Ruth Harris, Sherriff Ike Schwartz’s fiancée, is involved in a near fatal automobile accident. But Ike is convinced the crash was rigged. Even though he is embroiled in a close election, has no jurisdiction over the investigation, and...
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- Author: Ramsay, FrederickSummary:
- Author: Rowe, JenniferSummary:
She stared into the speckled mirror, wondering how she had come to this. How could she, Holly Love, apple of her parents’ eye, competent manipulator of invoices in Gorgon Office Supplies, have ended up alone and starving in a dead man’s...
- Author: Havill, Steven F.Summary:
When a county employee is found shot to death in sun-drenched daylight while sitting in his county road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions. The simplest explanation–that an errant bullet from a careless...
- Author: Kuhlken, KenSummary:
As The Angel Gang begins, thoughtful, capable ex-private detective Tom Hickey is married to the delicate Wendy, whose unworldly innocence and faith in her “angels” provides her with a stronger shield against evil than even Hickey’s...
- Author: Skinner, Robert E.Summary:
Autumn, 1940: A black woman named Louise Blanc is found tortured to death in her Gentilly home. Sergeant Israel Daggett can't make anything of it until a Treasury agent arrives on the scene to let him know that Louise Blanc was the...
- Author: Reed, Mary ; Mayer, EricSummary:
Who killed the mosaic girl? As Lord Chamberlain, John spends his days counseling Emperor Justinian while passing the small hours of night in conversation with the solemn-eyed little girl depicted in a mosaic on his study wall. He never...
- Author: Ifkovic, EdSummary:
In June 1951, Edna Ferber heads to Hollywood to support an old friend who has found himself blacklisted, The McCarthy hearings in Washington have rattled Hollywood with allegations of Communist-leaning sympathies. She has no intention...
- 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: Burke, ZoeSummary:
Meet Annabelle Starkey. A shrewd, sweet, and sexy Stephanie Plum without the Jersey girl attitude. She’s a one-man kind of girl who loves hats and shoes. Annabelle also loves movies. She can’t help but wonder why her own life doesn’t...
- Author: Edwards, Ruth DudleySummary:
The House of Lords will never be the same. Disinclined to watch her language or moderate her manners, “Jack” Troutbeck, assisted by her old friend Robert Amiss, plots vigorously with others to scupper an anti-hunting bill of which she...
- Author: Reed, Mary ; Mayer, EricSummary:
In 525 Constantinople nothing is as it should be. The winter is unnaturally cold, and the palace has fallen under the sway of both the shade of the wife of the dying Emperor Justin and Theodora, the former actress his gravely ill...
- Author: Havill, Steven F.Summary:
It’s Christmas in Posadas County. Undersheriff Estelle Reyes- Guzman is settling down to a quiet evening with her family, until her doctor husband gets a call from the retired chief-of-police: he’s at a nearby motel, having pains. Then...
- Author: Havill, Steven F.Summary:
A rattlesnake fang pegged in a teenager’s eye is just the beginning of a spring day for Posadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman. The injured lad’s older brother goes missing, and is found dead in an arroyo, apparently killed by...
- Author: Greenwood, KerrySummary:
The Hon. Phryne Fisher, languid and slightly bored at the start of 1929, is engaged to find out if the antique-shop son of a Pre-Raphaelite model has died by homicide or suicide. He has some strange friends: a Balkan adventuress, a...
- Author: Edwards, MartinSummary:
20 years ago, a teenage boy, Callum Hinds, went missing in England’s Lake District. His uncle was suspected of having done the boy harm and interviewed by the police. When he committed suicide close to his cottage in the Hanging Wood,...
- Author: Atkinson, Deborah TurrellSummary:
Storm Kayama needs to build her clientele, so when surf promoter Marty Barstow's wife Stephanie walks into her new law office, Storm agrees to represent her, despite her distaste for a bitter divorce situation. When Stephanie's son Ben...
- Author: Adler, DickSummary:
Serious mystery fans will welcome Dreams of Justice: Mysteries as Social Documents, a collection of thematically arranged reviews by Dick Adler, who writes the "Crime Watch" column for the Chicago Tribune.
- Author: Sallis, JamesSummary:
As we exit the initial novel, Driver has killed Bernie Rose, “the only one he ever mourned,” ending his campaign against those who double-crossed him. Driven tells how that young man, done with killing, later will become the one who...
- Author: Delany, VickiSummary:
Siblings Wendy and Jason Wyatt-Yarmouth and their friends are in the peaceful mountain town of Trafalgar, B.C. enjoying a two-week vacation of skiing, drinking, drugs, and sex. But tragedy strikes when two of the group crash through the...
- Author: Scott, JustinSummary:
HardScape and StoneDust, the first Ben Abbott novels, established Ben as one of the most engaging and canny investigators to have appeared in a long time. Britain’s Literary Review terms the Abbott novels, “smooth, sardonic, impeccably...