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...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Jackson, MelanieSummary: - 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...
- Author:Cussler, CliveSummary:
It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal...
- Author:Lundrigan, NicoleSummary:
Warren Botts is a disillusioned Ph.D., taking a break from his lab to teach middle-school science. Gentle, soft-spoken, and lonely, he innocently befriends Amanda, one of his students. But one morning, Amanda is found dead in his...
- Author:Lippman, LauraSummary:
Former journalist turned P.I. Tess Monaghan thought she knew Baltimore like the back of her hand--but what she doesn't know just might kill her in this grim yet irresistible novel.
- Author:George, CarolineSummary:
Told in alternating voices, Darby, her ex-boyfriend Morgan, and their friends become embroiled in a murder investigation when their science teacher's body is discovered at the summer camp they all attended.
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher by training, and an amateur sleuth by choice. When a young man falls from a balcony to his death, Isabel does not believe it was an accident. Plunging deep into the shady business community of Edinburgh...
- Author:Zindel, PaulSummary:
P.C. and Mackenzie's junior class trip ends in disaster when practically all the kids witness classmate Timmy Warner plunge to his death over a 300-foot waterfall. But several months later, the class vice president swears that he's seen...
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