Category: Mystery

By Phyllis Smallman

ISBN-10: 1552786994

ISBN-13: 9781552786994

Book I of A Sherri Travis Mystery

Margarita Nights is a comfortable with grit--serving Jack Daniels rather than tea.

In a small Florida seashore city, Sherri Travis is a bartender with perspective and a girl with an inconveniently murdered husband who seems to be as a lot difficulty to her useless as he was once alive. Sifting in the course of the particles of Jimmy's lifestyles, Sherri reveals various those who sought after her mendacity, scheming, rip-off artist husband gone--but which one really did the deed?

By Laurien Berenson

ISBN-10: 0758284578

ISBN-13: 9780758284570

"If you're keen on canine, you'll love Laurien Berenson's Melanie Travis mysteries!" —Joanne Fluke, New York Times bestselling author

Between her boisterous sons and a home choked with Poodles, there's by no means a lifeless second for Melanie Travis. yet irrespective of how annoying existence will get, she will be able to consistently choose up the smell of a howling stable mystery—and she'll cease at not anything to dig up the truth...

It's summer season in Connecticut, and Melanie's existence has develop into an unending string of puppy exhibits, football camp, and the antics of her full of life boy or girl. She rarely has time to pay a lot cognizance to her Aunt Peg's new protégé, Nick Walden, a self-proclaimed "dog whisperer" with an uncanny reward for deciphering dog-speak. The well-heeled puppy proprietors of Fairfield County are lapping up his alleged skills, nervous to find precisely what their pampered pets are thinking—that is till the pooches begin spilling their secrets.

When Nick is came upon lifeless in his domestic, his sister Claire enlists Melanie to aid tune down the killer. Now, as she juggles the calls for of marriage and motherhood—not to say her six loved Poodles—Melanie can scarcely even start to nostril in the course of the transforming into record of suspects. yet simply while she thinks she's barking up the inaccurate tree, she'll locate herself head to head with a purebred murderer...

Praise For Laurien Berenson And Her Melanie Travis Mysteries!

"Laurien Berenson simply retains recovering and better." —Harlan Coben

"Berenson throws puppy enthusiasts a deal with they'll relish." —Publishers Weekly

"A superb cause to celebrate—Melanie Travis is again at the activity during this regularly captivating and smart series." —Earlene Fowler, writer of The street to Cardinal Valley and the Benni Harper mysteries

"A designated treat." —Library Journal

"Delightful...Four paws for this one." —Carolyn Hart

"Fun reading." —Dog News

PRAISE FOR long past WITH THE WOOF

"A sprightly pooch-packed escapade. With unforeseen twists, humor, and a wealth of data concerning the story's milieu, Berenson wraps up this caper in a tail-wagging finale." —Publishers Weekly

"Berenson, who has a nostril for balancing enjoyable and fright, devises one other tale that would attract puppy aficionados and comfy fans alike." —Kirkus

"Berenson's canines body tale could have puppy lovers' tails wagging, and it doesn't detract from both the savvy heroine or the clever mystery." —Booklist

"A great novel. Even greater for those who learn it with a puppy in your lap." —Suspense Magazine

By Umberto Eco

ISBN-10: 8858769562

ISBN-13: 9788858769560

Una redazione raccogliticcia che prepara un quotidiano destinato, più che all’informazione, al ricatto, alla macchina del fango, a bassi servizi in line with il suo editore. Un redattore paranoico che, aggirandosi consistent with una Milano allucinata (o allucinato in line with una Milano normale), ricostruisce l. a. storia di cinquant’anni sullo sfondo di un piano sulfureo costruito intorno al cadavere putrefatto di uno pseudo Mussolini. E nell’ombra Gladio, l. a. P2, l’assassinio di papa Luciani, il colpo di stato di Junio Valerio Borghese, los angeles Cia, i terroristi rossi manovrati dagli uffici affari riservati, vent’anni di stragi e di depistaggi, un insieme di fatti inspiegabili che paiono inventati sino a che una trasmissione della BBC non prova che sono veri, o almeno che sono ormai confessati dai loro autori. E poi un cadavere che entra in scena all’improvviso nella più stretta e malfamata through di Milano. Un’esile storia d’amore tra due protagonisti perdenti according to natura, un ghost author fallito e una ragazza inquietante che in step with aiutare l. a. famiglia ha abbandonato l’università e si è specializzata nel gossip su affettuose amicizie, ma ancora piange sul secondo movimento della Settima di Beethoven.

Un perfetto manuale according to il cattivo giornalismo che il lettore through through non sa se inventato o semplicemente ripreso dal vivo. Una storia che si svolge nel 1992 in cui si prefigurano tanti misteri e follie del ventennio successivo, proprio mentre i due protagonisti pensano che l’incubo sia finito. Una vicenda amara e grottesca che si svolge in Europa dalla wonderful della guerra ai giorni nostri.

By Donald E. Westlake

Operating evening safeguard at a museum, Mitch Tobin reveals a useless guy in his birthday suit

When he first met Linda Campbell, Mitchell Tobin was once not anything extra to her than the fellow who had placed her husband in prison. It took over a yr for them to start their affair, yet as soon as it began, it turned intense—lasting correct as much as the day while Tobin shirked accountability to work out her, and his accomplice acquired killed hence. Years later, on a penny-ante evening protection task, Tobin is doing his rounds whilst Linda involves ask a desire. Out of criminal and hoping to move directly, her husband is having hassle escaping his previous cronies. Tobin has simply agreed to attempt to assist after they stumble upon a corpse, mendacity bare at the floor.

If he’s to do something for Linda, Tobin should maintain away from the homicide research. yet as her husband knew all too good, it takes even more than strength of mind to place a checkered earlier at the back of you.

By James Sallis

ISBN-10: 0802719066

ISBN-13: 9780802719065

Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black guy in New Orleans, a detective, a instructor, a author. Having spent years discovering others, he has misplaced his son...and himself within the method. Now a derelict has seemed in a brand new Orleans sanatorium claiming to be Lewis Griffin and exhibiting a duplicate of 1 of Lew's novels. it's the starting of a quest that might take Griffin into his personal earlier whereas he attempts to deal within the current with a look for 3 lacking younger males.

By Carolyn Hart

ISBN-10: 0380793253

ISBN-13: 9780380793259

Murder is, unusually, no longer all that unusual on timy Broward's Rock, an idyllic sea island group off the South Carolina coast. Annie Darling's well known secret bookstore, dying on call for, is the place the locals come to debate the juicy info of every legal offense--under the watchful gaze of a pampered pussycat prima donna named Agatha. yet now Annie's pricey buddy (and most sensible purchaser) Henny Brawley stands accused of murdering a Women's membership volunteer-cum-blackmailer. So Annie rouses her husband Max into motion, and jointly they dive into the shark pool of dotty eccentrics and imperious belles who represent the island's shrewdpermanent set. simply because simply there can the Darlings end up hapless Henny innocent--by detemining who one of the well-heeled had the dirtiest little secret...and may kill to guard it.

By Carolyn Hart

ISBN-10: 0380790025

ISBN-13: 9780380790029

A Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-reporter and journalism instructor at ivy-covered Thorndyke college, Henrietta "Henrie O" Collins calls for of her scholars an identical steadfast commitment to the fact that used to be the cornerstone of her personal illustrious occupation. So while attractive, formidable Maggie Winslow comes to a decision to enquire a trio of hitherto unresolved neighborhood crimes, Henrie O urges her to pursue the tale with unusual vigor.

But the proficient destiny journalist's zeal can have price her her existence. the next day to come Maggie's corpse is found in Lovers' Lane--the very web site of 1 of the unsolved mysteries the extreme younger girl used to be exploring on the time of her brutal, untimely demise. The police and the Thorndyke powers-that-be are rabidly opposed to Henrie O's involvement within the case. yet, for Maggie's sake, the obdurate, sixtysomething investigator is decided to dredge up a prior all people turns out to wish to maintain buried no matter if it ability putting herself firmly in a constant killer's course.

By Rex Stout

ISBN-10: 0307756149

ISBN-13: 9780307756145

Whilst a shiny younger heiress with an aptitude for love and one too many enemies is located brutally murdered, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, locate themselves embroiled in a case that isn't as black and white because it first appears.

Susan Brooke has every thing going for her.  Men may have killed themselves to marry her, and, actually, one did.

Susan got here to ny to discover love and success, and ended up useless on a tenement floor.  The police say her black fiance did it, yet Wolfe has different ideas.  Before he's performed, he'll turn out that sturdy intentions and undesirable deeds usually pass hand in hand and that the top beliefs can occasionally have the deadliest consequences.

From the Paperback edition.

By Ken Wells

ISBN-10: 0307518256

ISBN-13: 9780307518255

Publish yr note: First released in 2007
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Ken Wells’s hugely acclaimed picaresque Catahoula Bayou novels brought “one of the main compelling voices in fiction of the final decade” (Los Angeles Times). Now Wells is again, writing approximately his favourite subject–the unique, beleaguered Louisiana wetlands–in a pointy, rollicking story of company corruption and political shenanigans. The struggle over one man’s tract of sacred marsh fronts a deeper tale of our position within the surroundings and our responsibilities to it.

Justin Pitre’s marsh island, a legacy of his trapper grandfather, is a scenic rival to something within the Everglades, and he has promised to guard it from all damage. yet he hasn’t counted on oil bigwig Tom Huff’s plans to damage his bayou paradise by way of ramming a pipeline via it. while cajolery doesn’t sway Justin to signal the land over, Huff turns to darker equipment. yet Justin and his lively spouse, Grace, end up to be bold adversaries–and the sport is on.

Into the fray comes the charismatic Cajun governor Joe T. Evangeline, who turns out extra attracted to chasing skirts than saving Louisiana’s eroding coast. The Guv, even though, is a guy at the facet, upended by way of a midlife challenge and torn among a mystery political legal responsibility to important Oil and the persuasive powers of Julie Galjour, a feisty environmentalist. Julie is obviously out to reform greater than the Guv’s ecopolitics, yet will his tragicomic giant Oil bargains damage either his profession and his possibilities with the brash and gorgeous activist?

As Justin and style conflict to forestall this great Oil attack, the plot thickens–and the Guv turns into snared within the internet. that includes a gumbo of eccentrics and lowlifes, a kidnapping, a gorgeous snitch, a toxic-waste-dumping scheme, a ship chase, and a fishing journey long gone horribly awry, Crawfish Mountain, spiced with Ken Wells’s prepared eye for locale, showcases his adventurous storytelling.

By Marcia Muller

ISBN-10: 1609986202

ISBN-13: 9781609986209

Sharon McCone has been requested via a former colleague to appear into the plans of a big company to reopen a gold mine close to the Nevada border that can heavily endanger the environment of the realm. Following a path of unusual happenings, disappearances, and a bullet-ridden physique, McCone's path results in her to a Hong Kong industrialist . . . and a killer bent on large-scale destruction. Can McCone locate her approach via this twisted panorama to discover the killer and forestall one other homicide?