Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during January 2017 is …
The Dangerous Ladies Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini, a Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery (5th in series)
Publisher: Forge Books
When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided attention.
The questions her partner John Quincannon has to unravel are not difficult: Wrixton, a wealthy banker, has met his extortionist's first demand, but the order to pay another $5,000 is too much to face. The banker's real problem is something he doesn't want to reveal. That was fine with the detective, and when he was informed that some private letters were involved and Wrixton absolutely needed them back, there was nothing more Quincannon needed in the way of background. As with so many of San Francisco's elite, the bedroom doors never seemed to stay shut.
That was the easy part; far more difficult was the matter of the dead courier, murdered most foully in a locked room within a locked room, creating a trail that will take John Quincannon through most of San Francisco's less savory places and end with a riverboat trip that is anything but a relaxing cruise.
— The Dangerous Ladies Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for January 2017. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of January 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
