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By Alexander McCall Smith. 1998
Working in Gaborone, Botswana, Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case…
of the clinic doctor who has different personalities for different days of the week. Transcribed by: Van Zyl, D.By Jacqueline Winspear. 2009
London, 1931. Investigator and psychologist Maisie Dobbs witnesses the suicide of a war veteran-turned-beggar on Christmas Eve. The next day…
the prime minister receives a menacing letter that demands relief for the poor and unemployed--and that mentions Maisie by name. Maisie joins Scotland Yard in its investigation. Sequel to "An incomplete revenge", followed by "The mapping of love and death". 2009.By Jacqueline Winspear. 2008
England, 1931. Investigator Maisie Dobbs is hired by developer James Compton to examine the Sandermere estate in Kent. Suspicious fires…
occur each fall at harvest time. Maisie and her assistant Billy Beale learn that somehow a 1916 attack by a German zeppelin is linked to the annual inferno. Sequel to "Messenger of truth", followed by "Among the mad". 2008.By Kathy Reichs. 2002
Forensic specialist Dr. Tempe Brennan is in Guatemala identifying the bodies of victims of political massacres committed decades earlier. She…
is called to the capital city to assist in a case involving missing young women, among whom is the Canadian ambassador's daughter. Violence and strong language. 2002.By Ann Cleeves. 2010
At the isolated Baikie's Cottage, three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. The three women each…
know the meaning of betrayal. Rachael is the first to arrive at the cottage, where she discovers the body of her friend, Bella Furness. Bella, it appears, has committed suicide, a verdict Rachael refuses to accept. When another death occurs, a fourth woman enters the picture: the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope. Followed by "Telling tales". 2010.By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2007
Dr. Kay Scarpetta leaves Florida and moves to Charleston, South Carolina, to open a private forensic pathologist practice along with…
niece Lucy and investigator Pete Marino. The team takes on the case of a teenaged tennis star murdered in Rome. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2007. (Dr. Kay Scarpetta mysteries ; 15)By James Patterson, Maxine Paetro. 2012
Detective Lindsay Boxer is pregnant and juggling two high-profile cases: a wealthy man gunned down in the bathroom at his…
daughter's school and the discovery of two decapitated heads. Lindsay's friends and colleagues contribute their expertise. Bestseller. 2012.It’s the battle of the century when Minami, the Sudoku Lady, shows up in Bakerhaven, Connecticut, to meet Cora Felton,…
the Puzzle Lady, whose sudoku books have just edged Minami’s off of the Japanese bestseller list. Before the rivals have a chance to square off, a killer strikes, and a sudoku puzzle is found at the scene of the murder. Now it’s a fight to the finish to see who can unmask the killer. 2009.By Jacqueline Winspear. 2006
England, 1930s. Artist and WWI veteran Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death from a scaffold while preparing for his gallery…
opening. Nick's twin sister, Georgina, hires Maisie Dobbs to prove he was murdered. Maisie discovers that Nick's masterpiece is missing and she searches for clues among her client's relatives. Sequel to "Pardonable lies", followed by "An incomplete revenge". 2006.By Parnell Hall. 2008
Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady, is surprisingly good at sudoku, so it’s no problem when a Japanese publisher asks her…
to write a sudoku book. But when two Japanese publishers show up in Bakerhaven to vie for her services, Cora is a little confused. Which one did she actually sign with? Which one is about to be arrested for murder? The two men are archenemies and will go to great lengths to ace out each other. But would they stoop to murder? Someone is littering the town with sudoku, crossword puzzles, and dead private eyes. It’s up to Cora to solve the puzzles and the murder before the killer strikes again. Sequel to "You have the right to remain puzzled", followed by "Dead man's puzzle". 2008.By John Green. 2017
Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred thousand dollar reward…
at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.By Avery Aames. 2010
Welcome to the grand opening of Fromagerie Bessette. Proprietor Charlotte Bessette has prepared a sampling of cheddar, stilton and mascarpone,…
and a taste of sauvignon blanc, but someone else has decided to make a little crime of passion the piece de resistance. Right outside the shop Charlotte finds a body, the victim stabbed to death with one of her prized olive-wood handled knives. Some descriptions of violence. 2010.By J. D. Robb. 2000
New York City, 2058. Homicide detective lieutenant Eve Dallas's friend Mavis introduces Eve to her new fashion designer lover, Leonardo.…
Leonardo, however, is also involved with model Pandora, later found dead. Eve investigates the murder to clear Mavis's name. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 1996.By Janet Evanovich. 2017
Trouble comes in bunches for Stephanie Plum. First, professional grave robber and semi-professional loon, Simon Diggery, won't let her take…
him in until she agrees to care for his boa constrictor, Ethel. Events take a darker turn when headless bodies start appearing across town. At first, it's just corpses from a funeral home and the morgue that have had the heads removed. But when a homeless man is murdered and dumped behind a church, Stephanie knows that she's the only one with a prayer of catching this killer. If all that's not enough, Diesel's back in town. The 6-foot-tall, blonde-haired hunk is a man who accepts no limits--that includes locked doors, closed windows and underwear. Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, isn't pleased at this unexpected arrival nor is Ranger, the high-powered security consultant who has his own plans for Stephanie. As usual Jersey's favorite bounty hunter is stuck in the middle with more questions than answers. What's the deal with Grandma Mazur's latest online paramour? Who is behind the startling epidemic of mutilated corpses? And is the enigmatic Diesel's sudden appearance a coincidence or the cause of recent deadly events? Bestseller. Sequel to "Turbo twenty-three". 2017.By Sue Grafton. 2017
Y begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate - and…
film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns in evidence for the state and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes without a trace. Now, it's 1989 and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison. Moody, unrepentant, and angry, he is a virtual prisoner of his ever-watchful parents - until a copy of the missing tape arrives with a ransom demand. That's when the McCabes call Kinsey Millhone for help. As she is drawn into their family drama, she keeps a watchful eye on Fritz. But he's not the only one being haunted by the past. A vicious sociopath with a grudge against Millhone may be leaving traces of himself for her to find. 2017.By Sue Grafton. 2015
Perhaps Grafton's darkest and most chilling novel, it features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes.…
Once again breaking the rules and establishing new paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this sociopath. The test is whether Kinsey can prove her case against him before she becomes his next victim. Bestseller. Sequel to "W is for wasted". 2015.By J. D. Robb. 2005
Police lieutenant Eve Dallas and her partner Delia Peabody investigate the murder of a benevolent celebrity plastic surgeon. Eve enlists…
help from her husband, Roarke, after the victim's son, a doctor who took over the practice, is also killed. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 2005.By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2000
In this sequel to "Black notice" (DC21800), Dr. Kay Scarpetta has escaped death from the serial killer "werewolf" and continues…
investigating crimes committed by his French syndicate. But then the doctor herself faces a murder accusation. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2000. (Dr. Kay Scarpetta mysteries ; 12)By Alexander McCall Smith. 2009
Investigating her latest case, Mma Ramotswe rediscovers the breathtaking beauty of her beloved Botswana and uncovers the truth about an…
elderly American traveller whose safari proved to be his last journey. Meanwhile, problems are also brewing back at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and life is no less complicated at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, where Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni - Mma Ramotswe's estimable husband - has suddenly decided to mortgage the garage. But without a doubt - and after several cups of bush tea - Precious Ramotswe will make sure, as only she can, that everything turns out as it should. Sequel to "The good husband of Zebra Drive", followed by "Tea time for the traditionally built". 2009.By Alexander McCall Smith. 2004
After the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is firmly established, founder Precious Ramotswe faces new challenges at home and at…
work, from problems with her adopted son to an assistant who dreams of opening a typing school for men. Sequel to "Morality for beautiful girls" (EB74922), followed by "The full cupboard of life". 2004. (Precious Ramotswe ; 4). (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series)