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When Rachel, a young woman from the village of Ardnakelty in the west of Ireland, is found dead in the river, the local meat-plant boss asks Cal Hooper, the retired Chicago detective who settled there, to find out what happened, just as a well-connected developer starts buying up the farmland around the village.
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The Dry
Federal agent Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown in rural Australia for the funeral of his childhood friend, accused of killing his family and himself, and stays to look into the case, reopening a death twenty years old.
Death Without Company
Sheriff Walt Longmire investigates the poisoning of an elderly Basque woman at the Durant assisted-living home, and the case leads into the region's buried past and that of his old predecessor, Lucian Connally.
The Secret Place
A detective investigates a murder at a girls' school and finds the case tangled in the politics of adolescence, loyalty, and the secrets teenagers keep.
Bitter Wash Road
Constable Paul Hirschhausen, a whistleblower exiled to a one-man police station in the South Australian wheat country, is sent out to a report of gunshots on Bitter Wash Road, and soon after a girl is found dead by the highway.
A Is for Alibi
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone of Santa Teresa, California, is hired by Nikki Fife, just out of prison after eight years for poisoning her philandering husband, to find out who really killed him.
Still Life
When a beloved retired teacher is found dead in the woods outside Three Pines, a tiny village south of Montreal, killed by an arrow on Thanksgiving weekend, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec doubts it was a hunting accident.
The Daughter of Time
Laid up in hospital with a broken leg, Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard grows interested in a portrait of Richard III and sets out to learn whether the king really murdered the princes in the Tower.
The Broken Shore
Joe Cashin, a Melbourne homicide detective recovering from injuries, takes a posting back in his home town on the south-west coast of Victoria, and a rich old man is bashed in his home.
On Beulah Height
Fifteen years ago three little girls vanished from the Yorkshire dale village of Dendale, just before it was flooded for a reservoir. Now a drought has brought its ruins back into view, another child has gone missing, and Superintendent Andy Dalziel is back on the case he never closed.
Raven Black
On New Year's Eve in Shetland two teenage girls knock on the door of Magnus Tait, an old loner long suspected over a girl who vanished years ago. Days later one of them is found strangled in the snow, and Inspector Jimmy Perez takes the case.
The Galton Case
Lew Archer is hired by the lawyer of Maria Galton, a rich and dying old woman, to find her son Anthony, who ran off with a girl more than twenty years ago and was never heard from again.
The Steam Pig
In Trekkersburg, a town in apartheid South Africa, a mortuary mix-up shows that Theresa le Roux, a young white piano teacher, did not die naturally, and Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Zulu colleague Sergeant Mickey Zondi set out to learn why.