Mystery/Suspence

THE SHADOW PLAYER
Adult novel. A car with a man’s bloated body is retrieved from the Liffey’s dark waters – and Norah Hopkins is drawn into the murky underworld of Dublin’s criminal life.
IN SECRET SIN
Adult novel. Suddenly widowed, Bridget Baldacci heads for Seattle, to meet her dead husband’s family. What she finds puts more than her life in danger.

A US state senator is dead, and a young boy is told the name of the killer – a mafia hit-man, Danny “The Blade” Muldano – by Muldano’s lawyer. After the lawyer’s suicide, Muldano and the boy are the only people who know the killer’s identity. By the author of “The Firm” and “The Pelican Brief”.

A SPARROW FALLS: From the trenches of France, General Sean Courtney comes back to fame, fortune and a seat in government. Mark Anders, the courageous young South African whom he has come to regard as his own son, returns to nothing, his grandfather murdered, his property seized by an unknown company. At the bottom of the mystery is Sean’s son Dirk, the jealous, violent and power crazed genius whose all-consuming hatred can only end in blood…
THE DIAMOND HUNTERS: The Van Der Byl diamond company, willed by bequest to the founder’s son, Benedict, his sister Tracey and their estranged foster-brother, Johnny Lance, turns to be a bequest not of love, but of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer Benedict the instruction to ‘destroy Johnny’, something he is only too willing to do.

At Bridget Bennet’s housewarming party, all are enjoying themselves except Loretta Lawson, who has noticed that Bridget, her best friend, seems evasive and uneasy. Before she has time to confront her, a corpse is found, and Bridget is suddenly in need of an alibi from Loretta.

Chicago homicide detective Kate Delaney fiercely defends victims. Which is why – despite death threats – she’s testifying to a federal grand jury about local police corruption. It’s also why she’s infuriated by the New Orleans police department’s blase attitude toward her estranged sister’s death. But persuing an investigation in a strange city means allying with someone who knows the territory. And the players. Someone with a total disregard for the rules.

As an ex-cop from a police family, New Orleans PI Nick Broussard knows that cops live by their own code. You don’t rat out a fellow officer. The last thing he needs is some smart-mouthed, by the book outsider unknowingly injecting herself into her undercover search for the truth. Even worse is the way she conjures up visions of tangled sheets…

Nick and Kate’s chase pits them against the criminal underworld of the sultry southern city. And as they peel away layers of deadly deception, they discover a dark secret too many are willing to keep.

Gabriella Starr has silk suits, champagne tastes, a great new career…and a stranger following her. She’s definitely in danger, according to ex-cop and new D.A. Cam Yeager. But Gabriella bristles when Cam offers to help…maybe it’s because she’s incredibly attracted to him. It’s not like her to go for law-enforcement types. she’s far too independent, too naturally defiant. And she’s spent too many nights in jail…

Cam Yeager likes cold beer, his Bruins sweatshirt, and shaving every other day. He knows all about Gabriella Starr — her famous, eccentric father, and their years rescuing rare, endangered orchids. Something nasty is going on in Boston. And something explosive is hovering on the horizon as well: the wild fireworks of two intense opposites falling in love…

Bestselling author JoAnn Ross turns up the heat in a novel of heart-stopping suspense and white-hot passion that takes readers from the sultry South Carolina Lowcountry to the rugged Northern California coast, and ultimately into the darkest reaches of the human heart…

Fire cop Tess Gannon is hot on the trail of a pyromaniac who’s been setting buildings ablaze throughout Somersett, South Carolina, when ATF Special Agent Gage O’Halloran arrives on her fire scene. Coming out of a self-imposed exile, Gage suspects that Tess’s “Flamemaster” is connected to a serial killer he apprehended three years ago.

Tess doesn’t like Gage. He’s too rude. Too arrogant. Too damn…male. Worse yet, she doesn’t trust him. Forced into an uneasy alliance, Tess and Gage race to stop the killer from striking another fatal match. But Gage’s fragile hope for redemption is put to the test when Tess becomes ensnared in a homicidal pyromaniac’s deadly obsession. And time is running out….

In this breakthrough novel, New York Times bestselling author JoAnn Ross pens a deeply affecting tale of a woman struggling with her unconventional family. . . and a deep longing for a love of her own.

Although high-powered attorney Raine Cantrell dreamed that success might make the father who abandoned her take notice, she is still very much alone. Then she gets an urgent call from three kids in trouble in her Washington State hometown, and suddenly Raine is returning to face unresolved feelings, unhealed wounds – and unexpected desire.

Sheriff Jack O’Halloran, a man with a tragic past and a daughter to raise alone, has three teens barricaded inside a house and the media clamoring for a story. He isn’t ready for Raine to invade his territory – and Raine isn’t ready for anyone to touch her heart. Unable to deny the attraction, they decide to have a simple affair. But they are about to discover that love is rarely simple – and that lives can change forever in a heartbeat.

Eugenia Swift is a young woman of singular sensibilities, a connoisseur of beauty … and naturally inclined to tackle even the most difficult of tasks on her own. As the director of the Leabrook Glass Museum, she’s been asked to travel to Frog Cove Island – an artistic haven near Seattle – to catalog an important collection of art glass belonging to the late Adam Daventry. But thanks to unsavory rumors surrounding Daventry’s death, the museum insists that Eugenia take along Cyrus Chandler Colfax – a rough-hewn private investigator whose taste in glass runs to icy cold bottles filled with beer. When Colfax declares they must pose as a couple, Eugenia protests in terms as loud as his Hawaiian shirts. She’s loath to disclose the secret purpose of her trip: investigating the disappearance of her good friend Nellie Grant … the late Adam Daventry’s lover. Meanwhile, the green-eyed calm of Colfax’s gaze shields his own hidden agenda – locating a priceless Daventry treasure that will help him avenge an old wrong. While Eugenia has always kept her heart on a shelf, their very lives soon depend on making an utterly convincing couple. Because among the chic galleries of Frog Cove Island lurks a killer, and their only chance for survival is the boldest, most artful collaboration they can dare to imagine.

Three of Sue Grafton’s popular “Alphabet Mysteries” are collected in this one bargain-priced volume: “G Is for Gumshoe, H Is for Homicide, ” and “I Is for Innocent.”