by Wilfredo Mattos Cintrón (2012)
Novel. Wilfredo Mattos Cintrón (1940) is the creator of the pólice novel series which features the inspector Isabelo Andújar. The novels in this series include El cerro de los buitres (1984), El cuerpo bajo el puente (1989), Las dos caras de Jano (1995), Las puertas de San Juan (1997), El colapso (2000) y Desamores (2001). Several of his literary works have been awarded prizes by the Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña and the PEN Club. Of the police novel series the title Desamores has been made into a film. Mattos Cintrón has also published the novels Bailando al derecho y al revés (2007) and Letramuerto: asesinato en La Tertulia (2010).
David Fulmer
"No one cares much when a couple of street whores working the lowest rung on the prostitutions ladder in 1914 New Orleans are murdered in the same fashion. When a third sporting woman turns up dead, a small panic ensues, and Tom Anderson, the 'King of Storyville.' sends word from his hospital bed to Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr, who grudgingly steps into the investigation"--back cover.
Helene Tursten
A triple homicide in one of Goteborg's most fashionable neighborhoods culminates in a frantic investigation for Detective Inspector Irene Huss that is complicated by a dot-com diva who refuses to speak and Irene's partner Tommy's suspicious behavior.
Elizabeth Gunn
Ambitious Tucson police detective Sarah Burke, still smarting from a painful divorce, tries to concentrate on a body found in a parking lot. The case takes a bizarre turn when Sarah's young niece, neglected by her substance-abusing mother, disappears. The search is complicated by interference from the drug ring the suspected murderers had been working for, and Sarah's romantic interest in a troubled colleague rebuilding his life after injury.
Donald J. Sobol
Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, helps the police force solve ten new cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.