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The bridesmaid
By Ruth Rendell. 1989
Philip Wardman falls for a beautiful, enigmatic woman he meets at his sister's wedding. Philip abhors any depiction of violent…
death, but Senta believes they should each kill someone to prove their love for each other. Some descriptions of sex. 1989.Shipwreck (Detective Murdoch mystery.)
By Maureen Jennings. 2010
1873, Nova Scotia. A storm has wrecked a ship on the shores of a fishing village, and people work bravely…
to rescue the crew - but many die. When young Will Murdoch and the local priest examine the bodies, they discover gold and diamonds. They suspect that the shipwreck was not responsible for all the deaths. Some descriptions of violence. A high-interest, low-vocabulary book. 2010.Silent victims (Det.Inspector Jane Tennison. #3.)
By Lynda La Plante. 2013
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison expects hostility as she becomes the first female head of the vice squad in London’s…
Soho. Suddenly she is told how to handle the murder of a male prostitute, the newest case of her main assignment, Operation Contract. This is more than the hazing Tennison expected, and she is determined to discover why. Sequel to "A face in the crowd: Prime Suspect 2". 2013.Saints of the Shadow Bible (Inspector Rebus.)
By Ian Rankin. 2013
Back on the force, but at a reduced rank, John Rebus suspects that the daughter of a powerful businessman isn’t…
coming clean about her car accident. Meanwhile, the reopening of a decades-old case could cause problems for Rebus and his old team. 2013.Not in the flesh (Inspector Wexford mystery. #21.)
By Ruth Rendell. 2007
A man and his dog unearth something in a wood - a human hand, part of a body that has…
lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton shroud. The post mortem cannot reveal the precise cause of death, and the only clue is a crack in one of the dead man's ribs. Then, about twenty yards away from the woodland burial site, in the cellar of a disused cottage, another body is discovered. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. Sequel to "End in tears", followed by "The monster in the box". 2007.Let darkness bury the dead: a Murdoch mystery / (Detective Murdoch mystery. #8.)
By Maureen Jennings. 2017
November 1917. The Great War is grinding on. Initially, Canadians are mostly eager to fight for the Empire, but the…
carnage is horrendous and with enforced conscription, the enthusiasm for war is dimming. William Murdoch is a widower, a senior detective who, thanks to the new temperance laws, spends his time tracking down bootleggers and tipplers. His wife, Amy, died giving birth to their second child, a girl who lived only a few hours more. Murdoch, racked by grief, withdrew from his four-year-old son Jack, which he deeply regrets. Now, Jack is twenty-one and has returned from France after being wounded. It is soon apparent that he is deeply troubled and bound by shared secrets to another soldier, Percy McKinnon. The night after Jack and McKinnon arrive home, a young man is found beaten to death in the impoverished area of Toronto known as the Ward. Soon after, Murdoch has to deal with a tragic suicide, also a young man. Two more attacks follow in quick succession. The only common denominator is that all of the men were exempted from conscription. Increasingly worried that Jack knows more than he is letting on, Murdoch must solve these crimes before more innocents lose their lives. Sequel to "A journeyman to grief". 2017.Except the dying: a Detective Murdoch mystery (A Detective Murdoch mystery #Vol. 1)
By Maureen Jennings. 1997
The Rhodes family are wealthy, turn-of-the-century Britons living in Toronto. Detective William Murdoch handles a case that exposes not only…
the dysfunctional nature of the family, whose young French-Canadian maid has been discovered dead, drugged, and pregnant in the snow, but also the peculiarities of a class-conscious society. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2004, c1997. (A Detective Murdoch mystery)Exit music (Inspector Rebus.)
By Ian Rankin. 2007
As he tries to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, Inspector Rebus investigates the murder of a dissident…
Russian poet. Although the death initially appears to have been a mugging gone wrong, the more he and DS Siobhan Clarke investigate, the more they are convinced that this is something more than a random killing. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2007.Crime machine (John Cardinal series. #5.)
By Giles Blunt. 2010
A year after the death of his wife, John Cardinal has fallen into an easy routine of work on cold…
case files and platonic movie nights with colleague Lise Delorme. But then the decapitated bodies of two people are found in a summer home on Trout Lake - visitors from Russia attending the annual fur auction. This is by no means a routine murder investigation as Cardinal soon discovers, but a horrific piece of a very twisted puzzle. Sequel to "By the time you read this", followed by "Until the night". 2010.Children of the revolution
By Peter Robinson. 2013
A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home.…
Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken, hermit-like existence in this isolated spot. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Inspector Banks soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with the victim going back to the '70s at the University of Essex, then a hotbed of political activism. When Banks suspects that Lady Chalmers is not telling him the whole truth, he pushes his inquiries a bit too far. Warned about this by his superiors, Banks must continue to conduct his investigation surreptitiously, under the radar. 2013.Careless in red: a novel (Inspector Thomas Lynley. #15.)
By Elizabeth George. 2008
Grief-stricken over the murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley has been walking the coast for weeks on end…
when he comes upon the body of a teenager. Sequel to "What Came before He Shot Her". c2008.Under the dragon's tail: a Murdoch Mystery (Murdoch Mysteries Ser. #2)
By Maureen Jennings. 1998
In nineteenth century Toronto, Dolly Merishaw, a midwife and abortionist, is found beaten to death. It is up to Detective…
William Murdoch to discover who her killer was. To do so he must first break the silence that surrounds her line of work and speak with women from every level of the city's social hierarchy to discover who among them may have been willing to kill to keep their secrets to themselves. 2003, c1998.Vices of my blood: a Murdoch mystery (Detective Murdoch mystery #6)
By Maureen Jennings. 2010
The Reverend Charles Howard, a married Presbyterian minister in Toronto's east end, was popular with the congregation that elected him,…
especially with the ladies, and most particularly with Miss Sarah Dignam. Respected in the community, Howard, as Visitor for the House of Industry, sat in judgment on the poor, assessing their applications for the workhouse. But now Howard is dead, stabbed and brutally beaten by someone he invited into his office. Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. 2010, c2006. (Detective Murdoch mystery)The black book (Inspector Rebus. #5.)
By Ian Rankin. 1993
Five years ago, Edinburgh's Central Hotel burned to the ground, and a body with a bullet hole in it was…
found in the ashes. Now John Rebus is having a terrible week--his lover has thrown him out, his brother has arrived unannounced, and his deputy is hospitalized in a coma. Then Rebus reads the notes in his deputy's black book and sees a connection. Strong language. 1993.Nine dragons (Harry Bosch. #14.)
By Michael Connelly. 2009
The shooting of a Chinese liquor store owner in LA brings Harry Bosch back to the Rodney King riots and…
the moment a stranger gave a young cop sanctuary. Now the debt must be repaid, and Harry soon discovers the old man's death was no ordinary holdup. Homing in on clues disregarded by the cops on the scene, Harry builds a picture of corruption and intimidation, with the local Triads at the heart of it. But as he tries to build a case and breach the impenetrable wall of silence in the local community, he finds he is taking a dragon by the tail - a dragon whose talons reach well beyond LA, and even the States. Suddenly the most precious thing in Harry's life is under threat, and he will need to leave the familiarity of his home turf, alone and without backup, if he is going to stop his worst nightmare from happening. Sequel to "The overlook", followed by "The drop". Bestseller. 2009.The black echo (Harry Bosch. #1.)
By Michael Connelly. 1997
One Sunday Harry Bosch gets a call out on his pager. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel…
off Mulholland Drive, Hollywood. And Harry knows him. Billy Meadows was a fellow tunnel-rat out in Vietnam, running against the VC and against the fear that they called the Black Echo. At first Meadows looks like just another overdose victim but then comes news that he may have been involved in a huge bank heist eight months earlier, a case which the FBI are investigating. When Harry goes to the Feds to reveal what he has learned, they dismiss both him and his evidence out of hand. Followed by "The black ice". 1997.Until the night (John Cardinal series. #6.)
By Giles Blunt. 2012
Algonquin Bay. John Cardinal investigates what seems like a run of the mill murder in a hotel parking lot: the…
corpse has a big bootprint on his neck, and the likely suspect is his lover's outraged husband. But the lover has gone missing, and then colleague Lise Delorme locates another missing woman, a senator's wife from Ottawa, frozen in the ruins of an abandoned hotel in the woods. This leads to a decades-old injustice committed in the high Arctic and the swingers' world inhabited by an ex-rock star who owns a pub in Algonquin Bay as well as private members' clubs in Toronto and Ottawa, while affecting the deep bond between Delorme and Cardinal. Includes violence, strong language and sex. 2012. (John Cardinal series ; 6)Skin (Jack Caffery mystery. #4.)
By Mo Hayder. 2009
When the decomposed body of a young woman is found near railway tracks just outside Bristol one morning, all indications…
are that she's committed suicide. That's how the police want it too; all neatly squared and tidied away. But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone predatory, someone who hides in the shadows and can slip into houses unseen. And for the first time in a very long time, he feels scared. 2009.Ritual (Jack Caffery mystery. #3.)
By Mo Hayder. 2008
The hands of a young boy who has recently disappeared have been discovered. Both have been recently amputated, and the…
indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. The search for the young boy and his abductor lead DI Jack Caffery and police diver Flea Marley into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks. 2008.Crash & burn: a novel (Tessa Leoni)
By Lisa Gardner. 2015
Nicole Frank shouldn't have been able to survive the car accident, much less crawl up the steep ravine. Not in…
the dark, not in the rain, not with her injuries. But one thought allows her to defy the odds and flag down help: a little girl. Sergeant Wyatt Foster is frustrated when even the search dogs can't find any trace of the mysterious missing child. Until Nicky's husband, Thomas, arrives with a host of shattering revelations: Nicole Frank suffers from a rare brain injury and the police shouldn't trust anything she says. Who is Nicky Frank, and what happened the night her car sailed off the road? It turns out, in the past few months, Nicky has suffered from more than one close accident. In fact, it would appear someone very much wants her dead. Bestseller. 2015.