Carolyn Hart0.0 What better place for a murder than a college campus? When Annie Laurance teaches a course on the three great ladies of mystery--Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart, and Dorothy Sayers--she quickly learns that murder is a subject most academic!
Джеймс Ли Берк3.7 Дэйв Робишо, детектив полиции Нового Орлеана, был ранен в недавней перестрелке. В больнице его навещает местная певица, юная креолка, которая рассказывает Дэйву, что ей угрожают некие опасные люди. А может быть, этот визит просто привиделся детективу под действием болеутоляющих лекарств? Ведь всем в городе известно, что девушка давно пропала… А вскоре на берегу находят труп ее сестры, вмороженный в глыбу льда. Вместе с частным детективом Клетом Перселом – пьяницей, буяном и его лучшим другом – Дэйв ищет правду среди болот, каналов, городков и частных поместий Луизианы, где водятся хищники куда опаснее крокодилов…
Джордж К. Чесбро0.0 Chesbro's latest thriller focuses on New York's homeless people, specifically on Bone, an amnesiac named for the one thing he clings to, a long bone. A newcomer among the dispossessed, Bone is suspected of beheading several other vagrants as well as a psychiatrist who offered him help. But Anne Winchell, a social worker, and a giant storyteller of the streets named Zulu believe in Bone. These friends win the accuser, Detective Prettyman, to Bone's side, and he descends far underground with the three friends to battle a raving maniac. It's a scene of sheer horror, but perhaps less harrowing than civilization's slide into the ultimate barbarism that is the novel's implicit warning.
Бартоломью Гилл0.0 Trinity professor and Joycean scholar Kevin Coyle was one of Dublin's most colorful - and controversial - characters, until someone stabbed him through the heart on Bloomsday, the annual citywide celebration honoring Ireland's most beloved literary light. The poetic irony is not lost on Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr: one of the foremost experts on the works of James Joyce was slain on the so-called "Murderers' Ground" made famous in the author's magnum opus Ulysses. But the connection does not end there. And the deeper the intrepid McGarr digs, the more startling truths he uncovers about a victim's dark, licentious history, a list of suspects as vast and varied as the characters in a great novel...and a motive for murder that can hide as easily in the pages of a classic book as in the twisted passions of a human heart.
Джилл Черчилль3.0 It's So hard to Kill Good Help These Days. . .With three kids to raise on her own, Jane Jeffry sometimes needs a hand with the housework. But many of her complaining neighbors believe that the Happy Helper cleaning lady they all share wouldn't know a dustball if she was choking on it. That hardly seems reason enough, however, to do the disreputable domestic in.
So when the charwoman in question is discovered strangled to death with a vacuum cleaner cord, Jane decides to dig up the real dirt--if the tenacious single mom can find any time to spare between her PTA meetings and car-pooling duties. But despite her busy schedule, Jane is determined to tidy up the whole murderous mess--even if it means provoking a killer who may live as close as next door.
Эдит Ском0.0 Skulduggery was afoot in the campus library at Midwestern University. Sinister students were razoring pages from periodicals and stealing obscure essays for their term papers. A bookish thief was making a bundle smuggling out valuable first editions for resale. And in the South Tower, a killer was stalking a coed.
Even so, Professor Beth Austin was shocked--and intrigued--to find a handsome FBI agent in the English Department. Soon they had joined forces, delving into the lives of her eccentric colleagues...and straying into the dark shadows of the groves of academe where someone's hands were stained with blood.
Даг Эллин0.0 From Publishers Weekly
In this surprising, uncompromising first novel, "cowboy" cop Lupe Garcia (with a rep for violence and no regard for the proper channels) investigates the throat-slashing murders of several women in the Detroit area. Under pressure to make an arrest, Garcia pegs guitar-playing redneck Lamont Yarborough as the killer, for a variety of insufficient reasons. While amassing evidence, Garcia pursues his romantic interest in Linda Kerry, a reporter with the Detroit Free Press who's working on a story about Yarborough--by whom she's both intrigued and frightened. After Yarborough disarms a gun-wielding madman in the presence of press and upper-echelon police, Garcia is told to investigate other possible suspects, and when he complains, is accused of conflict of interests: e.g., jealousy over Kerry. Hairpin twists add to an already solid plot. Allyn displays a flair for gritty, colloquial dialogue, a heartfelt love for music and its late-night, honky-tonk environment, and a talent for making even the most incidental characters flesh-and-blood originals
Дебора Валентайн0.0 San Francisco artist Roxanne Gautier's startling paintings of male prostitutes set off shock waves throughout the art world but it is her wealthy stockbroker husband who is most disturbed of all. When her beautiful young model washes up dead on the rocks below the Golden Gate Bridge, he asks ex-policeman Kevin Bryce to discreetly probe the source of her inspiration. But what Bryce discovers sets off a chain of revelations with repercussions no one could have predicted.
A Collector of Photographs was short-listed for an Edgar Allen Poe, Anthony Boucher, Macavity and Shamus award. It is the second in the series featuring Kevin Bryce and Katharine Craig.
Сьюзен Вулф0.0 "A world of captivating corruption...With a delicate blend of malice, suspense and sharp psychology, Wolfe winds up her story with a scene that explodes a number of myths."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
When Leo Slyde--named partner, chief go-getter, "king of the billable hour" at the hottest corporate law firm in Silicon Valley--is found stabbed, the firm's newest associate, Howard Rickover is asked to play Nancy Drew. But he's got a dilemma, how can he trap a cunning murderer among lawyers who specialize in avoiding traps, and still bill enough hours to keep his job...?
Генри Реймонд Фитцвальтер Китинг0.0 Keating succeeds in entertaining mystery buffs by gathering hundreds of facts and foibles from the world of crime writing. He features 20 great crooks, providing a run-down of great crimes in boarding schools, a catalogue of parodies and pastiches, a look at murders on trains, and a compendium of embarrassing mistakes.
