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When plague strikes
London, Lord Westfields
Men count themselves
fortunate theyve been
invited to perform as
part of the wedding
celebrations for Sophia
Magdalena, the fair maid
of Bohemia. The long
journey across Europe is
a daunting prospect, but
stage manager Nicholas
Bracewell is confident
they will arrive safely.
He is also confident that
they will successfully
deliver secret documents
to Imperial Court
alchemist Talbot Roydon
as Lord Westfield
requested. But en route,
murder strikes one of the
actors. Its the first of
many setbacks. Once in
Prague, Holy Roman
Emperor Rudolph II proves
a madcap host. Worse,
not only do attacks on
the players continue as
the wedding day
approaches, but someone
kidnaps Nicholas
sweetheart Anne Henrik -
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Berlin 1934. The Nazis
have been in power for
just eighteen months but
already Germany has seen
some frightening changes.
As the city prepares to
host the 1936 Olympics,
Jews are being expelled
from all German sporting
organisations - a blatant
example of
discrimination. Forced to
resign as a homicide
detective with Berlin's
Criminal Police, Bernie
is now house detective at
the famous Adlon Hotel.
Two bodies are found -
one a businessman and the
other a Jewish boxer. As
Bernie digs to unearth
the truth, he discovers
a vast labour and
construction racket
designed to take
advantage of the huge
sums the Nazis are
spending to showcase the
new Germany to the world.
It is a plot that finds
its dramatic and violent
conclusion twenty years
later in
pre-revolutionary Cuba.
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Crime novelist and
detective Paul Temple and
his glamorous wife Steve
made their first
appearance on BBC Radio
in 1938. They inhabited a
sophisticated world of
chilled cocktails and
fast cars, where the
women were chic and the
men wore cravats - a
world where Sir Graham
Forbes, of Scotland
Yard, usually needed
Temple's help with his
latest tricky case. The
radio serials proved so
popular that Francis
Durbridge was inspired to
write a succession of
novels featuring Paul
Temple. In this one,
read by "Buffy" and
"Little Britain" star
Anthony Head, the dapper
detective is faced with a
dangerous gang who will
stop at nothing to
achieve their aims. When
detective novel "The
Front Page Men" is
published, it is a smash
hit - not least because
no-one knows the true
identity of the author,
the mysterious Andrea
Fortune. Shortly
afterwards, two
robberies are committed,
and on each occasion a
card is left at the scene
bearing the words 'The
Front Page Men'. The
police link these thefts
to several high-profile
kidnapping cases - and
then the murders begin.
Could the book be linked
to the crimes? Is
mild-mannered piano tuner
J.P. Goldie as innocent
as he seems? And just who
is the mastermind behind
it all? With Steve's life
in danger, Paul Temple
must find out before it
is too late...Anthony
Head brings the great
radio detective to life
in this new reading of
Francis Durbridge's
classic novel.
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Following a personal
tragedy, florist
Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown
has moved to the
beautiful region of the
Lake District to be
nearer her charismatic
parents. Things are going
well, with her latest
flower arrangements
praised and Simmy content
to lose herself in her
work. But the peace she
has found is shattered
when, at the wedding of
a millionaire's daughter,
the bride's brother is
found brutally murdered
in the lake. As the
wedding florist, and one
of the last people to
talk to Mark Baxter
alive, Simmy gradually
becomes involved with the
grief-ridden and angry
relatives. All seem to
have their fair share of
secrets and scandals - an
uncaring mother, a
cheating father, and a
husband twenty-five years
older than his bride.
When events take another
sinister turn, Simmy
becomes a prime witness
and finds herself at the
heart of a murder
investigation. The chief
suspects are the groom
and his closely knit band
of bachelor friends. They
are all intimidating,
volatile and secretive -
but which one is a
killer?
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My name is Kinsey
Millhone. I?m thirty-two
years old, twice
married, no kids,
currently unattached and
likely to remain so given
my disposition, which is
cautious at best...
Seventeen years had
passed since Jean
Timberlakes body
had been found at the
foot of the sea wall. At
the time, Bailey Fowler,
an ex-boyfriend of hers,
pleaded guilty to
voluntary manslaughter.
Now he?d changed his
tune. Kinsey Millhone is
called in to solve the
case ? then she stumbles
on the dark secrets of a
familys buried
past... ?Kinsey Millhone
is up there with the
giants of the private eye
genre... exhilarating
stuff? Times Literary
Supplement
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Two young women on a road
trip to California. But
nothing has been heard
from Jay and Nicole for
three days - their last
contact was a phone call
to Jay's father from New
Mexico. The cops aren't
worried: three days is
hardly an eternity. But
Jameson Walker is not
taking any chances and
hires Joe Hunter to find
his little girl. The
Arizona desert is
badlands country and the
friends have fallen foul
of a sadistic bunch of
men who are as brutal as
their surroundings. But
Joe is on their trail and
he'll do anything to free
the women. Even if it
means dying, there'll be
no going back!
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The shocking conclusion
of Elizabeth George's
previous bestseller, With
No One As Witness, saw
the wife of New Scotland
Yard's Thomas Lynley
gunned down in the street
outside her home. Under
arrest for the crime is a
twelve-year-old boy,
Joel Campbell. What
possible motive could he
have? What chain of
events could have led
such a child from the
housing estates of North
Kensington to the elegant
streets of Belgravia with
such deadly intent? The
answer to these questions
is a complex mixture of
fate and circumstance.
Abandoned (albeit
involuntarily) by his
parents, Joel and two
siblings are dumped on
the doorstep of his
aunt's house. Kendra,
childless and with two
marriages behind her, is
doing her best to turn
her life around;
responsibility for three
troubled children is not
what she had in mind.
Drugs, neglect,
violence and poverty are
commonplace in North
Kensington. Joel does his
best to look out for his
family, but that
involves a Faustian pact
and the Devil will have
his pay.
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For the record, the name
is Kinsey Millhone.
Private investigator. One
hundred and eighteen
pounds of female in a
five-foot six-inch frame.
Just turned thirty-three
(after what seemed like
an interminable twelve
months of being
thirty-two)... Three
things happened on May 5,
the day everyone sang
?Happy Birthday? to
Kinsey Millhone. The
repairs were completed on
her apartment, and she
moved back in. She was
hired by Mrs Clyde Gersh
to bring her mother back
from the Mojave Desert.
And lastly, a real
surprise. The news that
she?d made one of the top
slots on Tyrone
Pattys hit list...
sue Grafton is on
top form? Today
shivery, skilful
and fast-paced? Sunday
Times
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'On the face of it, you
wouldn't think there was
any connection between
the murder of a dead man
and the events that
changed my perceptions
about my life...' For
Kinsey Millhone, the
investigation started
with a surprise visit
from an ex-colleague at
California Fidelity - the
company that had fired
her nine months
previously. Fives hours
later she was on a plane
to Mexico, hot on the
trial of a suicide who'd
allegedly just come back
to life. After a five
year wait, Wendell
Jaffe's widow had finally
succeeded in having the
real estate swindler
declared dead,
collecting half a million
dollars for her pains.
Now it looks like a
'pseudocide' - and
Kinsey's ready to risk
everything to get to the
truth... 'Friendlishly
clever...better than
anything else that's
currently on offer.'
Literary Review
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?My name is Kinsey
Millhone. I?m a private
investigator... female,
single and self-employed,
with a constitutional
inability to work for
anyone else. I?m a purist
when it comes to justice,
but I?ll lie at the drop
of a hat. Inconsistency
has never troubled me...
? It was late October,
the day before Halloween.
He introduced himself as
Alvin Limardo. The job he
hired Kinsey to do seemed
easy enough... until his
cheque bounced. His real
name was Dagett. John
Dagett. Ex-con.
Inveterate liar. Chronic
drunk. And dead. The cops
called it an accident ?
death by drowning. Kinsey
wasn?t so sure. The man,
it seemed, had a lot of
enemies...
?Heart-pounding, totally
mesmerizing suspense? New
York Times
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?Female, age thirty-two,
self-employed and wiser
than she used to be. For
Kinsey Millhone, private
investigator, only one
thing stays the same.
When a client sits down
in the chair across the
desk, she never knows
whats going to
happen next... ? There
was nothing about Beverly
Danziger to cause Kinsey
concern. She was looking
for her sister. There was
a will to be settled. She
paid up front. And if it
seemed a lot of money for
a routine job, Kinsey
wasn?t going to argue.
She kicked herself later
for the things she didn?t
see - Beverly Danziger
did not look as if she
needed a few thousand
dollars and she didn?t
seem like someone longing
for a family reunion. But
just as Kinsey begins to
suspect foul play and
start asking questions,
Beverly Danziger pulls
her off the case and
fires her... ?One of the
best written crime novels
by anybody in recent
memory? New York Times
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When the decaying body of
a murdered woman is
discovered, DI Peterson
has difficulties
establishing her true
identity. But as he digs
deeper, he has another
disturbing case to
investigate - the naked
bodies of two teenagers
have been found with
fatal shotgun wounds at
the foot of a cliff. As
Wesley searches for the
truth, both cases become
stranger as he uncovers a
connection between a
sinister manhunt
mirroring events from the
time of the Napoleonic
Wars and an online game
that's gripped the
imaginations of local
teenagers. Then, as a
skeleton is found near
the place where the dead
teenagers were last seen
alive, Wesley has to
face a terrible truth.
..and a hunt to the
death.
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Exeter, 1195: At a local
jousting day, there's a
serious altercation
between Hugh Peverel,
lord of Sampford Peverel,
near Tiverton, and a
stranger by the name of
Reginald de Charterai.
Two days later, Hugh's
body is found in a barn,
stabbed in the back. Is
de Charterai to blame?
The county coroner, Sir
John de Wolfe, soon
finds plenty of other
suspects for the killing
of the almost universally
hated Hugh Peverel. All
three of his brothers had
a motive: two for the
succession and the third
to steal Hugh's
attractive young wife,
Beatrice. It's no secret
that Beatrice herself
detested her adulterous
husband, as did his
mother-in-law, Adelina.
Another suspect is Godwin
Thatcher, a Saxon
villager whose two sons
were hanged some months
earlier, being
arbitrarily sentenced by
Hugh at his manorial
court. Then there's the
manor reeve, Warin
Fishacre, who harboured
a deep grudge against his
master for taking the
virginity of his
daughter, Maud, just
before her marriage. With
so many suspects to
choose from, Sir John is
confronted with one of
the most difficult cases
of his distinguished
career.
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Five years after Charles
II's triumphant return to
London there is growing
mistrust of his
extravagant court and of
corruption among his
officials - and when a
cart laden with gunpowder
explodes outside the
General Letter Office,
it is immediately clear
that such an act is more
than an expression of
outrage at the
inefficiency of the
postal service. As
intelligencer to the Lord
Chamberlain, Thomas
Chaloner cannot
understand why a man of
known incompetence is put
in charge of
investigating the attack
while he is diverted to
make enquiries about the
poisoning of birds in the
King's aviary in St
James's Park. Then human
rather than avian victims
are poisoned, and
Chaloner knows he has to
ignore his master's
instructions and use his
own considerable wits to
defeat an enemy whose
deadly tentacles reach
into the very heart of
the government: an enemy
who has the power and
expertise to destroy
anyone who stands in the
way.. .
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When required to attend
funeral of an old
colleague, Monsieur
Pamplemousse knows it is
not likely to be a good
day. But when the coffin
explodes, and the
mourners are saved only
by the warning howl of
his trusty bloodhound
Pomes Frites, he
realises there is
something else afoot
entirely. Who is behind
the explosion, and his
friend's death? Monsieur
Pamplemousse is
subsequently informed of
a dire threat to French
national security. A
terrorist group is
planning to poison the
food chain, and the food
sleuth, together with
Pommes Frites, must
spearhead an elite group
to stop the catastrophe.
As sharp and witty as
ever, Michael Bond's
latest Monsieur
Pamplemousse adventure is
a real delicacy.
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When Washington D.C.
police detective Ryan
Kessler is targeted by
Henry Loving, he and his
family are immediately
put under government
protection. Loving is a
ruthless 'lifter', hired
to extract information
from his victims, and he
will use whatever means
necessary including
kidnapping, torturing or
killing their family.
Assigned to the Kesslers
is protection officer
Corte: uncompromising,
relentlessly devoted to
protecting those in his
care and a brilliant game
strategist. He also knows
just how brutal the
lifter can be -- six
years earlier, Loving
killed someone close to
him. As tension increases
between the family, the
situation escalates into
a deadly contest between
protector and lifter as
each tries to outwit the
other. And as the lifter
closes in on his prey,
Corte must decide whether
to protect his charges,
or expose them to a
killer in the name of
personal revenge.. .
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The discovery of a corpse
washed up on a beach in
an Icelandic backwater
sparks a series of events
that propels the village
of Hvalvik's police
sergeant Gunnhildur into
deep waters. Although
under pressure to deal
with the matter quickly,
she is suspicious that
the man's death was no
accident and once she has
identified the body,
sets about investigating
his final hours. The case
takes Gunnhildur away
from her village and into
a cosmopolitan world of
shady deals, government
corruption and violence.
She finds herself alone
and less than welcome in
this hostile environment
as she tries to find out
who it was that made sure
the young man drowned on
a dark night one hundred
kilometres from where he
should have been - and
why.
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Clay Blaisdell is one big
mother, but his capers
are strictly small-time
until his mentor
introduces him to the one
big score that every
small-timer dreams of:
kidnap. But now the
brains of the operation
has died - or has he? -
and Blaze is alone with a
baby as hostage. The
Crime of the Century just
turned into a race
against time in the white
hell of the Maine woods.
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Today is a day Mark Miles
will never forget. And
it's only just
beginning...The next
Houdini and one of Mark's
few remaining PR clients,
Reg Turpin, is about to
attempt a great feat of
escapology, and then Dr.
Herman Temple, the
self-appointed guru,
will arrive to conduct a
seminar on the dynamics
of leadership at the
Grand Atlantic Hotel.
It's going to be his big
day and nothing's going
to spoil it. Well,
nothing apart from the
seedy private
investigator who's
unpacking his thermal
underwear, pyjamas and
a. 32 Smith & Wesson at a
local bed and breakfast;
Avril, the voluptuous,
insatiable wife of the
drunken hotel owner; a
man called Bela; and
Alice, Temple's
beautiful, if terrifying
ambitious, assistant.
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Whilst on a trip to the
sunny Channel Islands to
find the heir to a
lucrative tax law case,
young barrister Michael
Cantrip finds himself in
over his head. Peculiar
things begin to occur on
the mysterious and
isolated islands with
something - or somebody
-- bumping off members of
his legal team. With the
help of his mentor,
amateur investigator
Hilary Tamar, Cantrip,
must find a safe passage
back to the Lincoln's Inn
Chambers.
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The Terracotta Dog opens
with a mysterious
t?te-?-t?te with a
Mafioso, some
inexplicably abandoned
loot from a supermarket
heist, and some dying
words that lead Inspector
Montalbano to a secret
grotto in a mountain cave
where two young lovers
dead fifty years and
still embracing are
watched over by a
life-size terracotta dog.
Montalbanos passion
to solve this old crime
takes him, heedless of
personal danger, on a
journey through the
islands past and
into a familys dark
heart amid the horrors of
World War II. Andrea
Camilleris
Inspector Salvo
Montalbano has garnered
millions of fans
worldwide with his
sardonic, engaging take
on Sicilian small-town
life and his genius for
deciphering the most
enigmatic of crimes. ?The
novels of Andrea
Camilleri breath out the
sense of place, the
sense of humour, and the
sense of despair that
fill the air of Sicily.
To read him is to be
taken to that glorious,
tortured island? Donna
Leon ?Both farcical and
endearing, Montalbano is
a cross between Columbo
and Chandlers
Philip Marlowe, with the
added culinary
idiosyncrasies of an
Italian Maigret? Guardian
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New Orleans is beginning
to be afraid.. .A
prostitute lies strangled
in a seedy French Quarter
hotel room. Miles away,
in a rambling plantation
house on the sultry
shores of Lake
Ponchartrain, popular
late-night radio host Dr.
Samantha Leeds receives a
threatening phone call.
All in a day's work for a
celebrity. Who would
think to link the two? A
second hooker's corpse
turns up. Samantha's
ominous caller persists,
along with a mysterious
female claiming to be a
woman from her past - a
woman who's been dead for
years. With Detective
Rick Bentz convinced that
the serial killer
prowling the shadowy
streets of New Orleans is
somebody close to
Samantha, she doesn't
dare trust anyone.
Especially not Ty
Wheeler, her seductive
new neighbour who seems
to know more about her
than a stranger should.
Somebody has discovered
Samantha's darkest
secret. Somebody is
convinced that lives must
be sacrificed to pay for
her sins. So far, the
victims have been
strangers. But as a
cunning, cold-blooded
killer grows bolder,
Samantha wonders in dread
if she will be the next
to die.. .
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Seventeen-year-old Haley
McWaid never gave her
parents a moments worry.
Until one morning her
mother wakes to find that
Haley didnt come home the
night before. Three
months quickly pass
without a word, and
everyone assumes the
worst. Wendy Tynes is a
reporter on a mission: to
identify and bring down
sexual predators via
televised sting
operations. Her latest
target is Dan Mercer, a
social worker known as a
friend to troubled teens.
But his story soon
becomes more complicated
than Wendy could have
imagined. CAUGHT tells
the story of a missing
girl, the community
stunned by her loss, the
predator who may have
taken her, and the
reporter who suddenly
realises she cant trust
her own instincts about
this story - or the
motives of the people
around her... Ideal for:
Fans of crime and
thriller fiction books.
Ideal holiday read. This
paperback book has 380
pages and measures: 17.7
x 11.2 x 2.5cm
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A body has been found in
the trunk of a Cadillac.
Jesse's investigation
takes him to the
neighboring homes of two
'retired' gangsters. But
it isn't the mobsters who
fascinate Jesse - it's
their wives: two
completely identical twin
sisters, who not even
their husbands can tell
apart. And when one of
the mobsters is found
with a bullet in his
skull, Jesse is forced
to start digging into the
twins' past...
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When a young woman turns
up dead in a peat bog
near the banks of the
River Tiber, Teresa, a
maverick pathologist,
thinks shes got the
victim of an ancient
Roman ritual on her
hands. Shes wrong.
Leo Falcone, the chief
inspector, knows this
case is recent history
and the horror is still
very much alive. So
begins an investigation
that will take the police
deep into the dark
underworld of modern day
Romes most
disturbing and sinister
secrets. Nic Costa is
trying to stay off the
drink. Gianni Peroni used
to work vice until he was
caught in one of his own
departments stings.
Emilio Neri, the local
mafia boss, can?t trust
his own son and Vergil
Wallis, the American
mobster, is refusing to
talk. Meanwhile, someone
is trying very hard to
kill the pathologist. And
now another beautiful
young woman has gone
missing.
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On 12 CD's. Vincent
Marzello reads this
fast-paced legal thriller
from the master of the
genre, John Grisham. In
his final hours in the
Oval Office the President
grants a controversial
last minute pardon to
Joel Backman, a
notorious power broker
who has spent the last
six years in a federal
prison. The president
issues the pardon only
after receiving enormous
pressure from the CIA. It
seems that in his broker
heyday, Backman may have
obtained secrets that
compromise the world's
most sophisticated
satellite surveillance
system. Backman is
quietly smuggled out of
the country. The
question, however, is
not of Backman's
survival, but who will
kill him...
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Detective Catherine
McLeod was always taught
that in Glasgow, they
don't do whodunit. They
do score-settling. They
do vendettas. They do
petty revenge. They do
can't-miss-whodunit. It's
a lesson that has served
her well, but Glasgow is
also a dangerous place to
make assumptions. Either
way she looks at it, she
recognises that the
discovery of a dead
drug-dealer in a back
alley is merely a portent
of further deaths to
come. Elsewhere in the
city, aspiring actress
Jasmine Sharp is
reluctantly - and
incompetently - earning a
crust working for her
uncle Jim's private
investigation business.
When Jim goes missing,
Jasmine has to take on
the investigator mantle
for real, and her only
lead points to Glen
Fallan, a gangland
enforcer and professional
assassin whose reputation
is rendered only slightly
less terrifying by having
been dead for twenty
years. Cautiously tracing
an accomplished killer's
footsteps, Jasmine
stumbles into a web of
corruption and
decades-hidden secrets
that could tear apart an
entire police force - if
she can stay alive long
enough to tell the tale.
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Ethan Gage wants to enjoy
the fruits of victory
after helping Napoleon
win the Battle of
Marengo. But an
ill-advised tryst with
Bonaparte's married
sister has made that
impossible. And the
fantastic schemes of the
wild Norwegian Magnus
Bloodhammer soon have
Ethan dodging hostile
Indians on America's
frontier. With President
Thomas Jefferson's
blessings, Ethan and
Magnus embark upon an
expedition into the
Western wilderness -
keeping their eyes open
for woolly mammoths. But
another prize secretly
impels them: the mythical
hammer of the Norse god
Thor, allegedly carried
to North America more
than a century before
Columbus. Across a
landscape no white man
has ever traversed,
Gage's skills will be
tested as never before -
as he braves unimaginable
peril en route to the
most incredible discovery
of all time.
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Meet Detective Chief
Inspector John Luther.
He's a murder detective.
A near-genius. He's
brilliant; he's intense;
he's instinctive. He's
obsessional. He's
dangerous. DCI John
Luther has an
extraordinary clearance
rate. He commands
outstanding loyalty from
friends and colleagues.
Nobody who ever stood at
his side has a bad word
to say about him. And yet
there are rumours that
DCI Luther is bad - not
corrupt, not on the
take, but tormented.
Luther seethes with a
hidden fury that at times
he can barely control.
Sometimes it sends him to
the brink of madness,
making him do things he
shouldn't; things way
beyond the limits of the
law. Luther: The Calling,
the first in a new
series of novels
featuring DCI John
Luther, takes us into
Luther's past and into
his mind. It is the story
of the case that tore his
personal and professional
relationships apart and
propelled him over the
precipice. Beyond fury,
beyond vengeance. All the
way to murder...
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In early 2003, an ousted
UN weapons inspector is
assassinated on the eve
of a bombshell press
conference. Rumours
surface that this man had
been passed damning
evidence of a worldwide
cabal of unimaginable
power and wealth, and of
their endgame that the
coming war was meant to
set in motion. It was the
stuff of the wildest
conspiracy theories: a
global elite engineering
the crash of financial
markets, the soaring
prices of food and
energy, the numbing of
the general population
through a manufactured
climate of fear. With the
murdered man discredited
and his evidence
destroyed, all of it
would soon be forgotten.
But two intertwined parts
of a coded text survived
the assassination. One
half is in the hands of a
young female operative,
already on the run from
her own dark past. The
other is delivered to the
only man alive capable of
unlocking its promise: a
long-suppressed
technology that could
either usher in a new age
of peace for all mankind,
or become the ultimate
weapon of mass
destruction.
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Details: New York City in
1897 and young Harry
Houdini is struggling to
make it in the brutal
entertainment business,
when detectives call on
him to attempt the most
amazing feat of his
fledgling career: solve
the mystery of a toy
tycoon murdered in his
posh Fifth Avenue
mansion. It's a challenge
which Harrynever at a
loss for
self-confidenceis more
than willing to accept.
Ideal for: Fans of crime,
mystery and historical
fiction books and for
those who enjoy the
'Harry Houdini Mysteries
series'. This paperback
book has 241 pages and
measures: 20.4 x 13.1 x
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No peace and goodwill to
all men here in
Manchester...It's the
countdown to Christmas
and Sal Kilkenny is
exhausted even thinking
about the festive season
- her life as a single
mother is hectic at the
best of times. So when
she is asked to
investigate a suicide
that a grieving family
cannot come to terms
with, she turns the case
down.Eventually, and
against her better
judgement, Sal is
persuaded to look into
the woman's last hours
and is appalled to
discover how little the
authorities had
investigated her death.
And why would a woman so
petrified of heights
choose to jump from the
top of Manchester's
Arndale Centre car
park?Praise for Cath
Staincliffe:'Gritty,
intelligent, humane and
involving' Big
Issue'Deftly organised,
with several surprising
twists.' Evening
Standard'An engrossing
read.' Sunday
Telegraph'Real people,
real problems...
Staincliffe writes
brilliantly and
compassionately about
things that matter.
Seriously good.' Literary
Review'Modest,
compassionate... a solid
ingenious plotter with a
sharp eye for domestic
detail' Literary
Review'Complex and
satisfying' The Sunday
Times'about as good as
the British private eye
novel gets' Time Out
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A beautiful June day in
the Yorkshire Dales, and
a group of children are
spending the last of
their half-term freedom
swimming in the river
near Hindswell Woods. But
the idyll is shattered by
their discovery of a mans
body, hanging from a
tree. DI Annie Cabott
soon discovers he is Mark
Hardcastle, the
well-liked and successful
set designer for the
Eastvale Theatres current
production of Othello.
Everything points to
suicide, and Annie is
mystified. Why would such
a man want to take his
own life? Then Annies
investigation leads to
another shattering
discovery, and DCI Alan
Banks is called back from
the idyllic weekend he
had planned with his new
girlfriend. Banks soon
finds himself plunged
into a shadow-world where
nothing is what it seems,
where secrets and deceit
are the norm, and where
murder is seen as the
solution to a problem.
The deeper he digs the
more he discovers that
the monster he has
awakened will extend its
deadly reach to his
friends and family.
Nobody is safe.
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As Sherlock Holmes once
conceded to Dr. Watson,
'If we could fly out of
that window hand in hand,
hover over this great
city, gently remove the
roofs and peep in at the
queer things which are
going on, the strange
coincidences, the
planning, the
cross-purposes, the
wonderful chain of
events, working through
generations and leading
to the most outre
results, it would make
all fiction with its
conventionalities and
foreseen conclusions most
stale and unprofitable.'
And with such a spirit
for investigation and
discovery does David
Grann set out in The
Devil and Sherlock Holmes
to unravel the truth of
twelve great, real-life
mysteries. Although
Holmes is the subject of
just one of the
mesmerizing true stories
in this collection, all
twelve contain elements
of intrigue. Many of the
protagonists are sleuths:
a Polish detective trying
to determine whether an
author planted clues to a
real murder in his
post-modern novel; an
arson investigator racing
to prove whether a man
about to be executed is
innocent; a legendary
French con man
questioning whether he is
the one who is suddenly
being conned; and
scientists stalking a sea
monster. Unlike the
adventures of Sherlock
Holmes, these tales are
all true. The
protagonists are mortal
and pieces of the puzzle
often elude them. Some of
the characters are driven
to deception and murder.
Others go mad. But
ultimately the stories
contained in The Devil
and Sherlock Holmes shed
light on the human
condition, and why some
people on this earth
devote themselves to good
and others to evil. As
Holmes put it, 'Life is
infinitely stranger than
anything which the mind
of man could invent'.
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Quirkes pathology
department, set deep
beneath the city, is his
own gloomy realm: always
quiet, always night,
and always under his
control. Until late one
evening after a party he
stumbles across a body
that should not be there
? and his brother-in-law
falsifying the
corpses cause of
death. This is the first
time Quirke has
encountered Christine
Falls, but the
investigation he decides
to lead into the way she
lived and died uncovers a
dark secret at the heart
of Dublins high
Catholic network; one
with the power to shake
his own family and
everything he holds dear.
?A superb stylist... His
control and pacing cannot
be faulted, and the
final outcome is almost
unbearably moving...
you're in for a treat?
Michael Dibdin, Guardian
succeeds
sensationally... An
absorbing plot,
beguiling characters and
evocative settings...
His pacing is impeccable?
Marcel Berlins, The
Times ?A gripping,
beautifully crafted
thriller... A one
sitting-read, an
all-night enticement?
Scotsman
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Following her promotion
and working now from
Reykjavik, Gunnhildur is
given responsibility for
two cases - the first in
tracking down an escaped
convict who's keen to
settle old scores, and
the other, the murder of
a TV fitness presenter in
her city centre
apartment. With the
police short staffed and
underfunded following the
financial crash,
Gunnhildur and her team
set about delving into
the backgrounds of both,
where they uncover some
unwelcome secrets and
some influential friends
of both who have no wish
to be in the public eye.
Set in an Iceland that is
coming to terms with the
deepening recession,
Gunnhildur has to take
stock of the whirlwind
changes that have taken
place as she investigates
criminals at opposite
ends of the social scale
as some uncomfortable
links appear between the
two cases. Praise for
Frozen Out: A
meticulously constructed
thriller, peopled with
exceptionally convincing
characters and shot
through with black
humour. Frozen Out is as
chilling as an Icelandic
winter. S.J. Bolton "[A]
crackling fiction debut.
.. palpable
authenticity." Publishers
Weekly British author
Bates captures the chilly
spirit of Nordic crime
fiction in what is the
apparent start of a
promising series with a
distinctly appealing
protagonist.
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This is a brand new BBC
Radio 4 full-cast
dramatisation of a
classic Raymond Chandler
mystery featuring private
eye, Philip Marlowe.
Marlowe is now married,
living in the resort town
of Poodle Springs. Once
again, he sets himself
up as an investigator and
soon finds himself in the
middle of blackmail and
murder.
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Lorna Kepler was
beautiful and wilful, a
loner who couldn't resist
flirting with danger. She
has also been found dead
in mysterious
circumstances and her
death pulls Kinsey
Millhone into a
netherworld of deception,
betrayal and unavenged
murder... 'Crisply
written, ingeniously
plotted, with a regard
for humanity striving
against the odds that's
both tonic and rare'
Literary Review 'K is for
Killer is another
exciting novel from the
excellent Sue Grafton'
Daily Mirror
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That was the last time
any of them saw Minnie
Bright. It was
forty-eight hours before
her crack-addicted mother
reported her as missing,
and a few hours more
before the police entered
the house and found her
small twisted body hidden
under the bed. Fifteen
years ago, a little girl
was murdered. Now
journalist Jess Vaughan
and detective Harry Lind
are asking questions
about what really
happened that day.
Questions that someone
will kill to keep hidden.
No one knows crime like
KRAY
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In London, ex-cop
Vincent Ruiz rescues a
young woman from a
violent boyfriend but
wakes next morning to
find that he's been set
up and robbed. As he
tracks down the thieves,
he discovers the
boyfriend's tortured body
and learns that powerful
men are looking for the
girl. What did Holly
Knight steal that is so
important to them?
Meanwhile in Baghdad,
the bank robbery capital
of the world, billions
of dollars in
reconstruction funds has
gone missing and Pulitzer
prize-winning Journalist
Luca Terracini is trying
to 'follow the money'.
The dangerous trail will
lead him to London where
he teams up with Vincent
Ruiz and together they
investigate the
disappearance of an
international banker and
a mysterious 'black hole'
in the bank's accounts.
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A brand-new thriller from
internationally
bestselling Jonathan
Kellerman TRUE DETECTIVES
follows Moe Reed and
Aaron Fox on the twisted
trail of a missing girl,
a dark, baffling
whodunit that forces the
brothers to put aside
their mutual animus --
and to confront the
unresolved family mystery
that turned them into
enemies. PIs can do
things, legally, that
cops can't. And cops have
access to resources
denied their private
counterparts. Only by
pooling their efforts --
and by consulting a man
both brothers respect,
psychologist Alex
Delaware, do Fox and
Reed stand a chance of
peeling back the secrets
in high places that
explain the fate of an
outwardly innocent young
woman. And, by doing so,
the brothers learn about
much more than murder.
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'At 2.20am in the morning
of the 13th November 1952
the body of 19 year old
Patricia Curran was
carried into the surgery
belonging to the family
doctor. At first Dr
Kenneth Wilson thought
she had been the victim
of an accidental
shooting. In fact a
subsequent post-mortem
revealed that she had
been stabbed thirty seven
times.' Eoin McNamee's
wonderful novel, which
is based on one of the
greatest miscarriages of
justice in recent
history, is at once a
gripping thriller and a
danse macabre through a
shadowy world of
corruption and sexual
intrigue - a darkly lyric
narrative of white
mischief in post-war
Ireland, of false
accusation and savage
murder, presided over by
the haunted, tragic
figure of Patricia
Curran.
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TV producer Fliss Benson
receives an anonymous
card at work. The card
has sixteen numbers on
it, arranged in four
rows of four -- numbers
that mean nothing to her.
On the same day, Fliss
finds out she's going to
be working on a
documentary about
miscarriages of justice
involving cot-death
mothers wrongly accused
of murder. The
documentary will focus on
three women: Helen
Yardley, Sarah Jaggard
and Rachel Hines. All
three women are now free,
and the doctor who did
her best to send them to
prison for life, child
protection zealot Dr
Judith Duffy, is under
investigation for
misconduct. For reasons
she has shared with
nobody, this is the last
project Fliss wants to be
working on. And then
Helen Yardley is found
dead at her home, and in
her pocket is a card with
sixteen numbers on it,
arranged in four rows of
four.. .
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It has been two years
since the events of
Christine Falls, the
bestselling novel that
introduced the world to
an irascible Dublin
pathologist named Quirke.
Quirke's beloved Sarah
has died, his surrogate
father lies paralyzed by
a stroke, and hes
been sober for half a
year. When a
near-forgotten
acquaintance asks him to
cover up his beautiful
young wifes
apparent suicide, Quirke
knows he should stay
clear, for the sake of
his sobriety and his
peace of mind. But his
old itch is irresistible,
and before long he is
probing further into the
circumstances of Deidre
Hunts death, into
a web of drugs and
illicit sex that may have
snared his own daughter,
Phoebe. With its vivid,
intense evocation of
1950s Dublin, and
intricate,
psychologically complex
storyline, The Silver
Swan is "even more
engrossing than last
years Christine
Falls" (Entertainment
Weekly).
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It is the week before
Christmas. The effects of
the credit crunch have
prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta
to offer her services pro
bono to New York City's
Office of the Chief
Medical Examiner. But in
no time at all, her
increased visibility
seems to precipitate a
string of dramatic and
unsettling events. She is
asked live on the air
about the sensational
case of Hannah Starr,
who has vanished and is
presumed dead. Moments
later during the same
broadcast, she receives
a startling call-in from
a former psychiatric
patient of Benton
Wesley's. When she
returns after the show to
the apartment where she
and Benton live, she
finds a suspicious
package - possibly a bomb
- waiting for her at the
front desk. Soon the
apparent threat on
Scarpetta's life finds
her embroiled in a deadly
plot that includes a
famous actor accused of
an unthinkable sex crime
and the disappearance of
a beautiful millionairess
with whom Scarpetta's
niece Lucy seems to have
shared a secret past....
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One of the wildest and
most beautiful regions in
Italy, known for its
rugged coastline and
mountains, Calabria is
also home to the deadly
'Ndrangheta. An organised
Mafia crime operation
more feared in Italy than
the Cosa Nostra or the
Camorra, it is shrouded
in mystery. Chief
Superintendent Michele
Ferrara of Italy's elite
Anti-Mafia Investigation
Department is tasked with
investigating the deaths
of several Calabria
citizens ? some in New
York, some in the small,
isolated villages that
dot the Calabrian
countryside. To get to
the bottom of the case,
Ferrara has to infiltrate
the village of San Piero
d'Aspromonte, deep in
the Calabrian mountains.
And there, he must put
his life on the line to
learn more about a family
at the centre of an
ancient, bloody feud...
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The commissioner kept
looking at him with an
expression that combined
contempt and
commiseration,
apparently discerning
unmistakable signs of
senile dementia in the
inspector. ?I?m going to
speak very frankly,
Montalbano. I don?t have
a very high opinion of
you.? ?Nor I of you, ?
the inspector replied
bluntly. Montalbano's
gruesome discovery of a
naked young woman
suffocated in her bed
immediately sets him on a
search for her killer.
Among the suspects are
her aging husband, a
famous doctor; a shy
admirer, now
disappeared; an
antiques-dealing lover
from Bologna; and the
victim's friend Anna,
whose charms Montalbano
cannot help but
appreciate. But it is a
mysterious, reclusive
violinist who holds the
key to this murder...
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The new Kay Scarpetta
novel from the world's
number 1 bestselling
crime writer. In Alberta,
Canada, an eminent
paleontologist disappears
from a dinosaur dig site,
and at the Cambridge
Forensic Center, Kay
Scarpetta receives a
grisly communication that
gives her a dreadful
reason to suspect this
may become her next case.
Then, with shocking
speed, events begin to
unfold. A body recovered
from Boston Harbor
reveals bizarre trace
evidence hinting of a
link to other unsolved
cases that seem to have
nothing in common. Who is
behind all this? And whom
can Scarpetta trust? Her
lead investigator Pete
Marino and FBI husband
Benton Wesley are both
unhappy with her because
of personnel changes at
the CFC, and her niece
Lucy has become even more
secretive than usual.
Scarpetta fears she just
may be on her own this
time - against an
enormously powerful and
cunning enemy who seems
impossible to defeat.
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