Bird Mystery

As part of an elite IP Crime Strike Force, NYPD lieutenant Max Valentin is in a relentless pursuit to outwit a cunning Chinese spy who will stop at nothing to steal quantum research from a New York City university. Unraveling the threads of a global conspiracy, where confidences are currency and trust is a rare commodity. Max and his team embark in a high-stakes battle for quantum supremacy. As tensions mount it is a race against time to unmask spies and protect secrets that can change the course of nations.

One of Case City's most skilled assassins, Jackson Cole is a wanted man. After annihilating his latest target, he quickly learns the prominent man's identity. Now, a perilous enemy seeks revenge, and rival guilds look to take advantage of his vulnerability. For Jackson, it's become kill or be killed, but will a steady aim be enough to take on the entire city?

A delightfully quaint mountain town, my cozy tearoom, a missing couple, and there’s something seriously weird about my bird. I didn’t expect to get wrapped up in a mystery through my husband… He’s dead. Retreat to the mountains, settle into my inherited family home and try to move on … a widow with kids and a parakeet. It was a good plan. It should have worked. I didn’t ask for a missing couple to complicate my first days, but there they were…or, rather, weren’t. I KNEW my detective husband was gone … but then here he was. Colorfully solving mysteries with me … he’s ...

Homing pigeon Homer and his parrot friend Lulu learn something is afoul when they witness four-legged criminals stealing valuables from both the animal and human communities. Lulu and Homer track down the bandits, but need human help to stop them for good. Can they lead their human keepers to the culprits’ hideout and stop the thieves? Award-winning author-illustrator Henry Cole offers a fun, action-packed middle grade mystery that will keep listeners guessing if the crime-solving pigeon will get his guy

Twitch has three pet chickens, four pigeons, swallows nesting in his bedroom and a passion for bird-spotting. On the first day of the summer holidays, he arrives at his secret birdwatching hide to find police everywhere: a convicted robber has broken out of prison and is hiding in Aves Wood. Can Twitch use his talents for bird-spotting to hunt for the dangerous prisoner and find the missing loot?

Every parent knows the world can be scary. Lawyer Jen Sutton knows it better than most. And she’ll go to any length to protect her son from what – and who – lies outside their front door. Some might say she’s being overprotective. But isn’t it a mother’s duty to protect her child from harm? Jen has kept her secrets safe. Until the postcard arrives, signed by the one person she hoped would never catch up with her…and her new case begins to feel a little too close to home. One thing is clear: Jen has been found.

"Great story! Good Suspense!" -Goodreads review In the midst of tragedy, Willow Morgan, an aspiring journalist, meets former policeman and private detective, Nate Parker. Draper Island, Virginia will never be the same. A serial killer with a penchant for rhymes has brutalized the town, and it seems, he's not done yet. Willow wants more than anything to break the story wide open by discovering the killer's identity. But in order to do that, she must rely on help. After meeting Nate his first night in town, Willow is impressed. But Nate cannot say the same. Determined to find the killer ...

يواصل «تورو أوكادا» رحلته السريالية للبحث عن زوجته وقطتها. وبعد فترةٍ وجيزة، يكتشف مكان زوجته، لكن لا تتوقف رحلته للبحث عن ذاته في ذلك العالم الخيالي الموازي. تنتهي الرواية نهاية بوليسية كما بدأت، وتتركنا في حالة ذهول. إنها حكاية تشبه سقوط أحجار الدومينو، لكن ما هو الحجر الأول الذي سقط؟ هل هو اختفاء القط أم زوجته؟ أم هي المرأة التي اتصلت بـ«تورو» وأرادت التحدث معه لعشر دقائقٍ فقط؟

Detective Adam Reis has everything to prove and mistakes to fix. He enlists the help of local search and rescue and an unlikely tracker to help him find a murderer who fled into the winter Montana wilderness. An old recluse, Clay, comes out of the forest when asked to be a tracker. Clay has his own secrets to hide but reluctantly agrees to help the young detective.

An early morning on a beach in Virginia. As he is taking his daily swim, Arman Bajalan - formerly an interpreter in Iraq - discovers a dead body. After surviving an assassination attempt that killed his wife and child, Arman has been given lonely sanctuary in the US. Now, sure that the murder is connected to his past, he knows he's still not safe. Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel and her fresh-off-the-beat partner have little to go on beyond a bus ticket in the man's pocket. It leads them to Sally Ewell, a local journalist as grief-stricken as Arman by the Iraq war.

When Kat Denham decided it was to time to become a licensed private investigator, in addition to her successful career as an author, she never expected her first case to take her to South Africa to investigate the murder of a member of the US Trade Commission. Talk about trial by fire! Not only does she have to navigate language and living condition barriers, but she also has to walk a very fine line not to upstage the investigation by the local Cape Town police officials. Ladies of the night, gamblers, old feuds, and jealousy make for a lot of suspects.

A mind-expanding, deeply humane tour of language(s) - and those who speak, study and invent them - by the best-selling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers. Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks 'talk' to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will AI researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of essays, Daniel Tammet answers these and many other questions about the intricacy and profound power of language.

The northwest corner of Yellowstone Park is closed for bear management, and Rachel, a bear biologist, is discovering some very startling animal behavior - grizzlies denning in June, swans at their wintering grounds in summer, and what appear to be Irish Elk, an extinct species, with huge, palmated antlers. There are also horrific mutations - young elk calves with no front legs, earless bear cubs, and eaglets without wings. What has gone wrong? Why is this area closed? Who’s covering up these animal abnormalities in the park?

Katz’ Cat is the first book of my new cozy mystery series. Here's what it's about:Jimmy Katz, a young journalist from the Big City, throws in the towel after he's robbed at gunpoint at a gas station. He finds a job at the Twinkle Independent News in Twinkle, Texas, 385 miles from the closest shopping mall.He settles into country life in the town of 3,000 at Mrs. Potts' boarding house with his Amazon parrot, Guppy, who has an extensive vocabulary.Three months into his new lifestyle, Jimmy discovers a tiny kitten he names Maddy. Then his life is turned topsy-turvey.The town matriarch, his ...

Ein führender IS-Terrorist, dessen Ziel die Etablierung eines globalen Gottesstaates ist, gelangt in den Besitz eines todbringenden Erregers. Damit infizierte IS-Kämpfer tragen das tödliche Virus, unerkannt in der Masse des Flüchtlingsstroms, nach Europa. Eine Pandemie ungeahnten Ausmaßes bedroht die Menschheit.

In der Kleinstadt Walkers Hill bricht das Chaos aus. Eine schier unglaubliche Welle der Gewalt brandet über die ländliche Gemeinde. Die Bürger, wie auch die Sicherheitsbehörden müssen hilflos zusehen, wie Menschen sterben. FBI-Agent Roger Thom eilt nach Walkers Hill um die Mordorgie aufzuklären. Doch auch er schwebt in Gefahr, dem Wahnsinn zum Opfer zu fallen. Eine alte Regionallegende scheint sich zu erfüllen. Ein Fluch, der vor Generationen ausgestoßen wurde, hält die Menschen in Atem.

Our dashing heroine, a famous revue artist, takes to the slopes with her coterie of admirers. Champagne flows and wherever Miriam goes she leaves a trail of gossip in her wake. Fellow ski-resort guests include the celebrated Russian ex-ballerina Natasha Nevkorina, whose beauty is matched only by her languor, Natasha's burly husband, nightclub owner Johnny DuVivien, and the wealthy Flahertés, a family that has made its money importing scents: handsome playboy Barney, his wife, Regan, their two obnoxious children and the governess Rosalie.

A body in the river is all in a day's work for Detective Inspector Peter Johns and his sergeant, Paul Godwin. But things start to become more personal when Paul recognizes their key witness as a close childhood friend and Peter's son is detained for suspected child abduction. Peter and Paul discover they have more in common than they realized, and it becomes difficult to keep work and family life separated.

Three families are forever affected when their lives intertwine in unexpected ways, and they are forced to face their inner and outer demons. A detective is linked by his obsession with the killer he is searching for: a figure seemingly elusive but strangely present.

Three months into her new role as a psychiatrist at a clinic in New York, Erin Cartwright is asked to evaluate the case of a man who murdered his mother and sisters at the age of 17. Found not guilty by reason of insanity and held in a maximum-security psychiatric facility for 27 years, Timothy Stern is now eligible for release. Upon learning the crime occurred in the same village she once visited as a child, Erin is on the verge of refusing to take the case.