I do. When my husband and I bought the Bellechasse we made a pact....Everything that stepped foot on this land would be safe." And then one day a charming and charismatic stranger called Floyd walks into a café and sweeps Laurel off her feet. Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world. We also meet an assassin and things become dangerous when people are kidnapped and he is in the middle.

Here is the novel that started it all- the first book in J.D. Robb's number-one New York Times-bestselling In Death series, featuring New York homicide detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke. Former cop of all sorts, Harry Duncan, is now a private investigator. He uses everything he's learned in the past to do a fantastic job of private investigating now. He keeps murder books for every job he does, just like he did when he wasn't self employed. He is methodical with his record keeping, with pictures, videos, audios, interviews, everything that pertains to a crime recorded, documented, and saved. Now, sixteen years later, in a posthumous letter, Mrs. Crale has assured her grown daughter that she was innocent. But instead of setting the young woman's mind at ease, the letter only raises disquieting questions. Did Caroline indeed write the truth? And if she didn't kill her husband, who did? It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. But they're not alone. The Finney family—rich, cultured, and respectable—has also arrived for a celebration of their own.From 30-47%: MC is in deep contemplation of his objectives. I preferred his life-threatening struggles. On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. With each of his books, Mark Billingham gets better and better. These are stories and characters you don’t want to leave.” —Michael Connelly

What I find most interesting in Perry’s work is the powers of observation. His main characters see everything, notes of everything. What’s great about this aspect is how Perry moves the story while at the same time advancing the descriptions needed to build the locations. He puts us right there with the character utilizing a method that serves both. Kind of brilliant. The observations are also at times unique and thought provoking which keeps the reader engaged. He uses just the right about of minute details without overpowering the prose. A lot like a painter would when daubing a final white slash on a dark pupil to make the pupil in the portrait glitter. She stood in Purgatory and studied death. The blood and the gore of it, the ferocity of its glee. It had come to this place with the wilful temper of a child, full of heat and passion and careless brutality.' Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is summoned to France after receiving a distressing letter with a urgent cry for help. Upon his arrival in Merlinville-sur-Mer, the investigator finds the man who penned the letter, the South American millionaire Monsieur Renauld, stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Meanwhile the millionaire's wife is found bound and gagged in her room. Apparently, it seems that Renauld and his wife were victims of a failed break-in, resulting in Renauld's kidnapping and death. Even though they have been divorced for years and have not seen one another in 15 years; however, she trusts Harry. He wants to turn her down but he accepts.Miss Marple’s last case, Sleeping Murder, was written over 30 years before it was published and sees Miss Marple solve her final mystery. They're a writer? An avid reader of crime novels? A collector of oddities? Well, Chicago cop, turned private eye, Harry Duncan has exactly that. It's a technique he uses when compiling any relevant information he thinks he's going to need to when he was working a homicide But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives—meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced. The latest thriller from internationally bestselling author Mark Billingham finds Tom Thorne settling into a newly content existence, but a spate of brutal murders sets him off on an investigation that may just shatter every happiness he has built. Gosford Park" meets "Groundhog Day" by way of Agatha Christie – the most inventive story you'll read this year.

At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her life - a woman who has been accused of murdering her husband in front of her two young children. Yuki's career rests on a guilty verdict, so when Lindsay finds evidence that could save the defendant, she is forced to choose. Should she trust her best friend or follow her instinct? Morse, Rebus, and now Thorne. The next superstar detective is already with us—don’t miss him.”—Lee Child In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain. As I was reading I did come across one criticism that had to do with the character Renee but that issue resolved itself later on the book, (she returned to the story).Neal O'Gorman Certainly, a previous non-business book which I really enjoyed (along with many other people) was the Da Vinci Code. I was living in the States at the time, and it was a rare occasion to be on a plane and not see someone reading it. (Source) A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy, Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a lead in his case--a very devastating lead. Wiretaps, witness interviews, court recordings and detective recollections piece together thistrue crime podcast hosted by Michael Connelly that explores real homicidecases not covered by mainstream media.