In suburban Georgetown a killers Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home… In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death… The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief… […]
Wise-cracking, staunchly independent, and chronically curious, Graftons gritty gumshoe Kinsey Millhone is back. This time, the alphabet series star will take on the toughest case to date: her past. What begins as a random phone call from a “storage space scavenger” (someone who buys the contents of defaulted storage units) leads Kinsey to a box […]
The book is a laugh riot like the previous two!! Easy breezy read….Underneath the humor, sarcasm, satire and bumblings of one of Pakistans rich dumb socialites (fictional) Moni also touches on the deep troubling political and social issues Pakistan faces and how their people view these events and learn to live life inspite of such […]
New Yorks trendy magazines are a source of peril when a killer enacts a bizarre dance of death, using the personal ads to lure his victims… After college, best friends Erin Kelley and Darcy Scott move to the city to pursue exciting careers; Erin is a promising jewelry designer, Darcy finds success as a decorator. […]
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone has served Sue Grafton well through 16 letters of the alphabet in a perennially popular series that occasionally breaks new ground but more often traverses familiar territory, as is the case here. Two old, ailing cops–one retired, the other disabled–try to breathe some life into an 18-year-old mystery that haunts them […]
Originally published the year of Agatha Christies death, Sleeping Murder is a novel as legendary as its lead character and its creator…A novel that adheres to the classic mystery formula, and transcends it… A novel that is a must for every mystery reader, marking the final bow of Christies beloved sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. Now […]
When Dowan Purcell, a respected physician who operates a nursing home, disappears, his ex-wife hires Santa Teresa PI Kinsey Millhone to look into it. Fiona Purcell is still seething over Dows affair and subsequent marriage to Crystal, a former stripper, yet theyre still friends, and she seems worried. But when his body is discovered, shes […]
actually takes us back to the era of her first book, The Beekeepers Apprentice. Perhaps King was afraid that her characters, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, were becoming too cozy as an old married couple, and she wanted to recreate the edgy sexual tension of their first encounter. Its 1918. Nineteen-year-old Mary and her fiftysomething […]
“The Moonstone is a page-turner,” writes Carolyn Heilbrun. “It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular.” Wilkie Collins??s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre??the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally […]
Virginias chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is getting ready for a romantic holiday with her retired-FBI-profiler boyfriend, Benton Wesley, when she receives a cryptic and foreboding letter: “Hey DOC, Tick Tock, Sawed bone and fire,” it begins. Even more creepy, the taunting note has been signed by Carrie Grethen, the psychotic killer Kay helped […]
The New York Times Bestseller Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante??s Inferno. Only an elite group of America??s first Dante scholars??Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fields??can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dante??s literary future […]
Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said shed run off with a lover. Some said she was murdered by her husband. But for the not-quite-seven-year-old […]