 | Nothing But Trouble
Release Date: December 5, 2006Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney is back in the tenth and most entertaining novel in Michael McGarrity's acclaimed series. At the urging of an old friend, Kerney takes a job as a technical advisor on a contemporary Western being filmed near the Mexican border-and becomes embroiled in circumstances that will change his and his family's lives forever. ...
 |  | 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 ...
|  | Strange Affair (Inspector Banks Novels)
Release Date: May 30, 2006| Series: Inspector Banks Novels (Book 15)A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and very nearly erased -- a policeman who has since gone missing. The dead woman in the car had been running from something -- but she didn't run far or fast enough. Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot would like to question the man the victim was apparently racing to meet: Annie's superior -- and former lover -- Detective Chief Inspector Alan...
|  | 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...
|  | The Skull Mantra (Inspector Shan Tao Yun Novels)
Release Date: September 30, 2008| Series: Inspector Shan Tao Yun Novels Winner of the 2001 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Skull Mantra was a sensation when first published and received wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. The Skull Mantra was ranked with Gorky Park and Smilla's Sense of Snow as a novel as much about a people and a place--the Tibetans of the high Himalayas--as it is a gripping thriller. The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American clothes. Found by a Tibetan prison work gang on a windy cliff, the grisly remains clearly be...
|  | "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...
|  | Sacred Clowns
Release Date: May 26, 2009<p>During a kachina ceremony at the Tano Pueblo, the antics of a dancing <i>koshare</i> fill the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found bludgeoned to death, in the same manner a reservation schoolteacher was killed only days before.</p> <p>Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believe that answers lie in the sacred clown's final cryptic message to the Tano people. But to decipher it, the two Navajo policemen may have to delve into closely guarded tribal secrets—on a sinister trail of blood that li...
|  | The Hanging Valley
Release Date: October 1, 2002 No one dreamed something so hideous could grow in so beautiful a place . . . Many who visit the valley are overwhelmed by its majesty. Some wish they never had to leave. One didn't, a hiker whose decomposing corpse is discovered by an unsuspecting tourist. But this strange, incomprehensible murder is only the edge of the darkness that hovers over a small rural village and its tight-lipped residents who guard shattering secrets of sordid pasts and private shames. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks knows that both the grim truth and a cold-blooded killer are h...
|  | Touching Evil
Release Date: August 28, 2001Sometimes evil lingers so close, you can feel it....Seattle police sketch artist Maggie Barnes has an extraordinary gift. She listens as traumatized crime victims describe their ordeals — and then uses those horrifying recollections to draw dead-on sketches of the assailants.Some cops think Maggie is telepathic, that she can actually enter the victims’ minds.Only Maggie knows the truth behind her rare talent ... and she isn’t telling.But her secret may be exposed when a madman seizes Seattle in his terrifying grip.He abducts women and blinds the...
|  | 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...
|  | The Beautiful Mystery (Thorndike Press Large Print Mystery Series)
Publication Date: September 5, 2012| Series: Thorndike Press Large Print Mystery Series On a remote island in Quebec, a monastery stands. The monks there are one of the last surviving groups to sing and keep alive original Gregorian chants, handed down to them from generations before. But now the outside world has affected their peaceful, self-sufficient existence. A body is found in the abbot's garden. One of the monks has been killed, and presumably by someone within the monastery. So Chief Inspector Gamache and Inspector Beauvoir come to the island to investigate and question. They have n...
|  | 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...
|  | Missing Joseph (Inspector Lynley Mystery, Book 6)
Release Date: May 1, 1994Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage.But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead—a victim of accidental poisoning.Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating constable and the woman who served the deadly meal, Simon calls in his old friend Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley.Together they uncover dark, complex relationships in this rural ...
|  | Every Secret Thing: A Novel
Release Date: August 16, 2011 From critically acclaimed, multiple-award winner Laura Lippman comes a riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party find an abandoned stroller with an infant inside on an unfamiliar Baltimore street. What happens next is shocking and terrible, causing the irreparable devastation of three separate families. Seven years later, Alice Manning and Ronnie Fuller, now eighteen, are released from “kid prison” to begin their lives over again. But the secrets swirling around the original ...
|  | The Only Witness
Publication Date: September 15, 2011A novel of mystery and suspense from Daphne Award Winning Author Pamela BeasonKIDNAPPING...OR MURDER?A MISSING BABY Seventeen-year-old Brittany Morgan dashed into the store for just a minute, leaving her sleeping baby in the car. Now Ivy's gone and half the town believes Brittany murdered her daughter.A HAUNTED DETECTIVEDetective Matthew Finn, a big-city fish out of water in small-town Evansburg, Washington, struggles with his wife's betrayal as he investigates Ivy Morgan's disappearance. The clock is ticking and he can't find any witnesses.AN UNUSUAL RESE...
|  | Avalanche: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery (Sheriff Bo Tully Mysteries)
Release Date: March 25, 2008| Series: Sheriff Bo Tully Mysteries When the call comes in that Mike Wilson, the unlikable owner of the fancy West Branch Lodge, has gone missing, Sheriff Bo Tully is delighted. He'll have to stay at the lodge and investigate in luxury! But when an avalanche traps him there for the foreseeable future, along with his retired sheriff father, a motley group of vacationers, and a naughty old flame, life starts to get complicated. The missing persons case turns out to be a murder case, Tully discovers the avalanche was no accident of nature, and suddenly everyone star...
|  | The Burying Place
Release Date: April 13, 2010One cold night. Two shocking mysteries. In the quiet town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, a baby vanishes from her bedroom in an opulent lakeside home. Was she abducted – or does her father have a terrible secret to hide? That same night, a young policewoman gets lost in the fog and stumbles into the middle of a horrific crime. Now a sadistic killer wants her to play his deadly game. Lieutenant Jonathan Stride and his team need to move fast to save a child and stop a vicious killing spree. As fear grips the frozen winter fa...
|  | 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...
|  | Shake Hands Forever
Release Date: July 11, 2000| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled.According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain entry and strangle her without a struggle? That is the problem facing Inspector Wexford in Shake Hands Forever. Perhaps it was the mystery woman who left her fingerprints on the Hathall's bathtub? Perhaps it was Angela's husband who lied about a stolen library book? And why was the Hathall home, usually...
|  | 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 ...
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