by Ellen Hart (2009)
Taking a seemingly easy job in her first case as a fledgling private investigator, Jane Lawless attempts to track down the missing father of client Annie Andrews, a successful effort with unanticipated consequences.
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.
Jonathan Gash
In Hong Kong, Kway Fay, tries to get by by communicating with her grandmother's ghost and keeping silent about the bribes she pays to survive, finds herself in the middle of a battle between underworld organizations.
Mitch Cullin
*The basis for the Major Motion Picture Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney and directed by Bill Condon.* It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn’t even know he was asking–about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind’s ability to know. A novel of exceptional grace and literary sensitivity, A Slight Trick of the Mind is a brilliant imagining of our greatest fictional detective and a stunning inquiry into the mysteries of human connection.
Ian Sansom
Jewish bookmobile librarian Israel Armstrong investigates the disappearances of a magician and a large sum of money, a case in which he finds clues in his five-panel touring exhibition.