Accident or suicide? That’s the simple question put to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death from an abandoned church tower in a quiet river village at the edge of his jurisdiction. But when the victim...
Detective and mystery stories
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Author:Fradkin, BarbaraSummary: -
Author:ASHFORD, JeffreySummary:When Jerome Dean leaves home for a shoot at Ister, he has every reason to expect an enjoyable day. When the gun next to him fires low, a man rises out of a patch of brambles and collapses, later to die in hospital. It is the beginning...
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Author:McFetridge, JohnSummary:The joke? Toronto thinks it’s the centre of some multicultural universe, always bragging about how people come from every part of the world to live there. The punch line? Some of them are coming to commit crimes.
So yeah, Sharon...
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Author:Maniscalco, KerriSummary:The bestselling series that started with Stalking Jack the Ripper and Hunting Prince Dracula continues in this third bloody installment. A luxurious ocean liner becomes a floating prison of madness and horror when passengers are...
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Author:Sobol, Donald J.Summary:10-year-old Leroy Brown (known to the people of his town as Encyclopedia Brown) hones his impressive detective skills while helping his dad, the local chief of police, and running his neighborhood detective agency.
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Author:Fielder, HankSummary:Once upon a time in the eighties, Nick Davanger’s soulful green eyes and successful record-producer partner turned him into the pop sensation known as the Emerald Idol. But Rusty has been dead for a year now, and though Nick is slowly...
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Author:Anderson, Lin.Summary:A young prostitute is found dead in Glasgow's city cemetery, the Necropolis, and Rhona Macleod is called in to review the forensic evidence. As the mutilated body is removed, another is revealed underneath and the case takes on an...
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Author:Kaufman. ThomasSummary:Willis Gidney was a born liar and rip-off artist until he met Captain Shadrack Davies and learnt just enough ethics to bother a kid from the streets. Now Gidney is a PI and when a friend asks him to find his daughter feels compelled to...
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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.
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Meet Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of Dog on It, who works alongside Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private investigator. Chet might have flunked out of police school, but he's a detective through and through. In their...
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Author:McFetridge, JohnSummary:In the middle of the afternoon on a busy downtown Toronto street a man is shot in the head behind the wheel of his SUV. The killer drives away before the light changes. It could be road rage, or it could be a random act of violence. It...
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A mixture of science fiction, fantasy, horror and whacky romance, this novel follows the hilarious adventures of Dirk Gently, "holistic detective", as he searches through space and time for a missing cat.
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Author:Spano, RobinSummary:A young snowboarder is found dead on the Blackcomb Glacier, and Whistler police want to close the case as suicide. The victim’s mother, a U.S. senator, says her daughter would not, and did not, kill herself. At her request, the FBI...
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Author:Kathy ReichsSummary:Featuring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan.
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Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:Phryne Fisher is on holiday. She means to take the train to Sydney (where the harbour bridge is being built), go to a few cricket matches, dine with the Chancellor of the university and perhaps go to the Arts Ball with that celebrated...
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Mystery Writers of America presents a collection of crime and mystery stories from some of the best contemporary authors, all of whom have been invited to put their own unique spin on what it means to recognize a certain day or event...
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Author:Knowles, MikeSummary:Wilson spent his entire life under the radar. Few people knew who he was and even less knew how to find him. Only two people even knew what he really did. He worked jobs for one very bad man. Illegal jobs no one could ever know about....
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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:FERRARS, ElizabethSummary:
Wealthy novelist, Annabel Kerr, lies dead from a stroke, a gun near her hand. In another room her sister has been fatally shot - but there are no fingerprints on the gun!
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Afghanistan. Every year, an assignment for thousands of British personnel. Some of them bring back more than memories. TV producer Dan Simmons wants to film it all. He finds a regiment about to be deployed to the Afghan war on a radical...
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