Cranston Public Library

Murder is in the cards this Valentine’s Day. “Never quite cozy and never quite tough, this tale combines the best of both styles to stunning effect” (Publishers Weekly).
 Psychiatrist Paul Hazzard was renowned for his insights into the human mind, until his wife was savagely murdered. She was stabbed to death with an ornamental dagger, a grisly crime for which Paul was tried but never convicted. Four years...

If you thought Duane Swierczynski's The Blonde and Severance Package were page turners, hold on to your seat. Expiration Date is a detective novel with a time-travel twist that will leave readers gasping. In this neighborhood, make a wrong turn… and you're history. Mickey Wade is a recently-unemployed journalist who lucked into a rent-free apartment-his sick grandfather's place. The only problem: it's in a lousy neighborhood-the one where Mickey...

A woman living in the pampered comfort of an exclusive community impulsively murders her husband. Former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian investigates, only to learn that, among her acquaintances, she would have had the least reason to murder.

In the lovely Amish countryside, Dave Garrett investigates a series of disruptions and threats aimed at stopping the opening of a new Chinese-style fast-food franchise which lead to the kidnapping of the owner's wife and the murder of one of her closest friends.