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Killing Commendatore

Killing Commendatore
  • Author(s): Haruki Murakami
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a strange painting in the attic, he...

Killing Floor (Jack Reacher 1)

Killing Floor (Jack Reacher 1)
  • Author(s): Lee Child
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Jack knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least...

Killing for Keeps

Killing for Keeps
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Killing for Keeps is Maria Hannah’s fifth gripping crime novel featuring DCI Kate Daniels. It’s in the blood . . . Two brothers from the same criminal family die within hours of each other, five miles apart, one on...

Killing State

Killing State
  • Author(s): Jude O'Reilly
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if the person you’re ordered to kill Is the woman you want to protect? Michael North, assassin and spy-for-hire, is very good at killing bad guys. But what happens when his shadowy bosses at the dark heart of...

Killing the Poormaster

Killing the Poormaster
  • Author(s): Holly Metz
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Reflecting on a sensational murder trial from the late 1930s, this chronicle focuses upon the death of Harry Barck, a poormaster who was granted the authority to decide who would and would not receive public aid in Hoboken, New...

Killing the Vibe

Killing the Vibe
  • Author(s): Linda Hagan
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The discovery of a man’s corpse creates public outcry and leads to divisions within the force. Belfast police are totally in the dark as to who the victim is, although strange incisions on his back suggest a personally motivated...

Killshot

Killshot
  • Author(s): Elmore Leonard
  • Location(s): Missouri
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The New York Times bestselling author the Pittsburgh Post-Gazetteonce called, “the Alexander the Great of crime fiction,” Elmore Leonard is responsible for creating some of the sharpest dialogue, most compelling characters (including U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of TV’s Justified...

Kilt Dead

Kilt Dead
  • Author(s): Kaitlyn Dunnett
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

As a professional Scottish dancer, Liss MacCrimmon has performed strathsprays and reels, jigs and Highland flings until a knee injury cuts her career short. Returning to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, she decides to help her aunt run her...

Kin

Kin
  • Author(s): Tayari Jones
  • Location(s): The American South
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s/60s

A yearning for their missing mothers pulls Vernice and Annie apart. It will take a devastating tragedy to bring them back together. Vernice and Annie are ‘cradle friends’, born days apart in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, both destined never to know...

Kindness Goes Unpunished

Kindness Goes Unpunished
  • Author(s): Craig Johnson
  • Location(s): Philadelphia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Walt Longmire has been sheriff of Wyoming’s Absaroka County for almost a quarter of a century and has meted out justice with charm and a high-powered sense of humor, but when Walt tags along with good friend Henry Standing...

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