Lyons Regional Library

The Boston PI gets tangled in Cape Cod’s criminal underworld in this Edgar Award–winning mystery from the New York Times–bestselling author.
 
Cape Cod businessman Harvey Shepard is in over his head. He lost a quarter million on a shady real estate deal, the loan shark is circling, and now he needs a private investigator to find out where his wife, Pam, disappeared to. Spencer takes the case, but finding...

Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe. But when two soldiers, a German and an Italian, arrive asking to see an ancient Etruscan burial site, the Rosatis bucolic tranquility is shattered. A young German lieutenant begins to court eighteen-year-old Cristina, the Nazis descend upon the estate...

Private detective Peter OKeefe, a physically scarred and emotionally battered Vietnam vet, is hired by childhood friend and attorney Mike Harrigan to investigate what appears to be a petty mink farm Ponzi scheme in the Ozarks. But quickly OKeefe finds himself snared in a vicious web of money laundering, cocaine smuggling, and murderall at the behest of a mysterious mobster only referred to as Mr. Canada. Also caught up in Mr....

A beguiling murder mystery with a solution that will both astonish and shock viewers, the plot revolves around the character Susan Ryeland, an editor who is given an unfinished manuscript of author Alan Conway's latest novel, but has little idea it will change her life.

Funny and deliciously entertaining, featuring a witty, smart Korean-American-adoptee private investigator, a mysterious billionaire family whose son may have been replaced by an impostor, and an uber-swanky AI-fueled mansion in a private island. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough!

"Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building up his reputation as a private investigator in New York. His seemingly infallible instinct and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip 'Catfish' Worry comes knocking. Catfish is a ninety-four-year old Mississippi bluesman who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. The opportunity...

What you don't know can kill you. Something sinister has followed Ren Larson home through the dark winding roads of Los Angeles. Since he began investigating a series of murders, it has made its presence known. It murmurs in shadowed hallways. It watches from mirrors and whispers to his six-year-old child. It waits. His doctor says he's got a case of war nerves. His housekeeper warns of a malevolent spirit, maybe only folklore from her Caribbean...

A lawyer takes on the defense of a woman accused of murdering both her husbands and her son. The complex truth of the case slowly unravels, changes, bends, and fades in and out of focus, until only the 13th juror must be convinced of her innocence.

The war in Vietnam didnt kill Peter OKeefe. Neither did his run-in with ruthless crime boss "Mr. Canada" in the Arizona desert. But chasing after justice in his own hometown just might. A year after the private detective uncovered a criminal ring disguised as a mink farm in the Ozarks, OKeefe is back home and back in trouble. A high school crush of OKeefes turns up dead, but the details dont add up....

Ten years ago, PI Jessie Cole and reporter Ben Morrison each suffered a tragedy that changed their lives-and now these two strangers are about to share a nightmare.