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The delicate storm (John Cardinal series. #2.)
By Giles Blunt. 2003
When the dismembered corpse of an American tourist turns up half-eaten by bears in the woods near Algonquin Bay, Detective…
John Cardinal is assigned to the case. Usually his small-town cases practically solve themselves, but not only does he not have a single lead this time, but both the RCMP and CSIS get involved. Then a well-respected woman is found frozen under a glaze of ice, and Cardinal realizes that the two very different murders might well be linked. Some strong language. Sequel to "Forty words for sorrow", followed by "Blackfly season". 2003.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.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.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.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.Let loose the dogs: a mystery
By Maureen Jennings. 2003
In 1890's Toronto, Detective Murdoch learns that his beloved sister, who long ago fled to a convent to evade their…
drunken and abusive father, is on her deathbed. At the same time, the father he has pushed out of his life, Harry, is convicted of murder, and he calls on his estranged son to prove his innocence. Some strong language and descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.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.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.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.Aftershock: Skinner's World Is Shaken To The Core... (Bob Skinner. #18)
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.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.Knots & crosses: an Inspector Rebus novel (Inspector Rebus ; #1)
By Ian Rankin. 1987
Once a Para in the elite SAS, now an Edinburgh policeman, John Rebus spends his time evading his memories, and…
right now ignoring a series of crank letters. As murders occur under his nose, he realises he can no longer ignore the killer's presence. Some strong language. 1998. c1987. (Inspector Rebus ; 1)