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Queen's Park: a Detective Lane mystery
By Garry Ryan. 2004
After a brutal attack on his young nephew, ex-mayor Bob Swatsky has gone missing with 13 million dollars of tax-payers’…
money. Is he on the run with the cash, or is it something more sinister? A zany cast of characters, including a love doll, and a chain-smoking grandma with an oxygen tank, lead Detective Lane on a thrilling romp through the streets of Calgary. Descriptions of sex, strong language and some descriptions of violence. c2004.Put on by cunning (Inspector Wexford mystery. #11.)
By Ruth Rendell. 1981
The death of the elderly rich flautist shortly before his second marriage is shrouded in mystery. So is the identity…
of the young woman claiming to be the daughter he had not seen for 19 years. Sequel to "A sleeping life", followed by "The speaker of Mandarin". 1981.Prime suspect (Det.Inspector Jane Tennison. #1.)
By Lynda La Plante. 1991
A mystery-thriller features Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison. Coming through the ranks the hard way, Jane Tennison struggles to win…
the respect of her fellow male officers. The story is set in London and based on the Granada TV's 'Prime suspect' series. Includes sex. Followed by “Prime suspect 2”.1991.Poppet: the new Jack Caffery thriller (Jack Caffery mystery. #6.)
By Mo Hayder. 2013
Everything goes according to procedure when a patient, Isaac, is released into the community from a high-security mental health ward.…
But when the staff realizes that he was connected to a series of unexplained episodes of self-harm among the ward's patients, and furthermore that he was released in error, they call on Detective Jack Caffery to investigate, and to track Isaac down before he can kill again. Will the terrifying little effigies Isaac made explain the incidents around the ward, or provide the clue Caffery needs to predict what he's got planned? 2013.Poor Tom is cold (A detective Murdoch Mystery Ser. #Vol.3)
By Maureen Jennings. 2002
Constable Oliver Wicken dies in what appears to be a suicide. However, when new evidence is discovered, Detective William Murdoch…
is asked to investigate further. During the investigation, he begins to suspect that the suicide is not what it seems. 2002.Piece of my heart (Inspector Alan Banks mystery. #16.)
By Peter Robinson. 2006
As he launches a probe into the killing of a freelance music journalist, Detective Inspector Alan Banks finds his investigation…
journeying back in time more than thirty years and into the heart of the mystery surrounding a decades-old crime. 2006.Photo finish
By Ngaio Marsh. 1980
Troy Alleyn is invited to paint "La Sommita," the legendary opera star, and mistress of tycoon Montague Reece. Troy's husband,…
chief superintendent of Scotland Yard, is hired to protect Sommita but she is found with a knife through her heart. c1980.Paragon walk (Thomas Pitt Ser.)
By Anne Perry. 1981
In the posh street of Paragon Walk in Victorian London, a young woman is brutally raped and murdered. Inspector Thomas…
Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, must penetrate the highbrow facades of the suspects before they can uncover the scandal and prevent more killing. Violence. 1981.Overture to death
By Ngaio Marsh. 1983
It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance…
the gift, but its execution was doomed when Miss Campanula sat down to play. A chord was struck, a shot rang out and Miss Campanula was shot dead. A case of sinister infatuation for the brilliant Inspector Alleyn. 1983.One or the other (Eddie Dougherty mystery. #3.)
By John McFetridge. 2016
In the weeks before hosting the 1976 Summer Olympics, the Montreal police are tightening security to prevent another catastrophe like…
the '72 games in Munich. But it isn't tight enough to stop nearly three million dollars being stolen in a bold daytime Brink's truck robbery. As the high-profile heist continues to baffle the police, Constable Eddie Dougherty gets a chance to prove his worth as a detective when he's assigned to assist the suburban Longueuil force in investigating the deaths of two teenagers returning from a rock concert across the Jacques Cartier Bridge. Were they mugged and thrown from the bridge? Or was it a murder-suicide? With tensions running high in the city and his future career at stake, Dougherty faces the limits of the force and of his own policing, and has to decide when to settle and when justice is the only thing that should be obeyed. 2016.Opening night (Roderick Alleyn mysteries ; #15)
By Ngaio Marsh. 1963
Before that first night ended two men were dead, but Martyn, awaiting her entrance, knew nothing of this. The voices…
of the actors already on stage had the remote quality of voices heard in a nightmare - whereas the hammer blows of her heart sounded horrifyingly loud. She left the safety of the wings and stepped into the glare of the footlights. This was what she had travelled across the world for ... this instant ... now! 1963. (Roderick Alleyn mysteries)Off with his head (Inspector Alleyn. #19.)
By Ngaio Marsh. 1959
Pesky Mrs Bunz comes to Meridian determined to investigate the rare survival of folk-dancing practised there, and soon antagonises the…
villagers, especially William Anderson who leads the dance and keeps the ancient ritual's secrets. However, there is also friction elsewhere, with two participants in the Dance of the Five Sons spoiling for a fight. Superintendent Alleyn must discover who had the best motive for murder. 1959.NYPD Red (NYPD Red. #1.)
By James Patterson, Marshall Karp. 2012
At the start of Hollywood on the Hudson week, NYPD Red - an elite team protecting the city's celebrities -…
is on high alert. Detective Zach Jordan, part of the team, and his former girlfriend Kylie MacDonald investigate a string of murders set up as movie scenes. 2012.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.None so blind (Inspector Green mystery. #10)
By Barbara Fraser Fradkin. 2014
Twenty years ago, a raw and impressionable Detective Michael Green helped convict a young professor for the murder of an…
attractive co-ed. From behind bars, the man continued to hound Green with letters protesting his innocence. Shortly after being paroled, he is found dead. Is it suicide? Revenge? Or had Green made the biggest mistake of his career ― a mistake which cost an innocent man his liberty and ultimately his life? To determine the truth, Green is forced to re-examine old evidence and open up old wounds to stare down a far greater evil hiding in plain sight. 2014.No more dying then (Inspector Wexford mystery. #6.)
By Ruth Rendell. 1971
A little boy disappears in the same lane from which a little girl had disappeared eight months earlier; the hunt…
for the boy is relentless and desperate. Sequel to "A guilty thing surprised", followed by "Murder being once done". 1971.No mark upon her (Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James series. #14.)
By Deborah Crombie. 2012
Someone kills detective chief inspector Rebecca Meredith, who was training for the Olympic trials as a rower. Superintendent Duncan Kincaid…
gets the case and learns that Meredith had accused one of their colleagues of raping her. Then Meredith's lover, a fellow rower, is attacked. c2012.No known grave (Detective Inspector Tom Tyler mystery. #3)
By Maureen Jennings. 2014
Summer 1942. DI Tom Tyler is making a fresh start in Ludlow, Shropshire. On the outskirts of town, St. Anne's…
Convalescent Hospital has been established in an old manor house to help victims of the war to recover. After a horrifying double murder is discovered on the grounds, Tyler must figure out how the crime could have occurred in such a secluded and presumably impenetrable place, where most of the patients are unable to walk or are blind, or both. c2014.Nine dragons: a novel (Harry Bosch series. #14.)
By Michael Connelly. 2009
As LAPD detective Harry Bosch investigates the murder of a Chinese liquor store owner, he receives an e-mail video of…
his daughter Maddie being kidnapped in Hong Kong. Bosch rushes to China to rescue Maddie before his homicide suspect is released. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. Sequel to "The overlook", followed by "The drop". 2009.Never end: an Erik Winter novel (A Chief Inspector Erik Winter novel. #2)
By Laurie Thompson, Åke Edwardson. 2006
It's summer in Sweden. As the coastal city of Gothenburg suffers through a heat wave, Chief Inspector Erik Winter broods…
over a series of unsolved rape-murders. The crimes bear an eerie resemblance to a five-year-old case that the detective has refused to let go cold. Has the same rapist reemerged to taunt him, or is a copycat at work? And can Winter find a common thread among the victims before there are more of them? Sequel to “Sun and shadow”, followed by “Frozen tracks”. 2007, c2006. Uniform title: Låt det aldrig ta slut.