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In honor of the 25th anniversary of Motherless Brooklyn—a hardcover omnibus edition of two of the most acclaimed novels by one of America’s most inventive novelistsMotherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, is a compulsively readable riff on the classic noir detective novel. Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourette’s symptoms drive him to rip apart language in startling and evocative ways. Charismatic Brooklyn mobster Frank Minna serves as a father figure to Lionel and three of his fellow veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, employing them in his limo service and detective agency. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, Lionel’s world is turned topsy-turvy, and he sets out to untangle the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head.  The Fortress of Solitude is the story of two motherless boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude, growing up as neighbors in 1970s Brooklyn. Because Dylan is white and Mingus is Black, their friendship is not simple. Neither is their neighborhood, where the entertainments range from muggings to joyous games of stoopball, and where the smallest decisions—what music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid seated next to you, whether to give up your lunch money—are laden with potential disaster. Through the knitting and unraveling of the boys’ friendship, Jonathan Lethem weaves a rich and emotionally gripping story that encompasses race and class, superheroes, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti, incarceration, loyalty, and memory. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

Moira Gallagher has been conversing with ghosts since she was five. Now as an adult, she's finally putting that gift to good use. Moira's ability to talk with the dead gives her fledgling detective agency, Gallagher Investigations, an edge in uncovering secrets the past has buried. With the help of her sisters, Nuala and Deirdre, she assists those unsettled spirits in finding peace by righting the wrongs done to them before they found themselves on the Other Side. Moira is convinced that the departed spirits don't have the power to harm the living ... until they do. The past collides with the present as these endearing Irish sisters solve cold-case murders and mayhem through their dreams, paranormal visitations, and a healthy dose of spunk; and in the process, discover how much they need each other as they join forces against their adversaries, both spectral and human.

"The murder of a local contractor may be the final nail in the coffin for Tricia Miles in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling Booktown series. It's a busy summer in Booktown. Contractor Jim Stark is in great demand: he's overseeing a number of projects, including Angelica Miles's newly constructed building on Main Street, finishing up the new brew pub, and gutting a stone mansion off Main Street that Angelica bought to be the world headquarters for Nigela Ricita Asssociates. Located on one of the side streets, it'll house office space where her marketing staff and the rest of the NR Associates clerical personnel will work. Tricia Miles and Angelica arrive at the mansion before their workday to see how the construction is going. They find the place unlocked and Stark's right-hand man, Sanjay Arya, dead-bludgeoned to death. The loss of the contractor's top man threatens all the projects in the works, which would effectively ruin the expensive marketing plan that the Chamber of Commerce has been working. Is Jim a suspect? (He'd be stupid to kill the person he depends on to keep the projects going.) But Stark also thinks his wife, who was very chummy with Sanjay, might have been cheating on him with the second-in-command, making him a likely suspect. Once again Tricia finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation, but can she find the killer before he or she has the chance to bring the hammer down?"--

"Kathleen is busy running the library and planning her upcoming wedding to detective Marcus Gordon when she suddenly stumbles across a body in the library. She is surprised to learn that the deceased was in the middle of an unlikely heist--it seems like he was trying to steal one of the paintings that had been in a box in the library's workroom. Kathleen never knew any of the library's rotating artwork was valuable and can't imagine what the dead man wanted with it. But then an art history expert called in by the police identifies the almost-purloined painting as a piece that might have been part of a previous high profile art theft"--

"Flavia de Luce has taken on the mentorship of her odious, moon-faced cousin Undine, who has come to live at Buckshaw following the death of her mother. Undine's main talent, aside from cultivating disgusting habits, seems to be raising Flavia's dander, although in her best moments she shows potential for trespassing, trickery, and other assorted mayhems. When Major Greyleigh, a local recluse and former hangman, is found dead from a breakfast of poisonous mushrooms, suspicion falls on the de Luce family's longtime cook, Mrs. Mullet. After all, wasn't it she who picked the mushrooms, cooked the omelette, and served it to Greyleigh in the moments before his death? 'I have to admit, ' says Flavia, an expert in the chemical nature of poisons, 'that I'd been praying to God for a jolly good, old-fashioned mushroom poisoning. Not that I wanted anyone to die, but why give a girl a gift such as mine without giving her the opportunity to use it?'"--

"In the hilarious follow-up to Grave Expectations, Claire and the gang are back, getting their timbers shivered by a mystery involving feuding ghost pirates, buried treasure, and murder... Claire Hendricks can see ghosts, but she can't see herself having a fun vacation. Yet when her new friends/found family, Basher and Alex, insist, Claire and her dead BFF, Sophie, pack themselves off to a remote Irish island. This tempest-tossed isle is indeed full of noises: not only is the hotel where the gang is staying double booked with a posh private party, the island's crumbling old fort is being fought over by rival ghost pirates. In death, as in life, they're vying over a legendary stash of loot, supposedly hidden somewhere on the island or in the surrounding rough seas... ...which, inevitably, are whipped up into a terrific storm, stranding everyone - living and dead - on the island. Claire is already fighting off anxious And Then There Were None vibes before one of the other guests turns up murdered. With Basher distracted by a handsome Irish seaman and Sophie stretching the limits of her tether to flirt with a dead pirate with dubious intentions, it's up to Claire to solve the mystery of three-hundred-year-old buried treasure and figure out who's picking off party guests-before the whole gang meets a grim, Agatha Christie-like fate"--

Springdale is the same quaint little town Jessie Henderson remembers from her childhood... until somebody winds up dead. It was supposed to be a fresh start after losing her job and getting divorced, but the day after Jessie Henderson moves to Springdale, the whole town is thrown into chaos by the news that somebody has been murdered. Worse still, one of the last places the victim was seen was in Jessie's aunt's coffee shop. Jessie doesn't know the first thing about police investigations, but she can't help but get involved when she discovers that one of her childhood friends is the prime suspect and nobody believes that she's been set up. Can Jessie save her friend and avoid putting herself in danger?

Stefan, ein ehemaliger Mitarbeiter der Stadtverwaltung, genießt seinen Ruhestand unter anderem mit sportlichen Aktivitäten wie Schwimmen oder Fahrradtouren. Auf einer seiner Fahrten durch das Braunshardter Tännchen macht er eine schaurige Entdeckung. Im Wald findet er die Leiche eines ihm bekannten Mädchens, das er noch kurz vorher getroffen hatte. Als er selbst von der Kriminalpolizei verdächtigt wird, beginnt er auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln.Eine Beziehungstat, wie so oft bei Gewaltverbrechen? Ein Sexualverbrechen oder gar die Tat eines Serienmörders? Stefan recherchiert auch im politischen Umfeld des Mädchens. Könnten politische Machenschaften etwas damit zu tun haben? Durch seine Nachforschungen begibt sich Stefan in eigene Gefahr.

In the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, criminology lab partners, Buck and Gretchen, stumble upon a gruesome crime scene during one of Buck's routine cannabis deliveries. The curious college students start their own murder investigation when they uncover hidden records from the dead couple - records that the murderers are desperate to destroy. Federal agencies, arsonists, and shadowy figures in a white pickup truck complicate the case. Buck and Gretchen struggle to unravel the perplexing murder mystery while fighting to save their own lives in a deadly game that has quickly become their reality.

Clara Bardés, kleindochter van een beroemde overleden schilder, is ingehuurd om een reeks schilderijen te restaureren, waarvan sommige dateren uit de Middeleeuwen, die worden bewaard in de Notre-Dame-kathedraal in Parijs. Tijdens een eenzaam bezoek aan het bovenste deel van het gebouw, wanneer de toeristen al zijn vertrokken, ziet ze het misvormde silhouet van Ergaster, een perverse folteraar van wie ze dacht dat hij dood was en van wie ze een ander slachtoffer had kunnen zijn, samen met professor Alba Longa, ware het niet dat op het laatste moment, Commissaris Tynianov kwam tussenbeide. De kathedraal sloot zich achter haar en de misdadiger, die haar blijkbaar niet had gezien, bleef binnen. Eenmaal in haar appartement belde ze doodsbang Alba Longa en hij nam contact op met Tynianov. Tussen hen drieën, trekkend aan de draad van de aanwezigheid in de kathedraal van deze moordenaar, een specialist in de zogenaamde "dood van duizend snijwonden", ontdekken ze een vreselijke samenzwering, waarvan de rampzalige gevolgen de komende dagen worden verwacht.

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. DISCOVER THE NEW JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHRINES OF GAIETY'How delicious to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world but soon becomes a landscape that could only have been crafted from the pen of the incomparable Kate Atkinson' Ian Rankin'Christie would be proud . . . I defy you not to snort with laughter as the novel progresses to its farcical denouement. Atkinson is brilliant' Observer*****Welcome to Rook Hall.The stage is set. The players are ready. By night's end, a murderer will be revealed.Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise when he is called to a sleepy Yorkshire town, and the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting.But one theft leads to another, including the disappearance of a valuable Turner from Burton Makepeace, home to Lady Milton and her family.Once a magnificent country house, Burton Makepeace has now partially been converted into a hotel, hosting Murder Mystery weekends.As paying guests, a vicar, an ex-army officer, impecunious aristocrats, and old friends converge, we are treated a fiendishly clever mystery; one that pays homage to the masters of the genre-from Agatha Christie to Dorothy Sayers.Brilliantly inventive, with all of Atkinson's signature wit, wordplay and narrative brio, Death at the Sign of the Rook may be Jackson Brodie's most outrageous and memorable case yet.****'Sharp, droll and knowing as ever, Atkinson has huge fun with the set-up; the supporting cast is terrific, and the rueful Brodie, ever more mindful of the passing years, feels like an old friend.' Guardian'Delicious character studies... fine writing, wit, originality and eccentricity - even as it induces a warm glow' Telegraph'Another brilliant addition to her impressive oeuvre, Atkinson masterfully blends intricate plotting with rich character development, delivering a mystery that is both intellectually stimulating and emotionally engaging.' Glamour'The set-up is a delight, paying homage to traditional Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries - the characters are well-drawn, their stories unfolding alongside each other until gradually the strands unite, keeping the reader guessing how they will ultimately tie together. A great read.' PA Media'Superior writing...a highly entertaining read' GraziaKate Atkinson, Sunday Times bestseller, August 2024

Sometimes, time doesn't heal all wounds...When a young woman named Sabrina disappears without a trace in Kansas, private investigator V.I. Warshawski knows she must act fast. But when she discovers Sabrina close to death in a drug house, the locals don't take kindly to her - and Sabrina's mother becomes suspicious. V.I. finds herself under the sharp gaze of the FBI - and the men running the county's opioid distribution. And when a dead body surfaces a few days later, V.I. is pitched headlong into a battle between the locals - with roots that date all the way back to the American Civil War.The war might be over, but its legacy remains - and V.I.'s survival depends on keeping one step ahead in a game she doesn't even know she's playing...

In the Cornish coastal village of Porthenev, a storm of blood-soaked violence is brewing...Escalating acts of sabotage are threatening the livelihoods of local fishermen. Desperate to apprehend the culprit, they turn to private investigator Blake Hollow for help.A seasoned veteran in wrangling dangerous criminals, Blake still grapples with her own ghosts, but views this case as just another routine assignment. Little does she know, the fishermen of Porthenev are harbouring secrets darker than the ocean. And the deadliest of them all is about to resurface.When one of the men vanishes without a trace, Blake is unnerved by the nightmarish crime scene left behind in his wake. As she delves deeper into the heart of this once tight-knit community, she discovers the price of keeping silent is paid not just in blood but in a chilling conspiracy that threatens to consume everyone involved. Now Blake must navigate treacherous waters to solve a mystery unlike any she's encountered before-and stop a sadistic killer with a taste for flesh, who is hellbent on exacting gruesome retribution.The Dark Below by Malcolm Richards is a gripping and relentless crime thriller that will leave readers on the edge of their seats, craving the next twist in this pulse-pounding tale of suspense and revenge.

Wyoming private detective Reese Golden and Meadowlark Valley police detective Jeremy Savage investigate the disappearance of a local rancher's daughter, along with the brutal murder of her friend.

When the bones of a woman are dug up on a beach in Dorset whose are they? How do they connect with Nessa Halloran's present life as memories of her English post-war childhood emerge to haunt her?

As part-time Tinker’s Cove reporter Lucy Stone says oui to her daughter’s surprise wedding invitation in France, she must also make a different kind of vow—to catch a killer!When Lucy Stone arrives at a sprawling French chateau with the whole family, it should be the trip of a lifetime—especially because she’s about to watch her oldest daughter marry the man of her dreams. But while navigating the vast countryside estate owned by her impenetrably wealthy in-laws-to-be, the jet-lagged mother of the bride has a creeping feeling that Elizabeth’s fairytale nuptials to Jean-Luc Schoen-Rene are destined to become a nightmare . . .Her maternal instincts are validated the moment a body is pulled from a centuries-old moat on the property. A young woman has dropped dead under mysterious circumstances—possibly at the hands of someone at the chateau—and unflattering rumors about the Schoen-Rene line and their inner circle flow like champagne. With tensions building, personalities clashing, and real dangers emerging at the chateau, Lucy will have to locate the culprit among a list of worldly jilted lovers and potential criminal masterminds, or Elizabeth’s trip down the aisle could end in tragedy . . .

Two dead bodies. Many rumors. One confounding case for C.T. Ferguson. When a prominent Baltimore County councilman is found dead next to the body of a woman who is not his wife, questions abound. The politician's family hires private investigator C.T. Ferguson to figure out what really happened. He was an upstanding man, and they claim it must be the dirtiest kind of political setup. The other corpse belongs to an educator who just won Teacher of the Year. Her shattered husband doesn't understand what happened. When armed men try to keep C.T. and his assistant T.J. from investigating the case, he knows secrets and problems run deep. He just doesn't know how deep. Finding out might cost him his life. Can C.T. puzzle out what happened before he and T.J. are the next people to wind up dead? Conduct Unbecoming is the 15th gripping novel in the C.T. Ferguson crime fiction series. Each story stands alone, so you can enjoy the books in whatever order you find them.

"An irreverent, offbeat crime thriller featuring a memorable protagonist and a quirky cast of gangsters." -Best ThrillersAfter his brother Sterling disappears one too many times, Monk is asked to find him. But what starts as a simple case of a man cheating on his wife, becomes more problematic when a detective shows up asking questions, piquing Monk's curiosity, but is later found murdered. Complicating matters, the detective, like Sterling's lover, is black and transgendered. A world Monk knows little about. He knows Aisha, Sterling's lover is out there, feeding him clues, but unwilling to come out in the open. Sterling claims he doesn't know where she is but offers to seek counseling from a famous LA pastor, whose name has come up before along with someone named Flavius. Monk starts to believe the pastor, like his brother, isn't being honest. This concern only deepens when he finds that three other women tied to both Aisha and the pastor are missing.To make things worse, government figures and Russian interests are asking questions about a dead assassin Monk had confronted the year before, wanting answers and threatening violence.

Den 67-årige mangemillionær Guy Brouard bliver fundet død på en strand på den engelske kanalø Guernsey, kvalt af en mærkelig talisman. Han har i nogle år levet alene med sin søster, men har flere ægteskaber og børn bag sig.Det amerikanske søskendepar China og Cherokee River har fået til opgave at transportere nogle vigtige tegninger fra Californien til Guernsey og ankommer til den engelske kanalø få dage før mordet. Det der blot skulle have været en fredelig tur over Atlanten, tager pludselig en helt anden drejning, da China bliver arresteret for mordet på Guy Brouard.Cherokee opsøger Chinas ungdomsveninde, fotografen Deborah St. James og hendes mand Simon, og beder om deres hjælp. Da Guy Brouards testamente læses op, viser det sig, at han har gjort sine nærmeste arveløse, flyttet noget af sin formue til udlandet og testamenteret en stor sum penge til den fattige dreng Paul Fielder. Deborah og Simon erfarer snart, at adskillige mennesker på Guernsey har haft grund til at ønske Guy Brouard død: hans tidligere hustruer, hans forretningsforbindelser, hans elskerinde og Paul Fielder.I deres søgen efter morderen får Deborah og Simon et indblik i øens dystre historie under Anden Verdenskrig og en uhyggelig indsigt i nogle af øboernes lidelser.Elizabeth George (f. 1949) er en amerikansk krimiforfatter. De fleste af hendes romaner udspiller sig i Storbritannien, og hun er særlig kendt for krimiserien om Thomas Lynley og Barbara Havers fra Scotland Yard. George debuterede som forfatter i 1988 med "En fars begær", som indbragte hende en Agatha Award. Hendes bøger er oversat til flere sprog.

"With the houses of Arborville, New Jersey, decked out in festively frightening decorations, it's easy to mistake a real dead body for a fake. But Pamela and Bettina are alerted by the screams of teenage trick-or-treaters to the corpse next door. Their neighbor Adrienne's sister, visiting from New York City, is slumped on the porch, fatally stabbed. And with countless people traipsing around in costume, the killer might be as elusive as an apple in a bucket of water. The victim was a charismatic college professor and fierce feminist, and soon the women are infiltrating her social and academic circles to collect clues. But some scandalous local gossip also suggests that Adrienne, not her sister, might have been the target. Now, Pamela and Bettina will need all their creative skills to solve this ghoulish crime..."--

"It takes a lot for Salem locals to get excited about their historic Massachusetts town being known as 'the witch city.' But when a major studio arrives to shoot a witchcraft-themed movie, folks go Hollywood. For WICH-TV'S program director and chief documentary-maker, Lee Barrett, however, the project may come complete with a real-life death scene"--

The diaries of a dead man call. Can Sandie resist? Where will reading them take her? Sandie's husband and his university nemesis compete for the affections of a man long since gone. She turns to the old man's diaries for assistance. It began in academia but it won't end there. Because university can be murder. Sandie uses the diaries to decode a mystery stretching across decades and continents. She might pay with her marriage and her life. Kidnapping and murder form the backdrop for this fast paced thriller set in 1990s New Zealand.

Penelope Sutherland is home for the holidays and looking forward to spending some quality time with her loved ones. She's also catering her first documentary, a history of the Vitrine Theater and the Big Apple Dancers, who put on the world famous Christmas Extravaganza each year in New York City. Penelope's best friend Arlena Madison is the director, and the granddaughter of one of the show's famous Snow Queens. But not everyone is in the holiday spirit. When one of the dancers mysteriously disappears then turns up dead right before opening night, it looks like Christmas might be cancelled. The police are at a loss to uncover who has it out for the theater company, so it's up to Penelope to cook up a plan to find out if the Vitrine is cursed or haunted by its past before the killer can strike again.

Lights, Camera...Cook!Penelope Sutherland and her Red Carpet Catering company just got their big break as the on-set caterer for an upcoming blockbuster. But when she discovers a dead body outside her house, Penelope finds herself in hot water. Things start to boil over when serious accidents threaten the lives of the cast and crew. And when the film's star, who happens to be Penelope's best friend, is poisoned, the entire production is nearly shut down. Threats and accusations send Penelope out of the frying pan and into the fire as she struggles to keep her company afloat. Before Penelope can dish up dessert, she must find the killer, or she'll be the one served up on a silver platter.

Small Town. Big Secrets. Penelope and her Red Carpet Catering crew find themselves transported to a different world when they get to their newest movie set in rural Indiana. Surrounded by prickly locals, a nervous director out to prove herself, and a vast forest with secrets all its own, Penelope feels more homesick for the big city than ever before. When she finds their host, owner of Indiana's newest culinary hotspot, dead of an apparent suicide, Penelope works to uncover the darker truths boiling beneath the surface of his seemingly perfect life. Asked to help keep the late chef's restaurant afloat, Penelope is fried trying to juggle two kitchens and a ravenous cast and crew. When the chef's suicide turns out to be murder, and the restaurant is vandalized in the middle of the night, Penelope must find out who is behind it all before she's the next one on the chopping block.

A new series for fans of M.C. Beaton, Agatha Christie, and Jessica Fletcher. When Daphne Noble leaves London for Mill-Upon-Mortlake, Somerset, she knows she'll face an uphill battle. For one thing, she wasn't born in the village, which means she'll be an outsider until she is buried in the churchyard. Secondly, the villagers aren't sure what to make of "London Girls," especially ones that work in shops instead of being respectably married! As Daphne tries to settle into English country life, a scandal plagues Somerset. Mr. Bell, her employer, has gone missing, and with him the idea of giving the sleepy Somerset town a modern village shop. As an outsider from Taunton, Bell's townie ways may have ruffled a few feathers, but surely no one would murder a man over trying to bring Mill-Upon-Mortlake into the 1890s. Would they? It's up to Daphne to prove herself useful in the eyes of the village, discover what has befallen Mr. Bell, keep her job, and silence the wagging tongues that claim the outsider must have had something to do with Bell's disappearance. But will Daphne's investigations make her seem indispensable? Or just inconvenient? Scandal Comes to Somerset is the first book in The Mill-Upon-Mortlake Cozy Historical Mystery Series by M. Culler. British Cozy mysteryHumor and heartLow-violenceVictorian/Edwardian Era

Mother Paul, the incomparable nun-detective, is faced with her most perplexing case when a former pupil at her convent school is murdered at their annual reunion.As a schoolgirl Maisie Ryan was often bullied by her peers, but a decade later she's a TV star, the glamorously renamed Rianne May. When she's invited to be guest of honour at Maryhill College's annual reunion, she has a chance to dazzle her old tormentors the way she does her adoring television audience. But as she's holding court at the reunion tea party, old grudges and new jealousies swirl around her-and suddenly one of her tablemates drops dead, poisoned. Was Rianne the intended victim? She evidently thinks so-only that day she'd received a death threat. Rianne flees the scene and cannot be found. Who is the murderer? And what has happened to Rianne May? Fortunately, the school's principal is Mother Paul, who immediately calls for Detective Inspector Savage. She assisted him (or was it the other way around?) in solving a previous case (Faculty of Murder), and between them the unlikely pair will unravel this one too. But there will be more drama-and more deaths-before the murderer is uncovered. Moving between the brash new realm of television in the early 1960s and the cloistered atmosphere of a girls' convent school, Make-Up for Murder is the third and final Mother Paul novel and a must-read for all fans of June Wright's blend of intrigue, wit, and psychological suspense.