For Bernie Rhodenbarr a simple job leads to bigger things, after he is asked to appraise a library collection. He manages to make off with a cache of rare stamps, but is soon caught up in a scheme involving a stolen painting.
Detective and mystery fiction
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Bernie Rhodenbarr and his dog-grooming partner in crime, Carolyn, are planning the perfect crime. Tonight, they will rob a brownstone while the well-heeled owners are out of town with their vicious watch dog. But when Bernie...
- Author:Block, LawrenceSummary:
Bernie's passion for Humphrey Bogart movies leads him to a beautiful damsel in distress, a dangerous international conspiracy, and more than a few incriminating bodies.
- Author:Deaver, JefferySummary:
DANGEROUSLY GOOD. DISTINCTIVELY DEAVER. New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver returns to forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme in his most harrowing case yet. THE BURIAL HOUR A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side street...
- Author:Enmon, LarrySummary:
When the nineteen-year-old daughter of the mayor of Dallas suddenly goes missing at the height of election season, the Chief of Police has a potential political firestorm on his hands. He assigns senior detectives Rob Soliz and Frank...
- Author:Kellerman, JonathanSummary:
Things get personal for Deputy Coroner Clay Edison when a murder hits close to home in this riveting, emotional thriller from the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King). A raging...
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
Delaney Nichols faces off against an elusive arsonist in the seventh Scottish Bookshop Mystery, The Burning Pages, from beloved author Paige Shelton.... One winter's night, bookseller Delaney Nichols and her coworker Hamlet are...
- Author:Connolly, JohnSummary:
New York Times bestselling author John Connolly brings his "visionary brand of neo-noir" (The Irish Times) to this "riveting and chilling" (San Francisco Examiner) Charlie Parker thriller about new secrets buried and...
- Author:Deaver, JefferySummary:
Bestselling and award-winning author Jeffery Deaver brings back fan favorite duo Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs with the plot development that everyone's been waiting for. Quadriplegic forensic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme has been...
- Author:Kellough, JanetSummary:
Someone is digging up the graves at the Strangers’ Burying Ground in Toronto — the final resting place of criminals, vagrants, indigents, and alcoholics — and the only person who seems to care is the sexton, Morgan Spicer. The...
- Author:Freeman, BrianSummary:
When a rich doctor's baby is kidnapped, Lieutenant Jonathan Stride and his partner, Serena, end up on opposite sides of the case, with Stride pursuing evidence that incriminates the doctor and Serena trying to prove the baby was...
- Author:Staub, Wendy CorsiSummary:
Investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw solves clients' genetic puzzles, while hers remain shrouded in mystery. Now she suspects that the key to her birth parents' identities lies in an unexpected connection to a stranger...
- Author:Zaremba, EveSummary:
The fifth book in a highly successful series, The Butterfly Effect takes detective Helen Keremos to Japan. There she becomes involved in a complex series of crimes that have ramifications from the Far East to Europe and North America....
- Author:Maron, MargaretSummary:
Judge Deborah Knott and her husband, Deputy Sheriff Bryant, teaming up with Lt. Sigrid Herald to track down a killer on the loose in their small North Carolina town. But as the hunt for the culprit gets more intense, they uncover long-...
- Author:Child, Lincoln, Preston, Douglas J.Summary:
A new building site in Manhattan uncovers thirty-six bodies buried since the late 1800s. The developer and the mayor are trying to overrule any attempts to delay construction on the old crime scene. But FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast...
- Author:Pearce, MichaelSummary:
Cairo, 1910. Captain Owen, The Mamur Zapt, is the head of Egypt's Political CID in the heyday of British Rule. He is ultimately responsible for law and order in the Khedive's Cairo. When the rules, whether obvious or hidden,...
- Author:Peters, ElizabethSummary:
Jessica Tregarth goes to England to visit her grandfather, but her arrival is greeted by mysterious villains who pursue her through Cornwall. Her only clue is an ancient ring she wears that bears the family crest.
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Ousted as editor of the "Review of Applied Ethics", Isabel thankfully has ner newborn son to keep her occupied. What's more, Charlie's adoring father Jamie has offered the most intriguing proposal of all--marriage. But before she can...
- Author:Barnes, LindaSummary:
As a former Boston cop, Carlotta Carlyle thought she had seen it all-but that was before she became a private eye ... In The Snake Tattoo, a London Times outstanding book of the year, Carlotta Carlyle's former boss, Lieutenant Mooney,...
- Author:Sinnett, MarkSummary:
Winner of the 2010 Toronto Book Award
The Carnivore is a historical novel of disaster and betrayal, set in the Toronto of both 1954 and 2004.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Hazel, a young cop, Ray Townes,...
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