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Private investigator Gwenn Ramadge is hired to find out who is robbing guests on a cruise ship. While on board…
she meets Minerva Aldrich, who (along with her sisters) inherited her late mother's prestigious dress company, Goddess Designs. When terminally ill Minerva is found dead in the pool, Ramadge's investigation expands to murder. 1996.
Navajo tribal policeman Jim Chee arrests the poacher he finds standing over a dying police officer. But when Jim's mentor,…
retired cop Joe Leaphorn, begins looking for a missing scientist last seen in that same area that same day, the case takes on new dimensions. Some strong language. Bestseller. 1998.
A terrorist bomb planted in an Italian railway station in 1980 kills American student Cookie Woodhull. Sara, the middle daughter,…
and Woody, the college-professor father, recount the long-term repercussions, including the family's separation. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1998.
New York Police Department criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his student Amelia Sachs lead the hunt for a serial killer who…
changes his appearance with each murder, except for a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing in front of a coffin. Descriptions of violence. Sequel to “The bone collector“, followed by “The empty chair“. c1998.
Seven stories that appeared in the magazine Black Mask during the twenties. They introduce Continental Op, the fat man from…
the Continental Detective Agency (modeled after the Pinkerton Agency where Hammett once worked) and reflect a world of cruelty and stealth. Includes violence. 1992.
On her way back to the Fengate estate from the Case Has Altered pub, Dorcas Reese is strangled to death…
on the Lincolnshire fens. Two weeks earlier, Verna Dunn was shot to death at Fengate. Scotland Yard detective Richard Jury's investigation becomes problematic when his former lover Jenny Kennington turns into the prime suspect in both crimes. Some strong language. 1997.
This is another adventure of millionaire Jim Qwilleran and his siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum. Several minor cases of…
vandalism around the village of Pickax begin to escalate until the Widow Coggin is murdered. It's up to Jim and the cats to solve the case! Sequel to “The cat who tailed a thief”, followed by “The cat who saw stars”. 1998.
Someone within the inner circle of country-singing star Ricky Savage is making disturbing threats. Savage's sister-in-law, Detective Sharon McCone, hires…
Hy Ripinsky for protection, but Savage's crumbling marriage and upcoming tour create gaps in the security net, and the danger moves within striking range. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. c1996. (Sharon McCone mysteries ; 17)
A great Washington chef has been murdered and it's up to Chas Wheatley, the "Washington Examiner" restaurant critic, to solve…
the crime. She enlists the help of her daughter and detective/gourmand Homer Jones, who spends more time at the table than on the trail of the killer. 1997.
Five years ago, Edinburgh's Central Hotel burned to the ground, and a body with a bullet hole in it was…
found in the ashes. Now John Rebus is having a terrible week--his lover has thrown him out, his brother has arrived unannounced, and his deputy is hospitalized in a coma. Then Rebus reads the notes in his deputy's black book and sees a connection. Strong language. 1994.
Pursuing two apparently unrelated murders, detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are led into a squalid Harlem ghetto,…
where they confront the killer in an explosive showdown. Strong language and violence. 1996.
It is June 1897 in New York City. Just as war between Spain and the U.S. is about to break…
out, a young Spanish diplomat's wife begs for help to find her kidnapped baby. Psychiatrist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and a handful of his friends investigate, only to arrive at a shocking conclusion. 1997.
Three beautiful women are suspected of committing a series of brutal murders. The story races from London to Rome, Quebec…
and San Francisco. A startling turn of events leads to the arrest of just one of the three women. 1998.
Morgan Tallchief is devastated when his lover and her family are reported lost in an explosion. Years later, when she…
emerges from a witness protection program and resumes their romance, ex-commando Tallchief faces daunting odds to protect her. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. c1997.
Stanley Hastings, New York private detective, is hired by Maxine Winnington, wife of bestselling author Kenneth Winnington, to find out…
who's been calling her with death threats. During the investigation, Kenneth's ex-publisher and his current publicist are murdered. Hastings becomes a suspect - until his family is also threatened. Some violence and some strong language. 1998.
Ex-policeman-turned-investigator Stone Barrington heads to Los Angeles to search for his kidnapped ex-girlfriend, Arrington Carrington. Only a few weeks before,…
she had unexpectedly left Stone to marry a famous movie star. Now that she is missing, Stone hurries to Hollywood. Strong language, descriptions of sex and violence. Bestseller. 1998.
Ten years ago, Martin Vail's defence kept murderer Aaron Stampler out of prison and sent him to a mental institution.…
But when new crimes remind the attorney of the earlier case, Vail, now a prosecutor, recruits his former opponent, Jane Venable, to determine if Stampler is involved. Sequel to "Primal fear" (DC12345). Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. 1995.
Six mysteries featuring Horace Rumpole. In one case, Rumpole defends an animal-rights activist who clashes with fox hunters. In another…
a doctor is accused of hastening the end of an Alzheimer's patient. And "She Who Must Be Obeyed," i.e., Hilda Rumpole, recounts his defence of a young boy charged with using a golf club to beat his father to death. 1996. (Rumpole mysteries)
Set in mid-nineteenth-century Victorian England in the mining town of Wigan, this story involves Jonathan Blair, an American explorer. Blair…
agrees to help coal baron Bishop Hannay find his daughter's fiance, who disappeared on the same day that an explosion in one of Hannay's coal mines killed seventy-six people. Winner of the 1998 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1996.
Florida builder John Deal and his wife Janice narrowly escape death twice. First the gallery they just left is bombed,…
then their fourplex is burned, badly injuring Janice. With the help of ex-cop tenant Driscoll, Deal learns both incidents involved a Cuban trying to corner the sugar market. Prequel to "Deal to die for." Includes strong language, violence, and sex. c1994.