Crime and mystery fiction

When Wendall Clarke announces plans to open a new art gallery downtown, it's both the talk of Celosia, North Carolina and the envy of its residents.

Next book in the Posadas County Mystery SeriesWhen a series of minor crimes culminate in murder, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman will have to partner with a retired sheriff to get to the bottom of the casePosadas County, New Mexico, is in the news.

It is May of 1272, and Prioress Eleanor of Tyndale, recovering from a near-fatal winter fever, journeys to Amesbury Priory to visit her aunt in time for the Feast of Saint Melor.

"e;There is nothing that calls back the past so vividly as an old and familiar smell.

It is 28 CE, the time of the feast of Tabernacles.

THEIR LAST BOW.

A body is found in a chicken run .

It's 1951, and ragtime is making a comeback.

"e;[A] marvelous blend of history and mystery.

Forward to St Andrews in 2015 and when the man convicted of Tony Spencer's murder is released on compassionate grounds and a political activist is killed, Detective Inspector Flick Fortune's investigation focuses on a group of solicitors calling themselves 'The Jolly Boys' and Spencer's murder thirty-one years earlier.

Lei è una poliziotta in fuga.

When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, and hero of Reed's Mumbo Jumbo) comes to Berkeley, California, to investigate the mysterious death of Ed Yellings, owner of the Solid Gumbo Works, he finds himself fighting the rising tide of violence propagated by Louisiana Red and those militant opportunists, the Moochers.

Jake Leggs is in Phoenix when he answers a misdirected text message.

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

"e;Realistic characters, natural dialogue, well-integrated historical detail and a surprise twist ending mark this as superior mystery fare.

Case File 011270.

Next book in the Posadas County Mystery Series"e;This is one of the very best entries in a consistently excellent series.

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.

In 1514 a respected London Merchant, Richard Hunne, was found hanging in Old St Paul's Cathedral.

California zookeeper Theodora Bentley travels to Iceland to pick up an orphaned polar bear cub destined for the Gunn Zoo's newly installed Northern Climes exhibit.

It is May of 1272, and Prioress Eleanor of Tyndale, recovering from a near-fatal winter fever, journeys to Amesbury Priory to visit her aunt in time for the Feast of Saint Melor.

Marry new technology to old-fashioned policing and you've got something special.

This is an historical crime mystery set in the High Peak district of Derbyshire in the 1870s.

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Nick Sharman's daughter Judith has returned to Scotland and nothing will tempt him back into the business again.

Final Justice is a fact based story of romance, intrigue, revenge, and justice, paralleling an incident that occurred in the author's life.

A serial killer hunts at night.

"e;While examining some timely social issues, Webb also delivers lots of edifying information on the animal kingdom in an entry sure to please fans and newcomers alike.

"e;Engrossing and wonderfully atmospheric"e;Booklist Starred ReviewAn explosion on a Norfolk beach leads to far-reaching consequences for detectives Shaw and Valentine.

Five-year Muscogee County Sherriff officer Billy Newport investigates a string of murders by the Dark Clowns that have reached into Nashville, Tennessee, where he meets Daniel as they now team up to stop the Dark Clowns from taking more innocent lives.

In this anthology, uncover a century of dark mystery stories set in America's mighty capital.

This is the story of a once renowned attorney reconstituting himself after the excessive success, alcohol, and countless affairs left him in a ditch.

Richard Hoysden's body is discovered in his country flat, a revolver beside him, and a bullet through the head, apparently a suicide.

Yellowstone National Park geologist Kyle Stone keeps a close finger on Yellowstone's pulse.

Running Wild i Running WhiskeyTrapped on a rum runner's boat during the tumultuous times of Prohibition a young woman, Alexandria, fell in love, not just with the excitement of the swift crafts, that plied the waters from Canada to Washington State, but also with the bootlegging captain, Jake McKenzie.

"e;Authentic and fast-paced, Night Terrors is a thrilling plunge into the mind of an obsessed killer.

2018 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award nominee"e;With its strong sense of place, depiction of racial tension that still lingers in the new South, and appealing sleuths, de Castrique's well-plotted mystery is a winner.

2007 - Florida Book Award Bronze Medal Winner"e;As an archeological tour alone the book would be worth reading, but it's the fascinating and complex characters that give the story life and vibrancy.

Little Sister is the third novel in David Hewson's gripping Detective Pieter Vos series set in Amsterdam.

On this nice July morning in Parkland, North Carolina, the office of Madeline Maclin Investigations might as well have been an Egyptian tomb: hot, dusty, and dead.