When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. Where was...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Leon, DonnaSummary: - Author:Weiss, JoshSummary:
Set in an alternate US during the height of the Red Scare, this is the story of a country where terror and paranoia rises unchecked, and one LAPD detective stumbles on a dangerous conspiracy.
- Author:Beaton, M. C.Summary:
When Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, she becomes involved in a gruesome murder and a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite what it seems.
- Author:Lovesey, PeterSummary:
In the seventeenth installment in Peter Lovesey's timeless British detective series, Peter Diamond digs deep into Bath history to ferret out the secrets of one of its most famous (and scandalous) icons: Richard "Beau" Nash, who might...
- Author:Fradkin, BarbaraSummary:
Inspector Green explores a web of betrayal and deceit. In the dead of night, the phone rings in the missing persons unit of the Ottawa Police. A brutal blizzard is howling, and a wealthy social activist has not heard from his fiance in...
- Author:Flower, AmandaSummary:
Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in this first book in an all-new series from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award–winning author Amanda Flower. January 1855 Willa Noble knew...
- Author:Childs, LauraSummary:
After losing their husbands, Suzanne, Toni, and Petra bonded, gaining newfound independence as well as a wealth of support, inspiration, home-baked goods, and their own business. But who would have dreamed that when the Cackleberry Club...
- Author:Harvey, BrianSummary:
Piano tuner Frank Ryan is paid in kind by an aging music teacher with an old manuscript that turns out to be Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony. Launched into a world of intrigue and violence, Ryan, an unlikely sleuth, realizes he must use his...
- Author:Henderson, DeeSummary:
An FBI undercover operation gone bad convinces Rae Gabriella to move near her hometown and work as a private investigator with another former agent. But the small town of Justice, Illinois, is not as safe as she thinks. Attractive and...
- Author:Havill, Steven F.Summary:
When Posadas Register reporter Linda Real barely survives her nighttime patrol with one of Undersherrif Bill Gastner's deputies who is killed by a more accurate shotgun blast than the one that ruins her face, Bill gets angry. Teamed...
- Author:Ross, OrnaSummary:
A historical murder mystery of love and revenge against the background of intimate war. It's August in the long, hot summer of 1995, and Jo Devereux can't believe that she still hasn't returned home to San Francisco, though the time for...
- Author:Marsh, J. J.Summary:
Suicide – the act of taking one’s own life.Homicide – the act of taking someone else’s.An unethical banker suffocates. A diamond dealer slits his wrists. A media magnate freezes in the snow. A disgraced CEO inhales exhaust fumes. Four...
- Author:Gardner, TracySummary:
Savanna Shepherd, an art expert turned elementary art teacher, is planning the Art in the Park festival for her hometown of Carson. But apparently, someone isn't happy that Carson got to host the event: the beloved statue in the park is...
- Author:Duncan, FrancisSummary:
Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for Christmas Mordecai Tremaine's hobby of choice - crime detection - has left him in need of a holiday. A break away from that gruesome...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington's much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studio...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
When a moneylender named William Weems is murdered, there is discreet rejoicing among those whose meager earnings he devoured. But the plot thickens when Inspector Pitt finds a list of London's distinguished gentlemen in Weems' office...
- Author:Lynch, DudleySummary:
BELIEFS CAN BE MURDER is best-selling non-fiction author Dudley Lynch's debut novel in the Sheriff Luke McWhorter mystery series. Its main character is an Ivy-League divinity school graduate who wears the lawman's star instead of the...
- Author:Allin, LouSummary:
Presenting the five novels of the acclaimed Belle Palmer literary mystery series by Lou Allin, in a definitive ebook bundle. Belle is a realtor living a peaceful life just outside the northern city of Sudbury, Ontario. But crime has a...
- Author:Mayor, ArcherSummary:
Joe Gunther is sent to the neighboring town of Bellows Falls to investigate harassment allegations against a fellow officer. But as Gunther doggedly pursues the truth, what begins as a seemingly open-and-shut case starts to look more...
- Author:Box, C. J.Summary:
The telephone calls from her stepdaughter April send chills down the spine of Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's daughter Sherry. Wasn't April murdered six years ago in a bloody massacre? Wondering how this youthful caller knows details...
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