Construction Mysteries

The long-awaited craft book from Steve Almond, based on three decades of writing, failing, and trying again. In Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow, Steve Almond shares the insights gleaned from three decades as a beloved teacher and mentor, and a considerably less-beloved literary rabble...

After a disastrous accident derails Tempest Raj’s career, and life, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfather’s Indian home-cooked meals. Though she resists, every day brings her closer to the inevitable: working for her father’s company. Secret Staircase Construction specializes in bringing the magic of childhood to all by transforming clients’ homes with sliding bookcases, intricate locks, backyard treehouses, and hidden reading nooks.

Get ready for a tail-wagging adventure in this RV cozy mystery. Sara and Sam Mitchell and their mini dachshunds, Oscar and Lucky, soon discover their RV trip to visit Aunt Tabitha isn’t quite as laid-back and relaxing as they’d hoped. The small Nebraska farming town of Kornville is in an uproar when a big city construction company begins building street after street of cookie-cutter houses. Strange things start happening days after Tabitha refuses the construction company's low-ball offer to buy her farm. Her new well suddenly runs dry, then the freshly harvested corn starts ...

From the bestselling author of The Monk of Mokha and The Circle comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace. An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting...

Corruption doesn’t always break rules. Sometimes it perfects them. When city archivist Keira James finds Greenway project permits stamped APPROVED but missing signatures, she assumes it’s sloppy bureaucracy—until the paperwork starts vanishing and real-world safety hazards begin matching the forged records. With a sharp-eyed gray tabby she calls Whisper refusing to leave her side, Keira follows a trail of altered contracts, cut-out inspection conditions, and “Emergency Repairs” that smell like fast money. Contractor Rory Cantwell claims he was wrongly pushed off the job and warns ...

Join Dr. James Galloway, a compassionate clinical psychologist, as he guides his Alpha patients through a labyrinth of pain and seeks to right the wrongs of their past. With a unique approach to therapy and a hidden arsenal of methods, Dr. Galloway's pursuit of justice sets the stage for a gripping narrative that unfolds with suspense and intrigue.

I’m used to getting my hands dirty. During the day it’s mud and grime on the construction site. At night...it’s the blood I spill. A drug lord’s enforcer does what needs to be done. It’s my obedience, my loyalty to the boss that keeps my family alive. I know I’m teetering on the edge. I’m losing my humanity, I can feel it. It’s changing me, and it’s only a matter of time before the darkness takes over. Then, I meet her. Liv. The only person who sees past my busted knuckles and brutal exterior. She sees...me. But being with me will get her killed.

Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Award In this riveting new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Shotgun Lovesongs, three troubled construction workers get entangled in a dangerous plan against an impossible deadline. Why is it being built here, and why so quickly? These...

Bulldozing, Blasting and Bullying. A corrupt mayor. A beloved landmark on the line. Whispering Falls has always been Fern Valley’s hidden treasure... until a slick developer and the mayor hatch a scheme to cash it in. Ethel Cromwell, the town’s sharp-witted widow-sleuth, knows something isn’t right. With Hal Briggs at her side, she follows a trail of forged documents, greedy backroom deals, and sabotage that threatens to destroy the falls, and the heart of Fern Valley. Bulldozers, bullying and blasting commence without permission. Can Ethel expose the truth before their cherished ...

The discovery of human bones while excavating a property to build a new church requires all work to stop. Arthur and Irma Blake investigate and find an earlier structure on that lot was involved in illegal activities, requiring FBI leadership of the inquiry. Further research reveals a group of foreign citizens who replaced Americans illegally and an elaborate money laundering scheme. What are the foreigners trying to do? Who killed the people unearthed during construction and others discovered later? How will the killer be brought to justice more than twenty years after the crimes?

In November 2017, three independent teams of physicists working at the Great Pyramid of Giza announced something that should not have been possible. They had detected, using cosmic-ray particles that pass through stone, a previously unknown chamber inside the pyramid. The chamber is approximately thirty metres long. It is roughly the size of a Boeing 737. It has been there for 4,500 years. It is not mentioned in any ancient text, has not been described in any architectural plan, and was not predicted by any previous survey of the structure. Nine years later, in 2026, we still don't know ...