 | L'Assassin: A Thriller
Release Date: July 7, 2009In this exceptional follow-up to the highly praised Le Crime, ex-spy Louis Morgon is in France living a quiet life of good food, good wine, and good friends. When his house is burglarized, he thinks nothing of it. But neither the burglar nor the motive for the burglary is as simple as it seems. And the consequences of the seemingly trivial break-in will lead Louis and his loved ones to the ends of the earth—and quite possibly to the ends of their lives. ...
 |  | Careless in Red: A Novel
Release Date: May 6, 2008In her most eagerly anticipated novel yet, Elizabeth George brings back Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley to investigate a ruthless crime.After the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and rugged coastline. But no matter how far he walks, no matter how exhausting his days, the painful memories of Helen's death do not diminish. On the forty-third day of his walk, at the base of a cliff, Lynley discovers the body of a young man who appears to have fallen to...
|  | Death of the Mantis: A Detective Kubu Mystery
Release Date: September 6, 2011 In the southern Kalahari area of Botswana—an arid landscape of legends that speak of lost cities, hidden wealth, and ancient gods—a fractious ranger named Monzo is found dying from a severe head wound in a dry ravine. Three Bushmen surround the doomed man, but are they his killers or there to help? Detective David “Kubu” Bengu is on the case, an investigation that his old school friend Khumanego claims is motivated by racist antagonism on the part of the local police. But when a second bizarre murder, and then a third, seem to point also to...
|  | 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...
|  | The New Centurions
Publication Date: April 1, 2008 Ex-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early police procedurals. Here in his classic debut novel, Wambaugh presents a stunning, raw, and unforgettable depiction of life behind the thin blue line. In a class of new police recruits, Augustus Plebesly is fast and scared. Roy Fehler is full of ideals. And Serge Duran is an ex-marine running away from his Chicano childhood. In a few weeks they'll put on the blue uniform of the LAPD. In months they'll know how to interpret the mad babble of t...
|  | The First Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery (Tenzing Norbu Mysteries)
Publication Date: January 1, 2012| Series: Tenzing Norbu Mysteries “Don’t ignore intuitive tickles lest they reappear as sledgehammers.” That’s the first rule of Ten. Tenzing Norbu (“Ten” for short)—ex-monk and soon-to-be ex-cop—is a protagonist unique to our times. In The First Rule of Ten, the first installment in a three-book detective series, we meet this spiritual warrior who is singularly equipped, if not occasionally ill-equipped, as he takes on his first case as a private investigator in Los Angeles.Growing up in a Tibetan Monaster...
|  | Whisper of Evil (Evil Trilogy)
Release Date: June 25, 2002| Series: Evil Trilogy Someone is stalking the little town of Silence. Three victims have fallen to a killer’s savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community—yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murder. Were their deaths the ultimate punishment for those secrets? Or something even more sinister? Nell Gallagher has come home to Silence more than a decade after leaving one dark night with her own painful secrets. Forced now by family duty to return, she has also come home to settle w...
|  | Death Song: A Kevin Kerney Novel (Kevin Kerney Novels)
Release Date: December 2, 2008| Series: Kevin Kerney Novels The bushwhack killing of a deputy sheriff in Lincoln County and the brutal murder of the deputy?s wife in Santa Fe County bring Police Chief Kevin Kerney and his Mescalero Apache son, Sergeant Clayton Istee, back together. The double homicide investigation is soon linked to a major drug trafficking scheme and the cold-blooded slaughter of two women in Albuquerque. Due to retire at the end of the month, Kerney calls upon Clayton to find the slain officer?s son, discover what triggered the killings, and give him the ammunition he need...
|  | The Burning Wire: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
Release Date: April 19, 2011| Series: Lincoln Rhyme Lincoln Rhyme is back, on the trail of a killer whose weapon of choice cripples New York City with fear. The weapon is invisible and omnipresent. Without it, modern society grinds to a halt. It is electricity. The killer harnesses and steers huge arc flashes with voltage so high and heat so searing that steel melts and his victims are set afire. When the first explosion occurs in broad daylight, reducing a city bus to a pile of molten, shrapnel-riddled metal, officials fear terrorism. Rhyme, a world-class forensic criminologist known for hi...
|  | Dead or Alive: A Kevin Kerney Novel (Kevin Kerney Novels)
Publication Date: December 1, 2009| Series: Kevin Kerney Novels "A taut and tidy thriller"(San Diego Union-Tribune) focusing on a manhunt for a deranged killer-from the nationally bestselling author who "gets better and better."(Tony Hillerman )Living in London while his wife serves as a military attaché at the American Embassy, recently retired Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney gets an early morning phone call that changes everything and sends him hurrying home to his New Mexico ranch. Riley Burke, his partner in a horse-training enterprise, has been mowed down on Kerney's doorstep by...
|  | The Choirboys
Release Date: August 28, 2007Partners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they’re haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch–shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call choir practice.Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap–each has his horror story, his bad dream, his night shriek.He is afraid of his friends–he is afraid of himself. ...
|  | A Certain Justice (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #10)
Release Date: November 4, 2003New York Times BestsellerWhen distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge defends a young man for the brutalmurder of his mother, she views the case as simply another opportunity to demonstrateher brilliance in the courtroom. But within weeks of the trial Aldridge is founddead at her desk, a bloodstained barrister’s wig on her head. And as Commander AdamDalgliesh of Scotland Yard attempts to make sense of events, the murders continue,inexorably spiraling into fresh complexities of horror. ...
|  | Past Reason Hated: An Inspector Banks Mystery
Release Date: October 3, 2000| Series: Inspector Banks Novels A picturesque Yorkshire village is dressed in its finest for the upcoming Noel. But one of its residents will not be celebrating this holiday.Chief Inspector Alan Banks knows that secrecy can sometimes prove fatal'and secrets were the driving force behind Caroline Hartley's life…and death. She was a beautiful enigma, brutally stabbed in her own home three days prior to Christmas. Leaving her past behind for a forbidden love affair, she mystified more than a few. And now she is dead, clothed only in her unshared mysteries and ...
|  | Blood from a Stone (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries)
Release Date: May 2, 2006| Series: Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries Guido Brunetti, the hero of Donna Leon’s internationally bestselling crime series, is back, in a novel that combines an ingenious plot with an alluring portrait of contemporary Venice. On a cold December night, a Senegalese man who sells counterfeit fashion accessories is killed on the Campo Santo Stefano. What first appears to be a straightforward clash between rival dealers soon raises questions: What was a penniless foreigner doing with a fortune in diamonds? And why does Brunetti’s boss want him off the c...
|  | Service of All the Dead
Release Date: March 1, 1995"[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT."--The New York Times Book ReviewThis time Inspector Morse brings the imposition on himself. He could have been vacationing in Greece instead of investigating a murder that the police have long since written off. But he finds the crime--the brutal killing of a suburban churchwarden--fascinating. In fact, he uncovers not one murder but two, for the fatal fall of St. Frideswides vicar from the church tower Morse reckons to be murder as well. And as he digs into t...
|  | Hollywood Hills: A Novel
Publication Date: November 16, 2010The legendary Hollywood Hills are home to wealth, fame, and power--passing through the neighborhood, it's hard not to get a little greedy. LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss could take or leave the opulence, but he wouldn't say no to onscreen fame. He may get his shot when he catches the appreciative eye of B-list director Rudy Ressler, and his troublemaking fiancée, Leona Brueger, the older-but-still-foxy widow of a processed-meat tycoon. Nate tries to elude her crafty seductions, but consents to keep an eye on their estate in the Hollywood Hills whi...
|  | Solibo Magnificent
Release Date: March 30, 1999Chamoiseau's grand and intriguing riff on the police procedural, "Solibro Magnificent" represents another masterpiece by the author of the award-winning "Texaco". It's carnival time at Fort-de-France, Martinique. Before an enraptured public, the great teller of tales, Solibro Magnificent, is felled, seemingly choked by his own words. Is it autostrangulation or murder? . --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | A Bat in the Belfry: A Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery
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|  | Sail of Stone (Chief Inspector Erik Winter)
Release Date: March 13, 2012| Series: Chief Inspector Erik Winter A brother and sister believe that their father has gone missing. They think he may have traveled in search of his father, who was presumed lost decades ago in World War II. Meanwhile, there are reports that a woman is being abused, but she can’t be found and her family won’t tell the police where she is. Two missing people and two very different families combine in this dynamic and suspenseful mystery by the Swedish master Åke Edwardson. Gothenburg’s Chief Inspector Erik Winter travels to Scotland in se...
|  | Murder in Mykonos
Publication Date: January 1, 2010When politically incorrect, hot-shot detective Andreas Kaldis is promoted out of Athens to serve as police chief for Mykonos, he’s certain his homicide days are over. Murders shouldn’t happen in tourist heaven, but soon he is staring at the remains of a young woman found ritually bound and buried on a pile of human bones inside a remote mountain church. Teamed with the canny, nearly-retired local homicide chief, Andreas tries to find the killer before the media destroys the island’s fabled reputation with a barrage of world-wide attention. J...
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