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Tragedy At Two: Ann Purser
$35.00Lois Meade 9. Lois Meade's daughter was admittedly considering leaving her partner, Rob-but she never expected him to be found badly beaten and left for dead in a ditch by the side of the road. When Rob tragically dies from his injuries without regaining consciousness, Inspector Cowgill has a murder investigation on his hands, and once again he engages the assistance of the woman he respects above all others-Lois. Suspicion quickly falls on the traveling gypsies who are camped out on Alf Smith's property. There is strong prejudice among many in the village who consider the gypsies no better than tramps and thieves. Lois must follow a twisted path that leads to arson, local delinquents, secret assignations, and blackmail-before she can discover who's been tinkering with the truth... -
Jemima Shore 1. Nun Found Dead - a small item in a newspaper. Sister Miriam of Blessed Eleanor’s Convent has apparently starved herself to death in a ruined tower adjoining the convent grounds. Jemima Shore, highly successful television reporter, remembers her girlhood friendship at convent school with Sister Miriam, then Rosabelle Powerstock, heiress to one of the largest fortunes in Britain. And out of the past also comes an appeal from Reverend Mother Ancilla...’Jemima, something is going on here…’ -
It was every mother’s worst nightmare... Life was finally falling into place for artist and single Mom Shannon Buchanan. After months of providing for her toddler daughter Mandy by drawing tourist portraits at the side of the road, she was on her way to a new job in California. But a frantic power couple on the Central Coast of California were searching for their kidnapped daughter - the spitting image of Mandy - and an anonymous tip identifies Shannon as the kidnapper. Is Shannon a grief-crazed mother who stole a child to replace the one she lost? Or is she the victim of a larger plot? It’s up to maverick Sheriff’s Investigator Phil Tewkes to navigate the twists and turns of corruption, greed, and even murder, to determine who holds claim to the little girl. -
Nemesis: Agatha Christie
$8.00In utter disbelief, Jane Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel - an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. He had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem was, he had failed to tell her who was involved or where and when the crime had been committed. It was most intruguing. Soon she is faced with a new crime - the ultimate crime - murder. It seems someone is adamant that past evils remain buried... -
Alex Delaware 24. In a half-built mansion in Los Angeles, a watchman stumbles onto the bodies of a young couple - murdered and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace. Veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis is shocked at the sight: a twisted crime that only Milo and psychologist Alex Delaware can hope to solve. While the female victim’s identity remains in question, her companion is ID’d as eco-friendly architect Desmond Backer, notorious for his power to seduce women. The deeper Milo and Alex dig for clues, the longer the list of suspects grows. But when the investigation veers suddenly in a startling direction, it’s the investigators who may wind up on the wrong end of a cornered predator’s final fury. -
Based on the characters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Peter Wimsey is pleased to discover that along with a Dukedom he has inherited the duties of 'visitor' at an Oxford college.When the fellows appeal to him to resolve a dispute, he and Harriet set off happily to spend some time in Oxford. But the dispute turns out to be embittered. The voting is evenly balanced between two passionate parties - evenly balanced, that is, until several of the fellows unexpectedly die.The Warden has a casting vote, but the Warden has disappeared. And the causes of death of the deceased fellows bear an uncanny resemblance to the murder methods in Peter's past cases - methods that Harriet has used in her published novels. -
A volume chock-full of murder and mayhem...Under Crime: Serial Killer, Robert Bloch; Accident, Agatha Christie; Evidence In Camera, Margery Allingham; Round Trip, W.R. Burnett; Morning Visit, James Hadley Chase; Murder Comes Easy, Evan Hunter; The Flaw In The System, Jim Thompson; Blurred View, John D. MacDonald; The Sweetest Man In The World, Donald E. Westlake; Prediction, Chester Himes; Going Through The Motions, Lawrence Block; The Corder Figure, Peter Lovesey; Gravy Train, James Ellroy; A Flash of White, Andrew Vachss; Remain Nameless, Lynda La Plante. Under Detection: A Case Of Christmas Spirit, Nicholas Rhea (Constable Nick Rowan); The Second Skin, Michael Gilbert; Blood Brothers, Christianna Brand; Duello, Henry Wade; The Suitcase, Freeman Wills Crofts; Confirmation, John Harvey; Auld Lang Syne, John Harvey (Rebus); Sweating It Out With Dover, Joyce Porter; Clutching At Straws, Ruth Rendell (Wexford); The Burglar, Colin Dexter (Morse); Where The Snow Lay Dinted, Reginald Hill; The Little Copplestone Mystery, Ngaio Marsh ( Roderick Alleyn); Gideon And The Young Toughs, John Creasey ( George Gideon); Before Insulin, J.J. Connington; The Memorial Service, Michael Innes. Under Punishment: Somewhere In The City, Marcia Muller; A Classic Forgery, Roy Vickers; The Adventure Of The Abergavenny Murder, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Raffles And The Dangerous Game, Barry Perowne; The Smashing Of Another Racket, Leslie Charteris (The Saint); They Can Only Hang You Once, Dashiell Hammett (Sam Spade); Black Out, Peter Cheney; The Sleeping Dog, Ross MacDonald; Caribbean Clues, Patricia McGerr; Virgil Tibbs And The Fallen Body, John Ball; Full Moon, George Baxt; Willing To Kill, Don Pendleton; The Bottle Dungeon, Antonia Fraser; The Takamoku 'Joseki', Sara Paretsky; She Didn't Come Home, Sue Grafton. -
NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him - he sees each museum, each cathedral and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer. Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim., Wish you were here. Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm -and they think they know where the next victims will be. -
Payatas, a 50 acre dump in northeast Manila, is home to thousands of people who live off what they can scavenge: recyclables, broken electronics and even half-eaten food. It is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in a city whose law enforcement is stretched thin and rife with corruption. So when the eviscerated bodies of preteen boys begin to appear in the trash heaps in the rainy summer of 1997, there is no-one to seek justice on their behalf, no-one to care - until two Jesuit priests, forensic anthropologist Father Gus Saenz and his protégé Father Jerome Lucero take 5the matter of protecting their flock into their own hands. -
Miss Marple's nephew, Raymond West, has given his favourite aunt a vacation at a beautiful resort in the Caribbean.There's an interesting crowd of guests - a South American lady with gigolo attendants; an English tycoon, his strangely silent secretary and a sinister masseuse who seems capable of anything...as well as an old wind-bag who tells Miss Marple the story of the time he met a murderer - and he has a photo. Suddenly he hesitates, and excuses himself. By the next morning he is dead, seemingly of natural causes. Miss Marple has doubts. And well she should... -
Book I of Two Rivers. In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge meet, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the chapel as his father’s funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now he's back and not just to mourn his father at a distance; but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers district; a place not quite as idyllic as tourists suppose. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. The case calls Matthew back into the community he thought he had left behind, as deadly secrets hidden at its heart are revealed, and his past and present collide. -
Philip Converse was an extremely wealthy man. He was also kindly, generous, sympathetic - and dead. He was loved by all who knew him, except one - for Philip Converse had been murdered. They came to his beautioful New England home from far and wide, the mourners and the curious - and the murderer among them. Beneath the breeding, success and sophistication of the dead man's family, a careful observer found a hidden desperation - and all candidates for the murderer's role. By the time it was discovered what happened the night Philip Converse died, all had been absolved, except one. And that one who might have been a victim, changed roles - and struck again... -
When Robert Devore dropped out of Princeton, his family cut him off without a cent. So he kidnapped his mother and ransomed her for $250,000: it was a great idea for how could his father fail to pay up? His mother seemed comfortable in her cellar hide-ouit; he made sure of that, working hard to keep the atmosphere friendly and civilised. Then bit-part thug, Al Madonna, walked in on the action - and overnight, the cosy scene turned ugly... -
Seven strangers meet by chance on a Caribbean island and form a charmed circle of lasting friendships. Newly qualified London doctor, Joanna Lyndhurst, is taking a well-earned break on the romantic island of Antigua - ten days of glorious sunshine, without anyone knowing she's a doctor. But Jo is not the only one with a secret. Amongst the enchanting and diverse bunch of characters she meets, it turns out not one is quite what they seem. Lowell, the American lawyer, and Vincent, an art-dealer from Amsterdam, have travelled the world in a long-standing relationship, while maintaining separate lives and private worlds that do not overlap. Feisty New York banking executive, Merrily Morgenstern, keeps them all in stitches with her lurid tales of Manhattan high-life yet conceals her real anxiety about the threat to her own career. Sandy-haired Jessica, steeped in a world of culture and classical music, mourns a lost love whom she dare not discuss. And Cora Louise and Fontaine, mother and daughter from the steamy South, keep up appearances and dread the exposure of their own murky secret. By mutual consent, the holiday becomes an annual tradition as close friendships develop and the group starts to meet on each other's home ground. Yet the Caribbean sunshine has its own darker side. Someone is on the trail of a killer ... -
Maigret 41. When a man is found stabbed to death in an alley off Boulevard Saint-Martin, his identity card shows a workplace that had gone out of business three years earlier. As far as his wife knew, he still worked there, and she insists that the shoes and a tie he was wearing when he was killed “couldn’t be his.” It soon becomes evident that although he had a source of income, he spent most of his time sitting on a bench in the neighborhood, often with the same unknown man. Can Maigret find him? -
Andie DeGrasse, an aspiring actress and single mom, is not your typical juror. Hoping to get dismissed from the pool, she tells the judge that most of her legal knowledge comes from a bit part curling around the stripper's pole in The Sopranos. But she still ends up as juror number 11 in a landmark trial against a notorious mob boss. The judge is terrified of the defendant... The case quickly becomes the new Trial of the Century. Mafia don Dominic Cavello, known as the Electrician, is linked to hundreds of gruesome, unspeakable crimes. Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante has been tracking him for years. He knows Cavello's power reaches far beyond the courtroom but the FBI's evidence against the ruthless killer is ironclad. Conviction is sure thing. So is the jury...As the jury is about to reach a verdict, the Electrician makes one devastating move that no one could have predicted. The entire nation is reeling, and Andie's world is shattered. For her, the hunt for the Electrician becomes personal, and she and Pellisante come together in an unbreakable bond: they exact justice - at any cost. The verdict: Run for your life... -
Inspector Frank Stave 1. Hamburg, 1947. A ruined city occupied by the British who bombed it, experiencing the coldest winter in living memory. Food is scarce; refugees and the homeless crowd into shanty towns and sheds. There is a killer on the loose, and all attempts to find him or her have failed. Plagued with worry about his missing son, Frank Stave is a career policeman with a tragedy in his past that is driving his determination to find the killer. With the help of his colleague Maschke from the vice squad, and Lt MacDonald from the British military, Stave has to find out why - and who - in the wake of a wave of atrocity, the grim Nazi past and the bleak attempts by his German countrymen to recreate a country from the apocalypse - is still dedicated to murder. -
Mark Fairfax is a young, gifted London bond trader with a high-paying job, a stellar track record and a beautiful girlfriend. His older brother, Richard, owns FairSystems, a small company poised to do for the virtual reality world what Bill Gates did for personal computers. But one dark night Richard is brutally murdered in his workshop. Mark immediately steps into Richard's shoes - and his life. Through cunning and luck, Mark struggles to keep his brother's business afloat and to discover the secrets behind his death. Until Mark himself becomes the target, moving ever closer to his brother's fate.
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