Modern Detective Mysteries

Abby is looking forward to a perfect day of card reading for the tourist types that invade Santa Fe this time of year.But when one of her regulars dies in her store her thoughts turn to murder. And with a nose for mystery and Tarot cards built for trouble she embarks on finding out why Doris had to die.Buy Your Copy Today!

A collection of short stories from such favorites as Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling are joined by others written anonymously in this anthology which will have you scratching your head and listening just a bit longer to discover the key to the mysteries.

「何だ、これは？」追跡捜査係の頭脳・西川大和は思わず声を上げた──。「おいおい……」定年まであと八年のベテラン刑事・岩倉剛はコンビニエンスストアの前で固まってしまった──。

捜査一課・追跡捜査係の沖田大輝とかつて強行犯係で同僚だった、刑事総務課・大友鉄が最大の危機に見舞われた。ベンチャー企業が開発した、次世代エネルギー資源を巡る国際規模の策謀に巻き込まれたのである。

服役中の男の告白――墨田区の不動産業者の強盗殺人事件は、意外なところから容疑者が浮かび上がった。

新人刑事時代のある捜査に違和感を抱いていた追跡捜査係の沖田は、二十年ぶりの再捜査を決意。

猛暑の八月、東京で謎の死体遺棄事件が露見した。連続強盗事件で逮捕された相澤直樹が、「檜原村に死体を埋めた」と突然告白。

「俺は穢れだから、近くにいないほうがいい」と言い、距離をとろうとする蠱師（まじないし）の高良。そんな高良の言葉に、澪の胸は痛む。

都内の運河沿いで、帰宅途中のＯＬが強盗に襲われ、殺害される事件が連続して起きた。二つの事件は手口や状況が似通っており、捜査本部も連続殺人としての見方を強めていた。

白昼の新宿で起きた連続殺傷事件――無差別に通行人を切りつける犯人を体当たりで刺し、その行動を阻止した男がいた。だが男は、そのまま現場を立ち去り、そして月日が流れた。

「一事不再理」。裁判で判決が確定した人間は、同じ事件で二度裁かれることはないという原則だ。しかしその無罪を勝ち得た被告から、裁判の十年後、当時の担当刑事に手紙が届いた。

警察に届けられた一冊の日記。そこに記された内容から、二年前に起きた強盗致死事件の容疑者として、辰見という男が浮上する。

It starts quietly enough. A tick-tick-ticking you can hear in your ear. Tinnitus, you think. It will pass. But it doesn't. It gets worse—and then you pass it on. Before you know it, it spreads. Elsewhere across the globe, it emerges: small outbreaks at first, but then suddenly it's a plague—and only days later it is already killing people. In an increasingly affected north London school, teacher Kit Chaplin is struggling to understand what he is witnessing. Even Lilly Slater, his partner and an eminent vaccinologist, can't work out what's happening.

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A mutilated body is found lying on the ground in Chicago, a dead hand pointing down Adams Street, also known as Route 66, a road of many names. And now of many deaths. A silent caravan of cars, dozens of them, drives down the road, each passenger bearing a photograph, but none of them the same. They are the parents of missing children, some recently disappeared, some gone a decade or more.

The third adventure in a series of five stories which update individual tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to our modern world. Based on "The Creeping Man", a pop-star is plagued by an unusual stalker whose violent outbursts and strange jumping seem to hint at mental instability. She seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes to track him down and uncover his identity. Watson welcomes any distraction from his humdrum life of domesticity and his boring job, so enthusiastically offers to assist.

The final story in a series of five adventures which re-work original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into our modern world. The murder of an aged rock star is initially blamed on a gang of burglars, but Holmes senses that his widow is hiding something. What is the formidable music mogul not telling about the night her husband died at their Gothic country home? And how will Watson and Lestrade face up to the life-changing decisions they both decide to make?