TWICE NO ONE DIES (JENKINS, A K)
It's an election year in Togo, where Africa's longest serving ruler is hanging on to power. Marius, amateur philosopher and jazz enthusiast, has left his life as a Ghanaian intelligence officer and is living in Lom. He likes nothing better than a beer at his friend Mibou's jazz bar, especially when Louis plays trumpet. But Louis is found hacked to death on a beach near Lom. Police assume he was dealing drugs, but Marius and his friends know better. They decide to try to clear Louis' name and find the real killer. Marius pieces together Louis' last hours; one minute he was talking on his mobile, the next he seems to vanish into thin air. Could there be a connection with two other shootings? Witnesses talk about a mysterious grey car and Marius and his friends determine to track down the car and its driver. Lom is under the surveillance of a dictatorial government and Marius and friends have been careful not to attract attention. But menacing things start to happen, then Mibou is arrested for Louis' murder and thrown into the notorious Prison Civile. Finding Louis' killer is no longer a choice; i
BLACK VELVET (HENRY, STEVEN)
Erin learned a lot from her partner: stay alert, follow your nose, and once you've got your teeth in them, never let go.It?s tough working nights with the NYPD. The crime rate is high, the hours are terrible, and forget about a personal life. So when Officer O?Reilly and her K-9 Rolf switch over to the day shift, things are looking up. She?s even able to find time for a new boyfriend.But when the theft of a priceless painting from the Queens Museum leaves a fellow police officer dead, Erin and her four-legged partner find themselves dealing with dangerous criminals, sleazy art dealers, and obstructive detectives in a race to capture the killers...and just maybe bring closure to a 75-year-old crime.?
SHALLOW GRAVE (ARMSTRONG, LORI)
It?s horrifying to watch someone die.My partner and I witnessed a fatality during a routine surveillance case?a case that took a bizarre turn when we questioned the victim?s wife about the mysterious hole that had caused the accident. The widow admitted that hunters had discovered human remains and rather than alerting the authorities, she and her late husband just?reburied the bones. The out-of-sight ?out-of-mind approach is never a smart option, particularly when it?s oh?illegal, and especially now that the bones in the hole have vanished.Who was buried there? And how long ago?Local, state and tribal authorities want answers. My overworked former boss at the Bear Butte County Sheriff?s office hires our PI agency to separate facts from speculation. I bury myself in the investigation because it leaves me little time to obsess about the screwed-up situation in my personal life?why Martinez asked me to go undercover in his strip club as a bartender?and why in the hell I agreed.I never imagined this new case would cause total chaos in my world, creating new enemies, opening old wounds with my father, reviving d
A COP’S GOTTA LAUGH (MORRISSEY, BOB;MORRISSEY, MARY)
Everyone born into this world has troubles. Doug Morgan learns to deal with them and looks forward to a fresh tomorrow. To complain about them is like picking a scab. The wound bleeds again as when it first happened Doug is intelligent and has the desire to get ahead. He proves himself numerous times while being a U.S. Marine and a police officer. He gives life his best but it doesn't pay off for him. A problem knocks him to his knees and the only way he can get up is through humor. His outlook now is, I've got a million laughs in this body and I'm letting everyone of them out. The laughs come out in practical jokes at whomever is around. This not only makes life interesting but it helps him forget his bad memories while keeping his sanity.
POR SI ALGO ME OCURRIERA (SIMENON, GEORGES)
THE BODY IN THE HOLE (ZEITLIN, JONATHAN B)
The Body in the Hole is a hilarious tale featuring Geny (from Yvgeny, with a hard G-sound), an unlikeable and morally ambiguous mortician and Sherlock Holmes aficionado who lives with his mother in his mortuary in middle-Georgia.Geny?s antics begin when he finds a headless corpse dumped in a grave meant for a paying customer. He finds a nice watch on the body, which he liberates for himself before calling the police.With his love for Sherlock Holmes and inflated ego, Geny estimates his chances of solving the crime are far higher than those of the detectives, so he begins his own parallel investigation. Yvgeny teams up with a motley assortment of not always like-minded characters in this small Georgia town, trying to stay one step ahead as the detectives close in. The local talent includes the mentally deficient one-eyed owner of the army-navy surplus store and the local doctor/deputy coroner who is a recovering hippie with a Tom Selleck fetish. In the middle of everything, Yvgeny falls for the crude and vulgar granddaughter of an old man buried in his cemetery. She is turned off by his bizarre fashion and
ZED ESTÁ MUERTO (RUFO, ARANTXA)
Los Ángeles, julio de 2018. Tessa Britton, una stripper de un club de Los Ángeles, está preocupada porque su amiga Katya ha faltado a clase de baile y tampoco contesta al teléfono. Al acudir a su casa, descubre su cadáver, junto con el de un misterioso hombre tatuado. Cuando la detective del LAPD Elizabeth Delgado, que lleva de baja casi un año, llega al escenario del crimen, el agente Michael Poulsen, del FBI, le comunica que la víctima es hija de Luka Maksimov, un líder de la mafia rusa que no dudará en enviar a un asesino a la ciudad para vengar su muerte. En un caso en el que cada uno convive con sus propios demonios, Tessa parece tener todas las respuestas. ¿Era Katya el objetivo o la han asesinado para hacer daño a su padre? La guerra en Los Ángeles no ha hecho más que comenzar?
SNOW BLIND (ARMSTRONG, LORI)
The PI business is sluggish during the frigid winter months. When a young woman hires Wells/Collins Investigations to poke around at her grandfather?s assisted living facility, we expect a routine case. But my partner Kevin and I immediately spot major problems at the complex with lax security, unqualified healthcare personnel and a shady senior citizen volunteer agency.Meanwhile, a blizzard traps me at the Collins ranch alone with my father, leaving me no escape from the biting cold and my bitter memories. After I return from snowbound hell, I learn that our client?s grandfather wandered off during the blizzard. Questions arise about who inherits the dead man?s sizeable estate, and Kevin and I fear we?ve been snowed.As if that?s not enough to make my blood boil, a missing ranch hand?s body is unearthed on my dad?s land, forcing me to examine my family loyalty. And when Tony Martinez?s power struggles within the Hombres? organization places us both in mortal danger, I question whether I?ve been blinded to the cold hard truths in my life by love or by hate.As I plow through secrets and lies, my discovery chil
WHAT KILLED ROSIE? (WINKLER, MARYELLEN)
Who did Emily see in the laundromat doorway that warm May evening? It looked like her old friend Rosie. Problem is, Rosie died of a heart attack five years ago, and now Rosie's old boyfriend is reporting strange occurrences at his condo. Is it Rosie's ghost demanding revenge? Or is someone trying to perpetuate a hoax? Join Emily as she searches among Rosie's acquaintances to find out what really killed Rosie. Maryellen Winkler lives in Wilmington, Delaware. She is a frequent visitor to Maine and New Hampshire where her daughter and nephew are raising their families. What Killed Rosie? is the second installment of the Emily Menotti mystery series.
PAWS & EFFECT (DOBBS, LEIGHANN)
Three hundred years ago, accused witch Hester Warren buried a magical box in Mystic Notch. The secret contents within have the power to bring disaster to the town and when the box is dug up at a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Mystic Notch Historical Museum, Hester's ghost and that of her cat make an appearance to warn the humans and enlist their help to ensure the box doesn't fall into the wrong hands.Too bad the only one listening is Pandora, the cat.
