murder

In Egypt about 2,000 B.C., the concubine of a ka-priest is murdered just before her marriage to her master.

The members of The Screech Owls hockey team, in Vancouver to play in a tournament, wind up in the middle of a dangerous murder investigation when they go on a whale watching tour and discover a dead body floating in the sea.

Nancy Drew must use clues in a dead man's letters to find some unpublished musical manuscripts that will save an old man and his granddaughter from financial ruin.

When David "Lizard" Hochmeyer's parents are murdered he sets out on a path to recovery and finding his parents' killer as he finds himself surrounded by a wide variety of famous people.

Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad in Beszel, a decaying city on the southeastern fringes of Europe, is assigned to investigate the murder of a young woman found by a group of teens, and his inquiry leads him into complicated negotiations with Ul Qoma, a city that shares the same physical area with Beszel, separated across time and space by the dreaded Breach.

The Fletcher family moves into a new home, nestled between two churches in a small village on the moors, but their excitement fades as ten-year-old Tom Fletcher is convinced that he is being watched and the village is reminded of the "accidental" deaths of three toddlers during the last ten years when two-year-old Milly and five-year-old Joe Fletcher disappear.

Brother William turns detective in medieval Italy when seven bizarre deaths take place in seven days and nights.

Investigative reporter Fran Simmons puts her own life in danger when she sets out to discover who really killed Dr. Gary Lasch, a murder for which his wife, Molly, has spent years in jail, even though she has no memory of the night of his death.

Four teenage girls living in the suburbs of Tokyo, Toshi, Terauchi, Yuzan, and Kirarin, are doing their best to focus on summer school classes, in preparation for college, but when Toshi's neighbor is found murdered the girls suspect his son, a high school classmate they nicknamed "Worm.".

Freelance gunslingers Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch find Allie French working in a brothel and relocate with her to Brimstone where they are hired as deputy sheriffs, but a string of murders and frequent disagreements between the local saloon owner and preacher make it difficult for Cole and Hitch to keep the peace.