Genealogist Nigel Barnes is recruited by Scotland Yard to investigate a group of puzzling, vicious murders. The victims all bear a message carved into their bodies that appears to refer to a series of 19th-century stabbings for which...
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Author:Waddell, Dan.Summary: - Author:Hillerman, TonySummary:
Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful...
- Author:Todd, CharlesSummary:
Alan Barrington, who has evaded capture for ten years, is the suspect in an appalling murder during Black Ascot, the famous 1910 royal horserace honoring the late King Edward VII. Now it appears that Barrington has returned to England,...
- Author:Rendell, RuthSummary:
Charlie Hatton wanted fast money and conspicuous success, and he was prepared to cut any corners to get them. But before he could realize a single ambition, he was found dead at the edge of a river.
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Author:Edwards, MartinSummary:After 10 years, Guy, a drifter with a taste for deception, has returned to Coniston in England’s Lake District. Local journalist Tony di Venuto is campaigning to revive interest in the disappearance of Emma Bestwick, and Guy knows what...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
When Thomas Pitt is tasked with playing bodyguard to Sofia Delacruz, a young and controversial British preacher who has been living in Spain and has returned to England on a mysterious errand, he thinks it's a waste of Special...
- Author:Thornley, ScottSummary:
As a local biker war rages - seven shrink-wrapped corpses have been found buried on a farm just outside of Dundurn - an ambitious waterfront project meant to revive the dying industrial city is underway. Dredging is nearly complete when...
- Author:Adler-Olsen, JussiSummary:
Detective Carl Mørck investigates the twenty-year-old murders of a brother and sister whose confessed killer may actually be innocent, a case with ties to a homeless woman and powerful adversaries.
- Author:Fowler, ChristopherSummary:
A controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence--it's business as usual for the Peculiar Crimes Unit's partners. Arthur Bryant and John May. But...
- Author:Hooper, ChloeSummary:
In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "deep north" of Australia, Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse, his liver ruptured. This...
- Author:Banks, MayaSummary:
The author of For Her Pleasure makes readers surrender to erotic romantic suspense. It doesn't get much hotter. Dallas cop Gray Montgomery is on a mission to find the guy who killed his partner. So far, he's found a link...
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Author:McFetridge, JohnSummary:Detectives Price and McKeon are called to the scene — a husband and wife found slumped in their car, parked sideways on a busy downtown on-ramp, a bullet in each of their heads. That’s what’s in the papers, and that’s all the public...
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Author:Stackhouse, BillSummary:A Catskills community is rocked by a dog who digs up a famous stolen diamond and Sicilians who have sworn a vendetta for a World War II crime. Sicily, World War II. The Allied landing has begun. Will the Italians fight with the Germans...
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Author:Ramsay, FrederickSummary:The elderly Jonathan Lydell III is proud of his family history. He is related to the Virginia Lees (both Light Horse Harry and Robert E. Lee) and to the Custis family (and thus to George Washington). But these connections don't seem to...
- Author:Sandford, JohnSummary:
Early one frigid Minnesota morning, three men break into a hospital pharmacy and rob the place blind. But during the getaway they hit a snag, and the thieves lose one of their number. Not only that, they also encounter a woman who may...
- Author:Fowler, EarleneSummary:
Benni Harper and the ladies of her Coffin Star Quilt Guild are enjoying San Celina, California's first-ever Memory Festival--when a sniper guns down a local cop. Fearing for the safety of her community--and for her family--Benni...
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Author:James, Hayley B.Summary:L’officier de police Gabriel Carter refuse de se retirer de sa mission sans être parvenu à ses fins. Donc, lorsqu’il part, sous couverture de plusieurs mois, en tant que prostitué masculin nommé Ty, il a bien l’intention de faire tout...
- Author:Siger, JeffreySummary:
When Special Crimes Division Detective Yiannis Kouros is summoned from Athens to the Mani region by his uncle, Kouros fears his loyalty to his boss, Chief Inspector Kaldis, is about be to be tested. When the uncle is killed, Kouros and...
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Author:Ragnar JónassonSummary:Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavík--with a past that he's unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a...
- Author:McGarrity, MichaelSummary:
When Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney finds the dead body of hotel magnate Clifford Spalding, he thinks he knows who to talk to, as the deceased man had known enemies. But little does Kerney know that the truth may go back 30 years to...
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