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Forty words for sorrow (John Cardinal series. #1.)
By Giles Blunt. 2000
When four teenagers disappear in the northern Canadian town of Algonquin Bay, a down-on-his luck detective decides to pick up…
the trail at the point where everybody else has given up. After one of the teenager's bodies is pulled from an abandoned mine shaft, the detective, haunted by his own criminal past, follows increasingly tenuous paths toward the killer's hide-out. Followed by "The delicate storm". 2000.Friends in high places (Commissario Guido Brunetti series ; #9)
By Donna Leon. 2000
Commissario Brunetti is plunged into a world of corruption and intrigue when he investigates the death of a young bureaucrat…
in the Venetian planning department. 2000. (Commissario Guido Brunetti series ; 9)Friend of the devil (Inspector Alan Banks mystery #17)
By Peter Robinson. 2007
Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot must work together to solve two chilling crimes. On loan to…
a sister precinct, Cabbot draws the first case. Karen Drew seems to have lived a quiet and nearly invisible life for the past seven years. Try as she might, Annie turns up nothing in the woman's past that might have prompted someone to wheel her out to the sea and to her death. Meanwhile, in the Hayley Daniels murder, Banks has suspects galore. Then a breakthrough spins Annie's case in a shocking and surprising new direction, straight toward Banks. Violence and strong language. 2007.Creole belle (Dave Robicheaux novel. #19.)
By James Lee Burke. 2012
Convalescing in New Orleans, troubled detective Dave Robicheaux is visited by Tee Jolie Melton, who leaves him an iPod containing…
a single tune: "My Creole Belle." Obsessed with the song, Dave is caught in a confluence of events when Tee Jolie's sister is found dead and an oil well blowout threatens the bayou. 2012.Bad boy (Inspector Alan Banks mystery. #19.)
By Peter Robinson. 2010
This novel puts Inspector Banks in the middle of the most personal investigation of his career. What starts out as…
a simple weapons possession case quickly spirals out of control when it becomes clear that Banks' own daughter is endangered by her bad-boy love interest. Sequel to "All the colours of darkness", followed by "Watching the dark". 2010.Butterfly kills: a Stonechild and Rouleau mystery (Stonechild and Rouleau mystery. #2.)
By Brenda Chapman. 2015
Jacques Rouleau has moved to Kingston to look after his father and take up the position of head of the…
town’s Criminal Investigations Division. One hot week in late September, university student Leah Sampson is murdered in her apartment. In another corner of the city, Della Munroe is raped by her husband. At first the crimes appear unrelated, but as Sergeant Rouleau and his new team of officers dig into the women’s pasts, they discover unsettling coincidences. Sequel to "Cold mourning". 2015.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)Fallen gods (Bob Skinner. #13)
By Quintin Jardine. 2003
Detective Chief Constable Bob Skinner is faced with many problems including the death of his hated brother whose body is…
found in the detritus of a flood, the destruction of a valuable painting by an incendiary device and the murder conviction of his wife. Sequel to “Head shot”, followed by “Stay of execution”. c2003.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.Fatal remedies (Commissario Guido Brunetti series ; #8)
By Donna Leon. 2000
For Commissario Guido Brunetti it begins with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandalism has just been…
committed in the chill Venetian dawn. But Brunetti soon discovers that the perpetrator is no petty criminal, for the culprit at the scene is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife. Sequel to "A noble radiance". 2000. (Commissario Guido Brunetti series ; 8)Evan help us (Constable Evans mysteries. #Bk. 2)
By Rhys Bowen. 1998
Evan Evans, constable of the village of Llanfair in North Wales, investigates the connection between the murders of two outsiders…
and a plan for bringing tourism to this remote outpost. Evans's interest in newly arrived single mother Annie Pigeon and her daughter, Jenny, also leaves the local single ladies seething. 1998. (A Constable Evans mystery)Evan's gate (Constable Evans mystery #8)
By Rhys Bowen. 2004
Wales. Constable Evan Evans, renovating a mountain cottage for his upcoming marriage, uncovers a child's buried skeleton. The discovery rekindles…
memories of an old unsolved abduction of a friend and coincides with a current missing-child case. He strongly suspects the two incidents are connected. Edgar Awards finalist 2005. Some strong language. 2004. (Constable Evans mystery)Evan and Elle: a Constable Evans mystery (Constable Evans Mysteries Ser. #4)
By Rhys Bowen. 2000
When a chapel opens as a restaurant, the villagers are suspicious, but their attention is diverted as a string of…
fires plagues the town and Constable Evans suspects that Welsh nationalists are responsible. Evans follows clues leading to the south of England and France; concluding that nothing is what is seems and a dangerous killer may be loose. 2000.Evans above (A Constable Evans mystery #1)
By Rhys Bowen. 1997
Evan Evans, the newly assigned North Wales constable for the village of Llanfair, is searching for two missing hikers who…
are later discovered murdered. While hunting for a possible serial killer, Evans also contends with two local ladies who are vying for his attentions, as well as with competing ministers' wives. (Constable Evans mystery) 1997.Enter a murderer
By Ngaio Marsh. 1986
The crime was committed on stage at the Unicorn Theatre, when an unloaded gun fired a very real bullet. The…
victim was Arthur Surbonadier, an actor clawing his way to stardom using blackmail instead of talent. The suspects included two unwilling girlfriends and several relieved blackmail victims. The stage was set for one of Chief Inspector Alleyn's most baffling cases. 1986.End in tears (Inspector Wexford mystery. #20.)
By Ruth Rendell. 2005
The local media accuse Chief Inspector Wexford and his partner Mike Burden of being too old-fashioned, but the two policemen…
succeed in tying together the murder of a teenage girl with another killing. Now, Wexford worries about his daughter, a pregnant single mother. Sequel to "The babes in the wood", followed by "Not in the flesh". 2005.Doors open
By Ian Rankin. 2009
Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in…
his soul. He is looking for something to liven up the days and settles on a plot to rip-off the National Gallery of Scotland. So he devises a plan to lift some of the most valuable artwork around. But the real trick is to rob the place for all its worth whilst persuading the world that no crime was ever committed. 2009, c2008.Drawing conclusions (Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery. #20.)
By Donna Leon. 2011
Late one night, Commissario Guido Brunetti's telefonino rings. A old woman's body has been found in a Spartan apartment on…
Campo San Giacomo dell'Orio. Brunetti sees some signs of force on the old woman, but they could just as easily have been from the radiator near where she fell. When the medical examiner rules that the woman died of a heart attack, it seems there is nothing to investigate. But he can't shake the feeling that perhaps the woman was threatened. Sequel to "A question of belief", followed by "Beastly things". 2011.Death and judgment (Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery. #4.)
By Donna Leon. 2009
A truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on a treacherous road in the Italian Dolomite mountains. Meanwhile, in Santa…
Lucia, a prominent international lawyer is found dead aboard an intercity train. Suspecting a connection between the two tragedies, Brunetti digs deep for an answer, stumbling upon a seedy Venetian bar that holds the key to a crime network that reaches far beyond the laguna. But it will take another violent death in Venice before Brunetti and his colleagues begin to understand what is really going on. Sequel to "Dressed for death", followed by "Acqua Alta". 2009.Dressed for death (Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery. #3.)
By Donna Leon. 2009
Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery…
is made in Marghera. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the corpse but is met with a wall of silence. He then receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information. And before night is out, Brunetti is confronting yet another appalling, and apparently senseless, death. Sequel to "Death in a strange country", followed by "Death and judgment". 2009.