homicide

Several voices narrate this stylistic murder mystery and love story in which a sixteenth-century sultan in Istanbul orders a noted artist, Enishte Effendi, to create a book illustrated in the Western style, which is considered blasphemous in the Islamic world--a dangerous assignment that results in the mysterious death of one of Enishte's chosen gilders.

Details a twelve-year-old Alberta girl's relationship with a twenty-three-year-old man with whom she planned and executed the murders of her parents and younger brother, and provides details of their subsequent trials for the crimes.

Quentin is a serial murderer who shares his thoughts and perverse desires in a sort of journal.

Half-vampire and half-human fourteen-year-old Ariella Montero's efforts to fit in with the other teenagers in her town are thwarted by the disappearance of a friend, her father's decision to leave the family, and the discovery of a murdered teen.

Relates the experiences of novelist Douglas Preston and crime reporter Mario Spezi as they try to track down the Monster of Florence, a serial killer who targeted lovers parked in their cars.

A reclusive cloth merchant hires disgraced knight Crispin Guest to verify his suspicions that his young wife is being unfaithful, but the case becomes complicated when the merchant is found murdered in a room locked from the inside.

Private detective Donald Tremaine takes on the most complicated case of his career when he agrees to investigate the murder of advertising mogul Roger Gale, who was found dead in his Los Angeles office a year earlier.

Julie Hutchinson enlists the help of Michael Diamond, a popular TV psychic, to unravel the mystery surrounding her husband's death, and unearths bizarre secrets about her family and the Daylight Project on which her husband worked.

Dory Basarab, a half human, half vampire, is hoping to get a little peace after the death of her insane uncle, but instead things get even more hectic when she agrees to help friends look for a magical Fey relic, and a missing mistress--both of which are believed to be in the possession of a master vampire who mysteriously turns up dead.

Uses historical documents to attempt to solve the mysterious death of Lord Darnley, whose murder led to Mary, Queen of Scots, ruin and has baffled historians for centuries.