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Twenty-five years ago, Jeffrey and Susan Clayton fled their tyrannical father - a man who was later suspected in the heinous murder of a young student. Though the father was never charged, he committed suicide. Or so it seemed. For someone has sent Susan a cryptic note. Once deciphered, it carries a terrifying message: I have found you. Meanwhile, a serial killer has invaded a tightly controlled community. Is Jeffrey Clayton’s father the source of this latest killing spree? The authorities think so - and they present Jeffrey, now a noted expert on serial killers, with a challenge: find the butcher responsible for the newborn spate of carnage...find your father... -
Dead Beat - Kate Brannigan 1: : Kate Brannigan is a female private detective set to do for Manchester what V.I. Warshawski has done for Chicago. As a favour to her rock journalist boyfriend, Kate agrees to track down a missing song-writer Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realise that finding Moira is only a prelude to murder…Kick Back - Kate Brannigan 2: Kate Brannigan is back, investigating the bizarre case of the missing conservatories. Before long she’s up to her neck in crooked land deals, mortgage scams, financial chicanery – and murder. But when a favour for a friend puts Kate’s own life in danger, bizarre is not the first word she thinks of… -
Is the past always waiting to revenge itself on the present? The past is the autumn of 1916; the 29th Battalion of Rifles was almost wiped out in an attack on Bouillet Wood on the Somme. Paul Mitchell spends his days researching WWI; his quiet life in the library can hardly be in greater contrast to the carnage he studies. Until, that is, the present catches up with him in the shape of Dr Audley of the Ministry of Defence. Why does Audley and Colonel Butler want to know what really happened during the battle for Hameau Ridge on the Somme in 1916? What really took place and its vital significance in the present make for a dangerous and complex investigation - with a deadly climax... -
Albert Campion 1. A house party is under way at the remote mansion of Black Dudley, and among the guests are some very shady characters. As they playfully recreate the ritual of the Black Dudley Dagger, the game turns into a deadly game of hide and seek - with nine young people trapped in a remote Suffolk house, a corpse to acocunt for and ALbert Campion at grips with a master criminal. -
Inspector Frost 6. On a rainy night in Denton, Detective Inspector Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre discovery in the woods - that of a human foot. Meanwhile a multiple rapist is on the loose, the local supermarket reports poisoned stock and a man claims to have cut his wife up into little pieces, yet can't recall where he hid them. But it is when two young girls are reported missing in quick succession that the Denton crime wave reaches terrifying heights. As the exhausted Frost staggers from case to case, pressured from all sides and haunted by memories of his wife, something nasty arrives at the station in the form of Detective Chief Inspector Skinner. The scheming, slippery Skinner clearly has his eye on the Superintendent's office, but his first job is to manipulate the transfer of the unorthodox D.I. Jack Frost to another division. Will Frost find the missing girls before his new nemesis forces him away from Denton once and for all? -
Alone: Lisa Gardner
$9.00Detective D.D. Warren 1. Alone...Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react . . . and forever pay the consequences. Alone...that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. Twenty-five years ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. Now her husband has just been killed. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son’s death . . . and for the series of unexplained illnesses that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital. Alone...a madman survived solitary confinement in a maximum security prison where he’d done hard time for the most sadistic of crimes. Now he walks the streets a free man, invisible, anonymous . . . and filled with an unquenchable rage for vengeance. What brings them together is a moment of violence—but what connects them is a passion far deeper and much more dangerous. For a killer is loose who’s woven such an intricate web of evil that no one is above suspicion, no one is beyond harm, and no one will see death coming until it has them cornered, helpless - and alone. -
D: Marcus Gibson
$15.00Daniel Seaton is D, a lonely and mysterious asylum inmate. D is not insane, but he lives in a terrible world of noises - noises he can hear from other people's ears. The doctors won't let him sleep, they want to keep him awake until he can stand it no more - all for the sake of their dream research. And now someone wants to kill D. Stalking him is a creature who can hear the noises in his head, and wants to stop them, to kill the sound. A nurse is brutally murdered, keys to the asylum go missing, and a terrifying figure in a white hood stalks the corridors. Beautiful intern Dianne Reicher is D's only hope. With her help he must fight to hold on to his sanity, his freedom... and his life. -
Dark Assassin: Anne Perry
$12.00William Monk 15. A Thames River Police superintendent struggling to win the respect of his men, William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he notices a young couple standing at the bridge railing, apparently engaged in an intense discussion. The woman waves her arms and places her hands on the man’s shoulders. A caress or a push? The man grasps hold of her. To save her or to kill her? Seconds later, the pair plunge to their death in the icy waters. Monk can’t help but wonder, was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder? Mary Havilland was her name, and she had planned to marry Toby Argyll, the fair-haired man who shared her fate. Mary’s father, an engineer employed by the Argyll Company, had recently died - a suicide, according to the police and Mary’s sister. But Mary’s friends tell Monk that she suspected her father had been murdered because of his stubborn insistence that the Argyll Company’s current project - the construction of a splendid new sewer system for the metropolis - was so badly flawed that it put the entire city in peril from flood and fire. Monk is now faced with the mysteries of the three deaths. Aided by his intrepid wife Hester, he starts looking for answers and is soon treading a slippery path that takes him from the luxurious drawing rooms where powerful men hatch their unscrupulous plots to a world beneath the city where poor folk fight starvation. In nightmarish tunnels, Monk and Hester find true friends, among them Scuff, a young mudlark; Sutton the ratcatcher; and Snoot, Sutton’s clever terrier. For once, even Monk’s old enemy, Superintendent Runcorn, is on his side. As rainfall strains the fragile man-made underground, Monk must connect the clues before death strikes again. -
Margaret McGinty, a barmaid and former actress, is found hanged, and her lodger, Harold Taylor, caught at the scene, seems plainly guilty. Everyone believes it to be an open-and-shut case except for Miss Marple. She is the lone holdout in the jury that tries him, leading to a mistrial. Despite the disapproval of Inspector Craddock. Miss Marple decides to delve into the case - but each new discovery deepens the mystery and Miss Marple must tread the boards in order to unmask the killer. Also stars Charles Tingwell and James Bolam. Based on Agatha Christie's novel Mrs McGinty's Dead. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-murder-of-roger-ackroydthey-do-it-with-mirrors-agatha-christie/ -
While Miss Marple and Mr Stringer are soliciting donations for a charity - The Reformed Criminals Assistance League - they call on the rich and reclusive Mr Enderby. He tumbles down the long entrance staircase, apparently the victim of a fatal heart attack. The late Mr Enderby had a pathological fear of cats - but why is there one in the house? That and a muddy riding boot print is enough to get Miss Marple investigating - especially when the relatives gather for the reading of the will. Also stars Flora Robson and Bud Tingwell. Based on the Agatha Christie novel After The Funeral. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/after-the-funeral-agatha-christie/ -
The Battledore is a training ship for teenage boys with criminal tendencies, who are supposedly being set on the straight and narrow path – when, in fact, one of the members of the crew is training them for careers in housebreaking. Shortly after joining the board of management of the Trust, Miss Marple witnesses the sudden death of a fellow trustee, who has just returned from a surprise visit to the ship, much disturbed by something he has discovered there. He dies without being able to reveal his discovery and Miss Marple resolves to learn what he discovered - even if it means going aboard the Battledore herself. Also stars Nicholas Parsons, Derek Nimmo and Charles Tingwell. This film is not based on an Agatha Christie novel, although it does contain elements of They Do It With Mirrors. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/mirrors-agatha-christie/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/margaret-rutherford-dreadnought-good-manners-andrew-merriman/ -
While travelling by train, Miss Marple witnesses the strangling of a young woman in another train on a parallel track. The police find nothing to support her story, so she conducts her own investigation, with the aid of her close friend Jim Stringer. They conclude the body must have been thrown from the train near Ackenthorpe Hall. There's only one thing for it - Miss Marple goes undercover as a housekeeper at the Hall. Based on Agatha Christie's 4.50 From Paddington. Also stars James Robertson Justice, Joan Hickson and Rutherford's husband Stringer Davis. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/4-50-from-paddington-agatha-christie/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/margaret-rutherford-dreadnought-good-manners-andrew-merriman/ -
New Hercule Poirot Mysteries 1. I’m a dead woman, or I shall be soon…Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified – but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London Hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one’s mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot struggles to put together the bizarre pieces of the puzzle, the murderer prepares another hotel bedroom for a fourth victim...
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Alexandra “Zan” Moreland, a gifted, beautiful interior designer on the threshold of a successful Manhattan career, is terrified to discover that somebody is not only using her credit cards and manipulating her financial accounts to bankrupt her and destroy her reputation, but may also be impersonating her in a scheme that may involve the much more brutal crimes of kidnapping and murder. Zan is already haunted by the disappearance of her own son, Matthew, kidnapped in broad daylight two years ago in Central Park - a tragedy that has left her torn between hope and despair. Now, on what would be Matthew’s fifth birthday, photos surface that seem to show Zan kidnapping her own child, followed by a chain of events that suggests somebody - but who has stolen her identity? And why? Hounded by the press, under investigation by the police, attacked by both her angry ex-husband and a vindictive business rival, Zan, wracked by fear and pain and sustained only by her belief, which nobody else shares, that Matthew is still alive, sets out to discover who is behind this cruel hoax. What she does not realize is that with every step she takes toward the truth, she is putting herself - and those she loves most -in mortal danger from the person who has ingeniously plotted out her destruction. Even Zan’s supporters, including Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner and amateur detective and Father Aiden O’Brien, who thinks that Zan may have confessed to him a secret he cannot reveal, believe she may have kidnapped little Matthew. Zan herself begins to doubt her own sanity... -
Alexandra Cooper 7. Workers demolishing a nineteenth-century brownstone where Edgar Allan Poe once lived discover a human skeleton entombed -- standing -- behind a brick wall. When sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper hears about the case, it strikes her as a classic Poe scene...except that forensic evidence shows that this young woman died within the last twenty-five years. Meanwhile, Alex's old nemesis the Silk Stocking Rapist is once again terrorising Manhattan's Upper East Side. The attacks soon escalate to murder, and the search leads Alex and detectives Mercer Wallace and Mike Chapman to the city's stunning Bronx Botanical Gardens. There, an enigmatic librarian presides over the Raven Society, a group devoted to the work of Poe. In exploring the fabled writer's tormented life for clues, Alex will cross paths with a cunning killer and face some of the greatest challenges of her career. -
Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte 13. Broome - a town on the north-west coats of Australia. When Napoleon Bonaparte, half-caste detective, is called in to investigate the strangling of two attractive widows, a strange and terrible motive for murder is gradually revealed. The victims' nightgowns, stolen from their washing lines, are found ripped to shreds. On discovering that the killer suffers from a rare skin disease, Bony's search narrows. Then a third widow meets the same grisly fate...Aided by Mr Dickenson, the town drunk; Abie, an aboriginal tracker who delights in inhaling petrol fumes and one of the Broome widows, Bony must succeed in catching his fish - which is shaping up to be the biggest and most ferocious human shark ever to rise to his bait. -
For six years the Free Aristotle Macho Edwards (F.A.M.E) campaign has pulled a variety of exotic publicity stunts. To ITN crime reporter Kate Lewis F.A.M.E. is hot news, but to her fiance Chief Inspector Taff Roberts, it's a racket. To him, Ari Edwards is a black pimp who deserves his life sentence for the brutal murder of one of his high class prostitutes. But then a crucial new witness disappears and the detectives on the case begin pressing Taff to get at Kate - who is then grossly assaulted. Retaliating, Taff eventually gets t he murder conviction quashed and Ari Edwards released - but to fatal consequences as those behind the pimp's conviction - senior police and a top City company - close ranks to conceal their involvement. -
Pig’s Head: David Owen
$20.00Pufferfish I. Pufferfish (Contusus brevicandus): Body moderately short, pectorals rounded. Slow swimmer. Scavenger in the mud, at home in the murky shallows, where it roots out and feeds on detritus. Inflatable body able to bloat and even explode under extreme provocation...There are good cops, there are bad cops...and then there is Pufferfish, a.k.a Detective Inspector Franz Heineken. A severed head rolls out of the rubbish in a crowded Tasmanian caravan park, and the hunt is on for the killers ... and for their victim, a man no-one seems to miss, a man no-one wants to know. As Pufferfish digs deeper, he runs straight up against mainland law and order ... and the smell of corruption grows.
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