When the walls are glass, there's nowhere to hide No sooner has Detective Erin O'Reilly moved in with her lover, gangster-turned-informant Morton Carlyle, than she gets a call about a body in a fancy downtown hotel. She's expecting a run-of-the-mill homicide, until she finds herself face to face with a beautiful young woman floating in the hotel's aquarium. Below the smooth surface of the luxury hotel, she finds a rotten world of bribes, voyeurism, coercion, and murder. Everybody has something to hide. Erin and her faithful K-9 Rolf will have to plunge into the murky depths to hook their quarry. Meanwhile, her personal life is on a fine line between survival and disaster. With all eyes on her, she will have to balance her family, her job, and her increasingly dangerous double life infiltrating the O'Malley mob. It's a deep dive into another New York murder. It'll take all Erin's grit to pull the truth out into the light. Views: 143
The newest thriller from "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark!When investigative journalist Gina Kane receives an email from a "C Ryan" describing her "terrible experience" while working at REL, a high-profile television news network, including the comment "and I'm not the only one," Gina knows she has to pursue the story. But when Ryan goes silent, Gina is shocked to discover the young woman has died tragically in a Jet Ski accident while on holiday. Meanwhile, REL counsel Michael Carter finds himself in a tricky spot. Several female employees have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against the news company's star anchor. Carter approaches the CEO and the founder's son offering to persuade the victims to accept settlements in exchange for their silence. It's a risky endeavor, but it could well make him rich. As more allegations emerge and the company's IPO draws near, Carter's attempts to keep the story from making headlines are... Views: 143
There is no detective like Ian Rankin's Detective Inspector John Rebus, a man The New Yorker calls "the ideal sleuth." Brilliant, irascible and frequently frustrating to both his friends and his long-suffering bosses, John Rebus has made the dark places of Edinburgh his home for over two decades. THE BEAT GOES ON collects all of Ian Rankin's Rebus short stories for the first time, including two never-before published tales written specifically for this collection. From his beginnings as a young Detective Constable in "Dead and Buried," right up to his dramatic, but not quite final, retirement in "The Very Last Drop," Rebus shines in these stories, confirming his status as one of crime fiction's most compelling, brilliant, and unforgettable characters. In these gripping, fast-paced tales, the legendary Scottish detective investigates the sinister cases that are his specialty, including a gruesome student death, the brutal murder of a woman at the crux of... Views: 141
2nd Lindsay Gordon Mystery. Views: 141
'Crime writing of the very highest order ... Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around' The TimesThere was only one reason Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan was prepared to let her boyfriend help out with the investigation into a car sales fraud – nothing bad could happen. But by now Kate should know that with Richard you have to expect the unexpected. With the unexpected being Richard behind bars, Kate seems to be the obvious choice to look after his eight-year-old son – who proves even more troublesome than his father. Kate finds herself dragged into a world of drug traffickers, child pornographers, fraudsters and violent gangland enforcers... bringing her face to face with death in the most terrifying investigation of her career. Views: 140
Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and
set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank "Hound
Dog" Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange
asking for his help recovering a cheap ring she claims has sentimental
value, the case leads him onto Vaughn's turf, where a local drug
addict's been murdered, shot point-blank in his apartment. Soon both men
are on the trail of a ruthless killer: Red Fury, so called for his
looks and the car his girlfriend drives, but a name that fits his
personality all too well. Red Fury doesn't have a retirement plan, as
Vaughn points out - he doesn't care who he has to cross, or kill, to get
what he wants. As the violence escalates and the stakes get higher,
Strange and Vaughn know the only way to catch their man is to do it
their own way.Rich with details of place and time - the cars,
the music, the clothes - and fueled by non-stop action, this is
Pelecanos writing in the hard-boiled noir style that won him his
earliest fans and placed him firmly in the ranks of the top crime
writers in America. Views: 139
Milo once had a thriving divorce-case business in the small town of in the Pacific Northwest, but because of liberal new divorce laws he has taken to drinking and staring out the window. He's up to his third drink of the morning when an attractive young woman walks into his office and asks him to find her brother. He takes on what seems a routine missing-person case in hopes of getting to know her better, but finds himself involved in what is most definitely the wrong case. Everyone is a victim, one way or another, of a crime that took place long before the novel begins. Views: 138
