Category: Mystery

By Brett Halliday

The honeymoon is over—and it’s time for Mike Shayne to organize for Miami’s killing season

For years, Mike Shayne has tangled with the hardest crooks the rustic has to supply, outsmarting a few and outpunching the remainder. He used to be sturdy at his task, yet he had not anyone to come back domestic to—until he met Phyllis. After rescuing his damsel in misery greater than as soon as, the hard-boiled PI stumbled on himself falling in love, and ahead of he knew it, they have been married and on their honeymoon in Cuba. regrettably for the lovebirds, their migration domestic to Miami marks the peak of vacationer season, while each gangster in the United States travels south to play. He could be a married guy, yet Mike Shayne won’t be spending this balmy wintry weather cozied up at home.
 
whilst a real-estate developer attempts to rent Shayne to wreck into his domestic as a part of an insurance-fraud rip-off, the scheme speedy turns to homicide. With extra deaths at the horizon, Shayne should be cautious if he doesn’t are looking to have a good time his first marriage ceremony anniversary at the back of bars. 

By Jostein Gaarder

Weaving an astonishingly unique tapestry of stories from the point of view of a 12-year-old boy named Hans Thomas, The Solitaire secret takes readers on a common look for success and the that means of lifestyles.

By Farrell, Tish

By Denise Mina

A sensational homicide offers the younger journalist Paddy Meehan together with her mammoth specialist holiday whilst she realizes that she has a private connection to 1 of the suspects.Launching her personal research, Paddy uncovers strains of deception that cross deep into the previous - and which can spell much more terrible crimes sooner or later if she doesn't get the tale correct.

By Donald E. Westlake

Westlake's different crime novels comprise The Hunter, The 7th and Busy physique, all of that have been made into significant films. The Mercenaries, Westlake's fist novel, is a riveting big apple gangster mystery with a narcotic twist. this hard secret should be positioned alongisde the simplest of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.

By Brian M. Wiprud

Wiseguy Sid “Sleep” Bifulco doesn’t desire no stinkin’ witness defense software. The mobster-turned-snitch, who consistently placed his sufferers lightly to sleep prior to whacking them, did his criminal time and now has a brand new rural hideaway and a brand new avocation: trout fishing in a scenic river valley. other than bunch of neighborhood yokels won’t depart him alone.

From a beautiful trout broker in red climbing boots to a cop married to a pregnant porn megastar, everyone during this little city has an perspective, a grudge or a weigh down on anyone. And Sid must determine those yahoos fast—because with a vicious Mafia killer on his path, a warden on his doorstep, and a hugely incriminating videotape making the rounds, it seems that the easy existence isn’t so uncomplicated after all....

By Nick Oldham

The newest Detective Inspector Christie mystery while the brutally murdered physique of a Manchester drug broker is located dumped simply contained in the Lancashire border, it seems that the useless guy have been a CID informant operating for a small nucleus of corrupt detectives. Then a high-profile trial of a Manchester gangster collapses in disarray, amid accusations of police misconduct. Thrust into the research of the drug dealer's demise is DCI Henry Christie, lately lower back to paintings after a interval of suspension. Hoping for a steady re-entry into the activity, Christie is as an alternative plunged headlong right into a advanced homicide research which has far-reaching outcomes for the police carrier . . .

By Yasmine Galenorn

Unusual supernatural occasions were occurring to medium Emerald O?Brien. So now it?s as much as her and her acquaintances to delve into the earlier to bare secrets and techniques of the useless, lay them to leisure, and ring within the autumn with a harvest of bones.

By Jonathan Kellerman

Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware meets appealing and emotionally fragile television actress Zelda Chase while known as upon to guage her five-year-old son, Ovid. Years later, Alex is abruptly reunited with Zelda whilst she is involuntarily dedicated after a strange psychotic episode. almost immediately after Zelda’s liberate, an already unhappy state of affairs turns tragic whilst she is came upon lifeless at the grounds of a palatial Bel Air property. Having skilled good enough of L.A.’s darkish aspect to acknowledge the odor of evil, Alex turns to his pal LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis for assist in checking out who ended Zelda’s damaged life.

while, Alex is stuck up in one other quest: the quest for Zelda’s lacking son. And whilst different sufferers vanish from an analogous upscale local, fear turns to terror.

As Alex struggles to piece jointly the short upward thrust and steep fall of a beautiful, proficient actress, he and Milo unveil shattered desires, the corruption of a kinfolk, and a gruesome betrayal of innocence. With every one devastating revelation and damning clue, Alex’s exceptional brain is challenged as by no means before—and his decision grows to work out a killer caged and the reality let out.

By Dick Francis

Bounce within the saddle with a convinced thing.

Writer John Kendall travels to England to interview a racehorse coach with whatever to hide-a mystery which could threaten Kendall's lifestyles.