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The Santa Klaus Murder: A British Library Crime Classic
Mavis Hay · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback |
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"This extremely clever country-house murder mystery is the perfect holiday gift for the avid cosy crime fan. It has an aristocratic setting, a dead earl, and a major suspect ... There are loads of clues, red herrings, and twists in a truly classic Christmas mystery with all the golden... |
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IQ
Joe Ide · Mulholland Books
Pages: 321
Format: Print book |
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A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood... |
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Silent Nights: A British Library Crime Classic
Martin Edwards · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 298
Format: Paperback |
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Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the hallowed tradition of telling ghost stories around the fireside as the year draws to a close. Christmas tales of crime and detection have a similar appeal. When television... |
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Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure
Bonnie MacBird · Collins Crime Club
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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London. A snowy December, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing and back on cocaine after a disastrous Ripper investigation. Watson can neither comfort nor rouse his friend - until a strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris.Mlle La Victoire, a beautiful French cabaret star writes... |
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The zig zag girl
Elly Griffiths · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. ©2014
Pages: 328
Format: Print book |
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"Brighton, 1950. The body of a girl is found cut into three pieces. Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is convinced the killer is mimicking a famous magic trick--the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old war friend of Edgar's. They served together in a shadowy... |
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The English Boys: A Mystery
Julia Thomas · Midnight Ink
Pages: 329
Format: Print book |
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Dark and Twisted Secrets Emerge in the Wake of a Deadly Wedding Daniel Richardson and his best friend, Hugh Ashley-Hunt, both rising British actors, are in love with the same woman, the free-spirited Tamsyn Burke. Daniel reluctantly steps aside when Tamsyn decides to marry Hugh, but right... |
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The Madness of Mercury
Connie Di Marco · Midnight Ink, 2016.
Pages: 312
Format: Print book |
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San Francisco astrologer Julia Bonatti's life is turned upside down when she becomes the target of the city's newest cult leader, Reverend Roy of the Prophet's Tabernacle. Driven out of her apartment in the midst of a disastrous Mercury retrograde period, she takes shelter with... |
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Collecting the Dead
Spencer Kope · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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Magnus "Steps" Craig is part of the elite three-man Special Tracking Unit of the FBI. Called in on special cases where his skills are particularly needed, he works as a tracker. The media dubs him "The Human Bloodhound," since Steps is renowned for his incredible ability... |
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Willnot
James Sallis · Bloomsbury
Pages: 178
Format: Print book |
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In his celebrated career, James Sallis has created some of the most finely drawn protagonists in crime fiction, all of them thoughtful observers of the human condition: Lew Griffin, the black New Orleans private investigator; retired detective John Turner; the unnamed wheelman in Drive.... |
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Keep You Close
Lucie Whitehouse · Bloomsbury
Pages: 362
Format: Print book |
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When the artist Marianne Glass falls to her death, everyone insists it was a tragic accident. Yet Rowan Winter, once her closest friend, suspects there is more to the story. Ever since she was young, Marianne had paralyzing vertigo. She would never have gone so close to the roof's edge.Marianne--and... |
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