New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie returns with a mesmerizing entry in her "excellent" (Miami Herald) series, in which Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are pulled into a dangerous web of...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Crombie, DeborahSummary: - Author:Todd, CharlesSummary:
When battlefield nurse Bess Crawford returns from France for a well-earned Christmas leave, she finds a bruised and shivering woman huddled in the doorway of her London flat. Realizing that the woman has nowhere to turn, Bess offers her...
- Author:Craig, Elizabeth SpannSummary:
When octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover discovers Naomi Pelter’s dead body during a book club meeting, the other members seem shocked. But Myrtle can read between the lines. Naomi had riled everyone up by flirting with other people’s...
- Author:Craig, Elizabeth SpannSummary:
It’s just an ordinary day for octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover — until her yardman discovers a dead body planted in her backyard. This death isn’t cut and dried; the victim was bashed in the head with one of Myrtle’s garden gnomes....
- Author:Harris, CharlaineSummary:
Aurora "Roe" Teagarden unexpectedly inherits a house and a fortune when a fellow Real Murders Club member dies. But things take a turn for the macabre when Roe discovers a human skull hidden in her new home's window seat.
- Author:Kilmer, NicholasSummary:
Stillton Academy on the coast north of Boston is in trouble. The academy’s days are numbered unless extraordinary help arrives. Worse, a Stillton instructor has purportedly disappeared with a female first-year student, daughter of the...
- Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary:
Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this...
- Author:Copeland, LoriSummary:
A Case of Bad Taste, set in a small Arkansas town, brims with homespun humor and unforgettable characters. When a series of break-ins shakes up the town, novelist Maude Diamond spots fresh material for her next book. A crook is sneaking...
- Author:Copeland, LoriSummary:
Trouble is brewing in the sleepy hamlet of Morning Shade. Multiple chain letters are circulating throughout town, and a local resident is to blame. Little old ladies are being victimized by empty promises of vast riches and rejuvenated...
- Author:Tesh, JaneSummary:
“On this nice July morning in Parkland, North Carolina, the office of Madeline Maclin Investigations might as well have been an Egyptian tomb: hot, dusty, and dead.” It doesnt help that her landlord Reid Kent, does a brisk business and...
- Author:Copeland, LoriSummary:
Several peeping tom incidents have been reported across town. With an unknown individual on the loose, and the townsfolk terrified, Stella jumps into action. Unfortunately, this time not all of the Diamond women are available to work on...
- Author:Blechta, RickSummary:
"She had a voice like an angel, smooth and complex as a twenty-year-old single malt, rich as thick cream. Everyone who heard Olivia sing felt as if she could see right into their souls, that her songs were meant for them alone....
- Author:Burrows, SteveSummary:
The threat from above casts a dark shadow. A man falls to his death from a cliff face in western Scotland. From a distance, another man watches. He approaches the body, tucks a book into the dead man’s pocket, and leaves. When the...
- Author:Thomas, A. J.Summary:
Doug Heavy Runner left the life of an openly gay Miami police officer and returned to his home on the Salish-Kootenai Indian Reservation when his mother got sick. In the two years since she passed, he’s carved out an empty life as a...
- Author:Quinn, SpencerSummary:
Quinn delivers an original short story answering the question on all his fans' minds: How exactly did Chet (the dog) and Bernie (the PI) meet? Everyone knows that Chet met Bernie on the day he flunked K-9 police school, but the...
- Author:Wright, EricSummary:
Eric Wright’s popular detective, Charlie Salter, is introduced in this collection of the first three books in the well-loved mystery series: The Night the Gods Smiled, Smoke Detector, and Death in the Old Country. Self-righteous and...
- Author:Lee, AshtonSummary:
Christmas is coming to the small town of Cherico, Mississippi, and there's no better way to prepare than with the Cherry Cola Book Club's feast of good food, good books-and good people. Cherico's newlywed librarian Maura Beth Mayhew is...
- Author:Wright, L.R.Summary:
A Canadian cop is up against a local femme fatale in a thriller of "fierce suspense" that launched the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town (Publishers Weekly). It's sunny days for Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg,...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
Lonely Charles Latterly arrives at his small hotel hoping that the island's blue skies and gentle breezes will brighten his spirits. Unfortunately, there's no holiday cheer to be found among his fellow guests, who include a pompous...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
As suspenseful as it is heartwarming, set in Jerusalem, the latest Christmas novel from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry is the perfect holiday treat. When Victor Narraway, Thomas Pitt's close friend and former boss, and his...
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