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Toyer
by Gardner MckayMaude Garance is the neurologist trying to resurrect Toyer's victims. As she speaks to those who care for them, pleads with those who should be avenging them, her quest for justice spirals into obsession...
The Deserter: Murder at Gettysburg
by Jane LangtonParts of the story are set in the present and parts during the great battle of Gettysburg. As Homer and Mary try to trace the mysterious shame attached to one of her ancestors
The Black Jacket Mystery (Trixie Belden #8)
by Kathryn KennyThere's a new kid in town-a tough boy from New York City who wears a black leather jacket and cowboy boots. Trixie doesn't trust him for a second. Since he arrived, strange things have happened. Honey's fancy watch disapoears and is pawned at a local store. Then someone steals money from the clubhouse. Trixie is sure of one thing, Dan Mangan is trouble!
The Man Who Walked Through Walls
by James Swain"Ladies and gentlemen, for our next act this evening, I would like to introduce a very unusual man." Microphone in hand, master of ceremonies Sir Paul Cromford moved downstage. "His name, Vincent Hardare. Tonight marks the anniversary of his uncle Harry Houdini's first engagement in London. Allow me to present the rightful heir of Houdini, master of the impossible--Hardare."<P><P> So begins this mystery written by a magician himself.
Angell, Pearl and Little God
by Winston GrahamThe lives of a London solicitor, a beautiful shop girl and a prize-fighter become bound together by greed and lust. Over this relationship hangs an atmosphere of violence that erupts into murder.
A Walk In The Darkness
by Jon LandWhat if the greatest event in history never happened? In 1948 a Turkish archaeological team is slaughtered. Fifty years later, a group of American archaeologists, is murdered in the Judean desert.
McNally's Dilemma
by Lawrence SandersGeoffrey is dead. Melva admits to the crime. It's an open-and-shut case until Melva asks Archy to shield her daughter from the press and he escorts gorgeous Veronica home to the McNally manse.
She Smiled Sweetly
by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith3rd in the series featuring FBI agent extrordinaire Poppie Rice. Follows "She's Not There".
Dead Heat
by Nick OldhamWhen the attractive and wealthy mother of one of Christie daughter's horse-riding friends asks him to investigate the mutilation of some of their horses, He soon finds himself running down dead ends.
First Team (First Team #1)
by Larry Bond Jim DefeliceSpecial team composed of the CIA and military special forces track missing nuclear waste being used by terrorists to convert a 747 into a dirty headed for Hawaii.
White Rabbit
by David DanielThe sixties in San Francisco, Haight-Ashbury, the Summer of Love. It's a wistful memory for some, and it brings envious sighs for those too late to experience it. But what about the serial killer?
Ordeal
by William W. JohnstoneMiles from civilization, a hiking party has embarked on a wilderness weekend with little more than their wits and a lust for adventure ... IN THE BITTERROOT MOUNTAINS of Montana, THE DEADLIEST ENEMY IS MAN! PREY BECOMES PREDATOR IN THE ULTIMATE GAME OF SURVIVAL!
The Mystery of Wrecker's Rock (Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators #42)
by William ArdenThe Three Investigators unravel a mystery of a family and friend reunion gone sour. Ghosts, werewolves, and men in mysterious masks are all forces to be reckoned with.
The Hearing (Abe Glitsky #3)
by John LescroartThe call comes at midnight. It looks like a tragic and petty murder-a rising star in San Francisco's legal firm found shot in a dark alley. But for homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky, the crime cuts horribly close to home--unknown to anyone, the victim was his daughter. Seething, Glitsky leans hard on his only suspect--a homeless heroin addict found lingering over his daughter's body, with her jewelry in his pocket and a smoking gun in his hand. The city's embattled, ambitious D.A., Sharron Pratt, sees an opportunity to revive her troubled administration by publicly declaring war on the killer and vowing to deliver the death penalty, putting the case on the fast track to certain conviction. Unable to watch a man die for Pratt's political gain, Dismas Hardy warily takes on the defense. But as Hardy's crusade to secure his client a fair hearing ensues, a lethal web of political corruption, legal conspiracy, and cold blooded murder begins to unravel. In a case that would send shock waves through the city of San Francisco and echo in the private lives of its citizens, the hearing is just the beginning.
By Emminent Domain (Destroyer #124)
by Warren Murphy Richard SapirWhen advanced Russian comandos go on a rampage in Alaska, it is time for Remo and the master of Sinanju to put a hault to their ambitions of soviet rebirth and expanse.
Lawyered To Death: a Karen Hayes mystery
by Michael BiehlThe successful CEO of a Midwest hospital, begins an affair with a hospital receptionist, unaware that she and her husband, are setting him up for an embarrassing and costly sexual harassment claim
The Body in the Cast
by Katherine Hall PageThe quiet little New England town of Aleford is already in the grips of a wickedly exciting local election when they're bombarded by a California movie company filming a modern-day version of The Scarlet Letter. The arrival of the quirky troupe turns out to be a red-letter day for Faith Fairchild, who is hired to cater to the talented tantrum-throwers with the best of her culinary delights. All is going well until an accusation of food poisoning is raised-and leveled right at Faith's kitchen. With her famous Black Bean Soup in question, and her professional reputation on the table, Faith launches her own investigation, and runs smack into a murder most foul...and some morsels of information that could prove lethal.
The Standoff
by Chuck HoganA white supremacist, barricaded with his family on an isolated Montana mountaintop, holding off the cops with assault rifles. A brilliant hostage negotiator who has failed to come to terms with his personal demons, reluctantly taking leadership of the one case he can't afford to lose. A virtual army of state and local cops, national guardsmen, U.S. Marshals, and the FBI's elite hostage rescue team, clawing for jurisdiction, vowing vengeance for fallen comrades. A growing crowd of onlookers, sympathizers, and troublemakers, some willing to turn an isolated battle into an all-out war. A mixture as explosive and unstable as nitroglycerine...
Berried Alive
by Kate KingsburyThe village of sitting marsh is laced with food rations and fear. Residents depend on Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton, lady of the Manor, to see that things go smoothly, including solving murder.
In a Dark, Dark Room (I Can Read! #Level 2)
by Alvin SchwartzA collection of scary stories that go bump in the night.