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Jack 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. 2004Caïn et Abel: le premier crime : roman
Par Max Gallo. 2011
" C'est dans l'île grecque de Patmos, au fond d'une grotte, que l'apôtre Jean a dicté à son disciple le…
texte de l'Apocalypse. Chaque été, Paul Déméter, titulaire de la chaire d'histoire du christianisme au Collège de France, réunit là six étudiants et un vieux philosophe, Louis Veraghen. Il fréquente la bibliothèque du monastère voisin. Un jour, on y découvre son cadavre, la gorge tranchée. Le commissaire principal Di Pasquale est envoyé de Paris pour conduire l'enquête au côté du policier grec Vassilikos. Toute mort violente est une sorte d'apocalypse. Avec ce crime, c'est à la fois le mystère de la mort et le sens de la vie qu'on affronte. Di Pasquale découvre des textes de Déméter rassemblés sous le titre Apocalypse et Espérance. L'enquête le transforme comme elle transforme chacun des personnages. Le commissaire français se confie, va du texte de l'Apocalypse de saint Jean à ceux de Déméter..." -- 4e de couvMurder 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. 2004In the moon of red ponies: A Novel (Billy Bob Holland Ser.)
Par James Lee Burke. 2004
Former Texas ranger Billy Bob Holland from Bitterroot (BR 13715, DBC11957), now a Montana attorney, defends a Native American political…
activist accused of murder. Holland, investigating, must also protect his own family when his wife's psychopathic attacker is released from prison. Some explicit descriptions of sex, strong language and violenceSuspect
Par Michael Robotham. 2005
Fortyish London psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin, recently diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, stands accused of murdering former troubled patient Catherine McBride. As…
detective inspector Vincent Ruiz develops a case and his marriage and health deteriorate, O'Loughlin begins his own investigation. Strong language and some violence. 2005The mighty johns: 1 novella & 13 superstar short stories from the finest in mystery & suspense
Par David Baldacci. 2002
In David Baldacci's "The Mighty Johns," college football star Tor North tackles a forty-year-old mystery--the disappearance of an All American…
tailback during a game. The novella kicks off this sports fiction anthology that also features works by Lawrence Block, Dennis Lehane, Brad Meltzer, and others. Strong language. 2002