Bill Crider, famous for the popular Sheriff Dan Rhodes mystery series, is back with a mystery novel combining his wry wit, a clever plot, and the usual hijinks - all set against the normally placid backdrop of academia.
In this updated reprint of Rick Chesler's kiDNApped, a priceless biotechnology, an FBI agent, and an unspeakable act of familial betrayal collide in a tropical kidnapping more twisted than a DNA double helix.
Im Wien der Ringstraßen-Zeit und der Belle Epoque ermittelt Leopold Kern, ein geheimer Sonderermittler mit engen Kontakten zur Halbwelt, in seinem neuesten Fall.
When a group of lady pickleball players try to work off the stress of a pandemic by playing a few matches, they discover the body of a dear friend in a pool of blood near the courts.
He did not know that since he started chasing that secret, he had personally fired the bullet that would start a series of chases that would leave behind nothing but the blood of the victims, and a foolish dream of possessing an ancient Pharaonic secret that was found to remain buried forever.
After he failed to find his missing sister, whose remains finally turned up in a bag in an overgrown field, Texas PI Truman Smith retired to become a housepainter on Galveston Island.
This sixth Chateau Sarony novel concerns the events arising as a consequence of the purchase by Nikki Prendergast of an American Civil War officer's pistol.
