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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.
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