Category: Police Procedurals

By Henning Mankell, Dick Hill, Inc. Blackstone Audio

5th within the Kurt Wallander series.In an African convent, 4 nuns and a unidentified 5th girl are brutally murdered--the demise of the unknown girl coated up via the neighborhood police. A yr later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled through murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired motor vehicle broker and chook watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch at the back of his secluded domestic, and the physique of a lacking florist is discovered--strangled and tied to a tree. the single clues Wallander has to head on are a cranium, a diary, and a photograph of 3 males. What ensues is a case that might try out Wallander’s energy and persistence, simply because as a way to become aware of the explanation in the back of those murders, he'll additionally have to discover the elusive connection among those deaths and the sooner unsolved homicide in Africa of the 5th girl.

By Anne Bishop

By Joyce Meyer; Deborah Bedford

Inadvertently preventing a theft while she makes an opportunity determination, fourteen-year-old Jenny Blake forges a life-changing friendship with omit Shaw, who introduces Jenny to her surrounding group and teaches her approximately assembly painful existence demanding situations via religion

By W. E. B. Griffin

Officer Matt Payne is assigned to guard a witness to a theft and homicide of an blameless bystander through terrorists. In a perilous disagreement, Payne kills one of many terrorists . . . and his hame is further to their hit checklist. "(Griffin) captivates you with characters the way in which few authors can."--Tom Clancy. unique.

By Donna Leon

In The Golden Egg, because the first leaves of autumn start to fall, Vice Questore Patta asks Brunetti to appear right into a minor shop-keeping violation devoted via the mayor’s destiny daughter-in-law. Brunetti has little interest in aiding his boss amass political favors, yet he has little selection yet to conform. Then Brunetti’s spouse, Paola, involves him with a request of her personal. The mentally handicapped guy who labored at their dry purifier has simply died of a dozing tablet overdose, and Paola loathes the concept that he lived and died with out somebody noticing him, or assisting him.

Brunetti starts off to enquire the loss of life and is stunned while he reveals not anything at the guy: no start certificates, no passport, no driver’s license, no charge cards. so far as the Italian executive is worried, he by no means existed. Stranger nonetheless, the lifeless man’s mom refuses to talk to the police, and assures Brunetti that her son’s id papers have been stolen in a housebreaking. As secrets and techniques get to the bottom of, Brunetti suspects that the Lembos, an aristocratic relatives, should be someway attached to the loss of life. yet why might a person wish this candy, simple-minded guy lifeless?

By James McClure

“James McClure's first novel arrives like a slam within the kidneys . . . a gripping variety, actual characters, and an unique locale. . . . The Steam Pig won't purely retain the reader's nostril to the web page, it is going to additionally make [him] think.”—The manhattan instances publication evaluation within the debut secret that includes Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi set in South Africa, a stunning blonde has been killed by way of a bicycle spoke to the guts, Bantu gangster kind. Why? James McClure used to be born in Johannesburg. Je released 8 wildly winning books within the Kramer and Zondi sequence. He died on June 17, 2006.

By James Lee Burke

Big apple occasions BESTSELLING writer JAMES LEE BURKE THE NEON RAIN Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. misplaced with no his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the depth and dusky secret of latest Orleans' French zone -- where he calls domestic, and where that almost destroys him whilst he turns into considering the case of a tender prostitute whose physique is located in a bayou. Thrust into the area of drug lords and fingers smugglers, Robicheaux needs to face down a subterranean legal international and are available to phrases along with his personal bruised middle to be able to live on.

By Matthew J. Costello

By Marcia Talley

By K. J. Erickson

2013 Kindle booklet release

Tired of the politics, exposure and never-ending nights that flatter significant homicides, Detective Mars Bahr and his accomplice Nettie Frisch have moved to the chilly Case Unit, which covers the Minneapolis Police Department's oldest unsolved situations. certainly one of their first assignments is tackling the murders of rural comfort shop staff, which leads them to a sixteen-year-old lacking individuals case.

In 1986, seventeen-year-old Andrea Bergstad used to be operating on my own at evening at a rural Minnesota gasoline station whilst she vanished and not using a hint. at the store's fuzzy safeguard videotape, one minute she's there, conversing at the mobilephone to her ally, and the subsequent she's long gone. Now, 16 years later, Mars is going again to Redstone, Minnesota, to attempt to place jointly the items of this baffling case.

In Redstone, Mars meets retired sheriff Sig Sampson, off the task for numerous years yet haunted by means of the Bergstad case love it used to be the previous day. Sig Sampson is the one one who may also help Mars do what should be performed that allows you to resolve it: His reminiscence is the one factor which may take this chilly case and make it hot.

Mars and Sig dive into the research, and Mars quickly starts to imagine that their exertions gets them someplace. yet his obstacle over the main points distracts him from the larger matters within the case, and ahead of he is aware it, the lives of the 2 most vital humans in Mars' existence are at risk.

As along with her latest acclaimed novel, The final Witness, KJ Erickson offers a fast paced, enticing, and miraculous mystery.