Category: Crime

By Iris Johansen

Do you continue to pass over your little Bonnie? This one sentence, spoken by means of a male voice in nameless cellphone name, is all it takes to pull Eve Duncan correct again to that frightening second years in the past while her in simple terms daughter vanished and not using a hint. for the reason that then, Eve's lifestyles has develop into an obsession to discover her daughter's is still. just one man―a fantastic, ruthless killer―knows the reality approximately what occurred to Bonnie. yet taunting Eve may be his first and final mistake…

For Eve is armed with greater than simply her expertise as a forensic sculptor. She brings along with her former army SEAL Joe Quinn, an Atlanta detective who will do something to assist Eve placed the ache of Bonnie's loss of life to relaxation. no matter if he has to mislead the girl he cares concerning the such a lot. or even if this killer desires not anything greater than to trap Eve more and more into his swamp of madness…

By Cecilia Peartree

This is often the second one in a chain of quirky secret novels set in a small city in Scotland.
When Jemima Stevenson is helping to organise a Pitkirtly Homecoming day she has no concept that she has invited a few of her long-lost cousins into possibility.
Reunited in dying is a cautionary story for relatives historians and an wonderful learn for others. Don't put out of your mind, there are a few relations events you won't are looking to installed your scrapbook!

A neighborhood librarian is going lacking. simply as family members researchers from the world over assemble in Pitkirtly, information arrives that her physique has been present in the river. The Homecoming day needs to pass forward as it's too overdue to cancel, yet sooner than lengthy a homicide occurs. because the police investigations get less than means, Jemima and her buddies race to do the study that they desire will discover the key at the back of the deaths prior to the assassin catches up with Jemima herself.

A Publisher's Weekly evaluate acknowledged of this novel:
'An not going forged of endearingly eccentric characters distinguish this offbeat secret set in Pitkirtly, an safely quirky city at the Scottish coast....Memorable characters, pleasant notice photographs -- an assistant librarian "looked like a bit of chewed string" -- and understated humor spotlight a singular with actual promise.'

By Nevada Barr

Anna Pigeon is in ny to appear after her hospitalized sister, and explores the Statue of Liberty in her spare time. but if a teenage woman falls to her demise from Liberty's ledge, Anna wonders if the suicide was once really a homicide-and starts off an research that places her within the line of fireside.

By M. C. Beaton

By Faye Kellerman

“A well-tangled net of intrigue and murder.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“Kellerman normally rides excessive within the bestseller lists…Blindman’s Bluff exhibits why.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

One of the preferred in modern crime fiction, LAPD murder detective Peter Decker and his spouse Rina Lazarus are again in Blindman’s Bluff—and put in harm’s manner within the wake of a bad domestic invasion and brutal a number of homicide. writer Faye Kellerman, whose novels perennially live to tell the tale the New York Times bestseller record, proves once more that “no one operating within the crime style is healthier” (Baltimore Sun) with this twisty, brilliant shocker.

By Jeffrey Archer

On August nine, 2001, 22 days after Archer--now referred to as Prisoner FF8282--was sentenced to 4 years in felony for perjury, he was once transferred from a greatest safeguard felony in London to HMP Wayland, a medium protection felony in Norfolk. For the subsequent sixty seven days, as he waited to be reclassified for an "open," minimal defense criminal, he encountered not just the day-by-day degradations of a dangerously overstretched legal approach but in addition the spirit and braveness of his fellow inmates.
Purgatory: a jail Diary, quantity 2, is Archer's frank, stunning, occasionally funny, occasionally frightening account of these sixty seven days.

By Iris Johansen

Catherine Ling is likely one of the CIA's such a lot prized operatives. Raised at the unforgiving streets of Hong Kong, she was once pulled into the corporation on the age of fourteen, already having amassed extra perception and secrets and techniques than the main pro execs in her global. If lifestyles has taught her whatever, it isn't to get connected, yet there are exceptions to that rule: her son Luke and her mentor Hu Chang. while Luke used to be abducted on the age of 2, it approximately broke her. Now, 9 years later, her son has astonishingly been back to her and Catherine vows by no means to fail him back. but if her activity pulls her clear of domestic, she is determined by the bright and lethal Hu Chang to protect Luke in her absence. Now Erin Sullivan, an American journalist with mysterious ties to Hu Chang, has been abducted in Tibet. If Catherine does not conform to spearhead the CIA rescue undertaking, she is aware that Hu Chang himself will cross, feasible she cannot probability. yet she is going to be dealing with a monster whose crimes stretch again 40 years, continuously eluding the CIA. And the activity grows much more complex whilst Catherine meets Richard Cameron, a intended best friend who is in actual fact now not telling all he is familiar with. Their charm is rapid, yet Catherine isn't really in any respect convinced that he could be depended on. If she will rescue this journalist with a narrative worthy killing for, she'll have to hold Cameron very shut. From the treacherous panorama of the Himalayas to the twisting again alleys of San Francisco, the clock is ticking for Catherine and people she loves so much. At each flip she faces a ruthless enemy who's made up our minds to maintain the reality buried, whether it implies that none of them reside to determine the next day, during this novel from bestseller Iris Johansen.

By Cecilia Peartree

A Reformed personality is the 3rd novel within the Pitkirtly sequence of light-hearted mysteries. Can an individual ever relatively switch? Christopher and Amaryllis ask themselves this query whilst a tender guy they already be aware of as a troublemaker knocks on the door in their vacation caravan one rainy day. Their try and solution it takes them and their neighbors on a perilous trip from a Pitkirtly ice-cream store to a knitting membership after which to a cattery earlier than it reaches a dangerous end in an previous railway backyard.

By Martina Cole

Not anyone thinks a seventeen-year-old lady can tackle the tough males of London's gangland, yet it is a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's difficult, smart and gorgeous - which makes her one very risky girl. jointly, she and her brother Michael are unbeatable yet notoriety has its fee. The police are made up our minds to place away Maura as soon as and for all - and never each person within the family members imagine that is this kind of undesirable notion. in terms of the crunch, Maura has to stand the ache of misplaced love in her previous - and the harmful woman discovers her center isn't really make completely of stone.

By Rex Stout

Referred to as upon to enquire a sinister "accident" related to nationwide protection, Nero Wolfe needs to set the traps that would seize the pair of wily killers dependable.