- The craftsman, Sharon Bolton
- Nate the Great and the mushy valentine, by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat ; illustrations by Marc Simont
- The finisher, Peter Lovesey
- The Fenway foul-up, by David A. Kelly ; illustrated by Mark Meyers
- The comforts of home, Susan Hill
- Kopp sisters on the march, Amy Stewart
- Raven black, Ann Cleeves
- Look for me, a novel, Lisa Gardner
- Lost, James Patterson and James O. Born
- Robert B. Parker's Buckskin, Robert Knott
- Bimini Twist, Linda Greenlaw
- Death by chocolate malted milkshake, Sarah Graves
- A traitor to memory, Elizabeth George
- Just plain murder, Laura Bradford
- The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner
- Outsider, Linda Castillo
- Flashback, Nevada Barr
- The feral detective, a novel, Jonathan Lethem
- Troubled blood, Robert Galbraith
- The girl from Berlin, Ronald H. Balson
- The bodies in the library, Marty Wingate
- The Mitford vanishing, Jessica Fellowes
- Bomber's moon, a Joe Gunther novel, Archer Mayor
- The Dante chamber, Matthew Pearl
- In dust and ashes, Anne Holt ; translated from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce
- On wings of eagles, by Ken Follett
- Hidden pictures, Jason Rekulak ; illustrations by Will Staehle and Doogie Horner
- A mortal likeness:, a Victorian mystery, Laura Joh Rowland
- Sizzling sixteen, Janet Evanovich
- Stealing Mona Lisa, a mystery, Carson Morton
- The Prague sonata, a novel, Bradford Morrow
- Little white lies, Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- The last detective, Peter Lovesey