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Blind Man's Bluff (Duncan Maclain Mystery #4)
by Baynard KendrickThe New York Police were sure Captain Duncan Maclain, the keen, blind detective, was wrong in forestalling the arrest of Seth Hadfield for murder of his estranged father, Blake. Even Maclain was forced to admit the balance of evidence against his client. Father and son had gone together to a deserted downtown office, and it was there that the older man plunged to his death over a stair rail. The case against Seth seemed to be even more damning when it was discovered that he had recently quarreled bitterly with his father concerning a family matter. The further Maclain went in his investigation, the more muddled the picture of crime became. Where there had been no evidence, except against Seth, there was suddenly too much evidence. And too many "accidents." Then Maclain finds a lovely assistant. Without her help, Maclain would never have seen the pattern of murder. Even with everything pointing to the guilty one, it is not until he goes to the extreme of placing himself in the dead man's own danger that the killer's bluff is called. Maclain finds the clever, ruthless murderer--and puts his assistant on a permanent basis.
Blind Man's Bluff: A Duncan Maclain Mystery (The Duncan Maclain Mysteries #0)
by Baynard KendrickA blind detective rises to the occasion following the suspicious death of a blind financier in this mystery by the author of Odor of Violets.Following the loss of his sight in World War I, ex–intelligence officer Capt. Duncan Maclain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in New York City . . .The Miners Title and Trust is typically dead quiet, having gone bankrupt. Then, late one evening, the bank&’s blind president, Blake Hadfield, plummets eight stories to his death in the building&’s lobby. The only witnesses are the security guard and Blake&’s estranged wife, who were both on the first floor. Blake&’s son, Seth, is found drunk and dazed on the eighth floor, making him the prime suspect in what the police believe to be murder.That&’s when Harold Lawson and Sybella Ford call upon Captain Maclain for help. Maclain doesn&’t think the banker&’s death was a suicide or an accident. He believes someone else was in the building. Now, with the help of his two German Shepherds, Maclain must begin investigating the complicated life of the senior Hadfield. But if the sightless sleuth isn&’t careful, he could meet a similar end . . . Baynard Kendrick was the first American to enlist in the Canadian Army during World War I. While in London, he met a blind English soldier whose observational skills inspired the character of Capt. Duncan Maclain. Kendrick was also a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America and winner of the organization&’s Grand Master Award.
Blind Man’s Alley
by Justin PeacockA concrete floor three hundred feet up in the Aurora Tower condo development in SoHo has collapsed, hurling three workers to their deaths. The developer, Roth Properties (owned by the famously abrasive Simon Roth), faces a vast tangle of legal problems, including allegations of mob connections. Roth's longtime lawyers, the elite midtown law firm of Blake and Wolcott, is assigned the task of cleaning up the mess. Much of the work lands on the plate of smart, cynical, and seasoned associate Duncan Riley; as a result, he falls into the powerful orbit of Leah Roth, the beautiful daughter of Simon Roth and the designated inheritor of his real estate empire. Meanwhile, Riley pursues a seemingly small pro bono case in which he attempts to forestall the eviction of Rafael Nazario and his grandmother from public housing in the wake of a pot bust. One night Rafael is picked up and charged with the murder of the private security cop who caught him, a murder that took place in another controversial "mixed income" housing development being built by... Roth Properties. Duncan Riley is now walking the knife edge of legal ethics and personal morality. Blind Man's Alley is a suspenseful and kaleidoscopic journey through a world where the only rule is self- preservation. This taut, topical, and socially alert thriller delivers on that promise.
Blind Moon Alley
by John FlorioIt's Prohibition. It's Philadelphia. And Jersey Leo doesn't fit in. Jersey is an albino of mixed race. Known as "Snowball" on the street, he tends bar at a speakeasy the locals call the Ink Well. There, he's considered a hero for having saved the life of a young boy. But when his old grade school buddy, Aaron Garvey, calls from death row and asks for one last favor, all hell breaks loose.Jersey finds himself running from a band of crooked cops, hiding an escaped convict in the Ink Well, and reuniting with his grammar school crush--the now sultry Myra Banks, who has shed a club foot and become a speakeasy siren. Through it all, Jersey tries to safeguard the Ink Well with no help other than his ragtag group of friends: his ex-boxing-champion father, Ernie Leo; the street-savvy Johalis; a dim-witted dockworker named Homer; and the dubious palm reader Madame Curio. With them, Jersey digs for the truth about his friend Aaron Garvey--and winds up discovering a few things about himself.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Blind Moon Alley (The Jersey Leo Novels)
by John FlorioThe latest sequel in the Prohibition-Era crime series is &“hard-boiled enough to remind readers of Hammett and Chandler,&” featuring the biracial bartender up against a corrupt cop (Kirkus Reviews). Jersey Leo knows what it means to be the underdog. After all, he&’s the guy known on the streets as &“Snowball,&” a biracial albino working the bar at Philadelphia&’s Ink Well, a Prohibition joint serving up moonshine to a mostly Black clientele. So when death row inmate Aaron Garvey calls to ask for one last favor, Jersey can&’t say no. Aaron may be a convicted cop-killer, but he&’s also the childhood friend who stood up to Jersey&’s bullies. As a Black kid with the kind of colorless features only the mother who abandoned him could love, Jersey had a lot of enemies. And the numbers keep growing, though this time it&’s crooked cops looking to break Jersey&’s legs—or worse—after Aaron springs himself from prison just moments after he and Jersey share his last meal. But that doesn&’t stop Jersey from hiding the escaped convict while he uncovers the real story about what happened that night Aaron pulled the trigger. Even Jersey&’s father, a former boxing champ, is on his side this time, along with Jersey&’s childhood crush, Myra Banks. With his dad in his corner and a good-looking dame on his arm, will Jersey uncover the truth before it&’s too late? &“Compelling. . . . Florio has an unerring feel for the era and people, and we believe in these characters. Readers will cheer for Leo, a tough guy with a heart of hurt.&” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) &“Hits a comfortable niche between hard-boiled and breezy.&” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
Blind Needle
by Trevor HoyleA 'razor-sharp' and 'dark and dangerous' thriller (City Life): a man seeking his wife's killer finds himself embroiled with a sex-hungry divorcée and a drugs ring rife with corruption . . . but there are darker secrets yet to uncover. Peter Holford was recently an inmate of a psychiatric institution, but he's out, and on the trail of the man he believes murdered his wife. He's given a lift one dark, wet night by an attractive young woman; Diane Locke is a divorcée and hungry for sex - but she befriends him, even shielding him from the police as he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy involving drugs, fraud and murder . . . In Blind Needle, 'a novel of dark and dangerous ideas' (Glasgow Herald), Trevor Hoyle takes the traditional thriller and adds a new twist.
Blind Owl
by Sadeq HedayatA new English translation of one of the most important, controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth centuryA Penguin ClassicWritten by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a two-part story of an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality. In first person, the narrator offers a string of hazy, dreamlike recollections fueled by opium and alcohol. He spends time painting the exact same scene on the covers of pen cases: an old man wearing a cape and turban sitting under a cypress tree, separated by a small stream from a beautiful woman in black who offers him a water lily. In a one-page transition, the reader finds the narrator covered in blood and waiting for the police to arrest him. In part two, readers glimpse the grim realities that unlock the mysteries of the first part. In a new translation that reflects Hedayat&’s conversational, confessional tone, Blind Owl joins the ranks of classics by Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky that explore the dark recesses of the human psyche.
Blind Rage (Bernadette Saint Clare #2)
by Terri PersonsIn her second novel featuring FBI Agent Bernadette Saint Clare, Terri Persons delivers enough twists and turns to keep you guessing until the last page. Young women committing suicide is haunting the Twin Cities--but FBI Agent Bernadette Saint Clare has a hunch that these women didn't die by their own hand... It's a big leap to take, and Bernadette's going to need some serious evidence to back it up. Unfortunately, her best lead is an uncooperative psychiatrist, and when Saint Clare resorts to using her second sight, she'll discover dark secrets in the doctor's past as complex as they are disturbing. With a cast of characters including a partner who's no longer among the living and a handsome boss who's available, this is the most unique psychological thriller you're bound to read all year.
Blind Reef: A Nautical Adventure Set In North Africa (The Richard Mariner Nautical Adventures #30)
by Peter TonkinA couple&’s quest to rescue a kidnapped girl leads them into the perilous heart of the Sinai desert: &“A sure bet for adventure fans&” (Booklist). Nautical entrepreneurs Richard and Robin Mariner are relaxing off the coast of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt when their boat flounders on Shaab Ruhr Siyoul—known as the Blind Reef—and they suddenly find themselves saving the lives of several refugees. One of the survivors, Nahom, tells them that his twin sister Tsibekti has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom by smugglers. Shocked by Nahom&’s story, Richard and Robin travel into the heart of the Sinai in a quest to find the lost girl. Now they must evade Egyptian police, Bedouin smugglers and militant Islamists in order to rescue Tsibekti and get out of the desert alive . . . Blind Reef is a ripped-from-the-headlines installment in a seafaring thriller series that &“resembles a mixture of Ian Fleming and Hammond Innes&” (Publishers Weekly).
Blind Search: A Mercy Carr Mystery (Mercy and Elvis Mysteries #2)
by Paula MunierFormer Army MP Mercy Carr and her retired bomb-sniffing dog Elvis are back in Blind Search, the sequel to the page-turning, critically acclaimed A Borrowing of Bones It’s October, hunting season in the Green Mountains—and the Vermont wilderness has never been more beautiful or more dangerous. Especially for nine-year-old Henry, who’s lost in the woods. Again. Only this time he sees something terrible. When a young woman is found shot through the heart with a fatal arrow, Mercy thinks that something is murder. But Henry, a math genius whose autism often silences him when he should speak up most, is not talking. Now there’s a murderer hiding among the hunters in the forest—and Mercy and Elvis must team up with their crime-solving friends, game warden Troy Warner and search-and-rescue dog Susie Bear, to find the killer—before the killer finds Henry. When an early season blizzard hits the mountains, cutting them off from the rest of the world, the race is on to solve the crime, apprehend the murderer, and keep the boy safe until the snowplows get through. Inspired by the true search-and-rescue case of an autistic boy who got lost in the Vermont wilderness, Paula Munier's mystery is a compelling roller coaster ride through the worst of winter—and human nature.
Blind Shuffle: A Rusty Diamond Novel (The Rusty Diamond Mysteries #2)
by Austin WilliamsAn ex-magician-turned-amateur-detective hunts for a missing pregnant woman in this tale of New Orleans noir . . . Rusty Diamond abandoned the Crescent City years ago to pursue fame in Las Vegas, leaving Marceline Lavalle with a broken heart. Now Rusty has finally come back to New Orleans—but no one has seen Marceline for days. Five months pregnant, Marceline&’s vanished without a trace, and her estranged boyfriend, a casino boss with criminal ties and a hair-trigger temper, claims no knowledge of her whereabouts. With the police not yet ready to declare foul play, Rusty launches his own investigation. The search for Marceline will take Rusty into dark corners far from the neon lights of Bourbon Street, where enormous profit can be made from human misery and desperate people hunt on the fringes. The journey will force him to confront the mistakes of his past, and offer him a shot at redemption—if he doesn&’t wind up at the bottom of a bayou first . . . &“I wanted to take a bite out of Blind Shuffle before breakfast but ended up reading straight through lunch. I finished it on a plane to Tijuana. This was my first Rusty Diamond novel . . . it won&’t be my last. Dig in.&” —Patrick Hasburgh, creator of 21 Jump Street
Blind Side (Connor Westphal Mystery #5)
by Penny WarnerDEAD FROGS CAN'T JUMP On the eve of Calaveras County's annual frog-jumping contest, is the suspicious death of Buford, the county's prizewinning amphibian, sabotage or murder? Feisty local newspaper publisher Connor Westphal ponders the irony of this untimely tragedy-- made suddenly more alarming when poor Buford's handler, Dakota Webster, is found floating in Critter's Creek surrounded by dozens more dead frogs. Connor is more than curious when the frog of a rival competitor is discovered stuffed in the dead man's mouth, and worried when the prime suspect is Jeremiah "Miah" Mercer, one of her closest friends. Determined to clear Miah's name, Connor navigates a sordid mess of toxic waste, embezzlement, prescription drug scams and cold-blooded murder ... taking a dangerous leap of her own in a race to catch a killer.
Blind Sight
by Carol O'ConnellThe extraordinary new Mallory novel from one of the most acclaimed crime writers in America.A blind child and a Catholic nun disappear from a city sidewalk in plain sight of onlookers. There, then gone--vanished in seconds. Those who witnessed the event still cannot believe it happened. It was all too real. Detective Kathy Mallory and the NYPD's Special Crimes Unit enter the investigation when the nun's body is found with three other corpses in varying stages of decomposition left on the lawn of Gracie Mansion, home to the mayor of New York City. Sister Michael was the last to die. The child, Jonah Quill, is still missing. Like Jonah, the police are blind. Unknown to them, he is with a stone killer, and though he has unexpected resources of his own, his would-be saviors have no suspect, no useful evidence, and no clue -- except for Detective Mallory's suspicions of things not said and her penchant for getting to the truth beneath lies. Behind her back, the squad's name for her is Mallory the Machine, yet she has a dark understanding of what it is to be human. A child is waiting, time is running out, and atop her list of liars is the mayor himself...and a theory of the crimes in which no sane cop could believe.From the Hardcover edition.
Blind Sight (Bernadette Saint Clare #3)
by Terri Persons"Persons has shattered the thriller mold."--John Sandford A deer hunter tracking his wounded prey through the Minnesota woods gets much more than he bargained for when he makes the grisly discovery of a young girl's body. The condition of the corpse is shocking: The girl had been pregnant, but the fetus was removed from her womb and an inverted pentagram drawn on her forehead. After the girl is identified as the daughter of a high-powered Senator, the FBI is called in to find the murderer--and the missing baby. The case becomes increasingly complex as Bernadette and Tony's personal relationship heats up, and the investigation is hampered by the many lies that lead them on a circuitous--and deadly--route to the truth. Through dogged police work and Bernadette's unique powers of second sight, they close in on the killers on a frigid night in the snowy woods in an effort to save the tiny victim of the toughest crime they've ever solved.
Blind Sight: Kathy Mallory 12
by Carol O'ConnellMallory Book 12: Blind Sight is the twelfth NYPD detective Kathy Mallory novel from New York Times bestseller Carol O'Connell, master of knife-edge suspense and intricate plotting. Fans of Karin Slaughter and Stieg Larsson will be thrilled by New York's darkest cop. 'Carol O'Connell is a consummate storyteller - a unique talent who deserves to be a household name' - Val McDermid Detective Kathy Mallory. New York's darkest. You only underestimate her once.The nun is dead. Her body lies on the mayor's lawn with three others, all killed at different times, in different places, and dumped there. There should be five - but the boy is missing.One second he was there...Jonah Quill, blind since birth, sits in a car driven by a killer and wonders where they are going. Though blind, Jonah sees more than most people do. He's counting on this secret to save his life.Then gone.Detective Kathy Mallory is counting on herself to save his life. It takes her a while to realise that the missing-person case she is pursuing is so intimately connected to the massacre on the mayor's lawn. But she will find Jonah - she just hopes it will be in time.
Blind Spot
by B. A. ShapiroIn a &“wonderfully crafted&” supernatural thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Art Forger, a forensic psychologist fights for her child (Robert B. Parker).Blind Spot is a supernatural thriller set in an upscale suburb of Boston. It opens as forensic psychologist Suki Jacobs—a single mother struggling with a big mortgage and an ex-husband in New Zealand—receives a phone call from the police informing her that her seventeen-year-old daughter, Alexa, is at the station, claiming that her ex-boyfriend, Jonah, has been murdered. Upon further investigation, Jonah is found alive, healthy, and playing basketball. But when Jonah is killed in a drive-by shooting the next day, Alexa becomes the prime suspect. Now Suki is plunged into a fight for her daughter&’s life as well as a struggle over what is—and isn&’t—possible. This story of a mother-daughter relationship caught in the crossfire of modern life, kids with too much knowledge of the world, and adults with too little, is a vision of all that is possible if we are willing to take off our blinders.
Blind Spot
by Laura EllenThere’s none so blind as they that won’t see.Seventeen-year-old Tricia Farni’s body floated to the surface of Alaska’s Birch River six months after the night she disappeared. The night Roz Hart had a fight with her. The night Roz can’t remember. Roz, who struggles with macular degeneration, is used to assembling fragments to make sense of the world around her. But this time it’s her memory that needs piecing together—to clear her name . . . to find a murderer. This unflinchingly emotional novel is written in the powerful first-person voice of a legally blind teen who just wants to be like everyone else.
Blind Spot
by Nancy BushWhat You Don't See. . .The crime scene at an Oregon rest stop is brutal beyond belief--a young man's lifeless body cut to ribbons, and his pregnant girlfriend left alive but comatose. . .What You Don't Know. . .Psychologist Claire Norris is assigned to treat the survivor at a private mental hospital. But there are no clues to the identity of the catatonic "Jane Doe." A difficult job only becomes more complicated with the arrival of ex-homicide detective Langdon Stone, who questions Claire's every move.Can Kill YouReluctantly working together, Claire and Lang begin to unravel the chilling truth about a twisted case--one with ties to a killer who is right in their midst, eager to see a mission of evil through to its terrifying end. . .Praise for Nancy Bush's Unseen"Full of twists and surprises. . .I couldn't put it down!"--Lisa Jackson"An eerie suspense novel woven with a compelling romance. . .the terrifying denouement will have readers riveted."--Publishers Weekly"A creative and mysterious tale with a number of twists, including a surprise ending."--Romantic Times
Blind Spot (Bernadette Saint Clare #1)
by Terri PersonsIntroducing a heroine unlike any other... FBI Agent Bernadette Saint Clare's gift of sight allows her to see things others can't. But some things are better left unseen. Not always easy to work with, Agent Bernadette Saint Clare has been assigned and reassigned to FBI offices all over the country. Not long after she's placed at a desk in the basement of the off-site St. Paul office, she's called on to do what she does best: use personal effects found at a crime scene to see through a killer's eyes. In some cases her sight has been astoundingly accurate; in others it has been less than perfect. The agent in charge of this case, Tony Garcia, aware of Bernadette's spotty record, is unsure if he should follow her lead, and the tension between them makes for an uneasy alliance. To make things more complicated, she becomes involved with her new upstairs neighbor. But there's something about him she can't quite put her finger on--especially when he offers her a key clue to the killer's identity. A complex novel filled with quirky characters on the right and wrong sides of the law, Blind Spot reminds us that life is filled with leaps of faith both great and small.
Blind Spot (The Stonebridge Mysteries #3)
by Maggie KavanaghSequel to Inner SanctumThe Stonebridge Mysteries: Book ThreeLiving together is bliss for Sam Flynn and Nathan Walker, but things never stay quiet for long in Stonebridge. On the night of Sam's twenty-ninth birthday, the much-hated mayor of Stonebridge is found dead at his home. Sam suspects foul play, but just as he starts investigating the list of possible culprits, Nathan gets word of a new undercover assignment--one that includes a mysterious, sexy new partner. Though Sam struggles to trust Nathan and control his jealousy during Nathan's absence, the stress makes a return to the bottle seem not only tempting, but inevitable--especially when Nathan starts avoiding his calls. Yet Nathan's fidelity isn't the only thing on Sam's mind. A visit from the mayor's ex-assistant puts Sam in the line of fire, and he's drawn into a complex web of duplicity spanning back to the night of his parents' accident. Sam's journey to uncover the truth about what really happened threatens to unravel long-held beliefs about his parents and puts his relationship with Nathan to the ultimate test.
Blind Spot: A unputdownable new thriller to keep you reading all night! (Evelyn Talbot #4)
by Brenda Novak'An endlessly ingenious writer of compelling, brilliantly crafted thrillers' Peter JamesNew York Times bestseller Brenda Novak's fourth novel in the Evelyn Talbot series sees the return of psychiatrist Dr Evelyn Talbot. When you're studying America's most terrifying psychopaths, can you ever really be safe? This is SILENCE OF THE LAMBS meets Karen Rose...SOMETIMES THE DARKEST DEEDS HAPPEN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT... With her tortured past finally behind her - and her tormentor, Jasper Moore, locked up, where she can study him along with the other psychopaths at Hanover House - psychiatrist Evelyn Talbot is looking to the future. She's about to have a baby and marry her long-time love, Amarok, the only police presence in Hilltop, Alaska. But when she's snatched from her own driveway, she can only guess at who's taken her captive...and why. Struggling to survive in a tiny, airless cell, Evelyn is relying on Amarok to find her. But he won't have much to go on, a point that becomes even more alarming when her captor reveals a clue to the mastermind behind her abduction. Not only does she know him, she knows he has a particularly gruesome method of disabling his victims. So unless she manages to escape, neither she nor her baby will survive...Look for the other gripping novels in the Evelyn Talbot series - Her Darkest Nightmare, Hello Again, Face Off, and the prequel novella, Hanover House, available now.
Blind Spot: The Sara Jones Cycle (The Sara Jones Cycle #2)
by Terence BaileyAfter the horrors she suffered in Wales, Dr Sara Jones has returned to London and found a way to use her fledgling psychic abilities for good, belying the grim predictions of her former mentor, serial killer Eldon Carson.But when events cause Sara to doubt the trustworthiness of her visions, she is thrown into uncertainty. This happens just as Sara’s partner, ex-police Inspector Jamie Harding, accepts work from her late brother’s firm Thorndike Aerospace.It’s not just the dark morality of the arms trade that troubles Sara – it’s also her unsettling visions of Jamie’s new boss. But how can she trust what she’s seen? Is Jamie in as much danger as she fears?
Blind Spot: The Sara Jones Cycle (The\sara Jones Cycle Ser. #2)
by Terence BaileyAfter the horrors she suffered in Wales, Dr Sara Jones has returned to London and found a way to use her fledgling psychic abilities for good, belying the grim predictions of her former mentor, serial killer Eldon Carson.But when events cause Sara to doubt the trustworthiness of her visions, she is thrown into uncertainty. This happens just as Sara’s partner, ex-police Inspector Jamie Harding, accepts work from her late brother’s firm Thorndike Aerospace.It’s not just the dark morality of the arms trade that troubles Sara – it’s also her unsettling visions of Jamie’s new boss. But how can she trust what she’s seen? Is Jamie in as much danger as she fears?
Blind Spots: A Novel
by Thomas Mullen"The pace is fast, the body count significant, the loopholes minor. All this tech-enabled police procedural lacks is a Lennie Briscoe zinger at the beginning. Two guns—I mean thumbs—up." –Wall Street JournalA riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about the ways our perceptions of reality can be manipulated. Seven years ago, everyone in the world went blind in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people’s brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to hack it and change what people see? Homicide detective Mark Owens has been on the force since before The Blinding. When a scientist is murdered, and the only witness insists the killer was blacked out of her vision, Owens doesn’t believe her—until a similar murder happens in front of him. With suspects ranging from tech billionaires to anti-modernity cultists—and with the bodies piling up—Owens must conduct an investigation in which he can’t even trust his own eyes. Thomas Mullen, the acclaimed author of Darktown and The Last Town on Earth, delivers an unputdownable crime novel about one man's search for truth in a world of surveillance and disinformation that’s all too recognizable.