Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead-choked by a cocktail that contained no trace of poison. Predictable, says Hercule...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Christie, AgathaSummary: - Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
John Moffatt stars as Hercule Poirot in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Agatha Christie's famous novel. Hercule Poirot is a guest at a weekend house party, given at the Cornish clifftop home of the celebrated actor Sir...
- Author:Swann, LeonieSummary:
A witty philosophical murder mystery with a charming twist: the crack detectives are sheep determined to discover who killed their beloved shepherd.
- Author:Harris, CharlaineSummary:
Aurora Teagarden islaunching a new career in real estate. Unfortunately, at Roe's first showing of a house, a corpse is the star attraction. Worse still, the body belongs to a rival realtor.
- Author:Clemens, JudySummary:
When Stella Crown hires a new farmhand to help run her Pennsylvania dairy business, she gets more than she bargained for in a Mennonite widow who arrives burdened not only with grief, but with rumors of infidelity, murder, and a young...
- Author:Coble, ColleenSummary:
Chief of Police Jane Hardy plunges into the investigation of a house fire that claimed the life of a local woman as well as one of the firefighters. It's clear the woman was murdered. But why? The unraveling of Jane's personal life only...
- Author:Evanovich, JanetSummary:
Cursed with a disastrous new hair color and unable to shake Lula--a 230-pound former prostitute and bounty hunter wannabe--Stephanie must find Trenton's most beloved citizen before it's too late.
- Author:Maron, MargaretSummary:
While in New York for their delayed honeymoon, Judge Deborah Knott and Dwight Bryant agree to deliver a package to NYPD lieutenant Sigrid Harald, but when a doorman is murdered and the package goes missing, Deborah and Dwight join the...
- Author:Lindsay, JeffSummary:
Wickedly funny. Wildly twisty. The new book from the master of the heist novel. “A super-thief who leaves no trace.” —Andy Garcia “An anti-hero for our times.” —Sarah Dunn “A can't-miss master.” —David Baldacci Super thief...
- Author:Vercher, JohnSummary:
Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he's never known and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two-year-old Bobby Saraceno is passing for white. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has...
- Author:Box, C. J.Summary:
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts-one animal, one human-in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box. A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage-killing, among others...
- Author:Bradley, AlanSummary:
Hailed as "a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes" by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns in a much anticipated new Christmas mystery from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In spite of being...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
China Bayles has it all - a prestigious Houston law practice, money, power - but it's not enough. She's smart, she's tough, she's confident, and she knows she wants something more out of life than the fast track offers. Something like...
- Author:Patterson, James, Ledwidge, MichaelSummary:
A bomb set in one of New York's busiest places is discovered before it explodes. But relief turns to terror when the police realize it is just a warning of greater devastation. Before long, another horrifying crime leads Detective...
- Author:Baker, BreeSummary:
No one dreams of a killer Christmas... It's Christmastime in Charm, North Carolina, and while Everly Swan would prefer to focus on decorating her iced tea shop for its first holiday season, Great-Aunt Fran has decided to run for mayor...
- Author:Kienzle, William X.Summary:
"Father Koesler is on the case, thank God." —Baltimore Sun
From William X. Kienzle, author of the mystery classic The Rosary Murders. The priesthood or Lil. It would be a gut-wrenching decision for Rick. Sixty-year-old Father...
- Author:Green, Simon R.Summary:
Ishmael Jones is plunged into a baffling investigation involving the wedding of an old friend's daughter, murder, an ancient curse, and Ishamel's memories of before he was human.
- Author:Clemens, JudySummary:
Stella Crown works hard and loves her life. She runs her own Pennsylvania dairy farm with the trusted help of longtime farmhand Howie who stuck with her after her parents died, rides her Harley on the weekends, and has just enough...
- Author:Henry, JuliaSummary:
It's August in Goosebush, Massachusetts, and go-getter retiree Lilly Jayne and her youthful senior pals show no sign of slowing down during the lazy days of summer. But when murder mows over a pesky local, could a Garden Squad...
- Author:Liparulo, RobertSummary:
To find their mother, who is lost in time, the Kings must turn the tables on Taksidian, the menacing stranger who wants them out of their mysterious new house so he can use it for his own twisted purposes.
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