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Monkeewrench (Monkeewrench #1)
By P. J. Tracy. 2003
Haunted by a series of horrifying and violent episodes in their past, Grace McBride and the oddball crew of her…
software company, Monkeewrench, create a computer game where the killer is always caught, where the good guys always win. But their game becomes a nightmare when someone starts duplicating the fictional murders in real life, down to the last detail. By the time the police realize what's happening, three people are dead, and with seventeen more murder scenarios available online, there are seventeen more potential victims. While the authorities scramble to find the killer in a city paralyzed by fear, the Monkeewrench staff are playing their own game, analyzing victim profiles in a frantic attempt to discover the murderer's next target. In a thriller populated by characters both hilarious and heartbreaking, a rural Wisconsin sheriff, two Minneapolis police detectives, and Grace's gang are caught in a web of decades-old secrets that could get them all killed.Easy Come Easy Go: Alaska Gold Fever
By Ron Walden. 2014
Otis Fairfax, reclusive older resident of Nikiski, Alaska, had a lust for gold prospecting; it was all he wanted to…
do. Otis only worked when he needed cash to buy gas for his plane to scout a new prospecting site. Returning from one of these trips, his gas ran out along with his luck--but not before old Otis had finally struck it rich! What investigators found in his plane would come to make many people rich, as long as they had some connection to it. But easy come, easy go. And possession of another man's fortune would come to make many people do a lot of surprising things, some not easy and some that wouldn't just go away. Join Trooper investigator Sergeant Bob Seaton and his young protege as they track this gold trail through its various owners to an unforeseen conclusion.The Last Witness: A Detective Daley Thriller (D. C. I. Daley Ser. #2)
By Denzil Meyrick. 2014
From an authentic, gritty new voice in Scottish thrillers comes Detective James Daley, whose past has come back to haunt…
him in the small Scottish town of Kinloch James Machie was a man with a genius for violence, his criminal empire spreading beyond Glasgow into the UK and mainland Europe. Fortunately, James Machie is dead, assassinated in the back of a prison ambulance following his trial and conviction. But now, five years later, he is apparently back from the grave, set on avenging himself on those who brought him down. Top of his list is his previous associate, Frank MacDougall, who unbeknownst to D.C.I. Jim Daley, is living under protection on his lochside patch, the small Scottish town of Kinloch. Daley knows that, having been the key to Machie’s conviction, his old friend and colleague D.S. Scott is almost as big a target. And nothing, not even death, has ever stood in James Machie’s way .The TV Detective
By Simon Hall. 2010
The first book in the TV Dectective crime series by Simon Hall. The TV Detective finds television reporter Dan Groves…
newly assigned to the crime beat, and in a state of angst about it. He needs a crash-course in police work; the solution is to shadow Detective Chief Inspector Adam Breen on a high-profile murder inquiry, which doesn't go down well with some members of the police force. The victim is a notorious local businessman, Edward Bray, a man with so many enemies that one of the problems the inquiry faces is having a surplus of suspects. Bray is killed at a prearranged meeting, in a lay-by on a dark and storm-lashed night, by a blast through the heart from a shotgun. Adam investigates and uncovers a tantalising question, which seems to be at the heart of the case: why was the killing planned for a different day, but put off apparently because the weather was sunny? Tensions abound between Dan and the police, and he comes close to being thrown off the case - until the detectives come to realise he might actually be helpful, in using the power of television to tempt the murderer into a trap.Fruits of the Poisonous Tree (Joe Gunther #5)
By Archer Mayor. 1994
At four in the morning, Detective Lieutenant Joe Gunther learns that Gail, his long-time girlfriend who he had left just…
hours before, has been raped and beaten. Despite churning emotions and possible improprieties, Joe is allowed to investigate the case. Because of her high visibility, the attack on Gail is followed closely by the media, and Joe's objectivity is continually suspect. Contains some strong language.School for Murder
By Robert Barnard. 1983
The Burleigh school was dying. It would be called a mercy killing were it not for the little band of…
inept, eccentric, or otherwise unemployable teachers who depended on this absolutely awful English boys’ academy for their meagre livelihoods. A lack of funds, facilities, and foresight had brought Burleigh to the very edge of extinction. Now someone planned to give it one final, deadly push. Malice was afoot behind the ivied walls, trailing hard on the heels of Hilary Frome, Headmaster Crumwallis’s unfortunate choice for the next headboy. For when something sinister popped up in the punch on Parents’ Evening, when nasty pranks became no joke, the next event at bloody Burleigh was bound to be... simply murder.Bellows Falls (Joe Gunther #8)
By Archer Mayor. 1997
A minor Internal Affairs investigation leads detective Joe Gunther to the hard-luck town of Bellows Falls, Vermont. Soon, rumors of…
police corruption, drug dealing, spousal abuse, and murder spread through the streets. As Gunther struggles to separate fact from fiction, he uncovers a regional narcotics network and must take a calculated risk to expose the criminals.When damaged, brilliant detective Kala Stonechild and workaholic staff sergeant Jacques Rouleau get paired up, pieces start falling into place.…
The series has been called “deeply atmospheric and tightly plotted” and praised for its grit. Now, the all five mysteries are available together in an ebook-exclusive bundle at a special price. Includes: Cold Mourning – Book #1 A week before Christmas, wealthy businessman Tom Underwood disappears into thin air, with more than enough people wanting him dead. Kala Stonechild is a new member of the specialized Ottawa Police unit tasked with bringing him home for the holidays, but a killer has other plans. Who can you trust when love turns to hate and murder stalks a family? Butterfly Kills – Book #2 Rouleau is in a new job in a new city. He’s in a fight against time to keep his dysfunctional team together long enough to get to sort out the innocent from the evil. Tumbled Graves – Book #3 When Adele Delaney and her daughter go missing, Kala Stonechild and Paul Gundersund investigate. Adele’s body soon turns up — dead, with no sign of her daughter. Struggling to to keep the case on track and her own life under control, Stonechild learns the dead woman had ties to a Montreal biker gang and heads to Quebec to find the missing piece. Shallow End – Book #4 Convicted child molester Jane Thompson has made parole, but one month later the body of the student she was found guilty of abusing is found on the shores of Lake Ontario. Sergeant Rouleau assigns Officers Stonechild and Gundersund to head up the murder investigation, but things quickly get ugly, and not just with the case. Bleeding Darkness – Book #5 David McKenna lies on his deathbed, his children gathered to say goodbye amid the suspicion that years ago, one of them got away with murder. When one of the gathered family disappears, Stonechild and Rouleau are called in and must set aside troubles of their own. As buried betrayals resurface, the suspect list — and body count — are only growing.Bill Gant and Alan Pulis, both retired Alaska State Troopers are halibut fishing when they find a body floating in…
the rip at the center of Cook Inlet. They discover the victim, wearing a life preserver, has been shot in the back. Captain Rollin Caswell of the Alaska State Troopers recruits the retired men to investigate the case on a contract basis. They find the victim is a local banker and suspect the killing was a mob hit. A local waitress had been dating the banker and is found to be on the list of hit men. The investigation leads the investigators to New Jersey and to an organized crime boss, causing them to rely on the FBI and U.S. Marshals to assist in the investigation. From local intrigue to international banking the story winds leaving death and fear in its wake.A Game of Love
By Margaret Mcdonagh. 2014
Annabel needed to get away, to take stock of her life. But her holiday got off to a dismal start;…
while driving through France she gave an English couple a lift, and they repaid her by making off with her car and possessions! Fortunately, a handsome Frenchman stopped to help. He showed Annabel nothing but kindness, but when she realised he was the ex-tennis player Alain Ducret, who had the reputation of a playboy, she fought to resist falling for his charms ...A Corpse in a Gilded Cage
By Robert Barnard. 1984
Chetton Hall was one of the glories of Jacobean domestic architecture, and the Spenders had lived in Chetton ever since…
their founder had peculated the money to build it while he was the King’s Secretary of Monopolies. Over the years they had accumulated accrustations of dignity, to say nothing of wealth. Which made it doubly shocking when the Earldom descended to Percy Spender, who was ‘not quite’, not to mention his family, who were not at all.When the family descends on Chetton for his sixtieth birthday, accompanied by various hangers-on, their main obsession is to discover his intentions for the future of the place. Hardly less interested is his man of business, and his neighbours, who feel sadly the diminished glory of the house. The Spenders, in fact, have always felt like birds in a guilded cage at Chetton. Before the celebrations are over, one of the birds is a very dead duck indeed. The traditional country house party murder is turned on its head, given a few twists, and ends up much reinvigorated in this witty and lively whodunit by a writer who, as described in The Times Literary Supplement, ‘can write most under the table with one hand behind his back.’Fear Nothing: A Detective D.D. Warren Novel (Detective D. D. Warren #7)
By Lisa Gardner. 2014
THE NEW DETECTIVE D.D. WARREN NOVEL BY THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES "MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE" (The Associated Press)BOUND BY…
BLOOD They were daughters of a monster--a father who slaughtered eight prostitutes before dying himself. Dr. Adeline Glen left the nightmare behind, and now she specializes in pain management. Her sister, Shana Day, followed in her father's violent footsteps, first killing at age fourteen and being incarcerated for more than twenty-five years.After a brutal attack, Boston Detective D. D. Warren needs Adeline's professional help to recover physically. But when a new psychopath known as the Rose Killer begins a reign of terror, D.D. must also consult the insane Shana--who claims she can help catch the madman.D.D. may not yet be back on the job, but she is back on the hunt. Because the Rose Killer isn't just targeting lone women; he is targeting D.D. And D.D. knows there is only one way to take him down....Warren, who still can't lift her child, load her gun, or recall a single detail from the night that may have cost her everything. Our father was Harry Day, an infamous serial killer who buried young women beneath the floor of our home. He has been dead for forty years. Except the Rose Killer knows things about my father he shouldn't. My sister claims she can help catch him. I think just because I can't feel pain doesn't mean my family can't hurt me. D.D. may not be back on the job, but she is back on the hunt. Because the Rose Killer isn't just targeting lone women, he is targeting D.D. And D.D. knows there is only one way to take him down: Fear nothing.Trident's Forge: Children of a Dead Earth Book Two (Children of a Dead Earth #2)
By Patrick S. Tomlinson. 2016
They ve made it this far If only that increased humanity s chances on this new planet …
Against all odds the Ark and her thirty-thousand survivors have reached Tau Ceti G to begin the long arduous task of rebuilding human civilization Meanwhile on the other side of the world Tau Ceti G s natives the G tel are coming to grips with the sudden appearance of what many believe are their long-lost Gods But first contact between humans and g tel goes catastrophically wrong visiting death on both sides Rumors swirl that the massacre was no accident The Ark s greatest hero Bryan Benson takes on the mystery Partnered with native truth-digger Kexx against both of their better judgment Benson is thrust into the heart of an alien culture with no idea how to tell who wants to worship him from who wants him dead Together Benson and Kexx will have to find enough common ground and trust to uncover a plot that threatens to plunge both of their peoples into an apocalyptic war that neither side can afford to fight File Under Science FictionFrom the Paperback editionCoffin's Ghost (John Coffin Mystery #31)
By Gwendoline Butler. 2003
When Commander John Coffin receives a package containing severed body parts, he doggedly pursues the investigation, even as an ominous…
specter haunts him. When a second victim is shot to death, Coffin suspects friends of his actress wife Stella Pinero. Soon, Coffin is unraveling a crime that hits too close to home. Martin's Press.Cold Hearted River: A Sean Stranahan Mystery
By Keith Mccafferty. 2018
In the sixth novel in the acclaimed Sean Stranahan mystery series, Montana's favorite detective finds himself on the trail of…
Ernest Hemingway's missing steamer trunk. Buffalo Jump Blues, fifth in the series, is now available.When a woman goes missing in a spring snowstorm and is found dead in a bear's den, Sheriff Martha Ettinger reunites with her once-again lover Sean Stranahan to investigate. In a pannier of the dead woman's horse, they find a wallet of old trout flies, the leather engraved with the initials EH. Only a few days before, Patrick Willoughby, the president of the Madison River Liars and Fly Tiers Club, had been approached by a man selling fishing gear that he claimed once belonged to Ernest Hemingway. A coincidence? Sean doesn't think so, and he soon finds himself on the trail of a stolen trunk rumored to contain not only the famous writer's valuable fly fishing gear but priceless pages of unpublished work. The investigation will take Sean through extraordinary chapters in Hemingway's life. Inspired by a true story, Cold Hearted River is a thrilling adventure, moving from Montana to Michigan, where a woman grapples with the secrets in her heart, to a cabin in Wyoming under the Froze To Death Plateau, and finally to the ruins in Havana, where an old man struggles to complete his life's mission one true sentence at a time.Dublin Dead
By Gerard O'Donovan. 2012
Irish detective Mike Mulcahy returns in this suspenseful follow-up to the highly acclaimed international bestseller The Priest--and now he's hot…
on the trail of an international drugs gang. One year later, DI Mike Mulcahy is exactly where he wants to be, coordinating international intelligence for Ireland's National Drugs Unit. But with the economy in meltdown and his department facing tough cutbacks, his dream job is in jeopardy. Then Mulcahy spots a possible link between the murder of a Dublin gangster in Spain and a massive shipment of cocaine abandoned off the south coast of Ireland. Could this be the break he's been praying for? Meanwhile, reporter Siobhan Fallon is still recovering from her ordeal at the hands of a sadistic killer. Work is her only refuge, and while she's an emotional basket case, her nose for a story is as sharp as ever. When a suicide turns out to have a bizarre missing-person's angle, she's convinced there is something darker to it. But with a vital piece of evidence beyond her grasp, she has to turn to Mulcahy for help. Mulcahy and Fallon have no idea what deadly ground they're setting out on together, or that their journey will lead them on a twisted trail of terror to the rocky shores and windswept hills of West Cork and a blood-drenched showdown with a remorseless killer.Où reposent les âmes ?
By Enrique Laso, Isabelle De Rose. 2017
Où reposent les âmes ? UNE NOUVELLE AFFAIRE POUR ETHAN BUSH UN ROMAN NOIR QUI REUNIT PLUS DE 700 000…
LECTEURS Le lieutenant Jim Worth a obtenu une promotion. Il travaille désormais dans le Département de la Police de Topeka. Désespéré, après cinq mois d’enquête sans résultats, il fait appel à son ami Ethan Bush, agent spécial de l’Unité d’Analyse Comportementale du FBI ; le meurtre épouvantable d’une jeune fille est devenu pour lui une affaire personnelle. Ethan revient dans le Kansas pour collaborer avec Worth mais aussi pour affronter les fantômes du passé. Même s’il a mûri, le jeune agent du FBI continue à passer outre les convenances. UN HOMICIDE QUI DEFIE LES APTITUDES DE BUSH Une substance paralysante, Léonard de Vinci, la jalousie, l’envie, les secrets, et l’impossibilité d’obtenir la moindre preuve vont compliquer la tâche des enquêteurs. LE CINQUIEME ACTE D’UNE SAGA POLICIERE QUI REMPORTE UN VIF SUCCES A TRAVERS LE MONDE UN ROMAN NOIR ADDICTIF QUE L’ON DEGUSTE DU DEBUT A LA FINTropic of Night (Jimmy Paz #1)
By Michael Gruber. 2003
Jane Doe was a promising anthropologist, an expert on shamanism. Now she's nothing, a shadow living under an assumed identity…
in Miami with a little girl to protect. Everyone thinks she's dead. Or so Jane hopes. Then the killings start, a series of ritualistic murders that terrifies all of Miami. The investigator is Jimmy Paz, a Cuban-American police detective. There are witnesses, but they can recall almost nothing of the events, as though their memory has been erased -- as if a spell has been cast on each of them. Equally bizarre is the string of clues Paz uncovers: a divination charm, exotic drugs found in the bodies of the victims, a century-old report telling of a secret place in the heart of Africa. These clues point Paz inexorably toward the fugitive, Jane Doe, and force Jane to realize that the darkness she has fled is hunting her down. By the time her path intersects with Jimmy Paz's, the two will be thrust into a cataclysmic battle with an evil unimaginable to the Western mind.The Locked Room (Martin Beck #8)
By Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö. 1973
A woman robs a bank. A corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within--no firearm…
in sight. To the eerily intuitive Inspector Martin Beck, these seemingly disparate cases are facets of the same puzzle, and solving it is of vital importance. Only by finding our what happened in the locked room can Beck--haunted by a near-fatal bullet wound and the demise of a soulless marriage--escape from an airtight prison of his own.From its classic premise, The Locked Room accelerates into an engrossing novel of the mind. Exploring the ramifications of egotism and intellect, luck and accident, and set against the backdrop of the inspired deductions and monstrous errors of Martin Beck and the Stockholm Homicide Squad, this tour de force of detection bears the unmistakable substance and gravity of real life.Buried on Avenue B
By Peter De Jonge. 2012
After an elderly man with encroaching Alzheimer's disease confesses to his home attendant that as a long-ago junkie and petty…
thief he killed his partner in crime, police from the NYPD reluctantly dig up the community garden where the body is supposed to be buried. Instead of a dead man, they find the body of a carefully dressed ten-year-old boy. Tough-minded Detective Darlene O'Hara, last seen in the novel Shadows Still Remain, is on the case.