Detective and mystery fiction

  • Game on : tempting twenty-eight : Stephanie Plum, book 28

    Creator

    Evanovich, Janet

    Abstract

    Stephanie Plum returns to hunt down a master cyber-criminal operating out of Trenton in the 28th book in the wildly popular series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. When Stephanie Plum is woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in her apartment, she wishes she didn't keep her gun in the cookie jar in her kitchen. And when she finds out the intruder is fellow apprehension agent Diesel, six feet of hard muscle and bad attitude who she hasn't seen in more than two years, she still thinks the gun might come in handy.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Simon & Schuster Audio

    Not specified
  • The bone code : Temperance Brennan, book 20

    Creator

    Reichs, Kathy

    Abstract

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations, fifteen years apart, of unidentified bodies washed up from the sea may be connected to a deadly new pestilence. A storm has hit South Carolina, dredging up crimes of the past. En route to Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan receives a call from the Charleston coroner. During the storm, a medical waste container has washed up on the beach.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Simon & Schuster

    Not specified
  • Three-fifths

    Creator

    Vercher, John

    Abstract

    Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he's never known and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two-year-old Bobby Saraceno is passing for white. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has hidden his truth from everyone, even his best friend and fellow comic-book geek, Aaron, who has just returned home from prison a hardened racist. Bobby's disparate worlds collide when his and Aaron's reunion is interrupted by a confrontation where Bobby witnesses Aaron assault a young black man with a brick.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Holland

    Dreamscape Media, LLC

    Not specified
  • The corpse flower : Kaldan and Schäfer, book 1

    Creator

    Hancock, Anne Mette

    Abstract

    Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare. One of her sources has been caught lying, and she could lose her job over it. Then she receives the first in a series of cryptic and unsettling letters from a woman named Anna Kiel. Wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a young lawyer three years earlier, Anna hasn't been seen by anyone since she left the crime scene covered in blood.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Holland

    Dreamscape Media

    Not specified
  • The joy and light bus company : The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, book 22

    Creator

    McCall Smith, Alexander

    Abstract

    In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe is tempted to put the brakes on a business venture before it even gets rolling. Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni attends a course hosted by the local chamber of commerce entitled "Where Is Your Business Going?" But rather than feeling energized, he comes back in low spirits, not sure if he should be satisfied with the already venerable and successful Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. Then an old friend from school approaches him with an exciting new business venture.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick

    Recorded Books, Inc.

    Not specified
  • Dolphin junction : stories

    Creator

    Herron, Mick

    Abstract

    CWA Gold and Steel Dagger-winner Mick Herron's short fiction, collected for the first time. Mick Herron, author of the Slough House novels, is on his way to becoming one of the most critically acclaimed and culturally important crime fiction writers of the twenty-first century. He has been awarded both the Gold and Steel Daggers by the Crime Writers' Association and has been called "the John Le Carré of the future" (BBC). But Mick Herron does more than "just" write flawlessly suspenseful spy thrillers.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick

    Recorded Books, Inc.

    Not specified
  • Diamond and the eye : Peter Diamond, book 20

    Creator

    Lovesey, Peter

    Abstract

    Bath police detective Peter Diamond suffers no fools. Now his nightmare has come to pass: he has to collaborate with the most preposterous kind of fool he can imagine. The self-styled Johnny Getz (his business card proclaims he "Getz Results!") is a private investigator who has been hired to track down Septimus "Seppy" Hubbard, a missing antiques dealer whose case Diamond has been assigned by the Avon and Somerset Murder Squad. Johnny Getz is a Philip Marlowe wannabe, complete with ridiculous private eye duds and a frustratingly high (and inaccurate) opinion of his detection skills.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick

    Recorded Books, Inc.

    Not specified
  • Tender is the bite : Chet and Bernie mystery, book 11

    Creator

    Quinn, Spencer

    Abstract

    Spencer Quinn's Tender Is the Bite is a brand new adventure in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series that Stephen King calls without a doubt the most original mystery series currently available. Chet and Bernie are contacted by a terribly scared young woman who seems to want their help. Before she can even tell them her name, she flees in panic. But in that brief meeting Chet sniffs out an important secret about her, a secret at the heart of the mystery he and Bernie set out to solve.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick

    Recorded Books Inc.

    Not specified
  • The night hawks : Ruth Galloway, book 13

    Creator

    Griffiths, Elly

    Abstract

    Ruth Galloway is suspicious of amateur archaeologists, but when a group of them stumbles upon Bronze Age artifacts alongside a dead body, she finds herself thrust into their midst-and into the crosshairs of a string of murders circling ever closer. Ruth is back as head of archaeology at the University of North Norfolk when a group of local metal detectorists-the so-called Night Hawks-uncovers a Bronze Age hoard on the beach near a recently deceased body, just washed ashore.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick

    Recorded Books Inc.

    Not specified
  • The man with the silver Saab : Detective Varg series, book 3

    Creator

    McCall Smith, Alexander

    Abstract

    In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, an eminent art historian is framed and the ace investigators of the department of sensitive crimes are on the case... Detective Ulf Varg is a man of refined tastes and quite familiar with the art scene in Malmö. So when art historian Anders Kindgren visits the Department of Sensitive Crimes to report a series of bizarre acts that have been committed against him, Ulf and his team swing into action.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick

    Recorded Books Inc.

    Not specified