Max Maguire of the NYPD, daughter of a legendary NY cop and a French mother disowned by her aristocratic family when she married, met examining magistrate Olivier Chaumont over murder at the wedding of an old friend in the Champagne...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Hubbard, JanetSummary: - Author:Evans, Mary AnnaSummary:
A woman waits under five feet of dirt-a woman who is by now nothing but bones stained the deep red of Oklahoma clay. A delicate silver necklace, a handful of ancient pearls, and a priceless figurine rest with her. Twenty-nine years is a...
- Author:Läckberg, CamillaSummary:
1974. A family vanishes from their home on an island off the Swedish coast. They have left everything behind--including their one-year-old daughter, Ebba. Now, years later, Ebba has returned with her husband, looking to make a fresh...
- Author:Haines, CarolynSummary:
Local legend Lawrence Ambrose knows the secrets of everyone in town, and he isn't above spilling the beans in a tell-all biography. But when his biographer turns up dead and the manuscript goes missing, it's up to Sarah Booth Delaney to...
- Author:Brook, AllisonSummary:
Librarian Carrie Singleton is building a haven, but one of her neighbors is misbehavin'. Can resident spirit Evelyn help Carrie catch the culprit who made her a ghost?
- Author:Ellis, JoySummary:
A skeleton is found in a shallow grave in the churchyard. But this was not an official burial. The victim was murdered decades ago. At the same time, Detective Nikki Galena and her team are investigating the brutal slaying of local...
- Author:Sandford, JohnSummary:
The corpses of two long-missing girls are discovered buried under the concrete floor of a residential home. Convinced that he made disastrous mistakes while handling the missing persons case years earlier, Davenport is determined to set...
- Author:Finnis, JaneSummary:
The spring of 98 A.D. is a time of optimism in the turbulent frontier province of Britannia. The season looks set fair for peace and prosperity and business is brisk at Aurelia Marcella’s inn on the road to York. Then a wagon arrives...
- Author:Walsh, AliceSummary:
After her mother dies, fourteen year old Zoe is whisked away to Newfoundland to live with a father she has never met. In the tiny village of Port au Choix, she gets caught up in solving the mystery of finding the habitation site of the...
- Author:Patterson, James, Ledwidge, MichaelSummary:
Back home, Detective Bennett receives an unusual call: a man claims to have seen a group of men holding a bizarre party in a condemned building. Bennett dismisses the report. But when a charred body is found in that very same building,...
- Author:McKenzie, C. B.Summary:
Bob Reynolds doesn't recognize the body in the creek, but he does recognize the danger of it. He's a newcomer to town but not entirely welcome. He would rather pretend he never saw the body, but when it disappears he begins to doubt...
- Author:Deen, NatashaSummary:
After a fire kills Josie's family, she is living on the streets while she finds a way to bring her family's killer to justice in this fast-paced entry in the Retribution trilogy.
- Author:Burke, James LeeSummary:
Dave Robicheaux, New Orleans detective, is puzzled when street hustler Sonny Boy Marsallus slips a Vietnam war diary into his hand. Soon old debts and ancient burial sites create a web of intrigue linking Iberia Parish to more dangerous...
- Author:Mizushima, MargaretSummary:
On a rugged Colorado mountain ridge, Mattie Cobb and her police dog partner Robo make a grisly discovery--and become the targets of a ruthless killer.
- Author:Rosenfelt, DavidSummary:
Clever plot twists, deft legal maneuverings, and keen wit are hallmarks of Rosenfelt's third follow-up to his Edgar-nominated debut novel, featuring millionaire attorney, Andy Carpenter, who is irreverent, intelligent, sarcastic and dry...
- Author:Mayor, ArcherSummary:
When the body of a young woman is found at a popular ski mountain, the case falls to Joe Gunther and his team. They quickly have a suspect and a confession, but not everyone on the team is convinced.
- Author:Penny, LouiseSummary:
An obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it? Although he is...
- Author:Allin, LouSummary:
In the third Belle Palmer mystery, Belle takes her friend and employee on a snowshoe trek. Miriam MacDonald brings her spoiled mini-poodle, a gift from investment broker boyfriend, who promises huge returns on her life savings. Later...
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
Tensions between truck operators and market vendors over their required licenses reach a crescendo when the town's business manager is murdered. With Peyton already under suspicion of stealing money and a secret recipe from the...
- Author:Sayers, Dorothy L.Summary:
Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey with Sarah Badel as Harriet Vane and co-starring Peter Jones, Rosemary Leach and Peter Vaughan in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Society's eligible women are in mourning. Lord Peter...
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