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Gone (Jack Caffery mystery. #5.)
Par Mo Hayder. 2013
Jack Caffery's newest case seems like a routine carjacking, a crime he's seen plenty of times before. But as the…
hours tick by and his investigation morphs into a nightmare, he realizes the sickening truth: the thief wasn't after the car, but the eleven-year-old girl in the backseat. Meanwhile, police diver Sergeant Flea Marley is pursuing her own theory of the case, and what she finds in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel could put her in grave danger. The carjacker is always a step ahead of the Major Crime Investigation Unit, toying with their minds in taunting letters, and ready to strike again. As the chances for his victims grow slimmer, Jack and Flea race to fit the pieces together in time. 2013.Fiddlers: a novel of the 87th Precinct (An 87th Precinct novel.)
Par Ed McBain. 2005
Most serial killers don't shoot their victims twice in the face with a Glock. Most serials killers don't strike five…
times in two weeks. And most serial killers' prey share something more in common than just being over fifty years of age. But this is a serial killer who doesn't fit the profile, so why should the victims? With trademark wit and sizzling dialogue, Ed McBain unravels a mystery that takes you to the outer edges of the city and examines the dreams we chase in the darkening hours, before the fiddlers have fled. 2005.Black rock: an Eddie Dougherty mystery
Par John McFetridge. 2014
Montreal 1970. The “Vampire Killer” has murdered three women and a fourth is missing. Bombs explode in the stock exchange,…
McGill University, and houses in Westmount. Riots break out at the St. Jean Baptiste parade and at Sir George Williams University. James Cross and Pierre Laporte are kidnapped and the Canadian army moves onto the streets of Montreal. A young beat cop working out of Station Ten finds himself almost alone hunting the serial killer, as the rest of the force focuses on the FLQ crisis. Constable Eddie Dougherty, the son of a French mother and an Irish-Canadian father, decides to take matters into his own hands to catch the killer before he strikes again. 2014.Death of an honest man (Hamish Macbeth mysteries. #33.)
Par M. C Beaton. 2018
Paul English, newcomer to Lochdubh, has insulted nearly everyone on police sergeant Hamish Macbeth's beat--so when Paul is murdered, Hamish…
is faced with a wide array of suspects. And he's lost the services of his clumsy policeman, Charlie. Can Hamish find the killer on his own? Sequel to "Death of a ghost". 2018.Depth of winter (Longmire Mysteries. #14)
Par Craig Johnson. 2018
Welcome to Walt Longmire's worst nightmare. In Craig Johnson's latest mystery, Depth of Winter, an international hit man and the…
head of one of the most vicious drug cartels in Mexico has kidnapped Walt's beloved daughter, Cady, to auction her off to his worst enemies, of which there are many. The American government is of limited help and the Mexican one even less. Walt heads into the one-hundred-and-ten degree heat of the Northern Mexican desert alone, one man against an army. 2018.Dark tide rising (William Monk. #24)
Par Anne Perry. 2018
When Kate Exeter is kidnapped on the shore of the Thames, Commander William Monk is enlisted by her desperate husband…
to save her. Kate's captors are demanding a ransom for her safe return and Monk and his most trusted men must arrange a secret handover in the dark slums of Jacob's Island. But on the night someone betrays them and a brutal skirmish breaks out, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Who is to blame for what went wrong? Monk senses tensions mount and no one knows who to trust. Then a whistle blower claims that the ransom money was embezzled funds that incriminate Kate's husband, and the case takes on a whole new meaning. 2018.Bryant & May: strange tide (Bryant & May mystery.)
Par Christopher Fowler. 2016
The River Thames is London's most important yet neglected artery. When a young woman is found chained to a post…
in the tide, no-one can understand how she came to be drowned there. At the Peculiar Crimes Unit, Arthur Bryant and John May find themselves dealing with an impossible crime committed in a very public place. Soon they discover that the river is giving up other victims, but as the investigation extends from the coast of Libya to the nightclubs of North London, it proves as murkily sinister as the Thames itself. 2016.Hunting shadows: an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery (Inspector Ian Rutledge novels. #16.)
Par Charles Todd. 2014
A society wedding at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire becomes a crime scene when a man is murdered. After another body…
is found, the baffled local constabulary turns to Scotland Yard. Though the second crime had a witness, her description of the killer is so strange it's unbelievable. The victims are so different that there seems no rhyme or reason to their deaths. Nothing logically connects them--except the killer. As the investigation widens, a clear suspect emerges. But for Rutledge, the facts still don't add up, leaving him to question his own judgment. In going over the details of the case, Rutledge is reminded of a dark episode he witnessed in the war. While the memory could lead him to the truth, it also raises a prickly dilemma. To stop a murderer, will the ethical detective choose to follow the letter--or the spirit--of the law? Sequel to "Proof of guilt", followed by "A fine summer's day". 2014.Even dogs in the wild (Inspector Rebus. #20.)
Par Ian Rankin. 2016
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is investigating the death of a senior lawyer during a robbery. But the case becomes more…
complex when a note is discovered, indicating that this may have been no random attack, and when local gangster Big Ger Cafferty receives an identical message, Clarke decides that the recently retired John Rebus may be able to help. He's the only man Cafferty will open up to, and together the two old adversaries might just stand a chance of saving Cafferty's skin. Sequel to "Saints of the Shadow Bible". 2015.Frozen moment
Par Camille Ceder. 2009
One cold morning in December, in a small rural town on the Swedish coast, Ake Melkersson is on his way…
to work when his car breaks down. Luckily he spots a garage nearby, but as he approaches he realises something is wrong. The owner of the garage lies dead, sprawled on the ground, his lower body crushed where a car has repeatedly driven over him. The murder investigation is led by Inspector Christian Tell, but he has very few clues to go on. 2011, c2009. Uniform title: Fruset ogonblick.Hide & seek (Inspector Rebus Novels Ser. #Vol. 2)
Par Ian Rankin. 1998
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 the tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like murder every day. 1998.Harm done: an Inspector Wexford mystery (Inspector Wexford mystery. #18.)
Par Ruth Rendell. 2000
Inspector Reginald Wexford investigates the disappearance of two teenage girls, the abduction of a three-year-old, and the release of a…
pedophile into a tough neighbourhood. Wexford's daughter Sylvia, a social worker, soon educates him about the world of abused women and their children. Strong language and some descriptions of violence. Sequel to "Road rage", followed by "The babes in the wood". 1999. (Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery ; 18)Grave mistake
Par Ngaio Marsh. 1964
Rich, vain, hypochondriac Sybil Foster, off for a rest cure at posh Greengages is found dead, a supposed but improbable…
suicide. The suspects investigated by Scotland Yard superintendent Roderick Alleyn include Sybil's seductive, cad-like doctor; a Scots gardener, and a nouveau-riche neighbour who has been coveting her beautiful house. 1964.From Doon with death (Inspector Wexford mystery. #1.)
Par Ruth Rendell. 1982
"Love and death" said Chief Inspector Wexford. "Those were the only two sensational things that ever happened to Margaret Parsons."…
By the look of it, she had had a very dull life. She had been a "good woman": religious, old-fashioned and respectable. It was not her life that interested Wexford though, but her death. She had been a predictable, ordinary woman but now she had met with a death of passion and violence for which there seemed neither motive nor clue. Followed by "A new lease of death". 1982.Fleshmarket Close: An Elaborate Stunt - Or Murder? (Inspector Rebus.)
Par Ian Rankin. 2008
An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme - a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus…
is drawn into the case, but has other problems - his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. Then there's the small matter of the two skeletons, a woman and an infant, found buried beneath a concrete cellar floor in Fleshmarket Close. The scene begins to look like an elaborate stunt - but whose and for what purpose? 2008.Four blind mice (Alex Cross series. #8.)
Par James Patterson. 2002
Now the Mastermind is in prison, Alex Cross is ready to leave the Washington Police Force - until John Sampson…
arrives and begs him to take on one last case. Sampson's best friend has been accused of an horrific triple murder. Three women have been knifed at an Army base. His fingerprints and DNA have been found, but Sampson's friend swears he has been framed and that Alex is his only hope. Strong language. Sequel to "Violets are blue" (DC25827), followed by "The big bad wolf" (DC28327). 2002. (Alex Cross series ; 8)Footsteps on the shore (An Inspector Andy Horton mystery #6)
Par Pauline Rowson. 2011
Friday the thirteenth starts badly for DI Andy Horton - convicted murderer Luke Felton has gone missing, while a decomposed…
corpse washes up in Portsmouth harbour. Then Horton is called to the house of a woman he had met only the day before, to find her brutally murderer. Is Luke Felton the prime suspect, or is his body in the mud of the harbour? Horton is under pressure, and little does he suspect that things are about to get a whole lot worse. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2011. (An Inspector Andy Horton mystery)Forty words for sorrow (John Cardinal series. #1.)
Par Giles Blunt. 2000
When four teenagers disappear in the northern Canadian town of Algonquin Bay, a down-on-his luck detective decides to pick up…
the trail at the point where everybody else has given up. After one of the teenager's bodies is pulled from an abandoned mine shaft, the detective, haunted by his own criminal past, follows increasingly tenuous paths toward the killer's hide-out. Followed by "The delicate storm". 2000.Friends in high places (Commissario Guido Brunetti series ; #9)
Par Donna Leon. 2000
Commissario Brunetti is plunged into a world of corruption and intrigue when he investigates the death of a young bureaucrat…
in the Venetian planning department. 2000. (Commissario Guido Brunetti series ; 9)Friend of the devil (Inspector Alan Banks mystery #17)
Par Peter Robinson. 2007
Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot must work together to solve two chilling crimes. On loan to…
a sister precinct, Cabbot draws the first case. Karen Drew seems to have lived a quiet and nearly invisible life for the past seven years. Try as she might, Annie turns up nothing in the woman's past that might have prompted someone to wheel her out to the sea and to her death. Meanwhile, in the Hayley Daniels murder, Banks has suspects galore. Then a breakthrough spins Annie's case in a shocking and surprising new direction, straight toward Banks. Violence and strong language. 2007.