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Mari Jungstedt · 302 pages
The dead man was a drunk; a regular on the park benches of Gotland's city centre. Winter is a quiet time for Chief Inspector Anders Knutas and Detective Karin Jacobsson; the tourists tend to take the violent crimes with them back to the mainland. To keep their lives simple, they are tempted to assume that the victim died as a result of a drunken brawl. But all of the clues point to something far m
Linda, As in the Linda Murder
Leif G.W. Persson · 466 pages
The first in a trilogy of novels centered around the investigations of a Swedish police officer, Detective Superintendent Evert Bäckström, of the National Murder Squad. "It's the dead of summer in the sleepy town of Växjö when twenty-year-old police cadet Linda Wallin is found lying facedown in her mother's apartment, brutally murdered and raped. With no clear motive or suspect in sight, a series
The Lizard's Bite
David Hewson · 432 pages
On an August night on a small island near Venice, a fire explodes in a glassmaking shop. When help arrives, two people are dead, a rich Englishman is implicated, and investigators from Rome are assigned a case no one wants them to solve....In this spellbinding new novel featuring Detective Nic Costa, author David Hewson weaves together the rich fabric of Europe's most beguiling city with a riveti
Eleven Days
Donald Harstad · 337 pages
This book opens in Adobe Digital Editions as "Eleven Days". It's a totally different book than "The Known Dead". In the American heartland, someone is killing cops. The ambush exploded in an Iowa marijuana field. The weapons were high caliber. The pot was high grade. And the reporters said afterward: "We have two known dead...." Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman knew the dead all right: One was
A Darkness More Than Night
Michael Connelly · 418 pages
Terrence McCaleb is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate a series of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ritualized killings that McCaleb specialized in solving with the FBI, and he is reluctantly drawn from his peaceful new life back into the horror and excitement of tracking down a terrifying homicidal maniac. More horrifying still, the suspect who seems to fit the profile
The Christmas Mystery
James Patterson, Richard DiLallo · 160 pages
Rules of Crime
L.J. Sellers · 283 pages
His ex-wife, Renee has been kidnapped, that same weekend; a young student is beaten and dumped at the ER. As Jackson retraces Renee's movements and handles a high-tech, fast-moving ransom demand, Detective Lara Evans must identify the assault victim, then track down the assailant with no leads to go on, except the whispered rumor of a secret sorority. As the ransom goes wrong, Jackson grows more f
Havana Fever
Leonardo Padura · 286 pages
Mario Conde, a former police detective turned second-hand book dealer, finds a magazine clipping about a singer from the 1950s, Violeta del Río, and begins to investigate her mysterious retirement.
Cold Sacrifice
Leigh Russell · 432 pages
"When three dead bodies are discovered in Detective Ian Peterson's hometown of Kent, Ian takes the lead on a complex murder case with few clues"--
Children of War
Martin Walker
Bruno, chef de police in the French town of St Denis, is already busy with a case when the body of an undercover French Muslim cop is found in the woods, a man who called Bruno for help only hours before. But Bruno's sometime boss and rival, the Brigadier, doesn't see this investigation as a priority - there are bigger issues at stake. Bruno has other ideas. Meanwhile, a Muslim youth named Sami tu
The 7th Woman
Frederique Molay · 249 pages
"There's no rest for Paris's top criminal investigation division, La Crim'. Who is preying on women in the French capital? How can he kill again and again without leaving any clues? A serial killer is taking pleasure in a macabre ritual that leaves the police on tenterhooks. Chief of Police Nico Sirsky--a super cop with a modern-day real life, including an ex-wife, a teenage son and a budding love
The Art of Deception
Ridley Pearson · 451 pages
eBOOK SPECIAL FEATURE Includes a preview of Ridley Pearson's next book, THE BODY OF PETER HAYES Friendship comes at a cost. For beautiful Mary-Ann Walker, who struggled with the challenges of a difficult family history, that cost proves to be her life. With Mary-Ann’s past as its only guideline, the Seattle homicide unit must delve into the relationships between a misguided young woman and her fa
Die with Me
Elena Forbes · 350 pages
Somewhere in London, a lonely young woman is reaching out to the wrong man. It's up to Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia and the rest of the Murder Squad to find her before a killer does. When fourteen-year-old Gemma Kramer's broken body is found on the floor of St. Sebastian's Church, the official ruling is that she jumped to her death from the organ gallery above the altar. But then a witness c
Never End
Ake Edwardson · 308 pages
Detective Chief Inspector Erik Winter returns in a hard-boiled murder mystery about the dark and dirty underside of upstanding family life.There's a heatwave in Gothenburg. But while carefree school-leavers celebrate in the sunshine, tragedy waits to pierce the heady days of summer.It is late when nineteen-year-old Jeanette bids goodbye to her friends and sets off for home. She takes a shortcut th