Inspector Hal Challis, head of Australia's Mornington Peninsula Crime Investigation Unit, has been summoned to his boyhood home, Mawson's Bluff in the Australian Outback. His father is dying.Sergeant
“Purely entertaining. . . . Elements of the ritualistic killings are pretty gross and the spooks can be scary; but as the author gently points out, life would be dreary without a few thrills.”—The New
In the peaceful Umbrian village of Paradiso, the shocking murder and mutilation of an elderly German woman, a retired cultural attache, is barely credible. That is, until Inspector Alessandro Cenni o
“Fans of Donna Leon or Hakan Nesser will be ecstatic to find a kindred spirit in Grace Brophy.”—BookPage“Evocative. . . . Cenni is well set up to return, and traditional mystery readers should welcome
Daniela, a studious single mother studying for a doctorate in chemistry, rarely goes out. She is the older daughter of the Paoletti family who have recently acquired a luxurious home outside of Flore
A Korean fortune teller is being "bothered" by a long dead American soldier who wants his bones found and buried. An underage officer's daughter and a Latino soldier she was secretly dating are missi
When the recreation center burns down in the Arctic Alaskan town of Chukchi, killing eight people, including the town's basketball star and the police chief, it looks like arson. Did someone want Chie
The granddaughter of a prominent and wealthy politician from Recife has disappeared, together with her girlfriend. For Chief Inspector Mario Silva's boss, no case could be more important due to the p
Returning to South Africa after living in England for ten years following her policeman father's murder, PI Jade de Jong agrees to help her father's former partner investigate a series of carjacking c
Praise for the Mario Silva series:"Realistic characters that readers can care about. . . . The ultimate story of the haves vs. the have nots."—Detroit Free Press"Gage smoothly expands his focus
In Johannesburg prosperous whites live in gated communities; when they exit their cars to open the gates, car-jackings are common. But seldom is the victim killed, much less shot twice, like Annette B
Just as Aimee is about to leave for New York City to follow up on a lead about a possible younger brother, her partner in Leduc Detective, Rene Friant, is wounded by a near-fatal gun shot. Eyewitnesse
The village-like neighborhood of Passy, home to many of Paris’s wealthiest residents, is the last place one would expect a murder. But when Aimee Leduc’s godfather, Morbier, a police commissaire, asks
Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national, a former Beijing Investigator, on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. He is leading a mule bearing a corpse over th
There are Chinatowns in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver, London ... in many different countries all around the globe. But wherever they are located geographicall
Praise for Magdalen Nabb:“The exquisite sensibility of Magdalen Nabb’s police procedurals has all to do with the feeling of displacement that haunts her sensitively observed charac
