Detective and mystery fiction

  • Jar city a Reykjavik thriller

    Creator

    Arnaldur Indriðason

    Audience
    Specialized**
    Publisher (Source)

    London : Harvill Press, c2004

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  • Shadow family

    Creator

    Miyabe, Miyuki

    Abstract

    Police investigating the murder of a middle-aged office worker discover e-mail correspondence on the victim's computer that indicates he had been a regular participant in an Internet chat room, as the "father" in a fantasy "family." Meanwhile, a female detective is assigned to protect the dead man's real-life daughter who complains of being stalked. As the real daughter confronts her father's alternate life, we are pulled into a psychological drama that pits reality and illusion against each other in astonishing ways.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Tokyo, Japan : Kodansha International, 2005

    Not specified
  • Dog on it

    Creator

    Quinn, Spencer

    Abstract

    Introducing two-legged Bernie and his four-legged pal Chet--a canine with a penchant for solving mysteries--their first case is to track down a teenager who's out way past curfew.

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  • The widower's two-step

    Creator

    Riordan, Rick

    Abstract

    Instead of accepting a teaching position at the university, Tres is finishing up his apprenticeship for a private investigator's license. He's doing a poor job of surveillance on the fiddle player in a promising honky-tonk band: she is shot in broad daylight while he watches. Shaken, Tres begins an investigation on his own.

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  • Defend and betray

    Creator

    Perry, Anne

    Abstract

    Presents an Inspector William Monk mystery set in Victorian England.

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  • Bootlegger's daughter

    Creator

    Maron, Margaret

    Abstract

    Attorney Deborah Knott has just entered the heated race for judge of old-boy-ruled Colleton County. The only female candidate, she's busy reeling in voters and giving campaign speeches. There couldn't be a worse time for Gayle Whitehead to beg Deborah to investigate the eighteen-year-old, unsolved murder of Gayle's mother, Janie.

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  • Highgate rise

    Creator

    Perry, Anne

    Abstract

    Late one night, a blazing inferno destroys the home of a well-to-do English doctor. Tragically, the man's wife perishes in the flames. Arson is obviously the crime, but after digging around, Inspector Pitt isn't sure who could have set the fire. Enlisting the aid of his wife Charlotte, Thomas searches the dank London streets for a killer, puzzled by the question of whether the true target was the doctor's wife, or the doctor himself.

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  • Naked once more

    Creator

    Peters, Elizabeth

    Abstract

    A reclusive, young writer has mysteriously died, leaving the public hungry for the sequel to her enigmatic, best-selling novel. Jacqueline is chosen to write the sequel, but as she begins her manuscript, she receives ominous signs that she may be heading for the same fate.

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  • The hangman's beautiful daughter

    Creator

    McCrumb, Sharyn

    Abstract

    Laura Bryce has lived in the small east Tennessee community such a short time that she still feels like an outsider. But when there is violence on the Underhill farm, the sheriff calls on her to represent the church. He will handle the bodies, but she must comfort the bereaved. However, the unspeakable carnage she confronts in the farmhouse will push her down a rocky pathway of danger and heartache.

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