L'Atlas Book Archive

By Judi McCoy

Whilst Ellie, big apple City's so much enterprising puppy walker, is going to work out considered one of her consumers practice in a express, the screams should not only for the glorious dance numbers... A homicide occurs behind the scenes, and the single witness is a puppy named Bitsy. Taking Bitsy to a puppy psychic will not be ordinary technique, however it could cease a killer from biting back.

By Leslie Meier

While Lucy Stone takes a visit to England, the travel chief suffers an bronchial asthma assault mid-flight, and dies. In London, his substitute arrives, and Lucy starts to note a few unusual behaviour one of the travel crew.

By Lee Hanson

Whilst her ally dies in Key West, Julie O'Hara understands he by no means might have devoted suicide.  For her, there is just one query: was once it an twist of fate, or used to be Marc Solomon murdered?A physique language professional, Julie packs up her services with her suspicion and flies to Boston for the funeral, the place she meets Marc's good-looking and treacherous brother, Avram, whose grief-stricken posture does not idiot her at all.But the bombshell is fortress Cay.  Julie learns an remarkable truth from a in demand Beacon Hill lawyer a couple of position she by no means desired to take into consideration again...the Solomons' inner most island within the Abacos.One step prior to probability, Julie flees to Key West, simply to discover herself cornered by way of a determined killer, having pulled the string that unravels a dangerous conspiracy...and her personal bothered prior.

By Charlaine Harris

Whilst Lily stumbles upon the well-built corpse of an area physique builder-his neck damaged via a barbell-the town's underlying racial rigidity starts to boil over. The white sufferer used to be in some way attached to 2 unsolved murders of black citizens of Shakespeare-and a dogged policeman is set to forestall the killing. however it is Lily herself who can have to make a decision no matter if to stick and struggle for justice, or run away another time.

By Miranda Bliss

Annie Capshaw has chanced on that how you can a man's middle is thru his cooking category. yet simply as she and her ally, Eve, are making plans Annie's special day with Jim, her former cooking teacher grew to become boss, homicide takes the cake. Make that the marriage cake...

By Kylie Logan

Understanding of her button store in a Chicago brownstone, Josie Giancola has develop into one of many country's top specialists on buttons. Her popularity attracts a Hollywood starlet to the Button field to buy unique buttons to embellish her made-to-order marriage ceremony gown.

But after the Button field is ransacked and the actress murdered, Josie's comfortable international is thrown into chaos-and a killer is out to maintain Josie's lips buttoned up...permanently.

By Margaret Maron

Unchecked urbanization has started to eclipse the North Carolina geographical region. As farms fall down to shoddy mansions, farmers fight to sluggish the rampant progress. within the shadows, corrupt county commissioners use their political leverage to make ecocnomic bargains with new builders. A homicide will pull pass judgement on Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant into the center of this sour dispute and strength them to confront a few darkish realities.

By Sue Grafton

A tough-talking former cop, deepest investigator Kinsey Millhone has organize a modest detective corporation in a quiet nook of Santa Teresa, California. A twice-divorced loner with few own possessions and less own attachments, she’s received a delicate spot for underdogs and misplaced factors.  Eight years in the past, Nikki Fife used to be convicted of killing her philandering husband. Now she’s out on parole and desires Kinsey’s aid to discover the true killer.  If there is something that makes Kinsey believe alive, it is taking part in at the facet. When her research turns up a moment corpse, extra suspects, and a brand new cause to kill, Kinsey discovers that the sting is closer—and sharper—than she imagined.

By Jonathan Santlofer

Homicide is a very good paintings… A killer is preying on New York's artwork group, developing grotesque depictions of recognized work, utilizing human flesh and blood as his media. Terror stalks this international of genius, greed, idea, and jealousy -- an international Kate McKinnon is aware all too good. A former NYPD cop who traded in her badge for a Ph.D in artwork historical past, Kate can see the tactic in the back of the psychopath's insanity -- for the grisly slaughter of a former prot?g? is drawing her into the predator's direction. And as every one new homicide exceeds the final in savagery, Kate is trapped within the twisted obsessions of the demise artist, who plans to exploit her physique, her blood, and her worry to create the last word masterpiece.

By Victoria Holt

Pippa Ewell had left in the back of the darkish and forbidding Greystone Manor -- additionally the thoughts of Conrad, the good-looking stranger who had swept her breathlessly into his hands and middle. yet Pippa back to discover the reality at the back of her sister's mysterious dying. And without warning the fairy-tale kindgom glittered with evil and hazard . . .