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By Lee Martin. 1996
When it comes to murder, mothering, and missing persons, Detective Deb Ralston is the woman for the job. In this,…
her twelfth case, Deb is called in to untangle a case of mistaken identity - or is it? First, an extra body is discovered among other cadavers that make up an ongoing forensics experiment. Then, Marvin Tutwiler, a local genealogist, turns up missing. Is the body his? If not, then whose is it? And where is the genealogist? Before Deb can figure out this mess, Matilda Greenwood, her close friend and researcher for the missing Marvin Tutwiler, disappears herself. Tracing Matilda and Marvin's work only confuses the issue: it seems that Marvin has racked up quite a number of unhappy ex-wives, ex-fiancees, and ex-girlfriends. Could one of them have been involved? It promises to take all of Deb's famous courage in the face of a crisis, her detecting instincts, and the help of her husband, Harry, to find her friend before it's too late. FROM THE CRITICS Kirkus Reviews Hours after finding a freshly embalmed John Doe smuggled in among the other participants in an experiment on cadaveric decomposition, Fort Worth Det. Deb Ralston (Bird in a Cage, 1995, etc.) hears her friend Matilda Greenwood complain that Marvin Tutwiler, the genealogist who hired her to help him write his latest book, has disappeared. But there's no evidence that John Doe ever lived in Tutwiler's apartment. Before Deb can establish just who John Doe is, though, Tutwiler's place is burgled; so is his fiancée's; so is Matilda's. Then the fiancée is killed and Matilda kidnapped, obviously by somebody who's really interested in all that genealogical research. So far, so good; but Martin's 12th novel supplies only the pettiest motive for the villain's enterprising crime spree. Below average for the series.By Lee Martin. 1984
He wanted his bag of marbles. Around him, in the den of his own home, lie the bodies of his…
parents, two guests, and a catall brutally murdered. And Olead Baker wants his bag of marbles. To most of the police force, Olead seems the obvious suspect. At twenty-six, he has spent much of his life institutional ized for schizophrenia. He has also, in the past, displayed a violent fear of cats Deb Ralston, though, is not like most of the other police detectives. She's been a cop for fifteen years, but, as she explains to Olead, she's "been a mother a lot longer than that." Deb becomes convinced despite the evidence mounting against himthat Olead is innocent. In a race against timeand the death sentenceDeb must reconcile the evidence that proves that Olead did indeed fire a gun that fatal evening with her certainty that Olead could not have committed such an inhuman act. If Olead did not commit those murders, then somebody else did. But who? And why?By Lee Martin. 1994
Detective Deb Ralston has promised her husband, Harry, that she'll happily forget work for three weeks and concentrate on relaxing,…
sightseeing, picnickingthey'll have a real family vacation (although taking a teenager, his girlfriend, a toddler, and a pit bull by van from Fort Worth, Texas, to Salt Lake City, Utah, can't be all that relaxing). The Ralstons settle into Georgina Grafton's bed-and-breakfast in Salt Lake City. But while sightseeing in Gilgal Sculpture Garden on the trip's second day, they find the body of Georgina's sister, Alexandra, who has been killed by a fist-sized rock aimed at the back of her head. Georgina tells them that Alexandra, a victim of multiple personality disorder, was a handful, but she was certainly not dangerous enough to murder. Or was she? While Deb may be out of her jurisdiction, she's not out of her league: Because their grieving hostess trusts them, she and Harry volunteer to help Salt Lake City Police Detective Charlie Sosa with the case. Promising not to get too involved, because she wouldn't want to put her family in jeopardy and, anyway, she is supposed to be on vacation.By Lee Martin. 1989
When Fort Worth Police Detective Deb Ralston comes home to find a cryptic note from her sixteen-year-old son Hal announcing…
that he and his girlfriend, Lorie, have decided to spend their spring break in Los Alamos, she is furious. Hal has always been a bit scatterbrained, but this is the first time he's ever pulled a stunt like thisand Deb is determined it will be the last. Wanting to kill Hal, the pragmatic Deb realizes that she must first find him and fetch him back to Fort Worth, and so, disregarding the fact that she is eight and a half months pregnant, Deb is soon hot on his trail. But in the small town of Las Vegas, New Mexico, that trail comes to an abrupt and bloody end, as Deb discovers that Lorie is missing. The body of a murdered teenager has been found in Lorie's sleeping bag, and Hal is in jail on suspicion of murder. Desperate to find Lorie and determined to exonerate her son, Deb joins forces with Las Vegas Police Chief Alberto Salazar to discover the identityand the killerof the murdered girl, and to find out what happened to Lorie.By Lee Martin. 1988
Deb Ralston, the savvy, compassionate, "immensely appealing" (Kirkus) police detective who first came on the scene in Too Sane a…
Murder and A Conspiracy of Strangers, is back in full forceeven fuller, as she's carrying the child she has finally been able to conceive. Suffering through the early stages of a first pregnancy at the age of 42, Deb hopes to spend a relaxing weekend at the birthday celebration of her old school friend's mother, former screen star Margali Bowman. Deb remembers Margali as eccentric and flamboyant, putting her staid daughter, Deb's friend Fara, into the shade; what she doesn't remember is the hysterical paranoia that Margali is now exhibiting. Maudlin melodrama turns to murder when the lights come up after a private viewing of Margali's screen gems to reveal her dead body. Abruptly placed on duty, Deb must sift through Margali's household of family and friends to come up with a murderer. Poisoned drinks, a mysterious stab wound, and a proliferation of willsBy Lee Martin. 1990
For once a sudden death doesn't seem to be a police matter: A middle-aged Fort Worth city employee with a…
serious heart condition has apparently died in her own bed of natural causes. But something about the scoured bathroom floors, hospital-cornered bed, and lack of dirty laundry bothers police detective Deb Ralston: It's too neat. When two similar murders follow, Deb finds herself on the baffling trail of a murderer who leaves no trailbecause he or she always cleans up afterward. Deb looks beyond the scrubbed surfaces and discovers some curious connections: All three victims belonged to the church of Sister Eagle Feather (not her real name), and all three were also members of Mensa, the society for people who score in the top two percent on intelligence tests. As a result, the three murdered women had many acquaintances in common, from Sister Eagle Feather to a couple of psychiatrists to fellow members of Mensanot all of whom are as sane as they are smart. Perhaps, though, the killer was after one woman in particular and set up the other murders to make them look like serial killings. In any event, there must be someone out there who is obsessed with cleaning up after the crimeand who just may be planning to come clean Deb's house next.By Lee Martin. 1990
Fort Worth Police Detective Deb Ralston is less than enthusiastic about returning to work at the end of her maternity…
leave, but she's suddenly catapulted back on the job a few days early. With baby Cameron on her hip, Deb is standing in line at her bank when two men with sawed-off shotguns stage a holdup. To get away, they take a hostage. Deb, who will never forget the look in that young teller's eyes, knows that statistics on the live return of hostages aren't very good. So she hands the baby over to her husband and sets out to gather evidence, bit by bit, piece by piece. But then she gets a phone call in the night. The teller's body has been found. Juggling her baby and her badge, Deb uses every ounce of her training, her experience, and her instinct to track down the most murderous bunch of bank robbers since Bonnie and Clyde. Once again sleuth Deb Ralston delivers.'Brian McGilloway's command of plot and assurance of language make it difficult to believe that Borderlands is his debut' The…
Times 'A mystery of labyrinthine complexity' Sunday Telegraph'Dazzling' The Guardian/font>_______________A body is found straddling two counties, in an area known as the Borderlands...The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone- Donegal border, between the North and South of Ireland, in an area known as the borderlands. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin heads the investigation: the only clues are a gold ring placed on the girl's finger and an old photograph, left where she died.Then another teenager is murdered, and things become further complicated when Devlin unearths a link between the recent killings and the disappearance of a prostitute twenty-five years earlier - a case in which he believes one of his own colleagues is implicated.As a thickening snow storm blurs the border between North and South, Devlin finds the distinction between right and wrong, vengeance and justice, and even police-officer and criminal becoming equally unclear.________________A dazzling and lyrical debut crime novel, Borderlands marks the beginning of a compelling new series featuring Inspector Benedict Devlin.Praise for Brian McGilloway:'A clever web of intrigue that deepens and darkens as it twists' Peter James on Gallows Lane'Some of the very best crime fiction being written today' Lee Child on Bad BloodBy Vicki Delany. 2014
RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson has been serving with the United Nations, a job that takes him to South Sudan and…
Haiti, where he is training local police and assisting with investigations. However, murder seems to find him wherever he goes—even on vacation in the Turks and Caicos Islands. These satisfying short mysteries introduce the reader to colourful locales and a determined protagonist who will stop at nothing until he solves the crime. This digital bundle includes the entire Ray Robertson series: Juba Good, Haitian Graves and Blood and Belonging. "Tense and gritty." —VOYA "Truly page-turning and suspenseful." —CM MagazineBy Gwen Banta. 2020
Después de la muerte de su esposa, el ex-detective Sam Lerner regresa a su nativa Nueva Orleans y termina en…
el Club de Caballeros, un establecimientos de acompañantes propiedad de su amiga de hacía mucho tiempo. Allí, se hace amigo de Madsen Cassaise: una joven Creole que se preocupa por él mientras lucha por superar su duelo y creciente dependencia del alcohol. Pero cuando Madsen aparece muerta, Sam es arrastrado a la investigación. A medida que más acompañantes desaparecen, Sam se adentra en los pantanos, cementerios, colinas y restaurantes de la Vieux Carre, y descubre un sorprendente secreto. En el Big Easy, un lugar tan misterioso como el caso mismo, el antiguo detective descubrirá lo que realmente existe Dentro de Sam Lerner.By Charlie Daye. 2020
Me llamo Sidney Rinn. Crecer en un orfanato sin padres y sin saber de dónde vienes es difícil, especialmente cuando…
tienes un don como el mío. Soy una vidente. Puedo ver el pasado en cualquier lugar en el que entre. A veces veo fantasmas, pero sobre todo lo que veo es una repetición instantánea de cualquier evento que se desarrolle allí. Si era importante o traumático para la persona en ese momento, entonces es importante para mí, de lo contrario no lo vería. No, no soy psíquica ni pretendo serlo. Sólo soy una chica normal con un talento por encima de la media. Desafortunadamente, ese talento me hizo ver un asesinato que nunca debí haber visto, lo que a su vez me llevó a dos de los hombres más sexys del planeta: el detective Denton Archer y el detective Mitchell Caldwell. Cuando Denton me pidió ayuda en el caso, me lanzé con los dos pies sin darme cuenta de que esa decisión lo cambiaría todo. Ahora, estoy enamorada de ambos hombres y el asesino me persigue. ¿Puede mi vida volverse más complicada?By Allison Brennan. 2020
From Allison Brennan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cut and Run, comes a new e-novella, No Way Out:…
FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid faces her worst fear when her husband goes missing Nine years ago, mercenary Kane Rogan and photojournalist Siobhan Walsh risked their lives to rescue Hestia Juarez, a thirteen-year-old girl being forced to marry a much older man to expand her father’s crime family. Her enraged father has never forgotten.Now, Kane and Siobhan are finally getting married. They only invited a few people—including FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid and her husband Sean Rogan—to celebrate. When Sean and Kane go missing the day before the wedding, Lucy must put her fear aside and work the case. Because someone believes that Siobhan knows where Hestia is … and will do anything or kill anyone to make her tell the truth.By Allan Retzky. 2012
A web of deceit spins out of control in this terrorizing psychological thriller.Amos Posner has a lovely house in the…
upscale Hamptons beach community of eastern Long Island. But recent events in Amos's life are preventing him from enjoying it. His employer, an international trading firm, fired him after making him the scapegoat for some shady business deals. His wife, a highly successful Manhattan lawyer, has not taken kindly to his job situation, and their marriage is under considerable stress.Amos is spending most of his time at the beach house, alone, and not at all happy. So he is highly vulnerable when a beautiful woman approaches him on a bus—the Hampton Jitney—from Manhattan to the Hamptons and persuades him to show her around the area on her day off from her job as a psychiatric resident at a Manhattan hospital. When Amos reluctantly agrees, he gets far more than an ego boost. He gets a nightmare beyond imagination. And the cascading events could cost him more than the loss of his job and his wife. They could cost him his life.By Pascal Marco. 2013
It's July, 1975 and an overworked Chicago police force receives a call that an 85-year-old white man has been attacked…
by a gang of black youths on the lakefront in Burnham Park. Amid public outrage, contentious Mayor Richard J. Daley commands his police to find the killers fast and make the bucolic park safe again. Uncommonly but fortunately for the police, twelve-year-old James Overstreet steps forward and identifies five of the six assailants and arrests are made. But detectives and county attorneys bungle the case, leaving the judge no choice but to release the accused. This startling turn of events jeopardizes James's life, forcing the entire Overstreet family into witness protection in Arizona, and creates a nightmare that will haunt the brave witness forever. Fast-forward thirty years. The stoic young man has grown to become Maricopa County's most feared prosecutor. But his life is about to be turned upside down when paths from the past cross into the present, veering toward a shocking climax.By Ellen Kirschman. 2015
Dot Meyerhoff has barely settled into her new job as a psychologist for the Kenilworth Police Department when Ben Gomez,…
a troubled young rookie, commits suicide without warning. He leaves a note blaming her, and suddenly her promising new start becomes a nightmare. At stake is her job, her reputation, her license to practice, and her already-battered sense of self-worth. What really drove Ben to kill himself? Why did Dot's psychologist ex-husband recommend that Ben be hired in the first place? Ben’s surviving family—including his pregnant, sociopathic widow—and everyone else associated with him are unshakable in keeping the real story secret. Despite disastrous consequences, Dot's persistence pays off when she uncovers the truth behind Ben’s suicide, and brings those responsible to justice, ultimately recovering her confidence and her reputation.By Ellen Kirschman. 2015
This story couldn’t be any more timely. It looks behind the headlines, into the lives of those involved in these…
tragedies and the events that might lead up to them.”—Book Reviews for Avid ReadersOfficer Randy Spelling had always wanted to be a police officer, to follow in the footsteps of her brothers and her father. Not long after joining the force, she mistakenly shoots and kills Lakeisha Gibbs, a pregnant teenager. The community is outraged; Lakeisha’s family is vocal and vicious in their attacks against Spelling. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and filled with remorse, Randy is desperate to apologize to the girl’s family. Everyone, including the police chief, warns her against this, but the young police officer will not be dissuaded. Her attempt is catastrophic. Dr. Dot Myerhoff, police psychologist, plunges herself into the investigation despite orders from the police chief to back off. Not only does the psychologist’s refusal to obey orders jeopardize her career, but her life as well, as she enlists unlikely allies and unconventional undercover work to expose the tangled net of Officer Spelling’s disastrous course.” The Right Wrong Thing is Ellen Kirschman's second novel in the Dot Meyerhoff mystery series.By Neal Griffin. 2018
LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Add Neal Griffin to your list of must-read crime writers …
Tess Gerritsen author of the Rizzoli and Isles series With crackling dialogue dead-on police procedure and a smart feisty heroine in Detective Tia Suarez Neal Griffin delivers Tami Hoag New York Times bestselling author Engrossing Griffin paints a vivid picture of the difficulties of police work in particular the harassment Tia endures from her male colleagues on account of her gender Publishers WeeklyIt looks like suicide The body of a young man has been found in the woods outside Newberg dead from a close-range shotgun blast The gun his own lies beside the body Certain things don t add up for Detective Tia Suarez Where did the fat envelope of cash in his pocket come from Who called the police to report the body then disappeared before the cops arrived The trail leads Tia to an institution for juvenile incarceration and to the leader of a local mega-church a political and economic powerhouse in the region Newberg s mayor and the medical examiner keep trying to close the case But what if it isn t suicide What if this young man s death is covering up something that will shake the town to its foundations Los Angeles Times bestselling author Neal Griffin burst onto the scene with Benefit of the Doubt which introduced Tia Suarez the only female and Latina cop on the police force in tiny Newberg Wisconsin Griffin s compelling suspense novels show that big-city crime regularly plagues small-town America that Breaking Bad is the rule not the exception The Newberg NovelsBenefit of the DoubtA Voice from The FieldBy His Own HandAt the Publisher s request this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software DRM appliedBy Elizabeth Gunn. 2016
A murder in Tucson on the 4th of July leads to a deadly Arizona crime ring in this &“expert police procedural with plenty…
of quirks and twists&” (Kirkus). Tucson Homicide detective Sarah Burke is just getting used to living with her boyfriend, her fragile mother, and her hard-charging niece Denny, when a baffling murder case consumes their entire household. A man seen fighting in his home during a Fourth of July parade is later found murdered. There&’s surprisingly little evidence in the house to identify who he was—apart from a gun and large sums of cash. Burke and her team of detectives begin to suspect that the victim had been involved in a money laundering scheme. But was the murder a matter of black market business, or something tragically personal? As an ICE investigator follows the money to an international drug cartel, Burke uncovers a trail that lead unsettlingly close to homeBy Elly Griffiths. 2020
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life—until a convicted killer tells her that four of his victims were never found,…
drawing her back to the place she left behind.Everything has changed for Ruth Galloway. She has a new job, home, and partner, and she is no longer North Norfolk police&’s resident forensic archaeologist. That is, until convicted murderer Ivor March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal. Nelson was always sure that March killed more women than he was charged with. Now March confirms this and offers to show Nelson where the other bodies are buried—but only if Ruth will do the digging.Curious, but wary, Ruth agrees. March tells Ruth that he killed four more women and that their bodies are buried near a village bordering the fens, said to be haunted by the Lantern Men, mysterious figures holding lights that lure travelers to their deaths.Is Ivor March himself a lantern man, luring Ruth back to Norfolk? What is his plan, and why is she so crucial to it? And are the killings really over?By Colin Campbell, Caitlin Rother, Ron Franscell. 2019
Three gritty novels of crime and investigation by acclaimed authors, in one volume . . . Ranging from the California coast to…
small-town Wyoming to the north of England, this three-in-one collection of crime thrillers includes: Naked Addiction by New York Times–bestselling author Caitlin Rother Tired of working undercover narcotics, police detective Ken Goode wants a transfer to homicide. After finding the body of a beautiful woman in an alley, he&’s assigned to head a team of relief detectives with the hopes of proving he is homicide-worthy—and is plunged into the underbelly of the affluent coastal enclave of La Jolla, California. &“With a journalist&’s eye for the telling details of life, Caitlin Rother is a keen architect of the most important part of storytelling: character.&” —Michael Connelly The Deadline by USA Today–bestselling author Ron Franscell A dying convict&’s last request thrusts Jefferson Morgan, a newspaperman in Wyoming, into a deadly maelstrom as he explores a fifty-year-old child murder, a wound this small town still isn&’t ready to re-open. Under the most important deadline of his life, Morgan digs deep into the town&’s past and unveils a killer who managed to remain hidden for fifty years. &“An impressive debut that will keep you on the edge of your seat.&” —San Francisco Chronicle Northern Ex by Colin Campbell In Northern England, ex-vice squad cop Vince McNulty copes with life outside the force by visiting the massage parlors he used to police. But now several girls have gone missing, and when one turns up dead, everything points to a regular customer. And McNulty is top of the list . . . &“Full of white-knuckle suspense, shocking violence, and unexpected twists. A fine choice for fans of gritty, realistic cop dramas.&” —Booklist