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.
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Sheldon, SidneySummary: - 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...
- Author:Whellams, DavidSummary:
In this second mystery featuring Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, the veteran detective is called out of retirement once again. His assignment appears simple: travel to Canada to retrieve the body of a murdered Scotland Yard colleague. But...
- Author:Harper, JaneSummary:
A small town hides big secrets in The Dry, an atmospheric, captivating debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper."One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read ... Every word is near perfect."--David...
- Author:Fulmer, DavidSummary:
On the same night a drunk cop shoots a gambler, a haul of priceless jewels is stolen--setting the stage for a mystery as complex and steeped in the blues as the city of Atlanta itself.
- Author:Lynch, GeraldSummary:
Retired Detective Kevin Beldon has left Ottawa and gone into retreat at a Buddhist monastery in California following his successful treatment for lung cancer. He's trying to make sense of his life, but death is very much on his...
- Author:McFetridge, JohnSummary:
Read the mystery series Booklist called "brimming with historical verisimilitude ... with a richly detailed protagonist and a seriously compelling mystery." This collection includes all three novels in this gripping police procedural...
- Author:McFetridge, JohnSummary:
Read the mystery series Booklist called “brimming with historical verisimilitude . . . with a richly detailed protagonist and a seriously compelling mystery.” This collection includes all three novels in this gripping police...
- Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary:
The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America's dirtiest secrets-can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out? When CIA operative...
- Author:Hury, HadleySummary:
Laurel Beach is one of the last old-fashioned villages in the West Florida panhandle, one that has, so far, escaped commercial over-development. It presents both a haven and opportunity, and, this summer, it plays host to a varied cast....
- Author:Queen, EllerySummary:
A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified in rural Arroyo, West Virginia. Ellery Queen, amateur sleuth, insists that he and his father take up the case. As victims turn up all over the world--all killed in the same manner--...
- Author:Deaver, JefferySummary:
From the bestselling author of The Bone Collector and Devil's Teardrop comes this spine-chilling new thriller that pits renowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme against the ultimate opponent--Amelia Sachs, his own brilliant protege. A...
- Author:Lapena, ShariSummary:
Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin girls. The babies are a handful, but even as Stephanie struggles with the disorientation of sleep deprivation, there's one thing she's sure of: She has all she ever...
- Author:Legault, StephenSummary:
It’s the winter of 1884, and five hundred Canadian Pacific Rail workers have halted their push through the Rockies at Holt City, an isolated shantytown in the shadow of the Continental Divide. The men are tired and cold, and patience is...
- Author:Edwards, Ruth DudleySummary:
Can anyone British teach English as a foreign language? He's also a civil servant down on his luck and out of a job and thus ripe for a post as a police spy at the Knightsbridge School. Robert's cover will be to teach English as a...
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