Detective Miranda Quin is not only fighting crime, she’s fighting for her life. The summer before 9/11, Toronto homicide detective Miranda Quin wakes up to find her lover dead beside her, yet has no memory of going to bed with him....
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Moss, JohnSummary: - Author:Burke, JanSummary:
Conn O'Connor struggles to find a connection between a bloodstained car, a missing yacht, and a stolen infant heir, a mystery that deepens years later when fledgling reporter Irene Kelly explores a young man's claim that he is the...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
When a man dies soon after Tullie bashes his head with her cane, China's estranged mother frantically calls for her daughter's help. Rushing to her family's Mississippi plantation, China must determine if her Great Aunt Tullie is guilty...
- Author:Hyde, Katherine BolgerSummary:
Windy Corner is being remodeled into a writers' retreat. Two of the young workers, Jake and Roman, are showing too much of the wrong kind of interest in Katie, Emily's young single-mother housekeeper. It's a stormy autumn and Emily is...
- Author:Brett, SimonSummary:
"It's that glorious period between the two world wars, and the exiled king of Mitteleuropa is visiting the ancestral home of the Duke of Tawcester. When the ex-king's daughter is kidnapped, noblesse obliges the Duke's handsome, brave,...
- Author:Child, Lincoln, Preston, Douglas J.Summary:
An ancient secret resurfaces when a murdered corpse shows up on Aloysius Pendergast's doorstep. The death has the hallmark of a perfect murder-save for a gem lodged in the victim's stomach, which leads Pendergast to an...
- Author:French, NicciSummary:
Frieda Klein is a brilliant psychotherapist who finds herself hunting down a kidnapper. When five-year-old Matthew Farraday goes missing, all of London is in an uproar--including Frieda, who recalls a patient haunted by dreams of...
- Author:King, JamesSummary:
Late in her life, acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Delamere makes a request of her therapist, Doctor Newman: she asks him to oversee the publication of her last book after she dies. It is a memoir in which she reveals that she is Evelyn...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Danger hits close to home when a cobra is found in Mma Ramotswe's office. Of less immediate danger, but greater general interest, are the faulty blood pressure measurements being recorded at the local clinic. But perhaps the biggest...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
Paramedic Ashley Grant is settling into her new life in the Caribbean, although sometimes she still feels like a fish out of water. The ambulance is called to a fire at a prestigious resort, and Ashley recognizes the victim as a hotel...
- Author:Fluke, JoanneSummary:
Hannah's popular bakery, The Cookie Jar, licated in Lake Eden, Minnesota, is best known for its tempting confections--until best-selling cookbook author and television personality Connie McIntyre is murdered in its pantry while baking a...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
When the body of a boy is found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, Inspector Pitt is called to investigate. The boy was clearly upper class, so what was he doing in one of London's most dangerous slums? Before his death, the...
- Author:Collette, AbbySummary:
When Koby Hill and Keaton Rutledge were orphaned at age two, they were separated, but their unbreakable connection lingered. Years later, they reunite and decide to make up for lost time and capitalize on their shared interests by...
- Author:Strange, MarcSummary:
Ex-boxer Joe Grundy is embroiled in the intrigues of his own boss, millionaire Leo Alexander, the owner of Vancouver's Lord Douglas Hotel. Somebody has murdered Leo's live-in servant and not-so-secret lover, and Grundy has to...
- Author:Kienzle, William X.Summary:
"As regular as the solstice, Kienzle annually provides a new Catholic whodunit, inviting the readers to shut out the rest of the world and spend a few absorbing hours watching his venerable alter ego, Koesler, peel back the layers of a...
- Author:Johansen, IrisSummary:
Eve Duncan became a forensic sculptor after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie, whose remains were discovered ... yet unrecognizable. Driven by a need to liberate innocence from the shroud of death, she obsesses over recreating...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
When Renalta Van Markoff, author of the controversial Hudson and Holmes mystery series, collapses dead during a Q & A session, Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson must clear the chief suspect's name.
- Author:Simon, MichaelSummary:
When an assassination attempt on a black community activist kills a young girl and leaves a little boy critically wounded, Detective Dan Reles heads the investigation. The brass decide, however, that a black detective should handle this...
- Author:Mayor, ArcherSummary:
While Joe Gunther and the VBI set about solving two murders, Sally Kravitz and Rachel Reiling combine their talents and resources to go where the police cannot.
- Author:Woods, Stuart, Hall, ParnellSummary:
Teddy Fay returns to La-La Land in the latest thriller from #1 New York Times Teddy Fay is back in Hollywood and caught in two tricky situations. First, a rising star at Centurion becomes the target of malicious gossip, and Teddy must...
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