by Isaac Asimov (1985)
Collection of mystery short stories: No Refuge Could Save The Telephone Number The Men Who Wouldn't Talk A Clear Shot Irresistible to Women He Wasn't There The Thin Line Mystery Tune Hide and Seek Gift Hot or Cold The Thirteenth Page 1 to 999 Twelve Years Old Testing, Testing! The Appleby Story Dollars and Cents Friends and Allies Which is Which? The Sign Catching the Fox Getting the Combination The Library Book The Three Goblets Spell It! Two Women Sending a Signal The Favorite Piece Half a Ghost There Was a Young Lady
Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Halls, Lancasters, Talbots, Wellingtons, and Daltons--five close-knit and well-to-do families living on exclusive Crescent Place--retreat into terrified paranoia when first old Mrs. Lancaster is found hacked to death with an axe and then other victims are discovered
Michael Gilbert
The woman was young, French, and on trial for murdering a man said to be her ex-lover and the father of her dead child: an English major who had been one of the great heroes of the French Underground Resistance during the war. Mr. Macrea, hired to be her attorney on the first day of the trial, must find a way to prove her innocence in only one week. And he must dig deeply into the past to prove it.
Kerstin Ekman
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.