Victoria, British Columbia. 1869. In a forest a mutilated body is discovered: Dr. McCrory, an American 'alienist' whose methods include phrenology, Mesmerism, and sexual-mystical 'magnetation'. Chad Hobbes, arrived...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Haldane, SeanSummary: - Author:Nesbø, JoSummary:
A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star -- a pentagram, the devil's star. Detective Harry...
- Author:Ritter, WilliamSummary:
The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times best-selling series the Chicago Tribune called "Sherlock Holmes crossed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer" sends the eccentric detective and his indispensable assistant into the heart of a war...
- Author:Quirk, MatthewSummary:
Mike Ford's brother is in over his head in a conspiracy to steal a secret worth billions from the little-known but unbelievably influential trading desk at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In an effort to help, Mike soon finds...
- Author:Connolly, JohnSummary:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Mr. Connolly's slam-bang thriller is studded with memorable characters and boasts cliffhangers within cliffhangers." — The Wall Street Journal "Brilliant...Connolly is writing at the top of his game...
- Author:Chan, GillianSummary:
This novel centers on the unlikely friendship between two boys, Jacob Mueller and Mike McCallum. Jacob seems to be from a different world. After mystifying experts and doctors, who finally decide that he is an elective mute, Jacob ends...
- Author:Goldberg, Leonard S.Summary:
In the third audiobook of this critically-acclaimed series, Sherlock Holmes' daughter faces a new unsolvable mystery with spies and a threat to the crown. Joanna and the Watsons receive an unexpected visitor to 221b Baker Street...
- Author:Hamilton, IanSummary:
Ava Lee goes deep inside the shady world of online gambling in the second installment of the pulse-pounding series. In The Disciple of Las Vegas, forensic accountant Ava Lee is hired by the richest man in the Philippines to recover $50...
- Author:Quinn, SpencerSummary:
Canine narrator Chet and his human companion Bernie search for a missing child at a wilderness camp. The mother thinks the boy was snatched by his father--her ex. But Chet's sniffing sends the case in a different direction.
- Author:Fitzgerald, ConorSummary:
On a hot summer morning, Arturo Clemente is sloppily murdered in his Roman apartment by a mysterious slasher. The killing is brutal, amateurish and by all appearances random. But Clemente is no ordinary victim.
- Author:Lambert, AnnSummary:
The sequel to The Birds That Stay - hailed by the New York Journal of Books as "a fascinating and gripping tale of suspense" and the Globe and Mail as one of "Ten thrillers that will keep you on the edge of your seat". Says Ann Cleeves...
- Author:Kennedy, AdamSummary:
Tucker, a con with a 20-year sentence in a maximum security prison, is given an opportunity to escape. Who were the men who had this power to release him, and what did they want in return?
- Author:Pearce, MichaelSummary:
"Tourists are quite safe provided they don't do anything stupidly reckless," so Captain Owen, the Mamur Zapt, Head of Cairo's Political CID under British Rule, assures the press. But what of Monsieur Moulin,...
- Author:Sheldon, SidneySummary:
Navy Commander Bellamy is assigned to investigate the crash of a weather balloon in the Swiss Alps. However, for him it is also the beginning of a journey of terror into the incomprehensible.
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi travel to the Okavango Delta to visit a safari lodge beset by unexplained events. There they are awestruck by the breathtaking scenery, but also troubled by the region's many difficulties--not the least of...
- Author:Hamilton, IanSummary:
The prequel to the wildly popular Ava Lee series. Young Ava Lee is a forensic accounting who has just opened her own private firm. One of her clients, Hedrick Lo, has been swindled of more than a million dollars by a Chinese importer...
- Author:Jaeger, MeredithSummary:
For readers of Lucinda Riley, Sarah Jio, or Susan Meissner, this gripping historical debut novel tells the story of two women: one, an immigrant seamstress who disappears from San Francisco's gritty streets in 1876, and the other, a...
- Author:Ridley, JohnSummary:
Charles Harmon had a firm grip on the American dream until his mind started to crack. Now he's a know-it-all tramp riding the rails. When a friend asks Charles to help find his missing niece, the trail leads to an unsavory world of drug...
- Author:Casey, DonisSummary:
Who killed Uncle Bill? Alafair Tucker is desperate to find out. One August evening in 1914, a bushwhacker ended a pleasant outing by blowing a hole in Bill McBride, kidnapping and ravaging Bill’s fiancée, and wounding Alafair’s daughter...
- Author:Kroll, BobSummary:
A dark and suspenseful debut. Detective T.J. Peterson has a problem, and it's not just how much he's drinking or the daily, silent, tormenting video calls from his estranged daughter. A Catholic priest has been bludgeoned to death in...
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