Blood Lines (Anna Travis, #7) (Anna Travis Mysteries)
by Lynda La Plante and Plante La, Lynda
Under the watchful eye of DCS James Langton, DCI Anna Travis takes charge of an investigation for the first time. But is it purely a missing person's case - or a full blown murder enquiry? An ominous pool of blood and no victim lead Anna on a desperate hunt for a man who has disappeared without trace. As Anna becomes obsessed with seemingly irrelevant details, Langton fears that she is losing control. They still have no body and Anna is under increasing pressure to make an arrest...
Back by popular demand are the two aging ex-movie stars Trixie Dolan and Evangeline Sinclair. Trixie Dolan, the high-kicking narrator of "Reel Murder", is in London sharing quarters with her friend Evangeline Sinclair. Evangeline is writing her memoirs when she discovers that an old rival is writing hers as well, and trouble begins. Because the truth is spread very thinly between them and who knows what secrets are going to be revealed? Trixie seems to be the only one who can ward off an explosi...
The Remains of the Dead (Ghost Dusters Mysteries, #1)
by Wendy Roberts
This story begins where Patrick O'Brian's devoted fans would want it to, with a sloop in the South China Sea barely surviving a killer typhoon. But the time is the 1930s, and the protagonist a teenaged American boy whose missionary parents have just died. In the company of his rough seafaring uncle and an elderly English cousin, an eminent archaeologist, Derrick sets off in search of ancient treasures in central Asia. Along the way they encounter a charismatic Chinese bandit and a host of bad...