Top 5 Summer Mystery Novels
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
Jack McEvoy , a crime reporter who's job is coming to an end, has a few days left on the job. He wants to write one last, great story in hopes of winning an award. Jack focuses on a subject that claims to have murdered someone. He decides that this is the subject that he is going to center his last story around. Jack later comes to find out that his subject is not the killer and the actual killer is waiting on him.
Rain Gods by James Lee Burke
Hackberry Holland left his previous home to hopefully rid himself of his past. He moved to a small Texas town near the Mexican border where he became the sheriff. The discovery of nine illegal aliens murdered and buried opens a case involving a Iraq veteran named Pete and his girlfriend. A group of angry killers are after Pete because of his involvement with the murder. To solve the case on the mass murder, Holland must get to the veteran before the killers get to him first.
Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton
A well-known vampire executioner, Anita Blake, has made a reputation for herself from her death count. Anita heads to las Vegas to meet up with a serial killing vampire that has been harassing her. The sheriff of Las Vegas wants her to get out of town while the supernatural world of vampires want Anita for something else.
Wicked Prey by John Sandford
Lucas Davenport is being blamed for the injuring of a pimp named Randy Whitcomb and putting him in a wheelchair. Whitcomb is looking to seek revenge on Davenport. Instead of going after Davenport, Whitcomb thinks it would be hurt more if he went for Davenport's fourteen year old adopted daughter.
The Front by Patricia Cornwell
Garano is sent to Watertown to come up with a story about declining neighborhoods by D.A. Lamont. Garano knows that Watertown is also the home base for the Front, a municipal police departments that is set up in order that they are not dependent on the state. Garano finds out that what is going on in this town is much deeper than it appears. The things that Garano see are so bizarre that he can't make out if they are real.
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