Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

The Sam Kyle Mysteries: Book Two The Carolyn Box Sam Kyle, Detective with the Boyle County Sheriff's Office in Danville Kentucky, is on his way to an administrative meeting. He is handed a message with a phone number and the name of a woman...

THE SAM KYLE MYSTERIES: Book Three: Billy's Boots Sam Kyle, Detective with the Boyle County Kentucky Sheriff's Office, is back with ex-wife Carolyn, the love of his life. Serial killer Amy Phelps is in prison without the possibility of parole. Sam and Carolyn eagerly...

Gertrude spent the better part of her adult life scouring Europe for Helmut Klingenfelter, the father who vanished not only from her life and that of her mother, but had forsaken everyone in his past. With midlife looming on the horizon, Gertie made the...

THE SAM KYLE MYSTERIES: Book One All the Blue-Eyed Babies Sam Kyle just became the first detective in the Boyle County Kentucky Sheriff's Office. Three years ago his wife Carolyn left him. At the party for Sam's promotion, a woman hands him a card...

In the second Jason Kraft novel, Jason's case takes him into the rarified academic environment of a Massachusetts college preparatory school where two student drug-overdose deaths in 10 days threaten to ruin the elite school's reputation and decimate future enrollments. Jason, enabled by his...

Keep to yourself, don't let anyone close, stay in control. This is how Melodie lived because of her painful past. That was until she met Samuel Johnson, he awakened something inside her. She loved him immensely, until the very end. When he died she...

Newly ordained vicar Stephen Capel takes a holiday in the seaside town of Brighton with his girlfriend, PC Vicky Denning. Taking a stroll on the beach, Capel sees a woman fall from the ruined pier. He rescues her, but discovers that she is dead...

Reworked. Re-edited. Moving. Flowing. Like the river that bends around this old city, I flow with the changes in my stories to make them new again. An old fashioned city with distinctly old cultures, a gumbo of Spanish, French, English, Creole, Irish, and other...

2 Shots to the ChestThe mayor is found shot to death at City Hall. Who did the deed? A political rival? One of the numerous women with whom he's had affairs? Maybe one of the spouses? Or someone from his secret military past? The...

It's a clear, cool January afternoon in the late 1960s in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when two thugs snatch a beautiful, wealthy teenager off the street and shove her into their van. As a terrified Penelope Campos sobs and pleads to be released, the men...

Introducing: The Penny Detective Books Three & FourThe Penny Detective SeriesJohn Tallon JonesThe Penny Detective Series has been designed to be read in any order.Book 1 An Evening with Max ClimaxBumbling Merseyside Private Investigator Morris Shannon is on the trail of a murderer in...

Bishop's Hill, South Carolina... the sort of quiet, sleepy town where everyone knows everyone else, and little of importance ever seems to happen. And then the dead body of a recently-returned village son is found abandoned along the roadside. To Sheriff Talmadge, the solution...

"With Morris and Shoddy you are guaranteed a spellbinding story packed with believable characters and an unexpected ending...........This is such a great read." Morris Shannon and his partner Shoddy are once again involved in an action adventure case around the decaying streets of Merseyside...

The tranquility of a lazy spring afternoon is disrupted by the roar of a shiny, new, deep blue Packard convertible as it speeds down a country road. The driver, Chet Cromwell, the son of Grotton's most prominent citizen, reaches under his seat to take...

Who in this charming Lowcountry town would murder an old man half in the grave? And why William, who was known for helping everyone? Using Sheriff LeRoy Trotz's favorite theme, 'follow the money' the investigation narrows. With the help of Brenda Mattell, Chief of...

As Christmas approaches and vicar Stephen Capel finds his feet in his new parish, an unlikely confession of murder throws him into a complex and dangerous investigation. A software developer has been killed just before the launch of a make or break new product....

Deep in the South, in the middle of the night, a small sleepy town in Mississippi is jolted awake and thrown into murder an mayhem. A young girl goes missing and the elderly woman she takes care of is left all alone. The tragic...

Set in New York City, Marci is a beautiful, smart young girl having the time of her life. When illness slowly takes her daddy, it takes the life out of her mother, sending her mother into a ghost like trance oblivious to her and...

Perfect Posture is a psychological thriller set in Chicago-a city unknowingly teetering on the edge of darkness. In the tradition of Bosch and echoing the chilling atmosphere of Erik Larson's Devil in the White City, this novel explores the razor-thin line between justice and...

A humorous Sherlock Holmes pastiche placing the familiar figures of detective fiction within an imaginative and unconventional setting. In The Pursuit of the House-Boat, John Kendrick Bangs incorporates Holmes and Dr. Watson into his broader cycle of satirical tales, where literary and historical figures...

Jack Hamma's assignment: protect a beautiful Chinese girlAt Adelaide airport she goes into the ladies roomShe disappears.Where the hell is she?A relentless thrillerEvery move is a false startEvery clue is a red herring. Reviews: 'The latest instalment of Jack Hamma and his detective agency...

Five years after the suspicious death of her father, Harlow Grafton returns to Wallace, Idaho at the frantic request of her mother. But the discovery of a young woman's body in the mountains puts Harlow once again under police scrutiny. As each body is...

Iheukwu, a reincarnation of his grandfather, Ikedinobi, who was a powerful native doctor in his time, was born with supernatural powers. When the rate of crime, atrocities and killing of innocent people by unknown evil doers reached its fullest in their village called Umuaku;...

"Lady Audley's Secret" from Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Novelist of the Victorian era (1835-1915).Author: The Perfect Library,Mary Elizabeth BraddonISBN-10: 1511719680ISBN-13: 9781511719681Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/13/2015Pages: 362Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.75d

Introducing: An Evening with Max ClimaxThe Penny DetectiveJohn Tallon JonesThe Penny Detective Series has been designed to be read in any order.The PlotBumbling private investigator Morris Shannon is on the trail of a murderer.Set in the crumbling streets of Liverpool in the 1980s, Morris...

Treachery on Okaloosa Island is the sequel to Death Doesn't Vacation on Okaloosa Island where it picks up at the trial of Launie Sanderson. She is accused of killing Ollie her bouncer at her strip joint which was actually a front for much of...

The unstoppable Hercule Poirot finds himself in the Middle East with only one day to solve a murder in the classic Agatha Christie mystery, Appointment with Death. Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sits the corpse of Mrs....

Author: Joanne JohnsonISBN-10: 1503549941ISBN-13: 9781503549944Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2015Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d

A festival for solo music performers in the heart of Derbyshire's Peak District has attracted musicians from all over the world. It has also attracted drugs, loan sharks and high stake gambling. A predatory reality television show focuses on one of the musicians and...

Six people arrive at a hotel on Saturday midday to attend a special birthday celebration on the evening. Four of them go home on Sunday morning... two of them don't. They appear to vanish. They do not check out, their belongings are left in...

In his debut novel, Unprovable, Scottish writer Gordon Cubie tells the story of Alan Gray - a man for whom everything goes wrong. His wife's left him. He's heavily in debt. Someone he hates is about to become his boss and will make his...

Memento Mori: Book Two in the Little Forest paranormal mystery series. Sign up to the mailing list at www.jessicagracecoleman.com for free stuff! Beth Powers is twenty-one, single, and lives in the traditional English village of Little Forest. She has a sister, a great group...

The Covenant Chronicles fuses Covenant of Silence and Covenant of Retribution into a single, chronologic story in three exciting parts. This new edition will appeal to both new readers and those who have already enjoyed either or both of the books.Part I - The...

In this the 12th book of the Neptune King series, Neptune and Shark have a 10 year old mystery to solve when Keely Simmonds comes to their office and announces that she has witnessed a murder in a vision. She hires them to search...

This is the 10th book in the Neptune King series. In The Case of the Amnesiac Client Neptune's maid introduces him to Mary North a troubled young woman working as a maid with no memory and a vague impression that everything is not quite...

In this the 8th book of the Neptune King series. Shark's father is brutally murdered and his younger brother, is arrested for the crime. His motive? His mother was brutally beaten by his father in a drunken rage and Dolph has no alibi. Despite...

In this the 7 th book of the Neptune King series, Neptune and Rachel return from their honeymoon and it's business as usual. In The Case of the Ugly Client, Bernie Taylor enlists their help to find the love her life, clumsy well-meaning Homer...

In this 6th book of the Neptune King Series we start the year of 1963 off with a bang when the two couples-Neptune, Rachel, Shark and Becky attend the Queen's New Year's day parade only to spot an Irish dissident bent on assassination. Naturally...

When asked to frame a old map, Haszard discovers that it's linked to valuables from the past. Intrigued, he begins to look into the matter, but soon realises that he isn't the only person who's interested. With other matters also to look into, Haszard...

The Exploits of Neptune King is the fifth book in the series. In their first case our heroes tackle the supernatural, being hired to catch a vampire in Cornwall. In the isolated village of Abernathy, five young women are dead, their blood completely drained...

come to London to take up a position on the London Times. He proves his usefulness by sending them new clients, which is fortuitous as Neptune is broke, having paid his entire fortune to Shadow as ransom for his sister and Shark. Their first...

In this the third book in the Neptune King series, Neptune's mettle is tested as he crosses paths with the international jewel thief known only as The Shadow. Twice he bests him only to win the Shadow's enmity and the war of nerves begins....

This is the second book in the Neptune King series. It starts with our heroes, Neptune King and Shark Johnson starting the New Year full of optimism at the success of King's Investigations. Once again the team tackles a variety of cases with Shark...

Chocolate always makes things better, or so Emily Harris believes until even a dozen boxes of her favorite chocolates can't put her world back together. Returning home from a trip to New Orleans, she is pushed down the airport's arrival escalator, and despite evidence...

California's burning--way out of control--and arson is suspected. No one has a clue how and why fires are being set off all over the state.David Spaulding, an agent with the FBI, has gone undercover to search for the truth. He becomes acquainted--and fascinated with--Carmen...

Still reeling from the loss of his beloved but enigmatic mother, Tommy Kiernan is convinced her death is not an accident. He suspects the roots of this tragedy started twenty years ago-in the village in Brittany where his mother lived during the second World...

Martin Cole is stuck in a rut. But his family and friends have ideas for him. And when Martin's landlord offers him a job sorting out a problem for his niece Anna Martino, he finds it hard to refuse. Soon Martin is back in...

Author: Patricia ReedISBN-10: 1477146830ISBN-13: 9781477146835Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2012Pages: 218Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Fourteen years after the end of World War II, former RAF fighter pilot Ben Benison gets a frantic phone call from Celia, the wife of his best friend, Don. It seems Don has been unfaithful, and the proof stands in the hallway of the...

One of the rare mysteries from the pen of E. F. Benson, set in a bustling solicitor's office in Edwardian England, we meet the clients and lawyers that gossip, slander and backstab to get ahead. This classic novel, originally published in 1908, is being...