Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=3+6600+4294966848 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706643 While investigating the murder of a well-respected barrister who was found dead at a seedy hotel in Crystal Palace, Detective Inspector Gemma James and her partner, Detective Sergeant Melody Talbot, begin to question everything they think they know abouttheir world and those they trust most. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703450 An adrenaline-fueled thriller debut in the tradition of Three Days of the Condor from the famed creator of TVs Law & Order, featuring NYPD Special Agent Jeremy Fisk, who is New York Citys last hope against an ingenious, multi-pronged terrorist attack-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728947 When lawyer Venetia Aldridge defends a man for murder, the case appears open and shut. But when Aldridge is found dead in her office, Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team must make sense of events. In the meanwhile, the murders continue. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728948 When Gerard Etienne turns up dead at the English publishing firm he has just taken over, there is no shortage of suspects. The ruthless new chairman of Peverell Press had a host of enemies : rejected authors, disenchanted colleagues and a discarded lover. Detective Adam Dalgliesh and company untangle this mess, replete with complex dynamics and hiding a killer who wont hesitate to strike again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728985 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729063 A peaceful summer night is shattered by gunfire as an unseen assailant tries to murder police officer John Busby. Though horribly wounded, Busby survives. But the perpetrator remains at large, meaning neither Busby, nor his wife, nor their three children are safe. In separate chapters John and his daughter Cylin, who was nine at the time, recount the story of that year. John writes graphically, and movingly, of his wounds, his pain, his multiple surgeries, and his rage... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707214 In a flat near Reykjavik city center, a young man lies dead in a pool of blood although there are no signs of a break-in or any struggle. A purple shawl, found under the bed, gives off a strong and unusual aroma. A vial of narcotics found in the victims pocket among other clues soon lead Erlendurs colleagues down a trail of hidden violence, psychological brutality and of wrongs that will never be fully righted. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574776 In the grip of a Siberian winter in 1902, a serial killer in Vienna embarks upon a bizarre campaign of murder. Vicious mutilation, a penchant for arcane symbols, and a seemingly random choice of victim are his most distinctive peculiarities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574482 In the depths of winter, a killer stalks the city streets. His victims are two young women, both found with inexplicable puncture wounds. The police are running out of options. Deeply traumatised by a previous investigation, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kongs opium dens. But with his father seriously ill, Harry reluctantly agrees to return to Oslo. He has no intention of working on the case, but his instinct takes over when an MP is found brutally murdered. The victims appear completely unconnected, but its not long before Harry makes a discovery: the women all spent the night in an isolated mountain hostel. And someone is picking off the guests one by one. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646681 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707693 Constable Macbeths contented village life is disturbed when someone poisons newcomer Trixie Thomas. Being English and unemployed, the Thomases were not popular, and not everyone is devastated by her death. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729107 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728922 Constable Peter Grant is thrown into a world in which gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil threatens to make a comeback. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729072 Lt. Deckers investigation of a heart surgeons murder is complicated by old secrets from his wifes past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703332 In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Boschs ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing through the wreckage after a plane crash, Bosch searches for the black box, the one piece of evidence that will pull the case together. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646685 Karin Slaughters new novel is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder that encompasses forty years, two chillingly similar murder cases, and a good mans deepest secrets. Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amandas motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before--when Wills father was imprisoned for murder--this was his home. Flash back nearly forty years. In the summer Will Trent was born, Amanda Wagner is going to college, making Sunday dinners for her father, taking her first steps in the boys club that is the Atlanta Police Department. One of her first cases is to investigate a brutal crime in one of the citys worst neighborhoods. Amanda and her partner, Evelyn, are the only ones who seem to care if an arrest is ever made. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574616 Troubled Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge wrestles with a startling and dangerous case that reaches far into the past when a false confession from a man who is not who he claims to be leads to a brutal murder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707175 All but one member of the Spain family lies dead, and its up to Mick Scorcher Kennedy to find out why. Mick must piece together why their house is full of cameras pointed at holes in the walls and how a nighttime intruder bypassed all the locks. Meanwhile, the town of Broken Harbor holds something else for Mick--disturbing memories of a childhood summer gone terribly wrong. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574765 Unraveling the madness behind L.A.s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. And putting the good doctor through his thrilling paces is what mystery fictions #1 bestselling master of psychological suspense Jonathan Kellerman does with incomparable brilliance. Kellermans universally acclaimed novels blend the addictive rhythms of the classic police procedural with chilling glimpses into the darkest depths of the human condition. For the compelling proof, look no further than Victims--Kellerman at his razor-sharp, harrowing finest. Not since Jack the Ripper terrorized the London slums has there been such a gruesome crime scene. By all accounts, acid-tongued Vita Berlin hadnt a friend in the world, but whom did she cross so badly as to end up arranged in such a grotesque tableau? One look at her apartment-turned-charnel house prompts hard-bitten LAPD detective Milo Sturgis to summon his go-to expert in hunting homicidal maniacs, Alex Delaware. But despite his finely honed skills, even Alex is stymied when more slayings occur in the same ghastly fashion. yet with no apparent connection among the victims. And the only clue left behind--a blank page bearing a question mark--seems to be both a menacing taunt and a cry for help from a killer baffled by his own lethal urges. Under pressure to end the bloody spree and prevent a citywide panic, Milo redoubles his efforts to discover a link between the disparate victims. Meanwhile, Alex navigates the secretive world of mental health treatment, from the sleek office of a Beverly Hills therapist to a shuttered mental institution where he once honed his craft--and where an unholy alliance between the mad and the monstrous may have been sealed in blood. As each jagged piece of the puzzle fits into place, an ever more horrific portrait emerges of a sinister mind at its most unimaginable--and an evil soul at its most unspeakable. This one was different, Alex observes at the start of the case. This one will haunt his waking life, and his darkest dreams, long after its end-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728926 Rookie cop and magical apprentice Peter Grant from Midnight Riot returns in this urban fantasy tale of magic and murder, set to a jazz beat. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729108 When a man about to leave his wife is found murdered and the wife has a too-convenient alibi that convinces a smitten lead detective of her innocence, Professor Manubu Yukawa is tapped by a concerned Kaoru Utsumi to solve a seemingly impossible case. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703253 Ida Rosenkranz is top diva at the Vienna Opera, but shes gone silent for good after an apparent laudanum overdose. Learning of her professional rivalries and her scandalous affairs with older men, Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt and Dr. Max Liebermann suspect foul play instead. Their investigation leads them into dark and dangerous conflicts with Gustav Mahler, the operas imperious director, who is himself the target of a poison pen campaign, and Karl Lueger, Viennas powerful and anti-Semitic mayor. As the peril escalates, Rheinhardt grows further into his role as family man, while Liebermann finds himself at odds with his inamorata, Amelia, whos loosening both her corset and her tongue in the new feminist movement. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574626 Its 1976. Despite fierce international controversy over whether in vitro fertilization should ever be performed in humans, doctors around the world race to be first to produce a baby through this procedure. Dr. Colin Sanford has a plan. He recruits Dr. Giselle Hearn, an experienced laboratory geneticist-embryologist. Drs. Sanford and Hearn, working secretly, set out to put their names in history books. Unfortunately, a secret that big is hard to keep. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728923 To solve a perplexing murder case, Peter Grant, London constable and sorcerers apprentice, must plumb the haunted depths of the oldest, largest, and deadliest subway system in the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707209 Daisy Johnson, whose father was an incubus, works in the Midwestern resort town of Pemkowet where she ensures that all the supernatural creatures living there get along. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707179 Convalescing in New Orleans, troubled detective Dave Robicheaux is visited by Tee Jolie Melton, who leaves him an iPod containing a single tune: My Creole Belle. Obsessed with the song, Dave is caught in a confluence of events when Tee Jolies sister is found dead and an oilwell blowout threatens the bayou. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703360 Captain Carmine Delmonico must find a brilliant killer hiding out in the prestigious and cutthroat world of academia. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574716 Psychologist Joe OLoughlin is being pushed away. His marriage is ending. Charlie, his eldest daughter, will barely speak to him. And Charlies rebellious best friend Sienna is getting into more and more trouble, and taking Charlie along for the ride. Sienna has been almost like family to OLoughlin-a troubled child who for years spent more time in the OLoghlin residence than her own home. OLoughlins worst fears are confirmed when Sienna turns up at his front door, traumatized and covered in blood. The police find a major piece of the puzzle at Siennas house: her father Ray Hegarty, a celebrated former police officer, murdered. The blood covering Sienna was her fathers. She cant remember what happened, but, at the same time, doesnt mourn her fathers death. OLoughlin vows to unearth the dark secrets of Siennas mind, hoping his efforts will win back the confidence of a daughter he may be in danger of losing forever. But as the accusations fly, the line between victim and accused begins to blur. When the detective in charge of the case seems all too eager to lay the blame at Siennas feet rather than malign the honor of a respected former colleague, OLoughlin begins to make his own inquiries. But each step he takes toward the truth also brings him closer to the path of a manipulative killer unlike anything he has ever encountered-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574606 Vienna, 1903. At St. Florians military school, a young cadet is found dead. Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt calls on his friend, Dr. Liebermann, to help him investigate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703346 The year is 1857, soon after the tragic Siege of Cawnpore. In the British garrison, a guard is killed and an Indian prisoner escapes, which leads to yet more British deaths. Cries for revenge are overwhelming. Despite no witnesses and no evidence against him, a luckless British medical orderly named John Tallis is arrested as an accomplice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646589 When Scotland is hit by the recession, Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices that the Highland people are forced to come up with inventive ways to lure tourists to their sleepy towns. The quaint village of Braikie doesnt have much to offer, other than a place of rare beauty called Buchans Wood, which was bequeathed to the town. The savvy local tourist director renames the woods The Fairy Glen, and has brochures printed with a beautiful photograph of a kingfisher rising from a pond on the cover. It isnt long before coach tours begin to arrive. But just as the towns luck starts to turn, a kingfisher is found hanging from a branch in the woods with a noose around its neck. As a wave of vandalism threatens to ruin Braikie forever, the town turns to Hamish Macbeth. And when violence strikes again,the lawmans investigation quickly turns from animal cruelty to murder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574345 Winter Parva, a traditional Cotswolds village, has decided to throw a celebratory hog roast to mark the beginning of the winter holiday festivities and Agatha Raisin has arrived with friend and rival in the sleuthing business, Toni, to enjoy the merriment. But as the spit pig is carried towards the bed of fiery charcoal Agatha--and the rest of the village--realize that things arent as they seem. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706907 Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee investigate the robbery of a casino on the Ute reservation. Based on actual events. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709172 Called out of retirement, Kevin Kerney must take up the hunt for a psychotic killer whos been blazing a path of carnage from Texas to Colorado. Fortunately hell have help from his half-Indian son, Sgt. Clayton Istee. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710064 Midwife-sleuth Sarah Brandt is surprised by her mothers desire to attend sances in an undesirable section of New York City. During one dark session, death strikes a participant while all are holding hands around the table. Now its up to Sarah--and her detective sergeant friend--to deliver her mom from scandal and ferret out the murderer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707785 After her last harrowing case, Kate Martinelli is more than ready for routine police work and her newfound serenity with longtime lover Lee. But then shes called to the scene of a carefully executed murder, and everything changes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574527 In Fossums moody and subtle U.S. debut, the fifth in her Inspector Sejer series, the popular Norwegian mystery writer displays her mastery of psychological suspense. Richly drawn characters reveal much about Norwegian society, though the setting, a picturesque valley town northwest of Oslo, isnt distinctive. A little girl disappears from her middle-class neighborhood, then returns home unharmed. Meanwhile, the search party discovers the nude corpse of a teenager, Annie Holland, and Fossum seamlessly shifts the story to a murder investigation, using several points of view to create red herrings that add to the suspense. Both girls lived in the same claustrophobic community where the residents claim to know one another but, naturally, dont really. With few clues and no witnesses, seasoned Inspector Konrad Sejer and his eager young assistant Jacob Skarre must uncover the hidden relationships and secrets they hope will lead to the killer of the well-liked, talented Annie. When they learn that the victims behavior changed suddenly eight months earlier after a child she babysat died by accident, the plot shifts course again and drives to a stunning conclusion and ominous final scene. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709173 In Lincoln County, New Mexico, the slaying of a deputy sheriff and his wife reunites Police Chief Kerney and his son, Sergeant Clayton Istee, on the bloody trail of drug-running killers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706909 In 1965, fugitive Ray Shawnack was supposed to have died in a blaze that consumed a trading post. But many years later, Lt. Joe Leaphorn is sent a picture of a tribal rug taht was also thought to have burned in the fire. Further investigation leads to the lodge of a big-game hunter who has the rug hanging on his wall. What is the connection between the hunter and the newfound rug? And if the rug survived, could the supposedly dead Shawnack have escaped the conflagration as well? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708915 The Ellison sisters were proper young Victorian ladies. In the foggy streets outside their peaceful home, five women were found horribly murdered. And Police Inspector Pitt found himself wondering if the Ellisons were in fact too good to be true. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574424 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706822 This novel puts Inspector Banks in the middle of the most personal investigation of his career. What starts out as a simple weapons possession case quickly spirals out of control when it becomes clear that Banks own daughter is endangered by her bad-boy love interest. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709807 Randy Duggan, a.k.a. Macho Man, challenges Hamish Macbeth, the local constable to a public fistfight. But on the day of the fight Duggan is found shot to death and Macbeth the likely suspect. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573918 A kidnapper is at large, a schoolboy has disappeared and there are no leads. Then DCI Serrailler receives a call: a child has been snatched in Yorkshire, has the abductor struck again? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709174 When pro rodeo star Johnny Jordan returns to Santa Fe, he asks his childhood friend, police chief Kevin Kerney, to serve as a consultant on a new film being staged along the Mexican border. On the road to the location, Kerney discovers the dead body of an undercover federal agent. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252782 A novel in which Kurt Wallander becomes involved in the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer--who is Wallanders daughter Lindas future father-in-law--which leads him into a story of Cold War espionage. Wallander also confronts his own age and mortality, while welcoming his first granddaughter--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711063 Peel away the layers of Priestleys complex drama to appreciate this powerful warning play, wrapped up in the genre of a gripping detective story, to truly understand that We dont live alone. We are members of one body. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708908 Two dead bodies have been discovered, both similarly mutilated. As Inspector Thomas Pitt examines one body, he recognizes the man from a previous case. With the help of his perceptive wife, Charlotte, Thomas intends to solve this gruesome crime. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708886 At a celebration of Priscilla Halburton-Smythes engagement, one guest in particular misbehaved. Boorish Captain Peter Bartlett managed to offend everyone--one person enough to kill him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706910 A sinister pig is boss of the sty: the pig who guards the trough and attacks any other animal trying to eat from it. There is a sinister pig in control of the pipelines of drug smuggling between the U.S. and Mexico. But in this business, one can only stay on top for so long. When the struggle for power dumps a corpse onto tribal lands, it gets the attention of Sergeant Jim Chee and his retired partner, Joe Leaphorn. Now the sinister pig must either fight -- or run. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574190 Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man whos fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes a closer look at the scene of his friends death, it becomes apparent that foul play is at hand. After years of bad behavior with his deparment, hes in no position to be investigating a homicide, but this man was a friend and Codys determined to find his killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707418 Benni Harper and the ladies of her Coffin Star Quilt Guild are enjoying San Celina, Californias first-ever Memory Festival--when a sniper guns down a local cop. Fearing for the safety of her community--and for her family--Benni determines to root out the sniper before the once peaceful streets become a killers free-fire zone. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708916 Presents an Inspector William Monk mystery set in Victorian England. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1212707 A bomb set in one of New Yorks busiest places is discovered before it explodes. But relief turns to terror when the police realize it is just a warning of greater devastation. Before long, another horrifying crime leads Detective Michael Bennett to the earth-shattering enormity of the killers plan.A bomb set in one of New Yorks busiest places is discovered before it explodes. But relief turns to terror when the police realize it is just a warning of greater devastation to come... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574549 Scotland Yard Inspector Archie Penrose and mystery author Josephine Tey team up to solve the murder of estate worker Harry Pinching in Penroses hometown of Cornwall. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708079 A controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence--its business as usual for the Peculiar Crimes Units partners. Arthur Bryant and John May. But this time theres a witness who says the killer was a cape-clad highwayman atop a black stallion. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707695 Inspector Banks is to locate Emily, his enemy Chief Constable Riddles teenaged daughter, who has run away to London. When Banks finds her, he forges an odd friendship with the wild, rebellious girl. He is horrified, then, whe she dies from strychnine-laced cocaine a few weeks later. As the troubled Inspector tries to find the killer in Londons trendy club scene, he is nagged by a persistent suspicion that both Riddle and his wife may be withholding crucial information. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706853 The producer of a troubled play invites the cast to spend the weekend in his remote Scottish Highlands estate to hash out the problems. When the housemaid finds the playwright murdered in bed, Thomas Lynley and his partner must unmask the villain. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574306 When an ex-vicar opens his rectory to rehabilitate young offenders, he has no idea it will lead to blackmail and murder. And Chief Inspector Barnaby must investigate the mysterious disappearance of wild Carlotta. He has a shrewd idea of who might be responsible - but he hasnt a shred of evidence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709175 When Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney finds the dead body of hotel magnate Clifford Spalding, he thinks he knows who to talk to, as the deceased man had known enemies. But little does Kerney know that the truth may go back 30 years to the day when Spaldings son mysteriously disappeared. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574429 A major inquiry into a neighboring police force sees Malcolm Fox and his colleagues cast adrift, unsure of territory, protocol, or who they can trust. An entire station-house looks to have been compromised, but as Fox digs deeper he finds the trail leads him back in time to the suicide of a prominent politician and activist. There are secrets buried in the past, and reputations on the line. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707505 The erstwhile members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit are left out in the cold when the unit is shut down, but then a beheading prompts their recall. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252736 Intrepid Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge investigates the Sussex village murders of three former soldiers, a case that puts Rutledges career and life on the line. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709830 In the near future, superheroes are very real. But so are supervillains. When San Francisco is toasted during a superbeing clash, America has had enough. All metanormals must leave the country--or face extermination at the hands of an elite new law enforcement branch. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707028 Lonely and brooding, Dave has lost his moorings. His wife, Bootsy, is dead, and his daughter is away at college. When a parish priest asks him to help a family in need, Dave discovers that they hold the clues to a decades-old mystery: the disappearance of blues legend Junior Crudup while he was serving time in Angola prison. Soon, Daves investigation leads him to confront New Iberias movers and shakers--and a seductive woman who has been his nemesis for years. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1251224 Retired police detective Tracy Waterhouse makes a snap decision to become a caretaker to a young charge of a criminal she busts, just as former detective Jackson Brodie embarks on a different sort of rescue, taking in an abandoned dog. Theyll both learn no good deed goes unpunished.Tracy Waterhouse leads a quiet, ordered life as a retired police detective--a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross, a habitual offender, dragging a young child through town... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708457 On the same night a drunk cop shoots a gambler, a haul of priceless jewels is stolen--setting the stage for a mystery as complex and steeped in the blues as the city of Atlanta itself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708909 Presents an Inspector William Monk mystery set in Victorian England. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1560379 At the eve of the FIFA World Cup in Brazil all eyes are on the countrys principal striker, Tico The Artist Santos, the greatest player in the history of the sport. All the politicians in Brasilia, from the President of the Republic on down, have their seats squared away for the finale, when they hope to see Argentina, Brazils bitter rival, humbled by the Brazilian eleven. But then, just three weeks before the first game, Juraci Santos, Ticos mother, is kidnapped. The star is distraught. The public is appalled. The politicians are outraged. And the pressure is on Chief Inspector Mario Silva to get her back. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708887 When eight members of the Checkmate Singles Club come to Tommel Castle Hotel to meet their prearranged partners, things are ugly from the beginning. The couples immediately dislike each other, and soon one of the two matchmakers is found dead with an apple stuffed in her mouth. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707544 Maggody Police Chief Arly Hanks is all shook up when she hears that her mother collapsed during a pilgrimage to Graceland and is in a Memphis hospital. Another member of the tour is pushed to her death from a hotel balcony. When a prominent Maggody citizen stands accused of the murder, Arlys suspicious mind tells her to snap into action. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706911 In this evocative tale that unfolds in the Southwest, a puzzling death revives interest in a murder case gone cold, a long-time missing person, and a legendary gold mine. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709183 This enveloping crime novel ventures into the dark heart of 19thcentury Russia as detective Porfiry Petrovich investigates the poisoning of a doctors wife and their autistic son. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709218 When an assassination attempt on a black community activist kills a young girl and leaves a little boy critically wounded, Detective Dan Reles heads the investigation. The brass decide, however, that a black detective should handle this highly publicized case. So Dan turns the case over to his partner James Torbett, who becomes dangerously obsessed with it. As Dan delves into his next assignment, the mysterious deaths of wealthy college students, he begins to suspect a bizarre connection between the two cases. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574550 Chief Inspector Serrailler investigates a seemingly random series of murders targeting young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton, cases he is certain are related in spite of their varying methods. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706943 When a man is discovered hanging by his neck in the forest, Banks is called in from his vacation. And as he digs deeper, it becomes clear that the killer is not finished with his ghastly work. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707696 An insufferable drought ravages the Yorkshire countryside, depleting the Thornfield Reservoir, revealing the remnants of the flooded town of Hobbs End and the terrible secrets kept safe within its watery tomb. Amongst the ruins, the remains of a womans body are discovered. Detective Banks deduces that the woman was strangled and repeatedly stabbed more than fifty years ago. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1560350 When Sister Anne is murdered, Inspector Sloan cannot imagine who would want to kill a cloistered nun. Interviewing 50 nuns is not an easy task, as each has taken a new name when they entered the order and their habits make them look alike. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708913 In Rutland Place, a lost locket becomes the key to deadly secrets that lurk behind the opulent facade of one of Londons most exclusive neighborhoods. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709805 Can Macbeth find the murderer and the missing man, or will the village men of Drim keep their secrets and commmit the perfect crime? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1251241 Detectives Sloan and Crosby find themselves assigned two rather puzzling cases. A young womans body was discovered in the River Alm, and theres the mysterious break-in at the Berebury Nursing Home. It becomes apparent that the two cases are connected--but how? And who can the killer be?Detectives Sloan and Crosby find themselves assigned two rather puzzling cases. First, theres the young womans body which has been discovered in the River Alm... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708464 Wounded LAPD Sergeant Mike Valenzuela finds the help and healing he needs in Virgin River. Now he longs for the marital bliss his Marine Corps buddies enjoy. And he thinks hes found the right woman. But after shes brutally attacked, Mike must show her how to trust again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708593 A young girl has been abducted on Australias Mornington Peninsula and Sergeant Ellen Destry takes the case in Inspector Hal Challis absence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1296728 Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with a secret informant, arrives a second too late, preceded by a knife-wielding assassin. As he pursues the killer and the information he needs to stop a devastating plot against the British government, his clever wife Charlotte heads to Dublin to investigate a case involving Pitts supervisor, Victor Narraway. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709996 Widow and midwife Sarah Brandt helps the less fortunate of the city bring new life into the world. But when a local doctor is found murdered, the shocking motive may destroy Sarah. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707672 A missing student, a six-inch coffin containing a wooden doll, and mysterious role-playing games on the Internet are the intriguing elements of the latest case to challenge Inspector Rebus. The missing student comes from an influential family, and Rebus begins to get a bad feeling about the case. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707029 A troubled young woman breezes into Detective Robicheauxs hometown of New Iberia, Louisiana. She happens to be the daughter of his friend--a friend he witnessed gunned down in a bank robbery, a tragedy that forever changed Robicheauxs life. The twists begin when Trish Klein--the only offspring of Robicheauxs Vietnam-era buddy--starts passing marked hundred-dollar bills in local casinos. Is she a good kid gone bad? A victims child seeking revenge? A promiscuous beauty seducing everyone good within her grasp? And can Robicheaux make peace with his friends murder in time to figure out how a local mobster fits into all the schemes and death? Will his life be whole again when it has been shattered by so much tragedy? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1251256 Nobody likes The Complaints--theyre the cops who investigate other cops. Its a department known within the force as The Dark Side, and its where Malcolm Fox works. Now hes investigating a dirty cop named Jamie Breck, but theres more to Breck than anyone thinks...Nobody likes The Complaints--theyre the cops who investigate other cops. Its a department known within the force as The Dark Side, and its where Malcolm Fox works... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574432 The Midsomer Worthys Writers Circle is has never had much luck in attracting guest speakers. Consequently, there is much surprise (and, in the case of the Circles secretary, Gerald Hadleigh, a furious, inexplicable objection) when bestselling novelist Max Jennings accepts their invitation. Surprise turns into a variety of responses when Hadleigh is found dead the morning after Jennings visitation. Chief Inspector Barnaby, called in to investigate, soon determines that the key to solving the murder lies with Jennings, who has subsequently disappeared. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710070 After a grisly murder, a missing star, and a stunning theft disrupt a glitzy movie premiere, the glitterati and paparazzi leave Rome for the safer confines of San Francisco. There Italian police detective Nic Costa, still charged with securing priceless movie-related artifacts, redoubles his viligance. When two more stylized murder occur, an enigmatic American actress drafts Nic as her personal bodyguard. But can he resist her allure long enough to pursue a possible link to the Italian Mafia and chase down the killer? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708910 Late one night, a blazing inferno destroys the home of a well-to-do English doctor. Tragically, the mans wife perishes in the flames. Arson is obviously the crime, but after digging around, Inspector Pitt isnt sure who could have set the fire. Enlisting the aid of his wife Charlotte, Thomas searches the dank London streets for a killer, puzzled by the question of whether the true target was the doctors wife, or the doctor himself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707686 When a neighbor reports a man for beating his wife, the two police officers who go to the scene rescue the wife. But they are not prepared for horrifying brutality and carnage they find in the basement of the tidy house. Now Inspector Banks must discover if the accused husband might be guilty of an unsolved string of murders. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708888 Lady Jane Hamilton has alienated every other guest at the Lochdubh School of Casting with her knack for digging up nasty secrets. Now Constable Hamish MacBeth must determine who would go so far as to murder her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574415 Vienna, 1903. Two men are found beheaded on church grounds, on opposite sides of the city. Reinhardt is baffled. Liebermann is drawn into an urban underworld that hosts and hides virulent racists on one side, and followers of kabbalah on the other. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709618 Ten years ago mobster Whitey Dane was facing a murder rap. Then the evidence vanished, along with a cop who seemed to be dirty. Now, the missing cops bones have been discovered in the wreckage of a plane crash, and Frank Harrimans investigation sends him down a terrifying path. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706912 Retired from the Seattle P.D. after twenty years, Jonas Piedmont Beaumont agrees to chaperon his newlywed grandmother on her honeymoon cruise to Alaska. But Beaus brief idyll is abruptly shaken when a security videotape shows a passenger taking a fatal fall overboard. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708891 When the beautiful Jane Weatherby asks Hamish Macbeth to spend the Christmas holiday at her Scottish island retreat, Hamish is glad to accept. But something is wrong at this colorful resort -- something that will soon claim the life of one of the guests. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252792 Now that serial killer Gretchen Lowell is locked away, Portland detective Archie Sheridan is looking forward to a break from work. However, the city is in the midst of a bad flood, which has claimed the lives of several people. And when the coroner rules that one of the victims died from poisoning, Sheridan discovers that the city has fallen prey to a new killer, one which has been using drownings to mask his murder for several years. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710100 When the body of a boy is found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, Inspector Pitt is called to investigate. The boy was clearly upper class, so what was he doing in one of Londons most dangerous slums? Before his death, the victim had been violated, a fact that makes it difficult for Pitt to question the boys friends and family. Nevertheless, Pitt is shocked when the boys parents refuse to answer police queries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707444 On a hot summer morning, Arturo Clemente is sloppily murdered in his Roman apartment by a mysterious slasher. The killing is brutal, amateurish and by all appearances random. But Clemente is no ordinary victim.