When a circus-performer-turned-PI is drawn into the occult underworld, the result is "beautifully plotted and assured" (#1 New York Times-bestselling author Peter Straub). With a genius IQ, a past career as a circus acrobat,...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Chesbro, George C.Summary: - Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
A string of gruesome, ritualistic murders of Hungarian immigrants has the Thames River Police Commander stuck on solving the pattern in the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling William Monk series. When a Hungarian...
- Author:Pershing, AmySummary:
Christmas is coming to Cape Cod, but when Sam Barnes finds a very dead Santa in a very hip restaurant, it's up to her to sift out suspects who have been naughty vs. nice - . Professional foodie Samantha Barnes has a simple Christmas...
- Author:Tursten, HeleneSummary:
Maud is an irascible eighty-eight-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and ... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss Investigation series,...
- Author:Easton, DonSummary:
Taggart takes on gangs armed with sophisticated weapons who are battling for control and spreading terror in British Columbia. The twelfth Jack Taggart Mystery sees criminal gangs armed with sophisticated weapons battling for control...
- Author:Beechey, AlanSummary:
Scotland Yard is hunting the worst kind of serial killer—one with a sense of humor. When children's book author Oliver Swithin, reluctant creator of the notorious "Finsbury the Ferret," finds an old friend's body floating in a Trafalgar...
- Author:Hannon, IreneSummary:
FBI Hostage Rescue Team member Mark Sanders is in St. Louis, where he reunites with his old flame, Emily Lawson. But when Emily's almost killed by an unknown sniper, Mark must race against time to uncover the shooter's true identity--...
- Author:Bowen, GailSummary:
From Arthur Ellis Award–winning, Grand Master of Crime Writers, and 'the queen of Canadian crime fiction' (Winnipeg Free Press) comes the newest installment in the Joanne Kilbourn series A dark secret threatens the future of the Shreve...
- Author:Raybourn, DeannaSummary:
While investigating a man claiming to be the long-lost heir to a noble family, Veronica Speedwell gets the surprise of her life in this new adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn....
- Author:Winspear, JacquelineSummary:
Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary psychologist and investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community involving mysterious fires, petty crimes, and the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid.
- Author:Todd, CharlesSummary:
"[Readers] are bound to be caught up in the adventures of Bess Crawford . . . While her sensibility is as crisp as her narrative voice, Bess is a compassionate nurse who responds with feeling."- The New York Times Book Review In the...
- Author:Johnson, CraigSummary:
In the 12th novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series, Walt, Henry, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for when they are called in to investigate a hit-and-run accident near Devils Tower involving a young...
- Author:Weinberger, AndySummary:
When a controversial celebrity rabbi drops dead over his matzoh ball soup at the famed Canter's Deli in Los Angeles, retired private eye Amos Parisman-a sixtyish, no-nonsense Jewish detective who lives with his addled wife in Park La...
- Author:Whishaw, IonaSummary:
The third book in the popular Lane Winslow mystery series by an author the Globe and Mail has called a “writer to watch.”It’s early spring of 1947 in idyllic King’s Cove, and the Hughes ladies, mère et filles, are gardening and sorting...
- Author:Van Rooy, MichaelSummary:
Montgomery “Monty” Haaviko has done the crimes—robbery, assault, embezzlement, arson, smuggling, attempted murder—and has lived the criminal lifestyle, where nothing is permanent. Crime may look easy, but a career criminal can’t even...
- Author:Raybourn, DeannaSummary:
A princess is missing and a peace treaty is on the verge of collapse in this new Veronica Speedwell adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. January 1889. As the newest member of...
- Author:Todd, CharlesSummary:
In the spring of 1918, the Spanish Flu epidemic kills millions of soldiers and civilians across the globe. Overwhelmed by the constant flow of wounded soldiers coming from the French front, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford must now...
- Author:Vaughan, SarahSummary:
You want to believe your husband. She wants to destroy him. "The courtroom yields high drama, but Vaughan also dives deep into the characters' backstories--especially the entitled lives of powerful men--creating a nuanced story line...
- Author:Moorcraft, Paul L.Summary:
In 1329, a beautiful Surrey woman is walled up alive in the village church of Shere. The Anchoress’ story is taken up late in this century by deranged Catholic priest Father Michael Duval. Gradually, two separate sagas unfold: the world...
- Author:Crombie, DeborahSummary:
Gemma James is adjusting to professional and personal changes, and a future now intricately entwined with Duncan Kincaid. But her new responsibilities are put to the test when she is placed in charge of a particularly brutal homicide....
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