How do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory? It's one of Kinsey's toughest cases yet, but she never backs down from a challenge. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Callahan is lucky to be alive after a car forced his Porsche over a bridge and into a canyon. The crash left Bobby with a clouded memory. But he can't shake the feeling it was no random accident and that he's still in danger…
C IS FOR CRIME
The only clues Kinsey has to go on are a little red address book and the name "Blackman." Bobby can't remember who he gave the address book to for safekeeping. And any chances of Bobby regaining his memory are dashed when he's killed in another automobile accident just three days after he hires Kinsey.
C IS FOR CORPSE
As Kinsey digs deeper into her investigation, she discovers Bobby had a secret worth killing for―and unearthing that secret could send Kinsey to her own early death…
Лоренс Блок3.9 Мэтт Скаддер, в прошлом нью-йоркский полицейский, а ныне частный детектив и завсегдатай кабаков, становится свидетелем вооруженного ограбления бара братьев Моррисси. Братья просят Мэтта выследить грабителей без лишнего шума и не привлекая к делу полицию. В то же самое время убивают жену знакомого Мэтта, а у его друга пропадают важные документы. Скаддер начинает расследование всех трех дел..
Джон Лутц0.0 Tropical Heat is a first-rate detective story. Fred Carver, an Orlando cop until a gunman's bullet shattered his kneecap, acquires a cane and a new career, private investigating. From beach resorts and luxury condos, to the swamps and smuggler's coves of the Everglades, Carver looks for a man who police think committed suicide. Mysterious coincidences follow, Carver's life is threatened and he falls for his client, Edwina Talbot. Deception and confusion make the case into a maze, until bitter betrayal provided an explosive vehicle for a surprising climax.
Nancy Pickard0.0 Bright and beautiful Jenny Cain, director of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, was dying of curiosity. A hapless visitor had slipped in the mud at the town's historic cemetery--and fallen right into an empty grave!When Jenny discovered that all the graves were vacant, it was the beginning of murder.Now Jenny has to dig up some answers, and fast--before the killer leaves her silent as a tomb!
Джонатан Валин0.0 Cincinnati Cougars' Billy Parks was All-Pro and a hero to many...and now he’s missing. P.I. Harry Stoner's job is to find him, as hired by the Cougars who say Billy's disappearing act is part of a contract dispute. Leads in the form of Parks’ soon-to-be-cut teammate Bluerock and a pretty little number from a dance club point to some questionable influences in Parks’ life, including Cougars’ management, a reverend, agents, his mother, a pregnant stripper-turned-holly-roller girlfriend – and there seems to be something more much more deadly at hand that a contract renegotiation.
Bill Crider0.0 Everyone knew her. A lot of them like her. One of them killed her. Jeanne Clinton was a pretty and well-liked woman - though in her younger days she'd been known to be a bit wild. But she married an older man and settled down to a quiet, respectable life. Now she is dead, brutally murdered in her home. Dan Rhodes, the thoughtful, hard-working sheriff of Blacklin County, Texas, has enough to worry about already: a rash of burglaries in town and an election coming up against a hot-shot opponent. Now he's got to find a killer among the residents of his little town - a wily killer, bound and determined not to be caught. The deeper Rhodes digs into the hearts and minds of his neighbors, the more secrets he turned up...and the more violence he encounters. But Rhodes doesn't give up easily. And neither does the killer.
Joan Hess0.0 She would have killed for a bestseller--but someone beat her to it...
Professor of Passion, the smutty new romance from Mildred Twiller--a.k.a. Azalea Twilight--isn't the kind of book Claire Malloy likes to hock at her bookstore, but Claire agrees to host a book party for her friend's trashy tale. As torrid as the novel is, it's nothing compared to the evening. After the party, poor Mildred is found dead in her home--strangled with a tightly knotted silk scarf. Now it's up to Claire to find Mildred's killer, and it won't be easy--the two-bit author had offended nearly every faculty member she worked with at nearby Faber College. But who could have hated Mildred with such smoldering passion?
Faye Kellerman0.0 The quiet, ordered world of a yeshiva in the California hills is shattered when a woman is brutally raped as she returns from the mikvah, the bathhouse where women perform their cleansing ritual. Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD has never heard anything like it. And although most of the community refuses to talk to him, Rina Lazarus, the only witness, does, steering him through the maze of confusing religious laws that thwart his investigation at every turn. As the trail grows cold, Decker's only getting closer to Rina and not to the rapist--or is he? Maybe Rina wa the intended victim all along. And the rapist may not stop with rape the next time...
Joseph Koenig0.0 In this stunning debut, crime reporter Joseph Koenig weaves a gripping psychological thriller in which a relentless sheriff hunts an elusive and vicious criminal who stalks his victims with savage intensity and then kills them one by one.
Mike Lupica0.0 When an ex-girlfriend--a former Miss America turned television commentator--is reported missing and presumed dead, Peter Finley, an investigative journalist for a New York cable TV station, trails the clues that lead to a powerful Christian cable TV network.
Роберт Райт Кэмпбелл0.0 ***Edgar Award Winner*** - The Junkyard Dog -- Chicago is Jimmy Flannery's kind of town. A tough Irishman with street smarts, he's part of a political machine that runs on favors and friendships. Flannery's particular piece of the patronage is the 27th Ward, and anything that happens there is his business. Even murder.
So when an antiabortion demonstration ends with a bomb blast that kills a pretty young girl and an old woman, Flannery takes it personally. But someone's stonewalling the investigation, and Flannery's starting to wonder if the bombing was political, or as a cover-up for murder. Something smells rotten -- from the Gold Coast to the South Side. And when the killer goes after Flannery's lady love, Flannery doesn't just get mad -- he gets as mean as a junkyard dog -- on the scent of the dirty politics mixed with passion and revenge, a very deadly combination . . .
Лилиан Джексон Браун4.2 Действие в романе "Кот, который зверел от красного" происходит в так называемой "Мышеловке", где появляются повар Роберт Маус, репортер Квиллер и, конечно же, наши старые знакомые Коко и Юм-Юм. Кулинарные страсти оборачиваются зловещим убийством.
J. A. Jance0.0 The dead body discovered in a Seattle dumpster was shocking enough--but equally disturbing was the manner of death. The victim, a high school coach, had been lynched, leaving behind a very pregnant wife to grieve over his passing, and to wonder what dark and disturbing secrets he took to his grave. A homicide detective with twenty years on the job, J.P. Beaumont knows this case is a powder keg and he fears where this investigation will lead him. Because the answers lie on the extreme lethal edge of passion and hate, where the wrong kind of love can breed the most terrible brand of justice.
Just when the leader of an erotic ecstasy cult dies in writhing agony...when the beautiful wife of a Mafia prince hits hubby where it hurts the most...and when the kinky daughter of a super-straight broadcast executive threatens to make nightmare news...Trace's luscious, blackjack-dealing, semi-hooking girlfriend Chico decides to trade in his body for a better model...
Now Trace needs all the help he cant get---from a kooky pair of cops named Razoni and Jackson. From the street-smarts of his still hard-as-nails dad. And of course he needs Chico to come back with her own special brand of aid and comfort. Maybe then he can separate the goodies from the baddies in a Big Apple scene that's rotten to the core...and wrap up three deadly mysteries in one blood-red bow...
