Author: James Church
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: inspector, novels, novel, hidden
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-10-28
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0312387660
ISBN-13: 9780312387662
“Hidden Moon reads more like a spy novel by a Korean Kafka. Final word: Fascinating.” —Rocky Mountain News In A Corpse in the Koryo, James Church introduced readers to one of the most unique detectives to appear on page in years---the elusive Inspector O. The stunning mystery was named one of the best mystery/thrillers of 2006 by the Chicago Tribune for its beautifully spare prose and layered descriptions of a terrain Church knows by heart. And now the Inspector is back. In Hidden Moon, Inspector O returns from a mission abroad to find his new police
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: inspector, mysteries, cadaver, maigret
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-12-18
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0143112813
ISBN-13: 9780143112815
Three vintage Maigret novels by legendary mystery author Georges Simenon One of the world ’s most successful crime writers, Georges Simenon has thrilled mystery lovers since 1931 with his matchless creation Inspector Maigret. In My Friend Maigret, Inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a small- time crook on a Mediterranean island. Told in Simenon’s spare, unsentimental prose, Inspector Cadaver is a haunting exploration of provincial hypocrisy and snobbery, in which Maigret encounters a rival sleuth from his past. In Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard, Simenon’s tena
Author: Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Keywords: inspector, espinosa, mysteries, mystery, pursuit
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-01-24
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0805074392
ISBN-13: 9780805074390
When his daughter disappears and a patient emerges as the prime suspect, a troubled psychiatrist comes to Espinosa for help, in the fifth novel in the beguiling Brazilian crime series A hospital psychiatrist feels he’s being stalked by a young patient. For as long as possible, he convinces himself that the young man is harmless, but when the doctor’s daughter disappears and the patient goes missing, too, he calls on Espinosa for help. Soon after, the patient turns up dead. With his death begins a chain of other deaths, each more mysterious than the one that preceded it, ea
Author: Brian McGilloway
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: devlin, inspector, mysteries, mystery, lane, gallows
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-09-29
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 0312384327
ISBN-13: 9780312384326
The heart-stopping follow-up to Brian McGilloway’s thrilling debut, Gallows Lane continues the compelling series that captures modern Ireland and showcases a striking new voice in crime writing.In his critically acclaimed debut, Borderlands, Brian McGilloway opened a window onto modern Ireland through the eyes of Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin, drawing comparisons to John Connolly and Ian Rankin for his tight, fast-paced plotting. In Gallows Lane, the Donegal summer dawns unusually hot, and Inspector Devlin returns to the borderlands separating the North and South of Ireland, waiting for a
Author: Ian Rankin
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks
Keywords: rebus, inspector, novels, novel, souls, dead
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-08-15
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0312974205
ISBN-13: 9780312974206
Weary, wary, hard-drinking Detective John Rebus returns in author Ian Rankin’s internationally acclaimed, award-winning series. As complex and unpredictable as the brooding mists that envelop his Edinburgh beat, Rebus is ever resourceful and determined-but this time, vulnerable and challenged as never before, with complications in his personal life, and events that shake him to the depths of his being...A colleague’s suicide. Pedophiles. A missing child. A serial killer. You never know your luck, muses Rebus. Driven by instinct and experience, he searches for connections, against o
Author: Qiu Xiaolong
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: chen, inspector, cao, novel, mandarin, red, dress
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-02-03
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 031253969X
ISBN-13: 9780312539696
A serial killer is stalking the young women of Shanghai. The killer’s calling card is to leave the victims’ bodies in well trafficked locations, each of them redressed in a red mandarin dress. With the newspapers screaming about Shanghai’s first serial killer, Party officials anxious for a quick resolution, and the police under pressure from all sides, something has to give. Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department, a rising party cadre, is often put in charge of politically senstive cases. But this time, there’s a catchChen is on leave, ostensibly to study for hi
Author: Ian Rankin
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: inspector, rebus, novels, novel, falls
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2003-02-17
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0312982402
ISBN-13: 9780312982409
When the privileged daughter of a merchant banker disappears, a search through her e-mails uncovers her secret life-and a bizarre correspondence with an on-line game player who delights in macabre puzzles. The first game was for the girl. The next one is for Inspector John Rebus, a man haunted by the impenetrable riddles of his own troubled past. But the lead is soon complicated by an unexpected twist.A hand-carved wooden doll in an eight-inch coffin is found on the grounds of the victim’s home-a clue that links her vanishing to the deaths of four other women, and to a centuries-old offe
