Category: Police Procedurals

By H. Terrell Griffin

By Tony Hillerman

ISBN-10: 0060547510

ISBN-13: 9780060547516

ISBN-10: 0061092606

ISBN-13: 9780061092602

An historical TrustIs BrokenDuring a Tano kachina rite whatever within the antics of the dancing koshare fills the air with pressure. Moments later the clown is located brutally bludgeoned within the similar demeanour reservation schoolteacher was once killed simply days earlier than. In real Navajo variety, Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Tribal Police return to the start to decipher the sacred clowns message to the folk of the Tano pueblo. Amid guarded tribal secrets and techniques and crooked Indian investors, they discover a path of blood that hyperlinks a runaway schoolboy, useless our bodies, and the mysterious presence of a sacred artifact.

By James Lee Burke

ISBN-10: 1416548548

ISBN-13: 9781416548546

James Lee Burke’s liked Louisiana lawman Dave Robicheaux returns—this time, touring from New Iberia Parish to the wilds of Montana during this adventure-filled sequel to Black Cherry Blues. Dave Robicheaux, his spouse, and his blood brother Clete Purcell have retreated to an outdated friend’s ranch, hoping to spend their days fishing and having fun with their distance from the cruel, gritty panorama of Louisiana post-Katrina. however the serenity is quickly shattered whilst students are came across brutally murdered within the hills in the back of the place the Robicheauxs and Purcell are staying. They quick locate themselves inquisitive about a twisted and unsafe secret concerning a filthy rich, vicious oil multi-millionaire, his deformed brother and lovely spouse, a sexually deviant minister, an escaped con and previous kingdom tune superstar, and a vigilante Texas gunbull out for blood. on the middle of the typhoon is Clete, who can't shake the sensation that he's being haunted via the ghosts from his past—namely Sally Dio, the mob boss he’d sabotaged and killed years ahead of. Deftly weaving difficult, enticing plotlines and unique, compelling characters together with his sleek prose, Burke transcends style another time within the most modern exciting addition to his big apple instances bestselling sequence.

By David Mark

ISBN-10: 0399158650

ISBN-13: 9780399158650

Detective Aector McAvoy returns in an exhilarating new case set in Yorkshire; a sequence of salacious murders has him at the hunt for a sadistic killer in David Mark's significantly acclaimed series.

When "swinger" Simon Appleyard is located strung-up and bare in his Hull residence, the experts are just too chuffed to chalk up his dying to a suicide. in the end, a brand new gang has taken over the neighborhood drug alternate, and Detective Superintendent Trish Pharaoh's critical and arranged Crime Unit is being run ragged via this well-connected and cruel workforce of criminals. With violent drug-related crime at the upward thrust, the very last thing the police desire is an research of a depressed younger man's death.

But extra our bodies start to happen, and all are someway hooked up to the neighborhood underground erotic scene. even supposing Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy will be completely content material to stick at domestic along with his cherished spouse and child child, he starts to suspect that homicide is simply the top of the iceberg. As his clever research brings him uncomfortably on the subject of the neighborhood political elite—powerful those that could kill to maintain their secrets and techniques buried, and who've the facility to make or holiday his career—McAvoy realizes he's looking a killer who has lots extra ambitions in sight, and a lust that won't be chuffed till the River Humber runs crimson.

By Georges Simenon

ISBN-10: 0151555540

ISBN-13: 9780151555543

Translated by way of Eileen Ellenbogen. Peg Leg Lapie, a crusty previous sailor, is located mysteriously murdered in a so much incongruous surroundings: a picturesque cottage close to Paris, the place he lived attended basically by means of his younger housekeeper, Felicie. yet Lapie was once no longer by myself, Maigret, leader inspector of the Paris police, is bound of it.

By Bartholomew Gill

ISBN-10: 0061630039

ISBN-13: 9780061630033

ISBN-10: 0380808633

ISBN-13: 9780380808632

Crime runs rampant within the picturesque city of Leixleap -- and onIreland's famed River Shannon, the place brazen thieves illegally harvestthe gourmet-prized eels that flourish there. yet whereas poachingmay be whatever the neighborhood Eel Police department is well-equippedto deal with, homicide is totally one other matter.Chief Inspector Peter McGarr has been referred to as out from Dublin to enquire a troubling double murder. The nude physique of younger, lovely, and,recently married Eel Policewoman Ellen Gilday Finn has been discoveredin the mattress of a hot-sheet resort -- wrapped round the both unclothedcorpse of her a lot older boss, Pascal Burke. against the law of ardour, possibly, pointing to Ellen's cuckolded newly wedded husband because the offender. yet conflicting clues and fake confessions are prime McGarrinto harmful hidden corners the place greed, corruption, IRA terror andradical, probably lethal, environmentalism are yet some of the,dark blooms secretly nourished within the wealthy loam of the Irish nation-state.

By Carol O'Connell

ISBN-10: 0515135356

ISBN-13: 9780515135350

2010 Retail ePub

Police Detective Kathleen Mallory famous the crime scene: sufferer striking, hair in mouth, hearth burning. It occurred twenty-one years in the past, whilst Mallory was once a baby. She additionally famous the victim...

By Stephen Booth

ISBN-10: 0743216903

ISBN-13: 9780743216906

Probably the most acclaimed new abilities in crime fiction follows up his debut Black puppy with an excellent darker, richly atmospheric novel of suspense set in northern England's top District and starring Detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry.

By M. C. Beaton

ISBN-10: 0446591688

ISBN-13: 9780446591683

Unique e-book: 2003

Trouble is afoot in a Scottish fishing village as Constable Macbeth unearths the pub empty, the church complete, and the air permeated with worry. With assistance from a journalist, Macbeth starts off to ferret out the reality.

By Karin Fossum

ISBN-10: 0151011885

ISBN-13: 9780151011889

ISBN-10: 0156032120

ISBN-13: 9780156032124

Whilst children thieve a handbag from a stroller, it leads to an infant’s loss of life. blind to the enormity in their crime, Zipp and Andreas are motive on committing one other. They stick with an aged lady domestic, and Andreas enters her apartment together with his switchblade. at the hours of darkness, Zipp waits for his pal to come back out.Inspector Konrad Sejer and his colleague Jacob Skarre see no connection among the infant’s loss of life and the said disappearance of an area antisocial. And so whereas the confusion outdoors mounts, the heart-stopping fact unfolds contained in the outdated woman’s home.Unflappable as ever, Sejer digs lower than the skin of small- city tranquility so one can know the way and why violence destroys daily lives. (20060901)