When a child's bones are found near an ancient henge in the wild saltmarshes of Norfolk's north coast, Ruth Galloway, a university lecturer in forensic archaeology, is asked to date them by DCI Harry Nelson who thinks they may be the...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Griffiths, EllySummary: - Author:Blanc, NeroSummary:
It's murder most puzzling for a New England cop-turned-private-investigator and a crossword editor in the first three Crossword Mysteries. If there's a case too cryptic for the police to solve in the coastal town of Newcastle...
- Author:Penny, LouiseSummary:
A vast abandoned home. A chilling séance. A sudden death. To Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, it's the stuff of an old novel - but when he discovers the victim was murdered, a sinister shadow falls over the town of Three Pines, and an...
- Author:Galbraith, RobertSummary:
Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator until John Bristow asks him to look into the death of his sister, supermodel Lula Landry, ruled a suicide by the police. The case plunges Strike into the world of...
- Author:Straley, JohnSummary:
When Louise Root, a new client of Cecil Younger, is found murdered, the private investigator finds himself in the middle of an environmental law violation that has deadly repercussions. Cecil finds he is unable to leave behind Root,...
- Author:Peters, ElizabethSummary:
Sir Henry is striving to ensure no tomb has been overlooked by the previous expedition. Scarcely have the men started working when their spades uncover a series of steps cut into the rock. Then Sir Henry is found stiff and stark in his...
- Author:Deaver, JefferySummary:
Dangerously good. Distinctively Deaver. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs return to New York City to confront a killer terrorizing couples at their happiest-and most vulnerable. In the early hours of a quiet, weekend morning in Manhattan...
- Author:Locke, AtticaSummary:
"The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience." —Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times...
- Author:Hammett, DashiellSummary:
The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people...
- Author:Scott, GenevieveSummary:
Sharp and propulsive, The Damages is an engrossing novel set in motion by the disappearance of a student during an ice storm, and explores themes of memory, trauma, friendship, and identity. What I remember best about that week in...
- Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:
Twenty members of a cult are found massacred on an isolated island on Canada's West Coast. Their leader, Shiva Ram Acharya, is brought to trial, and the great Arthur Beauchamp defends him, assisted by his junior counsel Max Macarthur....
- Author:Whittle, TinaSummary:
Tai Randolph thinks inheriting a Confederate-themed gun shop is her biggest headache, until she finds a murdered corpse in her brother’s driveway. Even worse, her supposedly respectable brother begins behaving in decidedly non-innocent...
- Author:Stevens, LaurieSummary:
Troubled detective Gabriel McRay is fired for police brutality. When a killer begins leaving notes on his victim's bodies addressed to the detective, Gabriel is hired back to lure in the killer. Gabriel's troubles stem from the blocked...
- Author:Gardiner, MegSummary:
Caitlin Hendrix, FBI behavioral analyst, is in Los Angeles to do what she does best, hunt a serial killer. While something about this unknown subject doesn't sit right, hesitancy is not an option.
- Author:Stone, D. K.Summary:
Waterton is a town with dark secrets, and after a summer of murder and mayhem, American ex-pat, Rich Evans, knows exactly how far people will go to hide them. Jobless after the fiery destruction of the hotel he once managed, Rich is...
- Author:Johnson, CraigSummary:
When Walt Longmire meets a woman jailed for her husband's death, he travels outside his usual haunts to discover the truth behind this unusual murder case.
- Author:Connelly, MichaelSummary:
Has a killer lain dormant for years only to strike again on New Year's Eve? LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to find justice for an innocent victim in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author...
- Author:Jónasson, RagnarSummary:
Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jonasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir. The body of a young Russian woman...
- Author:White, NeilSummary:
One freezing December night, the body of young, vulnerable Lizzie Barnsley is found on the side of an isolated canal. When blood from her stiletto heel matches that on a wound on the head of Peter Box, police swiftly declare him the...
- Author:Jacobson, AlanSummary:
FBI profiler Karen Vail is on the hunt for an escaped serial killer in the latest jaw-dropping thriller from USA Today-bestselling author Alan Jacobson. Jasmine Marcks was a teenager when she discovered her father was a killer. First,...
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