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Crime Fiction
Tightly plotted-suspensful-A detective or dectives are confronted by a "murder mystery" with consequences..
Example
Black Fly Season : James Blunt
Only someone dumb or high would go out unprotected during Algonquin Bay’s black fly season. But when a beautiful
young woman stumbles into a tavern covered in bites, the local cops discover she is neither. The woman has a bullet in her
brain—and no memory of how it happened or who she is. Homicide detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme know someone
left her for dead. And if word gets out that she isn’t, someone will try again…
Classic Mystery
Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie. The use of deductive reasoning or intellect.
Example:
The Mystery of the Blue Train. Agatha Christie
Ruth Kettering is young, attractive, and fabulously wealthy. An American heiress, she’s traveling overnight
to the Riveria aboard the luxurious Blue Train, the train favored by the rich and famous. She’s also a bit paranoid.
But her predictions of doom come true—she’s found murdered in her compartment. The rumor of a strange man seen
loitering in her doorway is all that the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot has to go on. Until his investigation yields some
startling surprises about Ruth’s secret life…
Hard-Boiled
Gritty, dark, subressive, scotch, cigars and tough talk
Example
Hugger Mugger, Robert B. Parker
Someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and the Boston P.I. travels to Georgia to protect
the two-year-old destined to become the next Secretariat. Disregarding the resentment of the local Georgia law enforcement,
Spenser takes the case. Though Clive has hired a separate security firm, he wants someone with Spenser's experience to supervise
the operation. The case takes an even more deadly turn when the attacker claims a human victim, and Spenser must
revise his impressions of the whole Three Fillies organization--and watch his own back as well. With razor-sharp dialogue,
eloquently spare prose, and some of the best supporting characters to grace the printed page, Hugger Mugger is grand
entertainment.
Women Sleuths
a woman sleuth investigates the case and solves the problem.
Murder in Little Italy: Victoria Thompson
When midwife Sarah Brandt visits Little Italy to check up on a new mother who delivered her baby just the day before,
she finds the young woman dead. The family insists that the death was from complications of childbirth. Sarah thinks not.
Neither does the woman's own mother, an Irishwoman who spreads the story that the girl was murdered by her Italian in-laws,
the Ruoccos-an accusation that inflames tensions between the two immigrant groups. Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy is going
to need Sarah's help to unravel the secrets of these troubled families, bring a killer to justice-and restore order to the
volatile community.
Mystery & Detective
Example
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Life is sweet for Nikki Sands. She’s toasting her new job at Malveaux Estate in Napa Valley and
balancing a love triangle with a neighboring winemaker and her boss, vineyard owner Derek Malveaux—the catch of the
county. And tonight, Nikki will be on the arm of Napa’s golden boy at a Sonoma mansion for the wedding of the decade...
Nikki’s friend Isabel agreed to cater the wedding—before she learned that the groom was her cheating lover.
After the ceremony, Isabel asks Nikki to bring the obnoxious bride another glass of wine. But Nikki finds the new wife sprawled
on the floor—murdered. Since the dear departed made enemies easily, there’s a bushel of suspects—many of
them close to Nikki. Now, it’s up to her to get to the bottom of what may have been a killer bottle of wine.
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