In international best-selling author John Locke's The Love You Crave, the eighth installment in his pulse-pounding Donovan Creed series, the former CIA assassin comes under fire from all sides. But when Creed finds himself up...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Locke, JohnSummary: - Author:Connolly, JohnSummary:
Charlie Parker is a lost soul. Deprived of his private investigator's license and under scrutiny by the police, he has been forced to seek work in a Portland bar. But he is using his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of...
- Author:Ryan, GarrySummary:
When the young daughter of popular radio talk show host Bobbie Reddie disappears along with Bobbie’s ex-husband, Detectives Lane and Harper are on the case. Haunted by flashbacks from a previous missing child case, Lane once again takes...
- Author:Ellin, StanleySummary:
A young drug runner gets revenge on a crime syndicate in this novel of deception and international double crosses from an Edgar Award-winning author. By the time David Hanna Shaw is shuttled off to an Ivy League school by his...
- Author:French, NicciSummary:
In this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman's affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he's been...
- Author:Stewart, ElizabethSummary:
Between 1882 and 1968 there were 4,742 lynchings in the United States. In Canada during the same period there was one—the hanging of American Indian Louie Sam. The year is 1884, and 15-year-old George Gillies lives in the Washington...
- Author:Penny, LouiseSummary:
"...listeners will be able to sense the benevolent heart and soul of a careful investigator amidst choices that cause deadly consequences." — Booklist "Robert Bathurst's narration is calm, collected, and earnest, reflecting the blend of...
- Author:Millett, LarrySummary:
1917. In St. Paul, Minnesota, a financier is found dead in a secure location. Shadwell Rafferty is called in to investigate and sift through greedy tycoons, political intrigue, and wartime fearmongering.
- Author:Davis, FionaSummary:
Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months...
- Author:Prose, NitaSummary:
A dead body is one mess she can't clean up on her own. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple...
- Author:TrevanianSummary:
The Main is Montreal’s teeming underworld, where the dark streets echo with cries in a dozen languages, with the quick footsteps of thieves and the whispers of prostitutes. It is a world where violence and brutality are a way of life....
- Author:Davidson, Diane MottSummary:
Goldy looks forward to whipping up a sumptuous dinner for two wealthy clients, but when one of the men disappears, and her best friend is accused of murder, Goldy must find out who has turned the feast into a fiasco.
- Author:Hammett, DashiellSummary:
The Maltese Falcon is the definitive masterpiece of the hard-boiled detective genre. It introduces legendary PI Sam Spade, a loner who follows his own code and the rules of the street as he zeros in on his partner's killer and the...
- Author:Dobson, JoanneSummary:
In classic noir tradition, English Professor Karen Pelletier gains a client when her office door opens and Trouble walks in. The dog, a Rottweiler, brings with him a famous Private Eye novelist and a problem. And since Sunny Hardcastle...
- Author:Tombs, KerrySummary:
A captivating historical murder mystery set in Victorian England. The Malvern murders is packed with delicious dialogue, sly humour and Victorian atmosphere. Perfect for fans of M.R.C. Kasasian, E.S. Thomson, Oscar De Muriel and Karen...
- Author:Pearce, MichaelSummary:
The Mamur Zapt, head of Cairo's CID in the heyday of (the indirect) British rule, focused on political, not police, matters. With the bustling new century, the loosening of imperial ties, and the rise of nationalism, his was a busy...
- Author:Osman, RichardSummary:
An instant New York Times bestseller! The second gripping novel in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Murder Club series, soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment "It's taken a mere...
- Author:Osman, RichardSummary:
An instant New York Times bestseller! The second gripping novel in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Murder Club series, soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment. "It's taken a mere...
- Author:White, Randy WayneSummary:
When solitary marine biologist Doc Ford focused his telescope on the woman in the white boat, he didn't know his life was about to be capsized: that his conniving uncle Tucker Gatrell would discover the Fountain of Youth, that the...
- Author:Kienzle, William X.Summary:
"This 19th Father Koesler mystery is packed with Kienzle's signature twists and turns, but is different from the previous mysteries. In this story, Father Koesler takes a vacation from his parish and the sleuthing is carried on by his...
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