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By David Hosp. 2006
When Sydney Chaplin left D.C. nine years ago for college, she vowed never to return. But when her sister is…
found brutally murdered, she finds herself drawn once again into the shadowy web of her wealthy, powerful family. Joined by Washington detectives Jack Cassian and Darius Train, and driven by her need to know the truth about her sister's death, Sydney will risk everything - her life and her family's future - to find the answers. 2006.By Ruth Rendell. 1981
Jack Pertwee was getting married in the morning and the darts club gathered in the pub to give him a…
send off. Charlie Hatton drove his lorry eleven hours down from Leeds just to be there. Charlie was Jack's best friend and he would be his best man. When the two finally parted at the Kingston Bridge, Jack felt as though his life was just beginning. But for Charlie Hatton life was just about to end. Sequel to "Wolf to the slaughter", followed by "A guilty thing surprised". 1981, c1969. (Inspector Wexford mystery)By Helene Tursten. 2015
Göteborg, Sweden: The high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the two police officers involved witness…
a gruesome hit-and-run. When they finally recover the abandoned vehicle, search dogs are unable to trace the thieves, but they do uncover an entirely different horror: the half-naked corpse of a young girl in a nearby root cellar. As Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues struggle to put the pieces together, they discover the man whose car was stolen—a retired police officer—is none other than the victim in the hit-and-run. Could it be a strange coincidence? Or is something larger at play? Meanwhile, the hunt for the girl's killer leads Irene into the dark world of sex trafficking. An international criminal has arrived in Göteborg, and he'll stop at nothing to expand his sinister operation. 2015. Uniform title: Man med litet ansikte.By Ruth Rendell. 2002
As epic flooding descends upon Sussex, chief inspector Wexford investigates the case of the two missing Dade children, fifteen-year-old Giles…
and thirteen-year-old Sophie, and their weekend sitter, Joanna Troy. The trail leads to shady suspects and a strange motive while Wexford copes with his own daughter's problems. Descriptions of violence and strong language. Sequel to "Harm done", followed by "End in tears". 2002.By Donna Leon. 1995
Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes of a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are dashed when a gruesome discovery is made…
in Marghera - a body so badly beaten the face is unrecognisable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the dead man, but he is met with a wall of silence. Then he receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information. 1995.By Scott Thornley. 2012
If a local biker war isn't enough - 7 corpses are found buried on a farm - MacNeice receives a…
desperate phone call from the mayor of Dundurn. Dredging is nearly completed on the ambitious waterfront project the mayor hopes will revive his mini rust belt of a city, when 6 more bodies turn up at the bottom of the lake, and 2 of them, encased in concrete, are fairly fresh. The mayor wants MacNeice to fix things fast, but there’s another "visionary" on the loose in Dundurn - a serial killer who wants to rid the city of high-achieving young women of colour. Includes sex, violence and strong language. 2012.By Thomas Teal, Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö. 1973
By Parnell Hall. 1998
Stanley Hastings, New York private detective, is hired by Maxine Winnington, wife of bestselling author Kenneth Winnington, to find out…
who's been calling her with death threats. During the investigation, Kenneth's ex-publisher and his current publicist are murdered. Hastings becomes a suspect - until his family is also threatened. Some violence and some strong language. 1998.By Donna Leon. 2007
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a pediatrician, he is…
confronted with more questions than answers. Three men burst into the doctor's apartment while the family was sleeping, attacked him, and took away his eighteen-month-old boy. What could have motivated an assault by the forces of the state that was so violent it has left the doctor mute? As Brunetti delves into the case, he begins to uncover a story of infertility, desperation, and illegal dealings. Sequel to "Through a glass, darkly", followed by "The girl of his dreams". 2007.By Ian Rankin. 1994
When Detective Inspector John Rebus participates in a raid on an Edinburgh brothel, he is surprised to find a member…
of Parliament, Gregor Jack, among the guests. Because the press seems to have known about the raid, Rebus suspects a setup. Then Jack's wife is found murdered near their cottage in the Highlands. Some strong language. 1994.By Laurie Thompson, Åke Edwardson. 2005
Erik Winter is the youngest Chief Inspector in Sweden; he wears sharp suits, cooks gourmet meals, has a penchant for…
jazz, and is about to become a father. In addition, he is dealing with aging parents while trying to solve a gruesome murder. The city of Gothenburg is preparing to celebrate the millennium and the particularly lurid double murder leads Winter into the world of Goths and the possibility that someone on the force is involved. Followed by “Never end”. 2005. Uniform title: Sol och skugga.By Ngaio Marsh. 1994
The music rose to a climax; Lord Pastern aimed his revolver and fired. The figure in the spotlight fell and…
the coup-de-theatre had become murder. Could Inspector Alleyn believe the eccentric peer had let hatred of his son in law go too far, or would the tangle of jealousies and blackmail among the party guests reveal another murderer? 2004.By Ngaio Marsh. 1985
The Lampreys had plenty of charm, but no cash. They all knew they were peculiar and rather glorified in it.…
The double and triple charades, for instance, with which they would entertain their guests, like rich but awful Uncle Gabriel, who was such a bore. They thought that if they jollied him up he could bail them out yet again but Uncle Gabriel died instead and Roderick Alleyn had to sort it all out. 1985.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.By Mo Hayder. 2013
When the decomposing body of a young woman is found, the wounds on her wrists suggest an open-and-shut case of…
suicide. But Jack Caffery is not so sure. Other apparent suicides are cropping up, and they all have a connection to Elf's Grotto, a nearly bottomless network of flooded quarries just outside the city. Caffery begins to suspect a shadowy and sinister predator, someone - or something - that can disappear into darkness and slip into houses unseen. Working alongside Caffery is rough-and-tough police diver Flea Marley, but while pursuing her investigation, she stumbles upon something far too close to home that no one - not even Caffery - can help her face. 2013.By Robert Rotenberg. 2012
Outside a busy downtown Toronto doughnut shop on a snowy November evening, gunshots ring out and a young boy is…
critically hurt. Detective Ari Greene is soon on scene, investigating: how many shots were fired, by how many guns, seen by how many witnesses? With grieving parents and a city hungry for justice, the pressure is on to convict the man accused of this horrible crime. Against this tidal wave of indignation, defense counsel Nancy Parish finds herself defending her oldest and most difficult client, but does anyone know the whole story? Includes sex, strong language and violence. 2012.By Faye Kellerman. 2005
In 1920s Munich, homicide detective Axel Berg is called to the scene of a grisly homicide, the victim being a…
young society wife. Soon, a second body is uncovered; the discovery of a third indicates that Berg is dealing with an unimaginably evil killer. In the Germany of the time, the investigation cannot be straightforward. Hitler's power is growing, and the Nazis are a strong civic force in the city of Munich. Berg is thrown into a web of danger as senior officers work to their own agendas. Descriptions of violence. 2005.By Faye Kellerman. 2002
The call is brief, but to the point. There has been a murder in the family of Lt. Decker's half…
brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levine. Ephram Lieber, a Hassidic Jew and former drug addict, was found naked in a seedy Manhattan hotel, a single gunshot wound to his head, and Jonathan's niece, Shaynda, is missing. The Rabbi pleads with Decker to come to New York and help the family. He reluctantly agrees only to find that Shaynda's parents have changed their minds about involving him in the case. Faced with a hostile family, a strange city and a local police force mired in international problems. Decker is on his own, thrust into a world divided mercilessly into killers and victims. 2002.By Peter Lovesey. 2011
A pop star's face is burned by suspicious stage makeup during her stint at a Bath playhouse. The main suspect,…
the makeup artist, is found dead, and Diamond must conquer his own mysterious but deep-seated phobia to solve the crime. Sequel to "Skeleton Hill", followed by "Cop to corpse". 2011.By Faye Kellerman. 2000
Detective Peter Decker's outspoken, Ivy League-educated daughter Cindy joins the LAPD, but has trouble fitting in with the blue-collar work…
force. During a rash of serial carjackings, Cindy realizes she is being stalked and suspects the danger comes from within the department. Bestseller. 2000.