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It's 1321 and the people of Tiverton are preparing for the Feast of St. Giles under the shadow of murder. Philip Dyne has confessed and claimed sanctuary in St. Peter's church but danger is still present within the community. Sir Baldwin, Keeper of the King's Peace and Bailiff Simon Puttock arrive at Lord Hugh de Courtenay's castle for the feast - and another body is found: Sir Gilbert of Carlisle, an important ambassador, lying near the decpaitated figure of Dyne. The coronor believes that Dyne killed the ambassador and then was murdered; as an outlaw, Dyne doesn't merit the law's attention, but Sir Baldwin feels that too many questions have been left unanswered. How could an unarmed peasant kill a trained knight? Cover art by Danuto Mayer. -
Scarpetta IV. At 11.05 on a December evening, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue, Dr Scarpetta waits for Waddell's body. Waddell's death is not the only event that freezing night: the grotesquely wounded body of a young boy is found propped against a rubbish skip. The two deaths seem unrelated, until Scarpetta recalls that the body of Waddell's victim had been arranged in a rather similar position. Then comes a third murder with very few clues: old blood stains, fragments of feather and - the bloody fingerprint that points to the one suspect who could not have possibly committed the murder. -
Homicide investigator Rita Trible has seen many hideous crimes - but none like the eleven year old altar boy who was abused, murdered then embalmed. And worse, he is but the first victim of a serial slayer out to make Milwaukee a killing ground. Rita follows the trail of death, only to find it going in the direction she dreads...into the most forbidden realm of the parish, where she uncovers the secret life of a priest the Church is desperate to conceal at any price...and towards the horrifying fear that her own little boy has been targeted by a killer who seems to read her mind and mock her every move... -
Campion has been summoned, by an anonymous message, to the picture-perfect village of Kepesake for the funeral of Pig Peters, who he remembers only as the sadistic school bully of his childhood. It is a decidedly unpleasant affair with one or two dubious mourners. Campion has practically forgotten the affair when he is called back to Kepesake to investigate a peculiarly distasteful death. The body is that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his funeral... This book was first published in 1937 and sounds worthy of being made into an episode of Midsomer Murders. -
Wayward daughters. Missing husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you've got a problem, then see Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - lady private detective. She's not exactly conventional, nor is she Miss Marple, but she has warmth, wit and an uncanny intuition, not to mention Mr Matekoni - charming proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. She's on the trail of a missing child which will be a hotbed of strange situations and more than a little danger. Made into a very successful TV series. -
Ridley Jones 1. If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfect - with only the tiny cracks of an angry junkie for a brother and a charming drunk with shady underworld connections for an uncle to mar the otherwise flawless whole. But that’s not what happened. Instead, those inconsequential decisions lead her to perform a good deed that puts her in the right place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that brings a mysterious package to her door - a package which informs her that her entire world is a lie. Suddenly forced to question everything she knows about herself and her family, Ridley wanders into dark territory she never knew existed, where everyone in her life seems like a stranger. She has no idea who’s on her side and who has something to hide - even, and maybe especially, her new lover, Jake, who appears to have secrets of his own. -
A Dalziel and Pascoe mystery. A smartly dressed, seemingly middle class couple have tried to abduct Pascoe's wife - not a woman to go gently into strange BMWs. She escapes, but when there is an assault on a British matron near the Pascoe home, Dalziel begins looking for crims with a grudge against Pete Pascoe. A logical response - but dead wrong...
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No-one wept for Billington Smith, nor mourned his passing. Over the weekend, he'd given everyone cause to wish he was dead: violently disinheriting his son, humiliating his wife most publicly, refused to help his nephew out of money troubles and made it clear he loathed his son's fiancee. And his sister in law made him the most furious - she's not scared of him at all. Quite a cast of suspects. -
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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