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Winter's Peak: Winter Black Season Two by Mary Stone
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s lonely at the top. And deadly at the bottom.Sexual harassment isn’t the type of case Private Investigator Winter Black usually takes. But it’s a welcome distraction from whoever’s been sending creepy, anonymous text messages to her phone and set up cameras to spy on her home and office... -
![Dial D for Deadman by Barry J. Hutchison]()
Dial D for Deadman by Barry J. Hutchison
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Space Team Universe just got a whole lot darker. In an alien city torn apart by crooked cops and ruthless criminals, private detective, Dan Deadman, specializes in cases unusual and bizarre... -
![Love in the Time of Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith]()
Love in the Time of Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe latest installment in the delightful 44 Scotland Street series finds all our favorite residents up to their usual hilarious hijinks. In the microcosm of 44 Scotland Street, all of life's richness is found in the glorious goings-on of its residents... -
![Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen]()
Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAnother instant classic from Carl Hiaasen—laugh-out-loud funny, tackling the current chaotic and polarized American culture (following in the path of Squeeze Me), with two wonderful new Hiaasen heroes“The afternoon of September first, dishwater-gray and rainy, a man named Dale Figgo picked up a hitchhiker on Gus Grissom Boulevard in Tangelo Falls, Florida... -
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![Araminta Station by Jack Vance]()
Araminta Station by Jack Vance
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEssef - Travel out along the galaxy's Perseid Arm. Branch off to follow the ten thousand stars of Mircea's Wisp. Eventually you will come to the Purple Rose System - three stars, Lorca, Sing and Syrene, that seem about to drift away into the void. Three planets circle Syrene. On one, Cadwal, there is Life. Long ago the Naturalist Society of Earth had listed Cadwal as a natural preserve... -
![Press Enter by John Varley]()
Press Enter by John Varley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis award-winning Science Fiction novella is part murder mystery, part romance, and more than a little bit scary.Victor Apfel, a troubled war vet, gets an odd, pre-recorded phone message, instructing him to go inside the house next door. He opens the door to find his neighbor shot through the head... -
![Little Boy Blue by Edward Bunker]()
Little Boy Blue by Edward Bunker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRaised within the confines of a system that has done nothing but provide him with pain, Alex Hamilton's frustration and anger are completely natural--and inherently dangerous.Since his parents split up, Alex has been constantly running from foster homes and institutions, yearning to be with his father, a broken man who cannot give his son the home he desperately needs... -
![El asesino de los caramelos de violeta by Javier Holgado, Susana López Rubio]()
El asesino de los caramelos de violeta by Javier Holgado, Susana López Rubio
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLa nostalgia y el suspense se darán la mano en las páginas de este adictivo misterio.En los años finales de la dictadura de Franco, Madrid está viviendo una ola de muertes que han sido catalogadas como suicidios y accidentes. Todas ellas son mujeres jóvenes, y salvo Lucio Garza, un sagaz médico forense, nadie ha encontrado una relación clara entre sus muertes... -
![The Exploding Detective by John Swartzwelder]()
The Exploding Detective by John Swartzwelder
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne of a series of comedy science fiction novels featuring slow-witted detective Frank Burly. By John Swartzwelder, the author of "The Time Machine Did It", "Double Wonderful", "How I Conquered Your Planet", and 59 episodes of The Simpsons... -
![Simon Grave and the Curious Incident of the Cat in the Daytime by Len Boswell]()
Simon Grave and the Curious Incident of the Cat in the Daytime by Len Boswell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Boswell continues his genre-defying series in this ambitious adventure…” –PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY Murder rocks the seaside town of Crab Cove, but to solve the crime, Detective Simon Grave must first deal with the curious incident of the cat in the daytime... -
![I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin]()
I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsA standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.But there are rules:He cannot look inside the box.He cannot ask questions... -
![A Stainless Steel Rat is Born by Harry Harrison]()
A Stainless Steel Rat is Born by Harry Harrison
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn this prequel to the Stainless Steel Rat, Slippery Jim is a brash 17-year-old who has left his parents' porcuswine farm, planning to embark on a life of crime. The book opens with Jim bungling a bank job so that he can be arrested and sent to prison, where he plans to learn the art of being a master criminal... -
![Torture, luxure et lecture by Patrick Senécal]()
Torture, luxure et lecture by Patrick Senécal
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCroyez-le ou non, malgré les terribles événements qui ont perturbé la première semaine de cours, la session d’automne s’est poursuivie comme si de rien n’était au cégep de Malphas. On a même eu droit, au département de littérature, à un nouveau collègue, Michel Condé, qui a décidé de fonder un club de lecture... -
![The Authorities™ by Scott Meyer]()
The Authorities™ by Scott Meyer
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSinclair Rutherford is a young Seattle cop with a taste for the finer things. Doing menial tasks and getting hassled by superiors he doesn't respect are definitely not “finer things... -
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![The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley]()
The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWill Barrent had no memory of his crime . . . but he found himself shipped across space to a brutal prison-planet. On Omega, his only chance to advance himself -- and stay alive -- is to commit an endless series of violent crimes. The average inmate's life expectancy from time of arrival is three years... -
![Edie Investigates by Nick Harkaway]()
Edie Investigates by Nick Harkaway
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the author of "The Gone-Away World" and the forthcoming "Angelmaker"--an exhilarating espionage murder-mystery eShort. There has been a strange death in the quiet village of Shrewton: old Donny Caspian has lost his head. In the Copper Kettle tea rooms, Tom Rice, a junior nobody from the Treasury, puzzles over the details of the case... -
![Wealth of Time by Andre Gonzalez]()
Wealth of Time by Andre Gonzalez
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow much would you sacrifice to learn the truth?Martin Briar drags himself through life. The 54 year old has lost the will to live since the disappearance of his 12-year-old daughter two decades ago.Unable to pull the trigger on himself, again, he later encounters a time-traveling antique dealer who offers him the chance to find out what happened to his only child... -
![Sleeper Beach by Nick Harkaway]()
Sleeper Beach by Nick Harkaway
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Karla's Choice, comes a thrilling new detective novel.On the shore of a rundown holiday town, a young woman washes up dead. Martha Erskine, the matriarch of a local dynasty, suspects a member of her own family might be involved in the murder, and calls in Cal to investigate... -
![You Were Always Mine by Sheila Bugler]()
You Were Always Mine by Sheila Bugler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYears ago, she went to prison for killing her husband. Now, her daughter is dead too.Cassie McNamara was found guilty of the murder of her husband, Paul Cavellini, but she has always protested her innocence. Upon her release, she is ready to start over and hires local journalist, Dee Doran, to prove she was wrongfully convicted.Cassie and Paul’s young daughter, Grace, was adopted by Paul’s family... -
![Tik-Tok by John Sladek]()
Tik-Tok by John Sladek
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"A Robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm".That's Asimov's celebrated First Law of Robotics. And in the 21st century, all domestic robots are programmed according to that Law... -
![The Unpleasantness at Baskerville Hall by Chris Dolley]()
The Unpleasantness at Baskerville Hall by Chris Dolley
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWodehouse steampunk version of The Hound of the Baskervilles! “Jeeves and Wooster meet Holmes and Watson with a touch of steampunk in the hilarious first full-length Reeves and Worcester tale ... This laugh-out-loud parody works on several levels ... With razor-sharp wit and fast pacing that plays fair with the reader, this is an excellent genre mash-up that fires on all cylinders... -
![Three Novels: Hordubal, Meteor, An Ordinary Life by Karel Čapek, R. Weatherall]()
Three Novels: Hordubal, Meteor, An Ordinary Life by Karel Čapek, R. Weatherall
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis trilogy of novels was the culmination of Karel Capek's career. The novels share neither characters nor events; instead, they approach the problem of knowing people—of mutual understanding—in a variety of ways. Detectives faced with a murder reconstruct the crime, but not the character of the man who was murdered... -
![Queen's Bounty by Fiona Buckley]()
Queen's Bounty by Fiona Buckley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe tenth gripping mystery to feature Ursula Blanchard, special aide to Queen Elizabeth I.Happily married to her third husband, Ursula Blanchard is rudely shaken on receipt of a threatening letter from the exiled Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland, whose treasonous plot against Elizabeth I, Ursula helped foil a few months previously... -
![Slaughtermatic by Steve Aylett]()
Slaughtermatic by Steve Aylett
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in the blood-drenched chaos of Beerlight, "a blown circuit, where to kill a man was less a murder than a mannerism," Dante Cubit and his pill-popping sidekick, the Entropy Kid, waltz into First National Bank with some serious attitude and a couple of snub guns... -
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![The Fictional Man by Al Ewing]()
The Fictional Man by Al Ewing
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHollywood: Niles Golan is writing a remake of a camp-classic spy movie. The studio has plans for a franchise, so rather than hiring an actor, the protagonist will be 'translated' into a cloned human body.It's common practice - Niles' therapist is a Fictional. So is his best friend. So, maybe, is the woman in the bar he can't stop staring at... -
![Space Police: Attack of the Mammary Clans by David Blake]()
Space Police: Attack of the Mammary Clans by David Blake
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's the 25th Century, and the President of American has taken over the world.Meanwhile... after a cleaner unplugged his cryogenic freezing machine by accident, Detective Inspector Capstan wakes up to find that he's been in a state of suspended animation for over four hundred years... -
![Fell of Dark by Reginald Hill]()
Fell of Dark by Reginald Hill
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn innocent man is on the run in a Hitchcockian psychological thriller by the author of the “outstanding” Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries (The New York Times). Best known for his Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill proves himself to be a “master of . . -
![Happy Are the Clean of Heart by Andrew M. Greeley]()
Happy Are the Clean of Heart by Andrew M. Greeley
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE FALLEN STAR lay in a death-like coma, victim of an attack as mysterious as it was savage. Until violence interrupted her glittering career, she was a singer and actress adored by millions... -
![Zderzacz by Joanna Łopusińska]()
Zderzacz by Joanna Łopusińska
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA co, jeśli wszystko, co wydaje się nam przypadkowe, przypadkowe nie jest? Co, jeśli istnieje wzór na przypadek? I co, jeśli ten wzór zmieni znany nam świat?Grudzień 2011, Genewa, CERN. Największy na świecie ośrodek badań jądrowych.Prof. Francesca Accardi przedstawia postępy prac w poszukiwaniu boskiej cząstki: bozonu Higgsa. Odkrycie ma stać się największą sensacją naukową XXI w... -
![Incompetence by Rob Grant]()
Incompetence by Rob Grant
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBad is the new good. In the not too distant future the European Union enacts its most far reaching human rights legislation ever. The incompetent have been persecuted for too long. After all it's not their fault they can't do it right, is it? So it is made illegal to sack or otherwise discriminate against anyone for being incompetent... -
![خاموشی by Jesse Ball, Mahtab Safdari]()
خاموشی by Jesse Ball, Mahtab Safdari
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWilliam and Molly lead a life of small pleasures, riddles at the kitchen table, and games of string and orange peels. All around them a city rages with war. When the uprising began, William’s wife was taken, leaving him alone with their young daughter. They keep their heads down and try to remain unnoticed as police patrol the streets, enforcing a curfew and arresting citizens... -
![Legacy by Matthew Farrer]()
Legacy by Matthew Farrer
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe legendary rogue trader charters: Imperial warrants of unimaginable antiquity, which can bring their bearers wealth and power barely imaginable. Now that Rogue Trader Hoyyon Phrax is dead, his charter is being brought to the great fortress-system of Hydraphur to be ceremonially bequeathed to his son, and already the vultures are circling.Shira Calpurnia does not want the charter... -
![Whiff of Death by Isaac Asimov]()
Whiff of Death by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEveryone knew that Ralph Neufeld was a careful young chemist, especially his professor, Lou Brade. That's why Ralph's accidental demise due to a confusion of chemicals struck Brade, as well as the police, as highly unlikely.Someone on campus had, somehow, switched bottles on poor Neufeld, and the result was as deadly as had been planned... -
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![This Little Dark Place by A.S. Hatch]()
This Little Dark Place by A.S. Hatch
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow well do you know your girlfriend? How well do you know your lover? How well do you know yourself ? Daniel and Victoria are together. They're trying for a baby. Ruby is in prison, convicted of assault on an abusive partner. But when Daniel joins a pen pal program for prisoners, he and Ruby make contact... -
![Dr. No by Percival Everett]()
Dr. No by Percival Everett
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising The protagonist of Percival Everett’s puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means “nothing” in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for “nothing.”) He is an expert on nothing... -
![Cabaret Biarritz by José C. Vales]()
Cabaret Biarritz by José C. Vales
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGeorges Miet escribe por encargo historias populares para la editorial francesa La Fortune, hasta que un día su editor le pide una novela “seria” acerca de los trágicos hechos que habían conmocionado quince años antes la vibrante Biarritz de 1925, durante la temporada estival. Tras una terrible galerna el cadáver de una joven de la localidad aparece sujeto a una argolla en el muelle... -
![In Your Face by Scarlett Thomas]()
In Your Face by Scarlett Thomas
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLily receives a troubling phone call from Jess, a freelance journalist. Jess wrote a feature on three women who were victims of stalking, and on the day it was published, all three women were found murdered. When Lily arrives in London to investigate, she finds out Jess is missing and has left behind a mysterious trail of clues... -
![Seaside by Scarlett Thomas]()
Seaside by Scarlett Thomas
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSmart, willful, incautious and nearly terminally curious, Lily Pascale-university lecturer and part-time sleuth-faces her most baffling case in Seaside, when one-half of a pair of identical twins turns up dead... -
![Betrayals: A Novel by Charles Palliser]()
Betrayals: A Novel by Charles Palliser
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt once a hypnotic murder mystery, scathing literary parody, soap opera, and brilliant pastiche, Betrayals is an astonishing virtuouso performance by a modern master of literary gamesmanship in the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov and John Barth.The novel unforlds in a series of seemingly unrelated narratives, each written in a different style -- indeed, in a different genre... -
![Sin retorno by Susana Rodríguez Lezaun]()
Sin retorno by Susana Rodríguez Lezaun
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHace tiempo que Irene Ochoa se sentía atrapada en un callejón sin salida cuyos muros se estrechaban a medida que las palizas por parte de Marco, su marido, se convertían en una rutina. No tiene más armas que su instinto de supervivencia. No hay otra opción: la vida de Marcos o la suya... -
![Allô, Hercule Poirot... by Agatha Christie]()
Allô, Hercule Poirot... by Agatha Christie
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings*La Disparition de M... -
![The Chain of Chance by Stanisław Lem]()
The Chain of Chance by Stanisław Lem
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWritten in the style of a detective novel, The Chain of Chance is classic Lem: a combination of action, hard science, and philosophical investigation. An ex-astronaut is hired to look into the death of several wealthy businessmen. The authorities suspect a pattern, but neither the police nor a supercomputer enlisted for the investigation can crack the case... -
![Halfhead by Stuart B. MacBride, Stuart MacBride]()
Halfhead by Stuart B. MacBride, Stuart MacBride
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGlasgow, not too far in the future. A new punishment has been devised for the perpetrators of serious crimes. The process is known as halfheading: the offender's lower jaw is removed & they are lobotomized. They are then put to work as cleaners in municipal areas like hospitals, where they serve as a warning to all that crime doesn't pay... -
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![Company by Max Barry]()
Company by Max Barry
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsStephen Jones is a shiny new hire at Zephyr Holdings... -
![Past Crimes by Jason Pinter]()
Past Crimes by Jason Pinter
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWelcome to Earth+. The year is 2037, and nearly all human interactions have migrated to the virtual world. Now, true crime fans don't just listen to podcasts or watch documentaries - they participate in hyper-realistic simulations and hunt for clues to solve the most famous and gruesome crimes in history... -
![The Hacker and the Ants by Rudy Rucker]()
The Hacker and the Ants by Rudy Rucker
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis cyberpunk adventure from Philip K. Dick award-winner, Rudy Rucker, reads like a ripped-from-Reddit romp of white hat hacking, artificial intelligence. run amok, and an unstoppable electronic 'bugs.'From a two-time winner of the Philip K... -
![Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime by Leonie Swann]()
Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime by Leonie Swann
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis highly anticipated follow-up to The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp finds Agnes and her octogenarian friends face-to-face with a killer after winning a trip to a beautiful hotel in the seaside town of Cornwall.The year is rapidly drawing to an end, Hettie the tortoise is hibernating and Agnes, Charlie, Marshall, and the other elderly residents of Sunset Hall are going stir-crazy at home... -
![Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb, Ruth Ann Phimister]()
Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb, Ruth Ann Phimister
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEdgar Award-winning author Sharyn McCrumb brings her storytelling talent and keen eye for satire to this hilarious spoof of the bizarre culture surrounding sci-fi/fantasy fandom. It all takes place at Rubicon, the science fiction and fantasy convention of your nightmares... -
![Nigerians in Space by Deji Bryce Olukotun]()
Nigerians in Space by Deji Bryce Olukotun
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1993. Houston. Dr. Wale Olufunmi, lunar rock geologist, has a life most Nigerian immigrants would kill for, but then most Nigerians aren’t Wale—-a great scientific mind in exile with galactic ambitions. Then comes an outlandish order: steal a piece of the moon...
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