mystery fiction

Hoping to become the world's greatest detective, Inspector Flytrap, a Venus Flytrap, assisted by his assistant, Nina the Goat, investigates a thrilling mystery at the Capitol Building at the request of President Horse G. Horse.

Hoping to become the greatest detective that ever grew, Inspector Flytrap, a Venus Flytrap, and his assistant, Nina the Goat, investigate "big deal" mysteries at an art museum, a cookie shop, and a garden.

The Alden children return to Surprise Island for a visit, and Benny's curiosity is aroused by a small yellow house that Grandfather doesn't want to talk about.

Grandfather Alden allows the children to spend their summer vacation on an island his father purchased many years before.

Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is taking a vacation, in part because he is annoyed at his boss, Party Secretary Li, but also because he has been made an offer he can?t refuse by Gu, a triad-connected businessman. For what seems to be a fortune?with no apparent strings attached? he is to translate a business proposal for the New World, a complex of shops and restaurants to be built in Central Shanghai, evoking nostalgia for the ?glitter and glamour? of the 1930s. It is up to Detective Yu, Chen?s partner, to take charge of a new case. Yin, a novelist, has been murdered in her room. At first it seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, but when one confesses, Yu cannot believe that he is really the killer. As Yu looks further into Yin?s life, ample motives begin to surface, even on the part of Internal Security. But it is only when Inspector Chen steps back into the investigation that the culprit is apprehended. And then Chen discovers how Gu has played him and how he, in turn, can play the new capitalist system.

Frank Mackey and Rosie Daly make plans to leave Dublin's inner city for a better life in London, but Rosie never shows up at their designated meeting place, so Frank leaves without her, only to return twenty-two years later as a detective assigned to investigate the discovery of Rosie's suitcase behind a fireplace in a derelict house. The hotly anticipated third novel of the Dublin murder squad..

Kelly, a lingerie model, is faced with a choice between life and love when she falls for the detective who is investigating the murder of Kelly's roommate Chloe, a high-end call girl who was shot along with her steady client Tony Paradiso, an eighty-four-year-old retired lawyer known as Mr. Paradise.

Grandmama Ellison--left with distant relatives when her daughter and son-in-law go to Paris for Christmas--decides to be disagreeable until her interest is captured when uninvited guest Maude Barrington is found dead in bed and she becomes caught up in investigating her mysterious demise.

Georgia pediatrician and medical examiner Sara Linton is visiting her ex-husband, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver, when two malevolent strangers, hauntingly familiar to Sara, pullout guns at the station house, where several schoolchildren are on a class trip, and bloody mayhem ensues.