PI Lorraine Page of Los Angeles investigates the murder of a movie mogul, shot in his Beverly Hills swimming pool. Suspects include his abused wife and his two ex-wives. By the author of Cold Blood.
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:La Plante, LyndaSummary: - Author:McCafferty, KeithSummary:
The sixth novel in the acclaimed Sean Stranahan mystery series. Sheriff Martha Ettinger reunites with once-again lover and sometime private detective Sean Stranahan to investigate the death of a woman who was stranded in a spring...
- Author:Harvey, JohnSummary:
This novel finds Charlie on the verge of retirement when a manpower shortage thrusts him back onto the mean streets of Nottingham to solve a pair of baffling murders.
- Author:Chapman, BrendaSummary:
Nominated for the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel
When murder stalks a family over Christmas, Kala Stonechild trusts her intuition to get results. It's a week before Christmas when wealthy businessman Tom...
- Author:Chapman, BrendaSummary:
Nominated for the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel When murder stalks a family over Christmas, Kala Stonechild trusts her intuition to get results. It’s a week before Christmas when wealthy businessman Tom Underwood disappears...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
Palm Beach is the most glamorous scene-of-the-crime yet for cop-turned-investigator Stone Barrington, who becomes reacquainted with a case he thought was buried years ago and must settle romantic entanglements that haunt him still From...
- Author:King, ThomasSummary:
Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace and quiet. His past as a California cop now far behind him, he's living out his retirement as a fine-arts photographer in the small town of Chinook. His health isn't great, and he could...
- Author:Straley, JohnSummary:
Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost whose population is shrinking every day. Clive McCahon returns to his tiny hometown after a seven-year jail stint for dealing coke with a lot to make up to his younger brother--but he...
- Author:Hayes, EmerySummary:
The first female sheriff of Toole County, Montana, Nicole Cobain earned the position through mental and physical grit, and when a young girl is found murdered on icy Lake Maria, every bit of it is tested. But what begins as a chase for...
- Author:Wagner, David P.Summary:
Rick Montoya has just moved from New Mexico to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He’s beginning to settle in to la dolce vita when a school friend who is now senior in the Italian Art Squad recruits Rick for an unofficial...
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
Second in a new series set in Alaska from beloved cozy author Paige Shelton, Cold Wind will chill your bones. Beth Rivers is still in Alaska. The unidentified man who kidnapped her in her home of St. Louis hasn't been found yet, so she'...
- Author:Box, C. J.Summary:
Game warden Joe Pickett's mother-in-law is suspected of murdering her husband. Pickett cannot stand the woman, and all the evidence is pointing straight toward her. Caught up in an investigation that is already personal, Pickett tries...
- Author:Bowen, MichaelSummary:
A dead body in a locked room in a affluent Virginia country house. Nine people present in the house. No confessions and no witnesses. And now a very important document has gone missing: a document that might relate to a CIA scandal in...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
Following a productive trip to Bel Air, Stone Barrington is back in Manhattan. But just after he settles in, he's paid a visit by his friend and sometimes-lover, CIA assistant director Holly Barker. Together they investigate a...
- Author:Chance, MaiaSummary:
30-year-old society matron Lola Woodby has survived her loveless marriage with an unholy mixture of highballs, detective novels, and chocolate layer cake, until, her husband dies suddenly, leaving her his fortune- or so Lola thought. As...
- Author:Swanson, DeniseSummary:
As school psychologist Skye Denison-Boyd returns to work from maternity leave, an elderly woman disappears and a disgruntled parent threatens to sue the school, but is later found dead.
- Author:Cook, J. S.Summary:
In the frigid winter of 1891, with the nation still reeling from the Barings bank crisis, Inspector Philemon Raft returns from an involuntary sabbatical, tasked with solving the kidnapping of highly placed peer Alice Dewberry. Thrust...
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
Clare Henry's snowy Star City, Utah, oasis turns deadly in the third Dangerous Type Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Bookman Dead Style and To Helvetica and Back. Something's afoot. The visit of quirky world-famous...
- Author:Talton, JonSummary:
Having recently lost his job as a history professor, David Mapstone returns to his boyhood home of Phoenix, Arizona, to find the city dramatically changed. It’s now a haven for wealthy retirees and a seasonal retreat for West Coast “...
- Author:Johansen, MichaelSummary:
In the spring of 1990, Mathias Finne tu s himself in at a police station in Moscow to confess to a murder he apparently committed in the last days of the Second World War in Bo holm, Denmark. In an interview with a police inspector,...
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