When Cetin Ikmen is invited to a murder mystery evening at Istanbul's famous Pera Palas Hotel he finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of life imitating art. Walking in the steps of the great Agatha Christie Ikmen experiences fear & hatred which have echoes deep in his own past. ...

Whore you working for then Warshawski? My cousin. Boom Boom? Hes dead. I know. Thats why Im working for him. Boom Booms body was found floating near the docks chewed up & spat out by a ships propeller. More like brother & sister than cousins Vic & Boom Boom looked out for each other. Boom Boom grew up to be an ice hockey hero & Vic a private eye. & now V.I. Warshawski would like to know how exactly her cousin died.. . ...

His mission should have been straightforward: to keep one man alive for one week. One prisoner
- Super-intelligent & brutally violent
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Sookie has a murder investigation on her hands. A young girl has died at a vampire party
- & it looks as though her lover Eric
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Sookie has a murder investigation on her hands. A young girl has died at a vampire party
- & it looks as though her lover Eric
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The fourth chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew continues the adventures of the 14th century Cambridge physician when he is called to attend to two deaths from some poisoned wine. The opening of a new & very well-endowed college has created petty in-fighting amongst the academics as new appointments are made. The winter & spring have been appallingly wet there is a fever outbreak amongst the poorer townspeople & the country is not yet fully recovered from the aftermath of the plague. The increasing reputation & wealth of the Cambridge colleges are causing dangerous tensions between the town Church & University & then the poisoned wine kills the first victim
- a student. The second victim is Dittone the deputy master of the new college but there seems no connection between him & the student. Matthew must establish the facts before relations between town & gown spiral out of control.
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It's the Fiesta de San Juan in Spain the national celebration of the Summer Solstice & there's much excitement about a huge firework display in the village of St Marti. But Primavera Blackstone is more inflamed by the appearance of a mysterious writer Duncan Culshaw who is determined to rake through the ashes of her past. & when extortion & blackmail are mentioned Primavera realises the heat is on. Duncan has his fingers burned playing fast & loose with the fiercely protective Prim but when he marries a dying woman for her money threatening the inheritance of Prim's son Tom things are going to get explosive...but happily there's a new guardian angel in town. ...

It's the Fiesta de San Juan in Spain the national celebration of the Summer Solstice & there's much excitement about a huge firework display in the village of St Marti. But Primavera Blackstone is more inflamed by the appearance of a mysterious writer Duncan Culshaw who is determined to rake through the ashes of her past. & when extortion & blackmail are mentioned Primavera realises the heat is on. Duncan has his fingers burned playing fast & loose with the fiercely protective Prim but when he marries a dying woman for her money threatening the inheritance of Prim's son Tom things are going to get explosive...but happily there's a new guardian angel in town. ...

A sexual predator is at large on the streets of Imperial Vienna & Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt appeals to his friend psychoanalyst Dr. Max Liebermann for assistance. Early signs indicate that the killer is no ordinary 'lust murderer' but an entirely new phenomenon his particular deviance revealing the darker preoccupations of the age. To understand his behaviour Liebermann must employ the latest developments in psychoanalysis & make a journey into uncharted regions of the human mind. Alongside the unfolding of this disturbing case Liebermann must treat his own patients including a man who claims to have seen his double
- the doppelganger of Germanic folklore
- an experience believed to be an omen of death. As Liebermann discovers more about this seemingly harmless man he becomes convinced that his hallucinations are caused by a traumatic memory buried deep in his unconscious. Could a mysterious dream hold the key? As the investigations proceed Liebermann & Rheinhardt find themselves drawn into the worlds of art & couture worlds in which glamorous appearances mask the most sinister secrets.

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