 | Mexican Hat: A Kevin Kerney Novel (Kevin Kerney Novels)
Publication Date: January 19, 2009| Series: Kevin Kerney Novels "Michael McGarrity is the real deal." —BostonGlobeWith his dazzling debut, Tularosa,Michael McGarrity was hailed "a bornstoryteller" (Denver Post)—andintroduced readers to a memorable new hero,ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives Kevin Kerney.Now, featuring his vivid feel for the southwest, McGarrity's second gripping novel hurls Kerneyonto the toughest case of his life.Taking a job as a seasonal forest rangerin New Mexico's Gila Wilderness, Kevin Kerneyis looking forward to a quiet summer high in the mountains. But t...
 |  | Hunting Badger
Release Date: September 28, 2010 Three men raid the gambling casino run by the Ute nation and then disappear into the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border. When the FBI, with its helicopters and high-tech equipment, focuses on a wounded deputy sheriff as a possible suspect, Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee and his longtime colleague, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, launch an investigation of their own. Chee sees a dangerous flaw in the federal theory; Leaphorn sees intriguing connections to the exploits of a legendary Ute bandit-hero. And together, they find themselves caught up...
|  | Gods and Beasts: A Novel (Alex Morrow)
Release Date: February 26, 2013| Series: Alex Morrow It's the week before Christmas when a lone robber bursts into a busy Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47. An elderly man suddenly hands his young grandson to a stranger and wordlessly helps the gunman fill bags with cash, then carries them to the door. He opens the door and bows his head; the robber fires off the AK-47, tearing the grandfather in two.DS Alex Morrow arrives on the scene and finds that the alarm system had been disabled before the robbery. Yet upon investigation, none of the employees can be linked to the gunman. And the g...
|  | Hermit's Peak: A Kevin Kerney Novel (Kevin Kerney Novels)
Release Date: April 3, 2012| Series: Kevin Kerney Novels “Michael McGarrity’s early Kevin Kerney novels combined razor-sharp procedural detail with a gripping noirish edge,” raves Booklist. Available for the first time in years is Hermit’s Peak, a seminal novel in the crime fiction series that places New Mexico lawman Kevin Kerney in the pantheon with Tony Hillerman’s heroes—while carving out territory that is distinctly his own across the American Southwest. While visiting 6,400 acres of high-country land he unexpectedly inherited, Kevin Kerney finds the ...
|  | Death of a Gentle Lady (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 24)
Publication Date: January 1, 2009Gentle by name, gentle by nature.Everyone in the sleepy Scottish town of Lochdubh adores elderly Mrs. Gentle - everyone but Hamish Macbeth, that is.Hamish thinks the gentle lady is quite sly and vicious, and the citizens of Lochdubh think he is overly cranky. Perhaps it's time for him to get married, they say.But who has time for marriage when there's a murder to be solved? When Mrs. Gentle dies under mysterious circumstances, the town is shocked and outraged.Chief Detective Inspector Blair suspects members of her family, but Hamish Macbeth thinks there's mor...
|  | "Alcohol Was Not Involved": A Shallow End Gals Trilogy (Volume 1)
Publication Date: August 24, 2012| Series: Shallow End Gals Trilogy "Alcohol Was Not Involved" FBI Special Agents Roger Dance and Paul Casey are faced with the worst case of their careers. Beautiful women are missing. Some are showing up weeks later next to busy highways in broad daylight. Dead, strangled, and dumped, like trash. Some are being held captive, prisoners, and starved to death. None of the traditional rules of profiling seem to apply, and the body count keeps growing. * Four friends die in an auto accident only to discover that Heaven has decided to make them 'special' Angels, w...
|  | Where the Shadows Lie
Release Date: August 2, 2011An ancient saga. A modern legend. A secret worth killing for.Amid Iceland’s wild, volcanic landscape, rumors swirl of an ancient manuscript inscribed with a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power. A rediscovered saga alone would be worth a fortune, but, if the rumors can be believed, there is something much more valuable about this one. Something worth killing for. Something that will cost Professor Agnar Haraldsson his life.Untangling murder from myth is Iceland-born, Boston-raised detective Magnus Jonson. On loan to the Icelandic Police Force for hi...
|  | Secrets to Die For: A Detective Jackson Mystery
Publication Date: January 28, 2011Readers say if you like Connelly and Crais, you'll love this mystery-thriller too!When social worker Raina Hughes visits the home of a young boy she’s been assigned to monitor, things quickly turn ugly with his meth-addicted dad. Later, when Raina is found brutally murdered, Detective Jackson thinks it's an open-and-shut case against the boy's ex-con father.Complications develop when new evidence points to a serial assailant who’s becoming more violent with each attack. Raina’s friend, Jamie, knows what the victims have in common, but ...
|  | Death of a Celebrity (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 18)
Publication Date: January 1, 2003Murder on the Telly Lochdubh, a remote village reached only by a one-track lane, nestles serenely amid Scotland's hills...until well-known TV reporter Crystal French races into town in her bright BMW. And Constable Hamish Macbeth, dourly wed to duty instead of the fiancee who dumped him, promptly gives her a summons for reckless driving. Outraged, Crystal makes Macbeth's life a misery with a TV report on policing in the Highlands. When she also rakes up old local scandals for her new hit show, Macbeth notes that someone besides himself might be dead keen to s...
|  | A Question of Blood: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Inspector Rebus Novels)
Publication Date: October 13, 2010| Series: Inspector Rebus Novels When a former soldier and recluse murders two 17-year-old students at a posh Edinburgh boarding school, Inspector John Rebus immediately suspects there is more to the case than meets the eye. ...
|  | Blood at the Root (An Inspector Alan Banks Mystery)
Release Date: December 1, 1998Hatred and murder breed in dark places ... In the long shadows of an alley a young man is murdered, savagely kicked and beaten to death by assailant or assailants unknown. It is a crime shocking in its raw brutality, and its shattering repercussions will be felt throughout a small provincial community on the edge -- because the victim was far from innocent, a youth whose sordid secret life was a tangle of terrifying contradictions and virulent racial hatred. And now a dedicated policeman beset by his own tormenting demons must follow the leads into the rankest p...
|  | Evil Dark: An Occult Crime Unit Investigation
Release Date: April 24, 2012My name's Markowski. I carry a badge. Also, a crucifix, some wooden stakes, a big vial of holy water, and a 9mm Beretta loaded with silver bullets.A series of seemingly motiveless murders of supernatural creatures points to a vigilante targeting the supe community. Markowski wouldn't normally have much of a problem with that, but his daughter may be next on the killer's list...File Under: Urban Fantasy [ Unnatural Law | Thicker Than Water | The Bite Stuff |Duty Calls ]e-book ISBN: 978-0-85766-137-1 ...
|  | Well-Schooled in Murder (Inspector Lynley Mysteries, No. 3)
Release Date: June 1, 1991When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad's housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum.Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a child—and then, tragically, for a child killer.Questioning prefects, teachers, and pupils c...
|  | Bloodhounds: A Peter Diamond Investigation (Soho Crime)
Release Date: December 1, 2004| Series: Soho Crime “Peter Lovesey tosses off a real brain-banger in Bloodhounds, the fourth book in a challenging series. . . . I am mad for these pyrotechnic teasers, and this one had my head spinning.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review“A perfect blend of psychology and technique.”—Boston Review“In a witty takeoff on the always titillating ‘locked room’ mystery, Lovesey’s wise but beleaguered hero Peter Diamond confronts a homicide case as perplexing as any he’s faced.”&mdash...
|  | Shoot to Thrill (A Monkeewrench Novel)
Release Date: April 29, 2010| Series: A Monkeewrench Novel The Monkeewrench crew returns in a stunning new thriller.It's eighty-five degrees in the shade when Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth pull into the MPD parking garage. They're driving a tricked-out Caddy, repossessed from a low-level drug dealer. It's not a Beemer or a Mercedes, but it's got GPS, air-conditioning, and power seats with more positions than the Kama Sutra.Things are heating up inside the station-house, too. The bomb squad's off to investigate another suspicious package at the mall, and kids are be...
|  | Le Crime (Louis Morgan Mysteries)
Release Date: July 8, 2008| Series: Louis Morgan Mysteries A cross between The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and A Year in Provence, this ingenious thriller gets stunning raves from one and all:“Unforgettable . . . combines elements of Agatha Christie and Robert Ludlum.”---Bookreporter.com“A riveting murder mystery.”---France Today“Steiner sketches such a rich life for his tiny town that he makes you want to get on the next plane.”---Chicago Tribune“A beautiful crime novel.”---Thomas Perry, New York Times bestselling author of Nightlife...
|  | Final Justice (Badge of Honor)
Release Date: December 30, 2003| Series: Badge of Honor (Book 8) Newly promoted to sergeant, Philadelphia detective Matt Payne finds himself in the middle of three assignments at once: trying to nail down a cop killer, a serial rapist, and a murderer who fled to France 20 years ago. It's enough to burn out any cop. But Payne's not just any cop. And he's about to show the bad guys that there's no place they can hide from him-or from justice... ...
|  | When Red Is Black
Release Date: August 1, 2005“Sublime . . . complex and riveting.”—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post Book World“A vivid picture of modern Chinese society . . . a work of real distinction.”—The Wall Street Journal“[A] terrific series. . . . [Qiu’s] perspective on China gives the mystery genre a cultural twist and unusual direction that make his books unique and well worth reading.”—The Rocky Mountain NewsInspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is taking a vacation, in part because he is annoyed at his boss, Party Secretar...
|  | Carved in Bone (Body Farm, Bk. 1)
Release Date: December 26, 2006There is a patch of ground in Tennessee dedicated to the science of death, where human remains lie exposed to be studied for their secrets. The real-life scientist who founded the "Body Farm" has broken cold cases and revolutionized forensics . . . and now he spins an astonishing tale inspired by his own experiences.Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death at the Body Farm. Now he's being called upon to help solve a baffling puzzle in a remote mountain community. The mummified corpse of a young woman dead for thir...
|  | Stagestruck: A Peter Diamond Investigation
Release Date: June 14, 2011Pop diva Clarion Calhoun has packed the house with a celebrity appearance in Bath's Theatre Royal production of I Am a Camera. But within moments of her much-anticipated onstage appearance, she's pulled out of character as she screams and claws at her face. When tainted stage makeup is found to have caused the disfiguring burn, fingers point to her makeup artist. Detective Peter Diamond investigates when the makeup artist is found dead, pushed from a catwalk far above the stage. As Diamond digs deeper, he uncovers rivalries among the cast an...
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