Frank Carlson Library

"Norwegian P.I. with 20+ years of experience… I wasn't lying, per se, just bending the truth a little. OK, a lot, but I have been writing crime novels for 23 years. That has to count for something, right?" After a failed career in writing crime, Norwegian author, Tommy, decides to try his hand at actually preventing crime as a private investigator. How hard can it be, right? The aptly named "Viking P.I." soon discovers that he has a real talent…...

Red Snow is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Dark Pines, selected for ITV's Zoe Ball Book Club. TWO BODIES. One suicide. One cold-blooded murder. Are they connected? And who's really pulling the strings in the small Swedish town of Gavrik? TWO COINS. Black Grimberg liquorice coins cover the murdered man's eyes. The hashtag #Ferryman starts to trend as local people stock up on ammunition. TWO WEEKS. Tuva Moodyson, deaf reporter at the local paper,...

Things are looking up for Katelyn Took. She has a job, a roof over her head, a new love, and she's down to fourteen cats. If it weren't for the human remains, she fell into on Eagle Drop Ridge, she'd be over the moon. Then things start to slide. Before she recovers from falling into the first set of bones, a second set of remains is discovered fifty feet down at the bottom of the ledge. She knows there has to be a connection, even though the...

"[John Dickson Carr] is the supreme conjuror; the king of the art of misdirection...once you begin a book of his, you simply cannot put it down."-Agatha Christie First published in 1942, this reissue is one of Carr's most tense and enjoyable game of cat and mouse pitting detective Gideon Fell against the "chief" suspect. When police arrive at Justice Ireton's holiday bungalow to find a man killed by gunshot and the high court justice brandishing...

Ashley Hope est une banale fille du sud des États-Unis, heureuse et fiancée - jusqu'à ce que les sombres secrets de son passé commencent à faire voler sa vie en éclats. Désormais membre de la Division Spéciale de la Police d'État du Tennessee, Ashley doit pénétrer dans l'esprit d'un meurtrier et suivre la piste mystérieuse de victimes balancées dans des déchèteries toxiques sauvages par un tueur en série. Mais Ashley pourrait-elle...

La nueva trilogía del prestigioso escritor y superventas internacional Don Winslow, autor de la trilogía del Cártel: El poder del perro, El Cártel y La Frontera además de Corrupción policial y Rotos. Ciudad en llamas es la primera novela de una nueva y épica saga sobre los sindicatos del crimen italianos e irlandeses en los años 80 y 90. 1986, Providence, estado de Rhode Island. Danny Ryan es un estibador muy trabajador, un marido enamorado,...

Madeline Lane, co-owner of an upscale jewelry store in Boston, had never sold a $200,000 emerald necklace before, and certainly not to a billionaire jerk. But, then the murders begin, and Madeline steps up to save an innocent prime suspect from a homicide charge. However, in this edgy, plot-twisting mystery all is not what it seems, and haunted memories of long-lost emeralds set in motion a series of deadly decisions.

Humans and elves, dwarves and gnomes, wizards and warriors all live and do business in the thriving, overcrowded port city of Cliff's End, to say nothing of the tourists and travelers who arrive by land and sea, passing through the metropolis on matters of business or pleasure-or on quests. The hard-working, under-appreciated officers of the Cliff's End Castle Guard work day and night to maintain law and order as best they can. A new drug called...

Their chafing differences in education, manners, technique, and temperament made them "the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction" (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. Ellie Pascoe is a novelist, former campus radical, overprotective mother-and as an inspector's wife, on high alert of suspicious behavior. When she thwarts an abduction plot,...

Following the money trail gets Tate and Brown into a lot of trouble. Detectives Ray Tate and Djuna Brown are back from a vacation in Paris - fraudulently funded by a stolen State Police credit card. While waiting to find out if they're going to be fired or jailed, the couple is assigned to the Green Squad, a dead-end job shuffling paper and counting contraband money. But while interrogating a money smuggler, Tate and Brown uncover a massive currency...