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Devil's peak : a novel
Deon Meyer ; translated by K.L. Seegers.
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409 p. ; 25 cm.
In the aftermath of a gruesome child abuse case that has caught the attention of the media, Inspector Benny Griessel struggles to maintain his sobriety in order to bring down a vigilante killer who has won the sympathy of the public.
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Dirty snow
by Georges Simenon ; translated by Marc Romano ; introduction by William T. Vollmann.
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257 p. 21 cm.
No one has explored the unhappy, injured, not to mention psychopathic, consciousness better than Georges Simenon. "Dirty Snow is a study of the criminal mind. It tells the story of Frank, a pimp, petty thief, and collaborator in occupied France. Through the unrelenting darkness of a long winter, Frank pursues all the possibilities of perdition until there is nowhere left to go.
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The fisher boy
Stephen Anable.
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332 p. ; 23 cm.
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French pressed
Cleo Coyle.
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xii, 270 p. ; 18 cm.
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The genius
Jesse Kellerman.
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374 p. ; 24 cm.
When a retired cop recognizes the faces of murdered children in an art gallery exhibit, he and his assistant DA daughter Susan begin a search to find the artist of the portraits--and possibly crack open a forty-year murder case.
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The girl of his dreams : a Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery
Donna Leon.
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276 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
One cold and rainy morning, the body of a gypsy is found floating in a canal. Brunetti suspects she fell off a nearby roof while fleeing an apartment she had robbed--but something about the case continues to haunt him.
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Goodbye, Ms. Chips
Dorothy Cannell.
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278 p. ; 22 cm.
Ellie Haskell returns to her old boarding school to solve a case of robbery--and finds herself tracking a murderer.
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Hold tight
Harlan Coben.
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416 p. ; 24 cm.
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Hollywood crows : a novel
Joseph Wambaugh.
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343 p. ; 24 cm.
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The house at Riverton : a novel
Kate Morton.
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vi, 473 p. ; 24 cm.
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The strangers in the house
Georges Simenon ; translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury ; with revisions by David Watson & others ; introduction by P.D. James.
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xiii, 194 p. ; 21 cm.
"Dirty, drunk, unloved, and unloving, Hector Loursat has been a bitter recluse for eighteen long years - ever since his wife abandoned him and their newborn child to run off with another man. Once a successful lawyer, Loursat now guzzles burgundy and buries himself in books, taking little notice of his teenage daughter or the odd things going on in his vast and ever-more-dilapidated mansion. But one night the sound of a gunshot penetrates the padded walls of Loursat's study, and he is forced to investigate. What he stumbles on is a murder." "Soon Loursat discovers that his daughter and her friends have been leading a dangerous secret life. He finds himself strangely drawn to this group of young people, and when one of them is accused of the murder, he astonishes the world by taking up the young man's defense."--BOOK JACKET.
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The paper moon
Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
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264 p. ; 20 cm.
The moody Inspector Montalbano is further beset by the existential questions that have been plaguing him of late. But he doesn't have much time to wax philosophical before the gruesome murder of a man--shot at point-blank range in the face with his pants down--commands his attention. Add two evasive, beautiful women as prime suspects, some dirty cocaine, mysterious computer codes, and a series of threatening letters, and things soon get very complicated at the police headquarters in Vigàta.
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