A riveting military action adventure novel
- Band of Brothers mets Andy Mc Nab in a story of hard nosed mercenaries. In Helmand
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Master of the Hunt the fifteenth Earl of Candlesby has come to lead his riders once again. But this time he comes as a corpse wrapped in blankets across his horse a corner of his scarlet coat visible in the morning mist. Only three people see the body. One dies. Another vanishes. Now only one man knows how he was killed. Powerscourt is summoned to investigate murder in a crumbling house where the paper is peeling off the walls & the stuffed owls each only have one leg. The estate is virtually bankrupt as Powerscourt uncovers a world of jealousy revenge & hatred where the sons are as dissolute & dangerous as the father. The fifteenth earl had left a trail of duels theft & adultery across the flatlands of Lincolnshire. It takes another death & a deadly chase under the crumbling estate before Powerscourt unlocks the secret of death in a scarlet coat. Praise for David Dickinson: Splendid entertainment". (" Publishers Weekly"). " Detective fiction in the grand style". (James Naughtie). " Beguilingly real from start to finish...you have to pinch yourself to remind you that it is fiction
- or is it?" (Peter Snow). " Dickinsons customary historical tidbits & patches of local colour swathed in...appealing Victorian narrative". (" Kirkus Reviews")."
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Early one morning Guido Brunetti Commissario of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging but for Brunetti robbery seems altogether too convenient a motive. Then something very incriminating is discovered in the dead man's flat
- something which points to the existence of a high-level cabal
- & Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody somewhere is taking great pains to provide a ready-made solution to the crime.. .

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Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book the third volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. DEATH IN A WHITE TIE The season has begun. Debutantes & chaperones are planning their gala dinners
- & the blackmailer is planning strategies to stalk his next victim. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knows that something is up & has already planted his friend Lord Gospell at the dinner. But someone else has got there first...OVERTURE TO DEATH It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall & an amusing evening's entertainment to finance the gift. But all is doomed when Miss Campanula sits down to play. A chord is struck a shot rings out & Miss Campanula is dead. it seems to be a case of sinister infatuation for Roderick Alleyn...DEATH AT THE BAR A midsummer evening
- darts night at The Plume of Feathers a traditional Devonshire public house. A distinguished painter a celebrated actor a woman graduate a plump lady from County Clare & a local farmer all play their parts in a fatal experiment which calls for the investigative expertise of Inspector Alleyn...

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In the spring of 1940 the mutilated body of a homosexual is discovered in a street near the Bordeaux railway station. It looks like a straight-forward sex crime but when Superintendent Lannes is warned off the investigation his suspicion that there is a political motive for the murder seems justified. In defiance of authority he continues working on the case. & then another body is found... Meanwhile the Superintendent has other troubles. His eldest son Dominique is at the Front his wife Marguerite is depressed & when the Battle of France breaks out Bordeaux is filled with refugees fleeing the war. Suddenly civilian crime seems of little importance compared to the chaos that ensues. As Bordeaux becomes an occupied city Lannes chief suspect is untouchable protected by a relative in the Vichy government. Lannes himself is threatened with blackmail on account of his Jewish friends & Dominique is taken prisoner. Common sense should make Lannes abandon the investigation but honour & a natural obstinacy lead him to pursue it. However as events turn increasingly bleak Lannes begins to doubt it can ever be solved... ...

When the death up at the big house is announced to the village of Compton Dando few are surprised. Given that its the home of an unlikely bunch of New Age oddballs perhaps it was a only a matter of time before one of them came to a bad end. The verdict: an accident. But only weeks later another death is reported & this time theres no doubt about it
- its murder. To Chief Inspector Barnaby hurriedly summoned to the scene it is immediately apparent that the case is far from straightforward the suspects being among the most bizarre he has ever encountered...
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When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglian coast his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to pay a visit to the young man's theological college St Anselm's a place he knew as a boy expecting no more than a nostalgic return to old haunts & a straightforward examination of the evidence. Instead he finds himself embroiled in intrigue conflict & dangerous secrets as the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious & horrifying murder... Beautifully-written...consummately plotted". (" Observer"). "" Death in Holy Orders" is pure pleasure". (" Spectator"). " Michael Jayston does an excellent job of breathing life into Adam Dalgliesh". " Daily Express". This is a suspenseful story of murder in a clerical college from bestselling author P.D. James read by Michael Jayston." ...

Shortly after 12.30pm on 2 November 2007 Italian police were called to the Perugia home of 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher. They found her body on the floor under a beige quilt. Her throat had been cut. Four days later the prosecutor jailed Meredith's flatmate American student Amanda Knox & Raffaele Sollecito her Italian boyfriend. He also jailed Rudy Guede an Ivory Coast drifter. Four years later Knox & Sollecito were acquitted amid chaotic scenes in front of the world's media. Uniquely based on four years of reporting & access to the complete case files Death In Perugia takes readers on a riveting journey behind the scenes of the investigation as John Follain shares the drama of the trials & appeal hearings he lived through. Including exclusive interviews with Meredith's friends & other key sources Death in Perugia reveals how the Italian dream turned into a nightmare. ...

Florence 1965. A man is found murdered a pair of scissors stuck through his throat. Only one thing is known about him
- he was
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It is Holy Week in Seville & the heat is rising. A murderer is on the loose & visiting academic Maria Gutierrez can see something in his ways that the police are missing. But her insight does nothing to help her popularity in the force
- & draws her to the attention of the killer. The Angel Brothers two controversial modern artists are found dead in a killing that emulates a famous painting & an old lady remembers the atrocities of the Civil War. Maria was supposed to be an observer to the police investigation. But her own past in the city soon puts her one step ahead of the cops.. .and in the killers sights. First published as Semana Santa in 1996 by Harper Collins.
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