Titles starting with M from Christine Kovach, Bookseller

"M" is for the Malek brothers. The four men are poised to inherit the fortune amassed by their parents...but one brother has been missing for 18 years. That's where Kinsey Millhone steps in. The family hires her to locate the missing brother, and in the process, Millhone enters a forbidding web of family secrets and resentments. She begins to suspect that the desire for the brother's return is not driven by love, but by malice.

In the follow-up to 2005's TILT-A-WHIRL, young police officer Danny Boyle and his friends are mystified by a seemingly random paintball attack that, although it looks like a prank, could have seriously injured someone. Things escalate when the paintballs are replaced with bullets, and it begins to look like this particular deadly force is being aimed directly at Danny. It's up to Danny and the older and wiser Ceepak to figure out what Danny could possibly have done to draw such dangerous animosity.

Although published sixth in the Fred Taylor series, this mystery actually takes place before the other five, explaining the circumstances by which security expert Fred formed his partnership with art collector Clayton Reed. After Fred helps Reed get a drunken con artist home from a party, Reed apparently puts one over on the scammer by purchasing a wooden chest from him for a few thousand dollars. Reed is almost certain that Leonardo da Vinci painted the image on the inside lid, a Madonna with Child (and with monkey). While Reed searches for a provenance, Fred sticks around to assist and to fend off a variety of parties interested in the painting--including the original seller, who's anxious to get it back.

Arly's mother Clara travels to New York for a cooking seminar, and winds up in the middle of a murder, prompting Arly to follow her.

The Hansel and Gretel story as told from the point of view of the witch. The story begins with how a midwife was tricked by the devil and forced to become a witch and then takes up the story of Hansel and Gretel, in this case focusing on Gretel rather than Hansel.

When a government experiment goes horribly awry, leaving the dead and decaying walking the Earth, scientists struggling to contain the problem wind up with even bigger issues--namely rendering the United States electricity-free.

In this, the third volume of the Galactic Milieu series, as the Remillard family desperately struggles to consolidate its power base, the ground is laid for the interstellar unrest that causes the alliance's destruction, and thus precipitates the events in the Saga of the Pliocene Exile series.