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Killer at Large (Chief Inspector Martineau Investigates)
by Maurice ProcterImprisoned for seven years for killing his fiancée's lover, now Guy Rainer has escaped, and Detective Inspector Martineau is on his trail.Martineau had sent Guy down. Now it's his job to find the escaped prisoner. But in the midst of the hunt for the killer, Martineau is faced with another problem: a nine-year-old girl, Dessie Kegan, has disappeared. Has Dessie been murdered? Has Guy Rainer taken her, for reasons of his own?Martineau has to work fast - and he knows it.
Killer in Crinolines
by Duffy BrownIt’s August in Savannah, Georgia—hardly the season for a traditional Southern wedding with hoopskirts and crinolines. One could die from the heat—or from a cake knife in the back... Reagan Summerside should be devoting all her energy to her consignment shop the Prissy Fox. But when her dear friend Chantilly Parker is arrested for murder, Reagan vows to clear her name. The victim is Simon Ambrose, who’s found lying in his own wedding cake with a knife in his back. Chantilly has motive (Simon broke her heart to marry wealthy Waynetta Waverly) and opportunity (crashing the wedding in her UPS delivery truck). And she has cake on her face, and the stolen bridesmaid dress the killer wore is in her truck. But Chantilly would never wear crinoline to kill a man! With the help of her flamboyant auntie, KiKi, and vexing but attractive attorney Walker Boone, Reagan is determined to save her friend—before she’s forced to turn in her brown uniform for an orange jumpsuit…
Killer in Shellview County (Bureaus of Investigation Mysteries)
by R. Barri FlowersCan a Georgia lawman save herfrom an unstoppable killer? Stumbling upon a body in a wildlife habitat is far from routine for Georgia game warden Tisha Fletcher. The victim—a female hiker—is the third local woman found strangled to death. Assigned to lead the manhunt for a serial killer who leaves no physical evidence behind, GBI Special Agent Glenn McElligott enlists Tisha&’s help. As the body count rises, Glenn can&’t allow his feelings for the plucky widow to overshadow the emerging truth behind the murders. But he&’ll need to act fast before Tisha becomes the monster&’s final prey…From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.Discover more action-packed stories in the Bureaus of Investigation Mysteries series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Killer in Shellview CountyBook 2: Hiding in Alaska
Killer in the Carriage House: A Victorian Village Mystery (Victorian Village Mysteries #2)
by Sheila ConnollyThe second book in the Victorian Village Mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly! After fifteen years away, Kate Hamilton never expected to end up back in her hometown of Asheboro, Maryland full time. And she definitely didn’t expect to be leading the charge of recreating the town as a Victorian village and tourist attraction. But as unexpected as the circumstances are, Kate is ready to tackle them.The town, on the other hand, is going to take some convincing. Ever since Henry Barton’s shovel factory closed down, it’s started to seem like there are more tumbleweeds than tourists rolling down Main Street. Kate’s ideas are good, but ambitious—and her friends and neighbors are worried that finding the money for them would push the town even further into debt.Luckily, Kate and the handsome historian Joshua Wainwright are two very determined people who may have come up with a solution. The Barton mansion, meant to be the centerpiece of the Victorian village, has proven to be a veritable goldmine of documents about the town’s nineteenth-century history, and Kate is convinced the papers hide something of value. When a dead body turns up in the town library—mere hours before the documents were meant to arrive there themselves—Kate begins to worry that the papers spell danger instead of dollars. It seems that someone doesn’t want these forgotten secrets coming to light, and they’ll do whatever it takes to keep Kate quiet…
Killer in the Heartland (The Scarecrow Murders #1)
by Carla CassidyA cyberstalker and a grisly murder…only draw them closer. Clinging to memories, widower Lucas Maddox hires Mary Curtis as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for his daughter. Mary fits into their household perfectly, but inexplicable attacks soon plague her. The danger to her life forces Lucas to consider just what Mary means to him, but can he keep her safe while protecting his heart?From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama.Feel the excitement in these uplifting romances, part of The Scarecrow Murders series:Book 1: Killer in the HeartlandBook 2: Guarding a Forbidden Love
Killer in the Kennel: A Thrilling K-9 Romantic Suspense Book (South Beach Security: K-9 Division #3)
by Caridad PiñeiroHer K-9 found the victims. Can they find the killer?Determined to make his own way, Jose Gonzalez wants no part of the family business. Helping South Beach Security find land for its growing K-9 division should be easy, though—and working alongside search-and-rescue specialist Sara Hernandez is an unexpected perk. When her bloodhound detects two bodies on the property he purchased, everything changes. Jose will be a part of SBS until he&’s certain that Sara is safe. He knows that their attraction is mutual, but will the serial killer they&’re tracking rob them of a future together? From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.Discover more action-packed stories in the South Beach Security: K-9 Division series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Sabotage OperationBook 2: Escape the EvergladesBook 3: Killer in the KennelBook 4: Danger in Dade
Killer in the Kitchen, A Murder She Wrote Mystery
by Donald Bain Jessica FletcherIn the newest mystery in the USA Today bestselling series, there's a battle brewing in Cabot Cove between two eateries. But when one of the combatants becomes a fatality, Jessica Fletcher will have to get cooking and find a killer. Jessica may not know everything about food, but she knows what she likes--and she definitely likes the Leg & Claw restaurant. Opened last summer by young couple Brad and Marcie, the Leg & Claw is their dream come true, combining Marcie's sunny personality with Brad's deft hand in the kitchen. But now their ream is turning into a nightmare. Gerard "Pepe" Lebeouf is a renowned New York City chef who has a summer home in Cabot Cove. And now he's decided to open two new restaurants in Cabot Cove--in an old warehouse right next to the Leg & Claw. As Lebeouf and his crew renovate the warehouse, the people of Cabot Cove slowly come to the realization that the town's newest celebrity may be more trouble than he's worth. His "assistants" are little more than thugs, and the haughty Lebeouf is nowhere near as charming as he seems--leading to a nasty confrontation with Brad. So when Lebeouf is found dead with a knife planted in his chest, Brad naturally becomes suspect number one. But plenty of others had a motive to kill Pepe, and it's up to Jessica to uncover who really added a murder to the menu.
Killer of Men (The Long War)
by Christian CameronIn the epic clash of Greece and Persia, a hero is forged - a monumental novel from the author of the Tyrant series.Arimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing in the battle line for the first time, alongside his father and brother, he shares in a famous and unlikely victory. But after being knocked unconscious in the melee, he awakes not a hero, but a slave.Betrayed by his jealous and cowardly cousin, the freedom he fought for has now vanished, and he becomes the property of a rich citizen. So begins an epic journey out of slavery that takes the young Arimnestos through a world poised on the brink of an epic confrontation, as the emerging civilization of the Greeks starts to flex its muscles against the established empire of the Persians. As he tries to make his fortune and revenge himself on the man who disinherited him, Arimnestos discovers that he has a talent that pays well in this new, violent world - for like his hero, Achilles, he is 'a killer of men'.
Killer on Argyle Street: A Paul Whelan Mystery (The Paul Whelan Mysteries #4)
by Michael RaleighA Chicago PI hunts for a missing kid who fell in with the wrong crowd: “Raleigh presents a genuine good guy in the luckless Whelan” (Publishers Weekly). An elderly woman has asked private investigator Paul Whelan to look into the disappearance of Tony Blanchard—a young man she’d taken in after his parents died. Instead, Whelan discovers a string of murders, all tied to a car-theft ring. All the evidence suggests that Tony is dead as well, but Whelan keeps digging until he finds himself surrounded by a dangerous maze of silent witnesses, crooked cops, and people willing to kill to keep the truth from surfacing. When a friend from Whelan’s past emerges—a friend Whelan thought long dead—his investigation takes a dangerous turn: one that brings him no closer to Tony, and a lot closer to his own demise. “Raleigh’s Paul Whelan series brings to mind the late Ross McDonald’s Lew Archer novels . . . Read Whelan now; he won’t be a secret much longer.” —Booklist
Killer on Kestrel Trail (Eagle Mountain: Critical Response #3)
by Cindi MyersTwo decades later… She&’s determined to get justice for her familyTwenty years after her sister&’s murder, Kelsey Chapman&’s determined to discover the truth behind what really happened on Kestrel Trail. When she arrives in Eagle Mountain, Colorado, she quickly joins forces with search-and-rescue expert Tony Meisner, who found Liz's body and has been haunted ever since. Kelsey needs Tony to solve the mystery…and dodge a murderer who may be hiding in plain sight.From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.Discover more action-packed stories in the Eagle Mountain: Critical Response series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Deception at Dixon PassBook 2: Pursuit at Panther PointBook 3: Killer on Kestrel TrailBook 4: Secrets of Silverpeak Mine
Killer with a Key (Johnny Killain #2)
by Dan J. MarloweThe blonde lay on the bed in 609, her face a puffed, blue, strangled horror. Her name was Ellen Killain, and she was Johnny's ex-wife. His still beloved ex-wife.
Killer's Art
by Tiina Nunnally Mari Jungstedt"One of the best writers of Scandinavian crime fiction."-Harlan Coben"Jungstedt delivers an excellent clammy atmosphere and a constant premonition of weird deaths to come. She's becoming one of Scandinavia's best crime writers, no mean compliment in a crowded field."-The London TimesAfter this weekend his well-ordered life would be turned upside-down, but he was the only one who knew what lay ahead. He had formulated the plans over the past six months, and now there was no going back. His twenty-year marriage would be over when Monday arrived.It is a cold wintry morning in the picturesque port town of Visby when art dealer Egon Wallin's battered and naked body is found hanging from a gate in the town's old city walls. When the famous painting "The Dying Dandy" is stolen in Stockholm, disturbing links to Wallin's murder slowly start to surface, taking the reader into the glittering world of the Swedish art elite and shadowy underground of prostitution and drugs. In this spine-chilling novel, superintendent Anders Knutas is facing one of the toughest investigations in his career."Mari Jungstedt creates the special atmosphere of Nordic crime-that land of snow and ice that fires our imagination."-Jane Jakeman, The Independent"There is an icy dispassionate grip to Jungstedt's writing that recalls Henning Mankell."-Metro"For some considerable time, cognoscenti of the best Scandinavian crime fiction have been aware that Mari Jungstedt's Inspector Knutas novels are among the most rarefied and satisfying pleasures afforded by the field."-Barry Forshaw, author of Death in a Cold Climate: A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction Writers"Swedish Crime fiction writer, Mari Jungstedt, keeps getting better and better. . . .[Killer's Art] is a very enjoyable book, excellently written. . ."-Nordic Bookblog"Killer's Art is a classic demonstration of just why Mari Jungstedt is held in such high esteem."-CrimeTime, blog"The Killer's Art is the fourth book in the Knutas/Berg series-similar to the police procedurals of Peter Robinson. It hasn't been published in the US, which is a pity because it's one of my favorite Swedish series."-PopGoesFiction, blog
Killer's Choice: A Novel (Jack Dana #3)
by Louis BegleyMarine-turned-novelist Jack Dana is back in Louis Begley's most intense, suspenseful, and deadly adventure yet.With the death of his nemesis, corrupt business mogul Abner Brown, retired Marine Jack Dana thought he could finally return to his peaceful career as a novelist. And after falling hard for Heidi Krohn, the glamorous high-powered lawyer who helped avenge his best friend's death, Jack is beginning to dream of starting a family of his own. But dark forces intervene to upend Jack's comfortable new life. When two of his Uncle Harry's closest friends are brutally murdered in their own home, Jack swears he will get to the bottom of what could have prompted such a vicious attack. The answers he begins to uncover are shocking. A career criminal, long hidden in the shadows of Abner Brown's organization, has gone rogue after his benefactor's death and has made it his mission to get even with the man who ruined Abner: Jack Dana. With the help of his old friends in the CIA, Jack scrambles to bring down this terrifying new threat, and when Heidi and her family are kidnapped, Jack is forced to make the most painful choice of all. In Killer's Choice, master stylist Louis Begley returns to Jack's Upper East Side millieu in full force, reprising familiar characters and introducing memorable new faces, and concluding Jack's chilling saga with his most violent crescendo to date.
Killer's Ink (The Pete Brady Mysteries #1)
by Malcolm Shuman M. S. KarlHis career in shambles, a newspaperman looks for a new start in rural LouisianaPete Brady is in a bar on Magazine Street, halfway through his third Manhattan, when he gets a message from the New Orleans underworld. In response to Pete&’s recent investigation into drug trafficking, they have sent him a message: slitting his favorite source&’s throat, ear to ear. Even a Pulitzer Prize can&’t get that image out of Pete&’s head, and so he bolts, moving to desolate Troy, Louisiana, where he buys a failing newspaper and tries to turn it into a force for good. But death is not through with Pete Brady.While tidying the graves in the local churchyard, a group of society ladies discover the body of Frieda Troy MacBride, gossip columnist, whose acid tongue has finally gotten her killed. As he struggles to keep his little paper from going under, Brady must unmask this small-town slayer before every writer on staff meets the same fate.
Killer's Ink (The Pete Brady Mysteries #1)
by Malcolm Shuman M. S. KarlHis career in shambles, a newspaperman looks for a new start in rural LouisianaPete Brady is in a bar on Magazine Street, halfway through his third Manhattan, when he gets a message from the New Orleans underworld. In response to Pete&’s recent investigation into drug trafficking, they have sent him a message: slitting his favorite source&’s throat, ear to ear. Even a Pulitzer Prize can&’t get that image out of Pete&’s head, and so he bolts, moving to desolate Troy, Louisiana, where he buys a failing newspaper and tries to turn it into a force for good. But death is not through with Pete Brady.While tidying the graves in the local churchyard, a group of society ladies discover the body of Frieda Troy MacBride, gossip columnist, whose acid tongue has finally gotten her killed. As he struggles to keep his little paper from going under, Brady must unmask this small-town slayer before every writer on staff meets the same fate.
Killer's Island
by Anna Jansson Enar Henning KochThe Gotland Island myth of the White Sea-Lady-a young bride who drowned on her wedding night lures men into the watery depth-is conjured up one midsummer morning, just before a nurse is found murdered in a wedding dress. Detective Inspector Maria Wern is put on the case to investigate, but soon realizes she is under observation by the killer.
Killer's Kiss (Fear Street #Bk. 42)
by R. L. StineFear Street -- where your worst nightmares live... Delia and Karina are always competing. From getting the best grades, to being the most popular, to dating the cutest guys -- they always fight for the top spot. This year, they both want Vincent -- the hottest guy at Shadyside High. Karina's determined to get Vince. She'll do whatever it takes. And if she can't have him, she'll make sure no one else can either.... Including Delia.
Killer's Law
by L. Ron HubbardUnlock your Inner Sherlock... Sheriff Kyle of Deadeye, Nevada has traveled to the nation's capital to personally bring evidence against one of the state's wealthiest copper kings. But instead of giving his findings to the senator he's supposed to meet, Kyle discovers a trail of blood moments before he's knocked unconscious. Kyle awakens to the flashing bulbs of reporters and harsh voices of police demanding to know why he's killed the popular politician. Things look particularly bleak--he's got no alibi, no memory of who knocked him out, and his five-inch knife is sticking out of the corpse--casting all suspicions his way. ALSO INCLUDES THE MYSTERY STORIES "THEY KILLED HIM DEAD", "THE MAD DOG MURDER" AND "THE BLOW TORCH MURDER" "...some of the most carefully and beautifully crafted trade paperbacks of our time." --Mystery Scene
Killer's Prey (Conard County: The Next Generation #16)
by Rachel LeeFirst love. A second chance. A life on the line. Visit Conard County for heart-stopping romantic suspense from the New York Times–bestselling author.After escaping an attacker who wanted her dead, Nora Loftis is forced to return to Conard County. She needs to heal; she just didn’t expect to do it on Jake Madison’s Wyoming ranch. The full-time cowboy and part-time police chief was her first love, her only love. And now, with her attacker on the loose, he’s her only hope of survival.Like a vigilant sentry, Jake vows to protect her. Like a tender lover, his arms provide a haven, his kisses a promise. But Nora is a psychologist, and she knows the mind of her attacker. She knows he’s coming for her—to finish what he started.“This tender story—with a vulnerable, broken heroine who gains strength and the strong, genuine rancher who helps her heal—tugs at the heartstrings.” —RT Book Reviews (4 1/2 stars)
Killer's Wake
by Bernard CornwellWhen John Rossendale, the 28th Earl of Stowey, is called home to see his dieing mother, he has been living the life of a penniless sea gypsy. Although he doesn't want to go home, he honors his mother's dieing wishes. He and his boat Sunflower return only to find he is once again in the middle of a mystery involving a missing Van Gogh. The painting had disappeared 4 years earlier, and John was the prime suspect.
Killer's Wedge (87th Precinct #7)
by Ed McbainHer game was death and her name was Virginia Dodge. She was out to put a bullet through Steve Carella's brain, and she didn't care if she had to kill all the boys in the 87th precinct to do it. So Virginia, armed with gun and bottle of nitroglycerin, spent a quiet afternoon in the precinct house, terror ising Lieutenant Byrnes and his detectives with her clever little homemade bomb. They all sat waiting there for Steve Carella. Could all the men of the 87th, prisoners of one crazy broad, be powerless to save Carella from his rendezvous with death...? In one of his most dazzling novels of the 87th Precinct, Ed McBain exposes the dangerous loyalties that both keep the boys of the 87th together, and threaten to tear them apart.
Killer, Come Back To Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury
by Ray BradburyCelebrating Ray Bradbury's centennial, a deluxe illustrated commemorative collection of his finest crime stories -- tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy.Time travelers...dark carnivals...living automata...and detectives? Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known crime fiction, published in a high-grade premium collectible edition, features classic stories and rare gems, a number of which became episodes of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER, including the tale Bradbury called "one of the best stories in any field that I have ever written."Is it murder to destroy a robot if it looks and speaks and thinks and feels like a human being? Can a ventriloquist be incriminated by the testimony of his own dummy? Can a time traveler prevent his younger self from killing the woman they both loved? And can the survivor of a pair of Siamese twins investigate his own brother's murder? No other writer has ever rivaled the imagination and narrative gifts of Ray Bradbury, and the 20 unforgettable stories in this collection demonstrate this singular writer's extraordinary range, influence and emotional power.
Killer, Come Hither: A Novel (Jack Dana #1)
by Louis BegleyFrom the master observer of upper-crust New York life comes a sly, pacey international thriller ranging from the suites of an elite Manhattan law firm to the tidy elegance of Sag Harbor and the rough and tumble western plains of Brazil. Jack Dana, a star history student at Yale with a bright future in academia, feels called to military service after 9/11. His career as a Marine infantry platoon leader is cut short by sniper fire that sends him to Walter Reed Hospital, where he begins writing a novel about his wartime experiences. Helping Jack through recovery is his uncle Harry, Jack's surrogate father and a partner in a leading New York law firm. Harry's connections secure Jack a publisher. His work is critically and commercially successful. Life after Afghanistan is falling into place, and a three-month trip to South America seems a fitting reward. But his return home is marred by shocking news: Uncle Harry is dead, hanged in his Sag Harbor summer home, clearly a suicide.Horrified and incredulous, Jack digs into the facts surrounding his uncle's death. Aided by Harry's most trusted associate, Kerry Black, and by his college friend Scott Prentice, who now works for the CIA, Jack discovers that Harry had pierced the secret of his most important client, Abner Brown, a right-wing multibillionaire notorious for backing extremist causes. The stakes and dangers are huge. Harry's death now seems anything but a suicide. Delays of law are not for Jack when it comes to avenging his uncle. He takes matters into his own hands. Louis Begley's taut, intelligent thriller takes readers from the knotty politics of New York law firms to the intimacy of life on the Long Island shore, all with his trademark wit and nuance.ll with his trademark wit and nuance.
Killer.com
by Kenneth Eade Antonia MarianiDESCRIZIONE DEL LIBRO L'omicidio è a portata di click nell'ultimo libro della serie legal thriller numero 1. E se uccidere qualcuno fosse facile come cliccare un pulsante e nessuno ne venisse mai a conoscenza? Cosa faresti? In quest'ultimo capitolo della serie legal thriller, un gruppo di anonimi stalker cibernetici tormenta l'avvocato Brent Marks con messaggi diffamatori su Internet. Quando Marks li cita in giudizio per fermare le loro diffamazioni, gli stalker si nascondono dietro l'immunità del Communications Decency Act. Poi appare un misterioso e anonimo assassino su noleggio, e Brent si trova dalla parte sbagliata della legge. Recensioni "Coloro a cui piace Grisham e gli argomenti giuridici, e che apprezzano trovare una dose maggiore di realtà nella finzione, troveranno in Killer.com una delle opere più formidabili di Eade. Uno scenario saldamente radicato nel mondo reale e fortemente rinvigorito da un finale discutibile e sorprendente lo rende un thriller complesso e squisitamente riuscito!" - Midweòt Book Review "Lasciate che Kenneth faccia luce sulle possibilità che la rete nasconde, concedendoci nel frattempo un altro giro eccitante sulla sua superba prosa. Altamente raccomandato." - Grady Harp, Amazon Hall of Fame and Top 100 Reviewer "Un thriller mozzafiato con una trama unica che terrà i lettori col fiato sospeso!" - InD'tale Magazine
Killer.com
by Kenneth EadeExperimente el suspenso y el misterio de los mejores thrillers legales de ficción más vendidos y ganador de los Beverly Hills Book Awards al mejor thriller legal y una medalla de bronce en ficción. Misterio y asesinato del favorito de los lectores Premios de libros. Los críticos llaman al autor "uno de los escritores de suspenso más fuertes de la escena". ¿Y si asesinar fuera tan fácil como hacer clic en un botón? Una turba de acosadores cibernéticos anónimos atormenta al abogado Brent Marks con publicaciones difamatorias en Internet en esta quinta novela de la serie de suspenso legal. Cuando aparece un misterioso asesino anónimo a sueldo, el abogado Marks se ve acusado de asesinato y en una carrera desesperada para demostrar su inocencia.