Карстен Страуд0.0 Carsten Stroud has cracked the cop code of silence. In Close Pursuit, a New York Times nonfiction bestseller and then in his first novel, the award-winning Snipers Moon, he exposed the jagged edge of life - and death - in the New York City Police Department. Now in his new novel, Stroud draws us down a different kind of mean street, a place where the law is a single flashing light on an open highway or deserted back road, a tiny beacon in a sea of darkness. Sergeant Beau McAllister of the Montana State Highway Patrol has a formidable service record, an engaging wit, and a quick trigger-finger. In the vast, lonely grandeur of Yellowstone County, Beau knows the potential for human cruelty and ugliness is always there, coiled in silent waiting like a rattlesnake in an arroyo. When violence touches Beau's life on a slow Friday afternoon, it arrives in a rattler-fast strike. He checks out a reported armed robbery at Joe Bell's truck stop and finds an amazing shootout in progress between an enraged Joe Bell, whose wild shooting endangers the whole area, and a band of Dakota Indians firing back - with bows and arrows. When the smoke clears, a Dakota boy is dead, Beau McAllister has been forced to shoot Joe Bell in the butt, and Beau's own problems with the law have just begun. But what appears to be a bizarre incident fueled by out-of-control tempers is actually the first crack in a conspiracy of astonishing corruption. And as Beau starts his investigation, he does not realize he is being shadowed by someone equally determined to get at the truth: Gabriel Picketwire, an enigmatic Lakota Indian with a link to the dead and wounded Native Americans. In the hard, rocky Montana terrain, the two men head toward a fateful collision, closing in on sinister forces that have taken a terrible liberty with other people's lives. Once again, with searing intensity and laser precision, Carsten Stroud has penetrated the thin blue line. Lizardskin touches a raw nerve and lays open the
Гейл Боуэн0.0 Murder is the last thing on Joanne Kilbourn’s mind on a perfect morning in May. Then the phone rings, and she learns that her daughter Mieka has found the corpse of a young woman in an alley near her store. So begins Joanne’s chilling collision with evil in Gail Bowen’s riveting third mystery, The Wandering Soul Murders.
Joanne is stunned and saddened by the news that the dead woman, at seventeen, was already a veteran of the streets. When, just twenty-four hours later, her son’s girlfriend is found dead, drowned in a lake in Saskatchewan’s Qu’Appelle Valley, Joanne’s sunny world is shattered. Her excitement about Mieka’s upcoming marriage, her involvement in the biography she is writing, even her pleasure at her return to Regina all fade as she finds herself drawn into a twilight world where money can buy anything and there are always people willing to pay
Peter Robinson4.0 Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks investigates the chilling case of Brenda Scupham, a welfare mother who unwittingly hands her seven-year-old daughter, Gemma, over to child abductors claiming to be social workers.
Медора Сейл0.0 It's a dirty, folded rectangle, about twelve inches by six inches, and it inspires greed and murder on both sides of the Atlantic. What is it? And who will die before it finds its rightful owner? Sadly for architectural photographer Harriet Jeffries, one of the murder victims ends up dead in the middle of her living room floor. Sadder still, Harriet's special friend, Inspector John Sanders of the Toronto police, becomes the chief suspect. The case of the missing document begins with the unwelcome arrival of Harriet's ex-lover, prosperous artist Guy Beaumont. Guy demands to know the whereabouts of Jane Sinclair, Harriet's former assistant and the mother of Guy's child. Jane ran away from Guy, taking with her a document that Guy says is his. Harriet hasn't heard from Jane, and she wouldn't tell Guy if she had. She has no desire even to talk to a man she has come to loathe. Jane is on the run. For there are people who will do anything to retrieve the document that Jane has in her possession. It's worth millions, and its too late to give it back. When Jane begs Harriet for help, Harriet and John want to assist, but John must first prove his own innocence in a case that could ruin not only his career but his life. With Pursued by Shadows, author Medora Sale proves once again that she is among the most stylish and insightful creators of contemporary crime fiction. The Harriet Jeffries/John Sanders series is one for all mystery fans to savor.
Шон Стюарт0.0 The Redemption Presidency has transformed America. Adulterers are stoned. Executions are televised. But sin still exists. And so does murder. . . . When great actor and Redemption spokesperson Jonathan Mask is found dead, the police call in Diane Fletcher, a freelance hunter, to track down his murderer.
Бетси Стразерс0.0 Short-listed for the 1992 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel
Bookstore clerk Rosalie Cairns was the one who found the body at the edge of the river; why did that make her a suspect?
As the quiet town is rocketed by a series of murders, neighbour distrusts neighbour, and the bookstore, once her refuge, is the centre of intrigue. The evidence against her husband mounts, and Rosalie is forced to join the dangerous hunt for the killer.
Not just a slick and hard-boiled mystery, this is a rich study of characters reacting to unexpected horror, and a look into the depths of small town life.
Кирк Макин0.0 A watershed true crime account of the murder of nine-year-old Christine Jessop, who was was raped and strangled to death in 1984, and how law enforcement convinced themselves that neighbor Guy Paul Morin killed her. This 800-page early 1990s doorstopper deals, exhaustively and comprehensively, with one of the most troubling criminal chapters in Canada's history. Morin was acquitted, then convicted (Canada doesn't have double jeopardy) and then DNA testing freed him for good in 1995. Packed with as many twists and turns as the OJ Simpson trial or Making of a Murderer. More than thirty years later we still don't know who killed Christine Jessop, and we may never know.
