Category: Mystery

Having taken nice risks―to immigrate to the US, to take monastic vows―Bengali health professional Meena Chatterjee and Brother Flavian are every one looking security and safety after they come across Johnny Faye, a Vietnam vet, loose spirit, and specialist marijuana farmer. Amid the fields and forests of a Trappist monastery, Johnny Faye patiently cultivates Meena's and Flavian's ability for religion, remodeling all they concept they knew approximately responsibility and hope. In flip they provide him an adventure of civilization except conflict and chaos.

But Johnny Faye's law-breaking units him opposed to a district lawyer for whom the legislations is a device for ambition instead of justice. Their war of words results in a harrowing reckoning that ensnares Dr. Chatterjee and Brother Flavian, who needs to make a life-or-death selection among an act of justice which can precipitate their damage or a betrayal that provides salvation.

Inspired by means of the real-life nation police kidnapping and homicide of a mythical storyteller and petty legal, The guy Who enjoyed Birds engages urgent modern concerns via a undying narrative of ill-fated romance. Celebrated writer Fenton Johnson has woven a continuing, haunting myth exploring the everlasting conflicts among unfastened will and future, politics and nature, the ability of legislations and the facility of affection.

By Parnell Hall

Stanley takes on his first paying purchaser, and lands up framed for homicide. no longer getting paid is simply the icing at the cake.

"Mr. corridor slyly wins our appreciate for Stanley's intelligence and perseverance--qualities that supply him the sting over his bolder and brawnier festival. And the final chortle, too." — Marilyn Stasio, manhattan instances publication Review

"Hall deftly mixes mirth and homicide with a splash of wry philosophy, and his sequence hero ... is a never-failing delight." — The San Diego Union

"Good writing and many laughs make purchaser a winner." — Phil Thomas, AP Books Editor

"The plots are attention-grabbing, the locales actual, the discussion witty, and the characters genuine. those are really strong mysteries. do not omit them!!" — secret News

"Hall serves up one other hugely readable secret starring the most strange deepest eyes ever to take a case." — Booklist

By Jessica Beck

From manhattan occasions Bestselling writer, Jessica Beck, the new Donut secret #18, harmful DOUGH! Suzanne and Jake are ultimately married, however the honeymoon is over too quickly after they locate her mom watching for them on the airport. anyone has murdered the recent police leader of their absence, and the record of suspects include a few of the fogeys closest to them.

By Andrea Camilleri

A New York instances bestseller, Winner of the Crime Writers' Association's foreign Dagger and longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Witty and enjoyable, the Montalbano novels by way of Andrea Camilleri-a grasp of the Italian detective story-have develop into favorites of puzzle lovers in every single place. during this most recent installment, an unidentified corpse is located close to Vigàta, a city identified for its soil wealthy with potter's clay. in the meantime, a girl reviews the disappearance of her husband, a Colombian guy with Sicilian origins who seems to be relating to an area mobster. Then Inspector Montalbano recollects the tale from the Bible-Judas's betrayal, the act of regret, and the money for the potter's box, the place these of unknown or international starting place are to be buried-and slowly, via myriad betrayals, reveals his method to the answer to the crime.

A BEAM OF LIGHT is the latest novel within the Montalbano sequence and is now to be had from Penguin Books

By Laura Ellen

By Edward Marston

It is the juiciest piece of gossip the voters of Norwich have heard for a very long time. the 2 golden elephants that robber baron Richard de Fontenel used to be utilizing to entice the gorgeous Adelaide into marriage were stolen. additionally lacking is de Fontenel's steward Hermer. eager to attempt to forget about this starting to be drawback are Domesday Commissioners Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret, who're prepared to solve a land dispute regarding de Fontenel and Mauger - a guy additionally, attempting to woo Adelaide. De Fontenel, notwithstanding, refuses to co-operate until eventually the thief is located. yet is Hermer the steward rather lacking or has anything extra sinister occurred? In Ralph and Gervase's so much baffling case but, not anything is what it sort of feels and nobody is unfastened from suspicion...

By Reed Farrel Coleman

At a pre-wedding social gathering for his daughter Sarah, Moe Prager is approached by way of his ex-wife and previous PI companion Carmella Melendez. it kind of feels Carmella's estranged sister Alta has been murdered, yet not anyone in ny urban turns out to care. Why? Alta, a FDNY EMT, and her associate had months prior refused to offer counsel to a loss of life guy at a complicated downtown eatery. Moe makes a decision to aid Carmella as a way to distract himself from his personal life-and-death fight. Making headway at the case is not any suggest feat as not anyone, together with Alta's accomplice Maya Watson, desires to cooperate. Moe chips away till he discovers a melanoma roiling slightly below the outside, a melanoma whose signs comprise bureaucratic greed, sexual harassment, and blackmail. yet is any of it attached to Alta's brutal murder?

By Akira Yoshimura

By Amy Myers

Overdue in 1901 Auguste Didier and his Russian bride, Princess Tatiana, are vacationing the Yorkshire seat of the fashioned Tabor relatives for a gala ball the king has promised to wait. girl Priscilla Tabor is dedicated to the background of the family and, made up our minds that tobacco won't sully her Elizabethan tapestries, she dispatches gents who desire to smoke to the some distance finish of the large backyard the place a dismal Gothic folly of tumbling towers and sharp pinnacles has been disbursed for this unseemly goal. Even His Majesty the king is not any exception to the intransigent woman Tabor's principles. regrettably for her ladyship, who's decided that not anything shall move awry with the royal stopover at, the idiosyncratic Tatiana is curious either concerning the smokehouse and in regards to the filthy behavior indulged inside of its partitions. in the midst of the evening, Auguste unearths himself unceremoniously hauled from his mattress via his spouse to examine the physique she has simply came upon there. once more, he's pressured, reluctantly, to play detective - there are lots of secrets and techniques to be printed and questions requested. Is it suicide or homicide? And, much more vital, who's the corpse?

By M. T. Anderson

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