IF YOU FLEE FATE...When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. FATE WILL FIND YOU...But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met. And when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St. Lawrence leads him down a path he could never have foreseen, forcing him to face a conflict between his professional duty and his personal destiny.
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Eye Contact by Fergus McNeill
you look him in the eye, you're dead. From the outside, Robert Naysmith is a successful businessman, handsome and charming. But for years he's been playing a deadly game. He doesn't choose his victims. Each is selected at random - the first person to make eye contact after he begins 'the game' will not have long to live. Their fate is sealed. When the body of a young woman is found on Severn Beach, Detective Inspector Harland is assigned the case. It's only when he links it to an unsolved murder in Oxford that the police begin to guess at the awful scale of the crimes. But how do you find a killer who strikes without motive?
Strong poison by Dorothy L Sayers
About the book Lord Peter Wimsey becomes fascinated when bohemian Harriet Vane is accused of murdering her lover. He investigates further and finds himself falling in love with her as he visits her in prison and watches her in court. But can he save her from the gallows? Reviewed by Bookworms It took a few chapters… Continue reading Strong poison by Dorothy L Sayers
The Body Wore Brocade by James Melville
The 13th novel featuring Superintendent Tesuo Otani, chief of Japan's largest police department. His wife is moody and irritable, his sister-in-law is having an affair with one of his staff, and then on his day off he's shot in what seems a case of mistaken identity.
The Vice Society by James McCreet
A Victorian detective thriller set in 1840s London and continues a series featuring the characters of George Williamson, Noah Dyson and Inspector Albert Newsome.
Acqua Alta by Donna Leon
Full of marvelous plot twists, "Acqua Alta" is a chilling addition to Donna Leon's addictive series.
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
In their desperate fight to confront the past and find Amanda McCready, Kenzie and Gennaro will be forced to question if it's possible to do the wrong thing and still be right or to do the right thing and still be wrong.
Above Suspicion by Lynda La Plante
In the footsteps of Jane Tennison, immortalized by Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect, comes Anna Travis, a rookie female detective about to embark on her first murder case.
The Lighthouse by P D James
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to handle a sensitive case, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team.
Death in Holy Orders by P D James
Set on the wild coast of East Anglia, this number one bestseller an Adam Dalgliesh novel and a thrilling work of crime fiction.