Isabel Dalhousie's life is thrown for a few loops when her cousin Mimi arrives from Dallas with her husband Joe. Through Mimi and Joe, Isabel meets Texas hotshot Tom Bruce, who is about to marry someone Isabel suspects of gold-digging....
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary: - Author:Mosley, WalterSummary:
Organizing other troubled individuals, Socrates starts the Thursday Night Thinkers' Meeting, in which members discuss "the world and what would be the right thing to do."
- Author:Wortham, Reavis Z.Summary:
Struggling to connect a seemingly unrelated series of murders as the summer of 1966 approaches, Constable Ned Parker must save his nephew, Cody, who has followed their main suspect across the Rio Grande into Mexico.
- Author:Skinner, Robert E.Summary:
December 1941: Jessica Richards, daughter of corrupt New Orleans councilman Whitman Richards, is the victim of a sensational daylight kidnapping from the grounds of a Catholic girls’ academy. Richards, a man with many enemies, outrages...
- Author:Burrows, BruceSummary:
Danny Swanson, Department of Fisheries and Oceans employee and ex-fisherman, isn’t exactly upset when he’s reassigned from a desk job in Ottawa to an at-sea job on the West Coast. His superiors think they’re punishing him for his...
- Author:Krueger, William KentSummary:
AN EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE. In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by a shocking murder, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling novel, an instant New York Times bestseller and "a work of art" ( The Denver Post...
- Author:Fowler, EarleneSummary:
Ruby McGavin returns to Cardinal, California, with her brother Nash, hoping the fresh start will help him kick a debilitating drinking habit. And Ruby's not the only one with renewed hope, as saddlemaker Lucas McGavin redoubles his...
- Author:Engel, AmySummary:
Returning to her family's Kansas estate in the hopes of discovering the fate of her missing cousin, Lane reconnects with a young man from her past and is confronted by dark family secrets that prompted her to flee years earlier....
- Author:Marston, EdwardSummary:
The mysterious Simon Chaloner appears at the Queen’s Head Pub following a performance by Lord Westfield’s Men, a leading Elizabethan company of players. Then Chaloner follows producer Nicholas Bracewell and playwright Edmund Hoode home...
- Author:Wortham, ReavisSummary:
In 1964, farmer and part-time Constable Ned Parker combine forces with John Washington, the almost mythical black deputy sheriff from nearby Paris, to track down a disturbed individual who is rapidly becoming a threat to the entire...
- Author:Bolduc, Mario, Homel, JacobSummary:
Max O’Brien is in a race against time … and someone else’s past is catching up with him. Max O’Brien may be a professional con man, but that doesn’t mean you can’t count on him in a bind. So when he hears that his old friend Kevin...
- Author:James, StevenSummary:
FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers confronts the Navy's darkest secret--and his own painful past.
- Author:Kienzle, William X.Summary:
"A sophisticated and baffling thriller . . . a real bone-freezer." —Publishers Weekly
"Ingenious, witty, literate—at once irreverent and compassionate—an impressive tour indeed for a first-time novelist." —Los Angeles Times
... - Author:Rizzolo, S. K.Summary:
This well imagined, carefully detailed, and cleverly plotted debut draws on actual historical events of 1811 London. Regency London knows Constance Tyrone as the conspicuously celibate founder of the St. Catherine Society, dedicated to...
- Author:McCafferty, KeithSummary:
An award-winning editor for Field & Stream magazine, Keith McCafferty presents his debut novel, The Royal Wulff Murders. A local fisherman lands more than he bargained for when he pulls a dead body out of Montana's Madison...
- Author:Pullman, PhilipSummary:
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
- Author:McTiernan, DervlaSummary:
It's been twenty years since Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling Georgian home. But he's never forgotten the two children she left behind... When Aisling Conroy's boyfriend Jack is found in...
- Author:Medieval MurderersSummary:
In 1067 Greenland, a strange stone falls from the sky. Over the next 600 years, violence and death follow whoever possesses it, including crusading knights, a dying King Henry III, and a troupe of His Majesty King James I's players.
- Author:Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:
When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades.
- Author:Kienzle, William X.Summary:
"The clever plot, the subtle clues, and above all, the ideas make this well worth reading." —West Coast Review of Books
From William X. Kienzle, author of the classic mystery The Rosary Murders. When Father George Wheatley...
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