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A hand is found sticking out of the dirt at a construction site, and Joe Gunther's detective squad begins research into who the victim was, how he was killed, who might have done it, and why. But before they know it, several more people are dead, including one of the town's biggest drug dealers, and others are implicated in a variety of illegal activities, from members of the ruling elite to one of the police department's very own. Hampered by the...
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This volume includes 13 stories from the Tuesday Club Murder series, 1 story from the Regatta Mystery, 4 stories from the Three Blind Mice stories, and 2 stories from Double Sin. This is the complete series of short stories Agatha Christie wrote which feature Miss Jane Marple.
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Retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch, working as a private investigator, becomes mired in a case linked with the cops, FBI, and an international terrorist when he decides to pursue the unsolved murder of a young Hollywood production assistant which was put on the back burner when the theft of an armored car days later took center stage.
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A new murder mystery series, set in London in 1932, begins with Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line to the British throne. Her family is flat broke, because the taxes following the death of her father stripped them of everything but the real estate and some furnishings. Her brother Binky lives in the family castle in Scotland with his shrewish wife Fig. Her mother is a bolter who rarely remembers she has a daughter. So Georgie...
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Malcolm Fox works in the Complaints and Conduct Department, which investigates cops. Fox has other issues to cope with beyond the demands of his work: an increasingly frail father in a care home and a sister in an abusive relationship. Fox is to investigate Jamie Breck, and finds there is more to Breck than anyone thinks. When a murder intervenes too close to home, Fox discovers just how dangerous Breck can be. [From publisher's description]
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Using the basic facts concerning the 1940s' notorious and yet unsolved Black Dahlia case, Ellroy creates a kaleidoscope of human passion and dark obsession. A young woman's mutilated body is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The story is seen through the eyes of Bucky Bleichert, ex-prize fighter and something of a boy wonder on the police force. There is no relief or humor as Bleichert arrives at a grisly discovery. Ellroy's powerful rendering...
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After a devastating explosion destroys a city bus, quadriplegic forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme is called to investigate. As the attacks continue, Rhyme and his team race to find whoever is responsible for the carnage. Meanwhile, Rhyme is also consulting on a case in Mexico, where a long-time nemesis, the Watchmaker, continues to elude authorities. With his health failing him, Rhyme must solve crack both cases before the body count rises.
10) Brimstone
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Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is grotesquely high; he is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside; the smell of brimstone is everywhere ... and the unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As more bodies are discovered--their only connection the bizarre but identical manner of death--the world begins to wonder if the Devil has, is fact, come to collect his due....
12) Relic
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Years after archaeologists were savagely murdered in failed expedition to the Amazon, a New York museum plans to exhibit some of the salvaged specimens. Just days before the opening it is clear that someone or something is lurking in the museum and is eager to kill. Graduate student Margo Green uncovers a link with an unusual figurine.
14) Velocity
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Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice...
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"Gregor Demarkian grew up in the Armenian-American enclave in Philadelphia known as Cavanaugh Street. Even though he left to go to college, and then went on to a storied career in the famous Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI, he eventually returned to Cavanaugh Street after an early retirement. There he finds himself in a rapidly gentrifying urban neighborhood that still retains some of the friends, institutions, and flavor of the immigrant neighborhood...
19) Cold vengeance
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"A bonding trip for Pendergast and his brother-in-law, Judson Esterhazy, turns violent. Before abandoning a mortally-wounded Pendergast, Esterhazy announces his sister, Pendergast's long-dead wife Helen, is alive"--Provided by publisher.
20) A thin dark line
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In Louisiana, Deputy Sheriff Annie Broussard catches Detective Renard beating a man the whole town believes is guilty of murder even though a court acquitted him. Annie arrests Renard, only to become ostracized by the town and suspended from the police department. But Renard too is suspended and in a twist of fate the pair must join forces to investigate the murder anew.
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