 | To Love and Be Wise
Release Date: August 18, 1998Literary sherry parties were not Alan Grant's cup of tea. But when the Scotland Yard Inspector arrived to pick up actress Marta Hallard for dinner, he was struck by the handsome young American photographer, Leslie Searle. Author Lavinia Fitch was sure her guest "must have been something very wicked in ancient Greece," and the art colony at Salcott St. Mary would have agreed. Yet Grant heard nothing more of Searle until the news of his disappearance. Had Searle drowned by accident or could he have been murdered by one of his young women admirers? Was it a possible...
 |  | 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...
|  | Snow Blind (Monkeewrench Mysteries)
Release Date: July 3, 2007| Series: Monkeewrench Mysteries When the corpses of three police officers are discovered entombed in snowmen, Grace MacBride and her team of crime-busting computer jocks at the Monkeewrench firm are called in to assist. What they discover is a terrifying link among the victims that reaches beyond the badge and crosses the line between hard justice and stone cold vengeance. ...
|  | A Death in Tuscany (Michele Ferrara)
Publication Date: January 1, 2012| Series: Michele Ferrara (Book 2) Personal clashes with professional for Michele Ferrara in the second book in the series of compelling and authentic Italian police procedurals In the picturesque Tuscan hill town of Scandicci, the body of a girl is discovered, scantily dressed and lying by the edge of the woods. After a week the local police investigating the case haven't even identified her, let alone gotten to the bottom of how she died. Frustrated by the lack of progress, Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara, head of Florence's elite Squadra Mob...
|  | The Train (Neversink)
Release Date: July 19, 2011| Series: Neversink Against all expectations Marcel Féron has made a “normal” life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ardennes. But on May 10, 1940, as Nazi tanks approach, this timid, happy man must abandon his home and confront the “Fate” that he has secretly awaited. Separated from his pregnant wife and young daughter in the chaos of flight, he joins a freight car of refugees hurtling southward ahead of the pursuing invaders. There, he meets Anna, a sad-looking, dark- haired girl, whose accent is “neither Belgian nor German,&rd...
|  | Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand (Commissaire Adamsberg, Book 4)
Release Date: July 31, 2007A #1 bestselling author in France, Fred Vargas repeatedly captivates her many admirers across the globe with suspenseful mysteries featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, ?a Gallic cousin to Ruth Rendell?s Chief Inspector Wexford? (The Washington Post). In the same way that Donna Leon?s Commissario Brunetti and Andrea Camilleri?s Inspector Montalbano have won countless fans on this side of the Atlantic due to Penguin?s robust commitment to the best international mystery writing, Vargas?s Commissaire Adamsberg is poised to conquer America in a series of novel...
|  | 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...
|  | The Soprano Wore Falsettos : A Liturgical Mystery
Publication Date: March 6, 2006(No. 4 in the Liturgical Mystery series) Detective Hayden Konig is a success in anyone's book. He has a job that he loves as Chief of Police in the small Appalachian town of St. Germaine, North Carolina. He's employed as the part-time organist and choirmaster at St. Barnabas Church. He's just proposed to his sweetheart, Meg Farthing, and, to top it all off, he's as rich as a televangelist with his own 900 number. In spite of all his apparent success, Hayden Konig's life-long dream is yet to be realized. He longs to write the next great hard-boiled mystery. Thou...
|  | Simple
Release Date: August 21, 2012Cassie is in love. And she's in trouble. She's a paralegal in the Connolly law firm. Mike Connolly is running for governor, he's married, and his handlers don't like the fact that he's been messing around with Cassie. When Cassie ends up murdered, her handyman Cal is the instant suspect. This is one of Commander Christie's and Colleen Greer's most exciting cases. And as one reviewer pointed out, the food is excellent, too. Sweet potato ravioli with butter-sage dressing on a stake-out! ...
|  | Under World: Dalziel & Pascoe #10
Publication Date: July 16, 2011| Series: Dalziel & Pascoe (Book 10) The small mining town of Burrthorpe is economically depressed and mistrustful of strangers-and cops. The return of handsome and volatile Colin Farr, whose dead father was once implicated in a child murder case, seems to dig up all the old troubles and bring on some new ones. Farr flirts dangerously with Ellie Pascoe and quickly becomes a suspect himself, in the murder of his nemesis. It is this latest event that brings out Andy Dalziel, just the man to help Pascoe out of the dark tunnels of the case. ...
|  | Blue Wolf In Green Fire: A Woods Cop Mystery (Woods Cop Mysteries)
Publication Date: October 3, 2008| Series: Woods Cop Mysteries Upper Michigan Conservation Officer Grady Service has a case on his hands that doesn't make sense. A series of protests and bombs planted by a group of animal-rights activists appears to have culminated in a double murder at a wolf lab, which releases into the wild an extraordinarily rare animal: a blue wolf. To the Ojibwa a blue wolf represents good luck, unless it is captured or killed, and then it is an omen of Armageddon. Service suspects that the murders aren't what they seem to be when the FBI takes over the investigation a...
|  | A Detailed Man
Publication Date: November 29, 2011A relentless tour of DCs most crime-ridden streets, with many beautifully written surprises, and darker than the deepest noir. ~Madison Smartt BellDavid Swinson's Ezra Simeon has the dry wit of Chandler's Marlowe and the stylish, hard-won bitterness of Connelly's Harry Bosch. ~Hillary Louise JohnsonWhile it's difficult to find a retired cop who hasn't written a book, it's rare to find one as beautifully written as "A Detailed Man." ~Tim Grobaty, the Press Telegram of Long BeachFrom corner boys to call girls, Swinson sketches his characters with th...
|  | The Mandel Files, Volume 1: Mindstar Rising & A Quantum Murder
Release Date: August 23, 2011CONTAINS TWO COMPLETE NOVELS!For the first time in a single volume, Peter F. Hamilton’s acclaimed novels—Mindstar Rising and A Quantum Murder—set in a near-future so real it seems ripped from tomorrow’s headlines In Mindstar Rising, Greg Mandel, gifted—or cursed—with biotechnology that makes him a living lie detector, is hired to investigate corporate espionage by Event Horizon, a powerful company about to introduce a technology that will solve the energy problems of a world decimated by global warming.Set two years ...
|  | Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #11)
Release Date: January 9, 2007From the award-winning master of literary crime fiction, a classic work rich in tense drama and psychological insight.On the East Anglian seacoast, a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. When the body of a student is found buried in the sand, the boy’s influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Enter Adam Dalgliesh, a detective who loves poetry, a man who has known loss and discovery. The son of a parson, and having spent many happy boyhood summers at the school, Dalgliesh is ...
|  | Water Touching Stone (Inspector Shan Tao Yun)
Release Date: September 29, 2009| Series: Inspector Shan Tao Yun In this sequel to the internationally acclaimed The Skull Mantra, Shan Tao Yun is cloistered in a remote Tibetan sanctuary when he receives shattering news. A teacher revered by the oppressed has been found slain and, one by one, her orphaned students have followed her to her grave, victims of a killer harboring unfathomable motives. Abandoning his mountain hermitage, Shan Tao Yun, a former Beijing police inspector who has been exiled to Tibet, embarks on a search for justice. Shadowed ...
|  | Black & White
Publication Date: February 2, 2012When a call from dispatch sends John Hatch to a gruesome murder scene, his gut tells him there's something more to learn than the homicide team uncovers. But he's a street cop, not a detective, and he's got trouble enough with his hot-headed new partner, a rookie sergeant, and the disaster that is his personal life. One by one, the duties of the job take their toll as he confronts the daily reality of the streets-the druggies and wife beaters, cheaters and crooks-that remind him how short life really is, and how impossible it is to live well in a world where...
|  | The Last Detective: Introducing Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond
Release Date: May 31, 2011| Series: Peter Diamond A nude female corpse has been found floating in a large reservoir just south of Bristol. In order to solve the mystery of the "Lady in the Lake," Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen and defy his superiors on the force to save a woman unjustly accused of murder. This is the first of the Peter Diamond series; it won the 1992 Anthony Boucher Award for Best Mystery Novel. ...
|  | Death at La Fenice
Release Date: November 23, 1994 Beautiful and serene Venice is a city almost devoid of crime. But that is little comfort to Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor whose intermission refreshment comes one night with a little something extra in it-cyanide. For Guido Brunetti, vice-commissario of police and detective genius, finding a suspect isn't a problem; narrowing the large and unconventional group of enemies down to one is. As the suave and pithy Brunetti pieces together clues, a shocking picture of depravity and revenge emerges, leaving him torn between what is and what shou...
|  | Death of a Maid (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 23)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008Mrs. Gillespie is famous around the northwest of Sutherland for being the best charwoman ever. Of course, if anyone has any social pretensions one does not say charwoman, one talks about "my maid". Hamish Macbeth wins Mrs. Gillespie's services in a church raffle but spends most of the day trying to avoid her. She is a malicious gossip and she bangs around the furniture and clanks pots--he wonders how on earth she managed to get such a good reputation. Then she is found dead in a large house belonging to a retired professor who was out the day she was killed. ...
|  | 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...
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