Posts Tagged ‘mystery’

Chief detective Carl M²rck, recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound, is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician.

When police detective Duncan Albright asks her to help find a kidnapped child, Milwaukee bar owner Mackenzie “Mack” Dalton, who has a unique neurological condition that gives her extra perceptive senses, agrees to give it a shot despite her feelings for him. Original.

Downtrodden detective Erlendur and his team must once again investigate Reykjavík’s hidden past to unravel a case of human nastiness. Alive with tension and atmosphere and disturbingly real, this is an outstanding continuation of the Reykjavík Murder Mysteries. Building work in an expanding Reykjavík uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city…

When she inherits her aunt’s yarn retreat business, dessert chef Casey Feldstein decides to host a scheduled retreat, even though she knows nothing about knitting, and she investigates when a retreat regular is murdered.

Seriously determined to rewrite her life, Lucy, leaving her job poring over the rare tomes of literature for the Harvard Library behind, arrives in the Outer Banks where she lands a librarian job at the lighthouse library that seems like a dream come true until theft and murder enter the picture. Original.

Mack’s Bar is one of those nice, friendly places where everybody knows your name. That’s great when someone’s buying you a round – but not so hot when you find yourself at the top of a list of murder suspects with your fingerprints on the bloddy knife!

When her horrible blind date is found dead in the house she has been hired to restore and she is the main suspect, contractor Shannon Hammer investigates with the help of a handsome crime writer in order to clear her name.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Writing All Wrongs, it’s a rotten state of affairs in Oyster Bay, and the Bayside Book Writers are out to end a nasty plot… Restaurant owner and aspiring novelist Olivia Limoges is happily enjoying her new marriage. Sadly, the same doesn’t hold true for Laurel, a fellow…

“Hands down, the most refreshing mystery couple around.” —People On a crisp September morning, while walking a bucolic woodland trail, Rina stumbles upon human remains once buried deep beneath the forest floor. Immediately, she calls her husband, Peter Decker, a former detective lieutenant with the LAPD now working for the local Greenbury Police. The body…

New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr’s much anticipated return to Bernie Gunther, in a series hailed by The Daily Beast as “the best crime novels around today.” The French Riviera, 1956. Bernie Gunther, our sardonic former Berlin homicide dick and unwilling SS officer, is the go-to guy at the Grand-H�tel du Cap-Ferrat, the man you…