Psychologist Faith Corcoran is desperate to escape the stalker who's made her life a nightmare for the past year--desperate enough to run to her hometown. Her recent inheritance of her grandmother's house offers sanctuary, but she has...
Detective and mystery fiction
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Author:Rose, KarenSummary: - Author:Edwards, Ruth DudleySummary:
Robert Amiss is persuaded by his friend Detective Sergeant Pooley of the CID to take a job as a waiter in Ffeatherstonehaugh’s (pronounced Fanshaw’s), a gentlemen’s club in St James’, London. The club secretary has allegedly jumped to...
- Author:Gleeson, JohnSummary:
After more than thirty years as the muckraking publisher of the Coast Chronicle on the B.C. shoreline, Albert Sloan made plenty of enemies. But when his body is found hanging in an apple grove off Settlers Road, the Mounties waste no...
- Author:Devlin, A. J.Summary:
Cobra Clutch is a murder mystery set in the world of independent pro-wrestling. The protagonist, "Hammerhead" Jed Ounstead, is a former pro-wrestling star who left the industry due to a tragedy, just as his career was taking off....
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
This is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine, cocaine, communism and adventure. Phryne leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back....
- Author:Nesbø, JoSummary:
When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random...
- Author:MacLeod, HilarySummary:
For the first time in thirty years, all the signs have returned to the waters off The Shores. Signs of a presumed gone, possibly legendary giant cod. A photograph is the only evidence the big one ever existed. The Shores's mysterious...
- Author:Chesbro, George C.Summary:
From the author of the Mongo Mysteries: The suspicious death of a friend leads the world's most wanted criminal down a dark and dangerous path. There are very few people international assassin John "Chant" Sinclair trusts, and even...
- Author:Chodosh, JanieSummary:
After nailing the murderer of her addict mom and proving that her detractors are full of it, seventeen-year-old Faith Flores is back for another kick-ass science mystery. She's proud to be chosen for a summer internship at a...
- Author:Hayes, NedSummary:
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho is where people go to hide: Neo-Nazis, corrupt politicians, mining men with buried secrets. In 1972, 91 men were killed in a mining "accident" sparked by a fire lit nearly a mile underground: the mystery was never...
- Author:Brett, AlexSummary:
Short-listed for the 2006 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel A Canadian astronomer commits suicide on a desolate mountain peak in Hawaii, and Morgan O'Brien is sent to the observatory to find his missing data. But it seems she...
- Author:Greenaway, R.M.Summary:
2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best First Novel — Shortlisted 2014 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel — Winner It’s too cold to go missing in northern B.C., as a mismatched team of investigators battle the clock...
- Author:La Plante, LyndaSummary:
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.
- 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...
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