In New York City, a homeless man with amnesia must unravel his past while a serial killer stalks the streets, in this taut thriller from the author of the Mongo Mysteries. When he wakes up he remembers nothing, not even his own name. He...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Chesbro, George C.Summary: - Author:Haines, CarolynSummary:
Depressed after losing her unborn child, PI Sarah Booth Delaney distracts herself by checking out a beauty pageant with her friend and partner, Tinkie. This works fine--until the pageant's top contender is poisoned. The prime murder...
- Author:Boswell, Joan, Pike, SueSummary:
Music may soothe the savage breast, but in this fifth collection of witty and wicked crime fiction from the Ladies’ Killing Circle, music provides the background for tales of murder and mayhem. Eighteen stories by Canadian women crime...
- Author:Standiford, LesSummary:
It's tough being a small-time hustler in Key West, FL. When this hustler is being beaten by a cop, John Deal steps in to stop it, but it is only a temporary rescue: the hustler turns up dead only two days later. The cops are claiming...
- Author:Haines, CarolynSummary:
Sarah Booth Delaney is heartbroken: her fiance Graf Milieu has decided to move to Hollywood permanently, leaving their relationship in shambles. Sarah Booth has a perfect distraction, however, in the form of the Black and Orange...
- Author:Haines, CarolynSummary:
Tracking down a porn star-turned-psychic who has promised to reunite an eccentric billionaire with her dead child, a suspicious Sarah Booth goes undercover as a maid at the billionaire's estate, where she discovers multiple murders and...
- Author:Matthews, JeanneSummary:
Hewed out of a frozen mountain 600 miles from the North Pole, the Doomsday Seed Vault was designed to safeguard the earth’s precious collection of seeds from rising sea levels, hurtling asteroids, nuclear holocaust, and every other...
- Author:Burke, JanSummary:
Investigative reporter Irene Kelly joins a team leading a serial killer into the Sierra Nevadas to locate the graves of his victims.
- Author:Reichs, KathySummary:
Temperance Brennan and long-time flame Detective Ryan are on a case involving the deaths of three infant siblings in Montreal. When the children's mother takes off in the middle of the investigation, Tempe and Ryan must join forces with...
- Author:Haines, CarolynSummary:
Sarah Booth Delaney investigates when two wealthy heiresses claim a four-million-dollar family necklace was stolen. All the evidence points to insurance fraud, but when Sarah starts poking into the family's dark secrets, one of the...
- Author:Matthews, JeanneSummary:
The Top End of Australia is teeming with crocodiles, poisonous snakes, and curious Aboriginal myths. It’s a strange place to choose to end one’s life, but that is what Dinah Pelerin’s wealthy American uncle has done. Dying of cancer, he...
- Author:Hall, James W.Summary:
Presents Key West, Florida as the locale for a thrilling murder mystery.
- Author:Reichs, KathySummary:
Tempe Brennan investigats the connections between a long-dead business man, the smuggling of mummified dogs from Peru, and the death of a teenage girl killed in a hit and run. When she discovers a human trafficking enterprise at the...
- Author:Haines, CarolynSummary:
Quentin McGee, author of a sensational exposé, has been murdered, and her lover Allison is charged with the crime. P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney is hired to find the real culprit, but the investigation won't be easy. Quentin has so many...
- Author:Gates, EvaSummary:
The author of By Book or by Crook returns to the Outer Banks and the Lighthouse Library, where Lucy Richardson must shed light on a shocking murder.
- Author:Dunning, JohnSummary:
Presents a mystery introducing Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway.
- Author:Batten, JackSummary:
Mystery-solving criminal lawyer Crang returns to investigate the disappearance of two rare books. Fletcher Marshall is a Toronto antiquarian book dealer, internationally respected in the business. One night, someone blows the safe in...
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
A movie star is typecast as a killer in the second Dangerous Type Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of To Helvetica and Back. It's January, and the Star City Film Festival has taken the Utah ski resort town by storm....
- Author:Harvey, JohnSummary:
Five thrilling tales of mystery, mayhem, and murder from an exceptional quintet of Edgar, CWA Dagger, and National Book Award winners. Crime and literature make strange and sinister bedfellows in this winning anthology of book-themed...
- Author:Maron, MargaretSummary:
Attorney Deborah Knott has just entered the heated race for judge of old-boy-ruled Colleton County. The only female candidate, she's busy reeling in voters and giving campaign speeches. There couldn't be a worse time for Gayle Whitehead...
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