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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.Nine dragons (Harry Bosch. #14.)
By Michael Connelly. 2009
The shooting of a Chinese liquor store owner in LA brings Harry Bosch back to the Rodney King riots and…
the moment a stranger gave a young cop sanctuary. Now the debt must be repaid, and Harry soon discovers the old man's death was no ordinary holdup. Homing in on clues disregarded by the cops on the scene, Harry builds a picture of corruption and intimidation, with the local Triads at the heart of it. But as he tries to build a case and breach the impenetrable wall of silence in the local community, he finds he is taking a dragon by the tail - a dragon whose talons reach well beyond LA, and even the States. Suddenly the most precious thing in Harry's life is under threat, and he will need to leave the familiarity of his home turf, alone and without backup, if he is going to stop his worst nightmare from happening. Sequel to "The overlook", followed by "The drop". Bestseller. 2009.The black echo (Harry Bosch. #1.)
By Michael Connelly. 1997
One Sunday Harry Bosch gets a call out on his pager. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel…
off Mulholland Drive, Hollywood. And Harry knows him. Billy Meadows was a fellow tunnel-rat out in Vietnam, running against the VC and against the fear that they called the Black Echo. At first Meadows looks like just another overdose victim but then comes news that he may have been involved in a huge bank heist eight months earlier, a case which the FBI are investigating. When Harry goes to the Feds to reveal what he has learned, they dismiss both him and his evidence out of hand. Followed by "The black ice". 1997.Until the night (John Cardinal series. #6.)
By Giles Blunt. 2012
Algonquin Bay. John Cardinal investigates what seems like a run of the mill murder in a hotel parking lot: the…
corpse has a big bootprint on his neck, and the likely suspect is his lover's outraged husband. But the lover has gone missing, and then colleague Lise Delorme locates another missing woman, a senator's wife from Ottawa, frozen in the ruins of an abandoned hotel in the woods. This leads to a decades-old injustice committed in the high Arctic and the swingers' world inhabited by an ex-rock star who owns a pub in Algonquin Bay as well as private members' clubs in Toronto and Ottawa, while affecting the deep bond between Delorme and Cardinal. Includes violence, strong language and sex. 2012. (John Cardinal series ; 6)Skin (Jack Caffery mystery. #4.)
By Mo Hayder. 2009
When the decomposed body of a young woman is found near railway tracks just outside Bristol one morning, all indications…
are that she's committed suicide. That's how the police want it too; all neatly squared and tidied away. But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone predatory, someone who hides in the shadows and can slip into houses unseen. And for the first time in a very long time, he feels scared. 2009.Ritual (Jack Caffery mystery. #3.)
By Mo Hayder. 2008
The hands of a young boy who has recently disappeared have been discovered. Both have been recently amputated, and the…
indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. The search for the young boy and his abductor lead DI Jack Caffery and police diver Flea Marley into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks. 2008.Crash & burn: a novel (Tessa Leoni)
By Lisa Gardner. 2015
Nicole Frank shouldn't have been able to survive the car accident, much less crawl up the steep ravine. Not in…
the dark, not in the rain, not with her injuries. But one thought allows her to defy the odds and flag down help: a little girl. Sergeant Wyatt Foster is frustrated when even the search dogs can't find any trace of the mysterious missing child. Until Nicky's husband, Thomas, arrives with a host of shattering revelations: Nicole Frank suffers from a rare brain injury and the police shouldn't trust anything she says. Who is Nicky Frank, and what happened the night her car sailed off the road? It turns out, in the past few months, Nicky has suffered from more than one close accident. In fact, it would appear someone very much wants her dead. Bestseller. 2015.A banquet of consequences: a Lynley novel (Inspector Thomas Lynley. #19.)
By Elizabeth George. 2015
When feminist author Clare Abbott’s death appears suspicious, DS Barbara Havers hopes the case will redeem her with her and…
Inspector Thomas Lynley’s boss. Meanwhile, the family of Abbott’s assistant, Caroline Goldacre, are still reeling from a suicide. Sequel to "Just one evil act". 2015.The concrete blonde (Harry Bosch series. #3.)
By Michael Connelly. 1994
Harry Bosch, maverick homicide detective, is hauled into court, the chief defendant in a civil suit against the LAPD. The…
plaintiffs are the family of "The Dollmaker", a notorious serial killer whom Bosch shot during an arrest three years before. Their allegation? That Bosch killed the wrong man - an accusation which becomes horribly plausible when a new body is found to carry all the hallmarks of a Dollmaker slaying. To clear his name, Bosch must prove that a copycat killer is at work. Strong language and some violence. Sequel to "The black ice", followed by "The last coyote". 2006, c1994.Sous un ciel de tempête
By Giles Blunt, Pierre Bondil. 2005
Thriller situé à Algonquin Bay, au nord de la province canadienne d'Ontario. Un officier de la brigade criminelle enquête sur…
trois décès qui ont en commun l'enlèvement d'un diplomate britannique et d'un ministre canadien par le Front de libération du Québec. Titre uniforme: The delicate storm.An event in autumn (Kurt Wallander mystery. #9.)
By Laurie Thompson, Henning Mankell. 2014
Kurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house…
is accepted, only for him to uncover something unexpected in the garden - the skeleton of a middle-aged woman. As police officers comb the property, Wallander attempts to get his new life back on course by finding the woman's killer with the aid of his daughter, Linda. But when another discovery is made in the garden, Wallander is forced to delve further back into the area's past. Sequel to "Firewall", followed by "Troubled man". 2014. Uniform title: Handen.Stray bullets
By Robert Rotenberg. 2012
Outside a busy downtown Toronto doughnut shop on a snowy November evening, gunshots ring out and a young boy is…
critically hurt. Detective Ari Greene is soon on scene, investigating: how many shots were fired, by how many guns, seen by how many witnesses? With grieving parents and a city hungry for justice, the pressure is on to convict the man accused of this horrible crime. Against this tidal wave of indignation, defense counsel Nancy Parish finds herself defending her oldest and most difficult client, but does anyone know the whole story? Includes sex, strong language and violence. 2012.When the music's over (Inspector Alan Banks mystery. #23.)
By Peter Robinson. 2017
When the body of a 15-year-old is found in a remote countryside lane, beaten and broken, DI Annie Cabbot is…
brought in to investigate. Newly promoted Detective Superintendent Alan Banks is faced with a cold case. Now in her 60s, Linda Palmer was attacked aged 14 by celebrity entertainer Danny Caxton. As each steps closer to the truth, they'll unearth secrets darker than they could have guessed. 2017.Even dogs in the wild (Inspector Rebus. #21.)
By Ian Rankin. 2015
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is investigating the death of a senior lawyer during a robbery. But the case becomes more…
complex when a note is discovered, indicating that this may have been no random attack, and when local gangster Big Ger Cafferty receives an identical message, Clarke decides that the recently retired John Rebus may be able to help. He's the only man Cafferty will open up to, and together the two old adversaries might just stand a chance of saving Cafferty's skin. Sequel to "Saints of the Shadow Bible". 2015.The black box (Harry Bosch. #16.)
By Michael Connelly. 2012
When Harry Bosch finds the body of a female journalist executed in an alley, he cannot accept that he will…
never be able to bring her killer to justice, and her tragedy starts to eat into his soul. But then, 20 years later, Harry finds himself working in the Open Unsolved Unit, and suddenly the past comes back to haunt him once again, in a way he could never have imagined. Sequel to "Drop", followed by "Burning room". 2012.Watching the dark: An Inspector Banks Novel
By Peter Robinson. 2012
When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered, and compromising photographs are discovered, DCI Banks is called in to investigate.…
Working with Inspector Joanna Passero, they discover that Reid's murder may be linked to the disappearance of an English girl called Rachel Hewitt, in Tallinn, Estonia, six years earlier. Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot is investigating a migrant labor scam and a loan shark, and it soon becomes clear that things are linked in more ways than Banks ever imagined. 2012.The bone vault (Alexandra Cooper Mysteries Ser.)
By Linda A Fairstein. 2003
Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper investigates the murder of a museum curator whose mummified body turns up in an ancient sarcophagus…
just before it's shipped out of the country. Together with her partners, cops Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, she retraces Katrina Grooten's steps from her native South Africa to the discovery of her remains on a New Jersey pier. Along the way, the mysteries of the ancient world get equal billing with the more contemporary whodunit, and Cooper and her pals get a firsthand look at the murderous New York art world, too. 2003.The overlook: a novel (Harry Bosch series. #13.)
By Michael Connelly. 2007
Detective Harry Bosch and his new partner Ignacio "Iggy" Ferras are investigating the murder of physicist Stanley Kent on a…
Mulholland Drive overlook. Bosch's former lover, FBI agent Rachel Walling, soon tries to take over the case in the name of national security. Bestseller. Sequel to "Echo Park", followed by "Nine dragons". 2006.