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Prolonged Exposure (Posadas County Mysteries #0)
Par Steven F. Havill. 1998
Savvy storytelling infused with a spicy Southwestern setting."Not only does Havill offer a melancholy reinterpretation of that grand western myth…
of the slow-talking, fast-thinking lawman, he also writes crisp, marvelously detailed police procedurals in which a mix of technical know-how and informed common sense gets things done."—BooklistBill Gastner is going crazy recuperating from heart surgery. Dreaming of green chili, he's rescued by a phone call from back home. The Undersheriff arrives in Posadas County only to learn that his own home has been burgled. Moreover, Gastner finds his cranky ancient neighbor Florencio Apodaca has borrowed a bit of land to bury his equally ancient wife—and the dead woman's stepson questions if she died a natural death. Meanwhile a young boy out camping has vanished from atop Cat Mesa. A stringent search convinces Bill, his treasured deputy Estelle Reyes-Guzman, and Sheriff Martin Holman that the boy has been spirited away.Poisoned Pen Press has republished the five earlier novels in Steven Havill's carefully, cleverly detailed police procedural series richly redolent of southern New Mexico.A Discount For Death (Posadas County Mysteries #12)
Par Steven F. Havill. 2010
"Sublimely snappy prose...Maddy, full of life at 68, is a terrific narrator."—Kirkus ReviewsMaddy Sprowls gets to The Hannawa Herald-Union on…
the stroke of nine. She makes her first mug of Darjeeling tea and settles down at her desk to read the obituaries. The obits are the best part of her day, she admits. But not today. First she reads that her old college friend Gordon Sweet is dead. Then she learns he was murdered—at the abandoned landfill where the eccentric archaeology professor was conducting his latest dig.And just like that, the cranky 68-year-old newspaper librarian finds herself investigating another murder. No, two murders! Is Gordon's death linked to the grisly bludgeoning of state wrestling champ David Delarosa fifty years earlier?And so begins a harrowing and hilarious trek back to Maddy's old beatnik days, when she was a member of the Meriwether Square Baked Bean Existentialist Society. Legendary beat writer Jack Kerouac still casts a long shadow over the group. And there's a coffee house full of quirky suspects to consider: Poet Chick Glass, saxophonist Shaka Bop, free-thinking Effie Fredmansky, snooty Gwen Moffitt-Stumpf, and toxic waste dumper Kenneth Kingzette.There's a reason why reporters call Maddy "Morgue Mama" behind her back. And why cops and criminals alike get the jitters when she pulls up in her old Dodge Shadow. She is tough, tenacious, and tricky as the dickens.Dry Heat (David Mapstone Mysteries #4)
Par Jon Talton. 2004
The past is never past on the mean streets of Phoenix, especially when the mercury hits a hundred and it's…
only April. Half a century after the unsolved murder of an FBI agent, the missing badge is found on the body of a dead transient. The case seems a perfect fit for David Mapstone, history professor turned Maricopa County deputy sheriff. That is, if he can get past a forced partnership with rival cold-case expert Sgt. Kate Vare and the FBI's strange stonewalling about the details of the agent's killing.To complicate matters, there are the crimes making history today, like the arrest of Russian mafia members in a multimillion-dollar fraud case. David's wife, Lindsey, star of the sheriff's Cybercrimes Bureau, was on the task force that busted the case wide open. But her triumph is short-lived when a hit in Scottsdale leaves three task-force members dead. Lindsey's life in danger, Sheriff Peralta stashes Lindsey and David in a safe house. That doesn't get the good "History Shamus" off the hook, though, as Sheriff Peralta inexplicably demands that David solve the cold caseThe trail will take Mapstone to the most forlorn parts of Phoenix, as well as to San Francisco and picturesque southern Arizona, as he slowly uncovers the bloody secrets surrounding the mysterious FBI badge. He's got the brains and the leads. Now all he and Lindsey have to do is live long enough to bring justice to a fifty-year-old crime.Phantom Limb: A Daniel Rinaldi Mystery (Daniel Rinaldi Thrillers #4)
Par Dennis Palumbo. 2014
1976: Dr. Colin Sanford, a brilliant, ambitious obstetrician practicing in the Pacific Northwest, resolves to become the first to produce…
a baby by in vitro fertilization, despite the controversy raging over the ethics of artificially-assisted human reproduction. He recruits Dr. Giselle Hearn, an experienced laboratory geneticist-embryologist at the University who's frustrated by the ultra-conservative policies of her department chairman. Working secretly, they set out to put their names in history books. And, incidentally, to cash in.In due course, a Sanford patient, Joyce Kennett, gives birth to a healthy boy. There is rejoicing all around. So why does Joyce's husband erupt in rage, fatally shooting both Hearn and himself? Emerald Police Detective Bernie Baumgartner doggedly seeks the answer. Soon a double cat-and-mouse game develops between the detective who refuses to be bested and the doctor determined to be the best....The Donkey-Vous: A Mamur Zapt Mystery (Mamur Zapt Mysteries #3)
Par Michael Pearce. 1990
Pru Marlowe isn't your ordinary animal psychic. A tough girl on the run from her own gift, Pru left the…
big city to return to her picturesque Berkshires hometown looking for a little peace. Too bad that her training as an animal behaviorist got her mixed up with Lily, a rescue dog, and Charles, her person. Now Charles is dead, and Lily looks good for it. After all, Lily is a pitbull, a fighting-ring dropout, and way too traumatized to give Pru a clear picture of what she has witnessed. But Pru knows something about bad girls trying to clean up, and, with a sense of justice strong enough to overcome her dislike of human society, she takes the case. Listening to the animals, Pru picks up clues—and learns there are secrets in the pretty little town that make murder look simple. Unable to tell anybody about her psychic abilities, uncertain at times about her own sanity, Pru comes to realize that if she clears Lily, she'll likely become the prime suspect—or the next victim. While the only creature she can totally trust is her crotchety tabby Wallis, Pru's got to uncover the real killer—and find a way to live with her gift—before the real beasts in the town savage her and those she has come to love. The first in the Pru Marlowe "pet noir" series.Arizona Dreams: A David Mapstone Mystery (David Mapstone Mysteries #4)
Par Jon Talton. 2006
When a former student turns up in David Mapstone's office, she seems to have the perfect case for this history-professor-turned-deputy:…
a letter left by her deceased father, confessing to a forty-year-old murder and providing directions to the body. But things are never what they seem in Phoenix, a fast-buck city of newcomers seeking fresh starts from sometimes dark pasts.Just ask David's wife, Deputy Lindsey Faith Mapstone. One morning the start of the Willo District home tour is interrupted by murder. A man lies dead with an ice pick in his brain. And Lindsey runs right into her half-sister Robin among the crowd gathering in the historic Phoenix neighborhood, the sister Lindsey hasn't seen in years. The reunion with Robin rekindles memories about their rough upbringing and the deep rift that they may, or may not, bridge. Why is Robin here now?Scavengers: A Posadas County Mystery (Posadas County Mysteries #0)
Par Steven F. Havill. 2010
A man's body is found in the unforgiving New Mexico desert, his face so smashed that identification is impossible. It's…
the beginning of a brutal murder spree that will soon take Posadas County's new undersheriff, Estelle Reyes-Guzman, into a case that has roots on both sides of the border.With retired Sheriff Bill Gastner—now a livestock inspector for the state—still close at hand to offer unerring logic and horse sense, Reyes-Guzman attempts to identify the "Juan" Doe. Another body turns up in a shallow grave, revealing little about the killer, but more about the victims. And when a suspicious fire takes a third life, the terrible twist finally offers the break Estelle has been looking for, one that will lead her back into a harsh, merciless desert where death welcomes all.Server Down: A Mad Dog And Englishman Mystery (Mad Dog & Englishman Series #5)
Par J. M. Hayes. 2009
Attending the Yaqui tribe's Easter Ceremonies in Tucson should be a dream come true for Cheyenne-wannabe-shaman Mad Dog. But immediately…
after his arrival, he is accused of being a witch. Then a policeman is murdered, and suddenly Mad Dog and his wolf-hybrid, Hailey, are targets of a city-wide manhunt with shoot-first overtones. Mad Dog's niece, Heather English, a part-time deputy for her father in Kansas, comes to Tucson to arrange a peaceful surrender or find the real killer.Back in Kansas, someone has blown Mad Dog's house off the face of the Great Plains. Sheriff English learns Mad Dog has been playing an online computer game, War of Worldcraft, where a vampire wizard has been tormenting him. Mad Dog claims the creature has come after him in the real world. The sheriff isn't convinced...until he begins receiving threats from a vampire wizard on his office computer....The Night Detectives (David Mapstone Mysteries)
Par Jon Talton. 2013
"Lawyer Cal is an appealing knight in rusty armor, seeking justice for the most vulnerable...Easley exquisitely captures Portland's flavor, and…
his portrayal of street life is spot-on. Readers of John Hart and Kate Wilhelm will delight in trying a new author." —Library JournalIn his first case in private practice, Oregon lawyer Cal Claxton came to the aid of a tagger calling himself Picasso, a Banksy-like figure in Portland. Dividing his time between a wine-country town and the city, the ex-L.A. prosecutor now encounters another urban teen at risk, Kelly Spence, also a tagger. Using climbing skills learned from her much-loved deceased father, a mountaineer, Kelly places angry tags in visible, hard-to-reach places. A runaway from an abusive foster home and alternative high school student, she lives with her father's former girlfriend.Kelly is four stories up at 3:00 one morning when she looks down and witnesses the brutal murder of a woman in the parking lot below. Unluckily the killer spies her but Kelly escapes. The police soon seek her as a witness. Desperate to stay anonymous, she seeks help from someone on the street she trusts. Too soon she finds his mutilated body and becomes even more afraid.Cal is drawn into the case by his volatile Cuban friend and landlord who is devastated by the murder: the dead woman had just become his fiancée. Her ex is the obvious suspect, but Cal's instincts lead him in a different direction where he will run into Kelly. Can he get her to talk, or will the killer find her first?Fever Dream: A Daniel Rinaldi Mystery (Daniel Rinaldi Thrillers #2)
Par Dennis Palumbo. 2011
On a blistering summer day, a bank robbery goes wrong, resulting in the deaths of all the hostages except Treva…
Williams. Pittsburgh psychologist and trauma expert Daniel Rinaldi is called in by the police to treat Treva. Soon an unforeseen series of events plunges the investigating officers, Sergeant Harry Polk, Detective Eleanor Lowrey, and Rinaldi into a vortex of mistaken identity, kidnapping, and surprising revelations about District Attorney Leland Sinclair's gubernatorial campaign. Is Sinclair somehow involved in the bank case?Rinaldi's attention is diverted by the suicide of a young patient and his growing attraction to Eleanor, as the recently-divorced Harry Polk spirals into an alcohol-driven, self-destructive free-fall. Then sudden death threats against Sinclair fuel a new frenzy of accusations and political maneuvering, and Rinaldi begins to make connections. Soon, what he knows—or thinks he knows—will pull him toward a shocking and possibly lethal confrontation.Vengeance is Mine (Texas Red River Mysteries)
Par Reavis Z. Wortham. 2014
"Fast pacing, a strong sense of place, and plenty of publishing-business details combine with a likable although flawed main character…
to produce an engrossing read."—BooklistThe phone rings in the middle of the night. Publisher Guy Mallon's book warehouse has burned to the ground. In the ashes there is a burned body. Carol Murphy, Guy's lover and business manager, fed up with the failing operation, has already split. But why is her car spotted parked nearby?It all began when retired businessman Fritz Marburger tempted Guy with a proposition: publish celebrity jazz singer Sweet Lorraine Evans' novel, which he will underwrite. It's the first step in a Faustian bargain that finds Guy sniffing increasingly noxious fumes as the crass Marburger rents Guy's warehouse space and saddles him with an amoral co-tenant: pornographer-turned-vanity publisher Roger Herndon. Supported by two Santa Barbara poets with strong backs and by two strippers who form the core of Roger's stable of porn stars and production assistants, Guy first tries to make a go of the new venture. But after the murder, he knows he must bring Roger down to reclaim his own soul.Skeleton Picnic: A J.D. Books Mystery (J. D. Books Ser. #2)
Par Michael Norman. 2012
Why are sheep in the remote Egyptian village of Mehenopolis cutting their own throats? That's the mystery Emperor Justinian inexplicably…
sends John, his Lord Chamberlain, to Egypt to solve. Mehenopolis is a pilgrim destination, thanks to its ancient shrine to a snake deity.Among the characters John encounters are a pretentious local landowner battling a self-styled magician for control of the lucrative shrine, an exiled heretical cleric, an itinerant beekeeper, and a disgraced charioteer. Will John uncover what is really happening to these sheep? Are these slayings somehow linked to the murder charge of which John has frantically tried to clear himself?I delitti dell'alfabeto
Par Esteban Navarro Soriano. 2024
Una strana serie di omicidi tiene sotto scacco la polizia spagnola. L’assassino sembra ammazzare le sue vittime ispirandosi al racconto del Marchese de Sade,…
Justine: si tratta sempre di una coppia di ragazze i cui nomi hanno la stessa iniziale. Lo scalpore mediatico cresce sempre più e l’indagine sembra essere giunta a un vicolo cieco, almeno fino a quando l’ispettrice Arancha Arenzana e la giovane ambiziosa agente Diana Dávila non prendono in mano il caso. Insieme cercheranno di catturare il colpevole per evitare che commetta altri omicidi, mettendo però in pericolo la loro stessa vita.Final Payment: A Posadas County Mystery (Posadas County Mysteries #0)
Par Steven F. Havill. 2011
The rugged Cat Mesa country north of the village of Posadas is hosting the first annual Posadas 100, a cycle-cross…
bicycle race that promises to attract more than 140 competitors. Despite enough injuries during the pre-race practice to promise a spectacular and dangerous race, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman has even more pressing concerns on her mind. Someone has been using Jerry Turner's big Cessna 206 and then returning it to its hangar at the Posadas airport. Did the airplane end up in Mexico?Estelle has worries at home as well. Facing his first public piano recital, her prodigiously talented seven-year-old son is stubbornly refusing to tell anyone what he plans to play, and it's making everyone, including his music teacher, very nervous. The day of the big race brings a tragedy that doesn't look like an accident, and as the investigation continues, puzzling connections surface deep in Mexico.You Know Her: A Novel
Par Meagan Jennett. 2023
“This book will be the talk of the genre. If you read one thriller this year, read this one.” —Chelsea…
Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Heartsick Killing Eve meets Sharp Objects in this lush,savage Southern gothic thriller about twowomen: a fledgling murderer and the cophell-bent on catching her.Two hours before he vanished, Mark Dixon stole a glass of wine. That’s what bartender Sophie Braam tells the cops when they question her about the customer whose mutilated body has just been found. What she doesn’t tell them is that she’s the one who killed him. Officer Nora Martin is new to the Bellair Police Department and is trying very hard to learn the ropes from Detective Murphy while ignoring all her male colleagues griping about a diversity hire. When she meets Sophie, they build an uneasy camaraderie over shared frustrations. As winter slides into spring and bodies start piling up, Nora begins to suspect that something’s not quite right with the unnerving, enigmatic bartender. But will she be able to convince Murph, or will he keep laughing off the idea that the serial killer haunting their little town is a woman? A crackling cat-and-mouse thriller set against the verdant backdrop of small-town Virginia, Meagan Jennett’s You Know Her probes the boundaries of female friendship and the deadly consequences of frustration fermenting into rage.Cold Murder in Kolton Lake (The Lynleys of Law Enforcement #4)
Par R. Barri Flowers. 2024
A cold case investigation Leads to red-hot danger Reviewing a murder from twenty years ago, FBI Special Agent Scott Lynley…
needs the last person to see the victim alive. Still haunted by her aunt&’s death, FBI Victim Specialist Abby Zhang is eager to help. Yet even two decades later, someone is keeping clues hidden, putting Abby in the cross fire of the Kolton Lake killer. Scott&’s mission is to solve the case but Abby's quickly becoming his first—and only—priority.From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.Discover more action-packed stories in The Lynleys of Law Enforcement series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Special Agent WitnessBook 2: Christmas Lights KillerBook 3: Murder in the Blue Ridge MountainsBook 4: Cold Murder in Kolton LakeBook 5: Campus KillerBook 6: Mississippi ManhuntLes mystérieuses lettres
Par D. S. Pais. 2024
Résumé Dans la paisible ville de Nashville, dans le Tennessee, la confusion s'installe et la ville devient célèbre pour toute…
la terreur générée par les diverses lettres qui perturbent la sérénité des habitants de la ville. Les lettres sont provocantes et traitent de sujets sensibles, parlent de culpabilité, de liaisons et de toutes sortes de discours susceptibles de détruire une personne. Personne ne sait qui a écrit ces lettres ni dans quel but.Stranger Room (Ike Schwartz Series #4)
Par Frederick Ramsay. 2008
"Ramsay skillfully weaves historical fact into his story, all the while blending brisk action with excellent characterization." —Publishers WeeklyElderly Jonathan…
Lydell III is proud of his lineage. He is related to the Virginia Lees and to the Custis family. For Lydell, family, status, and history are the only realities—that and his antebellum house.Lydell's house has a very colorful history, and Lydell is committed to restoring it to its pre-Civil War configuration, complete with a "stranger room." In the 1800s, many family homes sported these attached rooms with separate entrances and locks that were kept ready for unknown travelers. The intent was to protect the family from unsavory guests.Nearly 150 years ago, an inexplicable murder took place inside the Lydell's locked stranger room. The murderer was never caught. Lydell thinks this brutal history adds to the house's rich character. But when an identical murder is committed in the newly restored stranger room, even Sheriff Ike Schwartz and FBI agent Karl Hedrick can't explain it....Three heart-pounding crime thrillers in one volume from the author of The Accident. The Shape of Truth When Anna learns…
that her biological father is a member of Parliament who assaulted her mother—and was never held accountable—she&’s devastated. She&’s determined to bring him to justice. But exposing the truth may bring tragic results . . .The Charcoal House Emma&’s new husband is isolating her from her friends and parents. He takes her paycheck, gaslights her, and forbids her to paint. She manages to complete one picture—of a depressing charcoal house. As shocking revelations about his past emerge, the police and Emma&’s loved ones try to free her from a monster&’s clutches—but is it already too late to save her?The Dead Husband At the police station, a woman reports that her husband has disappeared, and soon afterward a body is found. It looks like a hit-and-run case, an accident. But the body is not the missing man&’s—and the death was not an accident. Now DI Samantha Freeman must figure out what happened—and to whom . . .Cursed at Dawn: A Romantic Mystery (The Blackbird Trilogy #3)
Par Heather Graham. 2023
A paranormal mystery spin-off of the Krewe of Hunters series by bestselling author Heather Graham.When serial killers run rampant across…
Europe it&’s up to Blackbird, the Krewe of Hunters&’ international operatives, to stop them.Dracula lives—and he&’s hunting for his bride.Vampires may not walk among us, but FBI agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter know real monsters exist. They&’ve witnessed firsthand the worst humankind has to offer. They&’re still catching their breaths after the apprehension of two such monstrous killers when they&’re met with horrific news: Stephan Dante, the self-proclaimed king of the vampires, has escaped from prison, followed only by a trail of blood.All too familiar with Dante&’s cruelty, Della and Mason know the clock is ticking. But as Dante claims more victims, a chilling message arrives. The vampire killer seeks his eternal bride—Della herself. Playing into Dante&’s desires might be the only way to stop the carnage once and for all, assuming they can outwit him. Della is confident the agents have the upper hand, but Mason knows every gamble runs the risk of not paying off, and this time, the consequences could be deadly.The Blackbird TrilogyBook 1: Whispers at DuskBook 2: Secrets in the DarkBook 3: Cursed at Dawn