The Phoenix

Literature & Fiction

Reilly, S. Alden

Contemporary

HILLIARD & HARRIS

In the latest Lou Corso mystery, Lou Corso, a hard drinking, hard living ex-cop is confronted with a chance for a new life. When Lou's client, Connie Terwilliger is threatened by her vicious husband, Victor, Lou and the group  of good Samaritans who help him shelter battered women rescue Connie and put her in a safe house.   After Connie is murderously attacked, Lou finds himself pulled between his current commitments and a decade old list of cold cases involving murdered or missing women. One of those cases had cost him his career as a police detective when his frustration with a suspect had pushed him near the edge. When life couldn't seem to get more complicated, Lou meets Joan Queen, a pretty ex-cop from Miami who makes him feel like living again.  In this fast paced drama, Lou Corso must outsmart a psychopath, redeem himself as a champion of battered and murdered women, and find the courage to commit to love.

Insufficient Evidence

SWART, CARTER

Hellfire

Hellfire is the story of the infamous English club of the same name patronized by famous men of the 18th century including Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Johnson.

Dennison, Michael

Genre Fiction

Twice Dead

Monica Everhardt, head nurse in the ICU at St. Teresa's Hospital has a mystery on her hands. A young woman who apparently died from an abortion was never pregnant. Monica must find out why the young woman died, was she murdered? When the hospital is threatened with a lawsuit, the investigation takes a deadly turn.

Sullivan, Eleanor

Sandgroper Desecrations

Sam Rhys is still haunted by one of his cases-the brutal rape and murder of a little girl-when he was a homicide detective in San Francisco years ago. Her killer left her twisted in a pathetic pose of a damaged doll. The crime scene so horrific that seasoned investigators couldn't bear to look at her body unless they imagined her a mangled mannequin, not a real flesh and blood little girl. Sam and his partner, Mike Patrick, became obsessed with finding the killer and when the case ran cold-completely cold-both men experienced a personal crisis. Sam's failure to capture the murderer led him to give up police work and follow his best friend, Alex Rosen, to Australia and to a new life as a college professor in Perth. But when a newspaper article about the killing of a little Aborigine girl in Broome-a city in Northwestern Australia-catches Sam's eye, his gut is certain that the killer from all those years ago in San Francisco is back in his sights. Sam's hunt is an incredible odyssey through the cities and peoples of Western Australia as he tracks a vicious killer from one victim to another. Sandgroper Desecrations by Herbert Hocking is the first in a series of mysteries featuring Sam Rhys and set in the memorable vistas of Western Australia. Sam's next Australian mystery is chronicled in Sandgroper Pyramid.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Hocking, Herbert S.

Mystery

What is The End Game?  It’s the final strategy of a vicious killer haunted by unfinished business.  Unfortunately, that unfinished business is Lou Corso.   Lou, the tough ex-LAPD cop with the heart of gold, is slowly drinking himself to death over the recent losses of Phoebe Peck (Deceived by Death)—his former partner and mentor—and Joan Queen (Insufficient Evidence)— his tormented lover and sweet companion.  Lou feels betrayed by life—by the bad breaks and lost opportunities. But the real betrayal is about to begin as Lou attempts to pull himself up out of the dark depths of despair and personal  heartache to run his security company.  He is also determined to  continue his work rescuing battered women.  In the latest Lou Corso tale, betrayal seems to come disguised as a beautiful woman, and Lou is suddenly surrounded by beautiful women. For a guy who hasn’t particularly been lucky in love, Lou seems poised for a new start in life.  But which beautiful woman holds the promise of a bright future  and which one holds a swift and painful death? As if that were not enough, some old business turns up—a singularly brutish wife beater—a giant of a man who almost killed Lou in their last encounter—has been paroled for good behavior.  He comes to tell Lou that he has seen the error of his ways, the error of beating his wife almost to death before Lou intervened five years ago.  But Lou is uneasy—-he is sure that he is being stalked. When his car is vandalized and his old friend Abe Brown’s operatives start dying, Lou, knows that a confrontation is coming. a life and death confrontation with a killer determined to even the score in a game that will be The End Game.

The End Game

Death by Unches

When "noted Cruciverbalist", Deborah O'Nair-known to millions of newspaper readers as the famous crossword puzzle designer Annie Graham-is found dead, drowned in her bathtub, it seems just a sad accident and an end to an illustrious career as the supreme puzzle torturer of New Orleans. Dr. Galimatias, one of her biggest fans, is actually deciphering her latest puzzle when he hears the news that it is also her last. He is stricken. After all, Deborah O'Nair devised cryptic crossword puzzles, most challenging of all to solve because they involve word play of the most devious type. Dr. Galimatias is convinced that the puzzle is not just McNair's last brain teaser. It is a message. A cry for justice! Proof that what at first seemed to be an accident, was in fact, murder. Armed with the dead woman's last crossword puzzle, Dr. Galimatias sets out on a devilishly brain teasing adventure against the background of old New Orleans. Death by Unches by H.O. Ward is delightfully clever and more fun than the Sunday Times crossword.

H. O. Ward

Champion of the Dead

Lamachus the Golden was a man ready to ascend to greatness. The champion of Athens, the finest boxer in the games, was appreciated for his grace, his melodious voice, and his athletic skill. All anticipated his match with the "'Bull of Corinth", a brutish boxer whose huge bulk had proven to be a challenge for Lamachus. When Lamachus drops to the ground, no one can believe it. The greatest boxer to grace the games knocked out by the merest tap from his brutish opponent. But in fact, it is even worse- Lamachus is dead-poisoned! But how could a young man in his prime be poisoned mid-match? Who would want to kill the "Champion of Athens"?

Hatten, Patrick

When Howie Cummins, Mick Brunner and Adam Trexler open the MAC detective agency, they are determined to handle any case that comes their way. When their first customer comes through the door requesting they find her lost cat, the three young men initially feel that they could be investigating more important things. Little do they realize they are about to be thrown into a world filled with missing persons, lying relatives, theft, deceit and a possible Satanic cult. When their investigation turns deadly, and one of them goes missing, the MAC detective agency must learn quickly how to handle the big cases, and fast. As the case twists and turns into the seemingly hellish underbelly of their town, the boys must pull together to stop any more harm from being done. Racing against time, and against their own disbelief, the MAC agency must move quickly before one of their own is taken forever.

This Angel Has No Wings

Tindell, Charles

It's a glorious June morning in upstate New York and thirty-four-year-old Loren Graham, the recently elected mayor of sleepy little Emerald Point, has found the perfect spot on the Lake George shoreline for her morning run. Perfect, that is, until she encounters sixteen-year-old Todd Lewis, discovers a car submerged in the lake, and stumbles on a decomposing corpse. The body is quickly identified as Tammy Stevenson, a beautiful, promiscuous teenager, who's been missing for a year. Then tragedy strikes again. Another death. Attempted suicide or murder? No one knows for sure. But as a freak tornado slashes across a secluded campground on the Point, Loren learns how far a killer will go to cover up his crime.

Beneath The Surface: A Lake George Mystery

WHITE, ANNE

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