Category: Mystery

By Keith McCafferty

A smart and fast paced homicide secret packed with wit, suspense, and fly fishing.

When a fishing consultant reels within the physique of a tender guy at the Madison, the Holy Grail of Montana trout rivers, Sheriff Martha Ettinger suspects foul play. It's not only the stick jammed into the man's eye that attracts her cognizance; it's the Royal Wulff trout fly caught in his bloated decrease lip. Following her instincts, Ettinger quickly unearths herself crossing paths with Montana newcomer Sean Stranahan.

Fly fisher, painter, and has-been inner most detective, Stranahan left a failed marriage and lackluster profession to force to Montana, the place he lives in an paintings studio adorned with fly-tying feathers and mouse droppings. With extra good fortune catching fish than consumers, Stranahan is totally captivated while Southern siren Velvet Lafayette walks into his lifestyles, motive on hiring his providers to discover her lacking brother. The clues lead Stranahan and Ettinger again to Montana's vast enterprise: fly fishing. the place there's cash, there's absolute to be crime.

By Christine Trent

Queen Victoria, nonetheless mourning her long-dead husband Prince Albert, has chanced on solace in John Brown, an enigmatic palace servant who dabbles within the occult and retains the grieving queen entertained together with his tarot card readings. Undertaker Violet Harper is invited to wait certainly one of Mr. Brown's notorious readings, within which he signifies that Buckingham Palace will quickly be shrouded in death's darkish veil. good conversant in loss of life, Violet shrugs him off as a charlatan--until his sinister divinations start to turn out actual. . .

Violet wonders if anything foul is within the playing cards whilst the aristocratic younger acquaintances of the queen's daughter start to die below mysterious conditions. Her suspicions basically develop whilst one in every of London's "moralists," a bunch bent on repealing the legislation that forces prostitutes into hospitals, suffers an analogous destiny. The deaths in simple terms buttress the queen's enthusiasm for Mr. Brown's ominous skills, and, involved by way of the fortuneteller's effect, Violet races opposed to time to unearth the reality ahead of the killer moves back. yet as she closes in on a assassin with an unearthly intent, Violet realizes she could be digging her personal grave. . .

By turns heartwrenching and hopeful, A Virtuous dying is a gripping story of fortitude besieged via vengeance contained in the striking global of Queen Victoria's courtroom.

By Suzanne Kingsmill

The invention of a bear-ravaged physique deserted within the desert, a few killer rapids, a fumigated lab, stolen learn disks, and a stalled occupation all coalesce into the ripening insanity that hauls zoology professor Cordi O'Callaghan into a few very wild, very harmful places.

While the police label the barren region mauling an unintentional demise, Cordi realizes that the robbery of her disks is someway relating to the physique present in the woods. She needs to unsnarl the mess if she is to salvage her educational occupation. Cordi's athletically inventive and hair-raising ideas to lethal encounters retain he one stumble sooner than a assassin as she follows a course affected by causes. yet not anything can arrange her for the ultimate surprising twist that leaves her with a wrenching dilemna -- person who nobody with a sense of right and wrong must have to face.

While the police label the desert mauling an unintentional dying, Cordi realizes that the robbery of her disks is someway on the topic of the physique she present in the woods. She needs to unsnarl the mess if she is to salvage her educational profession. Cordi's athletically inventive and hair-raising recommendations to lethal encounters retain her one stumble sooner than a assassin as she follows a course suffering from causes. yet not anything can arrange her for the ultimate surprising twist that leaves her with a wrenching hassle -- one who nobody with a sense of right and wrong must have to stand.

By Barbara Hambly

Benjamin January is compelled to commute to Haiti to hunt his family’s misplaced treasure, in an effort to store every thing he holds dear

When Jefferson Vitrack – the white half-brother of Benjamin January’s spouse - turns up on January’s doorstep in the summertime of 1838 claiming he has came across a clue to the whereabouts of the family’s misplaced treasure, January has no hesitation approximately refusing to assist search for it. For the treasure lies in Haiti, the island that was France’s so much ecocnomic colony – until eventually the blood-chilling repression practiced there by way of the whites upon their slaves prompted a savage uprising. The world’s simply Black Republic nonetheless appears to be like with murderous distrust upon any strangers who could set foot there, and January is in no hurry to go.

But while Vitrack is murdered, and makes an attempt are made on January’s spouse and himself, he is familiar with that he has no selection. He needs to search the treasure himself, to attract the unknown killers into the open, a bloody path that leads first to Cuba, then to Haiti, and at last to the key that lies buried with the accursed gold.

By Andrey Kurkov

A masterful story set in post-Soviet Kiev that's either darkly-funny and ominous...

In the commonly hailed prequel to Penguin misplaced, aspiring author Viktor Zolotaryov leads a down-and-out existence in poverty-and-violence-wracked Kiev--he's out of labor and his merely good friend is a penguin, Misha, that he rescued while the neighborhood zoo began taking out animals. much more nerve-wracking: a neighborhood mobster has taken a shine to Misha and desires to maintain borrowing him for events.

But Viktor thinks he's eventually stuck a holiday whilst he lands a good- paying activity on the Kiev newspaper writing "living obituaries" of neighborhood dignitaries--articles to be filed to be used while the time comes.

The simply factor is, it kind of feels the time continually comes once Viktor writes the item. Slowly knowing that his personal lifestyles will be in jeopardy, Viktor additionally realizes that the one factor that may be maintaining him alive is his penguin.

From the exchange Paperback edition.

By Edmund Crispin

Title note: unique identify Frequent Hearses (Classic Crime)
Publish yr note: initially released in 1950
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Stars, Starlets, Floozies and factotums to the movie world-Gervase, Fen suspects them all... Gervase Fen is extra at domestic in his ivory tower than in a London movie studio, yet homicide can occur anyplace, and aspiring actress Gloria Scott's suicide certainly seems like homicide. Oxford don Gervase Fen is on the movie studios to propose a couple of movie biography of Alexander Pope. Gloria Scott looks to have had little explanation for eager to kill herself through leaping off Waterloo bridge, yet a person has taken nice pains to conceal Gloria's actual identification, and Gervase Fen's detective nostril starts to twitch.

When a lecherous cameraman is poisonded prior to his very eyes, Fen reveals himself 'consulting' on a much more prevalent topic: homicide.

By Sheila Connolly

Beetle mania

While orchard proprietor Meg Corey dreads the hard work of guide irrigation to stave off a drought, her boyfriend, Seth, couldn't be extra enthusiastic about doing historical preservation on certainly one of Granford's oldest homes. Tagging alongside as he alternatives up provides is meant to offer Meg a much-needed holiday, however the journey turns rotten while she nearly journeys over a lifeless physique at an previous observed mill's woodland reserve.

But the physique isn't the one scary discovery she makes. A mysterious insect infestation turns out to have migrated to the area—one which can convey severe damage to neighborhood woodlands. And it's as much as Meg to determine what's in the back of this surprising swarm of trouble.

Includes scrumptious Recipes

By Steve Demaree

Within the 5th e-book during this sequence, Lt. Dekker will get an improve caution that he should be investigating a number of murders whilst humans occur lacking after a highschool reunion. whilst these our bodies do certainly ensue, the lieutenant and his sergeant sidekick visit paintings. they begin by way of interviewing everybody who attended that prime tuition reunion. of their prefer is the truth that now not lots of people attended the reunion, however it doesn’t aid them any once they discover that everybody hated one of many sufferers, yet none of them seem to blame of homicide.

By Mary Kay Andrews

“Mary Kay Andrews has ideal pitch by way of endearing, smart-mouth heroines, and she or he has stuck the languid looniness of the Low nation perfectly.”
—Anne Rivers Siddons

Meet Weezie (aka Eloise) Foley, a feisty antiques “picker,” banished by way of her spiteful ex-husband from the home she herself restored in Savannah’s ancient district, who needs to come to phrases with a existence that has without warning changed…and no longer, it, turns out for the higher. In Mary Kay Andrews’s delectable manhattan occasions bestseller, Savannah Blues, readers will consider the sultry Georgia breezes and flavor sea salt within the air, as they lose themselves in an excellent, witty story brimming with sass and peopled by means of a richly endearing forged of delightfully eccentric characters. Revenge is sweeter than candy in Mary Kay’s able arms, and readers of Fannie Flagg, Adriana Trigiani, Emily Giffin, Rebecca Wells, and Jill Conner Browne will certainly are looking to spend a few caliber time in Savannah.

By Jonathan Sturak

Roger Belkin has every thing going for him, the occupation, the automobile, the wedding. Roger spends his days operating as an funding supervisor and making plans his lifestyles along with his spouse, Lois. yet simply as Roger resides the yankee Dream, on one chilly, darkish evening, he'll lose every little thing. A awful site visitors coincidence tears Roger and Lois aside and sends this loving husband on a sad trip to discover his spouse. How a ways might you visit locate your beloved?