Peter Lovesey4.1 A rare stamp and a corpse are discovered in Bath within hours of each other. As he investigates, Inspector Peter Diamond discovers that both the person who found the stamp and the victim belong to the Bloodhounds, an elite group of mystery lovers, who now urge Diamond to bring the murderer to justice. But there’s a hitch: the body lies inside a padlocked houseboat and the only key is in the pocket of a man with an airtight alibi
Маргарет Лоуренс0.0 The physical and emotional scars of the Revolutionary War are an important part of this tremendous new first mystery -- the most exciting debut since Laurie R. King and The Beekeeper's Apprentice. Like King's Mary Russell, the heroine of Lawrence's book is an unconventional woman, unwilling to be forced into an historical mold. Hannah Trevor is a gifted, educated midwife who carries wisdom and sorrow with her in equal measures: one husband and three children dead, another daughter born out of wedlock and deaf. When a young woman is raped and murdered, leaving behind a note that implicates her daughter's father, Hannah is the only person in the small Maine town of Rufford with enough insight and experience to uncover the truth.
Thomas Perry0.0 When eight-year-old Timothy Decker finds his parents brutally murdered, it's clear the Deckers weren't the intended victims: Timothy's own room--ransacked, all traces of his existence expertly obliterated *is the shocking evidence. Timothy's nanny, Mona, is certain about only one thing. Timmy needs to disappear, fast.
Only Jane Whitefield, a Native American "guide" who specializes in making victims vanish, can lead him to safety. But diverting Jane's attention is Mary Perkins, a desperate woman with S&L fraud in her past. Stalking Mary is a ruthless predator determined to find her *and the fortune she claims she doesn't have. Jane quickly creates a new life for Mary and jumps back on Timmy's case . . . not knowing that the two are fatefully linked to one calculating killer. . . .
Reginald Hill0.0 The old trick of splitting a central character into two very different parts and using the tension to create literary sparks has worked for writers as diverse as Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin) and Patrick O'Brian (Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin).
Nobody in the mystery field does it better these days than Hill, whose down-and-dirty Inspector Dalziel (pronounced Dah-eel in the A&E TV series) jigs and jousts wonderfully with his smart, sensitive sidekick Pascoe.
Their latest outing is one of the best in the series, with Pascoe digging up some old bones and family secrets from his own past.
Рошелл Майер Крич0.0 Murder is always heinous, but when two Los Angeles women attorneys are found dead with their tongues cut out, it's downright gruesome. And for criminal defense attorney Debra Laslow the killings are even more horrifying ... because she's suspected of doing them. The daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, Debra treads a fine line between her moral beliefs and the dictates of the law. Often she consults with her father about any possible conflicts between her job and her religion, and the Talmud usually provides an interesting, if not always easy, answer. Now Debra's defending a doctor accused of date rape by his receptionist. Although Debra believes the doctor's innocent, the young woman she will cross-examine - and possibly humiliate in open court - belongs to her close-knit Orthodox community. She may even ruin the woman's chances of marriage. And if the doctor is guilty and Debra wins the case, she'll be responsible for an even crueler injustice.
Thomas H. Cook0.0 Attorney Henry Griswald has a secret: the truth behind the tragic events the world knew as the Chatham School Affair, the controversial tragedy that destroyed five lives, shattered a quiet community, and forever scarred the young boy. Layer by layer, in The Chatham School Affair, Cook paints a stunning portrait of a woman, a school, and a town in which passionate violence seems impossible...and inevitable. "Thomas Cook's night visions, seen through a lens darkly, are haunting," raved the New York Times Book Review, and The Chatham School Affair will cement this superb writer's position as one of crime fiction's most prodigious talents, a master of the unexpected ending.
Чарльз Тодд3.9 Июнь 1919 года. Инспектор Иен Ратлидж, получивший контузию в Первой мировой войне, вернулся в Скотленд-Ярд. Он пока еще не чувствует в себе достаточных сил, так необходимых для тяжелого расследования, которое на него возложили. Но служба есть служба. Он отправляется в небольшой городок Аппер-Стритем, где жестоко убит герой войны полковник Харрис. Найти убийцу - не только дело чести для Ратлиджа. Это еще и важное политическое задание, потому что за расследованием с пристрастием следят в Букингемском дворце.
Майкл К. Уайт0.0 This extraordinarily engrossing literary mystery exposes a little-known chapter of 20th century history -- the detention in the U.S. of nearly 400,000 German prisoners of war during World War II. The landscape of rural Maine provided a surreal sort of shelter for these most reviled casualties during the war. While many prisoners served their time peacefully enough, some escaped and others -- like the brother of Wolfgang Kallick -- were simply reported to have died.
"A Brother's Blood" commences decades after the war, with Wolfgang Kallick's arrival in America to learn the details of his brother Dieter's death. When he discovers that Dieter escaped from the camp and was found dead months later, he vows to find out how his brother died. Libby, a flinty local woman who grew up during the war, is drawn into the drama, only to find that her family is implicated. After her brother is slain, Libby undertakes her own quest for solutions to both deaths -- suspecting they are somehow related -- and exposes a darkness beyond her imagining
Джеймсон Коул0.0 There's not much danger evident in Bob White, Oklahoma, in 1957. In a small town where doors are left unlocked at night, everyone knows your name, and alcohol is strictly forbidden, it's difficult even for a fifteen-year-old boy to get in trouble. But Mark Stoddard has his ways, and with the help of his best friend Ferret and Ferret's newly arrived tomboy cousin TJ, Mark is determined to spice up his summer - and win the respect of his older brother Jess, the local deputy sheriff - by catching a local bootlegger, an evil old man with a deadly grudge against Jess. When a man is murdered, and Jess looks like a suspect, Mark must catch the real killer and clear his brother's name, learning some hard truths in the process.
Ян Глейтер0.0 Lie Down with Dogs is the story of two people caught up in events they can neither understand nor control. Successful Chicago businessman Robert Cooper dislikes inconvenience, challenges to his authority, and dogs, but he must deal with all of these and more when he befriends a small boy late at night on a desolate country road and is thrown into uneasy partnership with the boy's caretaker, Lisa Jacobi, and her enormous Bernese Mountain Dog. Cooper and the independent Lisa have just one thing in common: the protection of young Luke from the people who are after him. And the two have almost no knowledge of who could be after the boy or why. What Lisa does know is that Luke's widowed father, Carl McCain, an old college friend, brought the boy to her rural cabin and begged her to keep Luke till he returned. Then Carl disappeared. When the hard-eyed men show up, Lisa and Cooper's flight begins. Together they search desperately for the source of the danger threatening the boy. In the process they discover evidence of a well-organized conspiracy and - as their reluctant partnership stirs emotions they have protected for too long - of unexpected things about themselves.
Г. Д. Джерино0.0 A magical novel whose hero, like Forrest Gump, enchants with his uncanny ability to be a key player in every important event in his small Southern town. Ignored, ridiculed, trapped and empowered by his silence, he sees and hears all. And what the deaf-mute hears are everybody's secrets--except his own.
Сьюзан Уэйд0.0 Walking Rain is one of the best debut novels of the year.--Mary Willis Walker, author of Under the Beetle's CellarEight years had passed since fate left its mark on her grandfather's ranch. Shedding her new name and identity, Amelia Rawlins came out of anonymity and back home--a place of childhood memories, a place where she could walk with her grandfather's spirit and carry on his work. But the horrors of the past also found a home there, and her return didn't escape the vengeful eyes of someone who thought Amelia had no right to be spared on that long-ago dreadful day.
Харлан Кобен4.1 Когда-то Майрон Болитар и Грег Даунинг соперничали и на баскетбольной площадке, и в любви... И теперь именно Майрону, спортивному агенту и талантливому детективу-любителю, предстоит расследовать загадочное исчезновение Грега, ставшего за эти годы звездой профессионального баскетбола.
Владелец клуба, за который играл Грег, не хочет ни скандала, ни вмешательства полиции. Болитар вскоре узнает, что исчезнувшего Грега шантажировала некая особа, именующая себя Карлой Уитни.
Однако прежде чем Болитару удается поговорить с Карлой, ее жестоко убивают...
Виллетта Л. Хейсинг0.0 A reader's guide and checklist for Mystery Series written by women.More than 600 series detectives created by women over 3400 mystery titles in correct series order titles indexed by mystery type and series setting more than 500 new titles released in 1994 and 1995.
