Category: Amateur Sleuths

lifestyles for Gemi Kittredge ability collage sessions and combined martial arts name fights…

Until she unearths a physique at the seashore and meets Detective Lei Texeira. (ONE OF HER OWN)
Then she learns her sister has been abducted via the Yakuza. (OUT OF HER LEAGUE)
And simply while she thinks her sister is secure, issues get a lot worse. (OVER HER HEAD)

Gemi desires not anything greater than for Ashlyn to be at liberty, yet for that to take place she’ll need to quit to the enemy.

whilst secret bookstall proprietor Annie Laurance is invited to coach "The 3 nice women of the secret" type at Chastain group collage, the someday sleuth discovers that each one isn't really strictly educational in Chastain's hallowed halls of studying. And while a surprising scandal within the tuition newspaper erupts in a suicide and violent deaths, Professor Laurance enlists the skills of her new hubby, inner most eye Max Darling, and dons her pondering cap to probe intrigue and vengeance between Chastain's faculty.

A risky Thing

Max and Annie, with doubtful aid from 3 in their personal nice girls of the secret -- Annie's pixilated spouse's mother, a batty neighborhood dowager, and a Christie crime enthusiast -- study that nearly every body on the university had potential, purpose, and entry to the homicide guns. From the secretly boozing professor of ads to the muscle-bound campus cad who barters passing grades for a bit extracurricular job, someone at the college is a potential killer -- ready to strike again!

Kristan “Stan” Connor loves concocting tasty natural treats for canines and cats—and she additionally loves her fiancé, pub proprietor Jake McGee. yet she’s now not so passionate about discovering a lifeless physique at her personal bachelorette celebration . . .
 
Stan and Jake’s marriage ceremony will quickly happen in town eco-friendly in Frog Ledge, Connecticut, by way of a reception at their cherished Irish pub choked with pals, kinfolk, and their 4 favourite canines partners. Stan simply has to undergo the conventional women’ evening out first. Male strippers leaping out of sizeable muffins aren’t her most well-liked leisure. however the employed hottie by no means will get round to taking all of it off . . . simply because somebody takes him out first with certainly one of Stan’s kitchen knives. A heartbroken Stan acknowledges the sufferer as one of many supply males from the neighborhood farm—who should have been moonlighting for a few more cash. Now the visitor record has changed into a suspect list—and Stan’s creating a vow to discover the killer . . .
 
Includes gourmand dog food Recipes!
 
Praise for Purring round the Christmas Tree
 
“For enthusiasts of pet-themed mysteries, Mugavero pens a purrfect New England Christmas comfortable, which additionally contains connoisseur puppy deal with recipes.”
—Library Journal

Sarah Andrews is celebrated for her well known secret sequence that includes forensic geologist Em Hansen. With In chilly Pursuit, she builds on that beginning and introduces a brand new lead personality during this compelling secret from the final continent.

Valena Walker is a committed master's pupil in geology headed to Antarctica to check glaciology with the venerable Dr. Emmett Vanderzee. Being at the ice is whatever she's dreamed approximately for the reason that she used to be a bit woman. but if she ultimately arrives at McMurdo, she discovers that her professor has been arrested for homicide, and what is extra, that the incident occurred a 12 months in the past. A newspaper reporter who'd visited Antarctica the former iciness had died from publicity, and even though not anyone used to be keen on the guy---he used to be trying to contradict Vanderzee's research---by all debts, every body used to be devastated to lose a person at the ice.

Valena speedy realizes that during order to prevent being shipped north instantly and having her furnish canceled, she needs to embody the function of detective and paintings to transparent his name---and shop herself within the process.

Sarah Andrews bought a prestigious furnish from the nationwide technological know-how origin to spend months on Antarctica to investigate In chilly Pursuit, and the authenticity of her portrait of this unforgiving land is breathtaking, making for her so much compelling novel to date.

Even the author of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, might rave concerning the Baker highway secret sequence! A Baker road Wedding is one other winner, and never to be missed.

"Any [Sherlock] Holmes fan may get pleasure from Michael Robertson's clean new tackle the Holmes stories...fast-paced and carefully entertaining." —CNN, needs to learn Books on The Baker road Translation

"Agatha Christie fanatics will enjoy Robertson’s 5th novel...a vintage reasonable play whodunit leavened with humor." —Publishers Weekly (starred assessment) on The Baker road Jurors

The marriage ceremony of Reggie Heath and the distinguished actress Laura Rankin was once said in all of the tabloids—which is to claim, it was once a disaster.

Now, in a distant village at the British coast, locked in by means of sea cliffs on one part and moors at the different, the newlywed’s plane—piloted through Laura—has landed. Reggie doesn’t comprehend why Laura has picked this god-forsaken hamlet for his or her honeymoon. what's she conserving from him?

The solutions are in Laura’s earlier, yet she’s no longer asserting, and Reggie is out of his intensity. He should have help—or his worst fears and extra should be realized.

SERIAL MURDER

The xmas revival of a classic dual towns radio serial is not only for fun--dealing because it does with the scandalous unsolved Fifties homicide of lovely Kay Collins. yet a fair deeper secret intrigues radio character Bram Baldric and his sleuthing spouse, Sophie Greenway: Why has the station's proprietor insisted on airing this actual case whilst her son--Kay Collins's two-timing lover--happened to were the leading suspect in it? Merriment and mistletoe are out this Christmas; risk and homicide are in.


From the Paperback edition.

When a tender girl with a sordid earlier witnesses a homicide, she reveals herself enthusiastic about the killer and comes to a decision to trace him down herself.

Amy used to be a celebration lady, yet she now lives a lonely existence, aiding the house-bound to obtain communion within the Gravesend local of Brooklyn. She stops in at one of many residences on her direction, the place Mrs. Epifanio, the aged girl who lives there, says she hasn’t visible her ordinary caretaker, Diane, in a couple of days. Supposedly, Diane has the flu—or so Diane’s son Vincent acknowledged while he first dropped via and vanished into Mrs. E’s bed room to do no-one-knows-what.



Amy’s short interplay with Vincent within the residence that day units off caution bells, so she assures Mrs. E that she’ll discover what’s quite occurring with either him and his mom. She tails Vincent via Brooklyn, finally following him and a mysterious guy out of an area dive bar. initially, the lads are just speaking as they stroll, yet then, virtually prior to Amy can check in what has occurred, Vincent is dead.



For purposes she can’t particularly comprehend, Amy unearths herself captivated by way of either the crime she witnessed and the assassin himself. She doesn’t name the law enforcement officials to record what she’s visible. as a substitute, she collects the homicide weapon from the sidewalk and shortly reveals herself at the path of a killer.



Character-driven and evocative, The Lonely Witness brings Brooklyn to lifestyles in a fashion just a local can, and opens readers’ eyes to the tough realities of crime and punishment at the urban streets.