12 books like The Well of Ice

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Fire L. C. Tyler · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate 295 pages ; 25 cm Shares: Murder -- Investigation, Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction, Legal stories

Turn on the Heat Erle Stanley Gardner · 1940 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Cool & Lam Mystery #2 (1940) The lettering on the door says "Bertha Cool--Confidential Investigations." Bertha's latest client, who insists on being called "Mr. Smith," is all about the confidentiality. No one, he stresses, is to know anything about case or client. He just wants the agency to quietly track down one Mrs. James C. Lintig, with nothing more to go on than a two-decades-old address… Shares: Murder -- Investigation, Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction

The Unquiet Dead Ausma Zehanat Khan · 2015 · ★ 3.9 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Detective Esa Khattak is in the midst of his evening prayers when he receives a phone call asking that he and his partner, Detective Rachel Getty, look into the death of a local man who has fallen off a cliff. At first Christopher Drayton's death--which looks like an accident--doesn't seem to warrant a police investigation, especially not from Khattak and Rachel's team, which handles… Shares: Murder -- Investigation, Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction

The second day of the renaissance Timothy Williams · 2017 · ★ 3.4 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Timothy Williams was selected by The Observer as one of the "10 Best Modern European Crime Writers" for his series featuring Northern Italian police detective Piero Trotti. Now, 20 years after his last investigation, Trotti returns! After decades as a commissario in his city on the River Po, Piero Trotti has retired. But his newfound peace is brief. An old friend calls him to Siena to give him… Shares: Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction, Police

The Guards Ken Bruen · 2001 · ★ 3.9 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate An Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel.Praised by authors and critics around the globe, The Guards is the first novel in the Jack Taylor series and heralded the arrival of prominent Irish writer Ken Bruen as an essential voice in contemporary crime fiction.Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Siochana--The Guards, Ireland's police force--and staring at the world through the… Shares: Ireland, Police

Home fires Margaret Maron · 1998 · ★ 4.0 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares: Arson, Legal stories

The D.A. Draws a Circle Erle Stanley Gardner · 1939 · 191p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A California D.A. investigates a corpse without clothes and bloody clothes without a body in this classic mystery by the author of the Perry Mason series."The bestselling author of the century . . . a master storyteller." —The New York TimesAlphonse Baker Carr is the smooth-talking defense lawyer murderers and gangsters turn to when they want to win in court. To escape the hustle… Shares: Legal stories, Police

Verdict unsafe Jill McGown · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Detective Inspector Judy Hill anxiously watched the trial of serial rapist Colin Arthur Drummond from the public gallery--never forgetting his chilling threat that she would be his next victim. The prosecution should have an open-and-shut case. But sixteen months later Drummond is back on the streets, threatening Judy once more. And as Judy sets out to prove Drummond's guilt for the second time,… Shares: Legal stories, Police

Guilty Plea Robert Rotenberg · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A "smart and spellbinding" legal thriller "puts you right in the . . . lives of lawyers caught up in a high-stakes murder trial" (Douglas Preston, New York Times–bestselling coauthor of The Monster of Florence and Gideon's Sword). On the morning his high-profile divorce trial is set to begin, Terrance Wyler, the youngest son of Toronto's Wyler Food dynasty, is found stabbed to… Shares: Legal stories, Police

Legal tender Lisa Scottoline · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Benedetta "Bennie" Rosato is a maverick lawyer who prosecutes police misconduct and excessive-force cases, and business at her firm of Rosato & Biscardi has never been better.Then, without warning, a savage murder tears the firm apart. All evidence points to Bennie, who has motive aplenty and an unconfirmable alibi. Her world turns upside down as the lawyer becomes the client, and the cops she… Shares: Legal stories, Police

Angels flight Michael Connelly · 1999 · ★ 4.5 · 387p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Harry Bosch finds himself yet again in charge of a case that no one else will touch. This time his job is to nail the killer of hot shot black lawyer Howard Elias. Elias has been found murdered on the eve of going to court on behalf of Michael Harris, a man the LAPD believes guilty of the rape and murder of a twelve-year-old girl. Elias had let it be known that the aim of his civil case was not… Shares: Legal stories, Police

Stray Bullets Robert Rotenberg · 2012 · ★ 3.9 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate From the bestselling author of Old City Hall comes Robert Rotenberg’s third intricate mystery set on the streets and in the courtrooms of Toronto.In The Guilty Plea and Old City Hall, critically acclaimed author Robert Rotenberg created gripping page-turners that captured audiences in Canada and around the world. In Stray Bullets, Rotenberg takes the reader to a snowy November evening. Outside a… Shares: Legal stories, Police

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