After a grisly murder, a missing star, and a stunning theft disrupt a glitzy movie premiere, the glitterati and paparazzi leave Rome for the "safer" confines of San Francisco. There Italian police detective Nic Costa, still charged with...
Detective and mystery fiction
- Author:Hewson, DavidSummary:
- Author:Raimondo, LynneSummary:
When attorney Jane Barrett's lover collapses from a fatal dose of an antipsychotic drug, it falls to Barrett's oldest friend, Hallie Sanchez, and psychiatrist Mark Angelotti to defend her on murder charges. The pair succeeds, but at a...
- Author:Grape, JanSummary:
Officer Zoe Barrow is busy training new recruits when one of her cadets is found dead--and violated. Teaming with the FBI, Zoe tries to bring this villain to justice while searching for her husband who has mysteriously disappeared.
- Author:Peterson, ShelleySummary:
Death, deception, discrimination, and cruelty to horses confront Bird as she uncovers the secrets of her past. When nefarious and inhumane acts shake the horse show world, the lives of horses are thrown into peril. Bird’s ability to...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
Stone Barrington has inherited a house on the island of Dark Harbor, Maine, from a cousin after the death of him and his family which the local police believe to be a murder/suicide. Stone along with Lt. Dino Bacchetti, CIA agent Lance...
- Author:Connolly, JohnSummary:
Charlier Parker, a former New York City detective with a haunted past befirends a down and out mother with a small child. When she turns up dead, Charlie's first suspect is her estranged husband. Charlie follows the man's trail to Maine...
- Author:White, Randy WayneSummary:
A category four hurricane whips West Florida, destroying homes and taking lives. The storm thrashes reefs and buries known shipwrecks--but it also exposes new ones. Then one night a stranger shows up at Doc Ford's laboratory. The...
- Author:Cain, R. D.Summary:
Nastos returns on the case of a missing teen, a sadistic abuser, and a race against time
Nastos built his police career by channeling his own shadowy instincts to hunt dangerous predators. Now disgraced and off the force...
- Author:McMillen, R.J.Summary:
It’s been more than eight years since ex-cop Dan Connor put a troubled criminal named Walker behind bars, and a year since he handed in his badge after losing the woman he loved. The remote islands off the Pacific Northwest coast seem...
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
Dark Night marks the third book in the gripping, atmospheric Alaska Wild series from Paige Shelton, in which Benedict, Alaska is met with some unexpected visitors...and then disappearances. Winter is falling in the remote town of...
- Author:Sandford, JohnSummary:
Virgil Flowers is sent to Bluestem, a small town where everyone knows everyone else, to investigate the murders of a man burned to death in his home and a doctor and his wife, unaware that he is tracking a murderer who may be targeting...
- Author:French, NicciSummary:
Psychotherapist Frieda Klein is assigned to assess Hannah Docherty, convicted of her family's murder. Horrified by the scope of the tragedy, Klein begins to question Hannah's culpability.
- Author:Harper, HelenSummary:
Summary:The Supernatural Summit is about to start at the DeVane Hotel in London. Vampires and werewolves, ghouls and gremlins, and pixies and druids have all come together to find better ways to get along with the human community and...
- Author:Whittle, TinaSummary:
The dog days of summer have arrived, and Tai Randolph is feeling the heat. Running her uncle’s gun shop is more demanding than she ever imagined. Her best friend Rico is competing for a national slam poetry title. And Atlanta is overrun...
- Author:Ellis, JoySummary:
A SERIAL KILLER ON A POISONOUS MISSION PUSHES NIKKI AND HER TEAM TO BREAKING POINT. Revellers are flocking into Greenborough for the yearly Dark Greenborough Festival, a three-day event celebrating local folklore, superstition and the...
- Author:Johnson, CraigSummary:
Everybody thinks the night is scary. ... The time of danger for the living is the time of change, from day into night, when the world isn't sure what it is or what it wants to be. ... When Tribal Police Chief Lolo Long's niece Jaya...
- Author:Erskine, BarbaraSummary:
The sweeping new novel from the bestselling author of LADY OF HAY switches between Roman Britain and the present day where history dramatically impacts on the lives of three women. The Romans are landing in Britannia. Cartimandua, the...
- Author:Hugelschaffer, DaveSummary:
When forest fire forensics expert Porter Cassel is called in to help catch a serial arsonist who goes by the name "Lorax", he must juggle his official investigation with a personal one: the Lorax's modus operandi...
- Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary:
Atlee Pine's twin sister, Mercy, was abducted at the age of six and never seen again. Now, Atlee finally learns the identity of her sister's kidnapper and discovers the truth about what happened to Mercy.
- Author:Hage, Rawi, Toibin, ColmSummary:
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. In Rawi Hage's unforgettable novel, winner of the 2008 IMPAC Prize, this famous quote by Camus becomes a touchstone for two young men caught in Lebanon's civil...