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 Murder Must Advertise
By Dorothy L. Sayers
When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym’s Publicity, a respectable
London advertising agency, it looks like an accident. Then Lord Peter Wimsey is called in, and he soon discovers there’s more to copy writing than meets the eye. A bit of
cocaine, a hint of blackmail, and some wanton women can be read between the lines. And then there is the brutal succession of murders – five of them – each one a fixed fee for advertising a deadly secret.
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 A Taste for Death
By P. D. James
When the vestry of St. Matthew’s Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard
Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intrigueing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to die next
to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation
of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice --- all the
while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two desparate men in bright red death.
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 A Great Deliverance
By Elizabeth George
To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale’s lush green valleys. Three hundred years
ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they’d hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell’s raiders.
Now into Keldale’s pastoral web of old
houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley
has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best
dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father’s headless corpse. Her first and last words were “I did it. And I’m not sorry.”
Yet as Lynley and Havers wind their way through Keldale’s dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through this
tranquil English valley – and in their own lives as well.
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 Postmortem
By Patricia Cornwell
With this novel, bestselling author Patricia Cornwell created one of suspense fiction’s
most compelling heroines: gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell’s gift for combining cutting-edge criminology with nerve-shattering suspense makes this thriller a true modern classic..
Under the leafy cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster moves undetected, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta
senses the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer -– a "Mr. Nobody” – whose signatures offer precious few clues. With an
unerring eye, she must call on the latest advances in forensic research to have a chance of unmasking the maniac. But this investigation will test
Kay like no other, because it’s being sabotaged from within – and someone wants her dead.
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 Death Du Jour
By Kathy Reichs
Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs exploded onto bestseller lists worldwide with her phenomenal debut novel Deja Dead
– and introduced Temperance Brennan, Quebec’s director of forensic anthropology. Now Temperance returns in a thrilling new investigation into the secrets of the dead.
In the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, Tempe Brennan is digging for a corpse buried more than a century ago. Although Tempe thrives on such enigmas from the past, it’s a chain of contemporary deaths and
disappearances that has seized her attention – and she alone is ideally placed to make a chilling connection among the seemingly unrelated events. At the crime scene, at the morgue, and in the lab, Tempe
probes a mystery that sweeps from a deadly Quebec fire to startling discoveries in the Carolinas, and culminates in Montreal with a terrifying showdown – a nerve-shattering test of both her forensic
expertise and her skills for survival.
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 Ditch Rider
By Judith Van Gieson (local Albuquerque writer)
A teenager has been murdered. Unfortunately, in Neil Hamel’s new ‘hood’ that’s not big news --- until
Neil’s battered thirteen-year-old neighbor Cheyanne Morales confesses to the shooting and asks Neil, a lawyer with a PI’s instincts, to represent her.
The DA is itching to pin it on a rival
gang, but Cheyanne is only too happy to do time in the detention home rather than her own. Torn between believing it’s not possible that
Cheyanne pulled the trigger and knowing that it is, Neil sets out to find the truth with help from her live-in love, the Kid, Neil sifts through secrets hidden in Albuquerque’s irrigation ditches and in the encoded
world of teenage beeper lingo, uncovering a lethal mix of dangerous gang justice anfd misplaced revenge sure to claim another innocent life - maybe even her own.
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