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Kay Scarpetta VIII. Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia - separated by thousands of miles but linked by murder. Dr. Scarpetta, on a leisure stint in Ireland, has the perfect opportunity to find out if the murders on opposite sides of the Atlantic are linked. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland years ago - now four have been discovered in the US. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. There are vital discrepancies and evidence that the elderly victim was already seriously ill. A copy-cat killing - ghoulish, but not unusual. But when the next body is found, Scarpetta discovers that the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox. -
Vortex: Jon Cleary
$12.00In the small town of Friendship, Missouri, a tornado is approaching. The chief of police, unable to sleep, makes a tour of inspection before dawn and finds a farmhouse already destroyed by a twister, a small forerunner of the greater whirlwind. Crushed in the ruins is the body of a woman - not the farmer's wife, but the wife of Friendship's leading citizen. The twister is not the killer - who is? Family securities unravel, skeletons emerge from cupboards and the great tornado comes closer and closer. -
The body of a young Maori girl is found in a bush stream, and a mysterious red car is seen in the vicinity. This is no mere whodunnit or simple detective novel. The story traces the violation of a country's summer peace when a terrible crime is committed, unleashing a national anger that leaves no-one untouched. In the search for a scapegoat, one person will be relentlessly pursued. -
Was It Murder? James Hilton
$20.00When Colin Revell gained a reputation at Oxford as an amateur detective, he's asked by the Headmaster of his old school, Oakington, to make enquiries into a strange accident - a boy has been killed by the fall of a heavy, old-fashioned gas fitting in the dormitory. Revell finds nothing of interest - but then the corpse of the dead boy's elder brother is found in the school's swimming pool. Revell again rushes to Oakington; but now a Scotland Yard detective is investigating. An exceptionally diabolical crime is discovered but to prove it is a difficult problem which depends not on clues, but by exploring and exploiting the characters of the various suspects. A very different offering from the author of Goodbye, Mr Chips. Originally published as Murder At School by 'Glen Trevor'.
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When a light bulb falls in a Chicago subway tunnel, it releases a pathogen that could kill millions. While the mayor postures and poses, people start dying, especially on the city's grim west side. Hospitals become morgues, trains become hearses. Finally, the government acts by sealing off entire sections of the city - but are they keeping people out or in? The hunt for those behind this plot takes P.I Michael Kelly into the underworld of Chicago and the more frightening world of black biology - an emerging elite discipline where scientists play God and will stop at nothing to preserve their secrets. -
Gary Lasch, a respected and successful young Greenwich, Connecticut, doctor and hospital and HMO head. He was found dead at his desk at home, his skull crushed by a blow with a Remington bronze sculpture, a prized piece from his art collection. The news strikes Greenwich society like a thunderbolt - as does the news that Molly Carpenter Lasch, the beautiful young wife of the slain doctor, has been arrested for her husband's murder. Molly had left home in a rage against her husband to go up to their house on Cape Cod and on the morning after Molly's return, the housekeeper found Gary dead in his study and Molly upstairs in bed covered with blood. Nobody believes Molly's claim to have no memory of the events of the night of the crime - not her parents, not her friends, not even her own lawyer - and evidence against her is overwhelming. To escape an inevitable conviction she accepts a plea bargain, and subsequently her lawyer wins her early parole .On her release, Molly asks her old school friend Fran, an investigative reporter for the True Crime television series, to research and present a program on Gary's death. But the program raises more and more questions about Gary's murder - and the suicide of Fran's father. -
Elizabeth Lange and her exotic sister Leila flee from Kentucky to New York to escape the dirt and drunkenness of their mother and her boyfriends. There they learn the hard lessons of life in a big city, but when Leila becomes a successful actress, they begin to forget the horrors of their past - until Leila is murdered. Accused of her murder is Ted Winters, Leila's wealthy and famous fiancé. Elizabeth is the chief witness for the prosecution. Encouraged by her friend Min, Elizabeth goes to an exclusive beauty spa to relax before the trial and there finds congregated all the men and women who had cause to love or hate Leila; Ted Winters and his right-hand man Craig; Cheryl Manning and her agent Syd; Helmut von Schrieber, Min's toy soldier husband. One of them is determined that Elizabeth will not live to testify...
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Everything was going splendidly for Harley Ross. He was a highly successful novelist; he was rich and famous; he lived in a luxurious home in Connecticut and, since his wife left him two years before, he had built up a satisfying relationship with a beautiful mistress. Absolutely nothing was allowed to disrupt his rigid work schedule. Then suddenly, the impossible happened: Harley's wife Marta returned and prepared to stay. He had to get her out - but Marta's weapon was Harley's guiltiest secret and it certainly entitled her to a meal-ticket for life. Or death. -
The sequel to With No One As Witness. The wife of New Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley was gunned down in the street outside her home. Under arrest for the crime is a twelve-year-old boy, Joel Campbell. What possible motive could he have? What chain of events could have led such a child from the housing estates of North Kensington to the elegant streets of Belgravia with such deadly intent? The answer to these questions is a complex mixture of fate and circumstance. Abandoned (albeit involuntarily) by his parents, Joel and two siblings are dumped on the doorstep of his aunt's house. Kendra, childless and with two marriages behind her, is doing her best to turn her life around; responsibility for three troubled children is not what she had in mind. Drugs, neglect, violence and poverty are commonplace in North Kensington. Joel does his best to look out for his family, but that involves a Faustian pact. And the Devil will have his pay. -
Mitchell and Markby No 5. What do you do when you think your ex-lover murdered his wife? That's the question Ursula Gretton, an archaeologist working on an ancient Saxon burial ground on Bamford Hill, puts to Meredith Mitchell in the hope that Meredith's friendship with Cotswold chief inspector Alan Markby might cast some light on her dilemma. To Meredith's irritation, Markby is dismissive of Ursula's suspicions concerning the disappearance of Dan Wollard's wife - that is, until a woman's body is found in the garbage dump near the site Wollard and Ursula have been excavating. The archaeologists aren't the only ones disturbing the peace of the remote windswept hill. Much to the fury of the local landowners, the taciturn and truculent Felstons, a band of New Age hippies has set up camp on the hill, only to disappear at dawn the day after the discovery of the body. Markby is faced with a tangle of conflicting clues, suspects and possible witnesses - including Meredith Mitchell herself. And when a second body is found it is clear the web is growing ever more complex - and destructive. Cover art by David Hopkins. -
When high-flying Sydney lawyer Cass Meredith is appointed head of a state enquiry into a child pornography racket, she sees it as a chance to clean up the city. But she doesn't count on ex-Vice Squad detective John Carrigan - a man with a reputation for taking bribes and a preference for under-age girls - being made her second-in-command. At the same time, Loveday Larsen, a local prostitute is dropping hints of a video that would could unmask some of the country's most powerful men as pederasts. And suddenly, it's not clear whether it's her eight-year-old son Mozzie or her career that Cass is trying to protect when she plans to send him away to boarding school. It seems that the closer Cass she gets to the men who torture children, the closer she gets to the truth about herself, as she, Carrigan and her son Mozzie are in exorably drawn toward to core of corruption. -
Marcus Corvinus VII. When Pegasus, racing mega-star and lead driver of the Whites faction, is found stabbed to death in the alleyway beside Renatius' wineshop, Marcus Corvinus is already on site. The local district watch - crooked to a man - claim that the killer's motive was simple theft. Corvinus knows differently. Tracking the murderer down - with the often unwilling help of his wife, Perilla - takes Marcus deep into the murky world of Roman chariot-racing with all its secrets, skulduggeries, and scams; and his task is not made any easier by the fact that in the process he has a lovesick major-domo, an invisible dagger, and Mount Etna to contend with. Cover art by Sally Taylor. -
Bianca Bernini did not foresee that she would inspire her own murder when she boarded the legendary Ghan for the two day train trip from Sydney to Alice Springs. As the most read, most listened to gossip columnist in Australia. She revelled in her power to ruin the lives of eight other passengers - eight highly-placed, privileged people, who were determined to hide their secrets at any cost. What would they pay to stop the public revelations she could and would make? For K.C. Gordon, successful romance novelist, travelling is a way to recharge her batteries - meet new people, see new places, have new experiences. Wanting to set her next story in the Australian outback she starts off her trip on The Ghan hoping some of the passengers will provide inspiration for new characters. Within an hour of the rain leaving, she is reluctantly drawn into the web Bianca is weaving around her victims. But the web is already spun. K.C. is caught up in the threads of murder - a prime witness. -
All sorts of things happen at the Grange. Queer things. People come here to get better and they don't get better - they get worse. When Bobby Jones found a dying man in the dunes of a Welsh golf course, he stood in the shadow of his own death. But he was lucky - to have escaped being poisoned! And lucky to have the quick witted Frankie, otherwise Lady Frances Derwent, to help find the would-be murderer. Their only clues: a photograph and the dead man's final words: "Why didn't they ask Evans?" -
On a dark night, along a lonely country road, barrister Frank Amberley stops to help a young lady in distress and discovers a sports car with a corpse behind the wheel. The girl protests her innocence, and Amberley believes her;at least until he gets drawn into the mystery and the clues incriminating Shirley Brown begin to add up. In an English country house murder mystery with a twist, it's the butler who's the victim, every clue complicates the puzzle, and the bumbling police are well meaning but completely baffled. Fortunately, in ferreting out a desperate killer, amateur sleuth Amberley is as brilliant as he is arrogant, but this time he's not sure he wants to know the truth...A mystery tale of upstairs, downstairs and family secrets.
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Alvarez and Pescoli No. 8. The crime scene is as puzzling as it is brutal. Doctor Paul Latham and his wife, Brindel, are found dead in separate beds in their beautiful San Francisco home, each the victim of a gunshot wound to the head. There are no signs of forced entry, and despite the emptied safe it's clear this murder isn't random. For Detective Regan Pescoli, news of her sister's death brings grief mixed with guilt. She and Brindel weren't close, and Pescoli barely knows her teenage niece, Ivy, a secretive girl who lands on her doorstep in Grizzly Falls, Montana. Though Pescoli is on maternity leave, she's soon mired deep in the investigation headed by her partner, Selena Alvarez. But as the list of suspects keeps growing, so does the body count...And as the case takes a new, terrifying turn, Pescoli's loved ones and her life are at the mercy of a killer who'll go to any lengths to see her suffer... -
Winter Chill: Jon Cleary
$15.00Scobie Malone XII. It begins one rainy dawn: Orville Brame, prominent lawyer and president of the American Bar Association, is found shot through the heart, slumped in a monorail, silently circling downtown Sydney. The next day, the body of a security guard is fished out of the harbor. During the ensuing investigation, a talented rookie cop is ruthlessly gunned down. The trail Inspector Scobie Malone uncovers leads to betrayal; betrayal between brothers, when jealousy causes estrangement and murder; betrayal between countrymen, when cynicism triumphs over patriotism and sparks a multi-million-dollar international intrigue. -
In the late nineteenth century, 'Go As You Please' contests, or 'Wobbles', were bizarre athletic - or endurance - contests. The object of the race is to see how far a man could walk, run or hobble for six days and six nights. The prize: one hundred pounds - a fortune! - and a belt showing him to be the Champion Pedestrian of the World. It's an event that attracts a lot of punters and very serious money is wagered. The 'Wobble' of this tale is set in Islington in the late 1880s, run by a shady promoter who is looking to make money fast with little interest in the fate or state of the competitors. The intervention of more than one murder makes for a more grisly contest than usual - and as the police investigate, the race continues relentlessly.
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