Finally, after 58 years The Body on Mount Royal is back in print, starring hard-drinking private dick, Russell Teed. From the back cover of the 1953 edition: Take a brutally beaten body, a lonely spot on Montreal's famous mountain, and...
Detective and mystery fiction
- Author:Montrose, David, Burton Smith, KevinSummary:
- Author:Massey, SujataSummary:
November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a fourmonth tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn't surprised...
- Author:Reichs, KathySummary:
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations, fifteen years apart, of unidentified bodies washed up from the sea may...
- Author:Deaver, JefferySummary:
Lincoln Rhyme, ex-head of NYPD forensics, was the nation's foremost criminologist until a job accident left him a quadriplegic who can move just one finger. He no longer wants to live until he sees the crime-scene report of a buried...
- Author:Higgins, F. E.Summary:
With his father, a fugitive, falsely accused of multiple murders and the real serial killer stalking the wretched streets of Urbs Umida, Pin Carpue, a young undertaker's assistant, investigates and soon discovers that all of the victims...
- Author:McGrath, M. J.Summary:
Edie Kiglatuk is working as a summer school teacher in the Canadian Arctic. When one of her students is found dead in a nearby lake, Edie enlists the help of Sergeant Derek Palliser to pursue the case, promising the girl's Inuit...
- Author:Adams, EllerySummary:
As the owner of Miracle Books, Nora Pennington figures all the wet weather this spring is at least good for business. The local inns are packed with stranded travelers, and among them Nora finds both new customers and a new friend, the...
- Author:St. James, SimoneSummary:
A Most Anticipated Novel by PopSugar * Crime Reads * Goodreads *A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times...
- Author:Hand, ElizabethSummary:
Cass Neary needs cash to get home, and she's already sold her camera. Now her best chance is to get in on a deal for an ancient illuminated manuscript. But an intruder suddenly steals it out from under the dealer's nose. To...
- Author:Martínez, GuillermoSummary:
An extremely successful author named Kloster and an unnamed, up-andcoming writer have one thing in common--they've both employed a typist named Luciana. Now Luciana claims Kloster is killing off her family, and she desperately needs...
- Author:Dunning, JohnSummary:
When rare book collector Cliff Janeway is offered a lucrative bondsman job, he can't refuse, especially since the bail jumper might have a priceless copy of The Raven.
- Author:Dunning, JohnSummary:
Traveling to Idaho at the invitation of a wealthy horse owner, Cliff discovers a stunning collection of first-edition children's classics. The books are valued in the millions, which would be excellent news for their owner--if he hadn't...
- Author:Blechta, RickSummary:
Detective Mervin Pratt is enjoying a quiet dinner at his favorite Italian restaurant when he's called in to assist at a murder scene at a popular downtown nightclub. The manager has been stabbed to death in his office. The lead...
- Author:Winslow, DonSummary:
For over forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America's War on Drugs. Elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, he finds that in destroying one monster, he has created thirty more.
- Author:Ho-Kei, Chan, Tiang, JeremySummary:
From award-winning Hong Kong writer Chan Ho-kei, The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a Hong Kong detective who rises from constable to senior inspector over the span of several decades, from the 1960s to the present day, and...
- Author:Hamilton, Steve, Evanovich, JanetSummary:
Type A special agent Kate O’Hare and international criminal Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest bad guys out there. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet - a vast, shadowy international organization known only as the...
- Author:Johnson, MaureenSummary:
After solving the case of Truly Devious , Stevie Bell investigates her first mystery outside of Ellingham Academy in this spine-chilling and hilarious stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson. Amateur...
- Author:McGrath, M. J.Summary:
Half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk is in Alaska with Sergeant Derek Palliser, helping her ex-husband in his bid to win the Iditarod. The race takes a grim turn when Edie stumbles upon the body of a baby in the forest. The ensuing investigation...
- Author:Redfern, JonSummary:
A fourteen-year-old boy has been found hanged and mutilated in the basement of Satan House. It's the second life the derelict mansion has claimed. The work of a brutal predator? A curse? Or a ritual cult murder? The boy's death shocks...
- Author:Hansen, JosephSummary:
During a high-stakes paintball game, a hardcore supremacist gets accidentally hit by a very real bullet, but insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter knows that a man this hated seldom dies by chance.