Recommended Mysteries (1999) |
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- ON BEULAH HEIGHT by Reginald Hill
- A psychologically rich whodunit continues the police procedural series featuring Inspectors Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe, as the odd couple delves into the past to investigate the disappearance of four little girls.
- LIAR by Jan Burke
- From the author of the best-selling Hocus comes another tale of reporter Irene Kelly as she investigates a murder that hits too close to home and confronts a killer determined to stop her.
- AN EMBARRASSMENT OF CORPSES by Alan Beechey
- With the discovery of Oliver Swithin's friend's body floating in a Trafalgar Square fountain, London is practically besieged by corpses, each victim having been killed in a bizarre manner by a serial killer with a twisted sense of humor.
- FOUR TO SCORE by Janet Evanovich
- While working for her bail bondsman cousin, Vinnie, Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum finds herself hot on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who seems to be leaving a wide swath of murder and mayhem wherever she goes.
- MOURNING SHIFT by Kathleen Taylor
- Sassy waitress and amateur sleuth takes on greedy relatives, old secrets, and a killer when a mysterious old man, the long-estranged husband of the cook at the Delphi Cafe, turns up dead in the diner's restroom on Halloween.
- BLIND DESCENT by Nevada Barr
- Forced to cope with her claustrophobia and to use all the skills she has developed above ground, park ranger Anna Pigeon enters the dangerous Lechuguilla Cavern in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns National Park to attempt a rescue and learns who she can trust and who can be saved.
- ONE FALSE MOVE by Harlan Coben
- An Edgar, Anthony, and Shamus award winner follows hot-headed sports agent Myron Bolitar as he tries to protect a star of the women's professional basketball league, an attractive athlete whose troubled past may claim both their lives.
- BLOOD WORK by Michael Connelly
- Recuperating from a heart transplant, former FBI agent Terril McCaleb learns that his heart donor died not in an accident but in a horribly brutal, unsolved murder.
- DREAMING OF THE BONES by Deborah Crombie
- A bizarre and powerful connection between 1960s poet Lydia Brooke, who supposedly committed suicide, Duncan Kincaid's ex-wife Victoria McClellan, and Edwardian poet Rupert Brooke leads Duncan Kincaid and his partner-lover Gemma to murder, obsession and secrets hidden for three decades.
- GONE BABY GONE by Dennis Lehane
- Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro delve into the disappearance of a six-year-old girl, involving a strangely cool mother, a pedophiliac couple, and a shadowy police unit.
- THRONES, DOMINATIONS by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
- Newlyweds Lord Peter Winsey and Harriet Vane explore another mysterious turn of events during the short-lived reign of Edward VIII, in this novel, left unfinished and unpublished for almost sixty years.
- THE BALLAD OF FRANKIE SILVER by Sharyn McCrumb
- Obsessed with a nineteenth-century murder in which a young woman was hanged for the crime, Tennessee sheriff Spencer Arrowood suspects that an innocent man is about to die for killing a young couple hiking the Appalachian Trail.
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