During a Christmas Eve snowstorm, a car veers off the road into the icy river. The autopsy reveals a shocking secret that plunges Constable Smith and Sergeant John Winters into the world of sexual predators, drugs, and privilege.
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Delany, VickiSummary: - Author:Sandford, JohnSummary:
Called in to assist the sheriff from a remote, rural area of Wisconsin in his investigation into a brutal triple homicide, Lucas Davenport begins to uncover a shocking series of vicious crimes that stun even Davenport with their evil...
- Author:Maron, MargaretSummary:
When local handyman J.D. Rouse is found dead in his pickup truck with a bullet in his head, the mayhem--and the body count--grows. But Chief Deputy Dwight Bryant, Judge Deborah Knott's new husband, launches his own investigation after...
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
It's springtime in Benedict, Alaska, and with the warmer weather comes an unseasonably somber local tradition...the annual Death Walk. At the end of each brutal winter, citizens gather downtown and then break into groups to search...
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
The fourth installment in the gripping, atmospheric Alaska Wild series, Paige Shelton's Winter's End. It's springtime in Benedict, Alaska, and with the warmer weather comes an unseasonably somber local tradition...the annual Death Walk...
- Author:Brown, Rita Mae.Summary:
As the murders pile up in Crozet, Virgina, it seems the ones who can shiff out the clues best are a cat and a dog.
- Author:Haines, CarolynSummary:
When P.I. Sarah Booth makes a bid for film stardom, she may land a chance to shoot on location in Costa Rica--or she may find herself in a whole heap of trouble.
- Author:Hills, KathleenSummary:
January, 1951: while the country is in the grip of war in Korea, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and Senator Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare, the residents of St. Adele, Michigan, are more concerned with staying warm and shoveling snow...
- Author:Copperman, E. J.Summary:
Former New Jersey prosecutor Sandy Moss moved to a LA law firm to make a new start. But when abrasive Hollywood movie director Robert Reeves is accused of murder, Sandy can't say no when he demands her help.
- Author:Strange, MarcSummary:
Stolen gems. Shady cops. Murders that could lead to an international incident. Orwell Brennan, chief of the Dockerty police force in small-town Ontario, had enough problems on his hands with the mayoral election, a daughter engaged, and...
- Author:Nesser, HåkanSummary:
Detective Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. Revenge seems to be the motive, in this chilling novel filled with deception, blackmail, and...
- Author:Whitney, Phyllis A.Summary:
From an Edgar and Agatha Award winner: A mystery writer must solve the puzzle of her past when she meets the South Carolina family she never knew existed. Popular mystery novelist Molly Hunt knows all about the twists and turns of...
- Author:Butcher, JimSummary:
Chicago wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden is used to mysterious clients with long hair and legs up to here. But when it turns out the long hair covers every square inch of his latest client's body, and the legs contribute to a nine-foot...
- Author:Cook, JudithSummary:
Soon after the police break up an anti-GM crops demo on a Cotswold farm, a man is found savagely murdered in circumstances chillingly reminiscent of the infamous, unsolved Meon Hill murder of 1945. Ex-policeman Latymer's professional...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
A Kentucky Shaker village seems just the place for China to get some much-needed rest and relaxation. And getting a chance to assist with a local herbal workshop is exactly the kind of thing China relishes. Meeting with the kindly...
- Author:Patterson, James, Ledwidge, MichaelSummary:
Detective Michael Bennett and FBI Abduction Specialist Emily Parker reluctantly team up to stop a killer targeting not only the children of New York's wealthiest families--but the entire city of New York.
- Author:Bowen, MichaelSummary:
Foreign Service veteran Richard Michaelson knows that it is often better to talk to secretaries than big wigs in the political jungles of Washington, D.C. But when one such ambitious young secretary turns up dead in a locked hotel room...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
Stone Barrington is in a position that every ex-policeman dreads -- all around him people are dying, and he suspects the killer may be someone he'd put in prison years before.
- Author:Beil, Michael D.Summary:
Lark is spending the summer on Swallowtail Island for the first time since her mom passed away. But she discovers something that others on the island would do anything to keep buried.
- Author:Kane, AndreaSummary:
When Sally Montgomery accompanies her handsome boss Frederick Pierson on a quiet country weekend, she enjoys the first evening. But when she discovers his battered body the next morning, she runs for her life. Now it's up to Pete, her...
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