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Inspector Lynley No. 11. When Eugenie Davies is killed by a driver on a quiet London street, her death is clearly no accident. Someone struck her with a car and then deliberately ran over her body before driving off, leaving nothing behind but questions. What brought Eugenie Davies to London on a rainy autumn night? Why was she carrying the name of the man who found her body? Who among the many acquaintances in her complicated, tragic life could have wanted her dead? And could her murder have some connection to a twenty-eight-year-old musical wunderkind, a virtuoso violinist who several months earlier suddenly and inexplicably lost the ability to play a single note? For Inspector Lynley, whose own domestic life is about to change radically, these questions are only the first in an investigation that leads him to walk a fine line between personal loyalty and professional honor - after he learns that Webberly's first murder investigation as a DI over twenty years ago involved Eugenie Davies and a sensational criminal trial. Now the pressure is on Lynley to find Eugenie Davies' killer as he puts his own career in jeopardy and attempts to save the careers of his longtime partners Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata. Together they must untangle the dark secrets and darker passions of a family whose history conceals the truth behind a horrific crime. Cover art by Clifford Webb. -
Acid Row is the name given to their housing estate by the beleagured inhabitants; a no-man's-land of single mothers, fatherless children and angry, alienated youth who control the streets. Enter Sophie Morrison, a young doctor visiting a patient - and she unknowingly enters the home of a known paedophile - and with reports circulating that a tormented child called Amy has vanished, the vigilantes come out in force. Whipped into a frenzy by the unsubstantiated rumour, the mob unleashes its hatred against authority, the law and the 'perve' and a terrible series of events follow, with Sophie trapped in the middle of it all. -
Cora Lansquenet had always been tactless - and her well bred family chose to ignore the remark she made after her brother Richard's funeral: "He was murdered, wasn't he?" They remembered it the next day, when Cora was found murdered with a hatchet - and several days later, when Cora's companion was sent a sliver of wedding cake steeped in arsenic...But by then, the family solicitor had called in Hercule Poirot. Cover art by Tom Adams. -
The Scorpions stalked through the worst nightmares of ordinary Americans - and when they rode out of Santa Fe, they left a trail of empty bottles, an alleged rape victim - and found themselves accused of a brutal murder. Will Alexander was the hottest defence lawyer in New Mexico, in court and between the sheets. But life in the fast line, a broken marriage and a serious drink problem had put his career on the skids. The Scorpions lived their outlaw creed to the hilt. Will was convinced of their innocence but soon he was fighting the case of his life. How could he defend men who held the law in open contempt? -
Ordeal By Innocence: While serving a life sentence for killing his mother, Jacko Argyle dies. Two years later, a stranger shatters the peace of the Argyle household. Does Arthur Calgary hold the missing link in Jacko's defence? Was Jacko sentenced for a murder he didn't commit? And if Jacko didn't murder his mother - who did? One, Two, Buckle My Shoe: What reason would amiable dentist Dr. Morely have for committing suicide? He didn't have emotional difficulties, money problems or love trouble. What he did have was an appointment with Hercule Poirot, who is not persuaded by the suicide story and has therefore taken it upon himself to question the good doctor's patients, partners, and friends. All he's come up with is the numbing fear that Dr. Morely wasn't an unlikely victim at all... The Adventure Of The Christmas Pudding: An English country house at Christmas time should be the perfect place to get away from it all - but nothing is ever simple for Hercule Poirot, as he finds not one but five baffling cases to solve. First comes a sinister warning on his pillow to avoid the plum pudding...then the discovery of a corpse in a chest...next, an overheard quarrel that leads to murder...the strange case of a dead man's eating habits...and the puzzle of a victim who dreams of his own suicide. -
Two massive reads in one. When The Bough Breaks: It began with a very vicious, gruesome double murder. Only one witness: little Melody Quinn, who can't or won't say a word. Child psychologist Alex Delaware comes in and takes the first step into a maelstrom of atrocities. Blood Test: Gravely ill little Woody Swope has parents - members of a bizarre cult called the Touchers - who refuse to allow him treatment. They threatened to remove him from hospital. And then they were gone - leaving a motel suite splashed with blood. -
In this volume: The Story of a Dead Man: Inspector Teal becomes suspicious when he discovers The Saint claiming to have reformed and working as an office manager. The Impossible Crime: An unusually bored Templar agrees to help Teal solve a crime involving a man in a locked room who had apparently been shot to death. This story introduces Templar's colleague Duncarry, a New York City detective who once pursued Templar on a case, but is now one of the Saint's inner circle. The National Debt: Templar assumes the identity of Professor Ramses Smith in order to investigate a group of modern-day pirates based in South Wales who kidnapped a beautiful young chemist after doping her with a mind-altering drug that turned her briefly into a mindless killer. -
Alice In Jeopardy: Ed McBain
$10.00Alice thought she had lost everything when her husband's yacht was found empty and adrift. He had slipped out to sail under the stars and is never coming back. A year on, Alice and her two children are still struggling to come to terms with their new life - but their troubles are only beginning...One sunny day, Alice's children don't come home. The police are caught up in interdepartmental battles and Alice, now very much alone in the world, believes the only way she can save her children is to find them herself. But as the questions multiply, the answers grow ever more elsuive. -
Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her English professor - but she has no memory of the crime. Her fingerprints, however, are everywhere. When she asks her sister, attorney Sarah, to mount her defence, Sarah in turn brings in psychiatrist Justin Donnelly. Kidnapped at the age of four and victimised for two years, Laurie has developed astounding coping skills. Only when the unbearable memories of those lost years are released can the truth of the crime come out—and then the final sadistic plan of her abductor, whose obsession has grown over the years, is revealed. -
When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her English professor, she has no memory of the crime. Her fingerprints, however, are everywhere. When she asks her sister, attorney Sarah, to mount her defense, Sarah in turn brings in psychiatrist Justin Donnelly. Kidnapped at the age of four and victimized for two years, Laurie has developed astounding coping skills. Only when the unbearable memories of those lost years are released can the truth of the crime come out - and only then can the final sadistic plan of her abductor, whose obsession is stronger than ever, be revealed. -
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. -
Book II of Dalziel and Pascoe. Lecturers having it away with students, midnight romps among the sand dunes...this all fits in with Superintendent Andy Dalziel's views of the benefit of Higher Education. But the discovery of a body buried beneath a statue in the grounds of Holm Coultram College surprises even his cycnical mind. Fortunately, he has an expert to hand, that prize product of H.E., Sergeant Peter Pascoe. Together they settle in on campus and the learning begins. The only trouble is that just as they think they have solved one problem, a second body turns up...and another...Pascoe is both helped and hindered by finding an old flame on the staff, while the students class Dalziel as a fascist pig and thick with it...which is a very serious mistake. -
Cordelia Gray XI. Sir Ronald Callender's son, handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, Sir Ronald hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder. -
In 1298, Edward I invaded Scotland, brutally sacked the town of Berwick and razed the legal trading Red House of the Flemings to the ground - an act that would have far-reaching repercussions. One year later, Edward convened a great assembly of the realm in St Paul's Cathedral. They were to hear Mass, after which the main celebrant, Walter de Montfort, had been delegated to lecture the king on not taxing the Church. But during the Mass, de Montfort died a sudden and violent death. Hugh Corbett, the King's clerk, was taxed with solving the mystery and tracking down the murderer. His investigations, while Edward struggles to maintain himself at home and abroad, become tortuous and laced with danger before he discovers exactly how a man could be murdered in full view of the King and the country's notables. -
An activist attorney is murdered at the foot of Angel's Flight,m an elevated railway in the heart of downtown Los Angeles - far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But the case is so explosive - Howard Elias's lawsuits charging the LAPD with racism and brutality made him a celebrity and a success that earned him the hatred of practically every cop in the city. The suspects are so numerous that it falls to Harry to solve it. Now the streets are super-heating with racial tension and it will only take one mis-step for that tension to boil over. Harry's marriage seems to have unraveled - but has his wife left him for good, or has she fallen deeper into a dangerous addiction? And the hunt for a killer is leading Harry into S and M parlours, dark corners of the internet, into confrontations with violent cops and to another high-profile L.A. murder case - one where every cop had a motive. Harry battles to save his job, his marriage and his city. -
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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In the dead of night he performs the profane ceremony. He arranges the body. He pours the accelerant, anointing the dead. He lights the match. 'Ashes To Ashes'. The media have dubbed him the Cremator. The city is in uproar. But as he strikes the third match, he has a witness, a teen runaway who sees the Cremator's face in the flickering of the fire. Advocate Kate Conlan battles to unlock the motivation of the teen witness whilst battling the demons of her own past, and in the frenzy of media attention, Kate finds herself on the trail of the Cremator. -
Tolliver, once a doctor to hoodlums, now ekes out a living as a dealer in stamps and coins. When one of his companions at the seedy boarding house is brutally murdered, it's likely that the police investigation will unearth Tolliver's past. So the elderly Tolliver sets out to expose the motive and find the killer.
