Two suspicious deaths challenge DS Alan Banks and his crack investigative team. As the inconsistencies multiply and the mysteries surrounding these two cases proliferate, a source reveals a piece of information that shocks the team and...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Robinson, PeterSummary: - Author:Hewson, DavidSummary:
It's February, and Carnival time in Venice. Bright blue skies and freezing temperatures welcome Teresa Lupo, forensic pathologist to the Rome Questura, to the city. She is greeted off the vaporetto by an anonymous masked man dressed as...
- Author:Gentry, ChristineSummary:
Montana paleoartist Ansel Phoenix, stunned by the incinerated body of the Indian blasted up into the mouth of her life-sized Allosaurus replica standing outside the Big Toe Natural History Museum, starts digging. Poachers have been...
- Author:Fluke, JoanneSummary:
It's summer time in Lake Eden, Minnesota, which means picnics aplenty for bakery proprietress and amateur sleuth Hannah. Then Uncle Gus is murdered following a big family reunion, and the only clues to be found at the crime scene are...
- Author:Zuehlke, MarkSummary:
When a freighter smuggling illegal immigrants sinks, Tofino coroner Elias McCann finds himself at the heart of a mystery. A relative of his girlfriend - Vhanna, turns up among the ships survivors, bringing up memories of her dark past...
- Author:Howard, Jonathan L.Summary:
Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case--the hunt for a serial killer--went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. Now he's a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Strangeness, however,...
- Author:Molnar, GwenSummary:
In Hate Cell, thirteen-year-old Casey Templeton has recently moved to the southeastern Alberta town of Richford. One night Casey seeks refuge from a snowstorm in an abandoned farmhouse and stumbles upon his nearly frozen, unconscious...
- Author:MacDonald, PatriciaSummary:
Shelby wants to give her daughter Chloe a gift she'll never forget: a luxury cruise around the Caribbean. It will be the honeymoon Chloe and her husband Rob never got to take. Shelby will look after their little boy. Then the...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
A revolution in the Middle East has a direct and deadly impact upon the summer term at Meadowbank, a picture-perfect girls' school in the English countryside. Prince Ali Yusuf, Hereditary Sheikh of Ramat, whose great liberalizing...
- Author:Carson, LouiseSummary:
Trying to beat the mid-winter blahs by snowshoeing and cross country skiing when she's not teaching art history at a local college (or being driven crazy by her numerous cats, cooped up in her rambling old country home), Gerry...
- Author:Brown, Rita Mae, Brown, Sneaky PieSummary:
When Harry's beloved Aunt Tally approaches her 100th birthday, her alma mater schedules a birthday celebration that doubles as a fundraiser. But then a member of the alumnae association disappears. Her car is on campus, yet she's...
- Author:Brown, Rita Mae, Brown, Sneaky PieSummary:
Crozet, Virginia, is a pretty sleepy place, but during a Civil War reenactment, murder occurs, and postmistress and amateur sleuth Harry Harristeen and her three pets are soon on the prowl looking for the killer.
- Author:Murphy, Shirley RousseauSummary:
While new father Joe Grey is overjoyed to teach his three young kittens about the world, he misses his cop work--secretly helping solve crimes alongside his human friends at Molena Point PD. But when beautician Barbara Conley and one of...
- Author:Murphy, Shirley RousseauSummary:
When feline PI Joe Grey and his companion Dulcie have kittens, a little calico is born with ancient markings. But the celebrations will have to wait. A murderer is on the loose in Molena Point--and neither young nor old is safe until...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
China Bayles's friend, Police Chief Sheila Dawson, takes center stage. When local computer guru Larry Kirk is found dead, many are convinced it was suicide over his recent divorce. But Sheila has a hunch there's more to this...
- Author:Brown, Rita Mae, Brown, Sneaky PieSummary:
The sleepy little town of Crozet, Virginiahas seen its share of mischief and mayhem, but nothing like this. While visiting the Mt. Carmel monastery, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen witnesses a statue of the Virgin Mary cry tears of blood....
- Author:Brown, Rita Mae, Brown, Sneaky PieSummary:
When a rare set of hubcaps is stolen, it seems like a harmless offense, until the suspected theif is found hanged in the woods. Soon the body count rises, forcing Harry to divide her time between getting to the bottom of the malfeasance...
- Author:Davidson, Diane MottSummary:
Goldy Bear, recently divorced, has made a home for herself and her young son in scenic Aspen Valley, Colorado. There, calls for Goldilock's Catering have been steady enough to pay the bills. But when a mourner is felled by rat poison...
- Author:Simon, CleaSummary:
Spiky freelancer Theda Krakow has fallen on a bare patch. Changes at the newspaper have cut her regular assignments and magazine work is slim. When a call comes in asking her to profile Cool, a gifted musician who’s being oddly...
- Author:Perry, Carol J.Summary:
Most folks associate the city of Salem, Massachusetts, with witches, but for Lee Barrett, it's home. This October she's returned to her hometown-where her beloved Aunt Ibby still lives-to interview for a job as a reporter at WICH-TV....
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