THE NEW YEAR brings a variety of (fictional) crimes from across the various seas, as well as offering up a bounty of American mysteries. In her debut novel, The Wages of Sin, Scottish journalist Kaite Welsh introduces a feisty Victorian-era female sleuth who goes toe-to-toe with the men around her. Fresh series installments from Kelley Armstrong (A Darkness Absolute) and Deborah Crombie (Garden of Lamentations) find their respective detectives faced with harrowing cases that hit uncomfortably close to home, while Malcolm Mackay (Every Night I Dream of Hell) returns to the gritty Glasgow world of organized crime. For readers looking to discover where one of their favorites took flight, Ann Cleeves delivers The Crow Trap, the initial entry in her acclaimed "Vera Stanhope" series, published this month for the first time in the United States. On the lighter side, Auralee Wallace returns to the picturesque—but dangerous—Otter Lake, NH, in Snowed in with Murder, in which her sleuth must contend with not only a snowstorm but a reality TV show. And Mandy Morton debuts an original cozy series featuring British feline protagonists in The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency.
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