Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during October 2017 is …
Old Scores by Will Thomas, a Barker & Llewelyn Mystery (9th in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books
In 1890, the first Japanese diplomatic delegation arrives in London to open an embassy. Cyrus Barker, private enquiry agent and occasional agent for the Foreign Service Office, is enlisted to display his personal Japanese garden to the visiting dignitaries.
Later that night, Ambassador Toda is shot and killed in his office and Cyrus Barker is discovered across the street, watching the very same office, in possession of a revolver with one spent cartridge.
Arrested by the Special Branch for the crime, Barker is vigorously interrogated and finally released due to the intervention of his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, and his solicitor. With the London constabulary still convinced of his guilt, Barker is hired by the new Japanese ambassador to find the real murderer.
In a case that takes leads Barker and Llewelyn deep into parts of London's underworld, on paths that lead deep into Barker's own mysterious personal history, Old Scores is the finest yet in Will Thomas's critically acclaimed series.
— Old Scores by Will Thomas
For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for October 2017. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of October 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
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