Posts Tagged ‘mystery’

With a series of jewelry thefts targeting the first-class passengers on P&O ocean liners, the powers-that-be ask Phryne Fisher to mingle with the upper classes to solve a case of theft on the S.S. Hinemoa, during a luxury cruise to New Zealand.

Phryne Fisher sets out to investigate the murder of a young man outside the gates of Victoria Dock after someone shoots out her windshield and she finds the man dying on the tarmac.

Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana’s “private collection.” Indeed, what begins as an…

Throwing herself into the holiday season in the aftermath of her husband Ross’ disappearance, Hannah Swensen investigates the murder of her husband’s television-station assistant, who had been driving Ross’ car and working from his office at the time of his death.

WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD 2017″One of the best natural writers of detective fiction” Sunday ExpressIt has been ten years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel. Now residents of the East Yorkshire village of Elvet are disturbed to hear of new evidence proving Jeanie’s innocence.…

Thin Air is the sixth book in Ann Cleeves’ Shetland series – now a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall as detective Jimmy Perez, Shetland. A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland’s most northerly island, to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends…

New York Times bestselling author Tana French is “required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting” (The New York Times). She “inspires cultic devotion in readers . . . (The New Yorker) and is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (Washington Post). “Atmospheric and unputdownable.”…

When Renalta Van Markoff, author of the controversial Hudson and Holmes mystery series, collapses dead during a Q&A session, Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson must clear the chief suspect’s name.

WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD 2017Dead Water is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves’ Shetland series, featuring Detective Jimmy Perez.NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA”A beautifully written and cleverly plotted thriller” Sunday MirrorWhen the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat, outside the house of the local…

WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD 2017″One of the best natural writers of detective fiction” Sunday ExpressHarbour Street is the sixth book in Ann Cleeves’ crime novel series Vera – which is a major TV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn on ITV. A KILLING. In Newcastle, Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter…