Crime Mystery category: 11599 books

Private Investigator Jean Webb receives a shocking call from Washington, DC. Her best friend at the FBI was viciously murdered in Phoenix while investigating a tip that could have helped him bring down the mob. FBI Deputy Director Collins appoints Jean as a temporary Special Agent to look into the...

Psychiatrist Natalie King is the expert witness in a vicious child custody battle, and the stakes are high. Getting it wrong means handing a child over to an abuser—or depriving that child of the only father she knows. Is Jenna gaming the system, or is her ex-husband Malik as dangerous as...

KATIE AT 26: Just when it looked like Dr. Katie Rose Fowler’s life was settling down with her focus on her new hard-earned academic career, her college boyfriend, Chris Miller is found dead in a Santa Barbara hotel. And Katie suspects his death was a murder. Before long she is allied with veteran...

Décidément, l'été sera chaud pour la détective Maud Graham qui doit élucider plusieurs meurtres. Un adolescent meurt après avoir été sauvagement agressé. Puis, un autre est trouvé mort dans un immeuble abandonné, probablement dune overdose. Ailleurs dans la ville, un homme, Tony Nantel,...

It takes a killer ... to stop a killer. That's how crime lord Armin Petrossian sees it when he summons Bonnie Parker to his palatial home on Christmas Eve. Petrossian has personal reasons to take care of the serial killer known as the Man in the Moon. And Bonnie—a private investigator on...

Gerald John Makinson, Inspector of the North Yorkshire police admits defeat and calls Holmes to Harrogate immediately. Holmes is asked to investigate a series of only loosely connected to one another. The four victims live and work in the local area, and each has been brutally murdered. Three of the...

Fiona Lychenko, now a woman in her late sixties, has spent years researching the death of her high school classmate Zara Stanley, who was brutally murdered at the age of twenty. Determined to solve the crime, something the police weren’t able to do, Fiona interviewed everyone she could in her hometown...

The author and heroine of The Red  Scream return in a novel so terrifying, so  filled with squirming suspense, it's bound for the  bestseller lists. When Kirkus  Reviews greeted Mary Willis Walker's last book,  The Red Scream, with "welcome  to the big time," they weren't kidding....

In this collection of crime stories, readers will be delighted to find Dr. Patrick Grant making a welcome re-appearance. Also included are stories about a long held grudge and a wrongdoing with unforeseen later consequences, and others, all on a par with Margaret Yorke’s much admired full length works.

When a man is found floating beneath the skin of a green-skimmed pond one morning, Dr Thorndyke becomes embroiled in an astonishing case. This wickedly entertaining detective fiction reveals that the victim was murdered through a lethal injection and someone out there is trying to cover it up.

Set in the rambling rural countryside of nineteenth century England, this selection of stories takes the reader through a myriad cast of suspicious characters and scenarios. Meet the widow anxious to bury her husband before the autopsy. Meet the artist who’s brushes have never been used. Meet the...

"She had a voice like an angel, smooth and complex as a twenty-year-old single malt, rich as thick cream. Everyone who heard Olivia sing felt as if she could see right into their souls, that her songs were meant for them alone. This was the magic her artistry conjured. In earlier times, she wouldhave...

M. C. Beatonmeets Miss Marple in the second book in the Laetitia Rodd Mysteries, which sees Kate Saunders's Victorian detective on the hunt for a missing Oxford academic. In 1851, private detective Laetitia Rodd is enjoying a well-earned holiday when she gets an urgent request for her services....

A suspicious rash of suicides has the police baffled to the point they decide to enlist the help of a local private investigator. Rochester accompanies an inspector to yet another 'suicide' and decides to knock on a few doors... He receives the same response from everyone who is willing to open their...