John Dortmunder and company are hired by the U.N. Ambassador to the African country of Talabwo to heist the famed Balabomo Emerald, a jewel of great historical and cultural importance, currently in the custody of rival country Akinzi. While Dortmunder and his men carry out a daring and clever burglaw upon the New York Coliseum's Pan-Africa exhibition, circumstances cause the emerald to slip through their fingers. Undaunted, Dortmunder is now chasing the gem by plane., train, and automobile. Because this hot rock has a way of getting stolen -- not just once, but again and again and again....

The Hot Rock (A Dortmunder Novel)

Literature & Fiction

WESTLAKE, Donald E.

Contemporary

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A gang of thieves determined to steal every Praxiteles Lumpkin weathervane in Balaclava County winds up snatching Helen Shandy as well, and it is up to her husband Peter to set her free

Vane Pursuit (A Peter Shandy Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

MACLEOD, Charlotte

Mystery

There's Nothing to Be Afraid Of

Believing that someone from the shadowy underworld San Francisco's Tenderloin district is trying to drive out the Vietnamese families living at the Globe Apartments, Sharon McCone finds suspects in a poet, a preacher, and a pornographer. Reissue.

MULLER, Marcia

Every one of the great detectives of literature, from Sherlock Holmes to Hercule Poirot to Nero Wolfe, has endured a holiday marred by murder. Now, modern mystery writers including Mary Higgins Clark, Marcia Muller, Aaron Elkins, and others place their detectives in a Yuletide setting for a special mix of murder and mistletoe.

Mistletoe Mysteries: Tales of Yuletide Murder

United States

When a heavy, oak door with a purportedly mystical knocker is moved to the village church, Detective Chief Inspector George Felse must soon investigate mysterious deaths supposedly linked to the knocker. Reprint.

The Knocker on Death's Door (An Inspector George Felse Mystery)

PETERS, Ellis

Dismissing the relevance of a near-miss shooting in 1909 Cairo, Secret Police head Mamur Zapt is distraught when the local bazaars break out in violence and several civil servants report that they are being stalked. Reprint.

The Mamur Zapt and the Men Behind: A Suspense Tale of Old Cairo

Pearce,Michael

When an obnoxious former Nazi land-worker is murdered in the small English village of Comerford, Chad Wedderburn, classics master and hero of the Resistance in WWII, is accused of the murder. But none of his students believes he is guilty, including Dominic Felse, who discovered the body. Dominic resolves to discover the true murderer.

Fallen Into the Pit (An Inspector George Felse Mystery)

Wireless

When an activist priest meets a grisly death inside his own cathedral, Detective Hannah Shaw investigates and encounters Speer, a psychotic ex-FBI agent in search of the O'Zebedee Brothers, who have been hijacking local radio air waves

O'Connell, Jack

Squeezed by the hard times afflicting the mining town of Rockford, Pennsylvania, police chief Mario Balzic answers a strange call from a woman who fears her husband may avenge himself on a truck driver with a shady past. Reprint.

Bottom Liner Blues

CONSTANTINE, K.C.

In the winter of 1139, raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester, among them an orphaned boy and his beautiful 18-year-old sister. Traveling with a young nun, they set out for Shrewsbury, but disappear somewhere in the wild countryside. Now, Brother Cadfael embarks on a dangerous quest to find them. Previously out of print.

The Virgin in the Ice (Brother Cadfael Mysteries)

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