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The front (Win Garano novels ; #2)
Par Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2008
Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate…
the death of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler, Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead in 1962. With no DNA and sketchy police records, this is a case that will test Garano to his limits. 2008. (Win Garano novels ; 2)The Friday Society
Par Adrienne Kress. 2012
Cora, Nellie, and Michiko, teenaged assistants to three powerful men in Edwardian London, meet by chance at a ball that…
ends with the discovery of a murdered man, leading the three to work together to solve this and related crimes without drawing undue attention to themselves. For junior and senior high readers. Includes violence and strong language. 2012.The Four Courts murder
Par Andrew Nugent. 2006
When an unpopular judge is found kicked to death in his chambers, police detectives Denis Lennon and Molly Power uncover…
a wide variety of suspects, some of whom could be linked to the judge's questionable dealings in the art world. Strong language. 2006.It should have been the night that launched a new pop idol. Tamar Valparaiso was set to launch her debut…
album, Bandersnatch, on a luxury yacht. But halfway through her performance, masked men dragged Tamar off the stage and took off, while the partygoers looked on helplessly. Violence and strong language. 2004.The full cupboard of life (Precious Ramotswe ; #5)
Par Alexander McCall Smith. 2003
Gaborone, Botswana. A wealthy woman hires Precious Ramotswe, head of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, to investigate the sincerity…
of several potential husbands. Precious resolves not only her client's quandary but also her own fiancé's reluctance to marry. Sequel to "The Kalahari typing school for men" (DC29230). Bestseller. 2003. (Precious Ramotswe ; 5). (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series)The fourth estate
Par Jeffrey Archer. 1997
Richard Armstrong and Keith Townsend seemed to have little in common. One was the son of an illiterate peasant, from…
the most backward corner of Europe, ravaged by a bitter war. The other was raised in a mansion on the far side of the world. But they were both prepared to risk everything to control the biggest newspaper empire in the world. Only one of them could win... 1997.The first family
Par Michael Palmer, Daniel Palmer. 2018
Cam Hilliard is, in addition to being the President's sixteen-year-old son, a chess prodigy. A year into President Hilliard's second…
term Cam inexplicably stops playing the game he loved and becomes withdrawn. The First Lady is convinced that the senior White House physician is wrong in diagnosing Cam's issue as a psychological one, and she demands that Dr. Lee Blackwood be brought on to provide a second opinion. Lee's opinion is dismissed, until Cam's spleen ruptures and it becomes obvious that something is horribly wrong. Lee informs the President and First Lady that to make a diagnosis they need to find other people with the same symptoms to conduct additional testing. From there, it's possible to identify the gene defects and correlate those to the missing enzymes. Only then can a diagnosis be made and treatment begun. For now, they must face the harsh reality that Cam's genes are producing a mutation that appears to be entirely new to science. As Lee delves into this medical mystery, he comes to believe Cam is not the first case of this presentation of an inborn error of metabolism. But when two young people Lee has found, each with exceptional gifts, are murdered, Cam's condition suddenly takes on a terrifyingly new dimension. Is someone out to murder the President's son? If so, why? As Lee searches for answers he will uncover unimaginable secrets and dark betrayals that breach the highest levels of security. 2018.The fortress of Kaspar Snit
Par Cary Fagan. 2004
The Blande family is going on a quest to the Verulian Mountains to find out who is stealing the fountains…
of Rome. Along the way, they must face Kaspar Snit, an evil genius. Grades 3-6. 2004.The first victim (A Lou Boldt novel)
Par Ridley Pearson. 1999
A container spotted off Seattle's coast carries dead and ill Chinese women. As cop Lou Boldt works the homicide angle…
and INS agents work theirs, anchorwoman Stevie McNeal and her Chinese adopted sister, Melissa, begin their own investigation. When Melissa disappears, McNeal must turn to the police. Violence and some strong language. 1999.The Five Bells and Bladebone (Richard Jury mystery. #9.)
Par Martha Grimes. 1988
When Melrose Plant finds the very dead body of faithless, greedy Simon Lean, there's no shortage of suspects to hand.…
Richard Jury's enquiries stir up a hornet's nest of suspicion and mutual distrust in the sleepy surroundings of Watermeadows, the stately home where Simon met his end. 1988.The forgotten: a Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novel (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus mystery. #13.)
Par Faye Kellerman. 2001
Hate crime leads to murder after a small synagogue is vandalized. As Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD detective Peter…
Decker, investigate, they learn their son, Jacob, knows the teenage suspect, Ernesto Golding. Then Golding and his therapist are found dead. Some strong language. Bestseller. Sequel to "Stalker", followed by "Stone kiss". 2001.The finding
Par Nina Bawden. 1985
The fledgling
Par Elizabeth Cadell. 1975
Ten-year-old Tory leaves her straightlaced great aunts and their mansion to attend boarding school in England. Her father selects a…
golfing acquaintance to accompany her on the train, and she discovers he has stolen a valuable statuette. 1975.The fire engine that disappeared (Martin Beck. #5.)
Par Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö. 1972
The fortunate fall
Par Raphael Carter. 1996
In twenty-third-century Russia, the world is linked by virtual reality. The Internet is used as an instrument of thought control.…
Maya is a human camera, a reporter that transmits her feelings and thoughts as well as the news. She investigates an old atrocity and finds herself fighting the censors. For senior high and older readers. c1996.The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders & c: The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders (Forsyte chronicles)
Par Daniel Defoe, David Blewett. 1989
Born in Newgate prison and abandoned, Moll's drive to find a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery,…
bigamy, prostitution and a career as a thief before she is apprehended and returned to Newgate. Moll is an embodiment of the virtues and vices of her eighteenth-century contemporaries. 1722, 1989. Uniform title: Fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll FlandersThe fool's run (A Kidd novel. #1)
Par John Sandford. 2008
Kidd and LuEllen are the real thing when it comes to the art of the con. But when they're enlisted…
to perform a bit of corporate sabotage, they find themselves up against someone who knows the game too well. Followed by "The empress file". 2008, c1989.The first deadly sin
Par Lawrence Sanders. 1973
Captain Edward Delaney, in whose Upper East Side precinct a series of murders is taking place, accepts an undercover assignment…
to track down the psychopathic killer. Explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1973.The firemaker
Par Peter May. 1999
Margaret Campbell is a forensic pathologist from Chicago. Li Yan is a Beijing detective with a horribly burned corpse on…
his hands. She has a broken life behind her and a lonely life ahead. He has survived decades of violent change by marrying himself to his career. Neither of them is ready for the consequences of asking the wrong questions. 1999.The final solution: a story of detection
Par Michael Chabon. 2004
In deep retirement in the English country-side, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more…
concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out -- a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts perhaps? Or something more sinister? Is the solution to this last case -- the real explanation of the mysterious boy and his parrot -- beyond even the reach of the once-famed sleuth? 2004.