Browse by category
A Certain Justice by P.D. James
Category: No Category | Series: Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to inves ...Show more
An Uncertain Place: Adamsberg 6 by Fred Vargas
Category: No Category | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
Severed feet are found outside Highgate Cemetery; a violent murder is committed in Paris - can Commissaire Adamsberg unravel the links between these two cases? Three-times winner of the CWA International Dagger for Crime Fiction Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, ac ...Show more
Architecture 101: From Frank Gehry to Ziggurats, an Essential Guide to Building Styles and Materials by Nicole Bridge
Category: No Category | Series: Adams 101
A crash course in designing and constructing buildingsToo often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of architecture into tedious discourse that would put even Frank Gehry to sleep. "Architecture 101" cuts out the boring explanations, and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you engaged as yo ...Show more
Astrology 101: From Sun Signs to Moon Signs, Your Guide to Astrology by Jenni Kosarin
Category: No Category | Series: Adams 101
Explore the mysteries of the cosmos! Too often, astrology guides obscure the mystical wonder of the zodiac with overly tedious details about nodes, houses, angles, and aspects that even Ptolemy would reject. Astrology 101 cuts out the boring details and lengthy explanations and instead gives you a hands ...Show more
Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas
Category: No Category | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg | Reading Level: very good
Each day, in honour of a Parisian tradition, a town crier calls out the local news to all who will listen. Over the course of a few days a number of disturbing messages are slipped in to his box, messages of portentous and malicious intent referring to the Black Death. Strange marks have also appeared o ...Show more
In the Dark (#2 DI Adam Fawley) by Cara Hunter
Category: Fiction | Series: A\DI Adam Fawley Novel Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A woman and child are found locked in a basement room, barely alive . . . No one knows who they are - the woman can't speak, and there are no missing persons reports that match their profile. The elderly man who owns the house claims he has never seen them before. The inhabitants of the quiet Oxford str ...Show more
The Black Tower ( Adam Dalgliesh 5 ) by P.D. James
Category: No Category | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
Award-winning P.D. James, one of the masters of crime fiction, takes her best-known detective to the Dorset coast in this murder mystery. Awakening on his sick bed to a deepening sense of his own mortality, Dalgliesh fights with his illness and finds himself embroiled in a thrilling murder investigation ...Show more
The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
Category: No Category | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg Ser.
"Winner of the 2009 CWA International Dagger Award ean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme- he doesn t search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this ...Show more
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg Novel by Fred Vargas
Category: No Category | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
'People will die,' says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She has been standing in blazing sunshine for more than an hour, and refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Norman ...Show more
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg novel by Fred Vargas
Category: No Category | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
'People will die,' says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Normandy. Since the middle ages there have been stories of murderers, r ...Show more
The Lighthouse by P. D. James
Category: No Category | Series: Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction. Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of ...Show more
The Lighthouse by P. D. James
Category: No Category | Series: Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visi ...Show more