One, Two Buckle My Shoe – Agatha Christie
Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harboured a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the celebrated Dr. Morley’s surgery for a dental examination. But what neither of them knew was that only hours later Poirot would be back to examine the dentist, found dead in his own surgery.
Turning to the other patients for answers, Poirot finds other, darker questions…..
Mr. and Miss Anonymous – Fern Michaels
Like many college students struggling to get by, Lily Madison and Peter Kelly help pay for tuition by making donations to a local fertility clinic. One day they meet each other at the clinic and find they have more in common than their mutual attraction, like the odd feeling all is not as it seems at the clinic. But their meeting is brief and Lily and Pete go their separate ways.
Twenty years later, Pete, now a wealthy entrepreneur, sees Lily in an airport and instantly falls for her all over again. While they enjoy their unlikely reunion, a story on the news captures their attention: the disappearance of two teenage boys may be linked to the fertility clinic Pete and Lily visited in college. In a shocking twist, one of the boys looks exactly like Pete. . .
The Templar Salvation – Raymond Khoury
CONSTANTINOPLE, 1203: As the ravaging armies of the Fourth Crusade lay seige to the city, a secretive band of Templars infiltrates the imperial library. Their target: a cache of documents that must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the Doge of Venice. They escape with three heavy chests filled with explosive secrets that these men will not live long to learn…
VATICAN CITY, PRESENT DAY: FBI agent Sean Reilly infiltrates the pope’s massive Vatican Secret Archives of the Inquisition, No one but the pope’s trusted secondi is allowed in, but Reilly has earned the Vatican’s trust – a trust he has no choice but to violate. A vicious, uncompromising terrorist bent on revenge has kidnapped Tess Chaykin, and the key to her freedom lies in this underground crypt, in the form of a document known as the Fondo Templari – the secret history of the infamous Templars…
After The Funeral – Agatha Christie
After the master of Enderby Hall dies, his sister, Cora suspects the generous patriarch met with foul play. But when Cora cries murder! she too is banished from the family tree – with eight blows of a hatchet. Detective Hercule Poirot fears she won’t be the last to go.
A Noble Killing – Barbara Nadel (An inspector Ikmen mystery)
Istanbul: the sight that greets Inspector Cetin Ikmen is horrific. The girl was burnt alive in her own bedroom. Was it suicide or murder? Alongside his troubled partner Inspector Mehmet Suleyman, he discovers that the girl had a secret boyfriend who has now disappeared. Then another body is found, a music teacher with his throat cut. Could they be connected? Soon the policemen they are on a trail of something much more sinister and terrifyingly well organised than they could ever have imagined. And the danger gets closer to home as Inspector Suleyman, in obsessive love with an unsuitable woman, is dragged into a lethal underworld that could ruin his career and even take his life…
Memories and Such 