Detective and mystery fiction

  • All the colors of the dark

    Creator

    Whitaker, Chris

    Abstract

    New York Times Bestseller • From the author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that “hits like a sledgehammer . . . an absolutely must-read novel” (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl). Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today. The Boston Globe’s #1 Thriller/Mystery of 2024 So Far. A Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews. “Kept me frantically turning the pages and somehow made me cry at the end . . . Brava!”—Kristin Hannah, author of The Women.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Crown

    Non spécifié
  • The perfect couple : Nantucket, book 3

    Creator

    Hilderbrand, Elin

    Abstract

    Now a Netflix limited series, from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand, comes a novel about the many ways family can fill our lives with love...if they don't kill us first. New York Times bestseller. It's Nantucket wedding season, also known as summer—the sight of a bride racing down Main Street is as common as the sun setting at Madaket Beach. The Otis-Winbury wedding promises to be an event to remember: the groom's wealthy parents have spared no expense to host a lavish ceremony at their oceanfront estate.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Little, Brown and Company

    Non spécifié
  • From sweetgrass bridge

    Creator

    Bidulka, Anthony

    Abstract

    A nation holds its breath.On a perfect prairie summer evening, Saskatchewan Roughrider Dustin Thomson goes missing. As the Green & White's first primary quarterback born in the province and first Indigenous quarterback, Thomson is beloved and celebrated. Mistrusting the police investigation, the family hires Merry Bell P.I. to find the football star.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Edmonton, Alberta]

    Stonehouse Publishing

    Non spécifié
  • Secrets in the water

    Creator

    Fitzpatrick, Alice

    Abstract

    Emma Galway's suicide has haunted the Meredith Island for fifty years. Back on the island to lay her grandmother to rest, Kate can't avoid reflecting on the death of her aunt. Learning that her late mother had believed Emma was murdered and had conducted her own investigation, she decides to track down her aunt's killer. With the help of her neighbour, impetuous and hedonistic sculptor Siobhan Fitzgerald, Kate picks up where her mother had left off.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Edmonton, Alberta]

    Stonehouse Publishing

    Non spécifié
  • Sunset Lake Resort

    Creator

    Jackson, Joanne

    Abstract

    When Ruby's father passes away, but fails to leave her the millions some expected, Steve, her husband of 35 years, moves out. Alone, but in control of her own affairs for the first time in her life, Ruby is torn between panic and relief. When she investigates the remote beach cabin her father had left her instead of his estate, she discovers a dilapidated beach resort in a remote location, seemingly untouched since its former owner, Cecelia Johansen, died under mysterious circumstances.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Edmonton, Alberta]

    Stonehouse Publishing

    Non spécifié
  • A killer whisky

    Creator

    Calder, Susan

    Abstract

    The 1918 influenza pandemic strikes Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Great War rages overseas. While her husband fights in Europe, Katharine works in a doctor's office to support her children and her brother, a wounded veteran. One night their neighbour suddenly takes sick and dies. The attending doctor concludes the man died from influenza, but Katharine suspects someone laced his whisky with a drug that mimics the deadly flu's symptoms.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Calgary, Alberta]

    BWL Publishing Inc.

    Non spécifié
  • Line of sight

    Creator

    Wright, Paul

    Abstract

    It is 1995, and intelligence operative Lora Chandler, a.k.a. Agent Vogel, is tasked with investigating the claim that Professor Simon Blackmarr has cracked the invisibility problem. A mission that leads her back to the half-forgotten beach town of Lancaster, Florida. Home to estranged love interest, and newspaper reporter Richard Davis. Her feelings for him have never really died, and matters become even more complicated when Vogel learns that Blackmarr's breakthrough is legitimate. A scientific discovery that - in the wrong hands - could alter the balance of global power.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Calgary, Alberta]

    BWL Publishing Inc.

    Non spécifié
  • The Halifax incident

    Creator

    Doucette, H. Paul

    Abstract

    It is 1959 and the Canadian Navy is at the forefront in the area of anti-submarine warfare systems research and development. The RCMP has received information from the FBI in the States, warning of a possible Soviet plan to send agents to the port city to steal whatever they can get. The security in Halifax is run almost entirely by the navy. The RCMP decides to send their own man down to assess the effectiveness of their system and to try and root out the Soviet agents along with exposing any contacts within the service that may be cooperating or otherwise, assisting them.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Calgary, Alberta]

    BWL Publishing Inc.

    Non spécifié
  • Gone by midnight : Crimson Lake, book 3

    Creator

    Fox, Candice

    Abstract

    #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Candice Fox delivers a compulsive new crime thriller with Gone by Midnight . Crimson Lake is where people with dark pasts come to disappear - and where others vanish into thin air... When Sara Farrow's son goes missing from a locked hotel room, she frantically turns for help to Crimson Lake's unlikeliest private investigators - disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Forge Books

    Non spécifié
  • The missing : Seasons of Grace, book 2

    Creator

    Lewis, Beverly

    Abstract

    In Beverly Lewis' enthralling sequel to her New York Times best-selling novel The Secret, two young ladies-one Amish, the other English-join forces to solve the mystery of a mother gone missing and a disease gone wild. Will these hurting souls find what they seek-or will they discover much more? "The reigning queen of Amish fiction. has penned another touching novel with well-drawn characters and a compelling plot." -Library Journal, starred review

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick

    Recorded Books Inc.

    Non spécifié