New Mystery & Detective Books
New arrivals added to our Mystery & Detective Collection in the last 7 days
| Title |
Date added |
|
|---|---|---|
| Aunt Dimity and the lost prince by Atherton, Nancy. |
When a silver sleigh recently stolen from a local museum turns up in her thrift shop, paranormal sleuth Lori Shepherd is surprised by the curator's lack of interest in the theft, a situation that prompts Lori to turn to Aunt Dimity for otherworldly advice on how to track down the sleigh's true owner. |
May 17, 2013 |
| Encounters of Sherlock Holmes - brand-new tales lof the great detective by |
|
May 19, 2013 |
| Death plays poker - a Clare Vengel undercover novel by Spano, Robin |
"World class poker players are being strangled in their hotel rooms, and undercover cop Clare is given her second big assignment: to pose as a poker player in a major televised tournament, befriend the suspects, and find the killer in their midst."--P. [4] of jacket. |
May 19, 2013 |
| Free fall by Grabenstein, Chris. |
"It's the start of another action-packed summer for the wise-cracking Boyle and straight-arrow cop (now Chief of Detectives) John Ceepak down the Jersey Shore as they do their best to help Danny's friend, an attractive young nurse, who claims she has been falsely accused of aggravated assault by a prestigious Sea Haven resident. Ceepak's unshakable code of honor is tested when he trusts that the nurse is telling the truth. It's stretched to the limit when one of the nurse's home health care pati |
May 19, 2013 |
| The stranger by LaÌckberg, Camilla, 1974- author. |
Detective Patrik Hedstro¨m tackles his toughest investigation yet when a string of suspicious deaths points to a potential serial killer who has turned his eye toward Fjallbacka and her dark forests, where two children vanished decades before. |
May 19, 2013 |
| The poisoned pawn by Blair, Peggy J. (Peggy Janice), 1955- |
|
May 19, 2013 |
| The Unfinished Crime / the Girl Who Had to Die by Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay/ Ardron, Judith Rose (INT)/ Shepard, Gregory (INT) |
|
May 20, 2013 |
| As she left it - a novel by McPherson, Catriona, 1965- |
|
May 20, 2013 |
| Cold Killing by Delaney, Luke |
|
May 21, 2013 |
| The disappearances of Madalena Grimaldi - a Claudia Valentine mystery by Day, Marele. |
In Sydney, Australia, PI Claudia Valentine combs the world of runaway youth to find a missing daughter for a client. By the author of The Last Tango of Dolores Delgado. |
May 22, 2013 |
| A dance at the slaughterhouse - a Matthew Scudder crime novel by Block, Lawrence. |
Private investigator Matthew Scudder searches for the missing link between two horrific crimes -- the rape-murder of wealthy Amanda Thurman and a snuff film involving a young homeless boy. |
May 22, 2013 |
| "O" is for outlaw by Grafton, Sue. |
Kinsey Millhone of California discovers an undelivered letter exonerating her first husband of beating a man to death, for which she left him. Kinsey goes after the real killer, a probe that takes her back to Vietnam War days. |
May 22, 2013 |
| Fangs out by Freed, David, 1954- |
|
May 22, 2013 |
| The drowned man - a Peter Cammon mystery by Whellams, David, 1948- |
Retired Chief Inspector Peter Cammon travels to Canada to retrieve the body of a murdered Scotland Yard colleague who was brutally attacked, run over by a car, and then dumped into a canal -- all seemingly for the theft of three letters from the American Civil War era, one of which is signed by John Wilkes Booth. Meanwhile, Alice Nahri, the girlfriend of the dead man, looms over the investigation. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Death of a hollow man by Graham, Caroline, 1931- |
|
May 23, 2013 |
| The dead caller from Chicago by Fredrickson, Jack. |
|
May 23, 2013 |
| The whisper of legends by Fradkin, Barbara Fraser, 1947- |
When his teenage daughter goes missing on a summer wilderness canoe trip to the Nahanni River, Inspector Michael Green is forced into unfamiliar territory. Unable to mobilize the local RCMP, he enlists the help of his long-time friend, Staff Sergeant Brian Sullivan, to accompany him to the Northwest Territories to look for themselves. Green is terrified. The park has thirty thousand square kilometres of wilderness and six hundred grizzlies. Even worse, Green soon discovers his daughter lied |
May 23, 2013 |
| Pecos Valley rainbow by Duncan, Alice, 1945- |
|
May 23, 2013 |
| Til death do us part - a Constable Thomas Potts mystery by Fraser, Sara. |
Lonely spinster Phoebe Creswell responds to an advertisement in the Worcester Herald,but are the outwardly charming Major Christophe de Langlois and his companion, the Reverend Geraint Winward, really who and what they seem? Distracted by his own new bride and a spate of dog thefts, will Constable Thomas Potts be able to uncover the truth about the Rev Winward and Major de Langlois in time to save Phoebe from a gruesome fate?--publisher. |
May 23, 2013 |
| Let it burn - an Alex McKnight novel by Hamilton, Steve, 1961- |
|
May 23, 2013 |