Detective and mystery fiction

  • Three-edged sword

    Creator

    Lindsay, Jeff

    Abstract

    Wickedly funny. Wildly twisty. The new book from the master of the heist novel. “A super-thief who leaves no trace.” —Andy Garcia “An anti-hero for our times.” —Sarah Dunn “A can't-miss master.” —David Baldacci Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of disguise, can scale a wall, and can vanish into thin air (thick air, too). He uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it’s the most powerful who have him in their grips. ONE MADMAN. TWO HOSTAGES.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Non spécifié
  • Miss Aldridge regrets : Canary Club mystery, book 1

    Creator

    Hare, Louise

    Abstract

    The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for. London, 1936. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn't worked out. Instead, she's stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho, and her married lover has just left her. But Lena has always had a complicated life, one shrouded in mystery as a mixed-race girl passing for white in a city unforgiving of her true racial heritage.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Non spécifié
  • A death in door county : Monster hunter mystery, book 1

    Creator

    Ryan, Annelise

    Abstract

    A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first installment of a new mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan. Morgan Carter, owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore in Door County, Wisconsin, has a hobby. When she’s not tending the store, she’s hunting cryptids—creatures whose existence is rumored, but never proven to be real. It’s a hobby that cost her parents their lives, but one she’ll never give up on.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Non spécifié
  • Because I could not stop for death : An Emily Dickinson mystery, book 1

    Creator

    Flower, Amanda

    Abstract

    Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in this first book in an all-new series from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award–winning author Amanda Flower. January 1855 Willa Noble knew it was bad luck when it was pouring rain on the day of her ever-important job interview at the Dickinson home in Amherst, Massachusetts. When she arrived late, disheveled with her skirts sodden and filthy, she'd lost all hope of being hired for the position.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Non spécifié
  • Small spaces

    Creator

    Arden, Katherine

    Abstract

    New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic. After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think—she just acts, stealing the book and running away.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Listening Library

    Non spécifié
  • Nothing more to tell

    Creator

    McManus, Karen M.

    Abstract

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying comes a new page-turning mystery. Be sure to keep your friends close . . . and your secrets closer.Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher--a story that made headlines after the teacher's body was found by three Saint Ambrose students in the woods behind their school. The case was never solved. Now that Brynn is moving home and starting her dream internship at a true-crime show, she's determined to find out what really happened. The kids who found Mr.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Listening Library

    Non spécifié
  • Mysteries according to Humphrey

    Creator

    Birney, Betty G.

    Abstract

    EEK-EEK-EEK! Mrs. Brisbane is missing! Humphrey has always investigated things, like why Speak-Up-Sayeh was so quiet and Tall-Paul and Small-Paul didn't get along, but this is a true mystery--Mrs. Brisbane is missing! She just didn't show up in Room 26 one morning and no one told Humphrey why. The class has a substitute teacher, called Mr. E., but he's no Mrs. Brisbane. Humphrey has just learned about Sherlock Holmes, so he vows to be just as SMART-SMART-SMART about collecting clues and following leads to solve the mystery of Mrs.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Listening Library

    Non spécifié
  • All the Greys on Greene Street

    Creator

    Tucker, Laura

    Abstract

    "A dazzling debut novel about resilience, courage, home and family."--Rebecca Stead, Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach MeSoHo, 1981. Twelve-year-old Olympia is an artist--and in her neighborhood, that's normal. Her dad and his business partner Apollo bring antique paintings back to life, while her mother makes intricate sculptures in a corner of their loft, leaving Ollie to roam the streets of New York with her best friends Richard and Alex, drawing everything that catches her eye. Then everything falls apart.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Listening Library

    Non spécifié
  • The deadline clock

    Creator

    Deaver, Jeffery

    Abstract

    Reward seeker Colter Shaw faces a ticking clock with murderous consequences in this riveting short story.A serial kidnapper is on the loose in a small town in Maine, targeting wealthy women and demanding a huge ransom in bitcoin for their safe return. When his latest victim's husband claims that he can't come up with the money, the word "deadline" takes on a disturbingly literal meaning. The local police are out of their depth, but Colter Shaw takes the lead in the investigation.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Books on Tape

    Non spécifié
  • Stagecoach revenge

    Creator

    Pulliam, D. B.

    Abstract

    Revenge is a rocky road in this nonstop adventure in Ralph Compton's bestselling Gunfighter seriesJasper Duncan's stagecoach is the fastest one in California; at least that's what he tells folks looking for a ride between the Stanislaus mines and Sonora. But he needs a windfall of cash to stay in business, and he needs to stay in business to continue his hunt for the outlaw Alec Casey, who murdered Jasper's father. He's learned Casey has a base of operations in the Stanislaus woods and he's determined to find it.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Ashland

    Blackstone Publishing

    Non spécifié