In an affluent city perched on Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment, residents begin turning up on the pathologist’s autopsy table with what looks like epidemic mad cow disease. Zol Szabo, a public–health doctor and former chef, and Hamish...
Detective and mystery stories
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Author:Pennie, RossSummary: -
Author:ROBARDS, KarenSummary:Pawley's Island, South Carolina, seems like an idyllic, picture perfect community. But then a tabloid news programme airs a feature about the community's one unsolved murder - that of Tara Mitchell and the disappearance of...
- Author:Butcher, JimSummary:
Harry Dresden's faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicago s only professional wizard." "But in all Harry's...
- Author:HOROWITZ, AnthonySummary:
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6. He goes under cover to find out what is behind a...
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Author:MCDERMID, ValSummary:Manchester PI Kate Brannigan becomes a bodyguard and plays nursemaid to a paranoid soap star.
- Author:White, Randy WayneSummary:
On a working vacation to Guava Key, marine biologist Doc Ford notices two women joggers who follow the same route at the same time every day. He can't help thinking how easy it would be for a predator to become aware of them, too. As it...
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Author:Nixon, Joan LowerySummary:A high school senior is convinced her friend Barry did not commit suicide but was a murder victim, and she endangers her own life to prove it.
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Author:ARTHUR, RobertSummary:The Three Investigators search for an authentic haunted house.
- Author:McLAREN, PhilipSummary:
New Year's Day in Sydney. The bodies of an aboriginal woman and her boyfriend are found, brutally murdered. Koori detectives Gary Leslie and Lisa Fuller are assigned to catch the serial killer before he strikes again but to no...
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Author:Pilkey, BrentSummary:“Canadian policeman Pilkey writes from firsthand experience in his gritty procedural debut . . . ” — Publishers Weekly on Lethal Rage
Transferred to 53 Division — known as the “Sleepy Hollow of Toronto” — after...
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Author:Kat, Chris T.Summary:Sequel to 'Attachment Strings' When he was outed on the local news, Jeff Woods gave up his dream job as a detective to become an on-air radio personality. The sacrifice was worth it to keep Alex and Sean in his life, but Alex lost his...
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Author:Kozak, ElaineSummary:Root Causes is a dramatic murder mystery that begins when Clare’s fiancé, Leo, dies in a tragic car accident. Clare soon discovers that his death, and his life, may not have been what they seem. Caught up in a maelstrom of events and...
- Author:Asimov, IsaacSummary:
The relationship between the 'settlers' - descendants of earth men - and the 'spacers' grows tense and Gladia finds to her dismay that responsibility for galactic peace lies with her and her 2 robots.
- Author:Maron, MargaretSummary:
Judge Deborah Knott and Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant are due to marry in a few days, but their plans are put on hold when unforseen events demand their attention. First, an assistant district attorney is killed. Then, Judge Knott is...
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Author:Reiss, KathrynSummary:In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
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Author:Scarry, RichardSummary:Ace detectives Sam Cat and Dudley Pig take on three mysteries involving stolen pies, food theft in a supermarket, and a stolen necklace on a cruise ship.
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With his PEA licence restored and strapped for cash, Hardy is reluctantly drawn into a scheme to claim the reward on a 17-year-old abduction case. Hardy is distracted by a new lover, but when one of the schemers turns up dead, the case...
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Author:Gadziola, RickSummary:Jake Morgan loves Las Vegas. He’s a 33-year-old ex-cop from Boston who will wager on anything — as long as his money holds out. Having run into trouble in Beantown, for the past year he’s been eking out a living as a blackjack dealer at...
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Author:Round, JeffreySummary:Private investigator Dan Sharp searches the seamy underbelly of the city for a brutal killer. Following an anonymous tip, missing persons investigator Dan Sharp makes a grisly find in a burned-out slaughterhouse in Toronto's west end....
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Author:GASH, JonathanSummary:Dr Clare Burtonall could not have forseen how the death of a young patient would throw her once more into the dangerous and sordid crime underworld of Manchester.
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