Category: Amateur Sleuths

A severed head washes ashore, drawing Kate right into a weird and wonderful homicide case

In Ted Oswald’s simply because we're, ten-year outdated Haitian orphan Libète and her ally Jak embarked upon fixing a profound secret that modified them perpetually. Now, in there's a Land, Libète needs to flee her domestic and all she is familiar with, wearing a dangerous mystery she doesn't comprehend yet can't dare strength upon one other. Whisking among her cherished Cité Soleil, the color-splashed seashore city of Jacmel, and desolate mountain levels of northern Haiti, her existence and people of her acquaintances depend upon her assuming a brand new identity.

A excellent secret that builds to a startling climax, there's a Land speaks to the strong bonds that provide us wish to try for a greater world.

Outrageous, irrepressible and endlessly  entertaining, the bestselling writer of Rubyfruit Jungle  and Bingo spins a behind-the-scenes story of women's  professional tennis that dramtically intertwines  the heart-stopping pleasure of festival and  the lingering heartache of intimate human bonds.  Carmen Semanan loves 3 issues passionalty:  tennis, cash and professor Harriet Rawls. Just  twenty-four, Carmen is at her height as one among the  world's top-seeded tennis champions, decided to win  the coveted Grand Slam. She is safe from  everything however the grueling calls for of her game by way of an  avericious agent and her dedicated gusty Harriet.  All the chances are in her desire. yet there are weeds  growing in her paradise patch. Carmen's vey latin  brother, Miguel, parlays her succes into a  financial apartment of playing cards with offers that include  smuggling, forgery, and fraud. Susan Reilly, Carmen's  archrival and previous lover, leaks be aware of Carms's  relationship with Harriet to the press--and tennis's  best-kept secret's blown right into a front-page  scandal. From the French Open to Wimbledon, jealousies,  ambitions and passions are set to blow up. Now,  with every thing she cherishes at the line, Carmen  must try out the genuine depths of her feelings-both on  and off the court.


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Drawing from the vintage Sense and Sensibility, Tracy Kiely maintains the adventures of Elizabeth Parker, the likable Austen-quoting sleuth, during this witty and fascinating series.

Elizabeth Parker suspected that enjoyable her tasks as maid-of-honor for her ally, Bridget, was once going to be homicide. And no faster is the final grain of rice thrown than she reveals herself staring into the lifeless eyes of Bridget's Aunt Roni, a lady whose loss of life is sort of as universally celebrated as Bridget's nuptials. The horror basically raises whilst Harry, Bridget's cousin, turns into the manager suspect. the assumption is ludicrous to the family members, simply because Harry is among the kindest, such a lot compassionate humans that you can imagine. To complicate concerns, Elizabeth's boyfriend, Peter, seems to be falling for an past love, a beautiful marriage ceremony planner. made up our minds to transparent Harry of the crime, reign in Bridget's impulsive model of sleuthing, and determine the place Peter's middle lies, Elizabeth units her brain to work.

Tracy Kiely has back brilliantly mixed the wit and spunk of Austen's protagonists with a latest, conventional secret. With a colourful solid of characters, the plush environment of a Virginia property, and impossible to resist humor, she provides on all counts.

The tranquility of Cambridge is punctured while Cousin Andrew of the illustrious Faraday kin disappears with out a hint. No time is wasted in summoning Albert Campion and his sleuthing abilities clear of the bustle of Piccadilly to enquire – yet little does he anticipate to be greeted by way of a band of eccentric kin all at daggers with each one other.

Soon there are as many lifeless our bodies as there are pink herrings, and Campion needs to discover the secrets and techniques of the Faraday dynasty prior to one other sufferer falls...

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Feline lethal this Christmas . . .
 
Whisker Jog, New Hampshire, celebrates all issues Christmas, and few issues are extra cherished than the town’s annual vacation cookie pageant. Lara Caphart, who runs the excessive Cliff guard for Cats together with her Aunt Fran, is expecting the fairway mild for a brand-new class: pet-friendly cookies. but if the lady filling in as a last-minute pass judgement on dies after sampling someone’s Santa-themed deal with, Lara’s recipe for fit cat snacks must be wear the again burner.
 
The sufferer, Gladys Plouffe, was once the town’s roundly despised former domestic economics instructor. the manager suspect is the mum of Lara’s ally, who used to be hellbent on jogging away with the bake-off’s money prize. Cryptic clues from past the grave purely deepen the secret, pointing to a cat with remarkable blue eyes—a cat who bears an uncanny resemblance to Lara’s mysterious Ragdoll. As Lara starts a deadly online game of cat and mouse, no longer even her companion are able to cease a superbly clawful killer from getting away with the purr-fect crime . . .
 
Praise for Linda Reilly’s Mysteries
 
“I used to be stored guessing till the ultimate bankruptcy. . . . an ideal comfortable mystery.”
—Susan Furlong, writer of the Georgia Peach Mysteries, on Escape Claws
 
“I completely loved this puzzler of a mystery. Reilly chefs up an ideal recipe of homicide and mayhem during this captivating cozy.”
—Jenn McKinlay, New York Times bestselling writer of the Hat store Mysteries, on
Fillet of Murder
 
“Smart, sassy, and a bit of scary. Everything a very good comfortable may still be!” —Laura Childs, New York instances bestselling writer of the Tea store Mysteries, on Fillet of Murder

Instant New York Times Bestseller

Soon to be a 10-part television sequence starring Patrick Dempsey, Ben Schnetzer, Damon Wayans Jr., and Virginia Madsen

“Unimpeachably terrific.” —The manhattan occasions ebook Review

The publishing phenomenon topping bestseller lists worldwide, with revenues of greater than million copies in Europe and rights bought in additional than 40 countries, The fact in regards to the Harry Quebert Affair is a fast paced, tightly plotted, cinematic literary mystery, and an creative e-book inside of a e-book, by means of a stunning younger writer.
 
August 30, 1975: the day fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan is glimpsed fleeing in the course of the woods, by no means to be heard from back; the day Somerset, New Hampshire, misplaced its innocence.
 
Thirty-three years later, Marcus Goldman, a winning younger novelist, visits Somerset to work out his mentor, Harry Quebert, one of many country’s most valuable writers, and to discover a medication for his writer’s block as his publisher’s time limit looms. But Marcus’s plans are violently upended while Harry is unexpectedly and sensationally implicated within the cold-case homicide of Nola Kellergan—whom, he admits, he had an affair with. because the nationwide media convicts Harry, Marcus launches his personal research, following a path of clues via his mentor’s books, the backwoods and remoted shorelines of recent Hampshire, and the hidden background of Somerset’s electorate and the guy they carry most valuable. to save lots of Harry, his personal writing occupation, and finally even himself, Marcus needs to solution 3 questions, all of that are mysteriously hooked up: Who killed Nola Kellergan? What occurred one misty morning in Somerset in the summertime of 1975? and the way do you write a booklet to save lots of someone’s life?

Brilliantly witty secret from the writer of undesirable mom and Love and Treasure...

Teeter-tottering on the point of sanity, Juliet Applebaum not just solves crimes; she does it with diapers, bottles, and…oh certain, 3 little ones in tow. This time she’ll play hide-and-seek with a few of South Central’s seediest denizens. yet this can be no child’s play…

Their fledgling detective corporation has unfold its wings—and now husband-and-wife crew Juliet Applebaum and Al Hockey, as soon as within the gap, are ultimately flying excessive. A Hollywood legal professional makes use of them usually to scrub up after a few of his less-than-discreet movie star consumers. They see humans come in the course of the doorways in their garage-turned-office, looking security research. additionally they see assurance research circumstances. yet Juliet and Al are approximately to determine: they ain’t obvious nothin’ yet…

Heavenly has come to Juliet with a narrative too unhappy for any detective with a judgment of right and wrong to show down. Her sister, an addict and streetwalker, has grew to become up dead—and the police couldn’t care much less. With any luck—and with plucky Juliet doing all she can—Heavenly will research what she will approximately her sister’s dying and, if attainable, convey the killer to justice. yet it’s tough going undercover while you’re a tall, lovely transsexual…

Ayelet Waldman, a Harvard legislation tuition graduate and previous public defender, is the writer of affection and different most unlikely targets, Daughter's Keeper, and purple Hook street in addition to the Mommy-Track Mysteries, together with such titles as loss of life will get a Time-Out and A Playdate with Death.