Mystery Books
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Without Fail (Jack Reacher)Jack Reacher takes aim at the White House in the sixth novel in Lee Child’s New York Times bestselling series.
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McCone & FriendsCreator of the modern female private eye story, Marcia Muller has been writing novels and short stories about Sharon McCone since
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Singing The Sadness (CH) (Charnwood Large Print Library Series)'Reginald Hill is one of the few English crime writers who can hold their own against the Americans...there is a wonderful wit and
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ChokeA standalone novel from Stuart Woods, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington and
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The Unquiet: A Charlie Parker ThrillerNEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOHN CONNOLLY DELIVERS A RIVETING THRILLER FEATURING PRIVATE DETECTIV
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Diamond Solitaire (A Detective Peter Diamond Mystery)“The chase, which includes a friendly Sumo wrestler and adventures in Japan, is a pleasure to follow, and Lovesey makes the r
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Brain Child: A NovelAlex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California. Until the horrifying car accident. Until a brillian
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Mystery Movies
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Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)During the presidential election of 1988, a teenager named Donnie Darko sleepwalks out of his house one night, and sees a giant, d
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ExamLike Saw for corporate go-getters, in EXAM eight young people vying for a sought-after job are locked together in a room and given
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Shutter IslandAcademy Award® winning director Martin Scorses once again teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio in this spine-chilling thriller that cr
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The GameThere are no rules in "the game." And that will make life very difficult for Nicholas Van Orton, a successful businessman who is a
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A Beautiful Mind (Widescreen)(2001)Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind is directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard and produced b
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Mystery Authors
Book reviews - Dead Lions
Dead Lions
Author: Mick Herron
The CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage novel about disgraced MI5 agents who inadvertently uncover a deadly Cold War-era legacy of sleeper cells and mythic super spies.
The disgruntled agents of Slough House, the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers on desk duty, are called into action to protect a visiting Russian oligarch whom MI5 hopes to recruit to British intelligence. While two agents are dispatched on that babysitting job, though, an old Cold War-era spy named Dickie Bow is found dead, ostensibly of a heart attack, on a bus outside of Oxford, far from his usual haunts.
But the head of Slough House, the irascible Jackson Lamb, is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. As the agents dig into their fallen comrade's circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets that seem to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, who is either a Soviet bogeyman or the most dangerous man in the world. How many more people will have to die to keep those secrets buried?
