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The long title story is
about a man whose life,
in a sense, is a book.
There are shelves in
every room, packed with
titles which Ambrose
Ribbon has checked
pedantically for mistakes
of grammar and fact. Life
for Ribbon, without his
mother now, is lonely
and obsessive. He still
keeps her dressing table
exactly as she had left
it, the wardrobe door
always so that her
clothes can be seen
inside, and her pink
silk nightdress on the
bed. There is one book
too that he associates
particularly with her -
volume VIII of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica,
Piranha to Scurfy. It
marked a very significant
moment in their
relationship. In the
other stories, Ruth
Rendell deals with a
variety of themes, some
macabre, some vengeful,
some mysterious, all
precisely observed. The
second novella, High
Mysterious Union,
explores a strange,
erotic universe in a
dream-like corner of
rural England, and
illustrates very
atmospherically what
range Ruth Rendell has as
a writer. 'If the crime
short story is an
endangered species, Ruth
Rendell is one of the few
courageous
environmentalists
fighting for its
survival. She presents
irrefutable evidence that
the genre deserves not
merely to survive but to
flourish.' The Times
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Harry Barnett is a
middle-aged failure.
Leading a shabby
existence in the shadow
of a past disgrace, he
is reduced to caretaking
a friend's villa on the
island of Rhodes and
working in a bar to earn
his keep. Then a guest at
the villa - a young woman
he had instantly and
innocently warmed to -
disappears on a mountain
peak.
Under suspicion
of her murder, Harry
stumbles on a set of
photographs taken in the
weeks before her
disappearance. Obsessed
by the mystery that has
changed his life and
determined to clear his
name, he begins to trace
back the movements and
encounters that led to
the moment when she
vanished into the blue.
The trail leads him back
to England, to a world
he thought he had left
for ever
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Harry Barnett is a
middle-aged failure,
leading a shabby
existence in the shadow
of a past disgrace,
reduced to caretaking a
friend's villa on the
island of Rhodes and
working in a bar to earn
his keep. Then a guest at
the villa - a young woman
he had instantly and
innocently warmed to -
disappears on a mountain
peak. Under suspicion of
her murder, Harry
stumbles on a set of
photographs taken by
Heather Mallender in the
weeks before her
disappearance.
Desperately, obsessed by
the mystery that has
changed his life, he
begins to trace back the
movements and encounters
that led to the moment
when she vanished into
the blue. The trail leads
him back to England, to
a world he thought he had
left for ever, and at
every step of the way a
new and baffling light is
shed on all the
assumptions that have
made Harry what he is.
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In 1970, one of
Mississippi's more
colourful weekly
newspapers, The Ford
County Times, went
bankrupt. To the surprise
and dismay of many,
ownership was assumed by
a 23 year-old college
drop-out, named Willie
Traynor. The future of
the paper looked grim
until a young mother was
brutally raped and
murdered by a member of
the notorious Padgitt
family. Willie Traynor
reported all the gruesome
details, and his
newspaper began to
prosper. The murderer,
Danny Padgitt, was tried
before a packed courtroom
in Clanton, Mississippi.
The trial came to a
startling and dramatic
end when the defendant
threatened revenge
against the jurors if
they convicted him.
Nevertheless, they found
him guilty, and he was
sentenced to life in
prison. But in
Mississippi in 1970,
'life' didn't necessarily
mean 'life', and nine
years later Danny Padgitt
managed to get himself
paroled. He returned to
Ford County, and the
retribution began.
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Beneath the sea cliffs of
the south coast,
suicides are a sad but
common fact. Yet even the
hardened coastguard knows
something is wrong when a
beautiful young film
actress is found lying
dead on the beach one
morning.
Inspector Grant
has to take a more
professional attitude:
death by suicide,
however common, has to
have a motive
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Safe houses and secret
message drops, double
crosses and defections -
it sounds like the stuff
of sophisticated
espionage, but the
agents are only
schoolboys engaged in
harmless play. But John
Creevey doesn't know
this. To him, the
messages he decodes with
painstaking care are the
communications of
dangerous and evil men,
and as he comes face to
face with the fact of his
beloved wife Jennifer's
defection, he begins to
see a way to get back at
the man she left him for.
And soon the schoolboys
are playing more than
just a game.
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In 1970, The Ford
County Times, one of
Mississipi's more
colourful weekly
newspapers,
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THE VICTIM was a
fighter, but strength
wasn't enough to save him
from this gruesome
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Do you have to be dead to
be famous?
Stanley
Buckle is a quiet sort of
boy. Since his
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Violence is
escalating, and spilling
onto the streets of
Montreal.
A
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In the wake of an
earthquake, the water
level of an Icelandic
lake drops suddenly,
revealing the skeleton of
a man half-buried in its
sandy bed. It is clear
immediately that it has
been there for many
years. There is a large
hole in the skull. Yet
more mysteriously, a
heavy communication
device is attached to it,
possibly some sort of
radio transmitter,
bearing inscriptions in
Russian.
The
police are called in and
Erlendur, Elinborg and
Sigurdur Oli begin their
investigation, which
gradually leads them back
to the time of the Cold
War when bright,
left-wing students would
be sent from Iceland to
study in the
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Violence is
escalating, and spilling
onto the streets of
Montreal.
A
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Joss le Guern is a town
crier in Paris's 14th
arrondissement. He calls
out the local news three
times a day to all who
will listen. Over the
course of a few days,
however, a number of
enigmatic and disturbing
messages are slipped in
to the daily news, and
he becomes increasingly
alarmed. Superintendent
Adamsberg is visited by
an extremely troubled
woman who has found
strange marks on the door
of her building: upside
down 4s marked out in
black paint. This, and
the appearance of the
frightening messages,
are exactly the kind of
mysteries Adamsberg
loves. In the course of
his inquiries he begins
to sense a sinister and
often grotesque menace.
And when a charred corpse
is found, Adamsberg
knows he's dealing with a
particularly serious and
chilling case. Have Mercy
on Us All is Fred
Vargas's masterpiece so
far. She is exceptional
at building mood and
tension, and, as
Henning Mankell portrays
the social realities of
contemporary Sweden in
his Inspector Wallander
mysteries, so Vargas
does the same for Paris
and France.
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Beneath the sea cliffs of
the south coast,
suicides are a sad but
common fact. Yet even the
hardened coastguard knows
something is wrong when a
beautiful young film
actress is found lying
dead on the beach one
morning. Inspector Grant
has to take a more
professional attitude:
death by suicide,
however common, has to
have a motive - just like
murder.
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In 1970, one of
Mississippi's more
colourful weekly
newspapers, The Ford
County Times, went
bankrupt. To the surprise
and dismay of many,
ownership was assumed by
a 23 year-old college
drop-out, named Willie
Traynor. The future of
the paper looked grim
until a young mother was
brutally raped and
murdered by a member of
the notorious Padgitt
family. Willie Traynor
reported all the gruesome
details, and his
newspaper began to
prosper. The murderer,
Danny Padgitt, was tried
before a packed courtroom
in Clanton, Mississippi.
The trial came to a
startling and dramatic
end when the defendant
threatened revenge
against the jurors if
they convicted him.
Nevertheless, they found
him guilty, and he was
sentenced to life in
prison. But in
Mississippi in 1970,
'life' didn't necessarily
mean 'life', and nine
years later Danny Padgitt
managed to get himself
paroled. He returned to
Ford County, and the
retribution began.
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Following an earthquake,
the water level of an
Icelandic lake suddenly
falls to reveal a
skeleton half-buried in
its sandy bed. It has
clearly been there many
years. There is a large
hole in the skull. Yet
more mysteriously, it is
weighted down by a heavy
radio transmitter bearing
inscriptions in Russian.
The police are
called in and Erlendur,
ElÃnborg and Sigurdur
Óli begin their
investigation. It takes
them back to the Cold War
era, when bright,
left-wing students in
Iceland would be sent to
study in the
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Winner of Best
Historical Crime Novel
2007
In
Cambridge a child has
been hideously
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Rome AD 72: Marcus Didius
Falco returns home from a
six-month mission to the
German legions. But
trouble is in store for
him: his apartment has
been wrecked by squatters
and an ex-legionary
friend of his colourfully
heroic brother Festus is
demanding money,
allegedly owed him as the
result of one of Festus's
wild schemes. Worse
still, the only client
Falco can get is his
mother - wgho wants him
to clear the family name.
Then just as
Falco thinks things can
only get better, fate
takes a turn for the
worse... The legionary is
found viciously stabbed
to death with Falco the
prime suspect. Now he has
only three days to prove
he is not a murderer, to
trace the real suspect,
amass evidence and win a
fortune...
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In the wake of an
earthquake, the water
level of an Icelandic
lake drops suddenly,
revealing the skeleton of
a man half-buried in its
sandy bed. It is clear
immediately that it has
been there for many
years. There is a large
hole in the skull. Yet
more mysteriously, a
heavy communication
device is attached to it,
possibly some sort of
radio transmitter,
bearing inscriptions in
Russian.
The
police are called in and
Erlendur, Elinborg and
Sigurdur Oli begin their
investigation, which
gradually leads them back
to the time of the Cold
War when bright,
left-wing students would
be sent from Iceland to
study in the
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Each day, in honour of a
Parisian tradition, a
town crier calls out the
local news to all who
will listen. Over the
course of a few days a
number of disturbing
messages are slipped in
to his box, messages of
portentous and malicious
intent referring to the
Black Death. Strange
marks have also appeared
on the doors of several
buildings: symbols once
used to ward off the
plague. Detective
Commissaire Adamsberg
begins to sense a
connection, even a
grotesque menace. Then
charred and flea-bitten
corpses are found. The
press seizes on their
plague-like symptoms,
and the panic sets in.
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Jack Havoc, jail-breaker
and knife artist, is on
the loose on the streets
of London once again. In
the faded squares of
shabby houses, in the
furtive alleys and
darkened pubs, the word
is out that the Tiger is
back in town, more
vicious and cunning than
ever. It falls to Albert
Campion to pit his wits
against the killer and
hunt him down through the
city's November smog
before it is too late.
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In rural Devon,
six-year-old Joanna Mason
witnesses an appalling
crime.
Thirty
years
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Herbert Molin, a retired
police officer, lives
alone in a remote cottage
in northern Sweden. Two
things seem to consume
him; his passion for the
tango, and an obsession
with the 'demons' he
believes to be pursuing
him. Early one morning
shots shatter Molin's
window- by the time his
body is found it is
almost unrecognisable.
Stefan Lindman is another
off-the-job police
officer. On extended sick
leave due to having
cancer of the tongue
Lindman hears about the
murder of his former
colleague and, in a bid
to take his mind off his
own problems, decides to
investigate. As his
investigation becomes
increasingly complex it
is with both horror and
disbelief that Lindman
uncovers links to a
global web of neo-Nazi
activity. Written with
all the usual flair so
highly commended by
Mankell fans this
intricate crime novel,
with its cast of new
characters, heralds the
end of the Kurt Wallander
Mysteries and yet,
ultimately, it leads the
story back to Wallander's
Ystad where a new
outstanding series of
thrillers can begin.
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An ordinary suburban
house hides a dark secret
in this chilling mystery
novel. Leah hates the
house and hates living in
a mess while her dad does
the much needed
renovations. The house
gives her the creeps and
her fears are realised
when the ghost of a boy
appears in her bedroom.
She discovers he lived in
the house in the 1970s
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A by-pass is planned in
Kingsmarkham - that will
destroy its peace and the
natural habitat forever.
Dora Wexford joins the
protest movement. But
Wexford must be more
circumspect. Trouble is
expected. But before the
protesters make their
presence felt, the badly
decomposed body of a
young woman is
discovered. Burden
believes he knows the
identity of the murderer,
but Wexford is not
convinced. Before this
homicide inquiry can
proceed much further a
number of people
disappear - including
Dora Wexford, The Chief
Inspector is both puzzled
and bereft. Having also
just become a
grandfather, he cannot
come to terms with the
most powerful, familial
passions until the case
is resolved.
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In rural Devon,
six-year-old Joanna Mason
witnesses an appalling
crime.
Thirty
years
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The murder of two clam
fishermen off the island
of Pellestrina, south of
the Lido on the Venetian
lagoon, draws
Commissario Brunetti into
the island's close-knit
community, bound
together by a code of
loyalty and a suspicion
of outsiders worthy of
the Mafia. When the
Questore's secretary
Signorina Elettra
volunteers to visit the
island, where she has
relatives, Brunetti
finds himself torn
between his duty to solve
the murders, concerns
for Elettra's safety,
and his not entirely
straightforward feelings
for her.
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Desire leaves a man
destroyed - a young
girl's curiosity reveals
secrets better left
hidden - an accidental
encounter on a train ends
violently - ambition
leads to a curious
exchange - an uncanny
likeness changes two
lives forever - A novel
in sixteen chilling
parts, linked by a
glittering charm bracelet
which brings misfortune
to everyone who handles
it -In Like A Charm, the
cream of British and
American crime writers
combine for a must-have
collection. From
nineteenth-century
Georgia, where the
bracelet is forged in
fire, to wartime Leeds,
a steam train across
Europe, the violent
backstreets of 1980s
Scotland, present-day
London, a Manhattan
taxi, the Mojave desert
and back to Georgia,
each writer weaves a
gripping story of murder,
betrayal and intrigue.
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Desire leaves a man
destroyed - a young
girl's curiosity reveals
secrets better left
hidden - an accidental
encounter on a train ends
violently - ambition
leads to a curious
exchange - an uncanny
likeness changes two
lives forever - A novel
in sixteen chilling
parts, linked by a
glittering charm bracelet
which brings misfortune
to everyone who handles
it -In Like A Charm, the
cream of British and
American crime writers
combine for a must-have
collection. From
nineteenth-century
Georgia, where the
bracelet is forged in
fire, to wartime Leeds,
a steam train across
Europe, the violent
backstreets of 1980s
Scotland, present-day
London, a Manhattan
taxi, the Mojave desert
and back to Georgia,
each writer weaves a
gripping story of murder,
betrayal and intrigue.
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A serial killer is
terrorizing the senior
citizens of Denton, and
the local police are
succumbing to a flu
epidemic. Tired and
demoralized, the force
has to contend with a
seemingly perfect young
couple suffering arson
attacks and death
threats, a suspicious
suicide, burglaries,
pornographic videos,
poison-pen letters...
In uncertain
charge of the
investigations is
Detective Inspector Jack
Frost, crumpled,
slapdash and foul-mouthed
as ever. He tries to cope
despite inadequate
back-up, but there is
never enough time; the
unsolved crimes pile up
and the vicious killings
go on. So Frost has to
cut corners and take
risks, knowing that his
Divisional Commander will
throw him to the wolves
if anything goes wrong.
And for Frost, things
always go
wrong...
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They found Danilo Silva
in a small town in
Brazil, with a new name
and a new face. The
search had taken four
years. It had cost their
clients three and a half
million dollars. But none
of them had complained.
The man they were about
to kidnap had not always
been called Silva. As
Patrick S Lanigan he had
had another life, a life
which ended in a car
crash in February 1992,
and a gravestone in
Biloxi, Mississipi. He
had been partner at an up
and coming law firm with
a pretty wife, a new
daughter, and a bright
future. Six weeks after
his death, $90 million
had disappeared from the
law firm. It was then
that his partners knew he
was still alive, and the
long pursuit had begun...
...
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One freezing night in
Oslo Christmas shoppers
gather to listen to a
Salvation Army street
concert. An explosion
cuts through the music,
and a man in uniform
falls to the ground,
shot in the head at
point-blank
range.
Harry Hole
and his team have little
to work with: no
immediate suspect, no
weapon and no motive. But
when the assassin
discovers he has shot the
wrong man, Harry
Hole
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A beach house at a French
resort is gutted by fire.
Trapped inside are two
women - one rich and the
other poor. Only one of
them survives, burnt
beyond recognition and in
a state of total amnesia.
Who is she, the heiress
or her penniless friend?
A killer, or an intended
victim?
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When a plane crashes high
in the mountains of North
Carolina, Tempe Brennan
is one of the first on
the scene. As a forensic
anthropologist for the
state, she serves on the
region's disaster
response team. The task
that confronts her is a
sad and sickening one.
Putting normal life on
hold, she and her
colleagues must
painstakingly identify
the victims. A chance
discovery concerns her: a
severed foot, well away
from the main crash site.
A deserted house close by
is buried so deep in the
woods that locals claim
to know nothing of its
existence. And her
examination of the foot
throws up more questions
than it answers. Before
she can make any
progress, an anonymous
accusation is levelled
against her. Tempe must
fight to save her
professional standing.
But she fears that, air
tragedy aside, another
corpse lies somewhere in
the woods. Pitting
herself against a
conspiracy of silence,
Tempe is determined to
bring justice for her
mystery victim
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They found him in a small
town in Brazil, near the
border with Paraguay. He
had a new name, Danilo
Silva, and his
appearance had been
changed by plastic
surgery. The search had
taken four years. They'd
chased him around the
world, always just
missing him. It had cost
their clients three and a
half million dollars. But
so far none of them had
complained. The man they
were about to kidnap had
not always been called
Silva. Before he had had
another life, a life
which ended in a car
crash in February 1992.
His gravestone lay in a
cemetry in Biloxi,
Mississippi. His name
before his death was
Patrick S. Lanigan. He
had been a partner at an
up and coming law firm.
He had a pretty wife, a
new daughter, and a
bright future. Six weeks
after his death, $90
million had disappeared
from the law firm. It was
then that his partners
knew he was still alive,
and the long pursuit had
begun...
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England 1371: a solemn
convoy wends its way into
York. William of Wykeham,
Bishop of Winchester,
is bringing home the
remains of Sir Ranulf
Pagnell, patriarch of a
powerful local family,
who has died in France.
But the family hold the
bishop responsible for
Sir Ranulf's death, and
ill feeling surrounds his
arrival. An accident in
the grounds of York
Minster nearly kills the
bishop.
Then,
only a few days after,
his townhouse is found
ablaze. When the body of
a young woman is
discovered in the
undercroft of the house,
scandal threatens to
destroy Wykeham. The
Archbishop of York, John
Thoresby, asks Owen
Archer for his help.
The one-eyed spy
is troubled. Was the fire
an accident or arson? Was
the woman trapped or the
fire started to conceal a
corpse? Stationing guards
in front of the
smouldering remains, he
starts to ask questions.
When it appears the dead
woman was a midwife known
to many of the city's
women, including Lucie,
Owen's wife, his quest
becomes
personal.
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Detective Karin Schaeffer
was a happily married
mother in New York when
her life was shattered by
a serial killer. The cops
call Martin Price JPP -
Just Plain Psycho -
because of the brutality
of his attacks. To the
press and the public,
however, he is known as
The Domino Killer because
he systematically murders
whole families, leaving
a trail of dominoes as
numerical clues to the
next victim. After Price
murdered Karin
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On a hot August
afternoon, in an East
Side apartment, a woman
is found hanged.
Carefully placed red
candles and an enormous
quantity of dead flies
suggest some kind of
bizarre ritual.
By
some cruel miracle, the
victim lives, but
remains in a coma.
..
Kathy Mallory
does not recognise her
immediately. Fifteen
years have pased since
Kathy lived on the
streets of New York,
succoured by hookers and
thieving to survive. Now
she has traded in her
plastic pellet gun for a.
357 revolver and a police
badge. No one is allowed
to call her Kathy
anymore. Just
Mallory.
Once upon
a time, a junkie whore
and police informer,
known simply as Sparrow,
had cared for a young
street urchin when she
was lost and alone. Now
Mallory finds that she is
staring her bitter past
in the face, as she
pursues a case which also
has its origin in an
unsolved murder committed
years ago.
..
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When a young nun dies of
a fever in the town of
Beverley in the summer of
1365, she is buried
quickly for fear of the
plague. But one year
later a woman appears,
talking of relic-trading
and miracles. She claims
to be the dead nun
resurrected. Murder
follows swiftly in her
wake, and the worried
Archbishop of York asks
Owen Archer to
investigate.
Travelling
to Leeds and Scarborough
to unearth clues, Owen
finds only a trail of
corpses, until a meeting
with Geoffrey Chaucer,
spy for King Edward,
links the nun with
mercenary soldiers and
the powerful Percy
family. Meanwhile, in
York, the apothecary
Lucie Wilton has won the
mysterious
woman
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`It is an axiom of
behavioural science that
vampires are territorial,
while cannibals range
widely. ' Hannibal killed
nine people before he was
caught. And five on his
escape. Two of his
victims survived - one of
them is in an asylum; but
the other craves revenge.
Mason Verger, a
paraplegic confined to a
respirator since his
encounter with Dr Lecter,
can move only the
fingers of his crippled
right hand across the
soft blanket that covers
his lifeless body. But
Verger is very rich and
very influential, and
his reach extends into
the echelons of power
around the world. His
need to find Lecter is
insatiable. In Clarice
Starling he has the
perfect bait. As gripping
and terrifying as any
reader of THE SILENCE OF
THE LAMBS would expect.
Simply unputdownable.
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When her mother, Eve,
tells Liza that she must
leave their remote home,
the gatehouse of a
country mansion, Liza is
terrified. Although
seventeen years of age,
she has never been on a
bus or a train, has
never played with a child
of her own age. She has
almost no knowledge of a
world described by her
mother as evil and
destructive. Their
strange, enclosed life
together is over because
Eve has killed a man. And
he is not the first. With
-100 in cash, Liza is
cast aside. However, she
is not alone. There is
one particular secret she
has kept from her mother
- her love affair with a
young man who worked in
the big house. With him,
gradually Liza learns
about the world, about
herself, and must come
to terms with the
possibility that the
murderous violence of her
mother may be present in
her.
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One freezing night in
Oslo Christmas shoppers
gather to listen to a
Salvation Army street
concert. An explosion
cuts through the music,
and a man in uniform
falls to the ground,
shot in the head at
point-blank
range.
Harry Hole
and his team have little
to work with: no
immediate suspect, no
weapon and no motive. But
when the assassin
discovers he has shot the
wrong man, Harry
Hole
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When Linda Balfour, a
young mother, is found
butchered in small-town
southern Illinois, a
coded inscription stamped
in blood on the back of
her head brands her
mutilated body. For Chief
Prosecutor Martin Vail,
the Bloody insignia drags
up memories he'd like to
forget - memories of
Bishop Rushman, slashed
and dismembered ten years
ago by an altar boy,
Aaron Stampler. But if
Stampler is locked away,
he cannot have murdered
Linda. With his career -
and his life - on the
line, Vail needs answers
fast before the killer
signs someone else's life
away.
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`It is an axiom of
behavioural science that
vampires are territorial,
while cannibals
range
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Detective Inspector Jack
Frost, offically on
duty, is nevertheless
determined to sneak off
to a colleague's leaving
party. But first the
corpse of a well-known
local junkie is found
blocking the drain of a
Denton public lavatory -
and then, when Frost
attempts to join the
revels later on, the
nubile daughter of a
wealthy businessman is
reported missing.
Sleepy Denton has
never known anything like
the crime wave which now
threatens to submerge it.
A robbery occurs at the
town's notorious strip
joint, the pampered son
of a local MP is
suspected of a
hit-and-run offence and,
to top it all, a
multiple rapist is on the
loose. Frost is reeling
under the strain, his
paperwork is still in
arrears and now, more
than ever, his
self-righteous colleagues
would love to see him
sacked. But the manic
Frost manages to assure
his superior that all is
under control. Now he has
only to convince
himself...
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One freezing night in
Oslo Christmas shoppers
gather to listen to a
Salvation Army street
concert. An explosion
cuts through the music,
and a man in uniform
falls to the ground,
shot in the head at
point-blank
range.
Harry Hole
and his team have little
to work with: no
immediate suspect, no
weapon and no motive. But
when the assassin
discovers he has shot the
wrong man, Harry
Hole
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Detective Inspector Jack
Frost, offically on
duty, is nevertheless
determined to sneak off
to a colleague's leaving
party. But first the
corpse of a well-known
local junkie is found
blocking the drain of a
Denton public lavatory -
and then, when Frost
attempts to join the
revels later on, the
nubile daughter of a
wealthy businessman is
reported missing.
Sleepy Denton has
never known anything like
the crime wave which now
threatens to submerge it.
A robbery occurs at the
town's notorious strip
joint, the pampered son
of a local MP is
suspected of a
hit-and-run offence and,
to top it all, a
multiple rapist is on the
loose. Frost is reeling
under the strain, his
paperwork is still in
arrears and now, more
than ever, his
self-righteous colleagues
would love to see him
sacked. But the manic
Frost manages to assure
his superior that all is
under control. Now he has
only to convince
himself...
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They found him in a small
town in Brazil, near the
border with Paraguay. He
had a new name, Danilo
Silva, and his
appearance had been
changed by plastic
surgery. The search had
taken four years. They'd
chased him around the
world, always just
missing him. It had cost
their clients three and a
half million dollars. But
so far none of them had
complained. The man they
were about to kidnap had
not always been called
Silva. Before he had had
another life, a life
which ended in a car
crash in February 1992.
His gravestone lay in a
cemetry in Biloxi,
Mississippi. His name
before his death was
Patrick S. Lanigan. He
had been a partner at an
up and coming law firm.
He had a pretty wife, a
new daughter, and a
bright future. Six weeks
after his death, $90
million had disappeared
from the law firm. It was
then that his partners
knew he was still alive,
and the long pursuit had
begun...
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A savage assault with a
scalpel leaves Dr Tim
Fletcher's body badly
slashed in a deserted
walkway. The first victim
in a series of brutal
assaults on hospital
staff. As panic grips the
city, it's up to
Detective Inspector
Charlie Resnick to find
the killer. Faced with a
mass of clues that lead
nowhere and a past he
cannot forget, it's not
long before he's pushed
close to breaking
point...
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THE VICTIM was a
fighter, but strength
wasn't enough to save him
from a gruesome
end.
THE
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A lump of concrete
dropped deliberately from
a little stone bridge
over a relatively
unfrequented road kills
the wrong person. The
driver behind is spared.
But only for a while...
It is impossible for
Chief Inspector Wexford
not to wonder how
terrible it would be to
discover that one of his
daughters had been
murdered. Sylvia has
always been a cause for
concern. Living alone
with her two children,
she is pregnant again.
What will happen to the
child? The relationship
between father and
daughter has always been
uneasy. But the current
situation also provokes
an emotional division
between Wexford and his
wife, Dora. One
particular member of the
local press is gunning
for the Chief Inspector,
distinctly unimpressed
with what he regards as
old-fashioned police
methods. But Wexford,
with his old friend and
partner, Mike Burden,
along with two new
recruits to the
Kingsmarkham team,
pursue their inquiries
with a diligence and
humanity that make Ruth
Rendell's detective
stories enthralling,
exciting and very
touching.
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A lump of concrete
dropped deliberately from
a little stone bridge
over a relatively
unfrequented road kills
the wrong person. The
driver behind is spared.
But only for a while...
It is impossible for
Chief Inspector Wexford
not to wonder how
terrible it would be to
discover that one of his
daughters had been
murdered. Sylvia has
always been a cause for
concern. Living alone
with her two children,
she is pregnant again.
What will happen to the
child? The relationship
between father and
daughter has always been
uneasy. But the current
situation also provokes
an emotional division
between Wexford and his
wife, Dora. One
particular member of the
local press is gunning
for the Chief Inspector,
distinctly unimpressed
with what he regards as
old-fashioned police
methods. But Wexford,
with his old friend and
partner, Mike Burden,
along with two new
recruits to the
Kingsmarkham team,
pursue their inquiries
with a diligence and
humanity that make Ruth
Rendell's detective
stories enthralling,
exciting and very
touching.
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A father's worst
nightmare. It's first
light and George
Marshalson's daughter
hasn't returned home. He
doesn't yet know that she
never will -- that her
body lies prone just
yards from the family
house. Or that he will
himself make the shocking
discovery.
Chief
Inspector Wexford has
never known a case of a
father finding the
murdered body of his
daughter. He has
daughters of his own but
can barely imagine
himself in Mr
Marshalson's position.
Tasked with
picking through the
pieces of a shattered
family, Wexford unearths
some surprising secrets
about the dead teenager's
lifestyle. And when a
second girl is found
murdered -- a victim
unquestionably linked to
the first -- Wexford has
to put his own family
problems aside to tackle
what will become of the
most disturbing and
emotional case of his
career.
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A father's worst
nightmare. It's first
light and George
Marshalson's daughter
hasn't returned home. He
doesn't yet know that she
never will -- that her
body lies prone just
yards from the family
house. Or that he will
himself make the shocking
discovery.
Chief
Inspector Wexford has
never known a case of a
father finding the
murdered body of his
daughter. He has
daughters of his own but
can barely imagine
himself in Mr
Marshalson's position.
Tasked with
picking through the
pieces of a shattered
family, Wexford unearths
some surprising secrets
about the dead teenager's
lifestyle. And when a
second girl is found
murdered -- a victim
unquestionably linked to
the first -- Wexford has
to put his own family
problems aside to tackle
what will become of the
most disturbing and
emotional case of his
career.
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They kidnapped him in a
small town in Brazil. He
had changed his name and
his appearance, but they
were sure they had their
man. Four years before,
he had been called
Patrick S. Lanigan. He
had died in a car crash
in February 1992. His
gravestone lay in a
cemetery in Biloxi,
Mississippi. He had been
a partner at an up and
coming law firm, had a
pretty wife, a new
daughter, and a bright
future. Six weeks after
his death, $90 million
had disappeared from the
law firm. It was then
that his partners knew he
was still alive.
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They found him in a small
town in Brazil, near the
border with Paraguay. He
had a new name, Danilo
Silva, and his
appearance had been
changed by plastic
surgery. The search had
taken four years. They'd
chased him around the
world, always just
missing him. It had cost
their clients $3.5
million. But so far none
of them had complained.
The man they were about
to kidnap had not always
been called Silva. Before
he had had another life,
a life which ended in a
car crash in February
1992. His gravestone lay
in a cemetry in Biloxi,
Mississippi. His name
before his death was
Patrick S. Lanigan. He
had been a partner at an
up-and-coming law firm.
He had a pretty wife, a
new daughter, and a
bright future. Six weeks
after his death, $90
million had disappeared
from the law firm. It was
then that his partners
knew he was still alive,
and the long pursuit had
begun...
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It is autumn in the
Somerset town of
Glastonbury. Lance
Bradley is idling away
his life there as usual
when he receives a call
for help from the
eccentric sister of his
old friend Rupert Alder.
Inexplicably, Rupe has
stopped sending the money
that his dysfunctional
siblings depend on.
Reluctantly, Lance goes
to London to learn what
he can, only to find
that his friend has
vanished. His employers,
a shipping company,
believe he is guilty of a
major fraud. A Japanese
businessman called
Hashimoto claims he has
stolen a document of life
and death importance. And
a private detective who
has been trying to trace
on Rupert's behalf an
American called Townley
has been warned off by
unnamed but immensely
powerful interests.
Townley, it seems, was
involved in a mysterious
death at Wilderness Farm,
near Glastonbury, back
in 1963, that year of so
many shattering events
which just happens also
to be the year of Lance's
birth.
No sooner
has Lance decided that
whatever Rupert was up to
is too risky
for him
to get involved in than
he finds that he already
is involved, and the
only way out is to get in
deeper still. Where is
Rupert? What is the
document he has stolen?
Who is Townley? And what
happened in the summer of
1963 that holds the key
to a secret more
devastating than Lance
Bradley could ever have
imagined?
Dying to
Tell is a classic Robert
Goddard mystery,
intricate, compelling,
and this time with a
denoument that is, quite
literally,
sensational.
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There's a heatwave in
Gothenburg. But while
carefree school-leavers
celebrate in the
sunshine, tragedy waits
to pierce the heady days
of summer.
It is
late when
nineteen-year-old
Jeanette bids goodbye to
her friends and sets off
for home. She takes a
shortcut through a city
park - a decision which
will add hours to her
journey... Next morning
the police come to
question Jeanette about
the rape, but in her
desparation she has
already scoured all
traces of the crime
away.
Chief
Inspector Erik Winter and
his colleagues are
reminded of a rape and
murder case which remains
unsolved after five
years. Could this be the
work of the same person?
As more girls fall
victim, each of them
strangled, Winter grows
increasingly certain that
each crime holds the key
to the
others.
Scratching
around for clues, the
police find themselves
drawn into the
underground clubland of
Gothenburg. A concrete
connection between the
murders still eludes
them, but their list of
suspects is growing: the
spurned ex, the surly
father, the naive school
friends, the
uncooperative victim;
someone knows much more
than they are letting on.
Whose dark secret is
threatening the young
women of
Gothenburg?
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When Brian Willcox is
found brutally battered
to death next to a
suburban railway line in
Glasgow, it is assumed
that the toddler is the
victim of a vicious
sexual predator. Instead
the police are led to the
doors of two
eleven-year-old
boys.
Fresh from
school, Paddy Meehan has
just started work on the
Scottish Daily News.
Determined to emulate her
heroes and to be an
investigative journalist,
she also wants to be
financially independent,
and to have her own
career. But her
colleagues
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The facts are clear. It
was, by all accounts, a
'slug-ugly' crime: in
1949, George and Rufus
Hamilton bludgeoned a
taxi driver to death with
a hammer in the dirt-poor
settlement of Barker's
Point, New Brunswick.
Less than eight months
later, the brothers were
hanged for their crime.
George and Rue's
brutal act lives on in
New Brunswick over half a
century later, where the
murder site is still
known as 'Hammertown'.
George Elliott Clark
draws from this
disturbing chapter in
Canadian history in his
first novel, brilliantly
reimagining the lives -
and deaths - of the two
brothers. Fiercely human
and startlingly poignant,
George & Rue
shifts seamlessly through
the killers' pasts,
examining just what kind
of forces would reduce
these men to lives of
crime, violence, and
ultimately, murder. In
this richly evocative and
bleakly comic tale, we
also come to know the
story of an impoverished
Africadian community
powerless to help its
people, and of a white
community bent on viewing
all blacks as dangerous
outsiders.
Infused with the
sensual, rhythmic beauty
that is the hallmark of
George Elliott Clarke's
writing, George &
Rue is an
unforgettable fiction
debut.
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Harry Barnett thought he
had left his military
career behind, so he is
startled when two figures
from his past turn up on
his doorstep after fifty
years. An old friend has
organised the reunion to
end all reunions: a
weekend in the Scottish
castle where the
ex-comrades took part in
a psychological
experiment many years
before. They haven
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Most people would have
screamed. Mrs Hathall
made no sound. She had
seen death many times
before, but she had
never before seen a death
by violence. Heavily,
she plodded across the
room and descended the
stairs to where her son
waited. 'There's been an
accident, ' she said.
'Your wife's dead.'Chief
Inspector Wexford could
discover no motive, no
reason, no suspect - al
he had were his own
intuitive suspicions.
Probably he was reading
meaning where there was
none; probably Angela
Hathall really had picked
up a stranger, and that
stranger had killed her.
But why such doubt? Was
Wexford becoming cynical
and untrusting - or was
this simply one of the
most ingenious crimes he
had ever tackled?
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HE HIDES
When
an ancient mummy is
discovered in the
basement of a museum in
down-town
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When Atlanta police
detective Michael
Ormewood is called out to
a murder scene at the
notorious Grady Homes,
he finds himself faced
with one of the the most
brutal killings of his
career: Aleesha Monroe is
found in the stairwell in
a pool of her own blood,
her body horribly
mutilated.
As a
one-off killing it's
shocking, but when it
becomes clear that it's
just the latest in a
series of similar
attacks, the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation
are called in, and
Michael is forced into
working with Special
Agent Will Trent of the
Criminal Apprehension
Team - a man he
instinctively
dislikes.
Twenty-four
hours later, the
violence Michael sees
around him every day
explodes in his own back
yard. And it seems the
mystery behind Monroe's
death is inextricably
entangled with a past
that refuses to stay
buried.
..
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In Deadly Dare,
there's a new
craze at Theo and Ricky's
school. The rules are
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When Atlanta police
detective Michael
Ormewood is called out to
a murder scene at the
notorious Grady Homes,
he finds himself faced
with one of the the most
brutal killings of his
career: Aleesha Monroe is
found in the stairwell in
a pool of her own blood,
her body horribly
mutilated.
As a
one-off killing it's
shocking, but when it
becomes clear that it's
just the latest in a
series of similar
attacks, the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation
are called in, and
Ormewood is forced into
working with Special
Agent Will Trent of the
Criminal Apprehension
Team - a man he
instinctively
dislikes.
But
then, only twenty-four
hours later, the
violence Ormewood sees
around him every day
explodes in his own back
yard. And it seems the
mystery behind Monroe's
death is inextricably
entangled with a past
that refuses to stay
buried.
..
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When Atlanta police
detective Michael
Ormewood is called out to
a murder scene at the
notorious Grady Homes,
he finds himself faced
with one of the the most
brutal killings of his
career: Aleesha Monroe is
found in the stairwell in
a pool of her own blood,
her body horribly
mutilated.
As a
one-off killing it's
shocking, but when it
becomes clear that it's
just the latest in a
series of similar
attacks, the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation
are called in, and
Ormewood is forced into
working with Special
Agent Will Trent of the
Criminal Apprehension
Team - a man he
instinctively
dislikes.
But
then, only twenty-four
hours later, the
violence Michael sees
around him every day
explodes in his own back
yard. And it seems the
mystery behind Monroe's
death is inextricably
entangled with a past
that refuses to stay
buried.
..
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It is a complete mystery
why anyone would choose
to murder the trusted old
butler of Norton Manor.
Barrister turned amateur
detective, Frank
Amberley, has reason to
suspect that the shooting
involves the nervy young
lady discovered at the
scene of the crime, a
snooping gentleman in the
halls of Greythorne and
then a second dead body.
A dramatic tale of
upstairs, downstairs and
family secrets.
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When Atlanta police
detective Michael
Ormewood is called out to
a murder scene at the
notorious Grady Homes,
he finds himself faced
with one of the the most
brutal killings of his
career: Aleesha Monroe is
found in the stairwell in
a pool of her own blood,
her body horribly
mutilated.
As a
one-off killing it's
shocking, but when it
becomes clear that it's
just the latest in a
series of similar
attacks, the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation
are called in, and
Ormewood is forced into
working with Special
Agent Will Trent of the
Criminal Apprehension
Team - a man he
instinctively
dislikes.
But
then, only twenty-four
hours later, the
violence Ormewood sees
around him every day
explodes in his own back
yard. And it seems the
mystery behind Monroe's
death is inextricably
entangled with a past
that refuses to stay
buried.
..
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Most people would have
screamed. Mrs Hathall
made no sound. She had
seen death many times
before, but she had
never before seen a death
by violence. Heavily,
she plodded across the
room and descended the
stairs to where her son
waited. 'There's been an
accident, ' she said.
'Your wife's dead.'Chief
Inspector Wexford could
discover no motive, no
reason, no suspect - al
he had were his own
intuitive suspicions.
Probably he was reading
meaning where there was
none; probably Angela
Hathall really had picked
up a stranger, and that
stranger had killed her.
But why such doubt? Was
Wexford becoming cynical
and untrusting - or was
this simply one of the
most ingenious crimes he
had ever tackled?
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It is a complete mystery
why anyone would choose
to murder the trusted old
butler of Norton Manor.
Barrister turned amateur
detective, Frank
Amberley, has reason to
suspect that the shooting
involves the nervy young
lady discovered at the
scene of the crime, a
snooping gentleman in the
halls of Greythorne and
then a second dead body.
A dramatic tale of
upstairs, downstairs and
family secrets.
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HE HIDES
When
an ancient mummy is
discovered in the
basement of a museum in
down-town
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Investigator Petric makes
his living from the dead.
Lately business has been
slow, what with the
siege around Sarajevo.
Condoned killing has
displaced the crime of
passion; his services
with the civil police as
a homicide investigator
have been less in demand.
Unluckily one
premeditated death does
land on the detective's
desk. It is no abused
lover or a distant
sniper's victim but a
government official - the
chief of the interior
ministry's police - shot
dead at close range.In a
thriller that recalls the
first excitement of
Martin Cruz Smith's
Moscow and the Vienna of
Graham Greene's The Third
Man, author Dan
Fesperman brilliantly
renders the fragmented
society and underworld of
Sarajevo at war - the
freelancing gangsters,
guilty bystanders,
drop-in correspondents,
the bureaucrats
frightened for their jobs
and very lives - and he
weaves through this torn
cityscape one man's
desperate, deadly
pursuit of the wrong
people in the worst
places.
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When Ernest Fletcher is
found bludgeoned to death
in his study, everyone
is shocked and mystified:
Ernest was well-liked and
respected, so who would
have a motive for killing
him?
Enter
Superintendent Hannasyde
who, with consummate
skill, begins to uncover
the complexities of
Fletcher
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Between 1943 and 2003
nine people have been
stabbed to death with a
most unusual weapon: a
trident. In each case,
arrests were made,
suspects confessed their
crimes and were sentenced
to life in prison. One
slightly worrying detail:
each presumed murderer
lost consciousness during
the night of the crime
and has no recollection
of it.
Commissaire
Adamsberg is convinced
all the murders are the
work of one person, the
terrifying Judge
Fulgence. Years before,
Adamsberg
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Damian Drooth has already
solved three cases to
great acclaim (and
uproarious chaos!), and
now he is passing on his
skills to eager pupils.
He has decided to help a
friendly old man who
thinks that his precious
and hard-won inventions
are being ripped off by
an unscrupulous
neighbour. Naturally the
meeting of Young
Inventors is a good place
to start - and using all
his old skill, he does
uncover the bad guy...
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Between 1943 and 2003
nine people have been
stabbed to death with a
most unusual weapon: a
trident. In each case,
arrests were made,
suspects confessed their
crimes and were sentenced
to life in prison. One
slightly worrying detail:
each presumed murderer
lost consciousness during
the night of the crime
and has no recollection
of it.
Commissaire
Adamsberg is convinced
all the murders are the
work of one person, the
terrifying Judge
Fulgence. Years before,
Adamsberg
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A sequence of
extraordinary events over
the past 300 years. A
chain of intrigue,
deceit, greed and
murder.
The loss
of H.M.S. Association
with all hands in
1707.
An admiralty
clerk's secret mission
thirty years after.
A fatal accident
during a dive to the
wreck in 1996.
An
expatriate's reluctant
return home ten years
later. The simple task he
has come to accomplish,
shown to be anything but.
A woman he recognises but
cannot identify.
A
conspiracy of
circumstances that is
about to unravel his
life. And with it, the
past.
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Off the coast of
Australia, a diver has
vanished and along with
him an unknown treasure
from the wreck of the HMS
Pandora. Can
Secret Agent Jack
Stalwart find the diver
and defeat a deadly band
of pirates before they
sail away with the
treasure for ever?
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Dick Contino - 50s
accordian player, a star
in the making, is
destroyed by a
draft-dodging scandal.
His life is on the skids
until he comes up with
the idea of resurrecting
his career with a fake
kidnapping
scam.
meanwhile a
serial killer is on the
loose in Los Angeles...a
killer who is closer to
Contino than he suspects
- a killer who wants in
on the kidnap - for
real...
Plus five
previously unpublished
short
stories.
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Two guards; one nun; one
judge.
When a
letter containing a list
of victims arrives
in
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A classic Rendellian
loner, Mix Cellini is
superstitious about the
number 13. Living in a
decaying house in Notting
Hill, Mix is obsessed
with 10 Rillington Place,
where the notorious John
Christie committed a
series of foul murders.
He is also infatuated
with a beautiful model
who lives nearby
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A classic Rendellian
loner, Mix Cellini is
superstitious about the
number 13. Living in a
decaying house in Notting
Hill, Mix is obsessed
with 10 Rillington Place,
where the notorious John
Christie committed a
series of foul murders.
He is also infatuated
with a beautiful model
who lives nearby - a
woman who would not look
at him twice. Mix's
landlady, Gwendolen
Chawcer is equally
reclusive - living her
life through her library
of books. Both landlady
and lodger inhabit weird
worlds of their own. But
when reality intrudes
into Mix's life, a long
pent-up violence
explodes.
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A classic Rendellian
loner, Mix Cellini is
superstitious about the
number 13. Living in a
decaying house in Notting
Hill, Mix is obsessed
with 10 Rillington Place,
where the notorious John
Christie committed a
series of foul murders.
He is also infatuated
with a beautiful model
who lives nearby
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Mix Cellini (which he
pronounces with an 'S'
rather than a 'C') is
superstitious about the
number 13. In the musty
old house where he is the
lodger, there are
thirteen steps down to
the landing below his
rooms, which he keeps
spick and span. His
elderly landlady,
Gwendolen Chawcer, was
born in St Blaise House,
and lives her life almost
exclusively through her
library of books, so
cannot see the decay and
neglect around her. The
Notting Hill
neighbourhood has changed
radically over the last
fifty years, and 10
Rillington Place, where
the notorious John
Christie committed a
series of foul murders,
has been torn down. Mix
is obsessed with the life
of Christie and his small
library is composed
entirely of books on the
subject. He has also
developed a passion for a
beautiful model who lives
nearby - a woman who
would not look at him
twice. Both landlady and
lodger inhabit weird
worlds of their own. But
when reality intrudes
into Mix's life, a long
pent-up violence.
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Every year since the
tragic death of his wife,
Detective Kimmo Joentaa
has prepared for the
isolation of Christmas
with a glass of milk and
a bottle of vodka to arm
himself against the harsh
Finnish winter. However,
this year events take an
unexpected turn when a
young woman turns up on
his doorstep.
Not
long afterwards two men
are found murdered, one
of whom is
Joentaa
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He watches them from
afar. He knows who they
are and where they are.
He is waiting in the
dark...
A
stranger stalks the
streets of Houghton le
Spring and he is getting
too close for comfort for
Detective Inspector
Lorraine Hunt.
Selina, the
daughter of
Lorraine
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He watches them from
afar. He knows who they
are and where they are.
He is waiting in the
dark...
A
stranger stalks the
streets of Houghton le
Spring and he is getting
too close for comfort for
Detective Inspector
Lorraine Hunt.
Selina, the
daughter of
Lorraine
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A sinister figure stalks
the gas-lit groves of
Cremorne Gardens, the
last pleasure-ground on
the banks of the Thames.
His weapon, a sharp pair
of scissors. His victims,
young women in the first
bloom of youth. HIs crime
- merely to remove a lock
of their hair. Inspector
Decimus Webb of Scotland
Yard suspects a harmless
lunatic is at large. But
when morbid obsession
turns to murder, even
Webb's loyal sergeant
begins to doubt his
judgement.
As the
press and his superiors
clamour for answers,
Webb's investigations
lead him to Rose Perfitt,
aspiring debutante and
daughter of a respectable
stock-broker. Will she
fall prey to 'The Cutter'
or does a worse fate
beckon? One thing is
certain - only Decimus
Webb can save
her.
Lee Jackson's
third Inspector Webb
novel takes the reader
into the forgotten world
of the Victorian
pleasure-garden, in a
gripping mystery of
garish gas-light and dark
secrets.
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A sinister figure stalks
the gas-lit groves of
Cremorne Gardens, the
last pleasure-ground on
the banks of the Thames.
His weapon, a sharp pair
of scissors. His victims,
young women in the first
bloom of youth. HIs crime
- merely to remove a lock
of their hair. Inspector
Decimus Webb of Scotland
Yard suspects a harmless
lunatic is at large. But
when morbid obsession
turns to murder, even
Webb's loyal sergeant
begins to doubt his
judgement.
As the
press and his superiors
clamour for answers,
Webb's investigations
lead him to Rose Perfitt,
aspiring debutante and
daughter of a respectable
stock-broker. Will she
fall prey to 'The Cutter'
or does a worse fate
beckon? One thing is
certain - only Decimus
Webb can save
her.
Lee Jackson's
third Inspector Webb
novel takes the reader
into the forgotten world
of the Victorian
pleasure-garden, in a
gripping mystery of
garish gas-light and dark
secrets.
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The dead man was a drunk;
a regular on the park
benches of Gotland's city
centre. He had been
celebrating winning 80,
000 Krona at the races.
His body is discovered by
one of his drinking
buddies: he is drenched
in blood and someone or
something has left a hole
the size of a fist in the
back of his
head.
It's winter
on the island of Gotland.
The tourists have
returned home. The tree
branches are bare, the
sky is sleet grey and the
days are getting shorter
and darker. Winter is a
quiet time for Chief
Inspector Anders Knutas
and Detective Karin
Jacobsson; the tourists
tend to take the violent
crimes with them back to
the mainland. To keep
their lives simple, they
are tempted to assume
that the victim died as a
result of a drunken brawl
over money. But all of
the clues point to
something far more
sinister.
Then
14-year old Fanny
Jansson, a volunteer at
the local stables,
vanishes. At first Knutas
and Jacobsson find it
hard to believe that the
two cases are linked: one
is a violent murder, the
other, the disappearance
of a lonely and isolated
child who has probably
run away. Painstakingly,
they work the clues,
assisted by ambitious TV
reporter Johan Berg. But
what none of them realise
is that truth is much
closer to home than
they'd ever
imagine.
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Stopping to use a cash
machine one evening, a
man inexplicably falls to
the ground: dead. A taxi
driver is brutally
murdered by two teenage
girls. Quickly
apprehended they appal
local policemen with
their total lack of
remorse. One girl escapes
police custody and
disappears without trace.
Soon afterwards, a
blackout covers half the
country. When an engineer
arrives at the
malfunctioning power
station, he makes a
grisly discovery.
Inspector Kurt Wallander
is sure that these events
must be linked - somehow.
Hampered by the discovery
of betrayals in his own
team, lonely and
frustrated, Wallander
begins to loose
conviction in his role as
a detective. The search
for answers leads
Wallander dangerously
close to a shadowy group
of anarchic terrorists,
hidden within the
anonymity of cyberspace.
Somehow these criminals
seem always to know the
police's next move and
Wallander finds himself
fighting to outsmart
them.
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Only eighteen black
people live in
Kingsmarkham. One of them
is Wexford's new Doctor,
Raymond Akande. When the
doctor's daughter,
Melanie, goes missing,
the Chief Inspector takes
more than just a
professional interest in
the case. Melanie, just
down from university but
unable to find a job,
disappeared somewhere
between the Benefit
Office and the bus stop.
Or at least no one saw
her get on the bus when
it came. According to her
parents, Melanie was
happy at home. She had
recently broken up with
her boyfriend but, until
now, there had been no
cause to worry about her.
And no one liked to voice
the suspicion that
something might have
happened, that Melanie
might be dead.. .
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Kirsty, Avril and
Bernadette all needed to
get away. And, by
chance, each saw the job
advertisement for staff
at a hotel on a remote
cove in Cornwall. Kirsty
needed to escape, from
her violent husband and
her hopeless life. Avril
had always lived with her
mother and father - and
had a dark secret from
her childhood which she
was forced to face up to.
And Bernadette, young
and freshly emerged from
her strict Catholic
upbringing, was
recovering from a
brutally terminated love
affair.
But the
hotel itself had its
secrets, and when Kirsty
found an old book called
Magdalene left apparently
carelessly in the lounge,
she though she might
make her fortune by
rewriting it. But she had
to enlist the other
women
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