Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1The black echo (1992)The black echo (1992) 7.2/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1992Harry Bosch recognises a man found dead in a Los Angeles drainpipe as a fellow Vietnam veteran. Connelly makes the investigation personal without allowing the detective's history to replace the work of following evidence. Bosch's stubbornness, distrust of authority and uneasy working alliances are…0
  2. 2Still Life (A Three Pines Mystery) (2005)Still Life (A Three Pines Mystery) (2005) 7.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2005An apparently accidental death brings Armand Gamache to Three Pines, where knowing someone's habits may matter as much as noticing a physical clue. Penny establishes both his attentive method and the village's mixture of affection, resentment and concealed lives. The first investigation offers a…0
  3. 3Raven Black (2006)Raven Black (2006) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2006Jimmy Perez investigates a young woman's death in a Shetland community already inclined to blame a familiar outsider. Cleeves gives the first case enough local history and social pressure to make his careful listening distinctive. Suspicion spreads through people who must continue living beside one…0
  4. 4DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) (1990)DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) (1990) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1990Easy Rawlins needs money to keep his home in post-war Los Angeles when a stranger hires him to find a woman. Mosley makes his entry into investigation an immediate test of whom he can trust and what a Black man can safely ask. Easy's connections give the first case its route through the city, while…0
  5. 5"A" is for Alibi (1982)"A" is for Alibi (1982) 7.5/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1982Fresh from prison, Nikki Fife asks Kinsey Millhone to prove she did not kill her husband. Grafton gives the first alphabet mystery a direct professional task and a private investigator whose independence, dry observations and practical routines are already pleasurable company. The case does not…0
  6. 6Indemnity Only (1982)Indemnity Only (1982) 9.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1982A client gives V. I. Warshawski a false name and a missing-person assignment that rapidly becomes a murder investigation. Paretsky establishes her Chicago private eye through decisions under pressure: whom she believes, whose interests she distrusts and what risks she will take for someone exposed…0
  7. 7Bluebird, bluebird (2017)Bluebird, bluebird (2017) 9.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2017Two murders in an East Texas town pull Texas Ranger Darren Mathews between his badge, his roots and the competing accounts of what happened. Locke makes those loyalties part of the first investigation, rather than postponing the character's difficult choices until a later volume. The result is…0
  8. 8The dry (2016)The dry (2016) 8.4/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2016Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken home town for funerals and is drawn into questioning an apparent murder-suicide. Harper gives him two connected reasons to investigate: the present deaths and the community's memory of his own departure. The first book works as an absorbing mystery before…0
  9. 9Cuckoo's Calling (2013)Cuckoo's Calling (2013) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2013A model's apparent suicide gives struggling private investigator Cormoran Strike a paying case, while temporary secretary Robin Ellacott begins showing what she can contribute. Galbraith makes their first working relationship as engaging as the interviews and contradictions surrounding the death.…0
  10. 10The Word is Murder (2017)The Word is Murder (2017) 7.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2017A woman arranges her funeral and is murdered a few hours later. Horowitz uses the puzzle to introduce Daniel Hawthorne and a fictional version of himself as the detective's reluctant chronicler. Their friction gives the first book a recurring engine without making the reader wait for a later…0