Retired policeman J. W. Jackson hoped to escape big city violence when he moved to Martha's Vineyard. But even this idyllic place has its share of troubles.
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Craig, Philip R.Summary: - Author:De Giovanni, MaurizioSummary:
Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead after being suffocated with a pillow. Ricciardi must untangle a complex knot of greed, frustration...
- Author:Evanovich, JanetSummary:
It's five days before Christmas and things are not looking merry for Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum. She hasn't got a tree. She hasn't bought any presents. The malls are jam-packed with staggering shoppers. There's not a...
- Author:Johnson, CraigSummary:
Ten years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award'winning 'Old Indian Trick.' This was one of the earliest appearances of the sheriff who would go on to star in Johnson's bestselling, award-winning novels and...
- Author:French, NicciSummary:
The thrilling third novel starring London psychotherapistturned-detective Frieda Klein-- from internationally bestselling author Nicci French Nicci French' s Blue Monday and Tuesday' s Gone introduced the brilliant yet...
- Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary:
Amos Decker and Alex Jamison investigate the death of a woman whose body was expertly autopsied and then dumped in the open, which is only the beginning of the oddities surrounding the case.
- Author:Whellams, DavidSummary:
In the debut mystery featuring veteran Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, what seems like a simple domestic crime turns out to be a series of murders ravaging a peaceful English coastal community.
The semi–retired Cammon...
- Author:Silvis, RandallSummary:
When long-buried secrets come back to the surface... The bones of seven young girls, picked clean and carefully preserved, discovered years ago...'hat's all Sergeant Ryan DeMarco knows about the unsolved crime he has unwittingly been...
- Author:Brooke, JohnSummary:
In this fifth installment of the Aliette Nouvelle mysteries, Aliette is now, officially, Chief Inspector Nouvelle. After a difficult breakup with former boss and boyfriend Claude Neon, the inspector is transferred from an urban beat in...
- Author:Tracy, P. J.Summary:
An old couple knelt side by side in an otherwise empty small - town church - their heads resting on...
- Author:Phillips, GarySummary:
O'Conner needs a place to hole up after an especially bloody job. Tooling his sputtering motorcycle into the suburban community of Willow Ridge, he expects to find a place of refuge. Instead, he tumbles headfirst into a world of...
- Author:Hovey, DeanSummary:
A Park Service backpacking trip turns deadly when hikers are caught in a steep canyon during a flash flood. Three hikers are swept away, but a rescue team recovers four bodies. Park Service Investigator Doug Fletcher teams up with...
- Author:Brown, JanelleSummary:
The disappearance of a beautiful, charismatic mother leaves her family to piece together her secrets in this propulsive novel for fans of Big Little Lies--from the bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything. "Tantalizing...
- Author:Liparulo, RobertSummary:
The Kings are focused on rescuing a lost family member, until a stranger comes to take their bizarre house. What secret is he hiding, as he hides the scars on his body? Can the Kings harness the house's secrets and discover who is...
- Author:Todd, CharlesSummary:
Charles Todd brings his classic mystery series to a new level of intensity and intrigue. The year is 1919, and Ian Rutledge is a fragile yet courageous former soldier searching for his place in a post-war world. Now a Scotland Yard...
- Author:Crombie, DeborahSummary:
In the aftermath of a teenager's drowning in a Cheshire countryside canal, Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James investigate strange connections between the victim and two past murder cases.
- Author:Edwards, MartinSummary:
A notice announcing that Harry Devlin died suddenly on Mid-summer’s Eve arrives at the office of his law firm one June day. Harry isn’t happy to read it—especially as Midsummer’s Eve is less than a week away. His partner Jim Crusoe...
- Author:Havelange, JoanSummary:
When Mabel slices her golf ball into the town cemetery. She and her best friend Violet think the worst that could happen would be a lost ball. That is until they discover a dead body, and it isn't six feet under. Mabel's golf ball lays...
- Author:Blackwood, ScottSummary:
A young lifeguard, a doctor sick with cancer, and two children have disappeared, leaving no trace. It's only when they start to resurface, in small moments and sudden flashes of consciousness, that the true gravity of their existence...
- Author:Heaberlin, JuliaSummary:
The discovery of a girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secrets of a Texas town's legendary cold case in this superb, atmospheric novel from the internationally bestselling author of Black-Eyed...
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