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The Last Coyote (A Harry Bosch Novel)

by Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch's life is on the edge. His earthquake-damaged home has been condemned. His girlfriend has left him. He's drinking too much. And after attacking his commanding officer, he's even had to turn in his L.A.P.D. detective's badge. Now, suspended indefinitely pending a psychiatric evaluation, he's spending his time investigating an unsolved crime from 1961: the brutal slaying of a prostitute who happened to... (more)

Nancy Drew Mystery Stories: Book 2

The Hidden Staircase

by Carolyn Keene

Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion.

Harry Bosch: Book 1

The Black Echo

by Michael Connelly

Joined with a seductive FBI agent and pitted against enemies in his own department, Detective Harry Bosch must choose between justice and vengeance, as he tracks a killer whose true face will shock him. Reissue.

Terry McCaleb: Book 2

A Darkness More Than Night

by Michael Connelly

When a sheriff's detective shows up on former FBI man Terry McCaleb's Catalina Island doorstep and requests his help in analyzing photographs of a crime scene, McCaleb at first demurs. He's newly married (to Graciela, who herself dragged him from retirement into a case in Blood Work), has a new baby daughter, and is finally strong again after a heart transplant. But once a bloodhound, always a bloodhound. One look... (more)

Nancy Drew Mystery Stories: Book 1

The Secret of the Old Clock

by Carolyn Keene

Nancy Drew's keen mind is tested when she searches for a missing will.

Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries (Paperback))

Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries (Paperback))

by James Lee Burke

For detective Dave Robicheaux, memories -- including those of a strange and violent summer from his youth -- are best left alone. But a dying man's confession forces Robicheaux to resurrect a decades-old mystery with a missing woman at its heart. Her name may or may not have been Ida Durbin, and Robicheaux's half brother, Jimmie, paid a brutal price for entering her world. Now the truth will plunge Robicheaux into... (more)

Sanibel Flats

by Randy Wayne White

Its cool gulf breezes lured him from a life of danger. Its dark undercurrents threatened to destroy him. After ten years of living life on the edge, it was hard for Doc Ford to get that addiction to danger out of his system. But spending each day watching the sun melt into Dinkins Bay and the moon rise over the mangrove trees, cooking dinner for his beautiful neighbor, and dispensing advice to the locals over a... (more)

Chosen People (Alex Powell Novels)

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Close Case (Samantha Kincaid)

by Alafair Burke

Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid likes to be where the action is: at the scene of a crime, at the arrest of a suspect, with the cops on the Major Crimes Team. But when street smart, plugged-in reporter Percy Crenshaw is brutally murdered in the midst of pursuing a major story, she knows the stakes are high… Within days, cops have a suspect; then a confession. Yet Samantha suspects that something is... (more)

Excursion to Tindari: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery

Excursion to Tindari: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery

by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli

Following the long-running success he has enjoyed on bestseller lists in Europe, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is now winning over American readers and critics alike as "one of the most engaging protagonists in detective fiction" ( USA Today ). Now, in Excursion to Tindari, Andrea Camilleri’s savvy and darkly comic take on Sicilian life leads Montalbano into his most bone- chilling case yet. In two seemingly... (more)

Plain Brown Wrapper: An Alex Powell Novel (Alex Powell Novels)

Plain Brown Wrapper: An Alex Powell Novel (Alex Powell Novels)

by Karen Grigsby Bates

African-American reporter Alex Powell has the kind of curiosity that tends to get a nosy girl in big trouble. Luckily, she also has the wit and wiles to get out of it. But when Alex finds her boss, Everett Carson, dead at a black journalists' conference, she finds herself caught in a situation far nastier than normal ... and in grave danger. At least she's not alone. Fellow journalist and old friend Paul Butler... (more)

Tropic of Night

by Michael Gruber

"Just when it looks as if detective fiction has plowed every gory, suspenseful possibility, along comes a novel that raises the stakes on the genre. Tropic of Night introduces the killer as enchanter, a conjurer schooled in African sorcery. This witch floats through the story literally unseen by his victims, whom he forces to see and hear only what he wants them to. It's a frightening concept executed with poetic... (more)

The Voice of the Violin: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery

The Voice of the Violin: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery

by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli

Inspector Montalbano, praised as "a delightful creation" ( USA Today ), has been compared to the legendary detectives of Georges Simenon, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler. As the fourth mystery in the internationally bestselling series opens, Montalbano’s gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are... (more)

Judgment Calls: A Mystery

by Alafair Burke

After three years on the job in Portland's Drug and Vice Division, Deputy DA Samantha Kincaid gets what she wants: her first case with the Major Crimes Team. Kendra Martin, a 13-year-old runaway, has been found drugged, viciously assaulted, and left for dead in the Columbia River Gorge. Despite pressures to kick the case to assault, Samantha goes for attempted murder. Unfortunately the girl's story isn't gelling.... (more)

The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)

The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)

by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli

Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic take on Sicilian life. Montalbano's latest case begins with a mysterious têtê à têtê with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. There, the inspector finds two young lovers, dead for fifty years and still... (more)

Nancy Drew Mystery Stories: Book 16

The Clue of the Tapping Heels

by Carolyn Keene

Ms. Carter, an old lady who has a mysterious tapper and a cat thief on the loose at her house, is very frail and needs help from Nancy Drew and her friends.

Always

by Nicola Griffith

Aud Torvingen is back-contemporary fiction's toughest, most emotionally complicated noir hero returns to teach a new round of lessons in hard-hitting justice, and to confront new adversaries: her own vulnerability and desire. The steely shell of Nicola Griffith's seemingly indomitable protagonist Aud Torvingen appears to be cracking. The six-foot-tall fury (who proved in The Blue Place and Stay that she... (more)

Dark End of the Street

by Ace Atkins

The plan is simple. A favor really. All Nick Travers, a former professional football player turned professor, has to do is drive up Highway 61 from New Orleans to Memphis and track down the lost brother of one of his best friends. But as Travers knows, these simple jobs seldom turn out smoothly. His friend's brother is Clyde James, who, in 1968, was one of the finest soul singers Memphis had to offer. But when... (more)

Missing Justice : A Samantha Kincaid Mystery

Missing Justice : A Samantha Kincaid Mystery

by Alafair Burke

Newly promoted Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid's first assignment back after a much-needed vacation is a hot one: Judge Clarissa Easterbrook has gone missing from a wealthy Portland neighborhood, and Sam has to make the DA look good until the prodigal judge returns. Yet it soon becomes clear that the woman didn't vanish voluntarily-and it's no surprise when her bludgeoned body turns up at a local... (more)

The Patience of the Spider

by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli

The latest mystery in Andrea Camilleri’s internationally bestselling Inspector Montalbano series Winning fans in Europe and America for their dark sophistication and dry humor, Andrea Camilleri’s crime novels are classics of the genre. Set once again in Sicily, The Patience of the Spider pits Inspector Montalbano against his greatest foe yet: the weight of his own years. Still recovering from the... (more)

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