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To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders. Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. ... (more)

Inspector Lynley: Book 3

Well-Schooled in Murder

by Elizabeth George

When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad's housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside... (more)

Adam Dalgliesh: Book 7

A TASTE FOR DEATH

by P. D. James

When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister... (more)

Scared To Live (SIGNED)

by Stephen Booth

Kissing the Gunner's Daughter

by Ruth Rendell

a triple murder in an elegant Kingsmarkham home baffles Chief Inspector Wexford as he tries to catch the demented killer before he strikes again. Reprint. PW. K. AB.

On Beulah Height (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries (Paperback))

On Beulah Height (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries (Paperback))

by Reginald Hill

Into thin air... Three little girls, one by one, had vanished from the farming village of Dendale. And Superintendent Andy Dalziel, a young detective in those days, never found their bodies--or the person who snatched them. Then the valley where Dendale stood was flooded to create a reservoir, and the town itself ceased to be . . . except in Dalziel's memory. Twelve years later, the threads of past and present... (more)

A Clubbable Woman (Dalziel & Pascoe Novel)

A Clubbable Woman (Dalziel & Pascoe Novel)

by Reginald Hill

Home from Rugby Club after taking a nasty knock in a match, Connon finds his wife even more uncommunicative than ususal. After passing out on his bed for five hours, he comes downstairs to discover communication has been cut off forever - by a hole in the middle of her forehead. Down at the club, passions run high, on and off the field. This is a home game for Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel who knows... (more)

Road Rage (A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery)

Road Rage (A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery)

by Ruth Rendell

The woods outside of Kingsmarkham were lovely, dark, and deep.Â Â And they were about to vanish forever when the new highway cut through them.Â Â While Chief Inspector Wexford privately despaired about the loss of his hiking grounds, local residents and outsiders were organizing a massive protest.Â Â Some of them were desperate enough to kidnap five hostages and threaten to kill them.Â Â One hostage was Wexford's... (more)

Harm Done: A New Inspector Wexford Mystery (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Harm Done: A New Inspector Wexford Mystery (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Ruth Rendell

The search for the body commenced. Then the victim walked into town. Behind the picture-postcard façade of Kingsmarkham lies a community rife with violence, betrayal, and a taste for vengeance. When sixteen-year-old Lizzie Cromwell reappears no one knows where she has been, including Lizzie herself. Inspector Wexford thinks she was with a boyfriend. But the disappearance of a three-year-old girl casts a more... (more)

Detective John Rebus: Book 4

Strip Jack

by Ian Rankin

When respected MP Gregor Jack is caught in a police raid on an Edinburgh brothel and his flamboyant wife Elizabeth suddenly disappears, John Rebus smells a set-up. And when Elizabeth's badly beaten body is found, Rebus is suddenly up against a killer who holds all the cards..

Detective John Rebus: Book 1

Knots and Crosses

by Ian Rankin

While investigating a series of gory killings of young, innocent girls, Edinburgh police detective John Rebus discovers his own ties to the killer and is brought up against his own memories. Reprint. AB. K.

Gallows View: The First Inspector Banks Mystery

Gallows View: The First Inspector Banks Mystery

by Peter Robinson

Former London policeman Alan Banks relocated to Yorkshire seeking some small measuer of peace. But depravity and violence are unfortunately not unique to large cities. His new venue, the quaint little village of Eastvale, seems to have more than its fair share of malefactors--among them a brazen Peeping Tom who hides in night's shadows spying on attractrive, unsuspecting ladies as they prepare for bed. And when an... (more)

Inspector Lynley: Book 4

A Suitable Vengeance

by Elizabeth George

Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride. But the savage... (more)

Inspector Lynley: Book 7

Playing for the Ashes

by Elizabeth George

"The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death. It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive." In her astonishing New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession. Playing for the Ashes is a rich tale of passion, murder and love in... (more)

Ruling Passion

by Reginald Hill

From Yorkshire to the sleepy village of Thornton Lacey is only a morning's drive, but for Detective Sergeant Peter Pascoe, the distance will close off part of his life forever. Motoring down for a reunion with old friends, he arrives to find not a welcome but a grisly triple murder. Out of his jurisdiction, Pascoe is in an untenable position: one of his oldest friends is wanted for murder, his boss is ordering him... (more)

The Wood Beyond (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries (Paperback))

The Wood Beyond (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries (Paperback))

by Reginald Hill

British inspectors Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe embark on their sixth outing, involving one of Pascoe's unsavory ancestors and the discovery of human bones on the grounds of a drug company's headquarters. Reprint. K. PW.

Sins of the Fathers (Formerly Titled : A New Lease of Death)

Sins of the Fathers (Formerly Titled : A New Lease of Death)

by Ruth Rendell

It was a brutal, vicious crime -- sixteen years old. A helpless old woman battered to death with an axe. Harry Painter hung for it, and Chief Inspector Wexford is certain they executed the right man. But Reverend Archery has doubts . . . because his son wants to marry the murderer's beautiful, brilliant daughter. He begins unravelling the past, only to discover that murder breeds murder -- and often conceals even... (more)

Not in the Flesh

by Ruth Rendell

A new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery from the author who Time magazine has called “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.” When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master’s first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at the going rate, this one truffle might be worth several hundred pounds. Then the dirt falls away to reveal not a precious... (more)

Inspector Lynley: Book 9

Deception on His Mind

by Elizabeth George

Balford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but growing Asian community, is found dead on its beach, his neck broken, sleepy Balford-le-Nez ignites. Working solo, without her long-time partner Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Sergeant Barbara Havers must probe not only the mind of a murderer and a case very close to her own heart, but the terrible price people... (more)

Let It Bleed : An Inspector Rebus Novel (Thorndike Large Print Mystery Series)

Let It Bleed : An Inspector Rebus Novel (Thorndike Large Print Mystery Series)

by Ian Rankin

In the dark days and biting windstorms of an Edinburgh winter, two drop-out kids dive off the towering Forth Road Bridge. A civic office is spattered by a grisly gun-blast. Two suicides and a murder that just don't add up, unless John Rebus can crunch the numbers. Following a trail that snakes through stark alleys and sad bars, shredded files and lacerated lives, Rebus finds himself up against an airtight,... (more)

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