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By Åke Edwardson. 2012
From bestselling Scandinavian crime writer Åke Edwardson--whose books are international sensations in Europe--comes this gripping novel of suspense and character…
involving two missing persons, two detectives, and a mystery dating to World War II.A brother and sister believe that their father has gone missing. They think he may have traveled in search of his father, who was presumed lost decades ago in World War II. Meanwhile, there are reports that a woman is being abused, but she can't be found and her family won't tell the police where she is. Two missing people and two very different families combine in this dynamic and suspenseful mystery by the Swedish master Åke Edwardson. Gothenburg's Chief Inspector Erik Winter travels to Scotland in search of the missing man, aided there by an old friend from Scotland Yard. Back in Gothenburg, Afro-Swedish detective Aneta Djanali discovers how badly someone doesn't want her to find the missing woman when she herself is threatened. Sail of Stone is a brilliantly perceptive character study, acutely observed and skillfully written with an unerring sense of pace.By Ada Madison. 2013
Dr. Sophie Knowles loves using puzzles to make math fun for students. But when winter seizes Henley College, she must…
thaw out a cold case to track down a killer--her most difficult puzzle yet . . . Winter Intersession is in full swing, and campus is buzzing over the concert celebrating the bell tower's reopening. The building has been shuttered for twenty-five years, and Sophie's shocked to learn why--a student leapt from it to her death. But she's even more troubled by the secrecy surrounding the case. After Sophie performs some quick calculations, she's left with a nagging question: Was it really suicide? When one of Sophie's favorite students, a performer in the concert, is brutally beaten and left in a coma, Sophie's mind kicks into overdrive. The horrific incidents seem too coincidental to be unrelated, but can Sophie put together the pieces from a twenty-five-year-old murder before any other students get hurt?By Margie Orford. 2009
When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town's Sea Point promenade, journalist and part-time police profiler Dr.…
Clare Hart is drawn into the web of a brutal serial killer. As more bodies are discovered, Clare is forced to revisit the brutal rape of her twin sister and the gang ties that bind Cape Town's dark crime rings. Is her investigation into human trafficking linked to the murders, or is the killer just playing a sick game with her?Like Clockwork is a dark and compelling crime story that will thrill fans of Deon Meyer and Tess Gerritsen.By Michael Pearce. 2010
Malta, 1913, and hot air balloons hover over the Grand Harbour. One of them comes down in the water but…
no one is hurt except that the balloonist dies later when taken into the Naval Hospital for a check-up. But he is not the only one who had died there unexpectedly, as a letter to The Times points out, and a special investigator, Seymour of the Foreign Office, is sent out from London to find out what is going on. For in 1913 Malta is still a British protectorate, governed by the British; indeed, with its red postboxes, English beer and English language it seems like an exotic Little Britain. But the rumblings of war are reaching out to that small island in the Mediterranean and many of the old Maltese families are becoming divided in their loyalties: at the same time staunchly supportive to the British and yet starting to question Malta's subordinate status and wondering whether the time has come to strike out an independent path for themselves. So the letter to The Times has touched a raw nerve, as Seymour soon find out: is it a critique of bad nursing practises? Or is there a different, more sinister explanation to these sudden deaths?By Henry Chang. 2014
In Death Money novelist Henry Chang returns us to the Chinatown of NYPD Detective Jack Yu, and spins one of…
his most noir tales yet.When the body of an unidentified Asian man is found in the Harlem River, NYPD Detective Jack Yu is pulled in to investigate. The murder takes Jack from the benevolent associations of Chinatown to the take-out restaurants, strip clubs, and underground gambling establishments of the Bronx, to a wealthy, exclusive New Jersey borough. It's a world of secrets and unclear allegiances, of Chinatown street gangs and major Triad players. With the help of an elderly fortune teller and an old friend, the unpredictable Billy Bow, Jack races to solve his most difficult case yet.From the Hardcover edition.By Timothy Williams. 2013
The long-awaited return of Timothy Williams CWA award-winning grand master of crime fiction whom The Observer named one…
of the 10 Best Modern European Crime Writers The sun-drenched Caribbean island of Guadeloupe is technically part of France subject to French law and loyal to the French Republic But in 1980 the scars of colonialism are still fresh and ethnic tensions and political unrest seethe just below the surface of everyday life French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud relocated to this beautiful Caribbean island confident that she could make it her new home But her day-to-day life is rife with frustration Now she is assigned a murder case in which she is sure the chief suspect an elderly ex-con named H g sippe Bray is a political scapegoat Her superiors are dismissive of her efforts to prove Bray innocent and to add insult to injury Bray himself won t even speak to her because she s a woman But she won t give up and Anne Marie s investigations lead her into a complex tangle of injustice domestic terrorists broken hearts and maybe even voodooA South African s murder reveals surprising secrets in one of the finest police series…
to begin in the 1970s Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine Hugo Swart faithful churchgoer and respected citizen is found stabbed to death on the floor of his kitchen just before Christmas on the hottest night of the year If Mr Swart s reverend is to be believed no one in the world could have a reason to kill him the murder was most likely a robbery gone ugly and the chief suspect is Swart s black servant Shabalala who has fled to the countryside But Lieutenant Kramer suspects that not everything is as it appears While Zondi pursues Shabalala in what turns out to be a treacherous tour of miserable outlying Bantu villages Kramer tries to wring the truth out of some of Swart s acquaintances in Trekkersburg and Cape Town It seems not everyone liked the victim quite as much as the reverend didThis superb international mystery features a Slovakian police commander shattered by loss and…
set on justice Publishers Weekly starred review Devastated by her lover s death in an explosion on the same day a student was shot and killed in sleepy Bratislava after sneaking into a hotel to steal food Jana is transferred to The Hague headquarters of the international police force Europol On the flight she encounters the dead student s uncle a retired magician who is determined to help Jana investigate his nephew s death And his help is indeed needed as Jana faces an international criminal conspiracy that may emanate from Europol itselfBy Henry Chang. 2010
Praise for the Jack Yu series: "Chinatown is the hero here. Better say antihero, because while the picture is vivid…
and often compelling, it's anything but pretty."--Kirkus Reviews "[Chang] paints, in miniature, a harsh world of neon and shadows but doesn't slight the Big Questions. . . . [He takes] genre fiction to a deeper level, focusing on the mysteries of the human mind that a murder brings to light in those with some connection to the deceased. Mysteries, quirks, that might otherwise lie buried, but that subtly define who we are."--Ron Rosenbaum, Slate "A vivid, street-level portrait . . . evokes the spirit, sights, smells and language of his setting in compelling and original fashion."--The New York Times "This is a dense, moody, and intelligent glimpse at Chinese life in New York as seen through the world-weary eyes of a young man with a foot firmly planted in two cultures."--Booklist Two bodies are discovered at an address on the Bloody Angle, Chinatown's historic Tong battleground. NYPD Detective Jack Yu's investigation takes him across the country to another Chinatown, this one in Seattle, in pursuit of a cold-blooded Chinese American gangster and a mysterious Hong Kong femme fatale. Henry Chang was born and raised in New York's Chinatown, where he still lives. He is a graduate of Pratt Institute and CCNY. He is the author of Chinatown Beat and Year of the Dog, also in the Detective Jack Yu series.From the Hardcover edition.By Stav Sherez. 2012
A Dark Redemption introduces DI Jack Carrigan and DS Geneva Miller as they investigate the brutal rape and murder of…
a young Ugandan student. Plunged into an underworld of illegal immigrant communities, they discover that the murdered girl's studies at a London College may have threatened to reveal things that some people will go to any lengths to keep secret. . . Unflinching, inventive and intelligent, A Dark Redemption explores a sinister case that will force DI Carrigan to face up to his past and DS Miller to confront what path she wants her future to follow.By Margie Orford. 2007
Walvis Bay is a depressed and isolated port on the edge of the Namib Desert. Corrupt and claustrophobic, its shifting…
population consists of transients and vagabonds--people with no future and no past. When it seems that a methodical serial killer may be working undetected in this pit of darkness and desperation, police profiler Dr. Clare Hart is brought in to investigate. Tangled up in her own doomed love affair, Clare is happy for the distraction--until it becomes clear that it is really her life at stake.This enthralling procedural is perfect for fans of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs.By Antony Shugaar, Giuseppe Di Piazza. 2012
Palermo in the 1980s. Fourteen hours from any place in what one might call the civilized world, a city of…
great beauty but torn by the second great Mafia gang wars. A perfect place for a young crime reporter to get his start.As our crime reporter looks back on his own youth, he lyrically retells four tragic stories that marked him: a Mafioso who refused to become a professional killer; a model whom he loved and couldn't save; a father who succumbed to hatred and jealousy; and a daughter in search of her lost honor. In The Four Corners of Palermo, Giuseppe Di Piazza brilliantly evokes the smell of blood and gunpowder, the averted gazes of a city in lock-down, and the forced hilarity of young people growing up in a Mafia reign of terror who, surrounded by death on all sides, affirm their humanity in each other's arms and beds.By Peter Robinson. 2014
Canada's premier, bestselling crime fiction writer, Peter Robinson gets better and better. The twenty-second book in the much-loved Inspector Banks…
series -- that has sold more than ten million copies worldwide -- will appeal to readers of Ian Rankin and Michael Connelly. The story begins with a stolen tractor, hardly a job for DCI Banks and his Homicide and Major Crimes team, but the new police commissioner has put rural crime high on her agenda. At the same time, an apparent crime scene is discovered in an old hangar at an abandoned World War II airfield. In addition, two local lads are missing. One of them lives in a caravan, which is burned to the ground one night, and the other's girlfriend receives an unwelcome visit from someone impersonating a police officer. Just as Banks and his team are getting a grip on all these incidents, a motor accident in a freak hailstorm turns up a gruesome discovery that spins the investigation into high gear. Soon it seems that not even the investigators themselves are safe during the race against time that follows.By Leigh Russell. 2013
When three dead bodies are discovered in Detective Ian Peterson's hometown of Kent, it becomes clear that a vicious killer…
is on the loose. And without his trusted colleague, Detective Geraldine Steel, by his side, Ian's left to take the lead on a complex murder case with few clues.The first victim is a middle-aged woman named Martha, brutally stabbed to death in the local park. Her husband, who did not report her missing, is the prime suspect until a young prostitute, Della, reveals his whereabouts the night Martha was murdered. But then she is strangled to death in her apartment. While the police are frantically gathering evidence and looking for a connection, a second prostitute is suffocated.With nothing but the timing of the murders to tie the three women to one another, Ian and his new partner, Polly Mortimer, struggle to make sense of the case and find the elusive killer before he strikes again. But by the time Ian realizes the truth, it may be too late to save Polly.By Margie Orford. 2011
How far would you go?Dr. Clare Hart is summoned to investigate a building site where hundreds of centuries-old skeletons have…
been found--beneath Gallows Hill, where Cape Town's notorious execution grounds once stood. But she discovers that a woman, recently dead, is hidden among these long-buried bones. Who was the woman in the green silk dress? Who wanted her dead? Who interred her body beside the ancient graves? As Clare gets closer to revealing the truth about Gallows Hill, she becomes entangled with a fascinating but vulnerable young woman and is drawn into a world of art, desire, and destructive jealousy. Against a backdrop of corporate corruption and seething political tensions, Clare and Riedwaan's complex relationship remains as explosive as ever--and their very lives are at risk, for those who guard the secret of the woman in the silk dress will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.Gallows Hill is a suspenseful and compelling thriller that will captivate fans of Tess Gerritsen and Deon Meyer.By Karen Sandler. 2014
Marooned in her despised hometown of Greenville, California, private investigator Janelle Watkins wants nothing more than to keep her head…
down and make enough money to move back to the City. But even in the sleepy town of Greenville, the edgy, smart-mouthed private investigator seems to attract mayhem. It starts with the apparent suicide of a nineteen year-old off a highway bridge. Then another young man goes missing and Janelle begins to suspect that there might be a connection between the incidents. With the help of her former SFPD partner and occasional lover, Sheriff Ken Heinz, Janelle begins to follow the convoluted trail, not realizing that the darkness of her past might finally be catching up.Arthur Ellis Award finalist: A Toronto cop investigates the death of a politician’s stepdaughter in a novel “as crisp and…
snappy as a Canadian winter” (Kirkus Reviews). In the midst of a record-setting spell of frigid weather, the stepdaughter of a government official is found dead on a snow-swept harbor pier, and overworked and underpaid Detective Barry Gilbert is called to investigate. The Metropolitan Toronto Police Force is beset by threats of staff cuts, so their work is challenging enough. But this case involves some additional enigmas—like the question of why the victim’s pet parrot was also killed, or why the autopsy indicates that she froze to death before she was shot. So begins a treacherous trail of evidence that leads Gilbert to the coldest zones of the human heart, in this “excellent procedural” (Library Journal).By Scott Mackay. 2015
A police detective investigates a death in Toronto’s Chinatown in “a clever procedural about a murdered man with an enigmatic…
past” (Booklist). When Detective Barry Gilbert is called into Chinatown to look into the death of Edgar Lau, he must piece together Edgar’s labyrinthine history—from his days as a Vietnamese refugee who made a deadly trek to China by boat, to his affair with a prominent member of Toronto’s city government, to his dealings with a Chinese drug baron. Throughout the investigation, damaging and sensitive questions are raised—questions somebody in Toronto’s police department doesn’t want answered. It soon becomes clear to Gilbert that in addition to hunting down Edgar’s killer, he must fight police corruption as well . . . From the author of Cold Comfort, nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award, Fall Guy is both a riveting police procedural and a journey across continents and cultures, and deep into an immigrant family’s struggle to survive against harrowing odds. “A skillful storyteller . . . Mackay does atmosphere and setting well, and his characters are full-bodied and believable.” —Booklist “[A] great story.” —The Globe and MailBy Scott Mackay. 2015
A music mogul is found dead and even the detective on the case has a motive …
An excellent police procedural a human and believable cop Peter Robinson author of the Inspector Banks series When a music producer is found strangled in his apartment Toronto police detective Barry Gilbert immediately recognizes he is no ordinary victim Glen Boyd had a prodigious list of enemies men and women who have any number of reasons to kill him Even Gilbert himself once wanted to murder the man From Boyd s ex-wife to a rock guitarist to a notorious drug kingpin the victim s shady business dealings have affected many But there is one person Gilbert refuses to include on his suspect list even though evidence keeps piling up against her Regina the woman he has been married to for the last twenty years With outside pressure mounting Gilbert must embark on a distressing personal journey to find the true culprit behind this crime before his family is torn apart Old Scores is a tense twist-filled police procedural in the satisfying series by the Arthur Ellis Award nominated author of Cold Comfort and Fall Guy Library Journal Devilishly plotted and populated with carefully drawn motivated suspects Booklist starred reviewBy Margie Orford. 2009
How far would you go?A little girl waits alone to be picked up after ballet class--until an unmarked car approaches,…
and she is gone.But this little girl is the daughter of Police Captain Riedwaan Faizal. He is desperate to rescue her, but, suspended from the squad, he finds himself powerless.With nobody on his side, the captain turns to investigative journalist and criminal profiler Dr. Clare Hart, whose documentary about Cape Town's missing young girls has made her a local celebrity. Clare knows that the odds of a child's survival dwindle with each passing minute. She knows that hiding her investigation from the police has its own dangers. But she will do anything to help a heartbroken father ... even if it puts all their lives at risk.Daddy's Girl is a dark and compelling crime story that will thrill fans of Deon Meyer and Tess Gerritsen.