The Brighton police force is on the hunt for another killer, but this time they have some competition-a newly formed all-women's private eye firm, led by none other than the police chief's wife. Newly minted PI Emma Holmes and her...
Detective and mystery fiction
- Author:Griffiths, EllySummary:
- Author:Deaver, JefferySummary:
The "master of ticking-bomb suspense" ( People ) Jeffery Deaver delivers the latest thriller featuring his beloved protagonists Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs as they search for a criminal whose fascination with breaking locks...
- Author:Mitchell, CarolineSummary:
Audie Awards 2022 Finalist in the Mystery categoryA THRILLING NEW SERIES FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER CAROLINE MITCHELL'Twisty, tense and creepy as hell ... I loved it!' - K.L. SLATER'Will keep you on the edge of your...
- Author:DiLallo, Richard, Patterson, JamesSummary:
When two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen in a university hospital, something has to be done, and Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan is fearless enough to try.
- Author:Older, MalkaSummary:
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle. On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on...
- Author:Pearce, MichaelSummary:
In the Cairo of 1908, the city lives-and dies-by its cafE culture. But for all restaurant businesses, then and now, the protection rackets pose a problem. And the city's cafEs are experiencing a sudden upsurge in threats from various...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business. The salon has suffered some unfortunate events, including face cream that burns the skin. Could someone be...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
While Precious Ramotswe travels to a game reserve to investigate the death of an American tourist, trouble brews back home. Mma Makutsi launches the Complaint Half Hour, providing herself a forum for her grievances. And Precious'...
- Author:Kepler, LarsSummary:
In the latest installment of the Killer Instinct series, seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is...
- Author:Lewis, BeverlySummary:
In Beverly Lewis' enthralling sequel to her New York Times best-selling novel The Secret, two young ladies-one Amish, the other English-join forces to solve the mystery of a mother gone missing and a disease gone wild. Will these...
- Author:Lescroart, John T.Summary:
The beloved New York Times bestselling Dismas Hardy series returns with this relentlessly twisty murder thriller. No one mourned when San Francisco DA Wes Farrell put Paul Riley in prison eleven years ago for the rape and murder of his...
- Author:Elliott, LexieSummary:
Ailsa Calder has inherited half of a house. The other half belongs to a man who disappeared without a trace twenty-seven years ago--her father. Leaving London behind to settle the inheritance from her mother's estate, Ailsa returns...
- Author:Jonasson, RagnarSummary:
The final nail-biting installment in Ragnar Jonasson's critically-acclaimed Hidden Iceland series, The Mist , from the newest superstar on the Icelandic crime fiction scene. 1987. An isolated farm house in the east of Iceland....
- Author:Dhamija, VishSummary:
Prem Bedi is the "Mogul", the third-richest man in the country. He commands both fear and respect, and at fifty-three, he still looks handsome and aristocratic. But Bedi's smoothly run empire comes to a screeching halt...
- Author:Hall, Parnell, Woods, StuartSummary:
Ever a man of mystery and intrigue, Teddy Fay has donned a new disguise--that of Mark Weldon, a stuntman and actor starring in Centurion Studios' newest film. When the picture's leading lady begins receiving blackmail threats...
- Author:Gordon, AlanSummary:
When Theophilos, jester and agent for the Fools' Guild, travels to Toulouse in 1204 to pressure the local bishop to resign, he becomes involved in a murder.
- Author:Rowe, BillSummary:
Is there really a monster at Twenty Mile Pond?
Bill McGill, a lawyer living in St. John’s, has been asking himself this same question for more than twenty years, since the day he saw—or thought he saw—something large and...
- Author:Collins, WilkieSummary:
Rachel Verinder is given an extraordinary diamond for her 18th birthday by her uncle, a British officer who served in India. That very night the diamond disappears. Considered the first detective novel in the English language, this...
- Author:Jackson, LisaSummary:
Beautiful journalist Nikki Gillette would give anything to get out of Savannah. Her chance might have come as shse begins to cover a major story about a killer nicknamed The Grave Robber. To gather pieces for her report, she shadows the...
- Author:Wilkshire, NickSummary:
In Moscow, the truth can be a dangerous commodity. Ottawa bureaucrat-turned-diplomat Charlie Hillier is back. Having barely survived his first posting in Havana, Charlie is eager to put what he learned there to good use. And it isn't...