The heat is on when a beautiful young woman is found on the beach at the height of summer. Every man in Hiverton knows Rachel Campion. She is the most gorgeous girl to have turned up in the fishing village in living memory. When she is discovered lying dead on the beach, Gently joins the throngs of summer visitors on their annual pilgrimage to the seaside in the midst of a summer heatwave
- & as the temperature soars, the mystery deepens. The long-buried skeleton of a woman is unearthed close to where Rachel's body was found & Gently suddenly has the riddle of two mysterious deaths to solve. Frustratingly, many of the locals, including the secretive brotherhood of fisherman, seem reluctant to talk. Why was Rachel murdered? How is the old skeleton connected with the new crime? Who is the Hiverton Beach Killer?
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This was no suicide, however it looked
- too many people wanted Adrian Stoll dead. From an embarrassment of suspects, Gently
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There's blood in the heather & a murderer on the loose when Gently pays a quite visit to the Highlands of Scotl&. Had Brenda Merryn not been such a stong-willed woman & had she not been so much in love with George Gently, driving all the way to Scotland for a holiday with Gently's sister & brother-in-law might have been a bit of a challenge. Spying on a heavily armed private army of nationalists, being held at gunpoint on the hillside, being held prisoner in a filthy outhouse & becoming involved in a murder would be unthinkable. For Gently, it's all in a day's work & his holiday is put on hold while he stalks a murderer in the mountains, with Brenda by his side. ...

Another paperback crime novel by Alan Hunter in the Inspector George Gently mystery series, Gently Sahib sets itself in the little market town of Abbotsham where a tiger has escaped from the local zoo. The question is, what kind of tiger would rip a man to shreds & then bury him in his own back garden? This is the dilemma that Gently Sahib explores. Chief Superintendent Gently has been promoted to C.I.D & is called to London to investigate the discovery of the murdered man. Why has the tiger, which was shot dead a year ago, seemingly hidden one of its victims? Gently can be sure that a tiger did not bury its victim so neatly, but then who did? Gently Sahib showcases more of the investigator's sleuthing as he tries to figure out why someone would want to, or need to, bury the murdered man. Gently Sahib is a great murder mystery for fans of the genre & fans of any previous book in the George Gently series. ...

Gently finds that solving the mystery of the body in the bakery is far from being a piece of cake. When small-time gambler & petty crook Steinie Taylor turns up dead in a hopper of flour at a country bakery, Gently has to figure out not only how he got there, but also why his prime suspects all appear to have dark secrets to hide. Why had the deceased villain & two of his friends been spending money like it was going out of fashion? Where had they acquired the cash? Why had they strayed from their usual haunts? Why did Taylor's friends both disappear? In the kind of town where everyone usually knows everything about their neighbours, there are a few surprises in store for the locals & the investigation becomes ever more sinister when one of Taylor's cronies is also found dead. The race is on to find the third man before the killer can claim him as another victim. ...

There was no sign of a struggle, no wounds or bruises. To Gently, it looked like Vivienne had simply lain down & died, yet he knew she had been murdered. The Chief Inspector George Gently Case Files Alan Hunter The unflappable Inspector George Gently has become a household name through the hit BBC TV series starring Martin Shaw. These are the original books on which the TV series was based, although the George Gently in Alan Hunter's whodunits is somewhat different to his TV counterpart. He is more calculating, more analytical, & his investigations are even more enthralling. ...

A Polish trucker is found dead from a hail of gunfire in a lonely lay-by in the heart of the countryside. What was the motive? Revenge? Money? Or possibly something even more sinister? The more gently investigates, the more complicated the case becomes until machine gun bullets ripping through his car, the whole affair turns very nasty. ...

There are rumours about a fortune in ancient gold coins hidden somewhere in the rambling old house, so when the house's owner is found dead at the foot of his staircase, Gently immediately suspects foul play. Gently has plenty of suspects for the old man's murder. A warehouse watchman across the street misses nothing that goes on at the house, but can shed no light on the murderer. A local antiques dealer knows a suspicious amount about the house & a good deal more about the treasure that is thought to be hidden within its walls, yet he knows nothing about the killer. When the murderer strikes again, Gently has a high profile case on his hands & faces a night of sheer terror alone in a house whose secret has claimed at least two lives... ...

The death of a young artist leaves Gently to piece together a portrait of a murderer. When artist Shirley Johnson is murdered & her body dumped outside a provincial police headquarters, Gently is despatched from London to take over the investigation. The prime suspect appears to be the woman ...