Crimes against
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- Author:Brown, SandraSummary:
His release from prison should have been the end of Griff Burkett's troubles. It wasn't. The former star American football player is reviled by fans for throwing a championship game, his fortune is lost and he remains under...
- Author:Bell, NancySummary:
When local real-estate mogul Tom Delgado is found murdered in his office, the police suspect his wife, Dovie. She had plenty of motive after finding out Tom changed his will to include another woman, but Judge Jackson Crain's gut...
- Author:Connelly, MichaelSummary:
Harry Bosch is in the middle of a major case in Los Angeles when his world is turned upside down with one phone call. His usual Sunday morning call to his daughter, who lives with her mother in Hong Kong, is answered by a stranger....
- Author:Dallas, SandraSummary:
Nora Bondurant is divorced--unfathomable for a woman in 1933--and has inherited a house from a dead aunt she never even knew existed. But when she travels to Mississippi to claim her inheritance, she finds her eccentric neighbors would...
- Author:Thompson, VictoriaSummary:
A lady of means helps midwife Sarah Brandt rescue a young woman and her newborn from a brothel. But when the wealthy benefactor is found murdered, Sarah uncovers some unpleasant truths about the victim, her charity, and the woman and...
- Author:Thompson, VictoriaSummary:
Widow and midwife Sarah Brandt helps the less fortunate of the city bring new life into the world. But when a local doctor is found murdered, the shocking motive may destroy Sarah.
- Author:Thompson, VictoriaSummary:
Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope's Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine's nursemaid, now acting on...
- Author:Krueger, William KentSummary:
Still troubled by an ambush that leaves his deputy lingering near death, Sheriff Cork O'Conner must investigate the mutilation murder of a Chicago businessman. Soon Cork finds himself distracted by the lovely female shadowing him...
- Author:Gould, TerrySummary:
Where do journalists find the guts to keep telling the truth in places where truth-telling will get them murdered? Since 1992 more than 730 journalists have been killed-nearly three-quarters of them targeted and murdered. Over 85% of...
- Author:Hannon, IreneSummary:
The police say her father's death was suicide. But Kelly Warren says it was murder--and she has new evidence to prove it. Detective Cole Taylor doesn't put much stock in her claim, since there's nothing in his case review...
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In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly. This important collective volume both witnesses the significance of the travelling...
- Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
Vietnam verteran Allen Carmichael has lived on the fringe of society since the war, rescuing abused children from hostile environments and placing them with foster families. Now in California, he comes to the aid of 12-year-old Jamie,...
- Author:Bailey, SarahSummary:
When a movie star is killed in bizarre circumstances on the set of a major film shoot, the troubled and brilliant Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock and her partner Nick Fleet have to put aside their differences to unravel the mysteries...
- Author:Gower, IrisSummary:
Artist Riana Evans sees the dilapidated mansion in Wales and, despite its unhappy past, is delighted when the elderly owner sells it to her. The atmosphere proves good business, inspiring her paintings and providing successful ghost-...
- Author:Jackson, LisaSummary:
Dr. Samantha Leeds hosts her own late-night radio talk show on WSLJ. One day she receives a menacing phone call at her home, while miles away, a prostitute is strangled to death. Seemingly unrelated, nobody connects the two events until...
- Author:Patterson, JamesSummary:
- Author:McKinty, AdrianSummary:
In this electrifying noir thriller, a young Irish ex-cop travels half a world away to investigate the murder of a beautiful girl he once loved. But plagued by a heroin habit, things don't go as planned for Alex.
- Author:Sandford, JohnSummary:
Following a late-night phone call from his associate Lucas Davenport, Flowers is thrust back into the world of homicide investigation. A dead body has turned up with a lemon stuffed in its mouth--just like the corpse authorities found...