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In the Maryland mountain valley where attorney Gardner Lawson practises, a mysterious religious cult arrives and moves into an abandoned granite quarry. Known as CAIN (Church of the Ark Incorporated), this fanatical group attracts attention after an elderly black man dies in unusual circumstances. The dead man's son in police Detective Joseph Brown, who's convinced that CAIN is responsible and begins secret investigations. When the CAIN leader is also found dead, 'Brownie' becomes the prime suspect for murder. Lawson resigns as State's Attorney in order to conduct his close friend's defence. The enquiries and a high tension trial force many to confront their prejudices and hidden secrets come from the shadows. -
Rat King: Michael Dibdin
$35.00Industrialist Ruggiero Miletti has been kidnapped from the heart of one of Italy's most powerful families: and the family is oddly undisturbed that the kidnappers are getting panicky and impatient, that the trail is going cold and that police progress has been zero. Commissioner Aurelio Zen has been removed from his desk and thrust into this shadowy case and his arrival in Perugia is resented from the start - by the officials and the Miletti family, who would rather do business with the kidnappers without police intervention. Zen unearths sizzling secrets in this family rat nest: terrorism, drugs, takeover bids, dark past secrets, blackmail and sexual perversion - and each suspects has connections into the police department. Cover art by Tom Sciaaca.
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Red Dragon: Sexual hunger; demonic violence; sinister logic - the lethal components driving a psychopath i n the grip of an unimaginable delusion; a boastful killer who sends the police tormenting notes; a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering happy families. He calls himself - The Red Dragon. Silence of the Lambs: There's a killer on the loose who knows that beauty is only skin deep, and a trainee investigator who's trying to save her own hide. The only man who can help is locked up in an asylum. He's willing to put a brave face on - if it'll help him escape...
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On a New England college campus, the naked body of a beautiful student is found frozen in a snow bank. Why had Kristina not been reported missing and why had her friends not looked for her? It seems the story of her life is also a mystery - Kristina and her close friends...Jim, Conni and Albert...were children of privilege who played, studied and occasionally slept together. Yet despite their closeness, they had secrets from each other, and these secrets must be pieced together to solve the case - a series of dark truths, each more shocking than the last. -
Lucinda Hayes 1. In a case of life and death, the ultimate crime is telling the truth...The director of a rape crisis center, former prosecutor Cinda Hayes is drawn back to the law when the court unexpectedly appoints her to handle the death row appeal of 22-year-old Jason Smiley, convicted of a brutal rape and murder. Betraying her conscience, Cinda reluctantly begins her investigation. But when she discovered a crucial piece of unexamined evidence, she becomes convinced Jason may be the victim of a terrible injustice that reaches deep into the highest offices of the court itself. As she races to unravel a mystery twisted by ambition and vengeance, Cinda must render up the truth...or watch a young man die. -
Revelation: C.J. Sansom
$10.00Matthew Shardlake Book IV. Spring, 1543 - Henry VIII is wooing Catherine Parr, wife number six. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled protestant faction at court are watching keenly, as Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Meanwhile, Matthew Shardlake is working on the case of a teenage boy who has been committed to Bedlam, amid fears that the boy's terrifying religious mania could lead to him being branded as a heretic. When an old friend is murdered, Shardlake promises the widow that he will bring the killer to justice. His search leads him to Lady Catherine, Cranmer - and the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation. As a purge of Protestants is being readied by London's Biship Bonner, a series of horrific murders occur which cause talk of witchcraft and demonic possession - for what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer...? https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/heartstone-c-j-sansom/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/lamentation-c-j-sansom/ -
On the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto Tower in L.A., the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate, a grand opening celebration is in full swing. On the forty-sixth floor, in an empty conference room, the dead body of a beautiful young woman is discovered. The investigation begins and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisted maze of industrial intrigue - a no-holds-barred conflict in which control of a vital piece of American technology is the fiercely coveted prize - and the Japanese saying Business is War takes on a terrifying reality.
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Forty stories of crime and detection from original illustrated magazines of the late 1800s. In this volume: The Great Ruby Robbery; The Episode Of The Mexican Seer and The Episode of The Diamond Links, Grant Allen; The Black Bag Left On A Doorstep and The Murder At Troyte's Hill, C.L. Pirkis; An Oak Coffin; Without Witnesses and The Ponsonby Diamonds, L.T. Meade and Clifford Halifax, M.D.; The Loss Of Sammy Crockett; The Case Of Mr. Foggat; The Case Of The Dixon Torpedo and The Stanway Cameo Mystery, Arthur Morrison; The Story Of The Man With The Watches; The Story Of The Lost Special; The Story of The Black Doctor; The Story Of The Jew's Breastplate, Arthur Conan Doyle; The Stir Outside The Cafè Royal, Clarence Rook; An Unposted Letter, Newton MacTavish; The Glasgow Mystery; The York Mystery; The Liverpool Mystery; The Brighton Mystery; The Edinburgh Mystery; The Dublin Mystery and The Birmingham Mystery, Baroness E. Orczy; Madame Sara; The Blood-Red Cross and The Face Of The Abbot, L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace; In The Fog; The Queen's Messenger and The Solicitor's Story, Richard Harding Davis; The Mystery Of The Five Hundred Diamonds, Robert Barr; The Fire Of London; A Comedy On The Gold Coast; A Bracelet At Bruges; A Solution Of The Algiers Mystery; In The Capital Of The Sahara and 'Lo! Twas A Gala Night!' Arnold Bennett; The Hammerpond Mystery, H.G. Wells. With illustrations from the original publications and information on the authors. -
Inspector Montalbano is considering retirement. Everything seems to be going to the dogs and even his favourite restaurant has closed. But when he bumps into a dead body during a bracing swim, his detective instincts are awakened again - particularly when the most likely identity of the corpse is a man already long buried...
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