In A PRESUMPTION OF DEATH, Jill Paton Walsh tells how World War II changed the lives of Peter, Harriet and their growing family. The story opens in 1940. Harriet Vane - now Lady Peter Wimsey - has taken her children to safety in the country. But the war has followed them: glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous land-girls scandalise the villagers; the blackout makes the night-time lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London. Then the villagés first air raid practise ends with a very real body on the ground - not a war casualty but a case of plain, old-fashioned murder. And even before the second body is found, Lord Peter Wimsey and his brilliant wife are on their way to finding the killer. Views: 46
Liz McCall grew up in a playful winter wonderland but it was never her dream to manage her father's vintage toyshop. However, after he sank his entire police pension into the business, someone needed to help him turn his dreams into reality—and keep him from sneaking off to patrol the not-so-mean streets of East Aurora, NY.The mood goes from nice to naughty when a nervous man, who was trying to have his antique toys appraised, is found in the shop with a lawn dart through his chest. Suddenly, Liz's business plan is plunged into deep freeze, while she and her father find themselves toying with a cold-blooded killer who's playing for keeps.Now, it looks like Christmas might be cancelled for the neighborhood kids if Liz can't wrap up the case in Barbara Early's delightful debut Death of a Toy Soldier. Views: 46
From bestselling author Natalie D. Richards comes a pulse-pounding new thriller about a blizzardy road trip that turns into a disaster.She never should've accepted that ride...Mira needs to get home for the holidays. Badly. But when an incoming blizzard results in a canceled layover, it looks like Mira might get stuck at the Philadelphia airport indefinitely. Until Harper, Mira's glamorous seatmate from her initial flight, comes to the rescue. Harper and her three friends are renting a car to get home and can drop Mira off on the way.But as the drive progresses, the weather conditions quickly turn perilous. And Mira realizes the four other passengers she's stuck with don't actually know one another—they're all strangers.As one by one, they start to turn on each other, Mira wonders: Is one of the other passengers intentionally sabotaging this trip? And, if so, is it possible to stop them before this claustrophobic, anxiety-inducing... Views: 45
Uneventful is the word Denise would have expected to describe her job at Winslow’s Diner. But after the discovery of a body during an attempt to return a lost wallet, Denise is suddenly thrust into danger she hadn’t bargained for. And to top it off, not only does her boyfriend, Justin, inform her that the police never found a body at the house she’d sent them to, she also realizes that she is being stalked by someone driving a red Toyota--the same car she’d seen at the house.
In a fight for their lives, Denise and Justin are forced to seek the help of her Uncle Bob, a private investigator. Unfortunately, she soon learns that her uncle is not the successful person she’d always believed him to be. Now, she must solve the mystery of the missing corpse and boost the confidence of her favorite uncle but her plan must go as clockwork or someone else could wind up dead. Views: 45
The temperature outside is dropping like a stone, but for
Detective Jake Daggers, things are finally heating up. He’s on solid ground
with his partner, Steele, he’s overcome his personal demons, and his most
recent homicide seems delightfully run-of-the-mill.Until someone from Daggers’ past rears his unwelcome head.Now secrets are being unearthed, like roots of a fallen tree—one
that could be rotten to its core. And it’s Daggers doing the digging, without
anyone to watch his back.A chill wind blows, and snowflakes are falling. They
burn—like droplets of CRUCIBLE STEELE. Views: 45
The past won't stay buried forever.November, 1957: Six teenage girls walk in the churning Derbyshire mists, the first chills of winter in the air. Their voices carrying across the fields, they follow the old train tracks into the dark tunnel of the Cutting. Only five appear on the other side. October, 2014: a dying mother, feverishly fixated on a friend from her childhood, makes a plea: 'Find Valerie.' Mina's elderly mother had never discussed her childhood with her daughter before. So who was Valerie? Where does her obsession spring from?DC Connie Childs, off balance after her last big case, is partnered up with new arrival to Bampton, Peter Dahl. Following up on what seems like a simple natural death, DC Childs' old instincts kick in, pointing her right back to one cold evening in 1957. As Connie starts to broaden her enquiries, the investigation begins to spiral increasingly close to home. Views: 45
