Investigation

  • Close to the heel

    Creator

    McClintock, Norah

    Abstract

    No one is more surprised than Rennie to hear that his late grandfather, whom he hardly knew, has left a mission for him to fulfill. Rennie is to fly to Iceland and deliver a message from beyond the grave, but when he gets there, nothing is simple or straightforward. Before he realizes what is happening, his curiosity puts Rennie in grave danger, with no one to trust and no one to save him except himself.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [United States]

    Orca Book Publishers

    Made available through hoopla

    Not specified
  • The other side of midnight

    Creator

    St. James, Simone

    Abstract

    London, 1925. Glamorous medium Gloria Sutter has been murdered at one of her own séances, after leaving a final message requesting the help of her former friend and sole rival, Ellie Winter. But as Ellie delves into Gloria’s secrets, an insidious evil force begins to emerge—a force determined to bury the truth and those who seek to expose it.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Ashland, Ore.]

    Blackstone Audio, Inc.

    Not specified
  • Stone Cove Island

    Creator

    Myers, Suzanne

    Abstract

    After a hurricane, Eliza Elliot is cleaning up an old lighthouse and finds a letter confessing to a decades-old murder. She’s soon involved in an investigation.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    [Ashland, Ore.]

    Blackstone Audio, Inc.

    Not specified
  • Winter of secrets

    Creator

    Delany, Vicki

    Abstract

    During a Christmas Eve snowstorm, a car veers off the road into the icy river. The autopsy reveals a shocking secret that plunges Constable Smith and Sergeant John Winters into the world of sexual predators, drugs, and privilege.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Ashland, Ore.]

    Blackstone Audio, Inc.

    Not specified
  • Under cold stone a Constable Molly Smith mystery

    Creator

    Delany, Vicki

    Abstract

    Lucky Smith and Chief Constable Paul Keller are having a weekend getaway when trouble arises—trouble involving Paul’s estranged son, Matt, and a dead body. Lucky’s daughter, Constable Molly Smith, soon finds herself in the middle of the investigation.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Ashland, Ore.]

    Blackstone Audio, Inc.

    Not specified
  • Negative image a Constable Molly Smith novel

    Creator

    Delany, Vicki

    Abstract

    Photographer Rudolph Steiner goes to Trafalgar to reconnect with the woman who left him but ends up dead. Suspicion falls on his former love—now the wife of Trafalgar’s police sergeant. The sergeant must decide where his loyalties lie: with his job or his wife.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Ashland, Ore.]

    Blackstone Audio, Inc.

    Not specified
  • A colder kind of death

    Creator

    Bowen, Gail

    Abstract

    When a prisoner is shot to death in the exercise yard of a Saskatchewan penitentiary, Joanne Kilbourn finds herself haunted by a part of her past she wished had never happened. The dead prisoner is Kevin Tarpley, the man who six years earlier had brutally killed her politician husband, Ian, in a seemingly senseless act alongside the TransCanada Highway. The haunting takes on a more menacing cast several days later when Tarpley's sinister wife, Maureen, is discovered dead in a snow-swept Regina parking lot.

    Publisher (Source)

    [New Westminster, B.C.]

    Post Hypnotic Press

    Not specified
  • All the colours of darkness

    Creator

    Robinson, Peter

    Abstract

    When DCI Alan Banks is dragged away from his vacation in London to supervise DI Annie Cabbot's sensitive murder case, he finds himself embroiled in the clandestine world of the secret intelligence service.

    Audience
    General**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto, Ont.

    McClelland & Stewart

    Not specified
  • The moneylender of Toulouse : a Fools' Guild mystery

    Creator

    Gordon, Alan

    Abstract

    When Theophilos, jester and agent for the Fools' Guild, travels to Toulouse in 1204 to pressure the local bishop to resign, he becomes involved in a murder.

    Audience
    General**
    Not specified
  • Died in the wool

    Creator

    Marsh, Ngaio

    Abstract

    One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction, packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very, very dead.

    Audience
    General**
    Not specified