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The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries: The Blessing Way / Dance Hall of the Dead / Listening Woman
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Anne Hillerman · 384 pages
Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases involving a missing woman and a drug bust gone bad.
Death Of The Mantis
Michael Stanley · 430 pages
When a Kalahari ranger is found dead in a dry ravine, his corpse surrounded by three Bushmen, the local police arrest the nomads. Botswana's Detective 'Kubu' Bengu investigates the case.
Death in Sicily: The First Three Novels in the Inspector Montalbano Series--The Shape of Water; The Terra-Cotta Dog; The Snack Thief
Andrea Camilleri · 704 pages
Harry Bosch Box Set: The Narrows/Echo Park/The Overlook
Michael Connelly
Blackening Song
Aimee Thurlo, David Thurlo · 384 pages
Rebus: The Early Years
Ian Rankin · 612 pages
Sentenced to Die
J.A. Jance · 645 pages
Presents the first three mysteries featuring Seattle homicide detective Jonas Piedmont Beaumont.
Hermit's Peak
Michael McGarrity · 315 pages
The Skull Mantra
Eliot Pattison · 406 pages
When a headless corpse is found on a remote Tibetan mountainside, veteran inspector Shan Tao Yun is the perfect candidate to solve the crime--except he's been stripped of rank and imprisoned in the gulag for offending the Party in Beijing. Desperate to close the case before the arrival of high-profile American tourists, the district commander grants Shan a temporary release.
Red, Green, or Murder
Steven F. Havill
The Winter Queen
Boris Akunin · 256 pages
Moscow, May 1876: What would cause a talented young student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public in the Alexander Gardens? Decadence and boredom, most likely, is what the commander of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police thinks, but still he finds it curious enough to send the newest member of the division, Erast Fandorin, a young man of irres
Entanglement
Zygmunt Miloszewski · 295 pages
The morning after a grueling psychotherapy session in a Warsaw monastery, Henryk Telak is found dead. World-weary State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki feels that life has passed him by, but this case changes everything. His search for the killer unearths another murder that took place twenty years earlier-- and to facts that, for his own safety, he'd be better off not knowing.
The William Monk Mysteries: The Face of a Stranger / A Dangerous Mourning / Defend and Betray
Anne Perry
The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel / The Naked Sun
Isaac Asimov · 404 pages
Two Robot novels: The Caves of Steel The Naked Sun
Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell · 284 pages
The Prime Suspect Cases
Lynda La Plante · 795 pages
THRILLER / SUSPENSE. All three Prime Suspect cases, featuring DCI Jane Tennison, in one stunning volume. PRIME SUSPECT, FACE IN THE CROWD and SILENT VICTIMS.
Pietr the Latvian
Georges Simenon · 161 pages
Maisie Dobbs and Birds of a Feather
Jacqueline Winspear
The Cold Cold Ground
Adrian McKinty · 320 pages
The Last Detective
Peter Lovesey · 380 pages
The Bat
Jo Nesbo · 369 pages
Follows Harry Hole's efforts to solve the murder of a television celebrity whose demise is linked to a string of serial killings. Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The victim is a Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Harry befriends
Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith · 384 pages
A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI and New York police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fu
Mercy Falls
William Kent Krueger · 368 pages
In this “smart and satisfying” (Booklist) mystery, charismatic Cork O’Connor finds himself stalked by an unknown assailant bent on putting a bullet through his heart as he faces his most dangerous case yet. Back in the saddle as sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork O’Connor is lured to the nearby Ojibwe reservation on what appears to be a routine call—only to become the target of sniper fire. Soon