2016 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery — Shortlisted Dan Sharp scours Toronto’s seamy underbelly after the murder of a notorious nightspot owner, and finds his own life on the line. When Yuri Malevski, owner of notorious country-...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Round, JeffreySummary: - Author:Ross, OrnaSummary:
When Jo Devereux returns to Ireland for her mother's funeral, the last person she expects to meet there is Rory O'Donovan. The secrets and silences between Jo's family and Rory's was the one constant of their childhood — and erupted...
- Author:Harrison, ColinSummary:
Charlie Ravich survives brutal torture as a POW in Vietnam and becomes a millionaire player in global finance. But as he gets older, he fears his survival may be for nothing. His wife shows signs of Alzheimer's, his son is dead, and his...
- Author:Beaton, M. C.Summary:
After years of bullying and cajoling others as a high-flying public relations boss, Agatha Raisin's early retirement to the picture-postcard village of Carsley in the Cotswolds is a dream come true. And how better to begin making...
- Author:Jocelyn, MartheSummary:
For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, a spa stay becomes a lot more thrilling when TWO dead bodies are found in this third book in the Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series, inspired by the life of Agatha Christie as a...
- Author:Childs, LauraSummary:
Theodosia Browning is happily catering the opening of Charleston's Neptune Museum when she discovers the drowned body of ex-boyfriend Parker Scully. The police don't buy her theory that Parker was murdered, forcing Theodosia to...
- Author:Peters-Davis, S.Summary:
Kendra Spark, Derek Knight, and "ghosty" Jenna Powers, members of an FBI special task force, investigate a cold-case and end up facing the ultimate psychopaths, a highly-accredited police director gone crime lord and a beautiful...
- Author:Gaetz, DayleSummary:
Sheila, Rusty and Katie are on the road again. Fresh from their adventures in Barkerville, the trio is now in southern Alberta. Sheila has been anxiously anticipating her reunion with her father and is worried about how they will get...
- Author:Butcher, KristinSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Christine is visiting her eccentric great-aunt in historic Witcombe, where a pickpocket has been victimizing tourists. Aunt Maude owns an antique store and also runs the town’s ghost walk, which gives Christine the...
- Author:Morris, Wanda M.Summary:
Ellice Littlejohn seemingly has it all as a corporate attorney with an Ivy League law degree. But everything changes one morning when she arrives in the executive suite and finds her boss with a gunshot to his head.
- Author:Brooke, JohnSummary:
There's a deadly August heatwave and Inspector Aliette Nouvelle is looking forward to her upcoming vacation. She's been working hard, without much reward. Denied promotion to the coveted Commissaire's post -- which seemed...
- Author:Connor, LeslieSummary:
Junior Library Guild Selection * Kids' Indie Next List Pick From Leslie Connor, award-winning author of Waiting for Normal and Crunch, comes a soaring and heartfelt story about love, forgiveness, and how innocence makes us all rise up....
- Author:Belle, JosieSummary:
There's something 100% off about Maggie and her fiancé Sam's new dream home in the historic section of St. Stanley. The lights flicker, the doors blow shut, and their cat, Marshall Dillon, hisses at empty space. And there's something...
- Author:Crombie, DeborahSummary:
Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep--at last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease. It may well have been suicide; she had certainly expressed her willingness to speed the...
- Author:Bator, DianeSummary:
What do a trunk full of vintage clothes, a handsome land developer, and a fifty year old diamond heist have in common? Laken Miller receives a trunk full of expensive vintage clothing and a stack of newspaper clippings about a fifty-...
- Author:Nellums, ElizaSummary:
With her imaginary friend Teddy by her side and the detecting skills of her nosy neighbor, six-year-old Aoife sets out to uncover what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital.
- Author:Robinson, PeterSummary:
When DCI Alan Banks is dragged away from his vacation in London to supervise DI Annie Cabbot's sensitive murder case, he finds himself embroiled in the clandestine world of the secret intelligence service.
- Author:Penny, LouiseSummary:
The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a...
- Author:Tucker, LauraSummary:
"A dazzling debut novel about resilience, courage, home and family."--Rebecca Stead, Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach MeSoHo, 1981. Twelve-year-old Olympia is an artist--and in her neighborhood, that's...
- Author:Sanders, NicolaSummary:
On the surface, Amy and Jason have the perfect marriage, but Amy is trapped in a nightmare with a controlling, violent husband. Then on a short cruise without Jason, Amy befriends Liz, a young woman traveling alone on her way to meet...
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