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Death at Sea: Montalbano's Early Cases (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery)
By Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli. 2014
“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series,…
set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen... transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.”—A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Set on the Sicilian coast, a collection of eight short stories featuring the young Inspector MontalbanoIn 1980s Vigàta, a restless Inspector Montalbano brings his bold investigative style to eight enthralling cases. From jilted lovers and deadly family affairs to assassination attempts and murders in unexpected places, Death at Sea is the perfect collection to escape into Andrea Camilleri's unforgettable slice of Sicily.A Fatal Romance (A Twin Sisters Mystery #1)
By June Shaw. 2016
Fixing up homes can be tricky. Finding true love can be even trickier. But finding a killer can be plain…
old deadly . . . Twin sister divorcees Sunny Taylor and Eve Vaughn have had their fill of both heartaches and headaches. So when they settle down in the small Louisiana town of Sugar Ledge and open a remodeling and repair company, they think they’ve finally found some peace—even though Eve is still open for romance while Sunny considers her own heart out-of-business. Then their newest customer ends up face-down in a pond, and his widow is found dead soon after. Unfortunately, Sunny was witnessed having an unpleasant moment with the distraught woman, and suspicion falls on the twins. And when an attempt is made on Eve’s life, they find themselves pulled into a murder mystery neither knows how to navigate. With a town of prying eyes on them, and an unknown culprit out to stop them, Sunny and Eve will have to depend on each other like never before if they’re going to clip a killer in the bud.How the Witch Stole Christmas (Witchless In Seattle Mysteries Ser. #5)
By Dakota Cassidy. 2017
The game is afoot in Ebenezer Falls, Washington, and this time someone is trying to ruin Christmas!With twists, turns, and…
suspects aplenty, amateur sleuth Stevie Cartwright is determined to find a murderer and her missing familiar before the silver bells tarnish! USA Today bestselling cozy mystery author Dakota Cassidy serves up mayhem and murder in How the Witch Stole Christmas, Book 5 of her bestselling series, Witchless in Seattle MysteriesIt's beginning to look a lot like Christmas--!Er, not so much. . .It's Christmas, and I, ex-witch, Stevie Cartwright declare this my favorite time of year! I love the decorations! The food! The Hallmark Channel holiday specials! This year promises to be better than ever because for the first time in a very long time, I'm going to have more than just Cheez Whiz, Triscuits and the wish to be surrounded by family and friends. My carefully planned holiday bonanza includes all the usual suspects. My bat familiar Belfry, my dog Whiskey, my ever-present ghostly spy friends--dashing Brit Winterbottom, stalwart Russian Arkady and my parents. However, nothing comes easy for this amateur sleuth, not even a neighborhood decorating contest. You know, the one I've been painstakingly prepping for months? Something goes horribly awry with my Christmas display (think bikini-clad carolers, pink flamingos and real, live turkeys) to start. But the worst? The dead body of the famous Chef Pascal Le June in my nativity scene! It becomes clear someone's trying to ruin my Christmas, and that someone must pay! But when Belfry goes missing, and the danger takes on a paranormal edge, I find I have more to lose than ever before. . .This cozy mystery has a complete cast of oddball characters from witches to ghosts and bats to psychics. Witchless In Seattle Mysteries is a spin-off of Dakota Cassidy's bestselling paranormal romance series, A Paris, Texas Romance.Trick Or Treat Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery #3)
By Leslie Meier. 1996
Reprinted Edition"A charming setting and likable cast. . .enjoyable reading." --Publishers WeeklyHaunted-house parties and ghostly galas. . .grinning pumpkins, mayhem…
and murder. It's going to be one heck of a Halloween for Lucy Stone and Tinker's Cove. . .It's October in Maine, and everyone in Tinker's Cove is preparing for the annual Halloween festival. While Lucy Stone is whipping up orange-frosted cupcakes, recycling tutus for her daughters' Halloween costumes, helping her son with his pre-teen rebellion, and breast-feeding her brand-new bay, an arsonist is loose in Tinker's Cove. When the latest fire claims the life of the owner of the town's oldest house, arson turns into murder. . .While the townsfolk work to transform a dilapidated mansion into a haunted house for the All-Ghouls festival, the hunt for the culprit heats up. Trick-or-treat turns deadly as a little digging in all the wrong places puts Lucy too close to a shocking discovery that could send all her best-laid plans up in smoke. . . "Lucy Stone is an endearing sleuth." --Dorothy CannellThe Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow
By Walter Mosley. 2008
Living in south central L.A., Socrates Fortlow is a sixty-year-old ex-convict still strong enough to kill men with his bare…
hands. Filled with profound guilt about his own crimes and disheartened by the chaos of the streets, Socrates calls together local people of all races and social stations and begins to conduct a Thinkers' Club, where all can discuss life's unanswerable questions.Infiltrated by undercover cops and threatened by strain from within, the Thinkers' Club doesn't have it easy. But simply by debating racial authenticity, street justice, and the possibility of mutual understanding, Socrates and his unlikely crew actually begin to make a difference.The Right Mistake is Walter Mosley at his most incisive. At once an affectionate and coruscating portrait of ghetto life, it abides the possibility of personal redemption and even, with great struggle, social change.Sisters Mystery Club #4: Message in a Bottle (Barbie)
By Victoria Saxon. 2016
History of Violence: A Novel
By Lorin Stein, Édouard Louis. 2018
History of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis’s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping…
with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath.On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the village, the family, and the past he had sworn to leave behind.A bestseller in France, History of Violence is a short nonfiction novel in the tradition of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, but with the victim as its subject. Moving seamlessly and hypnotically between past and present, between Louis’s voice and the voice of an imagined narrator, History of Violence has the exactness of a police report and the searching, unflinching curiosity of memoir at its best. It records not only the casual racism and homophobia of French society but also their subtle effects on lovers, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives. It represents a great step forward for a young writer whose acuity, skill, and depth are unmatched by any novelist of his generation, in French or English.Kelvin McCloud and the Seaside Storm
By Michael Erb. 2012
An anonymous note in the middle of the night, an obituary for a banker who died in a hailstorm, and…
a mysterious woman vanishing down the stairwell: these clues lead Henry Alabaster and his uncle Kelvin McCloud to a spooky mansion in a coastal town. As a weather detective, Kelvin knows a thing or two about hailstorms, and then strange events surrounding the banker's death suggest foul play. Henry teams up with the fiery, artistic Rachel to help his uncle investigate, and they learn a lot about weather on the way. Nothing--not a thunderstorm, threats, burglary, a baseball bat-wielding suspect, nor even a devastating fire--can keep Henry and his team from chasing down the truth.The Case of the Bicycle Bandit (Jigsaw Jones Mystery #14)
By James Preller. 2001
Someone stole Ralphie Jordan's rusty old bicycle. Jigsaw and Mila hit the trail to track down the thief. But one…
piece of the puzzle doesn't fit. Who would take a hand-me-down bike? Solving this case is an uphill ride for ace detectives Jigsaw and Mila.The Hand in the Dark
By Arthur J. Rees. 2012
A detective story above the average, though to some readers it will seem too long drawn out and to others…
too tragic. A complicated crime is brought to light, entirely by the deductive method. Characters are skillfully drawn and the style is good.The Hampstead Mystery
By Arthur J. Rees. 2012
The care with which the story is written, the complicated plot, and the clash of the different practices of man-hunters…
lift it out of the common run of mystery tales and make this an absorbing book.The Narrative of Mr. James Rigby
By Arthur Morrison. 2012
Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863 - 4 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic…
novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. This is one of those storiesLike to Die: A McKenzie Novel (Twin Cities P.I. Mac McKenzie Novels #15)
By David Housewright. 2018
A seemingly simple investigation, done as a favor for a friend, takes McKenzie down a dark and twisted path in…
Like to Die, the next mystery in David Housewright’s award-winning series.Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become an unlikely millionaire and an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends. The favor, this time, is for a friend of a friend—Erin Peterson, a local business person and owner of a growing food company called Salsa Girl. Someone seems to have a beef with her: the outside locks on her factory having been systematically filled with superglue. But for some reason, Erin doesn’t want to report this harassment to the police. As a favor to his poker buddy and hockey teammate Ian, McKenzie agrees to stop by and chat with Erin. At first Erin denies there's anything going on and then, when the harassment escalates and threatens her business, she also asks for McKenzie's help. The further McKenzie digs into the situation, the more complicated—and deadly—it becomes. And somewhere, in the middle of it all, is Erin, playing all sides against the middle, leading McKenzie to wonder if you ever really know who your friends are.The Mill Mystery
By Anna Katharine Green. 2013
A sensational novel, as highly spiced as readers of this kind of fiction can desire. The well-knit plot sets the…
reader's wits at work to find the clue to the mystery which the author has done her best to conceal. A well-respected clergyman is found dead at an old abandoned mill. It appears to be accidental death, or maybe suicide. But, the news of this death has a fatal effect on two women. One is his fiancee, and the other is a wealthy matron living on the other side of town. The fiancee's roommate, an orphan, investigates the crime, out of loyalty to her dead roommate.Bimini Twist: A Jane Bunker Mystery (A Jane Bunker Mystery #4)
By Linda Greenlaw. 2018
Jane Bunker returns in Bimini Twist another thrilling small-town mystery by Linda Greenlaw set in Down East Maine…
It seems like everyone in Green Haven knows that Jane Bunker has scored an invite to the ultra-exclusive Summer Solstice Soiree and they all assume she ll be in attendance as one of the few eligible single women in town Of course that s the last place Jane would like to be hobnobbing and making small talk with the upper crust isn t exactly her idea of a good time She prefers to put in her hours working as an insurance investigator and part-time as the deputy sheriff When she gets to work one morning the sheriff asks her to take a break on her personal war on drugs it seems that she s been so successful catching dealers and interrupting the flow of drugs in the area that she s called too much attention to just how bad it s gotten and the community is worried that all the attention on the drug trade will deter the summer tourists that Green Haven so badly needs to keep the economy going Instead Jane takes on a missing person case a young woman working at the Bar Harbor Inn has disappeared The Inn employs foreign exchange students from all over the world during the busy summer season and the missing Bianca Chiriac is one of them When it becomes clear that Bianca isn t just sleeping off a late-night party Jane is plunged into the underbelly of the resort town and must find the missing woman before the worst happensThe Thefts of Nick Velvet
By Edward D. Hoch. 1978
Tiempo de albaricoques
By Beate Teresa Hanika. 1934
Una delicada historia sobre el amor, la amistad y el recuerdo con el trasfondo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial Un…
viejo árbol. Una tortuga llamada Hitler. Dos mujeres. Y una casa en Viena llena de recuerdos. Elisabetta ha vivido siempre en el hogar de su niñez y desde entonces todos los veranos prepara mermelada con los albaricoques del árbol de su jardín. Conserva un tarro de cada año, igual que conserva vivos los recuerdos de su primer amor, de su pequeña tortuga y del día en que todo cambió cuando sus padres y hermanas fueron deportados por las SS. Cuando la joven y reservada bailarina Pola llega para vivir en la habitación que alquila la anciana, ambas mujeres descubrirán juntas que solo resolviendo los conflictos que las atormentan podrán por fin hacer las paces con el pasado. La crítica ha dicho...«Elegantemente escrito, lleno de fuerza y simbolismo.»New Books in German «Una novela conmovedora.»Berliner ZeitungHijos de hombres
By P. D. James. 1992
El excitante thriller distópico de la reina del misterio P.D. James. Theo Faron es uno de los habitantes de la…
Inglaterra post-Omega (posterior a 1995, año Omega), un período en que los seres humanos han dejado de ser fértiles. No hay futuro para la humanidad y, resignado, Faron empieza a escribir su diario, donde relata la sordidez de una sociedad en decadencia y el orden que pretende imponer su primo, el temible dictador de Inglaterra conocido como el Guardián. Sin embargo, todo cambia el día en que un grupo de cinco jóvenes revolucionarios se propone desafiar al gobierno totalitario del Guardián. La crítica ha dicho...«Extraordinaria... P.D. James extiende su ya considerable talento en esta osada novela.»The New York Times «Sobria e inquietante.»Independent «Escribe como un ángel. Cada uno de los personajes está perfectamente dibujado. La atmósfera es precisa, escalofriante, convincente. Y sabe cómo conducir todos estos elementos sin abandonar ni por un solo momento la tensión de un excitante misterio.»The TimesRagdoll (Muñeco de trapo)
By Daniel Cole. 2017
Ragdoll (Muñeco de trapo), el aclamado debut de Daniel Cole, es pura adrenalina. Un thriller taquicárdico. Vertiginoso. Entretenimiento adictivo. «Ragdoll,…
el muñeco de trapo» es el nombre con el que los medios sensacionalistas han bautizado al macabro hallazgo en un piso vacío de Londres. Cuelga del techo mediante unos hilos, apunta con un dedo hacia la ventana y está hecho con «retales» de seis personas, cosidos para formar un solo cuerpo del que solo han podido identificar la cabeza. ¿Quiénes eran las otras cinco víctimas? ¿Y por qué el dedo del Ragdoll señalaba hacia el apartamento de enfrente, donde vive el detective William Fawkes, alias Wolf? Casi inmediatamente después del macabro hallazgo, el asesino hace llegar a la prensa una lista con sus seis próximas víctimas y el día en que las matará. El detective y su equipo, presionados por sus superiores y acosados por la prensa, deben descubrir por qué fueron asesinados y que tienen en común para desenmascarar al culpable antes de que cumpla su amenaza. Un malévolo juego del gato y el ratón con un asesino que desafía a la policía y un país entero que contiene el aliento... Y es que esa mente perversa siempre va un paso por delante. Un peligroso desafío en el que es imposible no involucrarse. Críticas:«Un thriller tenso, dramático, con giros muy inteligentes que te sorprenderán. Si te gustan autores como Jo Nesbø, Karin Fossum y Henning Mankell, te encantará este libro.»Scrutton Bland «El debut más emocionante que hemos leído en mucho tiempo.»Heat Magazine «Hay ecos de la película Seven en ese villano tan omnipotente.»The Daily MailPrimavera cruel (Inspector Trevejo #2)
By Luis Roso. 2018
Primavera cruel es el segundo caso del inspector Ernesto Trevejo. La serie de género noir de Luis Roso que es…
al mismo tiempo un adictivo thriller y una mirada nueva sobre los años más duros del franquismo. Madrid, años cincuenta. El inspector Ernesto Trevejo recibe el encargo de enfrentarse a un caso muy difícil: un hombre armado ha aparecido muerto en El Pardo, muy cerca del palacio donde reside Franco. ¿Se trata de un terrorista? ¿Un loco? ¿Puede ser una amenaza real? Una trama policíaca impecable que es, al mismo tiempo, un retrato fiel y alejado de los tópicos de la sociedad de la época. De la mano de un protagonista a la altura de los grandes del género, Luis Roso mantiene al lector literalmente pegado a las páginas de esta novela. Reseña:«Una cuidada ambientación histórica, una escritura de calidad, magníficos diálogos que dotan de especial agilidad al relato, una atractiva pareja protagonista y un sutil sentido del humor que recuerda a ratos a Eduardo Mendoza. Una gran novela negra.»Ángel Vivas, El Mundo