Travis McGee is a big tough beach-walker, a knight-errant and salvage expert, prepared to risk life and limb to recover stolen goods - provided he gets half. He can't resist the challenge of helping Cathy Kerr, a desolate young dancer defrauded of the treasure her father had amassed during the war. They don't know what the treasure is but they knew who stole it - Junior Allen, a smiling man who had met Cathy's father in prison. He took up with Cathy long enough to destroy her soul and find the hiding place. It's easy to find Allen's trail - by the money he flaunts the women he's depraved.
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Reverend Tuckworth 2. In an attempt to procure funding for the rebuilding of his beloved cathedral, Dean Tuckworth finds himself traveling to London with his obnoxious colleague, the self-serving Reverend Mortimer. If that is not troublesome enough, when a disfigured corpse is discovered at a dinner party hosted by mysterious philanthropist Hamlin Price, Tuckworth is thrown into the role of detective once again. The Bow Street inspector in charge of the investigation wants to pin the crime on Price's vanished secretary, but Tuckwell is not convinced. With the help of maverick poet and writer Leigh Hunt, Tuckworth sets out to discover the identity of the dead man and in the process stumbles on a secret so horrifying it threatens to destroy all that he stands for. The Devil runs free in Bellminster, and only Tuckworth can stop him...
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When five women are brutally raped and murdered in Sierra Leone, Reuters correspondent Connie Burns questions the arrest of three rebel soldiers for the crimes. No-one listens - in a vicious civil wear where hundreds of thousands are killed, the rape and murder of women is of no consequence. And who cares if child soldiers are beaten into confessing? With nothing to go one except her witnessing a savage attack on a prostitute, Connie believes a foreigner is responsible - a man who claims to have been in the SAS and who works as a bodyguard for a Lebanese diamond trader. She remembers him when he was a mercenary of Kabila's Kinshasa regime, and she suspects he uses the chaos of war to act out sadistic fantasies against women. Two years later in Iraq, the consequences of her second attempt to expose him are devastating. Terrified, degraded and destroyed, she goes into hiding in England where she strikes up a friendship with Jess, a reclusive loner. Borrowing Jess's strength. Connie makes the decision to attempt a third unmasking of a serial killer, knowing he will come after her...
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Book VIII of The Cadfael Chronicles. In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice, Meriet Aspley, a little...disturbing. The younger son of a prominent family, Meriet is meek and biddable by day, but his sleep is rife with nightmares so violent that they earn him the name of "Devil's Novice". Shunned by the other monks, Aspley attracts the concern of Brother Cadfael. Then the body of a young priest, last seen at the Aspley estate, is found. Can Meriet be involved in the death? Cover shows Sir Derek Jacobi as Cadfael in the series of the same name. -
When the strangely scarred body of a tramp is discovered in a secluded Amsterdam park, Detective Van Hijn believes this is another victim of a serial killer currently terrorising the city. Discovered on the corpse are contact details for Jon Reed, who can identify the victim as Jake Colby, a stranger he took off the streets and into his London home for a few weeks. Yet it seems that Jon didn't choose Jake - Jake chose Jon. Was Jake really a tramp? And what led him to a life on the streets? What is the connection between the murders and the appearance of alleged Holocaust footage on an illegal internet auction site? -
Set in the snowy location of Wideview Chalet, Detective Inspector Bonaparte, half-caste aboriginal and 'Boney' to his friends, find an uncanny set of tracks in the snow that may reveal the killer. The victim is a German who left his country before its wartime collapse and is living under an assumed name at the chalet. All manner of things become clear to Boney - the strange tracks, a conversation about deep sea fishing and clothing given to a charity. -
Originally published in 1895, an unusual murder mystery set in Brisbane at the time of the disastrous 1893 floods, backed by the land scandals that rocked the local political structure during a period of violent change for Queensland. The story opens with the strange death of prominent citizen the Hon. Constant M'Watt. George Jackson is accused of the murder and circumstantial evidence is so strong against him his conviction is a foregone conclusion...but do they have the right man? -
To Aphra Coleman, exquisite actress, the invitation to perform at the magnificent Abbotswood estate seemed heaven-sent. And the man of the manor, David Hillyard, wanted her, wed her and enthroned her in Abbotswood...only to turn her bliss into trembling terror. The beauty of Abbotswood could not mask David's suddenly sinister behavior...the whispered warnings of the lusty, red-haired blacksmith...the gaslight games her husband played to torment her...and the growing awareness that she was the quarry of David's obsession with a bird of prey - the eagle at the gate... -
The Easy Sin: Jon Cleary
$10.00Scobie Malone No. XIX. Scobie Malone is leaving the Homicide and Serial Offenders Unit of the Sydney police, and his last investigation could be his most bizarre. When a housemaid is found dead in a dotcom millionaire's penthouse, Scobie suspects a kidnap that's gone wrong. But never in his wildest dreams could he imagine just how wrong. the kidnappers' plan to grab a millionaire's girlfriend has instead netted them a millionaire. Worse, the dotcom bubble has burst, leaving the millionaire in debt to the YaKuza and high on their hit list. The trial leads Scobie to renew the acquaintance of some old adversaries...
