18 books like Death in the Stocks

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Behold, Here's Poison Georgette Heyer · 1936 · ★ 3.8 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway #2 When Gregory Matthews, patriarch of the Poplars, is found dead one morning, imperious Aunt Harriet blames it on the roast duck he ate for supper. After all, she had warned him about his blood pressure. But a post-mortem determines the cause of death as murder by poison. Suspicion falls immediately amongst his bitter, quarrelsome family. Each has a motive;… Shares: Hannasyde, Inspector Hannasyde, 1930s, Contemporary

A Blunt Instrument Georgette Heyer · 1938 · ★ 3.8 · 199p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway #4 Who would kill the perfect gentleman? When Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study, everyone is shocked and mystified: Ernest was well liked and respected, so who would have a motive for killing him? Inspectors of Scotland Yard felt it was an unlikely crime for the London suburbs: a perfectly respectable chap at home with his head bashed in.… Shares: Hannasyde, Inspector Hannasyde, 1930s, Contemporary

They Found Him Dead Georgette Heyer · 1937 · ★ 3.8 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway #3 ONE HEIR AFTER ANOTHER TURNS UP DEAD…. Silas Kane's sixtieth birthday party is marred by argument and dissension amongst his family, and then the next morning, Kane is found dead. The coroner's verdict of death by misadventure would seem to confirm that Silas accidentally lost his way in the fog. But then Clement, his heir, is shot, and threats are made… Shares: Hannasyde, Inspector Hannasyde, 1930s, Contemporary

The Unfinished Clue Georgette Heyer · 1934 · ★ 3.9 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Challenging It should have been a lovely English country-house weekend. But the unfortunate guest-list is enough to exasperate a saint, and irascible General Sir Arthur Billington-Smith was nobody's idea of the perfect host. In fact he was absolutely frightful. He bullied his wife, Fay, grumped at his guests, refused gleefully to help his financially stricken indigent nephew, and positively blew his stack… Shares: 1930s, Contemporary, Police, England

Why shoot a butler? Georgette Heyer · 1933 · ★ 3.7 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Every family has secrets, but the Fountains' are turning deadly…On a dark night, along a lonely country road, barrister Frank Amberley stops to help a young lady in distress and discovers a sports car with a corpse behind the wheel. The girl protests her innocence, and Amberley believes her—at least until he gets drawn into the mystery and the clues incriminating Shirley Brown begin to add up…In… Shares: 1930s, Contemporary, England, Thriller

Footsteps in the Dark Georgette Heyer · 1932 · ★ 3.7 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Challenging BED, BREAKFAST AND MURDER The ramshackle old house, with its rambling charm is beloved of Peter, Margaret and Celia, who have inherited it from their uncle. But local wisdom says The Priory is haunted. It wasn't the lack of modern conveniences that made a summer spent at the ancient priory mansion such an unsettling experience. It was the ghost... or whatever was groaning in the cellars and… Shares: 1930s, Contemporary, England, Thriller

The Conqueror Georgette Heyer · 1931 · ★ 3.8 · 378p · ≈ 12h · Challenging A fictionalized biography, fast-moving and minutely-wrought chronicle about William, Duke of Normandy who became King of England in 1066. The day she gave birth to William, the beautiful Herleva dreamt that a tree sprang from her womb--a giant among trees, whose mighty branches overshadowed all of Normandy and England. No sooner her half-noble bastard of the Duke of Normandy had grown to manhood… Shares: 1930s, England

Envious Casca Georgette Heyer · 1941 · ★ 4.1 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway #6 'Tis the season--to be dead... Resigned to spending Christmas at Lexham Manor, Mathilda Clare wasn't sure what she dreaded most--the foul temper of Nat Herriard, the filthy-rich old Scrooge who owned the place, or the sweetness-and-light of his brother, Joseph. Joseph had concocted a guest list brilliantly headed for mayhem... acid-tongued young Stephen, his… Shares: Inspector Hannasyde, Contemporary, Police, Thriller

A Faint Cold Fear Karin Slaughter · 2003 · ★ 3.6 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate E-book extra: "Criminal Minds: Laura Lippman Interviews Karin Slaughter"The third pulse-pounding novel in the Grant County series from the New York Times-bestselling author of Blindsighted and Kisscut.Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, GA, is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus. The mutilated body provides little in the way of clues -- and the… Shares: Police in fiction, Police, Thriller

Day of the Dead J. A. Jance · 2004 · ★ 4.4 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate E-Book Extra: More about J.A. Jance's Thrillers and More about J.A. JanceFor more than thirty years, the case has remained stone cold -- the brutal murder of a local Papago girl, her butchered body found stuffed into a large cooler that was left on the side of Highway 86. No one ever paid for the horrific crime... except, that is, the victim's loved ones, who suffer to this day.Brandon Walker,… Shares: Police in fiction, Police, Thriller

Lost Light Michael Connelly · 2003 · ★ 4.4 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate When he left the LAPD, Bosch took a file with him: the case of a production assistant murdered four years earlier during a movie set robbery. The LAPD thinks the stolen money was used to finance a terrorist training camp. Thoughts of the original murder victim were lost in the federal zeal, and when Bosch decides to reinvestigate, he quickly falls foul of both his old colleagues and the… Shares: Police in fiction, Police, Thriller

Death at the president's lodging J. I. M. Stewart · 1936 · ★ 3.2 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Inspector Appleby is called to St Anthony's College, where the President has been murdered in his Lodging. Scandal abounds when it becomes clear that the only people with any motive to murder him are the only people who had the opportunity - because the President's Lodging opens off Orchard Ground, which is locked at night, and only the Fellows of the College have keys. Shares: Police, England, Thriller

Detection Unlimited Georgette Heyer · 1953 · ★ 3.8 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway #9 On a hot June evening in the village of Thornden, the Hasells celebrate a tennis party at the Cedars, their mansion. The young Haswell had just motored the lovely Abby Dearham back from social event of the week. Nearly everyone of the village uppercrust had come to the party--the Squire, the Vicar, the sharp-tongued heir to five centuries of local real estate.… Shares: Contemporary, Police, Thriller

Grievous Sin Faye Kellerman · 1993 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The birth of their baby girl has filled Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker, with joy mingled with sorrow, since complications have ensured that they can have no more children. But the situation is grim at the hospital, which has been devastated by severe budget cutbacks and staff shortages. And when a respected nurse vanishes along with a newborn from the nursery,… Shares: Police in fiction, Police

City of Bones Michael Connelly · 2002 · ★ 4.5 · 396p · ≈ 13h · Moderate On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in the present. No official warning can break them… Shares: Police in fiction, Police, Thriller

Resurrection Men Double Sided A2 Poster Ian Rankin · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Sent to a rehabilitation school after a serious mistake, Inspector John Rebus discovers that among his fellow "resurrection men" are a group of classmates plotting a drug heist and joins forces with his protTgT, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke to investigate ties to an art dealer's murder, a crime that could lead to scandal and danger at the highest level of law enforcement. 50,000 first… Shares: Police, Thriller

Whispering Rock Robyn Carr · 2007 · ★ 4.5 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A decorated U.S. Marine reservist, LAPD officer Mike Valenzuela was wounded in the line of duty, but has found hope and healing in Virgin River. When he agrees to become the town's first cop, he does so knowing it's time he settled down. Twice divorced and the lover of too many women, he secretly longs for the kind of commitment and happiness his marine buddies have found--a woman who can tie up… Shares: Police in fiction, Police

Original Sin P. D. James · 1994 · ★ 4.0 · 631p · ≈ 21h · Moderate From Amazon.com: Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian… Shares: Police in fiction, Police, England

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