Attorney Gavin Webster says he paid $100,000 in ransom to the men who kidnapped his wife. Now they've disappeared with the cash. But Jonathan Stride learns the lawyer had plenty of motive to mastermind the crime. And as Stride digs for...
Detective and mystery fiction
- Author:Freeman, BrianSummary:
- Author:Haines, CarolynSummary:
Broke, unmarried, haunted by the nagging ghost of great-great-grandmother's nanny, and about to lose the family plantation, Sarah Booth is in no condition to fall in love and investigate a murder, but she finds herself doing both.
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
The 6th of January is Sherlock Holmes's birthday, and lucky for Gemma Doyle, January is also the slowest time of the year at both the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, and Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room. It's a good time for Gemma and her...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
Gemma Doyle and her friends travel to London for a Sherlock Holmes convention - but will Gemma's father take the fall for a felonious forger's fatality? The 6th of January is Sherlock Holmes's birthday, and lucky for Gemma Doyle,...
- Author:Quinn, SpencerSummary:
While hapless private investigator Bernie continues his struggle to pay the bills, his four-legged partner Chet, a K-9 school dropout--with his sharp nose and even sharper teeth--keeps bringing down the perps.
- Author:Grant, Kimi CunninghamSummary:
A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in Kimi Cunningham Grant's These Silent Woods , a mesmerizing audiobook of suspense. No electricity, no family, no connection to...
- Author:Goodman, JessicaSummary:
An utter page-turner. Goodman's voice is razor-sharp and keenly precise. Perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn! --Tiffany D. Jackson NYT Bestselling Author of White Smoke and Grown From rising star Jessica Goodman, author of They Wish...
- Author:Brown, SandraSummary:
In this tantalizing thriller from a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a woman uncovers lifelong secrets as she searches for the truth behind her father's involvement in a heist gone wrong. Twenty years ago in the dead of...
- Author:Rudolph, PennySummary:
For Rachel Chavez, every day is a battle with her demons. She only wants to stay sober and keep her recently inherited parking lot in downtown LA financially afloat. It’s nearly a 24/7 job. Then an executive from the nearby water agency...
- Author:Deen, NatashaSummary:
Zack Bernard has a thing for crime shows, especially the forensic-investigation kind. So when his friend Ella goes missing, Zack can't help piecing together what he thinks is concrete evidence that could lead to her whereabouts....
- Author:Ellis, Joy.Summary:
DI Nikki Galena gets a series of anonymous calls. She is told the place, time, and who will die. But the messages are in a secret language used only by villains. Nikki and her team must decode the riddles and work out where the threats...
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
Beth Rivers is on the run-she's doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. Known to the world as thriller author Elizabeth Fairchild, she had become the subject of a fanatic's obsession. After being held in a van for...
- Author:Wilkshire, NickSummary:
Hockey is a dangerous game, but it’s what happens off the ice that can get you killed … Curtis Ritchie is the only news in town when Ottawa takes the young hockey sensation first overall in the annual spring draft. But on the eve of...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast confessing that she is a murderer and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot...
- Author:Scoppettone, SandraSummary:
Meet Faye Quick, a sassy secretary who keeps the home fires burning by reluctantly becoming a private investigator after her boss and agency owner, Woody Mason, joins the army. True to her name, Faye catches on quick, and is especially...
- Author:Lepore, GabriellaSummary:
When Jenna Dallas and Adam Cole find Colleen O'Dell's body floating off the shore of their coastal town, the community of Gardiners Bay is shaken. But even more shocking is the fact that her drowning was no accident.
- Author:Fradkin, BarbaraSummary:
In the seventh book in the acclaimed Inspector Green series, an old man is found beaten to death on a street corner in Ottawa's Byward Market. Initially, the killing appears to be a mugging gone wrong. However, the mystery deepens...
- Author:Harris, BradleySummary:
Winner, 35th International 3-Day Novel Contest.
Jack Minyard is a private eye down on his luck. He’s badly overweight and on the wrong side of sixty. He’s lost his marriage, and maybe a little of his mind, too. After narrowly...
- Author:Griggs, TerrySummary:
Meet the Perfect Man - no, no, he's not the hero of Thought You Were Dead. That would be Chellis Beith, literary researcher, slacker, reluctant detective, and a man bedeviled by every woman in his life. There's his lost love, Elaine...
- Author:Henderson, Dee.Summary:
Dee Henderson Pens Another Compelling Cold Case Mystery Evie Blackwell's reputation as a top investigator for the Illinois State Police has landed her an appointment to the governor's new Missing Persons Task Force. This elite...