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Missing, presumed : a novel
by Susie Steiner
Assigned to the high-profile case of a missing graduate student, brilliant detective and lonelyheart Manon Bradshaw uncovers the abductee's erratic behavior, a close friend's secrets, and the role of a sex offender, while struggling to maintain a professional distance
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Cruel as the grave
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Bill Slider investigates the murder of a fitness trainer whose head was smashed in with a dumbbell and looks for additional suspects despite the girlfriend's clothes being covered in blood in the latest addition to the series following Headlong
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The Body Politic : A Sloan and Crosby Mystery
by Catherine Aird
Book The Calleshire Chronicles, the Sloan and Crosby canon, is a series of 24 novels, the first being The Religious Body (1966) and the most recent Learning Curve (2016).
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Some Die Eloquent : A Sloan and Crosby Mystery
by Catherine Aird
The Calleshire Chronicles, also known as the Sloan and Crosby canon, is a series of 24 crime novels by the English author Catherine Aird. The first The Religious Body appeared in 1966 and the most recent Learning Curve in 2016. Annotation
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The postscript murders
by Elly Griffiths
Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur investigates the seemingly unsuspicious death of a 90-year-old woman with a heart condition who had a very extensive collection of crime novels, each one dedicated to her and each containing a mysterious post-script.
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The lost boys
by Faye Kellerman
Detectives Peter Decker and Tyler McAdams link two suspicious disappearances from an assisted living facility to the case of three missing campers, before the reappearance of a foster son’s biological mother upends Decker’s home life.
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A test of wills : the first Inspector Rutledge mystery
by Charles Todd
Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge returns home suffering from shellshock and the emotional strains of World War I, but he soon goes back to work and must solve a murder case involving the killing of a retired military officer, a crime in which the main suspect is a highly decorated war hero
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Half Moon Bay : a novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
When the decades-old skeleton of a child is discovered at the site of a park demolition, Deputy Coroner Clay Edison unearths devastating community secrets surrounding the long-ago disappearance of his sister.
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Win
by Harlan Coben
A high-suspense follow-up to the best-selling The Boy from the Woods is presented from the viewpoint of Myron Bolitar’s fan-favorite sidekick, Windsor Horne Lockwood III.
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Faithless in death : An Eve Dallas Novel
by J. D. Robb
Investigating a woman whose report about an artist’s murder is not adding up, Eve Dallas uncovers a fanatical conspiracy that leads to Dallas’ partnership with the FBI. By the best-selling author of Vendetta in Death.
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The fire pit
by Chris Ould
Hjalti Hentze and Jan Reyna investigate the discovery of the 40-year old remains of a child that turn up on an isolated farm once used by a commune.
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A shot in the dark
by Lynne Truss
"It's 1957, and the famed theater critic A.S. Crystal has come to the British seaside resort of Brighton with something other than the local production of A Shilling in the Meter on his mind. Sitting in the Brighton Royal Theater with Constable Twitten, Crystal intends to tell the detective the secret he knows about the still-unsolved Aldersgate Stick-Up case of 1945. And yet, just before Crystal names the criminal mastermind involved, he's shot dead in his seat. With a new murder case on his hands and a lazy captain at the helm of the police department, the keen and clever Constable Twitten and his colleague Sargent Jim Brunswick set out to solve the decade-old mystery of the Aldersgate Stick-Up"
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Firewatching
by Russ Thomas
South Yorkshire Detective Sergeant and cold-case reviewer Adam Tyler teams up with ambitious fellow outsider, Muslim constable Amina Rabbani, to investigate a high-profile murder in which the main suspect is the victim’s son, Adam’s recent one-night stand. A first novel.
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Tuesday, MAY 11, 2021 6 pm THEME: LEGAL or MEDICAL Read a mystery that features a legal or medical professional sleuth or setting.
Register online
https://www.wakefieldlibrary.org/library-calendar/ A Zoom Invite will be sent to the email in your registration.
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Lucius Beebe Memorial Library 345 Main Street Wakefield, Massachusetts 01880 781-246-6334 wakefieldlibrary.org |
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