It takes one moment in 2016 for ragtime music expert Alan Chandler to go from sitting in his hotel room in Sedalia, Missouri, to standing beside the King of Ragtime-Scott Joplin-at his upright piano in 1899. Chandler suddenly finds...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Karp, LarrySummary: - Author:Preston, AlisonSummary:
Inspector Frank Foote's quiet Winnipeg neighbourhood is greening into summer when a dead baby is discovered in his neighbour's rain barrel. The tiny body has evidently been in the rain barrel for some time, and there are no...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson has been serving with the United Nations, a job that takes him to South Sudan and Haiti, where he is training local police and assisting with investigations. However, murder seems to find him wherever he goes...
- Author:Davies, RobertsonSummary:
A goodhearted priest and scholar, a professor with a passion for the darker side of medieval psychology, a defrocked monk, and a rich young businessman are all helplessly beguiled by the same coed.
- Author:Weaver, KeithSummary:
It’s been a rocky couple of weeks for Jim Sanford. He’s had to deal with two life-changing deaths – first his mother, and then the man who combined father figure and best friend since his boyhood. Sanford travels back to his hometown,...
- Author:Evanovich, JanetSummary:
#1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich returns with the launch of a blockbuster new series that blends wild adventure, hugely appealing characters, and pitch-perfect humor, proving once again why she's "the most...
- Author:Whitney, Phyllis A.Summary:
A Chicago department store is the scene of gruesome crime in this mystery by a New York Times-bestselling Edgar Award winner. Linell Wynn, copywriter for Chicago department store Cunningham's, knows how to put a clever spin on...
- Author:Arthurson, WayneSummary:
M is a bylaw officer, living with two brothers, in their parents' old house. While investigating a suspicious yard sale, M discovers a red chesterfield sitting in a ditch. Looking closer, M finds a running shoe-and a severed foot. Now M...
- Author:Penny, DavidSummary:
A killer who can’t be stopped. A request that can’t be refused. In 1482 the Englishman Thomas Berrington is living in the last remnants of Moorish Spain. A physician, he is an unwilling friend to the most powerful man in the kingdom....
- Author:Hamilton, IanSummary:
The “cool and stylish heroine kicks it up a notch” (Terry Fallis, author of Best Laid Plans), in the gripping fourth installment of Ian Hamilton’s Ava Lee Series. In The Red Pole of Macau, Ava’s half-brother Michael is desperate to pull...
- Author:Nesbø, JoSummary:
Detective Harry Hole embarrassed the force, and for his sins he's been reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks. But while monitoring neo-Nazi activities in Oslo, Hole is inadvertently drawn into a mystery with deep roots in Norway's...
- Author:Nesbø, JoSummary:
A fantastically gripping thriller from the internationally acclaimed author of The Snowman, The Leopard, and Phantom: antihero police investigator Harry Hole chases a desperate, faceless contract killer at large in Oslo. Christmas...
- Author:Atkins, AceSummary:
He is only in his early thirties, but now Quinn Colson is jobless-voted out of office as sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, thanks to the machinations of county kingpin Johnny Stagg. He has offers, in bigger and better places, but...
- Author:Sivendra, BrookeSummary:
Deacon Thomas is facing his past and fighting for his future—for another chance at happiness. But when a dark secret emerges, one that shatters Marianne's world, he will be forced to make a decision that will forever change his life....
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest--Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne--and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their careers.
- Author:McDermid, Val.Summary:
Clinical psychologist Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan struggle to recapture celebrity sociopath Jacko Vance, who has broken out of prison with the intention of exacting violent revenge.
- Author:Nesser, HåkanSummary:
When a young girl on a woodland hike stumbles upon a corpse with no hands, feet, or head, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, recovering from surgery in a nearby hospital, begins to piece together the clues in the case.
- Author:Torre, Lillian De La.Summary:
James Boswell and Dr. Samuel Johnson team up to solve mysteries in this collection of brilliantly baffling historical crime stories. James Boswell is just twenty-two when he comes south from Scotland, determined to befriend Dr. Sam...
- Author:Meyer, NicholasSummary:
This program is read by Downton Abbey actor David Robb, and includes footnotes read by the author. In Nicholas Meyer's The Return of the Pharaoh , Sherlock Holmes returns in an adventure that takes him to Egypt in search of a...
- Author:Autry, CurtSummary:
Nine surviving members of a U-boat crew captured during World War II gather in North Carolina for their 60th reunion, only to find themselves targets for a group kill. Meanwhile, after scouring hospital records to find her biological...
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