John Farrow
1) Ball park
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Montreal, 1975. Detective Émile Cinq-Mars is transferring from the Night Patrol - the notoriously tough department of officers in charge of watching over the city as it sleeps - to the day shift. His old superior has seen to it that he's assigned to partner Yves Giroux, another ex-Night Patrol detective some say isn't on the 'up and up'. Getting in a house is easy for thief Quinn Tanner. The stress comes in getting out clean. On finding her getaway...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"City of Ice, John Farrow's first book in his acclaimed Emile Cinq-Mars series, which has been hailed by Booklist as "the best series in crime fiction today," has been published in over 17 countries. Now with The Storm Murders, the series continues. On the day after a massive blizzard, two policemen are called to an isolated farm house sitting all by itself in the middle of a pristine snow-blanketed field. Inside the lonely abode are two dead people....
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A co-ed is found murdered on campus, her body scarcely touched. The killer paid meticulous attention to the aesthetics of his crime. Coincidentally (or not), a college custodian is also found dead. While an epic rainstorm assails the Holyoake, New Hampshire campus, overflowing rivers and taking down power lines, a third crime scene is revealed: a professor, formerly a spy, has been shot dead in his home. A mysterious note is found that warned him...
5) Hondo
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Hondo Lane is a despatch rider for the cavalry who encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. Vittorio captures Hondo and to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
American insurance investigator Al Colby is hired to smuggle a package out of Havana and into Oaxaca, Mexico. When the man who hired him is murdered aboard ship, Colby decides to find out what he is carrying and why it is worth killing for.
9) Reno
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Bill Shear, the elderly proprietor of a Reno, Nevada gambling casino, is brought to trial on charges of running a crooked game. His accuser is Mrs. Joanne Ryder, who, while waiting for her divorce to be finalized, has dropped a bundle in Bill's casino. Bill recognizes Joanne as the daughter he has not seen since his divorce years earlier. During the course of the proceedings, Bill recounts the story of his downfall and divorce: As a young attorney,...