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The Question of the Unfamiliar Husband

10 best books like The Question of the Unfamiliar Husband (E.J. Copperman): As Dog is My Witness, Presence: Stories, End Me a Tenor, The Haunted Housewives of Allister, Alabama, Hack, Death on Nantucket, No Sleep Till Wonderland, Nighttown, Nervous Water, Rolling Thunder

As Dog is My Witness
AuthorJeffrey Cohen
ISBN1890862436
In this, the third Aaron Tucker mystery, Aaron, fresh from a trip to Hollywood to "take meetings" on his screenplay, finds himself dragged kicking and screaming once again into investigating a murder, this time of a man in a nearby town shot while walking his dog at night. The young man accused of the crime...
Presence: Stories
AuthorArthur Miller
ISBN0670038288
A moving, final collection of stories by Arthur Miller

Throughout his career as one of the foremost playwrights of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller wrote a remarkable series of highly regarded short stories, pieces that reveal the same profound insight, humanism, and empathy that are...
End Me a Tenor
AuthorJoelle Charbonneau
ISBN0425252167
A part to kill for . . .

Singing in a production of the Messiah and rehearsing her show choir for a holiday concert may be more than Paige can Handel. Not only does she have to contend with the overblown ego of world-renowned tenor David Richard, she now has to quickly revamp the show choir’s number,...
The Haunted Housewives of Allister, Alabama
AuthorSusan Abel Sullivan
ISBN0615700896
Who knew one gaudy Velvet Elvis could lead to such a heap of haunted trouble?

When Cleo Tidwell said, “I do,” for the third time, she had no idea her marriage vows would be tested by a tacky piece of art. But Cleo’s not the kind of woman to let a velvet-offense-against-good-taste just hang--oh...
Hack
AuthorKieran Crowley
ISBN1783296496
Journalism. 
Narcissism.
Cannibalism.
It’s a dog-eat-dog world at the infamous tabloid the New York Mail, where brand new pet columnist F.X. Shepherd accidentally finds himself on the trail of The Hacker, a serial killer targeting unpleasant celebrities in inventive—and...
Death on Nantucket
AuthorFrancine Mathews
ISBN1616957379
Spencer Murphy is a national treasure. A famous correspondent during the Vietnam War who escaped captivity in Southeast Asia, he made a fortune off of his books and television appearances. But Spence is growing forgetful with age; he’s started to wander and even fails to come home one night. When...
No Sleep Till Wonderland
AuthorPaul Tremblay
ISBN0805088504
Mark Genevich, narcoleptic detective, is caught between friends and a police investigation in this wickedly riveting PI novel with a twist—a follow-up to The Little Sleep

Mark Genevich is stuck in a rut: his narcolepsy isn't improving, his private-detective business is barely scraping...
Nighttown
AuthorTimothy Hallinan
Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender has a rule about never taking a job that pays too well—in the criminal underworld, if someone is offering you more money than a job is worth, someone is going to end up dead. But he’s bending his rule this one time because he and his girlfriend, Ronnie, are in desperate...
Nervous Water
AuthorWilliam G. Tapply
ISBN0312337442
In one of the finest novels yet in Tapply's long-running series, Nervous Water explores the previously hidden past of his much beloved character, Boston attorney Brady Coyne. Contacted by an aged relative with whom he'd long lost touch, Brady agrees to help his Uncle Moze with a sensitive family matter....
Rolling Thunder
AuthorChris Grabenstein
ISBN1605980897
There's more fireworks down the Jersey shore in Chris Grabenstein's sixth fast-paced John Ceepak mystery Rolling Thunder. A prominent citizen suffers a heart attack on opening day of a brand new boardwalk roller coaster in the seedy seaside resort town Sea Haven, New Jersey. Initially ruled a tragic...
Some Die Nameless
AuthorWallace Stroby
ISBN0316440205
An ex-mercenary and an embattled journalist find themselves unlikely allies against a corrupt defense contractor.

Ray Devlin is retired, living a simple life off the grid in Florida, when a visit from an old colleague stirs some bad memories--and ends with a gunshot. Soon Devlin is forced...
Writ in Stone
AuthorCora Harrison
ISBN0727868128
A Mystery of Medieval Ireland - Christmas, 1509. Mara, the investigating judge of the Burren, has accepted the offer of marriage made by King Turlough. But on the eve of the marriage festivities, a man kneeling in prayer in the abbey church is violently murdered. Who could have planned to kill the king?...
A Killer in the Wind
AuthorAndrew Klavan
ISBN0802120679
Three years ago, working vice for the NYPD, Dan Champion uncovered a sex slavery ring run by a kingpin known only as the Fat Woman. Obsessed with bringing her down, Champion infiltrated a world of sexual obsession and perversity. He broke the case, but the case also broke him. He started taking drugs and...
Bury the Lead
AuthorArcher Mayor
ISBN1250113288
Joe Gunther and the VBI team are investigating a murder and an arson case--both potentially related to an outbreak of ebola.

When the body of a young woman is found near a trail at a popular ski mountain, the case falls to Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI). They...
Coming Unclued
AuthorJudith Jackson
It’s only a week until Christmas. The lights are up, the presents are — actually, only the lights are done, but Val still has a week! Once the dreaded office party is over she can make quick work of the rest of her list.

There’s only one, big problem with that plan. The morning after the party,...
Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder
AuthorBonnie MacBird
ISBN0008201080
The new novel from the author of Art in the Blood. December 1889. Fresh from debunking a "ghostly" hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta. A beautiful client arrives with a tale of ghosts, kidnapping and dynamite on a whisky estate...
The Killing Kind
AuthorChris Holm
ISBN0316259535
A hitman who only kills other hitmen winds up a target himself. Michael Hendricks kills people for money. That aside, he's not so bad a guy.Once a covert operative for a false-flag unit of the US military, Hendricks was presumed dead after a mission in Afghanistan went sideways. He left behind his old...
Trail of Echoes
AuthorRachel Howzell Hall
ISBN0765381176
On a rainy spring day in Los Angeles, homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called away from a rare lunch date to Bonner Park, where the body of thirteen-year-old Chanita Lords has been discovered. When Lou and her partner, Colin Taggert, take on the sad task of informing Chanita's mother, Lou is...
The Night Charter
AuthorSam Hawken
ISBN0316299219
Camaro answers to no one--until a bad deal saddles her with a young charge.

Exactly one year ago, Camaro Espinoza killed five bad men in New York City and fled town. Now she's keeping a low profile in Miami, running night charter catch-and-release fishing trips off the coast. It's a simple life...
Winter Wind
AuthorJ.R. Rain
Former LAPD homicide detective Lee Jordan can't see, speak or hear...
But he will find you, one way or another.

And with a killer at large, and people disappearing from his city, Lee must must unravel his most baffling case yet...
Before the killer strikes again.


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