Author: Michael Siverling
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: circle, sorcerer
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-12-12
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0312361920
ISBN-13: 9780312361921

Jason Wilder was wounded in his last encounter with the bad guys, but he’s back on the job and ready for another run-in. He’s just about to close up the private investigation office owned by his mother, Victoria, for the night, when an elderly man enters. His name is Elijah Messenger and he says someone is trying to kill him. Jason gives him a polite brush-off, but the next morning he learns that the old man has indeed been murdered. It’s a morning full of trouble. The mayor arrives asking Victoria for help. His daughter has become involved with a group of "devil worshippers

Author: Marjorie Eccles
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: sand, shape
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-12-27
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0312352328
ISBN-13: 9780312352325

Life at Charnley was blessed, or at least so it seemed to the Jardine children. But one night their dreams of a propitious future suddenly come crashing down when a family scandal catapults them into the headlines. Nearly four decades pass and the Second World War is won, but still the exact events of that fateful night remain unknown. However, when builders working on Charnley uncover a shoebox stuffed full of old letters, photographs, and a diary, it finally seems as though some of the answers are within reach.The clue to unraveling the affair lies in a voyage to Egypt undertaken by Beatrice

Author: Gwendoline Butler
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: ghost, coffin
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-12-14
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0312279973
ISBN-13: 9780312279974

Everyone has a few ghosts in their closets, but John Coffin, Chief Commander of the Second City of London’s Police believes that his are all safely tucked away. In fact, recently recovered from a gunshot wound, Coffin is hoping for a calmer life with his actress wife Stella Pinero. However, life has other plans for him. Coffin learns that all of his ghosts are not behind him when a parcel containing dismembered limbs is found outside a woman’s refuge. The Serena Seddon Shelter for battered wives is located on Barrow Street, not far from Coffin’s own home. But the link to

Author: Mr. Steven Torres
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: novel, book, one, gonzalo, luis, puerto, rico, precinct
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-06-04
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0312285809
ISBN-13: 9780312285807

Near Rincón, Puerto Rico, 1987.Even a tropical paradise may have its little murders.In his years as sheriff of Angustias, a small town nestled in Puerto Rico’s mountainous heart, Luis Gonzalo has seen his share of violence. People kill for love and money in Angustias just as they do anywhere else. But it is during a visit to his wife’s family in the seaside town of Rincón that Gonzalo encounters his greatest challenge.A midnight call brings Gonzalo to a beach where bodies are washing ashore, victims of a shipwreck, victims of the illegal traffic in humans from the Dominican Repub

Author: Lynne Murray
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: large
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-07-14
List price: $6.50
ISBN-10: 0312980043
ISBN-13: 9780312980047

Reluctant sleuth Josephine Fuller is back, and this time she can’t resist throwing her weight around. Fuller is working as a philinthropic investigator at a women’s center in Seattle when she is faced with the mysterious death of her ex-husband’s girlfriend, a woman that Fuller herself wouldn’t have minded seeing vanish. She also has other things to deal with, such as a haunted house and a love denied. But the death is intermingled with the women’s work center and ultimately this draws her into the case. At once the chief investigator and primary suspect Fuller ha

Author: Steve Hamilton
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: novel, artist, lock
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0312380429
ISBN-13: 9780312380427

"I was the Miracle Boy, once upon a time. Later on, the Milford Mute. The Golden Boy. The Young Ghost. The Kid. The Boxman. The Lock Artist. That was all me.But you can call me Mike."  Marked by tragedy, traumatized at the age of eight, Michael, now eighteen, is no ordinary young man. Besides not uttering a single word in ten years, he discovers the one thing he can somehow do better than anyone else. Whether it’s a locked door without a key, a padlock with no combination, or even an eight-hundred pound safe ... he can open them all.  It’s an unforgivable talent. A talent that w

Author: Sharon Fiffer
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: mysteries, wheel, jane, stuff, scary
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-09-29
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0312387784
ISBN-13: 9780312387785

Antique picker Jane Wheel has always loved old stuff, from vintage salt and pepper shakers to other families’ old photos and orphaned Bakelite buttons, and she can’t really explain why. But she makes a living out of it, searching high and low at estate sales and antique shops and reselling her finds to other collectors. At least, it’s half a living---she makes the other half as an associate to a private detective, because she’s just as talented at digging up secrets as antiques.While visiting her brother for the first time in years, Jane’s fascinated by a story of mistaken identity: