In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Author:Chabon, MichaelSummary:
- Author:Grisham, JohnSummary:
When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who...
- Author:Connelly, MichaelSummary:
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off...
- Author:Atkinson, KateSummary:
It's a day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn't bargained for. One moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life...
- Author:Lord, GabrielleSummary:
When PI Gemma Lincoln agrees to investigate the disappearance of a student from exclusive Netherleigh Park Ladies' College, she finds herself drawn into a double murder case with the life of a third student in peril.
- Author:Armstrong, VivienSummary:
Mimsie Crane has never managed to keep a job for long and in between temping assignments she works for dodgy builder Steve Epps. When she arrives one morning to discover her current boss tied to his dentist's chair and the surgery...