Detective and mystery fiction

  • L'hypnotiseur : Joona Linna, book 1

    Creator

    Kepler, Lars

    Abstract

    Dans une maison de la banlieue de Stockholm, une famille est sauvagement assassinée. Seul Josef, un adolescent, survit au massacre, mais il navigue entre la vie et la mort, en état de choc. L'inspecteur Joona Linna décide alors de recourir à Erik Maria Bark, un psychiatre expert en hypnose, pour pénétrer le subconscient du garçon et tenter de revoir le carnage à travers ses yeux. Chaque minute compte, mais Bark ignore qu'avec ces révélations qu'il traque dans la mémoire de Josef, c'est aussi pour lui qu'un dramatique compte à rebours vient de commencer.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Paris]

    Audiolib

    Not specified
  • Kisser : Stone Barrington, book 17

    Creator

    Woods, Stuart

    Abstract

    When P.I. Stone Barrington crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress--and sometime lip model--Stone gets a little more deeply involved with business than he'd expected. When his new lady love turns out to be a lady with a shady past, Stone and downtown cop Dino Bacchetti realize that her beauty may have an unusually high price.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Books on Tape

    Not specified
  • Kinsey and me : stories

    Creator

    Grafton, Sue

    Abstract

    In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced us to Kinsey Millhone. Thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and Sue, a number-one bestselling author. To mark this anniversary year, Sue has given us stories that reveal Kinsey's origins and Sue's past. Kinsey and Me has two parts: The nine Kinsey stories (1986-93), each a gem of detection; and the And Me stories, written in the decade after Grafton's mother died.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [United States]

    Findaway World

    Not specified
  • Kindness goes unpunished : Walt Longmire, book 3

    Creator

    Johnson, Craig

    Abstract

    Walt Longmire's third outing takes him from Wyoming to Philadelphia to investigate a brutal assault on his daughter Cady. Walt believes her ex-boyfriend is behind the crime, and searches him out. But when he turns up dead, Walt is back to square one.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, MD

    Recorded Books

    Not specified
  • Killing in C sharp : Gethsemane Brown mysteries, book 3

    Creator

    Gordon, Alexia

    Abstract

    She saved Carraigfaire - but can she save her friends? Gethsemane Brown fought off an attack by a sleazy hotel developer who wanted to turn her Irish cottage into a tourist trap. Now she must face a vengeful ghost determined to exact revenge for her murder centuries ago. This ghost's wrath spares no one - not Gethsemane's students, Inspector Niall O'Reilly, fellow teacher Frankie Grennan, or a group of ghost hunters descended on Dunmullach to capture proof ghosts exist. Proof Gethsemane has to quash to keep Eamon, her resident ghost and friend, from becoming an internet sensation.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Frisco, Texas]

    Henery Press

    Not specified
  • Kappy king and the pickle kaper : An Amish mystery, book 2

    Creator

    Lillard, Amy

    Abstract

    Content to be unmarried and plain-spoken, Kathryn "Kappy" King is an odd-woman-out in the Amish community of Blue Sky, Pennsylvania. But she's skilled at making the special kapps local women need to cover their hair. And she might be the only one who can unearth the danger hiding in this peaceful valley ... When Kappy's neighbor, Ruth Peachey, turns up dead in her yard, everyone in Blue Sky believes it's a tragic accident. Until the Englisch police find the gentle dog breeder was deliberately struck down--and arrest her mentally-challenged son, Jimmy, for the crime ...

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick

    Recorded Books

    Not specified
  • Kappy king and the pickle kaper : An Amish mystery, book 2

    Creator

    Lillard, Amy

    Abstract

    Kathryn 'Kappy' King is happy being a plain-spoken unmarried odd-woman-out in her Pennsylvania Amish hometown. Her talent is making the special kapps local women use to cover their hair. But her skill at uncovering trouble in this quiet valley is about to be truly tested ... At first, young Sally June Esh's tragic death doesn't look like murder. Even in peaceful Blue Sky, collisions between buggies and Englisch cars aren't unheard of. Still, the Eshes are skilled drivers used to delivering their popular pickles for miles around.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, Md.

    Recorded Books

    Not specified
  • "K" is for killer : Kinsey Millhone, book 11

    Creator

    Grafton, Sue

    Abstract

    When Kinsey Millhone answers her office door late one night, she lets in more darkness than she realizes. Janice Kepler is a grieving mother who can't let the death of her beautiful daughter Lorna alone. The police agree that Lorna was murdered, but a suspect was never apprehended and the trail is now ten months cold. Kinsey pieces together Lorna's young life: a dull day job a the local water treatment plant spiced by sidelines in prostitution and pornography.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Books on Tape

    Not specified
  • Justice for Sara

    Creator

    Spindler, Erica

    Abstract

    This is a chilling suspense novel about a woman who goes home ten years after her sister's murder to find the true killer. When seventeen-year-old Katherine McCall awakened one morning to find her beloved sister, Sara, brutally murdered, her whole life changed in the blink of an eye. Kat was named the prime suspect and, on a string of circumstantial evidence, charged and tried. While the jury found her innocent, not everyone else agreed, and her only choice was to go into hiding.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    St. Martin's Press

    Not specified
  • Journey to Munich : Maisie Dobbs, book 12

    Creator

    Winspear, Jacqueline

    Abstract

    Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler's Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue--the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear's New York Times bestselling "series that seems to get better with each entry" (Wall Street Journal). It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square--a place of many memories--she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    Not specified