by H.R.F. Keating (2001)
All Bombay is buzzing with news of the murder of Anil Ajmani. It is certainly a baffling case, for the millionaire was found stabbed to death in his heavily guarded and tightly secured mansion. Every inspector in the Crime Branch hopes to be the one to nail the killer and that includes Inspector Ganesh Ghote. Unfortunately, he is not assigned to the case. Instead, he has been given the less glorious task of tracking down a cat burglar, nicknamed Yeshwant, who has been scaling apartment buildings in the dead of night to steal valuable pieces of jewelry. Aided-or perhaps hampered-by his old friend Axel Svensson, seeking Indian warmth from his troubles in winter-cold Sweden, Ghote fights to uncover Yeshwant's true identity. And in so doing, unexpectedly finds that he may be the one to solve the murder of Anil Ajmani after all.
Ilsa Mayr
Singer Merrilee Ingram returns to her roots in the Appalachian town of Browne's Station, Kentucky, determined to recover memories of the fire that killed her mother when Merrilee was four. But Merrilee's not welcome in town, and evidence of that escalates from a warning note to a copperhead on her front porch. Despite that, Merrilee presses on, uncovering long-buried secrets and making her past more dangerous in the present than ever before.
Michael Dibdin
"On orders emanating from high above the usual police bureaucracy, Venetian police inspector Aurelio Zen is sent to Sardinia to arrest someone - anyone - for the murder of an eccentric billionaire whose corrupt dealings enriched some of the most exalted figures in the Italian government."-- Publisher description.
Jefferson Parker
A detective with a unique gift, a tragic suicide and big city corruption -- 'The Fallen' is the stunning new thriller from the author of 'The Blue Hour': 'a great writer! he's amazing' Lee Child.
Tricia Fields
"At the end of State Road 170 and just past a ghost town lies Artemis, population 2,500. The townspeople had sought out this remote corner of Western Texas in hopes of living lives of solitude and independence. None of them realized that their small town would become a hot spot for Mexican drug runners, whose turf battles have turned both sides of the Rio Grande into a war zone. Still, many of the locals would rather take the law into their own hands than get help from police chief Josie Gray, even when they're up against a cartel's private army. After arresting one of the cartel's hit men and killing another, Josie finds her life at risk for doing a job that many people would rather see her quit. And when the town's self-appointed protector of the Second Amendment is murdered and his cache of weapons disappears, it's clear that she doesn't have to pick sides in this war. She's battling them both."--from cover, p. [2]