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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...
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