Discovering the murdered body of a young woman, Sicilian detective Salvo Montalbano finds suspects in the victim's aging husband, a famous doctor, a missing admirer, an antiques dealer, a close friend, and a reclusive violinist
Mystery
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Author:Camilleri, AndreaSummary: -
Author:Schraff, AnneSummary:Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
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Author:DENVER, ShadSummary:Sheriff Whelchan finds two men hanging in the tall tree and sets about unravelling the mystery.
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Author:GREGSON, J. M.Summary:When a novice young prostitute is killed in the town of Brunton after her first night, Inspector Peach tries to solve the crime.
- Author:RHEA, NicholasSummary:
Arriving in the small Yorkshire village of Roberthorpe to investigate the death of an elderly, church-going man, DS Mark Pemberton can think of only one word when he sees the crime scene - execution.
- Author:Burke, James LeeSummary:
Detective Robicheaux fishes a prostitute's corpse from a New Orleans bayou and finds that no one, not even the law, cares about a dead hooker.
- Author:MARTINI, SteveSummary:
Paul Madriani has good reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr. David Crone, a respected medical researcher is charged with the murder of a colleague; 26 year old Kalista Jordan, a researcher whose body washed up on a...
- Author:STEWART, MarySummary:
A novel of suspense and mystery with romantic overtones.
- Author:CUTLER, JudithSummary:
When Josie Welford settles in the idyllic West Country village of Kings Duncombe, she honestly believes she can bury her past. She is the widow of one of Britain's most wanted criminals and she knows what it's like to be an...
- Author:LOVESEY, PeterSummary:
When Parcel Force driver Bob Naylor plucks up courage to join his local writers' circle in Chichester, he is nervous. He's not much of a reader, let alone a writer. He expects to meet people unlike himself, with names like...
- Author:FORBES, ColinSummary:
Tweed, reverting to his one-time role as detective, faces the most frightening challenge of his career. Is al-Qa'eda about to attack London? A strategic onslaught which will make September 11 seem like a tactical attack? Rumours...
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Author:Mcgregor, RafeSummary:Major Alec Marshall VC, newly back in London, is enlisted to make inquiries into the will of the late Cecil John Rhodes, the wealthiest man in the British Empire. That same night one of the witnesses to the will, Eric Lowenstein, is...
- Author:EVANOVICH, JanetSummary:
It begins as an innocent trip to the deli-mart, on a quest for nachos. But Stephanie Plum and her partner, Lula, are clearly in the wrong place at the wrong time. A robbery leads to an explosion, which leads to the destruction of yet...
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Author:CHILD, LeeSummary:A lone gunman unleashes pandemonium when he shoots into a crowd of people in a public plaza in Indiana. Five people are killed in cold blood, shot through the head. But he leaves a perfect trail of evidence behind him, and soon the...
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Author:Schraff, AnneSummary:Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
- Author:Lego, M.L.Summary:
Honnêtement, jusqu’où seriez-vous prêts à aller pour réaliser votre rêve le plus cher? Shawn Walker, né à Grande-Rivière, en Gaspésie, était prêt à tout, lui, pour devenir la plus grande rock-star de tous les temps… même à signer un...
- Author:Dumais, Danielle, Pipunic, Jonathan MichelSummary:
Jonathan, sa mère et sa petite amie de coeur (Valérie) retournent à Grand-Valmont, une ville sinistrée, pour une commémoration en l’honneur de tous ceux qui avaient péri trois ans auparavant. Pour l’occasion, un grand nombre de...
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Author:Dobson, Joanne, Myers, Beverle GravesSummary:December 1941: America reels from the brutal attack on Pearl Harbor. Both patriotism and paranoia grip New York as the city frantically mobilizes for war. Nurse Louise Hunter is outraged when the FBI, in a midnight sweep of prominent...
- Author:Strowbridge, Nellie P.Summary:
An exotic drama in which one man’s mysterious disappearance brings a dark end to three other people. What would it take to destroy an Irish girl who had survived famine and war in Ireland, and a hazardous journey across the Atlantic...
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Author:Withers, PamSummary:Thirteen-year-old Chris and his family are setting up a bungee jump in his backyard. It's a real large-scale bungee jump off a bridge that connects his backyard to a small island owned by his family. Not only is it going to be the...
