Looking for a new mystery? Here are three recommendations from Oline Cogdill, who reviews books for several publications: A Darker Domain by Val McDermid. During a coal-mining strike in Scotland, Mick Prentice was among the men who left town for other jobs, but now it appears that no one knows what happened to him. As a detective looks into that case, she also is pulled into the decades-old kidnapping of an heiress and her baby. An emotionally wrenching story about people abandoned by those they trust the most.

The Messenger by Jan Burke. Despite ghosts, people who talk with the dead and a centuries-old hero, Burke creates a plot that always seems realistic. For more than 200 years, Tyler Hawthorne has been a "messenger" with the ability to hear a dying person’s last thoughts and communicate them to his or her loved ones. Tyler has avoided human relationships, but he now finds himself falling for a young woman at the same time an old enemy seeks to destroy him.

Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron. A tale about obsession, relationships and forgiveness. Ivy and David Rose, whose baby is due in weeks, are ridding their beautiful Victorian of junk. One shopper at their garage sale is Melinda White, a high school classmate who also is nearly nine months pregnant. Melinda’s disappearance soon after the sale points back to the Roses, and as the evidence mounts, they must face long-buried secrets.