Melanie West and her grandmother, Liza, open a bed-and-breakfast inn on the Oregon coast replete with a friendly ghost, one very real skeleton in the closet, and a freshly dead body on the beach. It seems someone doesn't appreciate...
Detective and mystery fiction
- Author:Kingsbury, KateSummary:
- Author:Knopf, ChrisSummary:
Arthur Cathcart, market researcher and occasional finder of missing persons, had it all; life was good. Then in seconds, it was all gone. The world thought he was dead. He had a choice: make it official, or go after the evil that took...
- Author:McSporran, JackSummary:
For Lenna Gallows, being the daughter of a mortician isn't as weird as people think-at least not until the day her ex-best friend Alicia is the one on her father's table…and her dead body wakes. When Alicia is found dead in the park...
- Author:Butcher, JimSummary:
Vampire Marva demands that wizard Harry Dresden find the Word of Kemmler for her. But Marva isn't the only one searching for it, as necromancers and students of Kemmler descend on Chicago.
- Author:Malton, H. MelSummary:
The third Polly Deacon novel finds our heroine in the unlikely (and uncomfortable) job of designing a mascot (Kountry Kow) for a new mega-grocery store, despite vitriolic opposition by local merchants, including her aunt. This is nasty...
- Author:Harvey, JohnSummary:
The stylish tale of a dead poet, a rediscovered pulp novel, and a lovely lady with a story to sell from the author of the Charles Resnick Mysteries. Ex-Metropolitan Police Officer Jack Kiley spent his career discerning fact from fiction...
- Author:Easton, DonSummary:
Undercover operative Jack Taggart is hurled into a world where morality, justice, and the legal system are pitted against one another. Taggart investigates the murder of someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wiretap...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
The one-man stalker squad of the Beverly Hills Police Department begins his hunt for the stalker of a young Hollywood actress.
- Author:Easley, Warren C.Summary:
Cal Claxton–a former LA prosecutor now practicing law in Oregon’s wine country and who works to fish–has to pinch himself when his best friend Philip Lone Deer asks him to assist guiding a group of executives from a high tech firm in...
- Author:Sweeney, LeannSummary:
Texas heiress turned PI Abby Rose specializes in adoption cases, and her latest one turns out to be a doozy. A baby was abandoned on a woman's doorstep 19 years ago. Now a superstar college basketball player, Will Knight wants to find...
- Author:Hovey, Dean L.Summary:
Park Service Investigator Doug Fletcher moves to Padre Island National Seashore to investigate hazardous waste dumping during the Hurricane Harvey clean up. While orienting himself to Texas and the waste dumping investigation, Doug and...
- Author:Armstrong, VivienSummary:
Mimsie Crane has never managed to keep a job for long and in between temping assignments she works for dodgy builder Steve Epps. When she arrives one morning to discover her current boss tied to his dentist's chair and the surgery...
- Author:Greenwood, Therese, Malan, VioletteSummary:
Over eighty per cent of Canadians live near a body of waterand that means when Canadians turn to crime, somebody usually ends up all wet. In this anthology of original crime fiction, editors Violette Malan and Therese Greenwood...
- Author:Paretsky, SaraSummary:
Chicago's legendary detective, V. I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use.
- Author:Brady, RachelSummary:
Single mom Emily Locke is building a new life with her daughter. Hoping to spend more time at home, she’s relocated to Houston and put her career on hold to work part-time for her private investigator friend, Richard Cole. It’s a nice...
- Author:Doucette, H. PaulSummary:
The job was hard enough since Halifax became the focal point as the major staging area for the convoys supplying the war effort in England. Robichaud had his hands full dealing with the influx of people looking for work, foreign...
- Author:Celestin, RaySummary:
Chicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat, three disturbing events take place: a clique of city leaders is poisoned, a white gangster is found mutilated and a famous heiress vanishes without a trace. Detectives Michael Talbot and Ida...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
Deep in Texas hill country, ex-lawyer China thinks life is hectic enough already, and then her teenaged son unearths human remains while digging in a nearby cave. The bones indicate foul play--and are much too recent to be an...
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
Dot unfolded the note. "He says that his married couple will look after the divine Miss Fisher...I'll leave out a bit...their name is Johnson and they seem very reliable." Phryne got the door open at last. She stepped...
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
Phryne Fisher needs a rest. It’s summer. She packs up her family and moves to Queenscliff, a quiet watering place on the coast. Where she meets with smugglers, pirate treasure and some very interesting surrealists, including a parrot...