Posts Tagged ‘mystery’
How the Light Gets In
The #1 New York Times Bestseller “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” —Leonard Cohen Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it’s a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector…
Read MoreA Great Reckoning
Louise Penny takes us back to the deceptively peaceful village of Three Pines in the brilliant new novel in her series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.
Read MoreThe Blackwoods Farm Inquiry
A reclusive widow hires retiree-turned-sleuth Ivy Beasley and her associates at Enquire Within to investigate recent ghostly visitations, but when the ghost is revealed to be flesh and blood, the widow may be in more trouble than Ivy and her team can handle. Original. 25,000 first printing.
Read MoreHide and Seek
A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict – until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists.…
Read MoreEven Dogs in the Wild
A Curious Beginning
In her thrilling new series, Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries, returns once more to Victorian England…and introduces intrepid adventuress Veronica Speedwell. London, 1887. After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica Speedwell is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry–and the occasional romantic…
Read MoreDark Corners
A brilliantly dark and sinister novel of psychological suspense by Ruth Rendell, “unequivocally the most brilliant crime-writer of our time” (Patricia Cornwell). When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begin with subterfuge, extend to lies,…
Read MoreThe Girl Next Door
No Man’s Nightingale
“Rendell effectively dangles a handful of addictive red herrings while nudging the main mystery gently along. . . . Best of all for Wexford fans, the book affords some terrific moments between the retired sleuth and Burden.” “Boston Globe” Sarah Hussain was not popular with many people in the community of Kingsmarkham. She was born…
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