Recommended Mysteries (2001) |
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- Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
- Sean Devine must confront the world of violence and pain he tried to forget when his childhood friend's daughter is murdered, and the investigation brings him face-to-face with a vigilante killer and a man with a dangerous secret.
- Line of Vision by David Ellis
- A young man involved in a love affair with a married woman, Marty Kalish becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance and murder of her husband, despite his protestations of innocence, in a chilling novel of obsession, betrayal, and revenge.
- Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker
- Rescued from an orphanage by Will Trona, a politician, Joe is swept into the maelstrom of power and intimidation that surrounds his adoptive father, but when Will is murdered and Joe begins a manhunt for the killer, he learns of the many secrets his father possessed.
- Black Dog by Stephen Booth
- The disappearance of a fifteen-year-old girl and subsequent discovery of a decayed body in the woods draw Detective Constable Ben Cooper into a strange murder investigation.
- Flight by Jan Burke
- Detective Frank Harriman investigates when the ten-year-old wreckage of the plane carrying Las Piernas police investigator Philip Lefebvre turns up and uncovers links among the apparent sabotage of the plane, ruthless entrepreneur Whitey Dane, police corruption, and the decade-old murders of police commissioner Trent Randolph, his daughter, and an eyewitness.
- Folly by Laurie R. King
- Emotionally devastated by the deaths of her husband and daughter, fifty-two-year-old Rae Newborn seeks refuge on the remote, uninhabited island of Folly, where she hopes to restore the house belonging to her mysterious great-uncle, and finds herself battling melancholy, loneliness, panic, and the feeling that malevolent watchers are threatening her life.
- Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
- Love blossoms between Sookie Stackhouse, a cocktail waitress in rural Louisiana who keeps to herself because of her ability to read minds, and Bill, a tall, dark, and handsome vampire with ties to a creepy crowd that may be responsible for the death of one of Sookie's coworkers.
- A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
- Police Inspector George Bennet, who investigated the never-solved disappearance of thirteen-year-old Alison Carter from her cloistered village decades ago, finds shattering new evidence, leading writer Catherine Heathcote to investigate further.
- Reflecting the Sky by S J Rozan
- Chinese-American detective Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith are caught up in a kidnapping plot when they are hired to deliver a precious heirloom to the grandson of a deceased colleague right before he is abducted.
- Tell No One by Harlan Coben
- Eight years after his beloved wife, Elizabeth, was supposedly abducted, brutalized, and murdered by a serial killer, Beck receives a mysterious communique that suggests that she may still be alive, but he soon discovers that his search for the truth could be setting himself up as the prime suspect in a number of crimes.
- Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger
- Cork O'Connor is called in to investigate when a deadly explosion rocks the lumber mill of Karl Lindstrom, a wealthy, anti-environmentalist industrialist, whose mill is near an ancient tract of pine forest, sacred to the Anishinaabe tribe, when members of the tribe become the prime suspects in the crime.
- The Bottoms by Joe Lansdale
- When young Harry Crane stumbles upon a mutilated body in the local river bottoms, the region beomes trapped in a nightmare of fear and racial tension, as a vicious serial killer stalks the town, a man is lynched, and local law enforcement races against time to find the murderer, in a suspenseful tale set in Depression-era East Texas.
- A Darkness More than Night by Michael Connelly
- The LAPD asks Terrence McCaleb to investigate a series of puzzling murders and quickly discovers that the profile of the killer matches someone with whom he has worked with in the past--Detective Harry Bosch.
- Point Deception by Marcia Muller
- When acclaimed journalist Guy Newberry arrives in a small seaside community to investigate the unsolved murder of two families years ago, the body of a woman washes up at nearby Point Deception, and soon, more murders occur, forcing Guy and Sheriff Rhoda Swift to work together in order to stop a deranged killer.
- Seven Up by Janet Evanovich
- When a senior citzen is charged with smuggling contraband cigarettes, Stephanie Plum and Lula get more than they bargained for--a corpse in the woodshed and an old man on the lam--but Stephanie is more focused on vice cop Joe Morelli who has proposed marriage and a fellow bounty hunter Ranger who is proposing one perfect night.
- Death in Holy Orders by P. D. James
- The untimely death of a young priest in training draws Commander Adam Dalgliesh back to East Anglia to investigate at the request of the young man's father, successful and powerful businessman Sir Alred Treeves, as Dalgliesh finds himself drawn into a complex and violent mystery.
- Cold is the Grave by Peter Robinson
- Maverick police inspector Alan Banks finds himself drawn into London's underworld when he aids his arch-rival Chief Constable Riddle, after the chief's missing daughter turns up on a pornographic website.
- Blood Lure by Nevada Barr
- While studying grizzly bears in Waterton/Glacier National Peace Park on the border of Montana and Canada, ranger Anna Pigeon finds herself in the midst of a series of deadly bear attacks that leave her struggling to re-evaluate her own view of nature.
- The Falls by Ian Rankin
- When a young student mysteriously disappears, Inspector John Rebus and his associate, Detective Constable Siobhan Clarke, come up with two bizarre clues--a carved wooden doll in a coffin and an Internet role-playing game--and must follow a deadly trail of similar dolls and coffins, from Edinburgh's dark body-snatching past to a fiendishly clever modern-day killer.
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