Over the years there have been several unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town of Kingsmarkham, and Wexford (as a young policeman) quietly suspected that the increasingly prosperous Targo -- van driver, property developer,...
Police
- Author:Rendell, RuthSummary:
- Author:Fowler, ChristopherSummary:
John May and Arthur Bryant are immersed in a case as bizarre as anything they've encountered during their storied careers. A baby has been thrown from the window of a locked room, and all the clues point to the room's only...
- Author:Chesteron, G. K.Summary:
Set in early 1900s London, this metaphysical thriller follows undercover officer Gabriel Syme and his secret involvement with Scotland Yard's task force that attempts to take down underground anarchists. In doing so, Syme encounters...
- Author:Penny, LouiseSummary:
Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the SUretE du QuEbec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small...
- Author:Sjöwall, MajSummary:
- Author:James, P. D.Summary:
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called on to solve a sensitive high profile case on Combe Island off the Cornish coast of England at a time when Dalgliesh is dealing with his uncertain future with Emma Lavenham.
- Author:Stonier-Newman, LynneSummary:
Keeping the peace in turn-of-the-century B.C. Murderers, thieves and drunks tested the will of Superintendent Fred Hussey, the B.C. Provincial Police officer appointed to keep the peace in rough-and-tumble, turn-of-the-century B.C. But...
- Author:Downs, ArtSummary:
At the end of the nineteenth century, Canada’s prairies were still sparsely populated. Crimes such as horse theft, random murders, and prison escapes were the order of the day, and the North West Mounted Police continued to rely on...
- Author:Downs, ArtSummary:
They looked impressive in their red tunics, but the members of the fledgling North West Mounted Police had little experience as they departed from Fort Garry in 1874 on a mission to bring order to the lawless territories west of the Red...
- Author:Downs, ArtSummary:
The far-ranging officers of the BC Provincial Police covered an area larger than California, Oregon, and Washington combined. In Yukon, a force of nineteen Mounties were charged with upholding the law across all of Arctic Canada. Set in...
- Author:Downs, ArtSummary:
Gold rush fever in the 1860s brought thousands of miners to the new territories of British Columbia and the Yukon armed with rifles, revolvers, and bowie knives. Among them were thugs and outlaws lured by the promise of easy riches....
- Author:Simon, MichaelSummary:
Detective Dan Reles is settling into his new life with a wife, a son, and a career in Austin's homicide division. Then his deadbeat, ex-mafia enforcer father rolls into town. It seems that Ben Reles has had a run-in with Sam Zelig...
- Author:Sussman, PaulSummary:
Detective Arieh-Ben Roi of the Jerusalem police investigates the murder of a well-known Israeli journalist and discovers a connection to the mysterious death of a 1930s Egyptologist, who had claimed to have uncovered a labyrinth of...
- Author:Parker, T. JeffersonSummary:
Erin McKenna, a beautiful songwriter married to a crooked Los Angeles County sheriff 's deputy, is kidnapped by Benjamin Armenta, the ruthless leader of the powerful Gulf Cartel. But his demands turn out to be as unusual as the...
- Author:Melander, Jakob, Garrett, Paul RussellSummary:
The first book in the crime series featuring Lars Winkler: loner, dad, former squatter, and drug addict — and the most dedicated detective in Copenhagen.A young prostitute is found murdered at the common in Copenhagen. The woman’s body...
- Author:Mattich, AlenSummary:
The third installment in Alen Mattich's highly addictive Marko della Torre series.Autumn 1991. Civil war has broken out in Yugoslavia with Croatia’s declaration of independence, and former secret policeman Marko della Torre is set...
- Author:Edwards, MartinSummary:
20 years ago, a teenage boy, Callum Hinds, went missing in England’s Lake District. His uncle was suspected of having done the boy harm and interviewed by the police. When he committed suicide close to his cottage in the Hanging Wood,...
- Author:RANKIN, IanSummary:
Det. Insp. Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his investigations into a suspected war criminal. But an escalating dispute between the upstart Tommy Telford and the head of a local gang gives Rebus an escape clause....
- Author:Hayes, J. M.Summary:
A strikingly original plot blends unknown bits of real history with imagined incidents to create an unusual thriller. Its base is the last American Indian uprising in Arizona, occuring in October, 1940. At its core lies a struggle for...
- Author:Leon, DonnaSummary:
As the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, Vice Questore Patta asks Brunetti to look into a minor violation committed by the mayor's future daughter-in-law. Brunetti has no interest in helping his boss amass political favors, but he...