mystery fiction

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mystery fiction

Faithful place

2010
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..

Mr. Paradise

2004
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.

18 seconds

2006

A Christmas guest

a novel
2005
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.

Indelible

2004
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.

Sherlock Holmes

the American years
2010
A collection of ten original stories by various authors about the adventures of a young Sherlock Holmes in America prior to achieving fame as a detective.

The man from Beijing

2010
While investigating the murders of nineteen people, including her grandparents, in a small village in Sweden, Judge Birgitta Roslin learns of others of the same family in Nevada who were also murdered and a connection between China and the slave trade of the nineteenth century.

In the shadow of Gotham

2009
Detective Simon Ziele transfers away from New York City to escape the tragic reminders of his wife's death, only to be assigned to the most brutal murder he has ever seen, a case complicated by Alistair Sinclair, a noted criminologist, who shares information about one of his research subjects, Michael Fromley.

Hard revolution

a novel
2004
African-American Derek Strange, a rookie cop in 1969, encounters both personal and racial conflicts in pursuit of his career which sometimes pits him against his own family and friends, especially when violence breaks out in Washington D.C., in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thou shalt not grill

a Pennsylvania Dutch mystery with recipes
2004
Innkeeper Magdalena Yoder has her hands full investigating the murder of one of her guests, Buzzy Porter, and the disappearance of a centennial time capsule, at the bicentennial barbecue in Hernia, Pennsylvania.

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