Category: Mystery

By Joshilyn Jackson

ISBN-10: 0446582352

ISBN-13: 9780446582353

A GROWN-UP form of lovely is a strong saga of 3 generations of ladies, stricken by hardships and torn via a devastating mystery, but inextricably joined by means of the bonds of kinfolk. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb-spirited, sassy, and at the cusp of womanhood-is shaken while a small grave is unearthed within the yard, and made up our minds to determine why it's there. Liza, her stroke-ravaged mom, is haunted through offerings she made as undefined. however it is Jenny, Mosey's powerful and big-hearted grandmother, whose maternal love braids jointly the strands of the women's shared past--and who will cease at not anything to protect their destiny.

By Brett Halliday

ISBN-10: 150401460X

ISBN-13: 9781504014601

A blonde with a rotten husband sends Mike Shayne into the past

Mike Shayne isn't frightened of an individual, yet that doesn't suggest he feels cozy in a tuxedo. He squeezes into the monkey go well with for the sake of Lucy Hamilton, his loved secretary, and grins and bears his method via a meal on the ultra-posh Martinique. The detective is simply settling into the night while he sees a lady who stops his blood chilly: Lydia Kane, a pal of his overdue spouse. She's well mannered, yet her eyes exhibit mortal terror.

The reunion is quickly damaged up through Lydia's husband, a squat thug who explodes at Shayne for chatting with his spouse. the lads trade harsh phrases, then fast punches, which reasons Shayne and Lucy to be kicked out of Martinique. whilst Lydia is murdered quickly after, Shayne suspects her husband is the killer. yet how can the detective turn out it whilst the police are sizzling on his personal

By Adrian McKinty

ISBN-10: 1616147881

ISBN-13: 9781616147884

A torso in a suitcase appears like an most unlikely case. yet Sean Duffy isn't simply deterred, specially while his floundering love lifestyles leaves him short of distraction. So, with Detective Constables McCrabban and McBride, he is going to paintings picking the sufferer. The torso seems to be all that's left of an American vacationer who as soon as served within the US army. What used to be he doing in Northern eire in the course of the 1982 issues? the path results in your doorstep of a pretty, flame-haired, twenty- whatever widow, whose husband died by the hands of an IRA assassination workforce quite a few months earlier than. abruptly, Duffy is stuck among his romantic instincts, gross specialist misconduct, and strong males he should still recognize higher than to debris with. those contain British intelligence, the FBI, and native paramilitary demise squads, sufficient to maintain even the savviest detective busy. Duffy's starting to be experience of self-doubt isn't aiding. yet, being a legendarily obdurate guy, he doesn't permit that cease him pursuing the case to its explosive conclusion.

By Brett Halliday

ISBN-10: 1504014332

ISBN-13: 9781504014335

Mike Shayne tangles with a Miami seashore blackmailer on behalf of a long-forgotten friend

It's been 4 years when you consider that his spouse used to be murdered, and Mike Shayne isn't prepared to recollect the outdated days. He's again in Miami while he sees Christine, as soon as his wife's closest pal, and anything in his intestine tells him to stick away. Newly married, Christine has racked up $10,000 in playing money owed, and she's able to pawn the single helpful factor she owns: a string of worthwhile pearls. She asks Shayne to make the handoff. The setup smells fishy, yet he is of the same opinion to help—not for Christine's sake, yet for the reminiscence of the lady he loved.

Through slightly quickly considering, Shayne erases the debt with no wasting the pearls. His customer can be thrilled, yet Christine is livid that he replaced the plan. earlier than lengthy, Shayne is trapped in an online of blackmail and homicide, the place the number 1 suspect is Mike Shayne.

By Agatha Christie

ISBN-10: 0062074431

ISBN-13: 9780062074430

It have been a standard New Year's Eve social gathering. yet as middle of the night techniques, Mr. Satterthwaite—a prepared observer of human nature—senses that the genuine drama of the night is but to spread. And so it proves whilst a mysterious stranger knocks at the door. who's this Mr. Quin?

Mr. Satterthwaite's new buddy is an enigma. He turns out to seem and disappear kind of like a trick of the sunshine. in reality, the one constant factor approximately him is that his presence is usually an omen—sometimes stable, yet occasionally lethal. . .

By Thomas Gifford

ISBN-10: 1453266186

ISBN-13: 9781453266182

A journalist searches for the real tale of his glamorous sibling’s death

When rock famous person J. C. Tripper died, simply his brother Lee used to be by way of his facet, and within the a long time on the grounds that, Lee has been deviled by means of questions of what particularly occurred that evening in Tangier. He thinks he is familiar with the reality, yet his recollection of that ultimate drug-soaked bender is set to be referred to as into question.

An outdated acquaintance mails Lee a Nazi pistol and 4 Polaroid images of a lifeless body—an invitation to reopen a long-cold homicide research. Lee then reconnects with Sam Innis, onetime ally to the brothers Tripper, who urges him to trace down J.C.’s former bandmates and track contacts. That evening, Lee’s female friend, a bestselling conspiracy theorist, is tortured to loss of life in her bath. As his brother comes again to hang-out him, Lee needs to get to the bottom of the secret of J.C.’s final days, or threat becoming a member of him in the back of the velvet rope on the nice after-party within the sky.

By Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, G. D. H. Cole, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane, Anthony Berkeley, Victor L. Whitechurch, Henry Wade, Margaret Cole, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Ronald A. Knox

ISBN-10: 0007414455

ISBN-13: 9780007414451

Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and 9 different writers from the mythical Detection membership collaborate during this fiendishly smart yet forgotten crime novel first released eighty years in the past. Inspector Rudge doesn't come upon many circumstances of homicide within the sleepy seashore city of Whynmouth. but if an outdated sailor lands a rowing boat containing a clean corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's research instantly comes up opposed to numerous stumbling blocks. The vicar, whose boat the physique used to be present in, is obviously withholding info, and the victim's niece has disappeared. there's sincerely extra to this situation than meets the attention -- even the id of the sufferer is termed into doubt. Inspector Rudge starts off to ask yourself simply what number of people have contributed to this remarkable crime and no matter if he'll ever get to the bottom of it! In 1931, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and ten different crime writers from the newly-formed 'Detection Club' collaborated in publishing a different crime novel. In a literary online game of outcomes, each one writer may write one bankruptcy, leaving G.K. Chesterton to write down a often paradoxical prologue and Anthony Berkeley to tie up all of the free ends. additionally, all the authors supplied their very own resolution in a sealed envelope, all of which seemed on the finish of the ebook, with Agatha Christie's inventive end stated on the time to be 'enough to make the ebook worthy procuring on its own'. The authors of this novel are: G. ok. Chesterton, Canon Victor Whitechurch, G. D. H. Cole and Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha Christie, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane and Anthony Berkeley.

By Sandra Brown

ISBN-10: 1455546712

ISBN-13: 9781455546718

Carl Herbold is a cold-blooded psychopath who has simply escaped the prison the place he used to be serving a lifestyles sentence. Bent on revenge, he's going again to the place he began--Blewer County, Texas...

Born deaf, in recent years widowed, Anna Corbett fights to maintain the ranch that's her son's birthright, unaware that she is on the heart of Herbold's awful scheme--and that her international of self-imposed isolation is set to explode...

Drifter Jack Sawyer arrives at Anna's ranch inquiring for paintings, hoping to guard the blameless girl and her son from Herbold's rage. yet Sawyer can't outrun the secrets and techniques that stalk him--or the day of reckoning looking ahead to them all...

By J. Jefferson Farjeon

ISBN-10: 0008155852

ISBN-13: 9780008155858

From the Collins Crime membership archive, the 1st unique novel to add Ben the Cockney tramp, the unorthodox detective personality created via J. Jefferson Farjeon, writer of poser in White.Strange issues are taking place within the untenanted homes of Jowle road. There are unaccountable creakings and peculiar knockings at the door of No.29, the place a homeless ex-sailor has taken up place of dwelling. yet even stranger issues are occurring in the home contrary, from the place a stunning lady in a night dress brings Ben a mysterious message; and worse—the supply of a job!Ben the ‘passing tramp’ was once immortalised on movie through Alfred Hitchcock in ‘Number 17’, in response to a favored ’twenties degree play and novelisation through journalist-turned-author Joe Jefferson Farjeon. the home contrary (1931) was once the 1st full-length unique novel to add Ben, a reluctant down-at-heels Cockney sleuth, who went directly to function in six extra profitable detective thrillers from 1931 to 1952.This Detective tale membership vintage contains an creation by means of H. R. F. Keating, writer of the award-winning Inspector Ghote mysteries, which first seemed within the Crime Club’s 1985 ‘Disappearing Detectives’ sequence.

By Donna Andrews

ISBN-10: 1466850558

ISBN-13: 9781466850552

Because the vacations draw close to in Caerphilly, mom volunteers to participate in in an immense Christmas-themed decorator express house—each room of a briefly untenanted home is embellished to the hilt by way of a unique decorator for the general public to travel. after all, mom insists that Meg pitch in with the association, and he or she unearths herself surrounded by means of flamboyant personalities with great egos clashing and feeling their expert reputations are at stake. Then the rooms begin to be sabotaged, and an unlucky clothier turns up dead—making mom a primary suspect. Can Meg seize the genuine killer in time to avoid wasting mom the indignity of arrest?
The brilliantly humorous and proficient Donna Andrews gives you one other winner within the acclaimed avian-themed sequence that secret readers have come to like. Cozies make first-class stocking-stuffers, and Nightingale earlier than Christmas is absolute to positioned the "ho ho hos" into the vacations for the legions of enthusiasts hungry for an additional Christmas booklet that includes Meg Langslow. Donna has gained many awards for this highly regarded sequence, and keeps to come back up with new hilarious adventures for her endearing heroine. the unconventional is stuffed with marvelous screwball comedy in addition to Donna's trademark crisp plotting, let alone bushels of vacation cheer—it wouldn't be the main magnificent time of the yr