Busy Body
Publishers Weekly In bestseller Beaton’s terrific 21st Agatha Raisin mystery (after 2009’s There Goes the Bride), the fiercely formidable private detective and her perky young protégé, Toni Gilmour, look into the stabbing murder of John “Grudge” Sunday, a Mircester health and safety board officer, outside a joint meeting of two Cotswolds ladies’ societies. The unpopular […]
Danse Macabre
Red Herring : a Joe Gunther novel
Bury Your Dead
Burn : an Anna Pigeon Novel
Synopsis: As a National Park Service Ranger, Anna Pigeon feels emotionally prepared for strange wildlife sounds and things that go bump in the wilderness, but post-Katrina New Orleans exposes her to new kinds of surprises and sudden danger. Within days, it brings her plans for a quiet administrative leave from her job to a jolting […]
A Brush With Death : a Penny Brannigan Mystery
Publishers Weekly: Drugs, sex, and murder fuel Peffer's fervid fifth Cape Islands mystery (after 2009's Bangkok Dragons, Cape Cod Tears). When Bird Island harbormaster Corby Church stumbles on human bones on the island, rookie police detective Yemanj? Col?n, based in the mainland town of Slocums Harbor, Mass., winds up on a terrifying journey. Eager to […]
Buy Back
Library Journal: In a comic caper that could have stepped out of an Elmore Leonard or Lawrence Block novel, the theft of three paintings from a Brooklyn museum goes awry when the thieves are in turn robbed by another crew of criminals. Insurance investigator Tommy Davin, who had arranged the theft to pay off some […]
Pray For Silence
Library Journal In her second mystery (after Sworn to Silence), Castillo brings back Police Chief Kate Burkholder in the town of Painters Mill, OH. Barely recovered from the serial killings of the previous year, the town and its small police department are once again rocked by the unthinkable. Someone has killed an entire Amish family […]
The Red Velvet Turnshoe
Kirkus Reviews: Her second adventure (Hangman Blind, 2009) sends Sister Hildegard on a pilgrimage stalked by death. Floods and plague beset Yorkshire in 1383. Before Sister Hildegard can establish her convent, her prioress sets her on a mission of fantastic difficulty: She must journey through the Low Countries, over the Alps and on to Rome […]
The Good Son
Library Journal J. McNee, a police detective-turned-private investigator, is just existing in Dundee, Scotland, as he avoids the truth about his wife's fatal car crash for which her family blames him. When a local farmer asks him to determine why his estranged brother hanged himself, McNee goes up against his former mates in the force […]