Main content

Status message

NB: STAGING server!

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General

  • Author:
    Kahn, Michael A.
    Summary:

    Every law firm has its backroom bench of brilliant workaholic nerds ferocious in their commitment to the law and to their clients. Such a player is Milton Bernstein of Abbott & Windsor. He's highly valued by the partners for...

  • Author:
    Brown, Rita Mae.
    Summary:

    The residents of Crozet, Virginia, find their summer slumbers interrupted by a pair of newcomers. When one of the visitors is found dead, and two million dollars goes missing from the Crozet National Bank, it falls to Mrs. Murphy and...

  • Author:
    Silvis, Randall
    Summary:

    Step into the dark alleys of 1840 New York City... Standing on the grimy banks of the Hudson River, street urchin Augie Dubbins spots a young woman toss her baby into the water, then jump in herself. As the only witness to the tragedy,...

  • Author:
    Ifkovic, Ed.
    Summary:

    A sweltering July in Chicago, 1923. Edna Ferber, now a famous short-story writer, is supposed to be researching the novel that will become So Big, her Pulitzer-Prize winner. With her mother, Julia, she spends the week visiting her...

  • Author:
    Brown, Rita Mae.
    Summary:

    Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return with an all-new mystery starring Mary Minor 'Harry' Haristeen, intrepid kitty sleuths Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and Tee Tucker, the ever-faithful crime-solving...

  • Author:
    Axelrod, Steven
    Summary:

    It's Christmas Eve on Nantucket and prominent businessman Jackson Blum is about to live out his own version of A Christmas Carol. No visions, no ghosts, just the past, represented by the exhumed skeleton of his old partner Ted...

  • Author:
    Black, Cara
    Summary:

    Cara Black has earned a devoted international following for her gripping mysteries set in France and starring the indomitable Aimée Leduc. Here, Aimée faces her greatest challenge when she assumes guardianship of an abandoned infant all...

  • Author:
    Thompson, Victoria
    Summary:

    In the midst of Sarah and Frank's wedding preparations, Sarah accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the Upper West Side, where Charles Fairfax, the son of family friends, has died unexpectedly after suffering from a...

  • Author:
    Thompson, Victoria
    Summary:

    The national bestselling author of Gaslight Mysteries returns with a case of murder in the field of higher learning in Victorian-era Manhattan. Frank Malloy's latest client Will is searching for his brother, a newsboy named Freddie...

  • Author:
    Ellicott, Jessica
    Summary:

    As friends, the boisterous and brash American Beryl couldn't be less alike than the prim and proper British Edwina. But as sleuths in an England recovering from the Great War, they're the perfect match. 1920: Flying in the...

  • Author:
    Wechsler, Pamela
    Summary:

    Abby Endicott is chief of the District Attorney's homicide unit in Boston, where she investigates and prosecutes the city's most dangerous killers. She attended the elite Winsor school, graduated from Harvard Law School, and...

  • Author:
    Brandman, Michael
    Summary:

    MISSING PERSONS is the first book in the new Buddy Steel mystery series by New York Times best selling author, Michael Brandman. Steel...smart, aggressive, ironic, spare and cynical...has been content working homicide at the LAPD until...

  • Author:
    Cook, Thomas H.
    Summary:

    It's 1954 down in Mississippi and Jack Branch has finally come home, taking a job as a high school teacher. He soon learns that one of his students is the son of a notorious local murderer, the Coed Killer. And as they say, like...

  • Author:
    King, Laurie R.
    Summary:

    Laurie R. King illuminates the hidden corners of her beloved Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series in this dynamic story collection. In nine short stories, seven of which have never previously been available in print, and one brand...

  • Author:
    Ifkovic, Ed.
    Summary:

    With a foreword by David Morrell. It's 1955, and Edna Ferber is basking in the success of her blockbuster novel Giant. Headed to Los Angeles, where director George Stevens and Warner Brothers Studio are in the final days of filming...

  • Author:
    Parker, T. Jefferson
    Summary:

    A classic from multiple Edgar Award-winning author Parker is back. Beneath his teeming and exotic surface, Chuck Frye, the renegade son of a powerful land baron, kidnaps his brother's Vietnamese wife ... and is plunged into a...

  • Author:
    Clemens, Judy
    Summary:

    She's back! Tattooed, hardworking, and often crabby dairy farmer and biker Stella Crown is hot-because it's summer and because she has plenty of things to raise her temperature, including a nagging sister-in-law, her fiancE...

  • Author:
    Joseph, Nic.
    Summary:

    She doesn't know him, but the symbol she draws on her skin has always been in his nightmares Detective Steven Paul has had the same nightmare for as long as he can remember, a strange symbol figuring prominently into his terror. He...

  • Author:
    Parker, T. Jefferson
    Summary:

    Laguna, where every day the sun makes a promise the nighttime breaks, while the super-rich live out expensive fantasies in posh beach houses and drown their memories in Cuervo Gold margaritas--where a crazed killer has turned paradise...

  • Author:
    Canadeo, Anne
    Summary:

    The first in a new series spinning off from Anne Canadeo's popular Black Sheep Knitting Mysteries, as four knitting friends and sleuthing heroines take some big steps in their lives. Maggie has changed the name of her shop to The...

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General