Detective and mystery fiction

  • Rue Sans-Souci

    Creator

    Nesbø, Jo.

    Abstract

    Rue Sans-Souci... Drôle d'adresse, lorsqu'on est flic, pour trouver dans un appartement d'Oslo le cadavre de la femme avec laquelle on vient de passer la nuit. Surtout si on ne se rappelle rien... Conscient qu'il pourrait devenir le principal suspect, Harry Hole décide d'enquêter secrètement, même s'il est officiellement chargé d'une autre affaire : un hold-up qui a mal tourné lorsque le braqueur a abattu une employée pourtant obéissante. Ses collègues évoquent un simple dérapage, mais Hole conclut à un meurtre.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [S.l.]

    Editions Gallimard

    Not specified
  • Rock with wings : a Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito novel

    Creator

    Hillerman, Anne

    Abstract

    Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases in this exciting Southwestern mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Spider Woman's Daughter. Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation and separate them--one near Shiprock, and the other at iconic Monument Valley.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    HarperAudio

    Not specified
  • "R" is for ricochet : Kinsey Millhone, book 18

    Creator

    Grafton, Sue

    Abstract

    Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but he wasn't there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institute for Women. Now, at thirty-two, she is about to be paroled, having served twenty-two months of a four-year sentence. Nord Lafferty wants to be sure she stays straight, stays at home and away from the drugs, the booze, and the gamblers.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Santa Ana, Calif.]

    Books on Tape

    Not specified
  • Quick & dirty

    Creator

    Woods, Stuart

    Abstract

    Stone Barrington gets entangled in the intricate and rarefied art business in the latest thriller by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods. When a slam-bang of a crime brings a beautiful new client into Stone Barrington's office, little does he know his association with her will pull him into a far more serpentine mystery in the exclusive world of art. It's a business where a rare find could make a career--and a collection--and mistakes in judgment are costly.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Not specified
  • Queen Sugar

    Creator

    Baszile, Natalie

    Abstract

    A mother-daughter story of reinvention-about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los Angeles.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Pamela Dorman Books/Viking

    Not specified
  • "Q" is for quarry : Kinsey Millhone, book 17

    Creator

    Grafton, Sue

    Abstract

    It is an eighteen-year-old cold case, and Kinsey Millhone is intrigued. The victim was a Jane Doe, an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was found near a quarry off California's Highway 1. Her wounds were brutal -- she was multiply stabbed and her throat cut, her wrists bound with a length of wire. But the Santa Teresa County detectives had little to go on, and abandoned the case after a few months. Now, old and ill, they want Kinsey Millhone to identify her, just to bring closure to the case and rest to their minds.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Books on Tape

    Not specified
  • Proven guilty

    Creator

    Butcher, Jim.

    Abstract

    There's no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined. But war with the vampires has thinned their ranks, so the Council has drafted Harry as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in the Windy City. As Harry adjusts to his new role, another problem arrives in the form of the tattooed and pierced daughter of an old friend, all grown-up and already in trouble.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, Md.

    Recorded Books

    Not specified
  • Proof

    Creator

    Francis, Dick

    Abstract

    A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Dick Francis' pacey thriller starring Nigel Havers. At the annual party celebrating the success of the racing season, everything is running well to form -- until a runaway horsebox ploughs into the marquee, causing terrible death and destruction. A witness to the tragedy, wine merchant Tony Beach presumes it is just one of those awful accidents. But as he gets involved in the investigation and begins to make connections, events take a more sinister turn.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Bath, England]

    BBC Audiobooks

    Not specified
  • Pretty as a picture

    Creator

    Little, Elizabeth

    Abstract

    A CrimeReads Most Anticipated Book of 2020. An egomaniacal movie director, an isolated island, and a decades-old murder'the addictive new novel from the bestselling author of Dear Daughter Marissa Dahl, a shy but successful film editor, travels to a small island off the coast of Delaware to work with the legendary'and legendarily demanding'director Tony Rees on a feature film with a familiar logline. Some girl dies. It's not much to go on, but the specifics don't concern Marissa. Whatever the script is, her job is the same.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Books on Tape

    Not specified
  • Pretty guilty women

    Creator

    LaManna, Gina

    Abstract

    Four Women. Four Confessions. One Murder. Something has gone terribly wrong at the Banks wedding. A man is dead. Four different women rush to offer confessions, each insisting that they committed the crime - alone. Ginger is holding her family together by a thread, and this wedding weekend is not the fabulous getaway she anticipated. Kate has enough money to buy her way out of anything. Well, almost anything. Emily can't shake her reputation or her memories, and she's planning to drown this whole vacation in a bottle.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, Md.

    Recorded Books

    Not specified