Tony Hillerman0.0 Navajo Tribal Police Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn investigate murders that lead them into spine-tingling and mystical world of Navajo witchcraft. Three unsolved homicides and an attempt on Chee's life have left the Navajo Tribal Police baffled. Are the murders somehow connected, although they occurred 120 miles apart? Or are they random acts of violence? Chee and Leaphorn's efforts to solve the seemingly unrelated individual crimes leave them with clues that point toward one suspect, in this suspenseful mystery.
Линда Барнс0.0 The first book in the Carlotta Carlyle series!
Linda Barnes's A Trouble of Fools is the book that introduced readers to ex-Boston cop and PI Carlotta Carlyle, who knows trouble when she sees it like the old Irish lady offering a grand in cash to find her brother...
TROUBLE…
Since being bounced from the Boston police for insubordination after six years of service, Carlotta Carlyle has set up shop as a private investigator ready to deal with anything from lost pets to substantially grander larcenies. Though Carlotta, a six-foot-tall, redheaded ex cop, part-time cabbie, and neophyte private eye, works out of her home, it's rare that clients stop by unannounced. Especially clients like the genteel, reserved, elderly spinster Miss Margaret Devens.
ALWAYS COMES…
With cash flow problems and a caseload so light that she's taken to reading her cat's mail, Carlotta accepts the case of Miss Devens's missing brother Eugene. Oddly enough, Carlotta knew Eugene when they worked together back at Green and White Cab. As far as Carlotta sees it, this case should be a pinch--until two thugs looking for money send her client to the hospital.
WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT…
The old lady's missing brother seems to have been involved in something much more dangerous than simply driving a cab. Carlotta is determined to do whatever it takes?work the cops, pose as a hooker, and even drive a cab again--to find Eugene before it's too late.
"She is one of the most sparkling, most irresistible heroines ever to grace the pages of a whodunit."
?Chicago Sun-Times
"All elements are skillfully woven together in a book that has just about everything."
--Denver Post
Aaron J. Elkins0.0 "The Skeleton Detective" is called to a French isle soon after an aristocrat drowns. But he soon finds that the case is eerily connected to another murder--way back during the Nazi Occupation of World War II France.
But the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions instead. A quick glance at the blood-stained envelope is all the proof she needs that something is horribly wrong.
The picture itself is familiar: a woman adorned in the gold of Troy. Yet this isn't the famous photograph of Frau Schliemann—no, this picture is contemporary. The gold, as Vicky and her fellow academics know, disappeared at the end of World War II.
Now this circle of experts is gathered for a festive Bavarian Christmas. All of them—including the mysterious John Smythe and a very determined killer...
Nancy Pickard0.0 When Jenny Cain's future husband, policeman Geof Bushfield becomes disillusioned by all the domestic violence occuring in Port Frederick between husbands and wives, it is up to Jenny to help Geof find the answer.
Джиллиан Робертс0.0 Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.
Anthony Award winner for Best First Mystery Novel -- the debut of the Philadelphia-set Amanda Pepper
series.
Amanda Pepper, English teacher at Philly Prep, does not hate her life. But when a fellow teacher who's engaged to a senate candidate, begs for rest on Amanda's couch, then dies, things could be better. Then the police suspect her of murder, she begins her own investigation, and ends by teaching a certain blue-eyed cop a thing or two....
Майкл Аллегретто0.0 Both Allegretto and his private eye, Jacob Lomax, make their debuts here in a thriller set in Denver. Lomax is the narrator of events generated by Maryanne Townsend, who hires him to prove her husband Phillip was murdered. A rich oilman, Phillip drove his Jaguar off a mountain road to his death, accidentally or purposefully, the police declare. But Lomax earns his fee, recklessly jousting with brutal bikers Leonard Reese and a monstrous pal known as ''Tiny,'' as well as others in the city's underbelly. Finding a porno videocassette that shows Townsend raping a minor, abetted by two women, the detective suspects blackmail. He locates one of the performers in a porn shop and she gives him news that leads to a deadly encounter with Reese. Holding Maryanne Townsend and her small daughter hostage, the killer is waiting to dispose of them and Kemp at the novel's improbable climax. Allegretto has the talent to invent more credible and exciting adventures for his wise-cracking series hero, who doesn't quite fulfill his promise here.
Роберт Дж. Боуман0.0 South of Market is San Francisco's sleazy underside, populated by winos and derelicts, drug dealers and an occasional advocate for the poor and dispossessed. Cassandra Thorpe is one of these. A burned-out public defender, she is about to leave for the quiet rewards of a law practice in Santa Rosa when a charming old gent walks into her office with a briefcase full of coded, multicolored graphs and intimations that the owner of a shelter for the homeless is less philanthropic than he appears. Cass is drawn into a vortex of events involving a land-development scheme, two fires (one the possible arson of a local bar and the other the midnight torching of the bar's now-homeless owner in a park), a persistent myth about treasure buried under the demolished bar's parking lot and the city's organized crime network. Besides the redoubtable and compassionate Cass, who fixes old jukeboxes as a hobby, characters include her weak, opportunistic former husband, her mother (who runs a local diner), a spaced-out blond giant with an urge to violence and the large, ever-varied cast of San Francisco's indigent. This is a complicated and satisfying first effort; readers will look forward to seeing more of Cassandra Thorpe.
Mary Monica Pulver0.0 The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is a group of enthusiasts who research and selectively re-create the Middle Ages for knowledge and for fun. At their events, they wear historical clothing and call each other by medieval-style character names. Once a year, they meet to display their handiwork and stage a mock medieval war.
In Murder at the War, policeman Peter Brichter (known in the SCA as Stefan von Helle) and his wife, Kori (known as Katherine of Tretower) go to the war for the fun. But the revelry turns deadly serious when a known troublemaker, Thorstane Shieldbreaker, is actually murdered. The local police, anxious to find the culprit, turn their attention to Peter and Kori as suspects once they find the two have quarreled with Thorstane. It is up to Lord Stefan and Lady Katherine, with their inside knowledge of the SCA, to clear their names and solve the crime.
Although this is the first published book in the series (originally known as "Knightfall", it is second in the series chronology.
Лес Робертс0.0 #1 in the Saxon series. Introducing L.A.-based private eye Saxon. A transplanted Easterner trying to make it as an actor, Saxon stay solvent (and sane) between roles by running an investigating agency. When someone takes a potshot at famous pulp detective writer Buck Weldon, Saxon agrees to help—especially after meeting Weldon’s tall blonde daughter. Turns out, the writer’s enemy list is longer than some of his novels and is headed by his agent, his publisher, and one of the biggest producers in Hollywood. Baffling leads involve a major cocaine dealer and a professor specializing in private eye literature. Saxon’s investigation takes him from Westwood to Palm Springs and back to the San Fernando Valley before its violent culmination in a backwater Mexican village on the Baja peninsula.
Роберт Крейс3.7 Частный детектив Элвис Коул, ветеран вьетнамской войны, собирает фигурки сверчка Джимини Крикета и плакаты из мультиков Диснея. И хотя Элвис решил для себя, что не стоит становиться взрослым, он носит при себе "дэн-вессон" тридцать восьмого калибра и может вырубить любого, сжав в кулаке банковскую упаковку пятинентовиков. Его напарник, Джо Пайк, бывший спецназовец и полицейский, уволенный за превышение полномочий, готов в любой заварушке до последнею стоять плечом к плечу рядом с Элвисом. Тем более в тот момент, когда им противостоит наркомафия, похитившая ни в чем не повинного мальчугана.
Роберт Крейс - автор сериала об Элвисе Коулс, самом популярном частном детективе последнего десятилетия. Его книги продолжают печататься и перепечатываться огромными тиражами, они получали премии Энтони и Эдгара По, номинировались на многие другие престижные премии и не раз удостаивались титула "Лучшая книга года".
Лилиан Джексон Браун4.1 Квиллер получает приглашение отдохнуть в коттедже у озера. Стремясь насладиться прелестями дикой природы, он отправляется на рыбалку и выуживает труп...
Carolyn G. Hart0.0 Mystery Bookstore owner Annie Laurance is well-acquainted with murder, but she never imagined one taking place on her honeymoon! A marvelous spoof of New Age mumbo jumbo by an author whose work has been compared to that of Agatha Christie.
Лия Матера0.0 Overworked, overcaffeinated, and as cranky as a sequestered jury, Willa Jansson has a law review to get out. As second in command to the brilliant Susan Green, the ideal law student and perfect editor, Willa's rank jumps up a step when Susan's head is bashed in over a brief at the law review office.
Everyone at Malhousie, the small San Francisco law school, is stunned by the crime - including professors and the staff at the review. And none of them are above suspicion. Willa, now in charge and none too happy about it, launches a private investigation that succeeds not only in compromising her honor, but getting her arrested, as she chases one blind lead after another and comes face-to-face with the banality of evil....
Роберт Барнард3.9 Каждое утро популярный телеведущий Бен Ворсли в четыре тридцать покидает дом, чтобы быть в эфире. В это время в семейной спальне его жена Каролина смотрит утреннюю передачу мужа вместе с любовником — студентом Майклом. Муж-рогоносец оснастил спальню камерой и после эфира наблюдает запись постельных сцен и комментарии к собственному шоу. Всё бы так и продолжалось, если бы не замечание Каролины, что муж стареет, высказанное любовнику. Для мужа это стало последней каплей...
