After three years out of the LAPD, Harry Bosch returns, to find the department a different place from the one he left. Working with his former cop partner, Kiz Rider, they are given a sensitive case when a DNA match connects a white...
Detective and mystery stories
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Author:CONNELLY, MichaelSummary: -
Author:Rose, SimonSummary:Luke's best friend, Patrick, has disappeared on the eve of his birthday. Did he run away? Has he cmmmitted suicide? Patrick sets out to unravel the mystery of his disappearance; but soon his own life is at risk as well.
- Author:Gilman, DorothySummary:
From the best-selling author of the famous Mrs. Pollifax series comes another delightfully eccentric and sage female sleuth-the exotic Madame Karitska. Although she is a genuine countess, Marina Elena Provovnitchek Gaylord Von Domm...
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Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:Max and Maddy Twist's detective services are needed in Switzerland. They must stop a series of bank robberies carried out by a team of St. Bernard dogs.
- Author:VINE, BarbaraSummary:
Famous novelist Gerald Candless dies of a heart attack. Before his death, his daughter had been commissioned to write his biography. She soon discovers that her father was not who he seemed, and that he had once assumed someone else...
- Author:Bale, TomSummary:
How far do you go for a friendship? That's the question Daniel Wade is forced to ask when a simple favour has fatal consequences. For the sake of his old schoolmate, Robbie--and more importantly for Robbie's sister, Cate--Dan agrees to...
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Author:BRAUN, Lilian JacksonSummary:Qwill has decided to rent Gage mansion in Pickax for the winter. While preparing for a newscast on the devasting fire of 1869 that ravaged part of the mansion and most of the town, he and Koko uncover some interesting artifacts that...
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Author:BRAUN, Lilian JacksonSummary:The residents of Pickax take pride in a town which has considerably less crime than the places "Down Below." However, this holiday season has seen a streak of small crimes. New in town is the bank manager, Willard Carmichael...
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Author:BRAUN, Lilian JacksonSummary:The development of a major resort complex at the southern end of Breakfast Island is causing a ruckus. Local residents, summer people and mainland fishermen are all hopping mad that the peace of their island retreat is being shattered....
- Author:Preller, JamesSummary:
Jigsaw and his sidekick Mila feel that Bigs Maloney is keeping something from them due to his weird behavior, and the detective team must battle the pouring rain while trying to find the truth.
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Author:Springer, NancySummary:Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.
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Author:COLE, MartinaSummary:Imelda Dooley is scared. She's pregnant and now she's on her own. Her father, not a man to mess with, will see that somebody pays. So Imelda Dooley tells a lie that literally causes murders. When Mary Dooley's husband is...
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
Delaney Nichols faces off against an elusive arsonist in the seventh Scottish Bookshop Mystery, The Burning Pages, from beloved author Paige Shelton.... One winter's night, bookseller Delaney Nichols and her coworker Hamlet are...
- Author:Draper, Sharon M.Summary:
Four boys who call themselves the Black Dinosaurs dig up a mysterious box of bones in this first book of the classic chapter book series by award-winning author Sharon M. Draper.
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Author:Redfern, JonSummary:A fourteen-year-old boy has been found hanged and mutilated in the basement of Satan House. It's the second life the derelict mansion has claimed. The work of a brutal predator? A curse? Or a ritual cult murder? The boy's death shocks...
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Author:Watson, NicoleSummary:Long ago, Meston Park in Brisbane's West End marked the city's boundary. A curfew kept its Aboriginal population outside the city limits after dark. When the park becomes the site of a multi-million dollar development, the Corrowa...
- Author:Montrose, David, Burton Smith, KevinSummary:
Finally, after 58 years The Body on Mount Royal is back in print, starring hard-drinking private dick, Russell Teed. From the back cover of the 1953 edition: Take a brutally beaten body, a lonely spot on Montreal's famous mountain, and...
- Author:SHEREZ, StavSummary:
When Nikos, a detective in the final years of his career, is persuaded back to his home town he is faced with the gory murder of a young boy near the old monastery, echoing two murders committed 33 years previously in the exact same...
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Author:Malton, H. MelSummary:Presenting the mysterious adventures of Alan Nearing and his friends. In The Drowned Violin, there’s something floating in the water ahead of the canoe. It looks dead, whatever it is. That’s where the mystery begins, and 11-year-old...
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Author:Pennie, RossSummary:Dr. Zol Szabo chose public health for its noble ideals and predictable hours. He never expected to be intimidated by the Prime Minister’s Office, roughed up by the RCMP, or threatened by the Hamilton mob.
Though Zol and his team...
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