murder

A novel that follows the sequence of events leading up to the brutal murder of the wife of Scotland Yard's Inspector Thomas Lynley by a twelve-year-old boy.

When Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Eighth Earl of Asherton, and his fiancee, Deborah Cotter, arrive at Howenstow, Lynley's family home, they find the atmosphere rife with tension.

Guy Brouard is one of the main benefactors of Guernsey, an isolated island in the English Channel, and his latest project, a museum in honor of those who resisted the German occupation of the island during World War II, has earned him many enemies, including one who wants him dead.

While on holiday, Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid discovers a body floating in a whirlpool bath and despite a lack of cooperation from the local constabulary, Kincaid's sense of duty won't allow him to ingore the crime which makes him call for his assistant, Seargeant Gemma James, but the stakes are raised when a second murder occurs.

Investigator Duncan Kincaid is summoned by his ex-wife, to examine evidence which could prove that the untimely death of a famous poet, was due to murder, not suicide.

Timber Ridge, North Carolina, pizzeria owner Eleanor Swift, having entered Laughing Luigi's pizza-making contest with the hope of winning twenty-five thousand dollars to renovate her business, realizes she will have to do more than make a delicious pizza to win after finding Luigi murdered with a slice of poisoned pizza and suspecting she and Maddy may be the next victims.

During the course of a murder investigation a high-tech investigator discovers a widespread conspiracy involving child killing, a ruthless geneticist, and a plot to retrieve the remains of deceased theologians.

"The ladies of the Cumberland Scrapbook Crop are welcoming an eccentric newbie into their fold. A self-proclaimed witch, Cookie Crandall can whip up a sumptuous vegan meal and rhapsodize about runes and moon phases with equal aplomb. She becomes fast friends with her fellow scrapbookers, including freelance reporter Annie, with whom she shares shallow roots in a community of established family trees. So when Cookie becomes the prime suspect in a series of bizarre murders, the croppers get scrappy and set out to clear her name. Annie starts digging and discovers that the victims each had strange runic patterns carved on their bodies - a piece of evidence that points the police in Cookie's direction. Even her friends begin to doubt her innocence when they find an ornate, spiritual scrapbook that an alleged beginner like Cookie could never have crafted. As Annie and the croppers search for answers, they'll uncover a shockingly wicked side of their once quiet town - and a killer on the prowl for another victim."--P. [4] of cover.

Twenty-seven-year-old Jason Talley impulsively decides to travel to India to pay homage to his friends Sriram and Vidya who have died in what police are calling a murder/suicide, and to deliver a scarf Sriram had purchased for his mother, but Jason soon learns that Sriram had a secret life that apparently got him killed, and is now endangering Jason.