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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.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.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.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.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.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 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)By Ian Rankin. 2005
Rankin's two critically acclaimed short story collections - A Good Hanging and Beggars Banquet - come together in one volume,…
along with Atonement - a new Rebus story, written especially for this collection. A Good Hanging contains twelve Inspector Rebus mysteries. Beggars Banquet contains twenty-one stories, ranging from suburban murders to the sinister workings of a serial killer's mind. 2005. Good hanging -- Beggars banquet -- Atonement. Playback -- Dean curse -- Being Frank -- Concrete evidence -- Seeing things -- Good hanging -- Tit for tat -- Not Provan -- Sunday -- Auld lang syne -- Gentlemen's club -- Monstrous trumpet -- Trip trap -- Someone got to Eddie -- Deep hole -- Natural selection -- Facing the music -- Principles of accounts -- Only true comedian --- Herbert in motion -- Glimmer -- Unlucky in love, unlucky at cards -- Video, nasty -- Talk show -- Castle dangerous -- Wider scheme -- Unknown pleasures -- In the frame -- Confession -- Hanged man -- Window of opportunity -- Serpent's back -- No sanity clause.By Ian Rankin. 2004
Edinburgh Detective Inspector John Rebus investigates the murder of an illegal immigrant seeking asylum. Meanwhile colleague Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke…
looks into the case of missing eighteen-year-old Ishbel Jardine, whose disappearance coincides with the release of her sister's rapist from prison. Violence and some strong language. 2004. (Inspector Rebus series)By Ian Rankin. 2003
A shooting incident at a private school just north of Edinburgh. Two seventeen-year-olds are killed by an ex-army loner who…
has gone off the rails. As Detective Inspector John Rebus puts it, there's no mystery, except the why. But this question takes Rebus into the heart of a shattered community. 2003.By Ian Rankin, Jack Harvey. 2001
Deadly assassin Michael Weston completes another job successfully. One mistake was enough, a long time ago when a young girl…
caught his fatal bullet. Ever since, her father has made him the target, hiring a private eye named Hoffer to track him down. Weston knows that Hoffer is never far behind.By Ian Rankin. 2000
Retired British secret service agent Dominic Elder is called into service after an international female assassin known as "Witch" appears…
in England. Elder joins Michael Barclay in tracking the woman to a gypsy encampment, where they learn of a possible personal vendetta. Some violence and some strong language. 1993.By Ian Rankin. 2000
Two unusual incidents in one day seem unconnected, until a third body - that of a prospective member of the…
Scottish Parliament - is found at Oueensbury House. Inspector Rebus investigates, and uncovers old secrets that suggest Scotland's second attempt at devolution will be just as dirty. 2000.By Michael Connelly. 2001
McCaleb is persuaded by the LA County Sheriff's office to profile a killer in an unsolved murder. The victim was…
arrested six years earlier by Bosch for murder, but then released. A clue found by McCaleb seems to lead to Bosch himself and now the two must work together to clear Bosch's name. Bestseller. Sequel to "Angels flight", followed by "City of bones". 2001.By Ian Rankin. 2001
A student has gone missing in Edinburgh, the daughter of influential bankers. Inspector Rebus feels that this is more than…
another missing case. When a doll is found in a six-inch coffin in her village, along with an internet role-playing game, his fears prove well founded.By Faye Kellerman. 2001
Detective Peter Decker is called in to investigate the desecration of the synagogue that he and his Orthodox Jewish family…
attend. He learns that his stepson Jacob knows one of the people responsible - 17-year-old Ernesto Golding, who, like Jacob, has kept some unpleasant company and dabbled in drugs. Later, when troubled Ernesto is brutally murdered, Decker turns to Jacob for help, only to discover more disturbing secrets about his stepson. Descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2001.By James Patterson. 2001
A series of meticulously planned bank robberies end in murder, and Alex Cross must pit his wits against the sadistic…
mastermind behind the crimes. Although torn between dedication to his job and commitment to his family, Cross cannot ignore the case - despite the heartbreaking cost. Sequel to "Pop goes to weasel" (EB69682), followed by "Violets are blue" (EB74224). 2001. (Alex Cross series ; 6)By Henning Mankell, Ebba Segerberg. 2002
Ystad police make an horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together as if in prayer. Linda Wallander arrives…
at the station and becomes involved in the case. In the process she shows the hallmarks of her father - the flaring temper, the maverick approach - when confronting a group of extremists bent on punishing the world's sinners. Some descriptions of violence. 2004. (Linda Wallander ; 1)By Ruth Rendell. 1996
Mary Jago had donated her bone marrow to save the life of someone she didn't know. And her generosity had…
led directly to the bitter break-up of her affair with Alistair. But the man whose life she had saved changes Mary's life in a way she could never have imagined. She is in danger both from the middle class world she knows and the world of the dispossessed and deranged.By Michael Connelly. 1993
The official report said suicide. But in the city where murder is a sport, Bosch isn't ready to blame the…
victim. Narcotics officer Cal Moore was investigating the city's latest drug killing. He ended up in a motel room with his head in several pieces and a suicide note in his back pocket. Years ago, Bosch learned the first rule of good police work: look not for the facts but the glue that holds them together. Now he's making some very dangerous connections, following a string of bloody murders from Hollywood Boulevard's drug bazaar to back-alleys south of the border and into the centre of a complex and lethal game - one in which Harry looks like the next victim. Some descriptions of sex. Sequel to "The black echo", followed by "The concrete blonde". 2001.