Benn, James R. Evil for Evil Brandon, Ruth Caravaggio's Angel | ⇒ | A Reggie Lee Mystery Dr Reggie Lee, new at London's National Gallery, is planning a small exhibition of three almost identical Caravaggio paintings when she discovers a fourth. One must be a forgery. That discovery detonates multiple murders. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Brophy, Grace A Deadly Paradise Chang, Henry Year of the Dog Danticat, Edwidge Breath, Eyes, Memory | ⇒ | At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage. At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Disher, Garry Chain of Evidence | ⇒ | A Hall Challis and Ellen Destry Investigation (Vol. 4) Inspector Hal Challis has been summoned to Mawson's Bluff, his childhood home in the Australian Outback where his father is dying. Sergeant Ellen Destry is left to head an investigation into a ring of pedophiles which has descended on the peaceful Mornington Peninsula, a resort community near Melbourne. A little girl has been abducted from the fairgrounds at the annual Waterloo Show; it takes her mother twenty-four hours to report her missing. By then, hope is slim that the police will find the child before it is too late. Challis's sister's difficult husband disappeared from the Bluff four years ago; since then Meg has received nuisance mail that she assumes comes from him. While Challis is in town, an extra buried body is discovered when a new grave is dug in the local graveyard. A black plastic bag containing the corpse of Meg's husband is found on top of a coffin that was interred four years earlier. With two very different crimes to solve, Challis and Destry have their work cut out for them. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Snapshot | ⇒ | A Hal Challis Investigation (Vol. 3) It took months for Janine McQuarrie to succumb to her husband's pressure to have sex with strangers at suburban spouse-swapping parties, but after attending a few such events on the Mornington Peninsula, this Australian social psychologist rebels. Then, driving with her young daughter one day, she gets out of her car to ask directions and is shot dead. The girl escapes when the gunman's pistol misfires. Inspector Hal Challis, to whose Crime Investigation Unit the case falls, is thwarted in his efforts by his boss. The dead woman was Superintendent McQuarrie's daughter-in-law and he seems to be more interested in protecting his son than in finding her killer. Who might have had a motive to kill this attractive young wife and mother? Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Fry, Stephen The Liar | ⇒ | Stephen Fry's unspeakably funny novel has won praise from critics everywhere. It hit the very top of best seller lists in England. Its bisexual hero is a diabolically brilliant pathological liar with the wit of Truman Capote and the moral compunctions of an amoeba. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Herron, Mick Reconstruction Hill, Suzette A. Bones in the Belfry | ⇒ | Francis Oughterard was the contented vicar of Molehill when he accidentally strangled a lady parishioner. A sleazy art dealer gave him an alibi and Maurice, his victim's cynical cat, and Bouncer, a neighbor's dog, rescued him from his own ineptitude. Now he is called upon to return the favor by storing stolen paintings in the church belfry. The intrigue mounts as hapless FO bumbles through police confrontations. Maurice and Bouncer each contribute their version of events. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Jones, Stan Shaman Pass | ⇒ | A State Trooper Nathan Active Investigation (Vol 2) Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active is regarded as "half-white" by the Inupiats of the village where he is stationed. He was born in Chukchi but was adopted by Anglos and raised in Anchorage. Now he is called upon to investigate the murder of a tribal leader who was stabbed to death with an antique harpoon, which had been recently returned to the community under the Indian Graves Act. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
White Sky, Black Ice | ⇒ | A State Trooper Nathan Active Investigation (Vol. 1) In the small Alaskan village of Chukchi, what are the odds of two suicides occurring in a matter of a few days? State trooper Nathan Active discovers that his suspicions concerning the deaths are well-founded; the two men were murdered. But what was the motive and who killed them? Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Landsman, Anne The Rowing Lesson | ⇒ | Betsy Klein is summoned from her home in the United States to her father's hospital bed in South Africa. Orphaned young, he had to struggle to become a doctor and to win the respect of his Boer patients. We first meet young Harold Klein on an excursion with his friends on the Ebb 'N Flow, a river to which he often returns. That is where he later teaches his little daughter to row, and finally, where he makes his last metaphoric passage. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Limon, Martin G.I. Bones Limon, Martin The Door to Bitterness | ⇒ | A Sergeants Sueño and Bascom Mystery (Vol. 4) The two G.I. cops Martin Limón first introduced in Jade Lady Burning are back with a vengeance in their latest adventures in Seoul and the sin cities surrounding the capital in the 1970s. While North Korea menaces and Vietnam burns, these two weave through back alleys and bordellos, trying to tip the scales of justice back in the right direction. This time they are not only pursuing criminals Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Lovesey, Peter Bloodhounds | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation (Vol. 4) A rare stamp and a corpse are discovered in Bath within hours of each other. As he investigates, Inspector Peter Diamond discovers that both the person who found the stamp and the victim belong to the Bloodhounds, an elite group of mystery lovers, who now urge Diamond to bring the murderer to justice. But there's a hitch; the body lies inside a padlocked houseboat and the only key is in the pocket of a man with an airtight alibi. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Diamond Dust Mad Hatter's Holiday | ⇒ | A Sergeant Cribb Investigation (Vol. 4) Brighton in 1882 is the setting of this novel of crime and tangled emotions. Albert Moscrop, a visitor whose holiday is dedicated to peering through a telescope at the seaside scene, marches down the Queen's Road to the beach and draws us through a sequence of disarmingly trivial observations into a compelling drama, played in the fashionable haunts of the nineteenth-century resort; beach, piers, promenade, swimming bath, aquarium, and Devil's Dyke. A keen student of human nature, Moscrop concentrates his interest on one particular family of holidaymakers Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Rough Cider | ⇒ | It is World War II and American soldiers stationed in rural England have made friends, especially with the local girls. After a dance to celebrate the pressing of the apples into cider, the resentment of the local men leads to violence and a murder. Later, a child is born, a girl. When she grows up, she tries to find out more about her soldier-father. And long-forgotten jealousies and hatreds come frothing to the surface. Rough Cider was nominated for an Edgar Award. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers The Vault | ⇒ | An Inspector Peter Diamon Investigation (Vol. 6) Peter Diamond is a policeman whose abrasive manner is not appreciated by his superiors but when a skeletal hand turns up in the vault of the Pump Room in Bath, followed by the excavation of a skull, Diamond is called upon to solve a series of crimes, including murder and forgery, requiring a knowledge of history, nineteenth century art, literature...and contemporary human nature. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Lovesy, Peter A Case of Spirits Nabb, Magdalen The Innocent | ⇒ | A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation The body of a woman has been found half-submerged in an ornamental fish pond high up in Florence's Boboli gardens. At first, the woman cannot be identified; only her skull remains. The marshal must use her clothing and a shoe to trace her. She turns out to be a young Japanese woman apprenticed to one of Florence's legendary custom shoemakers, crotchety old Peruzzi. Could he have killed his proté gé? Or did jealousy drive his other apprentice to murder? The neighbors have seen Akiko with a lover Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
The Marshal Makes His Report | ⇒ | A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation The suspicious-looking suicide of the husband of the Marchesa of one of Florence's oldest families has the Marshal once again refusing to accept the easy answer. He insists on looking for the truth, knowing it could well be the end of his career should he find it. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Pattison, Elliot Prayer of the Dragon | ⇒ | An Inspector Shan Investigation Summoned to a remote village from the hidden lamasery where he lives, Shan, formerly an investigator in Beijing, must save a comatose man from execution for two murders in which the victims' arms have been removed. Upon arrival, he discovers that the suspect is not Tibetan but Navajo. The man has come with his niece to seek ancestral ties between their people and the ancient Bon. The recent murders are only part of a chain of deaths. Together with his friends, the monks Gendun and Lokesh, Shan solves the riddle of Dragon Mountain, the place "where world begins." Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Pawel, Rebecca The Summer Snow | ⇒ | A Sergeant Tejada Investigation (Vol. 4) In the city of Granada, Spain, bastion of the conservative Catholic aristocracy, fear of the red menace remains strong in 1945. One rich, elderly lady summons the police to her home almost once a week, sure Communists are plotting against her. She changes her will almost as often. When she is found dead, the long-suffering police can't believe that she really may have been murdered. But as her latest will has vanished, the death must be investigated.nfluence is exerted to have Lieutenant Carlos Tejada Alonso y Léon transferred temporarily from Potes, in the northern mountains, to take charge because the old lady is his grandaunt. And one of the chief suspects is his father. The family expects Tejada to exonerate its members, but Tejada is a man who puts duty first. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Pearce, Michael A Dead Man in Athens | ⇒ | A Sandor Seymour Investigation (Vol. 3) In 1913, a poisoned cat, an exiled Sultan, and a new vision of an ascendant Greece threaten the Balkans with utter chaos and war. Something has to be done, and fast. Who was behind the feline poisoning? British Special Branch officer Seymour is on the case. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
A Dead Man in Barcelona | ⇒ | A Sandor Seymour Investigation (Vol. 5) Barcelona, 1912. An Englishman is found dead in prison. He was a prominent businessman in Gibraltar. Gibraltar thinks the case cries out for investigation by someone independent of the Spanish authorities. So Scotland Yard dispatches Seymour of the Special Branch. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
A Dead Man in Istanbul | ⇒ | A Sandor Seymour Investigation (Vol. 2) A murder in Istanbul is entangled with international politics and deadly secrets when an embassy official is shot trying to swim the Dardanelles Straits. Special Branch officer Seymour's investigation ranges through Istanbul's graveyards, box shops, and crowded coffee houses, leading to the heart of Topkapi Palace itself. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
A Dead Man in Naples | ⇒ | A Sandor Seymour Investigation (Vol. 6) Lionel Scampion, British consul in Naples, has been stabbed to death while bicycling through the piazza of the Porta Carmine. According to his sister, he had no enemies. The Neapolitan police suggest he was murdered by a bicycle racing rival. In Naples, every mystery is attributed to the Camorra, a powerful criminal society; could its members be involved? Scampion enthusiastically backed the Italian invasion of Libya and befriended army officers of the newly formed Italian Bicycle Brigade, which was frowned on by his superiors. Now the Foreign Office in London has heard that international politics emanating from Rome might have been involved. Seymour of the Special Branch is sent to find out the motive for the murder and, incidentally, to identify the culprit. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
A Dead Man in Tangier | ⇒ | A Sandor Seymour Investigation (Vol. 4) Why is Seymour of Scotland Yard summoned to North Africa? Isn't the death of a Frenchman there a matter for the local police? But in the run-up to the First World War, everything is connected, and a single murder in politically fraught Morocco could destabilize Europe. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
A Dead Man in Trieste | ⇒ | A Sandor Seymour Investigation (Vol. 1) The churning politics of Trieste in 1906 provide the perfect backdrop for murder in the first in a series set in British embassies and consulates in the early 1900s featuring Special Branch officer Seymour. When the British consul goes missing, who's responsible; the secret police, revolutionaries, or a mysterious lover? Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Petit, Caroline Deep Night | ⇒ | Leah Kolbe escapes to Macao as the Japanese occupy Hong Kong. Her fiancé is interned in a prisoner of war camp. She becomes a spy for the British and takes a Japanese lover. When she returns with provisions to her beloved Hong Kong on the first boat, she finds the surviving English, including her fiancé , totally altered. He cannot bear to stay in Hong Kong; she chooses to remain and rebuild. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Qiu, Xiaolong Death of a Red Heroine | ⇒ | An Inspector Chen Cao Investigation set in China (Vol. 1) Contemporary Shanghai comes vividly to life in this new mystery series. Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police must find the murderer of a National Model Worker, and then risk his own life and career to see that justice is done. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Raichev, R.T. Assassins at Ospreys Rees, Matt Beynon The Samaritan's Secret | ⇒ | An Omar Yussef Mystery (Vol. 3) A member of the tiny but ancient Samaritan community who controlled hundreds of millions of dollars of government money has been murdered. Visiting Nablus, Omar Yussef must find the missing money before all aid to the Palestinians is cut off. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Richards, Susan Chosen by a Horse: A Memoire | ⇒ | When she agrees to take on the care of one of the abused horses just rescued by the local SPCA, a new chapter opens in Susan Richards's difficult life. She lost her mother at the age of five and was raised by uncaring relatives; married unhappily and divorced; and suffered from alcoholism. While trying to capture another horse assigned to her, Lay Me Down, a skeletal mare, walks into Susan-s horse trailer of her own volition. Susan already owns one mare and two geldings -- the diva-like Georgia, boyish Tempo and hopelessly romantic Hotshot -- but it is with Lay Me Down that she forges a special, healing relationship that alters her life. Poignant and evocative, this is a book for anyone who has ever loved a horse, and for everyone who has ever lost a loved one. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Stein, Garth How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets | ⇒ | Evan had a hit single, but that was ten years ago. Thirty-one now, he's drifting, playing in a local band and teaching middle-aged men to coax music from an electric guitar. Beset at a young age with a life-threatening form of epilepsy, he's kept his condition a secret. But his deepest secret is that he got his high-school sweetheart pregnant. Then her conservative parents whisked her out of Seattle and out of Evan's life. Now, fourteen years later, he experiences unplanned parenthood when he undertakes to raise the resentful teenage son he's never known. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Teo, Hsu-Ming Behind the Moon Townsend, Sue Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction | ⇒ | Adrian Mole, now age thirty-four and three quarters, needs proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction so he can get a refund from a travel agency of the deposit he paid on a trip to Cyprus. Naturally, he writes to Tony Blair for some evidence. He's engaged to Marigold, but obsessed with her voluptuous sister. And he is so deeply in debt to banks and credit card companies that it would take more than twice his monthly salary to ever repay them. He needs a guest speaker for his creative writing group's dinner in Leicestershire and wonders if the prime minister's wife is available. In short, Adrian is back in true form, unable-like so many people we know, but of course, not us-to admit that the world does not revolve around him. But recognizing the universal core of Adrian's dilemmas is what makes them so agonizingly funny. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Tursten, Helen The Torso | ⇒ | A Detective Inspector Huss Investigation (Vol. 2) Part of a human torso washes up on a beach near Göteborg, Sweden. It is so mutilated that gender is only established by DNA testing. A similar crime, now several years old, remains unsolved in Denmark. Detective Inspector Irene Huss is dispatched to Copenhagen to liaise with police. Then a third corpse is discovered. This time it's identified. It is a girl Detective Huss knew; she had been asked by the girl's mother to locate her missing daughter. A fourth victim, the son of a woman heading the Copenhagen crime squad, is also known to Huss. She fears the killer is tracking her, killing people with whom she is connected. There is even a chilling suggestion that he or she is one of her colleagues. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Vida, Nina Texicans Wells, Shirley A Darker Side | ⇒ | A Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham Investigation (Vol. 2) Forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy has given up police work for a quiet life in the Lancashire village of Kelton Bridge, but when Martin Hayden, a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, is murdered, DCI Max Trentham, Jill's ex-colleague, wants her back at work. As they hunt Martin's killer, they discover that nothing is as it seems. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Where Petals Fall Winspear, Jacqueline Maisie Dobbs | ⇒ | Maisie entered domestic service in 1910 at the age of thirteen, to work as a maid at the Belgravia mansion of Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence and innate love of learning are discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons who is often retained by Europe's elite, and the police, to conduct discreet investigations. Eventually, Maisie enters Girton College at Cambridge University, but the escalation of World War I intervenes to change her plans. She serves as a nurse at the front and falls in love with a handsome young doctor, only to lose him. In 1929, following an apprenticeship assisting Blanche iin his work, Maissie hangs out her shingle; M. DOBBS, TRADE AND PERSONAL INVESTIGATIONS. She soon becomes enmeshed in a mystery suurrounding The Retreat, a reclusive community of veterans wounded in body and spirit. At first, Maisie only suspects foul play, but she must act quickly when Lady Rowan's son decides to sign away his fortune and take refuge at The Retreat. A coincidence? Maisie has learned that coincidences can lead to the truth, and hurriedly investigates The Retreat. She uncovers a disturbing mystery at its core which in an astonishing dénouement, gives Maisie the courage to confront the ghost that has haunted her for over ten years. Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
Zeng, Jennifer Witnessing History | ⇒ | Zheng (Jennifer) Zeng was a graduate in science from Beijing University. She was a wife, a mother, and a Communist Party member. But because she followed a spiritual practice called Falun Gong, her life in China was shattered. Adhering to the practice's simple tenets of Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance, she was amazed that the Party would institute a crack down, arrest her and demand that she recant. After twice being held at a detention center and refusing, she was sentenced without trial to reeducation through forced labor. Her "enlightenment" Buy: amazon.com | bn.com | indiebound.org eBook: amazon.com | bn.com | sony.com |
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