It's 2004. El Federación, the most powerful drug organization in the world, has been exploded, and the Mexican drug trade has settled out into several cartels that exist in a state of tenuous accord. The patron of El Federación, Adán...
Detective and mystery fiction
- Author:Winslow, DonSummary:
- Author:Cooper, TeaSummary:
The Hunter Valley, 1880. Evie Ludgrove loves to chart the landscape around her home--hardly surprising since she grew up in the shadow of her father's obsession with the great Australian explorer Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt. So when an...
- Author:Donaldson, AllanSummary:
Allan Donaldson's first novel, Maclean, was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Donaldson's new novel is a literary mystery set in the fictional town of Wakefield, New Brunswick, against the backdrop of the Second...
- Author:Cavallaro, BrittanySummary:
The hotly anticipated and explosive third book in the New York Times bestselling Charlotte Holmes series. It's been a year since the shocking death of August Moriarty, and Jamie and Charlotte haven't spoken. Jamie is going...
- Author:Hutchinson, MichaelSummary:
The four cousins from the Windy Lake First Nation are back for another mystery in Book Three of the Mighty Muskrats Mystery Series -- the first two books in the series are The Case of the Missing Auntie (Book Two) and The Case of Windy...
- Author:Preller, JamesSummary:
Jigsaw and his sidekick Mila feel that Bigs Maloney is keeping something from them due to his weird behavior, and the detective team must battle the pouring rain while trying to find the truth.
- Author:Hutchinson, MichaelSummary:
The Mighty Muskrats are back with a chilly new mystery! Windy Lake First Nation is hosting the annual Trappers Festival, and the four Mighty Muskrats are excited about the dogsled races and the chance to visit with family and friends...
- Author:Preller, JamesSummary:
When an important prop goes missing on the set of Spy Guy, Jigsaw Jones, who is an extra on the television program, needs to track down the thief to save the show.
- Author:Banks, LucySummary:
Kester and Ribero's team of inept supernatural investigators are back again. But this time, the stakes have been raised. Hrschni, a powerful daemon, together with the rest of the Thelemites, are hellbent on bringing spirits back to the...
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
Phryne Fisher, her sister Beth, and her faithful maid, Dot, decide that Luna Park is the place for an afternoon of fun and excitement with Phryne’s two daughters, Ruth and Jane. But in the dusty dark Ghost Train, amidst the squeals of...
- Author:Carson, LouiseSummary:
When Gerry Coneybear, a cheerful young artist, comes to her Aunt Maggie's funeral, she is shocked to learn that she has inherited her aunt's rambling 200-year-old waterfront home. Unfortunately, the house comes with a...
- Author:Carson, LouiseSummary:
Gerry Coneybear thinks she has her busy life (and her many cats) under control. That is, until a dead body unexpectedly pops up. Gerry really doesn't want to get involved. But when she discovers a mysterious package tucked up in a...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
Legendary stage and movie star Sir Nigel Bellingham arrives on Cape Cod to star in a stage production of The Hound of the Baskervilles put on by the West London Theater Festival. When Sir Nigel, some of the cast, and the director visit...
- Author:Carson, LouiseSummary:
It's April 1st, and Gerry Coneybear, who inherited her Aunt Maggie's big old house (and her aunt's twenty cats), is wishing her mountain of bills was a joke. She's just self-published her children's book, and...
- Author:Carson, LouiseSummary:
It’s Christmas time but many of Gerry Coneybear's friends are away for the holidays and she has no family to celebrate with at the Maples, the old house bequeathed to her by her aunt. Just the 23 cats her aunt left her with. When...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
Pickax is preparing for its sesquicentennial celebration, and in the midst of all the family reunions, the Siamese super-sleuth Koko smells trouble. One evening Koko pounces down on the head of the wealthy Ledfields' obnoxious nephew,...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
With his companion Polly in Paris, Qwill keeps himself occupied by writing an absurdist play called "The Cat Who Got Elected Dog Catcher." Meanwhile, things are spicing up in Pickax. Huge inheritances from old families are suddenly and...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
Jim Qwilleran with his two cats, Yum Yum and KoKo help to solve the mystery case behind the Casablanca apartment buildings.
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
The residents of Pickax are delighted that the old bombed-out Pickax Hotel is reopening with a whole new look. Everyone is thrown into a topspin when one of the hotel's first guests winds up a victim of murder. Qwilleran and his...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
After a long drought, the citizans of Pickax are worried about wildfires. Their fears are soon realized. With a case of arson, the shooting of a volunteer fire-watcher and the murder of the president of the curling club, James Qwilleran...