detective and mystery stories

Detroit police detective Chris Mankowski investigates when an actress walks into the Sex Crime Division claiming to have been raped by one of Detroit's richest and drunkest citzens.

Detective Terry Girard must prove that her Aunt CeCe did not commit suicide, and find the murderer lurking among St. Louis's elite.

In an isolated society, one girl makes a discovery that will change everything---and learns that a single stone, once set in motion, can bring down a mountain.

Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall.

Nathan Active, given up for adoption by his fifteen-year-old mother, an Inupiat girl, returns to the village of his birth as a state trooper where he enlists the help of beautiful villager Lucy Generous in solving the mystery of a series of atypical suicides, and in coming to understand his Eskimo heritage.

Medieval physician Kathryn Swinbrooke is busily attending to her patients and preparing for the Christmas holiday when the news arrives that the painter Richard Blunt has confessed to killing his young wife and two men. But his confession arouses Kathryn's suspicions, and she is compelled to investigate.

An ex-nun, an ex-con, and an ex-cop stumble onto a private fund-raising scheme to aid the Contras in Nicaragua. Together they have decided the several million dollars raised should not leave New Orleans.

L.A.P.D. homicide detective Peter Decker, already upset that a rapist is prowling his oldest daughter's college campus, is tormented by a case much closer to home in which a teenage girl was murdered on prom night.