Levi Vogue, chairman of the powerful Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, is gunned down in the driveway of his home as he returns from a late evening tryst with Sue Ann Winkler, an exotic dancer employed in a Salt Lake City strip club....
Murder--Investigation
- Author:Norman, MichaelSummary:
- Author:Walker, MartinSummary:
An anonymous skull, an unsolved murder, sinister rumors about Cold War espionage—Bruno's investigation into a long-standing cold case takes him into the tangled inheritance of a Bergerac vineyard and into the archives of once...
- Author:Edwards, MartinSummary:
Oxford historian and T.V. personality Daniel Kind and his new lover, Miranda, both want to escape to a new life. On impulse they buy Tarn Cottage in Brackdale, an idyllic valley in the Lake District that Daniel knew as a boy. He is...
- Author:Gilman, DorothySummary:
From the best-selling author of the famous Mrs. Pollifax series comes another delightfully eccentric and sage female sleuth-the exotic Madame Karitska. Although she is a genuine countess, Marina Elena Provovnitchek Gaylord Von Domm...
- Author:Edwards, MartinSummary:
Warren Howe is surprised by a hooded visitor while working in a garden in Old Sawrey, a lovely village in England’s Lake District. Soon it is Warren who is dead—murdered with his own scythe. The police identify several suspects, but...
- Author:Davidson, Diane MottSummary:
Goldy Bear, Aspen Meadow's caterer extraordinaire, is catering a dinner at the exclusive Elk Park Preparatory School. Goldy soon discovers the school valedictorian's battered body heaped in the snow. Delving into the scandals permeating...
- Author:Block, LawrenceSummary:
Ever since The Burglar on the Prowl climbed the bestseller lists in 2004, fans have been clamoring for a new book featuring the lighthearted and lightfingered Bernie Rhodenbarr. Now everybody's favorite burglar returns in an eleventh...
- Author:Osman, RichardSummary:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A new mystery is afoot in the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman. "The quartet of aging amateur sleuths…remain wonderful...
- Author:MacBain, BruceSummary:
A turbulent frontier province, rotten with corruption and seething with hatred of Rome, a barbarian god whose devotees may include a murderer, a clever and unscrupulous faith healer who knows everyone’s secrets, and a boy who struggles...
- Author:St. James, SimoneSummary:
Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants - the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the...
- Author:Glasgow, MichaelSummary:
Her Murder was Brutal and Savage, and the Nicaraguan People want Someone to Pay! In 2005, Eric Volz moved to Nicaragua to pursue his dreams. By 2006, he was living the worst nightmare of his life. Twenty-five year old Eric Volz moved to...
- Author:Cabot, Meg.Summary:
With her upcoming nuptials to PI Cooper Cartwright only weeks away, Heather's already stressed. When a pretty junior turns up dead, and every student in the dorm where she works is a possible suspect, Heather thinks it can't get any...
- Author:Reichs, KathySummary:
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations, fifteen years apart, of unidentified bodies washed up from the sea may...
- Author:Massey, SujataSummary:
November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a fourmonth tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn't surprised...
- Author:Montrose, David, Burton Smith, KevinSummary:
Finally, after 58 years The Body on Mount Royal is back in print, starring hard-drinking private dick, Russell Teed. From the back cover of the 1953 edition: Take a brutally beaten body, a lonely spot on Montreal's famous mountain, and...
- Author:May, PeterSummary:
When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis that bears similarities to a brutal killing on the mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin Macleod is dispatched to the Outer Hebrides to investigate, embarking at the same...
- Author:Tierney, RonaldSummary:
In this work of crime fiction, forensic accountant Peter Strand investigates an arts-oriented nonprofit.
- Author:Todd, CharlesSummary:
Alan Barrington, who has evaded capture for ten years, is the suspect in an appalling murder during Black Ascot, the famous 1910 royal horserace honoring the late King Edward VII. Now it appears that Barrington has returned to England,...
- Author:Donovan, KevinSummary:
A top journalist crosses the yellow tape to investigate a shocking high-society crime.
Billionaires, philanthropists, socialites . . . victims. Barry and Honey Sherman appeared to lead charmed lives. But the world was shocked in...
- Author:Edwards, PeterSummary:
Teenager Josh Williams has a lot on his plate: a football injury, a complicated relationship with his brother Jamie, who is a member of the Annihilators motorcycle gang, and a budding romance with Brenda. When a large urban motorcycle...