Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1Five Little Pigs (1942)Five Little Pigs (1942) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1942Sixteen years after Caroline Crale was convicted of killing her husband, her daughter asks Poirot to examine the case again. The evidence comes largely through people who have lived with their own versions of the same afternoon. Christie makes differences in emphasis and remembered feeling as…0
  2. 2The distant echo (2003)The distant echo (2003) 6.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2003Four students find a dying woman in St Andrews and spend the following twenty-five years living under suspicion. When a cold-case review begins, the lives they have built offer little protection against old accusations and fresh danger. McDermid makes the passage from young friendship to adult…0
  3. 3Case Histories (2004)Case Histories (2004) 7.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2004Jackson Brodie’s three enquiries begin with families who have continued living around losses that an old file cannot contain. Atkinson gives the relatives different ways of carrying absence, resentment and hope, so their need for an answer is as important as his ability to find one. The humour can…0
  4. 4Echoes from the dead (2008)Echoes from the dead (2008)Published 1 Jan 2008Twenty years after her son Jens vanished on Öland, Julia receives a new reason to return when her father is sent one of the child’s sandals. Their strained relationship becomes part of the work of asking islanders what they remember. Theorin lets local stories outlive their tellers, making it…0
  5. 5The Daughter of Time (1951)The Daughter of Time (1951) 6.9/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1951Inspector Alan Grant, confined to a hospital bed, turns to the case of Richard III and the princes in the Tower. This is the extreme historical outlier: the witnesses have been dead for centuries, leaving records, inherited reputations and arguments about who benefited from a particular account.…0
  6. 6The dry (2016)The dry (2016) 8.4/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2016Aaron Falk returns to Kiewarra for funerals and finds that the community’s interpretation of a present tragedy still depends on what it believes about him and his friend twenty years earlier. Harper lets drought and daily pressure work on people whose old loyalties have never become neutral. The…0
  7. 7The Survivors (2020)The Survivors (2020) 6.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2020Kieran Elliott comes back to his Tasmanian coastal home with a young family, still carrying guilt from an earlier disaster. A new death unsettles the community’s explanations of that day and an unresolved disappearance. Harper is interested in the years spent coping around a loss, and in what…0
  8. 8A Place of Execution (1999)A Place of Execution (1999) 6.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1999The disappearance of Alison Carter in 1963 is investigated first through a young inspector’s work, then through a journalist’s attempt to tell the story decades later. McDermid gives the later account its own pressure: the original investigator suddenly wants publication stopped. The question of…0
  9. 9A Darker Domain (2008)A Darker Domain (2008) 4.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2008Karen Pirie investigates disappearances from the era of the miners’ strike, where a family’s explanation of absence has hardened into a community verdict about betrayal. A separate kidnapping case brings wealth and very different expectations of attention into the same period. McDermid makes…0
  10. 10The Closers (2005)The Closers (2005) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2005Harry Bosch returns to the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit and revisits the 1988 murder of a mixed-race teenager after a DNA match. Connelly makes the new lead a beginning, not an automatic answer: the older investigation’s assumptions and the family’s years of loss still need examination. Bosch’s return…0