Alex Cross, Book IV. Psychopath Gary Soneji is back - filled with hatred and obsessed with revenge on Detective Alex Cross. Soneji is determined to go down in a blaze of glory and he wants Alex to be there. Will this be the final showdown?
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Berkeley, California, has long been known for its radical politics, its sixties' hold-overs and Bay Area tranquility. Lately it's become more famous for its 'gourmet ghetto' - a string of world-renowned restaurants headed by the famous Chez Panisse - which is turning the flavour of the town from hippie to yuppie. Jill Smith, a Berkeley detective whose tastes run more to American cheese on her burgers than goat's cheese on her arugula, is drawn to the chic new restaurant, Paradise, for more than the haute cuisine. Mitch Biekma, the hottest, trendiest restaurateur in town is found dead - poisoned by his own carrot soup. As she investigates, Jill finds many people who wanted Biekma dead - from the wealthy patrons of society luncheons to the homeless hobos who scour Paradise's garbage cans. One thing is certain - this case is leaving a nasty taste in her mouth.
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Book V of Rumpole Of The Bailey. Horace Rumpole continues to deftly juggle the vagaries of law, the ambiguities of crime and the contradictions of the the human hearth in his death-defying performances on behalf of justice. Here he takes on the con-o-sewers of the art world, journeys deep into the throbbing heart of Africa, dabbles in some female politics, decides the country is a very dangerous place, and incurs the wrath of Hilda...In this volume: Rumpole and the Genuine Article; Rumpole and the Golden Thread; Rumpole and the Old Boy Net; Rumpole and the Female of the Species; Rumpole and the Sporting Life; Rumpole and the Last Resort. -
When Martin Fox, champion Formula One racer has a near-fatal crash, he has a life-after-death experience as the doctors work to save his life. As he recuperates, Selena Porter waits for the return of his health and hopefully, his love. But Martin is now obsessed with the possibility of an afterlife. Karl Dorfman, an anaesthetist, is also investigating and experimenting in this field, but with two fatalities behind him he now has to experiment in private. Detective Sergeant William Schaeffer is trying to unravel a series of murders terrorising the back streets and sleazy bars and finds himself more and more involved with these two men and their odd pursuit.
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Marion Kerrison is given the defence brief in a notorious murder case. From the start she has her own theory of the crime but this does not square with the witnesses' evidence or that of her beguiling client, who seems to be enjoying the excitement rather than fearing the hangman's noose. The dangers, disappointments and her pursuit of the truth is told through Michael Irvine, her colleague in chambers who assists her at the trial and describes the legal battle that leads to a brilliant climax.
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The Last Train: Sue Lawrence
$10.00At 7 p.m. on 28 December 1879, a violent storm batters the newly built iron rail bridge across the River Tay, close to the city of Dundee. Ann Craig is waiting for her husband, the owner of the largest local mill, to return home. From her window Ann sees a strange and terrible sight as the bridge collapses, and the lights of the train in which he is travelling plough down into the freezing river waters. As Ann manages the grief and expectations of family and friends, amid a town mourning its loved ones, doubt is cast on whether Robert was on the train, after all. If not, where is he, and who is the mysterious woman who is first to be washed ashore? In 2015, Fiona Craig wakes to find that her partner Pete, an Australian restaurateur, has cleared the couple's bank account before abandoning his car at the local airport and disappearing. When the police discover his car is stolen, Fiona conducts her own investigation into Pete's background, slowly uncovering dark secrets and strange parallels with the events of 1879. -
Night Vision: Paul Levine
$12.00"Catch me if you can." The lipsticked message on the bathroom mirror harks back to Jack the Ripper. But the deceased lady's computer files point to a high-tech network where anonymous women spend solitary nights in steamy talk with love-lorn hackers, sometimes arranging real rendezvous that can lead to anything - including murder. Jake Lassiter - ex-linebacker turned maverick Miami lawyer - is following a serial killer through the shadows of a computer network. -
Mrs Jeffries No XXII. Banker Lawrence Boyd didn't waste time making friends, so hardly anyone felt grief when he's found dead in his burnt out studio. When a gash in his head is discovered, the list of suspects is long. Luckily, Inspector Witherspoon has Mrs Jeffries willing to lend a hand. -
A woman's brutalised body is washed up on a beach and twelve hours later, her three year old daughter is found wandering twenty miles away. Why was Kate Sumner murdered, yet her child, a witness, permitted to live? There is the young actor, a loner with an obsession for pornography who lies about his relationship with Kate - and is Kate the respectable woman her husband claims her to be? And why does their daughter scream in terror every time he tries to pick her up?
