A small town hides big secrets in The Dry, an atmospheric, captivating debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper."One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read ... Every word is near perfect."--David...
Homicide investigation
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Author:Harper, JaneSummary: - Author:HARRIS, ThomasSummary:
Will Graham's unusual, fearful ability to project himself into the minds of psychopaths puts him on the trail of Francis Dolorhyde, whose bizarre and bloody murders of two suburban families have been triggered by his viewing of a...
- Author:Rosenfield, Kat.Summary:
"Blade-sharp, whip-smart, and genuinely original - a thriller to refresh your faith in the genre, your belief that a story can still outpace and outsmart you."-AJ Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in The...
- Author:Grann, DavidSummary:
This New York times bestseller, now adapted for young readers, recounts the Reign of Terror against the Osage people and the creation of the FBI, which took the case and exposed one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history...
- Author:Grann, DavidSummary:
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were...
- Author:Kenda, JoeSummary:
Joe Kenda, star of Discovery's Homicide Hunter, reflects on past homicide cases and examines the triggers of what led to the crime.
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Author:Maleeny, TimSummary:When the most hated landlord in San Francisco takes an unexpected jump off the roof of his own building, it isn’t too hard to find suspects. But the police want to call it a suicide, since both the Mayor and press are complaining about...
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Author:Lyle, Douglas P.Summary:A plain-English primer on crime scene investigation that's a must for fans of CSI or Patricia Cornwell. Since the O. J. Simpson case, popular interest in forensic science has exploded: CBS's CSI has 16 to 26 million viewers every week,...
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Author:Fossum, KarinSummary:Beneath the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small village where the children run in and out of one another's houses and play unafraid in the streets. But when a naked body is found by the lake at the top of the mountain, its seeming...
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Author:Havill, Steven F.Summary:A well-seasoned 69-years-old, Sheriff Bill Gastner knows his Posadas, New Mexico, territory as well as he understands the foibles of the human condition. So when a backhoe crushes a man to death, it’s more instinct than fact that leaves...
- Author:MacKinnon, J.B.Summary:
On June 22, 1965, a soldier in the Dominican Republic reported that he had just shot two policemen and an outspoken Canadian priest. It was the opening scene in a mystery that compels the author to visit the island nation for himself,...
- Author:Eustace, NicoleSummary:
On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though...
- Author:Weiss, JoshSummary:
Set in an alternate US during the height of the Red Scare, this is the story of a country where terror and paranoia rises unchecked, and one LAPD detective stumbles on a dangerous conspiracy.
- Author:Johnson, CraigSummary:
Sheriff Longmire is searching the Cheyenne Reservation for a site to host his daughter's wedding when he sees a woman fall to her death. Teaming up with beautiful tribal chief Lolo Long, Walt sets out to investigate the suspicious death...
- Author:Chaney, JoAnnSummary:
"Unputdownable....This novel is anything but predictable. The female characters are forces of nature, and the plot twists are deliciously demented, a la Gone Girl and Big Little Lies ." - People You can't be married to someone without...
- Author:Crombie, DeborahSummary:
Gemma James is adjusting to professional and personal changes, and a future now intricately entwined with Duncan Kincaid. But her new responsibilities are put to the test when she is placed in charge of a particularly brutal homicide....
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Author:Kaaberbøl, LeneSummary:On June 2nd, 1894, in the wake of President Marie Francois Sadi Carnot's assassination, France descends into chaos and riots in the streets of Varbourg. Many lives are lost in the mayhem, but when one lady of the night is found murdered...
