by Kerstin Ekman (1997)
After moving to the remote town of Blackwater in northern Sweden to join her lover, Annie Raft stumbles upon a brutal double murder that remains unsolved for twenty years, until the day she sees her grown daughter in the arms of the man Annie saw leavingthe scene of the crime.
Ruth Rendell
Once, when Benet was 14, her mother had tried to stab her with a carving knife. It was some time since she had seen her mad mother, so when she arrived at the airport, Benet tried not to hate her. But then the tragic death of a child begins a chain of deception, kidnap and murder.
L. P. Davies
A security leak in the multi-million-dollar Saturn Industries sends Boyd Maskell, a prospering junior executive and financial wizard, to an isolated house on the Scottish moors for a top-secret meeting designed to uncover the source. But when Maskell is transported to the site, he soon discovers himself a majority of one, and a strange series of visions and voices begins to make this cool young businessman doubt his own grasp on reality. Slowly, Maskell begins to realize that a means of escape lies in a secret code he carries in his packet of orders. His one hope is to crack the puzzle before his mind snaps.... A menacing tale of business chicanery and personal terror set against the lonely wilds of the Scottish lowlands.
Isaac Asimov
Collection of mystery short stories: "The Fourth Homonym" (1985) "Unique Is Where You Find It" (1985) "The Lucky Piece" (1990) "Triple Devil" (1985) "Sunset on the Water" (1986) "Where Is He?" (1986) "The Old Purse" (1987) "The Quiet Place" (1988) "The Four-Leaf Clover" (1990) "The Envelope" (1989) "The Alibi" (1989) "The Recipe" (1990)
Rick Harsch
"This final volume of Rick Harsch's Driftless trilogy opens with a dead man floating face down in a municipal swimming pool, a bullet in his head, his hat and narrative still in place. The victim is a writer named Rick Harsh. Spleen, a newspaperman, twin brother of the hero of The Driftless Zone and a friend of the dead writer, arrives on the scene determined to solve the murder."--Page 4 of cover.