Mystery/Suspense/Thriller from I Cannot Live Without Books

The God in the Sea (Aristotle Socarides Series, Book #9) by Paul Kemprecos The winter job as a mate aboard a charter boat in the Florida Keys was going to be a financial boom for fisherman-diver and private detective Aristotle "Soc" Socarides. But The Fates who spin the threads of destiny had woven a tapestry of their own design. Soc may have… Read more about this item

Grey Lady (Aristotle Socarides Series, #7) by Paul Kemprecos The shiny new charter fishing boat financed with family money was supposed to launch a bright new career for Cape Cod fisherman, diver, and private investigator Aristotle "Soc" Socarides. But when the slip of a beer-oiled tongue brings the ire of a Russian KGB mogul down on his head, Soc finds himself… Read more about this item

Bluefin Blues by Paul Kemprecos (Aristotle "Soc" Socarides Series, #6) by Paul Kemprecos Off the coast of Cape Cod, a Japanese bluefin tuna buyer is found dead on another man's boat, a harpoon shot through his chest. The dead man's grandfather, a Japanese fishing tycoon, seeks out part-time private investigator Aristotle "Soc" Socarides to find those responsible for his grandson's death.… Read more about this item

The Mayflower Murder (Aristotle Socarides Series, #5) by Paul Kemprecos Three centuries after the Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock, some Indians are still on the warpath. So when a workman is tomahawked to death at the replica of a three-hundred-year-old Pilgrim village, suspicion falls on Joe Quint, the Native American activist whose threats to hammer Plymouth Rock into gravel have… Read more about this item

Feeding Frenzy (Aristotle Socarides Series, #4) by Paul Kemprecos So much for a quiet summer...... For Aristotle "Soc" Socarides, diver, Cape Cod fisherman, and sometime private investigator, summer on Quanset Beach can have its irritations. The throngs of pushy tourists who converge on the town turn everyday events into headaches, and the heat and humidity make fishing expeditions grueling tests of endurance.… Read more about this item

Killing Icarus by Paul Kemprecos Art historian Abi Vickers has hit the proverbial wall. Her husband ran off with his secretary, leaving Abi in financial ruin from his bad investments. Her galleries, her reputation, and her apartment in Boston's toney South End have been ripped from her life by an unforgiving legal system. When an old mentor offers her a temporary job… Read more about this item

Under the Dome by Stephen King On a beautiful fall day, the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and rain down flaming wreckage. Cars explode on impact. Families are separated and panic mounts. No one can fathom what this impenetrable… Read more about this item

Death in Deep Water (Aristotle Socarides Series, Book #3) by Paul Kemprecos Aristotle Plato ("Soc") Socarides has got a business card as unusual as his name: he's a private investigator, a diver, and a fisherman operating out of Cape Cod. But he's definitely got the perfect resume when the owners of a marine park, desperately need someone to prove that a… Read more about this item

Neptune's Eye (Aristotle Socarides Series, Book #2) by Paul Kemprecos A simple missing-persons case: Find Frederick Walther's beautiful young daughter, who disappeared after a love affair turned sour. Simple, that is, until Leslie Walther's lover turns up dead in a fishy place -- the seal pool at the Woods Hole aquarium. Part-time fisherman, part-time private eye "Soc" Socarides finds the highy… Read more about this item

Cool Blue Tomb (Aristotle Socarides Series, Book #1) by Paul Kemprecos A 50-million-dollar salvage operation. An expert diver dead at the bottom of the sea. An elegant mermaid in a black Porsche -- and an open invitation to dip into the troubled waters of her marriage. Cape Cod's Aristotle "Soc" Socarides, part-time fisherman, part-time private eye, is swimming with the sharks.… Read more about this item

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King In the predawn hours, in a distressed American city, hundreds of unemployed men and women line up for the opening of a job fair. They are tired and cold and desperate. Emerging from the fog, invisible until it is too late, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent,… Read more about this item

The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike Series, Book #1) by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow… Read more about this item

Billy Summers by Stephen King Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. First, there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world,… Read more about this item

Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike Series, Book #5) by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) Private detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough, who went missing under mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the… Read more about this item

The Outsider by Stephen King In The Outsider, Stephen King delivers one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph… Read more about this item

Murder Wears a Hidden Face (Gilded Age Mystery, Book #8) by Rosemary Simpson February 1891: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition of Chinese art objects, timed to coincide with the arrival of a new Chinese cultural attache, Lord Peng. Prudence and Geoffrey are invited to attend the opening ceremonies. But among the throng of dignitaries making their… Read more about this item

The Dead Cry Justice (Gilded Age Mystery Series, Book #6) by Rosemary Simpson May 1890: As NYU Law School finally agrees to admit female law students, Judge MacKenzie's daughter Prudence weighs her choices carefully. Chief among her concerns is how her decision would affect the Hunter and MacKenzie Investigative Law agency and her professional and personal relationship with the partner who… Read more about this item

Death, Diamonds, and Deception (Gilded Age Mystery Series, Book #5) by Rosemary Simpson Fall 1889: Lady Rotherton has arrived from London intent on chaperoning her niece Prudence through a New York social season to find a suitable husband. It's certainly not her niece's devilishly handsome partner in Hunter and MacKenzie Investigative Law. Aunt Gillian's eye for eligible suitors is surpassed only… Read more about this item

Death Brings a Shadow (Gilded Age Mystery, Book #4) by Rosemary Simpson Investigators Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter discover all that glitters is not gold in the Gilded Age, whether on the island of Manhattan or an island off the coast of Georgia. In spring 1889, Prudence and Geoffrey set sail from New York Harbor on a private yacht bound for… Read more about this item

Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets (Gilded Age Mystery, Book #3) by Rosemary Simpson In Gilded Age New York, heiress Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter investigate crimes that take them from the slums of Five Points in lower Manhattan to the Fifth Avenue mansions of society's elite. In the late nineteenth century, women are particularly vulnerable. Childbirth can be dangerous even… Read more about this item