Officer Rainie Conner is leading her first homicide investigation, a school shooting. The police chief's 13-year-old son is the prime suspect, but Rainie doesn't believe he pulled the trigger. With the help of FBI profiler Pierce Quincy...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Gardner, LisaSummary: - Author:Nesbø, JoSummary:
Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims ... on Tinder. The murder victim, a self-declared Tinder addict. The one solid clue--fragments of rust and paint in her wounds--leaves the investigating team...
- Author:Dahlstrom, CarolSummary:
Middle-aged Jane Barken discovers a lump in her left breast, the second in five years. She is depressed, her marriage is falling apart, and her singing career is faltering. Recuperating at her Willow Island cottage after a lumpectomy,...
- Author:Saylor, StevenSummary:
It's Rome, 44 BC, and the Ides of March are approaching. Julius Caesar has been appointed dictator for life by the Roman Senate. Having pardoned his remaining enemies and rewarded his friends, Caesar is now preparing to leave Rome with...
- Author:Osman, RichardSummary:
A New York Times bestseller | Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment "Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining." -Wall Street Journal "Don't trust anyone, including the four...
- Author:Osman, RichardSummary:
"A little beacon of pleasure in the midst of the gloom...SUCH FUN!" —Kate Atkinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Sky Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her first big...
- Author:Kaufman, AndrewSummary:
Part modern fable, part detective novel, a journey through grief in the imaginary world of Metaphoria. One cold winter night, Charlie shares a cab with a stranger in a purple hat. As they talk, a cloud of purple smoke overwhelms him and...
- Author:Baron, Aileen G.Summary:
War time Tangier, policed by Franco’s Guardia Civil, thick with many nationalities including Germans and Allies, bitter with the insults of Colonialism, is a dangerous place. Archaeologist Lily Sampson, recruited from her studies in...
- Author:McFetridge, JohnSummary:
Includes the novels Dirty Sweet, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, and Swap
Road rage or a premeditated killing? Dirty Sweet is a fast-paced crime story that follows each character to a surprising end....
- Author:Queen, EllerySummary:
The Tragedy of Errors is the lengthy and detailed plot outline for the final but never published Ellery Queen novel, containing all the hallmarks of the greatest Queen mysteries. It also contains six uncollected Ellery Queen short...
- Author:Arthurson, WayneSummary:
A little known chapter of wartime Canada, the government maintained several German prisoner-of-war camps in Southern Alberta during World War II. Camp 133 was one of these camps. Veteran Guards were responsible for securing the...
- Author:Herrera, YuriSummary:
A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, the Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but the Redeemer...
- Author:Davis, Peter, Woodcock, MatthewSummary:
Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest consulting detective, is on trial for his life!Trapped in a nightmarish court room and charged with endangering the public and his friends, Holmes is forced to relive some of his most bizarre cases...
- Author:Fradkin, Barbara FraserSummary:
Amanda Doucette's cross-Canada charity tour is in for a cold snap when she organizes a winter camping trip for inner-city young people in the stunning setting of the Laurentian Mountains. With a view to bridging cultural divides,...
- Author:Havelange, JoanSummary:
The trouble with funerals is that there are too many of them. Mabel’s mother is convinced there is something nefarious going on at the senior’s condo Gravenhurst Manor. She convinces her daughter to look into the death of her best...
- Author:Easton, EliSummary:
As part of the investigation into the murder of a young woman, Seattle P.I. Tony DeMarco poses as a patient of Dr. Jack Halloran, the therapist who treated the victim at a Seattle sex clinic. This isn’t the first time Tony has gone...
- Author:Bennett, Robert JacksonSummary:
Sixeen year-old George Carole, uncommonly gifted at the piano, falls in with a strange troupe--and under the watchful eye of the enigmatic figure of Silenus, George comes to realize that the members of the troupe are more than they...
- Author:Connor, LeslieSummary:
From the critically acclaimed author of Waiting for Normal and All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook, Leslie Connor, comes a deeply poignant and beautifully crafted story about self-reliance, redemption, and hope. Mason Buttle is the...
- Author:Lövestam, SaraSummary:
When a six-year-old girl disappears and calling the police isn't an option, her desperate mother, Pernilla, turns to an unlikely source for help. She finds a cryptic ad online for a private investigator: "Need help, but can...
- Author:Juby, SusanSummary:
Open secrets are the heart of gossip—the things that no one is brave or clueless enough to ask. That is, except for Normandy Pale and her friends Dusk and Neil. They are juniors at Green Pastures Academy of Art and Applied Design, and...
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