
ISBN	0804112118

What's the best indicator of a fine read? When you can't wait to get to the library to select the next one in the series. That's definitely the case with Death of a Travelling Man.

In this novel, two transients blow into Lockdubh in a remodeled bus, and the village is turned topsy-turvy by one of...

The Big Kahuna

Author

Janet Evanovich

A stoner, an Instagram model, a Czech oligarch, and a missing unicorn. Nick Fox and Kate O'Hare have their work cut out for them in their weirdest, wildest adventure yet in this latest entry in the New York Times bestselling series by Janet and Peter Evanovich.

Straight arrow FBI Agent Kate O'Hare...

Land of Wolves

Author	Craig Johnson
ISBN	0525522506

The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.

"It's the scenery--and the big guy standing in front of the scenery--that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson's lean and leathery mysteries."
--The New York Times Book Review

Recovering...

The Geography of Risk: Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America's Coasts

Author	Gilbert M. Gaul
ISBN	0374160805

This century has seen the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history--but who bears the brunt of these monster storms?

Consider this: Five of the most expensive hurricanes in history have made landfall since 2005: Katrina ($160 billion), Ike ($40 billion), Sandy ($72 billion), Harvey ($125 billion),...

Red Birds

Author

Mohammed Hanif

An American pilot crash lands in the desert, unprepared for any situation that can’t be resolved with the After Eight mints in his survival kit. Hallucinating palm trees and dehydrating isn’t Major Ellie’s idea of a good time, but he figures it’s less of a hassle than another marital spat back...

Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North

Author

C.S. Manegold

Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop--who would later become governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony--Ten Hills Farm was a six-hundred-acre estate just north of Boston. Winthrop, famous for envisioning...

The Country Life

Author	Rachel Cusk
ISBN	0312198485

This novel is a fantastically successful parody of a Eighteenth Century novel in which a young woman encounters all sorts of terrors in her first solo foray into the wilds of the country in Sussex. I had the advantage of listening to this novel, brilliantly read by Jenny Sterlin, produced by Recorded...

The Ungrateful Refugee

Author	Dina Nayeri
ISBN	1948226421

A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction

"Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence.” ―The New York Times Book Review

"Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story with those...

Death of an Addict

Author	M.C. Beaton
ISBN	0446608289

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF AN ADDICT: A Hamish Macbeth MysteryFormer drug addict Tommy Jarret rents a Scottish chalet to check out reports of a sea monster. But when he is found dead of an apparent drug overdose, constable Hamish Macbeth suspects foul play. Teaming...

Husdjuret

Author	Camilla Grebe
ISBN	9146233601

Ett brutalt mord i den lilla sörmländska byn Ormberg för tre människor samman: Malin, den unga polisen som har hela sitt liv prydligt utstakat, Hanne, profileraren vars tillvaro är på väg att rämna och Jake - pojken som bär på en onämnbar hemlighet. Jakten på mördaren blir inte bara farlig,...

Death of a Bore

Author	M.C. Beaton
ISBN	0446617199

A mystery about a writer, a mediocre one. He charges for his class where he dumps on all the paying locals who would like to write, offering him their manuscripts. This poor writer has landed a TV episode because he had a childhood friend in Glasgow now the main director. TV newsmen and actors combine with...

The Killer in Me

Author

Olivia Kiernan

8 hours

A deadly past refuses to stay buried in Olivia Kiernan’s masterful new novel

Death is no stranger to Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan, but she isn’t the only one from her small, coastal suburb to be intimately acquainted with it. Years ago, teenager Seán...

Interred with Their Bones

Author	Jennifer Lee Carrell
ISBN	0452289890

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

"A feverishly paced action adventure" (The New York Times) about a long-lost Shakespeare work and a killer who reenacts the Bard's most bloody murders

On the eve of the Globe's production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley's...

Der hvor roser aldri dør

Author	Gunnar Staalesen
ISBN	8205427267

For nesten 25 år siden forsvant treåringen Mette Misvær sporløst fra sandkassen utenfor hjemmet i det fredelige boligstrøket Nordås utenfor Bergen. Foreldelsesfristen for forbrytelsen er i ferd med å løpe ut, og Mettes mor gjør et siste fortvilt forsøk på å finne ut hva som skjedde med...

A Serpent's Tooth

Author

Craig Johnson

The inspiration for A&E's Longmire finds himself in the crosshairs in the ninth book of the New York Times bestselling series

The success of Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire series that began with The Cold Dish continues to grow after A&E’s hit show Longmire introduced new fans...