Isabel "Izzy" Spellman is a 28-year-old private eye working for her eccentric family's investigation firm. Looking to get out of the family business, she agrees to take one more job--a 15-year-old missing persons case....
Detective and mystery fiction
- Author:Lutz, LisaSummary:
- Author:Sale, MedoraSummary:
When detective Rick Montoya returns to the city to try to clear his name after being accused of taking a bribe, he discovers someone is living in his apartment. Before he can find out who it is, the apartment house goes up in flames....
- Author:Coel, MargaretSummary:
Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley find themselves disagreeing over a murder case. But when the killer strikes again, both will have to put their differences aside before they, too, get caught in the murderer's web....
- Author:Hayes, J. M.Summary:
Murder is unthinkable to The People—a Paleolithic tribe migrating across Alaska and becoming some of the first undocumented immigrants to enter the Americas. For them, murder isn’t merely tragic, it’s forbidden. Murder poisons the...
- Author:Pearce, MichaelSummary:
Edwardian Egypt and archaeology go hand in hand, not just for the antiquarian but for the men, whether poor fellahin or rich merchant, who profit from the illegal export of antiquities. Captain Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt or head of...
- Author:Gates, Eva.Summary:
Halloween in North Carolina's Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body. Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering...
- Author:Jackson, MelanieSummary:
Confronting a prowler in the backyard, Dinah is determined to find out why someone has taken an interest in her older sister and herself. Who is the buck-tooth burglar? Why are the Rinaldi's tomatoes always involved? And what is the...
- Author:Aspe, PieterSummary:
When the wealthy Ludovic Degroof's jewelry store is broken into, nothing is stolen, but the jewels have been dissolved in jars of aqua regia, and a strange note is left in the safe. To solve the case, Van In and the beautiful...
- Author:O'Cinneide, C. S.Summary:
Candace Starr likes to think of herself as retired since she got out of prison. That's until society maven Kristina Corrigan tries to hire her to permanently remove her daughter's barnacle of a boyfriend, Tyler Brent, from their lives....
- Author:Deaver, JefferySummary:
New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver returns with his next blockbuster thriller featuring forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme. Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She's chasing him through a department store in...
- Author:Fluke, JoanneSummary:
Haunted by her dreams. Kathi Ellison is an English literature major at the University of California in Berkeley, living with her boyfriend off-campus. She is also the daughter of a candidate for the U.S. Senate and his wife, a role that...
- Author:Dorsey, Tim.Summary:
A group of characters unites on the Silver Stingray, Amtrak's newest express train, for a murder mystery weekend that is marked by unexpected twists.
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
New York Times bestselling author Paige Shelton returns with the next installment of The Scottish Bookshop Mystery series, The Stolen Letter Delaney Nichols is confident she's doing what she loves - case in point, just one day...
- Author:Whitney, Phyllis A.Summary:
The mysterious death of a prima ballerina raises haunting and sinister questions for her twin sister in this novel from "a master of suspense" (Mary Higgins Clark). Schoolteacher Jenny McClain is looking forward to a bright...
- Author:Deaver, JefferySummary:
Recruited to help the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, manage to track down a cargo ship headed for New York City carrying two dozen illegal...
- Author:Farrow, JohnSummary:
"City of Ice, John Farrow's first book in his acclaimed Emile Cinq-Mars series, which has been hailed by Booklist as "the best series in crime fiction today," has been published in over 17 countries. Now with The Storm Murders, the...
- Author:Grainger, JeanSummary:
Conor O'Shea has been given the opportunity to renovate and run the magnificent but rundown Castle Dysert as a five-star resort. With his family's future now entangled in a stunningly beautiful old castle on the coast of Clare...
- Author:Tejpal, Tarun J.Summary:
When a journalist discovers that five men have been arrested for planning to kill him, he launches an investigation into his would-be killers that forces him to reassess his notions of his country, and himself.
- Author:Goss, TheodoraSummary:
Based on some of literature's horror and science fiction classics, this is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders--and the bigger mystery of their own origins...
- Author:Griffiths, EllySummary:
Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R.M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one of Clare's colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with...