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By Barry Maitland. 2011
The Chelsea Flower Show is tainted by the murder of an American tourist, but when DCI David Brock’s Scotland Yard…
division investigates, they discover that the killer avoided having his face or his escape captured on any closed circuit cameras. What seemed a senseless but random event was in fact a carefully planned murder, but why was the victim - a retired widow traveling with a long-time family friend - worth the trouble? When a very wealthy Russian oligarch is killed in the garden of his palatial estate not far from the hotel where the murdered tourist was staying, Brock suspects that something more complicated is going on. Strong language and some descriptions of violence. c2011. (Brock and Kolla series)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.By Michael Connelly. 1998
Terrell McCaleb, a former FBI investigator of serial murders, was leading a quiet life as he recovered from a heart…
transplant. But he became hooked on a newspaper story about an unsolved murder. He took up the case to find that what first looked like a random crime took on more baffling and horrific angles than anything he had ever encountered. 1998.By Faye Kellerman. 2009
Los Angeles detective Peter Decker tackles a homicide case involving a billionaire real estate developer, his wife, and four employees.…
While Decker leads his homicide team throughout California and into Mexico, he thinks his own wife is on a jury back at the courthouse. But a chance encounter with a court translator who needs her help leads Rina into the heart of the murder investigation, and straight into the path of a gang of ruthless killers. Strong language and some violence. 2009.By Ngaio Marsh. 1994
By Donna Leon. 2012
By Ed McBain. 1986
Reardon, Hoffman and their team curse their luck when a homicide takes place just before Christmas on the unusually quiet…
5th Precinct. By the time they have worked their way through ethnic rivalries, international intrigue and financial wrangling on a massive scale, they don't care if it's Christmas or the Fourth of July. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1986.By Ruth Rendell. 1985
Inspector Wexford’s investigation of the murder of a paint sales manager points to a number of suspects. The victim was…
not only guilty of financial misdeeds, but also was a bigamist and a philanderer who focused on Lolita types. Later, when several men are knifed, the detective wonders if the murders are related to a local radical feminist cult. Some strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Sequel to "The speaker of Mandarin", followed by "The veiled one". 1985.By Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli. 2016
Montalbano investigates a robbery at a supermarket, a standard case that takes a spin when manager Guido Borsellino is later…
found hanging in his office. Was it a suicide? Inspector Montalbano and the coroner have their doubts, and further investigation leads to the director of a powerful local company. Meanwhile, a girl is found brutally murdered in Giovanni Strangio's apartment--Giovanni has a flawless alibi, and it's no coincidence that Michel Strangio, president of the province, is his father. Weaving together these two crimes, Montalbano realizes that he's in a difficult spot where political power is enmeshed with the Mafia underworld. 2016. Uniform title: Voce di notte.By Quintin Jardine. 2008
Still reeling from the tragic death of their much-loved colleague, Skinner's men are about to discover that a disturbed serial…
killer is still at large and very close to home. It's the second week of July Trades Holiday in Edinburgh and things seem very quiet. Until, that is, DCC Bob Skinner and his men get a call informing them that the body of a young woman has been found on a golf course. The way she has been laid out is uncannily familiar. The body has been 'composed', just like the bodies of three other young women in a previous case. Sequel to "Death's door", followed by "Fatal last words". 2008.By Ruth Rendell. 2002
'Adam and Eve and Pinch Me' went down to the river to bathe, Adam and Eve were drowned. Who was…
saved?' This rhyme is a favourite of Jerry Leach, who has sponged off five women. With the cruel irony he would be the first to recognize from that rhyme, he becomes the victim of one of his female prey. 2002.By Donna Leon. 1996
Flavia Petrelli, reigning diva of La Scala, had attacked the men with a speed born out of anger and surprise.…
She had routed the strangers from her beautiful home on the top floor of a fourteenth-century Venetian palazzo. But she had been unable to save her lover, Brett Lynch, from a terrible beating at their hands. 1996. (Commissario Guido Brunetti series ; 5)By Donna Leon. 2009
Environmental concerns become significant in Brunetti's work when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage,…
asks for a favour. But the investigator is not the only one with a special request. His father-in-law needs help and a mysterious woman comes into the picture. Brunetti soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation into murder and corruption more dangerous than anything he's seen before. Sequel to "The girl of his dreams", followed by "A question of belief". 2009.By Donna Leon. 1995
A lorry crashes on one of the treacherous bends in the Italian Dolomites, spilling a terrible cargo...A prominent international lawyer…
is found dead in the carriage of an Intercity train at Santa Lucia...Can the two tragedies be connected? Commissario Guido Brunetti digs deep into the secret lives of the once great and good for the answer. For in a seedy Venetian bar lies the clue to an evil crime network reaching far beyond the laguna. But it will take another violent death in Venice before the forces of justice can begin to proceed. Some descriptions of violence. 1995.By Charles Todd. 1996
Inspector Ian Rutledge struggles to settle back into his duties at Scotland Yard after returning from France after World War…
1 with shell shock. However the murder of a colonel tests his fragile sanity to the limit when the only witness is also a shell-shocked veteran, much reviled by the villagers for his condition. c1996.By Steve Burrows. 2014
Inspector Domenic Jejeune’s success has made him a poster boy for the U.K. police service. The problem is Jejeune doesn’t…
really want to be a detective at all; he much prefers watching birds. Recently reassigned to the small Norfolk town of Saltmarsh, located in the heart of Britain’s premier birding country, Jejeune’s two worlds collide when he investigates the grisly murder of a prominent ecological activist. Winner of the 2015 Arthur Ellis Best Crime First Novel Award. c2014.By Ruth Rendell. 1978
A body is found under the hedge on the outskirts of a Sussex village. The identification proves far more difficult…
than Chief Inspector Wexford had imagined. Sequel to "Shake hands for ever", followed by "Put on by cunning". 1978.When Commissario Brunetti investigates the murder of two local fishermen on the island of Pellestrina, the small community closes ranks,…
forcing him to accept Signorina Elettra's offer to visit her relatives there to search for clues. Though loyal to his beloved wife, Paola, he must admit that less-than-platonic emotions underlie his concern for his boss's beautiful secretary. Sequel to "Friends in high places", followed by "Willful behavior". 2011.By Donna Leon. 2010
Commissario Guido Brunetti must contend with ingenious corruption, bureaucratic intransigence, and the stifling heat of a Venetian summer. As he…
plans a trip to the mountains with his family, he learns that cases at the local court are being delayed to the benefit of one of the parties. Just when it looks like he will be able to get away, a shocking, violent crime forces him to stay in Venice. Sequel to "About face", followed by "Drawing conclusions". 2010.By John McFetridge. 2015
Montreal, Labour Day weekend, 1972. The city is getting ready to host the first game in the legendary Summit Series…
between Canada and the USSR. Three men set fire to a nightclub and Constable Eddie Dougherty witnesses the deaths of 37 people. The Museum of Fine Arts is robbed and two million dollars’ worth of paintings are stolen. Against the backdrop of these historic events, Dougherty discovers the body of a murdered young man on Mount Royal. As he tries to prove he has the stuff to become a detective, he is drawn into the world of American draft dodgers and deserters, class politics, and organized crime. Sequel to "Black rock". 2015.