detective and mystery stories

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detective and mystery stories

The voice upstairs

2023
With the ability to see when a person's spirit leaves their body, Wilhelmina Price takes a job at her lifelong friend Edison's family estate to investigate a maid's death.

Murder in three acts

1986
A three-act tragedy with a mysterious death in every act. Hercule Poirot's keen mind presents a reasonable, commonsense theory that links the crimes together.

Mr. Parker Pyne, detective

1986
Short stories about an assortment of people who respond to an ad in the paper worded: Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne, 17 Richmond Street.

Choke

1996
In Key West, while ex-tennis pro Chuck Chandler gets a bit too involved with the mysterious and married Clare Carras, retired New York homicide detective Tommy Sculley and his inexperienced partner find that Clare is involved with the West Coast mob.

The guest list

a novel /(Mystery)
"On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It's a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed. But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride's oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast. And then someone turns up dead. Who didn't wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?" --audiobook container.

Unlucky 13

(Mystery)
San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex to murder, things couldn't be better. Then the FBI sends Lindsay a photo of a killer from her past, and her happy world is shattered. The picture captures a beautiful woman at a stoplight. But all Lindsay sees is the psychopath behind those seductive eyes: Mackie Morales, the most deranged and dangerous mind the Women's Murder Club has ever encountered. Morales had cheerfully posed as a summer intern with the SFPD while secretly collecting information -- and committing gruesome murders on the side. When Morales disappeared, she was presumed dead and Lindsay thought the nightmare was over. But now Mackie is back and her taste for revenge is stronger than ever.

Burnout

1999
After Lacie Wagner's daughter is kidnapped, she receives a videotape which shows her daughter being burned alive, accompanied by a voice that is right out of Lacie's nightmares, and now, with the help of FBI agent Jack Stein, Lacie is forced to face her past and find the man whose quest for revenge is ruining her life.

Black Betty

1994
Private investigator Easy Rawlins is hired to find Elizabeth Eady, aka "Black Betty", who has left chaos and mayhem in her wake.

The Witch Hill murder

a superintendent Capricorn mystery
1977

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