homicide

Detective Jenna Murphy investigates when a Hollywood power broker and his mistress are found dead in the abandoned, mulitmillion-dollar, beachfront home known as the Murder House located in the Hamptons, New York.

As Jack tries to uncover details of his brother's last night, he confronts a barricade of lawyers, police, and paid protectors who separate the multibillionaire summer residents from local workers like Peter. And he learns that his brother wasn't just parking cars at the summer parties of the rich. He was making serious money from the richest women and men in town.

Best friends and amateur pre-teen sleuths Sophie Young and Grace Yang go undercover at their town's annual festival and parade to catch a murderer before he or she strikes again.

Two former circus performers-turned-master detectives uncover clues when a poisoner begins stalking the streets of mid-nineteenth-century London and threatening the queen.

Having decided to stay in Indian Falls, Rebecca Robbins hopes life will settle down now for the holidays. A murder at a bridal shower cancels that hope, especially when Rebecca is asked to help in the investigation. Her hot boyfriend offers his help, and she will need it to solve a murder, catch thieves, and fulfill her duties as her best friend's maid of honor.

Rebecca Robbins' attempts to sell off the roller rink she inherited are perhaps completely destroyed when the body of the town's handyman is found in one of the rink's bathrooms. When the police prove ineffectual she determines to do her own kind of sleuthing--with the help of the handsome veterinarian and his retired circus camel maybe--but when she closes in on the identity of the murderer she suddenly realizes that being an amateur sleuth is no protection from harm.

When Anna's best friend is found murdered while they are vacationing in Aruba, Anna is targeted as a prime suspect and must fight for her freedom and prove her innocence while she remains trapped in a foreign country.

Michael Finkel recalls how, shortly after he was fired from New York Times Magazine, he found out that a suspected murderer on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List had fled to Mexico and taken on his identity. After the man, Christian Longo, was taken into custody, Michael Finkel was the only reporter that he agreed to talk to. Finkel describes his attempts to uncover the truth about really happened to the family Longo was accused of killing.

Avicenna Crowe's mother, Joanne, is an astrologer with uncanny predictive powers and a history of being stalked. Now she is missing. The police are called, but they're not asking the right questions. Like why Joanne lied about her past, and what she saw in her stars that made her so afraid. But Avicenna has inherited her mother's gift. Finding an unlikely ally in the brooding Simon Thorn, she begins to piece together the mystery. And when she uncovers a link between Joanne's disappearance and a cold-case murder, Avicenna is led deep into the city's dark and seedy underbelly, unaware how far she is placing her own life in danger.

A biography of Mafia hit man Richard Kuklinski, who killed over 200 men over forty years, while leading a double life as a devoted family man. Follows his life from childhood, through marriage, and his involvement with the mob.