Martha Grimes
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
With the narrative grace, compelling characters, and intricate plotting that have made her Richard Jury mysteries an international byword for sophisticated intrigue, Grimes presents two thematically linked novellas with a "poignancy that pierces the heart" ("The Washington Post").
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury flies to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where an address links three women murdered in England. One died in Salisbury's Roman ruins, a second in Exeter Cathedral and a third at the Tate Gallery in London. By the author of The Horse You Came in on.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"At Vertigo 42, a bar high above London's financial district, Richard Jury meets Tom Williamson - a friend of a friend who is convinced his wife, Tess, was murdered 17 years ago. Tess's death was ruled accidental - a fall caused by vertigo - but Jury agrees to re-examine the case. A young girl's fatal fall at a children's party 22 years ago at Tom and Tess's home may be connected. After an elegantly dressed woman falls from a tower near a pub that...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Maud Chadwick sits at the end of the pier, watching the party across the water. Sometimes she is joined by Sheriff Sam DeGheyn, who finds her quiet company a refuge from the problems of his own marriage and from his increasing professional concerns. For the town's sleepy atmosphere is deceptive: three local women have been murderedand Sam suspects the wrong man has been convicted and that the real killer is readying himself to strike again.
14) Biting the moon
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
An animal-rights activist loses her memory, but subsequently realizes she was abducted. She seeks out her abductor for a violent confrontation and in the process discovers a racket which uses caged animals for so-called canned hunts.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the latest series outing, The Knowledge, the Scotland Yard detective nearly meets his match in a Baker Street Irregulars-like gang of kids and a homicide case that reaches into east Africa. Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theater, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand--a man who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied...
19) Hotel Paradise
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A 12-year-old girl, waiting at tables in her mother's hotel, becomes interested in the death, 40 years earlier, of a girl her age. The victim drowned in a nearby lake. So little Emma Graham starts analyzing available evidence, questions old ladies and woodsmen, and through perseverance solves a mystery. By the author of The End of the Pier.