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The lion's game (A john Corey Novel Ser. #2)
Par Nelson DeMille. 2000
New York. Former NYPD homicide detective John Corey and his FBI mentor Kate Mayfield are at the airport to meet…
a Libyan terrorist nicknamed "the lion." But the aircraft lands with all passengers dead and the lion missing. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2000Breaking up is hard to do (Sam Mccain Mystery Ser. #Bk. 6)
Par Edward Gorman. 2004
Black River Falls, Iowa; 1962. Attorney Sam McCain investigates the murder of Karen Hastings, a prostitute found dead in a…
bomb shelter. The trail leads to four prominent citizens. Meanwhile two of McCain's former love interests are divorcing their husbands. Some violence and some strong language. 2004The damascened blade (Detective Joe Sandilands Ser.)
Par Barbara Cleverly. 2004
India-Afghanistan border, 1922. Detective Joe Sandilands from Ragtime in Simla (BR 15080) chaperones a feisty American heiress at a British…
fort amid political tension. Kinsmen of an assassinated Afghani take a hostage, demanding that Sandilands find and execute the killer within a week. Strong language and some violence. 2003Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders
Par John Mortimer. 2004
Shocked that his colleagues never heard of the case that launched his career, British barrister Rumpole puts it to pen.…
Rumpole interceded when a son convicted of murdering his father, a decorated war hero, headed to the gallows. Rumpole also met his future wife and the infamous Timson family. 2004Jack in the pulpit (Martha's Vineyard Mystery Ser. #4)
Par Cynthia Riggs. 2004
Ninety-two-year-old Victoria Trumbull is well prepared to be the deputy police chief: she knows everyone in town and their ancestry.…
When four local residents die in one month, Turnbull investigates, uncovering the secrets of missing corpses and gravestones in the process. Some strong language. 2004The cat who went bananas
Par Lilian Jackson Braun. 2004
Pickax City eagerly awaits the theatre club's opening of a play in which Alden Wade, a newcomer in town, is…
the lead actor. But when a cast member is killed and Siamese cat Koko acts like he's lost his mind, local columnist Jim Qwilleran investigates Wade's past. Bestseller. 2004Murder is no mitzvah: Short Mysteries About Jewish Occasions
Par Abigail Browning. 2004
Short mysteries set against a background of Jewish culture and tradition and published between 1967 and 2000. Includes Doug Allyn's…
"The Christmas Mitzvah," Max Allan Collins's "Kaddish for the Kid," and Michael Kahn's "Bread of Affliction," in which a lawyer struggles to keep a Holocaust survivor's fortune from neo-Nazis. 2004A Christmas visitor
Par Anne Perry. 2004
Henry Rathbone from the William Monk series is summoned to the Lake District during the Christmas holidays to support his…
goddaughter Antonia when her husband, Judah Dreghorn, dies accidentally. Rathbone discovers that the incident may have been intentional. 2004Murder at Union Station (Capital Crimes Ser. #Vol. 20)
Par Margaret Truman. 2004
Washington, D.C. The subject of Richard Marienthal's latest book, mobster-turned-informant Louis Russo, is murdered at the train station before he…
can testify for the government. Marienthal realizes that material in his manuscript threatens to expose secrets in high places and endanger his fiancée and himself. Some strong language. 2004The girl with the long back (Harpur And Iles Mysteries Ser.)
Par Bill James. 2004
Assistant chief constable Desmond Iles feels uneasy about hints of a new superintendent. The rumors upset a delicate balance between…
drug dealers and the police, leading to murder and revenge. Meanwhile detective Colin Harpur is attracted to one of his undercover agents. Violence and strong language. 2003The afterlife
Par Gary Soto. 2003
Chuy, a high school senior, is brutally murdered in a dance club's restroom. Haunting the halls of his alma mater,…
he learns new things about his friends and relatives--and falls in love. Some violence and some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. Americas Award commendation. 2003Absent friends
Par S. J Rozan. 2004
New York City. Fire captain James McCaffery died a hero on September 11, 2001. When journalist Harry Randall uncovers a…
link between McCaffery and organized crime, he winds up dead. Randall's lover, Laura Stone, digs into the fireman's past to learn the truth. Strong language. 2004The prince of Beverly Hills
Par Stuart Woods. 2004
Beverly Hills cop Rick Barron saves movie star Clete Barrow from unwanted publicity after a deadly traffic accident. This good…
deed lands Barron a security position at Barrow's studio. The cop squires around actors and starlets and soon gets involved with gangster Bugsy Siegel. Violence and strong language. 2004Clouds of witness (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Ser.)
Par Dorothy L Sayers. 1927
On holiday in France, Lord Peter Wimsey learns his brother, the Duke of Denver, is charged with murdering their sister's…
fiancé. Lord Peter returns to England and assumes the unpleasant duty of clearing his brother's name by painstakingly following every clue with humor and ingenuity. 1927Dying in the dark: a Tamara Hayle mystery
Par Valerie Wilson Wesley. 2004
Newark, New Jersey. PI Tamara Hayle is haunted by the spirit of her murdered high school best friend, Celia Jones.…
After Celia's son Cecil asks Tamara to solve the mystery of his mother's death, Tamara explores the secrets of Celia's troubled life. Then Cecil is brutally killed. Strong language. 2004The unfinished clue
Par Georgette Heyer. 2001
Wealthy general Sir Arthur Billington-Smith, giving a house party, is murdered in his study. Scotland Yard Inspector Harding finds prime…
suspects in hapless widow Fay; the butler; and a cabaret dancer, the victim's unsuitable future daughter-in-law. All have justification and means to kill the unlikable, verbally abusive host. 1934The alias man
Par Bill Pronzini. 2004
A complex drama of deception and fraud engulfs three attractive young women, who discover the common denominator in their lives:…
the man they love. As these victims jointly uncover the con man's deadly scheme, they must confront their individual fears. Some violence and some strong language. 2004Ghost riders: a novel (Ballad Ser. #No. 7)
Par Sharyn McCrumb. 2003
The Civil War reverberates throughout several interwoven storylines. In the 1860s, Malinda Blalock, disguised as a boy, accompanies her husband…
to war. Meanwhile, North Carolina congressman Zebulon Vance postpones politics to raise a militia. Decades later, battle reenactors encounter ghosts of Union and Confederate soldiers. Some violence. 2003Fall guy: a Rachel Alexander mystery
Par Carol Lea Benjamin. 2004
Private investigator/dog trainer Rachel Alexander is appointed executor of the estate of detective Timothy O'Fallon, whom she'd met only once…
during a post-terrorism pet-therapy session. As she settles his affairs, she soon begins to wonder about O'Fallon's supposedly accidental death. Strong language. 2004The danger zone and other stories (Crippen & Landru lost classics)
Par Erle Stanley Gardner, Bill Pronzini. 2004
Eleven previously uncollected tales by mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970), creator of lawyer-detective Perry Mason. The stories, most from…
the 1930s, feature such characters as unorthodox PI Snowy Shane, gentleman burglar George Brokay, and an ex-con who utilizes his "talents" for good. Introduction by Bill Pronzini. Some violence. 2004