“Hammerhead” Jed is back! And this time, he’s gone a little bit country. After a lumberjack games competitor is found floating face down in a pool with an axe buried in the back of his head, former pro wrestler-turned-P.I. “Hammerhead”...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Devlin, A. J.Summary: - Author:Stein, TrissSummary:
In Brooklyn Bones, a crime of the past comes much too close to home when Erica Donato’s teenage daughter Chris finds a skeleton behind a wall in their crumbling Park Slope home. Erica—a young widow, over-age history Ph.D candidate,...
- Author:Stein, TrissSummary:
From the earliest days of the Republic until the administration of LBJ, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was, proudly, both an arsenal of democracy, in FDR's words, and the creator of 70,000 local jobs. In time it became best known as the...
- Author:Cates, BaileySummary:
Katie Lightfoot's tired of loafing around as the assistant manager of an Ohio bakery. So when her aunt Lucy and uncle Ben open a bakery in Savannah's quaint downtown district and ask Katie to join them, she enthusiastically agrees....
- Author:Fowler, ChristopherSummary:
Two small children are playing a game called "Witch-Hunter". They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch in a church courtyard and wait for her to die. An hour later she is found dead inside the church. Bryant and May must...
- Author:Fowler, ChristopherSummary:
Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the trail of an enigma: a young man called Mr Fox. But his identity is false, his links to society are invisible and his home yields no clues. All they know is that somehow he...
- Author:Fowler, ChristopherSummary:
The erstwhile members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit are left out in the cold when the unit is shut down, but then a beheading prompts their recall.
- Author:Strohmeyer, SarahSummary:
After a cat fight at a historical society meeting nearly kills her career, Bubbles is given one week to prove her worth to her editors at the News-Times and earn a real job there by cracking her biggest story ever--finding out who...
- Author:Strohmeyer, SarahSummary:
When Bubbles' dream weekend with jetsetting photographer Steve Stiletto is interrupted by a wild ride down an abandoned mine shaft in a runaway coal car, it isn't long before she's discovered a dead body and found herself in the midst...
- Author:Strohmeyer, SarahSummary:
On her first day as a full-time reporter, Bubbles lands in jail with a murder suspect named Crazy Popeye, who grants Bubbles an exclusive interview shortly before keeling over herself. Suddenly, Bubbles's interview notes are a hot...
- Author:Strohmeyer, SarahSummary:
Bubbles goes undercover in an Amish community to investigate a friend's disappearance--which means she has to leave behind her beloved makeup and halter tops. Steve Stiletto, Bubbles' quirky mother and her too-smart-for-her-own-good...
- Author:Strohmeyer, SarahSummary:
Meet Lehigh, Pennsylvania's own Bubbles Yablonsky - a tube-top-wearing, gum-snapping hairdresser-turned-gun-toting gumshoe. From solving dark crimes to lightening dark roots, this hot sleuth in hot pants has everyone talking.
- Author:McCafferty, KeithSummary:
In the wake of Fourth of July fireworks in Montana's Madison Valley, Hyalite County sheriff Martha Ettinger and Deputy Sheriff Harold Little Feather investigate a horrific scene at the Palisades cliffs, where a herd of bison have fallen...
- Author:Ramsay, FrederickSummary:
It’s the bleak midwinter and the Shenandoah Valley is poised on the brink of an unusually icy and snowy season. Alexei Kamarov’s body is discovered in a forest within the Picketsville town limits. His driver’s license identifies him as...
- Author:Miles, KeithSummary:
In the world of championship golf, the stakes are high and passions run to match. And never more so than at the British Open Championship, particularly when it is played at Saint Andrews, venerable home of the game. For Alan Saxon, too...
- Author:Coyle, CleoSummary:
Savor an all new Coffeehouse Mystery in the beloved long-running series from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle. Only Murders in Gotham, the smash hit streaming show, is famous for filming in authentic New York City locations...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
Former novelist Elaine Benson is helping an elderly spinster write a memoir of her years with the Canadian Army Nursing Sisters of WWII when she discovers that the writer hired before her died under suspicious circumstances.
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
Elaine Benson, a successful novelist who jettisoned her career over an unreliable screenwriter, is now divorced, broke, and come to a “primitive, untamed northern forest” on Lake Muskoka to interview for a job. Elderly Miss Moira...
- Author:Mills, DiAnnSummary:
Reeling from a negotiation gone wrong, FBI Special Agent April Ramos is caught off guard when a frazzled young woman shoves a crying baby into her arms, then disappears. Worry for the child's safety quickly turns to fear when a man...
- Author:Block, LawrenceSummary:
This first outing for the Greenwich Village burglar finds Bernie set up for a fall when a simple job turns out to involve murder and the conveniently timed arrival of the cops.
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