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A young, married nurse is knifed to death just outside her mother's apartment house in middle-class Forest Hills. None of…
the neighbors comes to the screaming woman's aid as she bleeds to death. New York detective Miranda Torres and columnist Mike Stein pursue the killer and become lovers during the investigation. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1986
Anna, a divorcee, piano teacher, and mother, has her deepest emotional attachment to her daughter until she falls in love…
with Leo, in many ways the kind of wild, impulsive person Anna wishes she was. However, her new-found recklessness threatens Anna's custody battle for her four-year-old daughter. 1986.
In West Bay, Mississippi, Tucker Loomis fraudulently acquires Barrier Island, planning to turn the ecologically important site into a posh…
recreation area. Loomis's action is accepted by the wheeler-dealers, but not by real-estate agent Wade Rowley who wants to save the environment. Bestseller. 1986.
When a prized Greek coin disappears, Mary Lou Bateson, a coin appraiser at a New York auction house, resolves to…
clear her name by ferreting out the real thief. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1986.
Donna Rockford senses danger in the air even before her younger sister Abbey vanishes on a mountain-climbing trip in Colorado.…
Donna has just begun tracking clues and questioning suspects when one of the suspects is injured and Donna finds herself under investigation. Easy reading for junior and senior high readers
Seventeen mystery stories spanning the years 1932 to 1985 and featuring ethnic detectives such as black detective Virgil Tibbs, French…
Inspector Maigret, Indian Inspector Ghote, Japanese Inspector Saito, Chicana detective Elena Oliverez, and "Mom," the Bronx Jewish housewife who suggests solutions to her detective son
Collection of eleven linked stories set in the holy Japanese city of Kyoto, where the author once spent time in…
a Zen monastery. The hero of these tales is Saito Masanobu, a young police inspector whose talent for crime solving leads to his rapid promotion within the department, but also causes him to question his own arrogance. Some strong language
Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer of the Yellowthread Street Hong Kong police must capture a cool, possibly European, gunman who stalks…
the streets killing again and again. The victims include a shoeshine man, a fortune-teller, a British army officer, and a Portuguese manufacturer. Though they seem an odd lot, the victims have something in common. Some strong language
Private investigator Nudger pieces together a series of leads in his search for the brutal murderer of a young woman…
who is part of a nightmarish St. Louis underworld. The group uses the telephone company's private lines to arrange erotic encounters. Lately, however, the trysts have turned out to be fatal for the women involved
Two naked lovers are found dead, with gas flowing from the kitchen and a suicide note on the bureau. Yet…
when detectives Steve Carella and Cotton Hawes of the 87th Precinct investigate the case, their instincts tell them everything is too pat, and they suspect murder. Strong language
The struggle for a legendary 130-year-old stamp, the Dutch Blue Error, leads to forgery, blackmail, and murder. Boston lawyer Brady…
Coyne, acting for his wealthy client who owns the stamp, and his legal secretary, Harvard graduate Zeke Garrett, become murder suspects. Some strong language
Inspector Luke Thanet of Dorset is involved in a complex and heart-wrenching case. Charity Pritchard, a fifteen-year-old girl raised in…
a strange, strict sect, is found dead in an alley. The police investigation uncovers a number of bizarre secrets in the young girl's past and some tangled relationships that may hold the clues to solving her murder. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex
When three children are murdered in the immediate vicinity of Dorset, Superintendent Richard Jury and his partner, Detective Sergeant Alfred…
Wiggins, are assigned the task of finding the killer. Jury has no clue until his investigation takes him into the territory of the Devon-Cornwall constabulary, commanded by Detective Brian Macalvie, a brusque Americanophile. They meet at the run-down pub, Help the Poor Struggler, to map out strategy
Betsy and her brother are convinced that their father did not commit the crime for which he has been jailed.…
They set out to prove his innocence with the help of Betsy's new boyfriend and the two strange people they find living in the "empty house." A romantic mystery. For grades 6-9
This lightning-fast mystery features hard-boiled detective Paul Pine. In Chicago, he runs a yellow light and nearly crashes into a…
large black car--the lead vehicle in a funeral procession composed entirely of clergymen. Pine soon finds that the deceased, known only as John Doe, was a murder victim. Some strong language
Bucking for meaty assignments as a fledgling newspaper reporter, the irrepressible Fletch seizes the chance to get out of the…
society pages when Donald Habek is shot dead. Fletch sees himself with bylines if he can beat Biff, the crime reporter. Fletch survives some slapsticky mishaps, endures some police brutality, appeases his fiancee, Barbara, and unmasks the culprit. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex
Stella Best's peace of mind is disturbed after she and her husband discover the body of a young woman in…
the woods not far from their country cottage. But her husband's interest in the subsequent investigation proves more troublesome, and eventually Stella detects a link between her spouse and the victim