The White Lioness: A Kurt Wallander Mystery (3) by Henning Mankell

By Henning Mankell

3rd within the Kurt Wallander series.The execution-style homicide of a Swedish housewife appears like an easy case even if there isn't any seen suspect. yet then Wallander learns of a made up our minds stalker, and shortly adequate, the law enforcement officials meet up with him. but if his alibi seems to be hermetic, they detect that what appeared an easy crime of ardour is really way more complex—and harmful. the hunt for the reality at the back of the killing ultimately uncovers an assassination plot, and Wallander quickly unearths himself in a tangle with either the key police and a ruthless overseas agent. Combining compelling insights into the sinister part of contemporary lifestyles with a riveting story of foreign intrigue, The White Lioness retains you at the knife-edge of suspense.

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CSI: Cold Burn by Max Allan Collins

By Max Allan Collins

Distant. peaceable. Picturesque. that is how the Mumford Mountain resort accounts itself in its brochure, and it lives as much as its billing -- more often than not. yet this 12 months, the resort is web hosting a prestigious convention for the research of forensic technological know-how, and the organizers have prolonged CSI head Gil Grissom a call for participation he cannot refuse. Joined through fellow investigator Sara Sidle, Grissom leaves the dep. within the able palms of Catherine Willows and heads east. yet he and Sara quickly locate themselves in all too favourite territory -- and again in Las Vegas, Catherine, Warrick Brown, and Nick Stokes have exposed hassle in their personal.

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Chiefs: A Novel (25th Anniversary Edition) by Stuart Woods

By Stuart Woods

The compelling mystery that introduced the profession of best-selling novelist Stuart Woods in an anniversary hardcover edition.

within the sour iciness of 1920, the 1st physique is located in Delano, Georgia; the bare corpse of an unidentified teen. there is not any direct facts of homicide, however the physique bears marks of what appears a ritual beating. The research falls to Will Henry Lee, a failed cotton farmer newly appointed as Delano's first leader of police. Lee's obsession with the crime starts a narrative that weaves during the many years, following the lifetime of a small southern city and the function of 3 police chiefs in unraveling the crime. Chiefs is the simplest form of mystery, the place the research performs out opposed to the drama underneath the skin of a doubtless placid neighborhood, seething with the pressures of race, love, hate, and; regularly; political energy, extending from town fathers the entire solution to Washington, DC. With a brand new foreword by way of the writer, this quantity should be a collector's treasure for all lovers of Stuart Woods.

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A Sea of Troubles (Commissario Brunetti, Book 10) by Donna Leon

By Donna Leon

The homicide of 2 clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido at the Venetian lagoon, attracts Commissario Brunetti into the close-knit group of the island, certain jointly by way of a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders necessary of the Mafia. whilst the boss's secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to go to the island, the place she has kinfolk, Brunetti unearths himself torn among his accountability to resolve the murders, issues for Elettra's security, and his now not fullyyt trouble-free emotions for her ...

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My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni

By Robert Dugoni

Tracy Crosswhite has spent two decades wondering the evidence surrounding her sister Sarah’s disappearance and the homicide trial that undefined. She doesn’t think that Edmund House—a convicted rapist and the guy condemned for Sarah’s murder—is the accountable celebration. stimulated through the chance to procure genuine justice, Tracy grew to become a murder detective with the Seattle PD and devoted her lifestyles to monitoring down killers.

When Sarah’s continues to be are eventually came upon close to their homeland within the northern Cascade mountains of Washington kingdom, Tracy is set to get the solutions she’s been looking. As she searches for the genuine killer, she reveals darkish, long-kept secrets and techniques that might perpetually switch her courting to her past—and open the door to lethal possibility.

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Maigret in Holland (Maigret Mystery Series) by Georges Simenon

By Georges Simenon

On his newest case, Maigret unearths himself within the city of Delfzijl investigating the homicide of a instructor. he's offered with clues-a sailor's cap within the bath and a Manila cigar butt-and a group of suspects, together with a flirtatious farmer's daughter, an offended attorney, a larcenous send proprietor, an unaccountably anxious cadet, and a pompous criminologist with a revolver. The Inspector, in flip, is preoccupied with a suspicious pathway lit by means of a lighthouse beam, which leads him to wonder whether this is often the type of spot the place mystery enthusiasts could be discovered...Maigret is a registered trademark of the property of Georges Simenon.

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Firewall: A Kurt Wallander Mystery (8) by Henning Mankell

By Henning Mankell

7th within the Kurt Wallander series.A physique is located at an ATM the plain sufferer of middle assault. Then teenage women are arrested for the brutal homicide of a cab motive force. the ladies confess to the crime displaying no regret whatever. open and close instances. initially those incidents appear to have not anything in universal, yet as Wallander delves deeper into the secret of why the ladies murdered the cab driving force he starts to solve a plot even more concerned complex than he first and foremost suspected. the 2 situations develop into one and result in conspiracy that stretches to surround a global greater than the borders of Sweden.

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