A time-traveling serial killer is impossible to trace--until one of his victims survives. In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining...
Detective and mystery fiction
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The unflappable Stone Barrington comes face to face with two men whose lives are wrapped in shadows and lies-and who both still feel the sting of betrayal they can never forget. Between a Rock and a Hard Place Hired by an odd client...
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Presents six short stories by the masters of mystery and horror.
- Author:Queen, EllerySummary:
Dashing detective Ellery Queen and his father find themselves at the home of a renowned surgeon after fleeing a forest fire. But when the doctor is found dead in his study, Queen realizes that they might have escaped the fire, but they'...
- Author:Piazza, Jo.Summary:
From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted in the author's own family history about a long-awaited trip to Sicily, a disputed inheritance, and a family secret that some will...
- Author:Edwards, CaterinaSummary:
Fulvia, the Mafia Princess, must be a dutiful daughter or the family will be dishonoured. Though she eventually escapes and makes a new life in Canada, she is betrayed and then her husband is murdered on the Sicilian coast. The police...
- Author:Khoury, RaymondSummary:
On a ship anchored near the Antarctic ice shelf, a live CNN interview is sidetracked by a pulsating orb of shimmering light that dwarfs the ship with radiant splendor--and stuns a worldwide television audience. Soon this incredible...
- Author:Dunning, JohnSummary:
Criminal defense attorney Erin D'Angelo, Cliff's bookstore partner, needs a favor. Her first true love, Robert Marshall, has been murdered, and his wife Laura has confessed. But Erin smells something fishy. She asks Cliff to investigate...
- Author:McEvoy, JohnSummary:
Seven lifelong friends and racing fans from their student days at the University of Wisconsin strike it lucky at Saratoga Race Track when they combine to win a plus million dollar Pick Six. They subsequently use some of those profits to...
- Author:Hur, JuneSummary:
1800, Joseon (Korea). Homesick and orphaned, Seol is indentured to the police bureau. She has been tasked with assisting a well-respected young inspector with the investigation into the politically charged murder of a noblewoman. The...
- Author:Harris, ThomasSummary:
A serial murderer known by a grotesquely apt nickname--Buffalo Bill-is stalking particular women. A young F.B.I. trainee is assigned to interview a mental patient--a brilliant psychiatrist and killer, for insights into the crime.
- Author:Honda, TetsuyaSummary:
When a body is discovered near a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, Lieutenant Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. Reiko makes a discovery that leads the police to uncover eleven other bodies. But while Reiko is hunting the killer, the...
- Author:Rickstad, EricSummary:
Frank Rath thought he was done with murder when he turned in his detective's badge to become a private investigator and raise a daughter alone. Then the police in his remote rural community of Canaan find an '89 Monte Carlo...
- Author:Michaelides, AlexSummary:
"An unforgettable-and Hollywood-bound-new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." - Entertainment Weekly. The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of...
- Author:Coel, MargaretSummary:
Father John O'Malley and Vicky Holden investigate the murder of an Arapaho Indian from the Wind River Reservation, who was in Hollywood trying to uncover the mystery of his great-grandfather's disappearance while filming a 1923 Western...
- Author:Slaughter, KarinSummary:
GBI investigator Will Trent needs medical examiner Sara Linton to help him hunt down a ruthless murderer. But when the past and present collide, everything Will values is at stake.
- Author:Galbraith, RobertSummary:
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and...
- Author:Chandlar, L. A.Summary:
New York City, 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, the Big Apple is defiantly striving toward an era infused with art, architecture, and economic progress under dynamic Mayor La Guardia. It's been six months since Lane...
- Author:Davis, LindseySummary:
When Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer, encounters the young and beautiful Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses that something is amiss. He offers to help her and, in doing so, gets himself mixed up in a deadly plot involving...
- Author:St. John Mandel, EmilySummary:
Everyone Anton Waker grew up with is corrupt. His parents deal in stolen goods and his first career is a partnership venture with his cousin Aria selling forged passports and social security cards to illegal aliens. Anton longs for a...
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