Crime and mystery fiction

2009 Winner of the Arizona Book Award for Mystery/SuspenseIf Lucy, the pregnant Giant Anteater from Belize, didn't kill the man found dead in her enclosure at California's Gunn Zoo, who did?

Eighteen humorous tales of the macabre and supernatural from W.

Corporate Espionage Among Friends - The book is fiction but based on a true story.

"e;Comic cozy meets crazed spy thriller in this debut novel short-listed for Britain's 2003 Crime Writer's Association Debut Dagger award.

"e;Irascible, fearless and unapologetic, Maddy is a heroine cozy fans will embrace.

Summer is deadly in the mountain community of Mason County, Virginia.

At the age of four Agnes Hahn went to live with her great aunts Gert and Ella.

Third generation Utah residents Rolly and Abigail Rogers come from a long line of dedicated pot hunters who scour the desert southwest in search of valuable antiquities.

Life has gone out of focus for photojournalist Matt Latimer.

"e;Lovingly rendered.

Mas Arai's best friend Haruo is getting married, and he has grudgingly agreed to serve as best man.

Georgie Allen - Cape Towns most down-at-heel lawyer - is back.

Another Posadas County mystery with Estelle Reyes-Guzman as the undersheriff, but with the ever more popular Bill Gastner peering out of the wings to which he dispatched himself upon retirement.

The book is centred on the life of Peter Marlow, a wealthy Influential and feared gangster whose life was transformed through the grace of God.

"e;Taut suspense and a fast-paced plot, combined with a gripping story, make this a riveting read for fans of European noir, especially the work of Michael Dibdin"e;Booklsit Starred ReviewThe second compelling thriller to feature resourceful park ranger Sebastiano Cangio, set against the glorious landscape of Italy's Umbria region.

People live their lives by what they believe, But what if, What they believe isn't true?

"e;Gentry's appealing heroine, who gets ample opportunity to display her resourcefulness and fortitude, and the intriguing milieu in which she operates, should ensure both a warm reception and a speedy encore.

A teenager is arrested for his parents’ murder in a Canadian seaside village in the acclaimed series that launched the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town.

The first book in the Louise Pearlie Mysteries is “Sarah Shaber’s best novel yet” (Margaret Maron).

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"e;A sharply written adventure/mystery debut.

In this Golden Age mystery by the author of Skeleton Key, murder plunges a Berkeley husband and wife into the secret world of a cult.

MacArthur ';Mac' Crandall, 34 years old, 6 feet tall, brown hair, hazel eyes, muscular and swarthy, war veteran, a Navy Seal, now a private investigator residing in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

A novel about obsession in its many forms.

I got tired of seeing and hearing about our troops being killed and murdered for our country by the hand of terrorist.

"e;An intriguing crime drama.

Once again Lionel Townsend, Beef's Dr.

From the author of Blackman's Coffin, one of Amazon's Top 10 Mysteries for 2008When his wife dies of ovarian cancer, Russell Mullins quits the Secret Service to repurpose his life.

Jackson Scott stumbles across deadly information about a dirty biotech corporation and disappears in mysterious circumstances.

A police sharpshooter with Asperger’s syndrome is tasked with cleaning up the streets of Mumbai in this “gripping thriller” (Booklist).

From award-winning author John Shirley comes an inventive whodunit featuring the master of mysteries, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

MURDER ON THE GOLDEN STATEWayne Darnell, a senior FBI agent in the Chicago field office picked up the phone.

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WHEN A MAN'S PARTNER IS KILLED.

'A must read!

A popular high school senior is killed, and Jason Owens, a fellow student, is accused of her murder.

A tropical Inspector Tibbett mystery from the author who “has the authentic Agathian gift for mixing the ordinary and the sinister” (Financial Times).

Tito Amato returns from an operatic tour expecting to relax with his family.

When an animal rights activist is killed by a hit-and-run driver on an icy Cambridge street, music critic Theda Krakow can't get too upset.

"e;Listen!

Freya Morgan ne voulait qu'une chose : que quelqu'un tabasse son ex-petit copain.

An extremely mesmerising woman, Venetia holds everyone she comes across enraptured.

Everyone knew there'd been a murder, everyone knew who the murderer was, and when this murderer committed suicide by jumping overboard from the cargo boat Saragossa, they thought "e;Good riddance.

Hatred in the night.