Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel relocates to London to take on another thrilling murder investigation...

While Geraldine

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In Death Comes Knocking, Graham Bartlett & Peter James have written a gripping account of the citys most challenging cases, taking the reader from crime scenes & incident rooms to the morgue, & introducing some of the real-life detectives who inspired Peter Jamess characters.

Whether its the murder of a dodgy nightclub owner & his family in Sussexs worst non-terrorist mass murder or the race to find the abductor of a young girl, tracking down the antique trades most notorious knocker boys or nailing an audacious ring of forgers, hunting for a cold-blooded killer who executed a surfer or catching a pair who kidnapped a businessman, leaving him severely beaten, to die on a hillside, the authors skilfully evoke the dangerous inside story of policing, the personal toll it takes & the dedication of those who risk their lives to keep the public safe.

This paperback book has 308 pages & measures: 19.7 x 12.9 x 2cm



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It’s been an enjoyable & murder-free time for Judith, Suzie & Becks – AKA the Marlow Murder Club – since the events of last year. The most exciting thing on the horizon is the upcoming wedding of Marlow grandee, Sir Peter Bailey, to his nurse, Jenny Page. Sir Peter is having a party at his grand mansion on the river Thames the day before the wedding, & Judith & Co. are looking forward to a bit of free champagne. But during the soiree, there’s a crash from inside the house, & when the Marlow Murder Club rush to investigate, they are shocked to find the groom-to-be crushed to death in his study. The study was locked from the inside, so the police don’t consider the death suspicious. But Judith disagrees. As far as she's concerned, Peter was murdered! & it’s up to the Marlow Murder Club to find the killer before he or she strikes again…   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780008476519 •†Author:   Robert Thorogood  •†Publisher:  HQ •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages:† 384 •†Dimension... ...

Natalya Galinova, prima ballerina with a fierce temper & a foul mouth, storms out of a ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House. Twenty-four hours later she is officially a missing person. Several hours after that, she is officially dead. Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper finds the corpse & is swiftly immersed in the world of New York's theatrical elite. But she & Mike Chapman of the NYPD soon realise that they are dealing with a script of murky, private dealings behind a glorious public facade. For behind Broadway there is the legendary Berk clan, the most dysfunctional family to hit the boards since the Sopranos, & behind them is a sinister cast of directors & agents
- & a kilter still on the loose.. .'IMAGINE JOHN GRISHAM AT HIS BEST
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On a bitterly cold March night in Montreal, forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is exhuming the remains of a nun proposed for sainthood in the grounds of an old church. Just hours later, Tempe is called to the scene of an horrific arson. A young family has perished, & there seems to be no witness, no motive, no explanation. From the charred remains of the inferno, to a trail of sinister cult activity & a terrifying showdown during an ice storm, Tempe faces a nerve-shattering test of both her forensic expertise & her instinct for survival... ...

The protagonist, Brian Durston, is a bright young hotshot who left a big New York ad agency, & the fast track to mega bucks, to join his uncle's medium-sized firm. Why? His uncle promised to turn over his stake in the agency. The future looks bright until Brian discovers his uncle slumped on his desk with a bullet through his brain. ...

Crime fiction packed with Italian flavour, Death in August is the first Inspector Bordelli mystery set in 1960s' Florence
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Death in Bordeaux is the first in a trilogy that will take Lannes through the war & up to the grisly, but inevitable purge of those found guilty of German collaboration. However, this is also a novel that explores the moral complexity of France's time of trial, & the reasons why it has taken its people so long to emerge from the shadow of war. ...

Using the art, food & the books of Brazils nineteenth-century writer, Machado de Assis, this work is about its history of slavery & the multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the late nineteenth century. ...

Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara of Italy's elite Anti-Mafia Investigation Department is tasked with investigating the deaths of several Calabrian citizens
- some in New York, some in the small, isolated villages that dot the Italian 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. & 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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