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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... -
Seven strangers meet by chance on a Caribbean island and form a charmed circle of lasting friendships. Newly qualified London doctor, Joanna Lyndhurst, is taking a well-earned break on the romantic island of Antigua - ten days of glorious sunshine, without anyone knowing she's a doctor. But Jo is not the only one with a secret. Amongst the enchanting and diverse bunch of characters she meets, it turns out not one is quite what they seem. Lowell, the American lawyer, and Vincent, an art-dealer from Amsterdam, have travelled the world in a long-standing relationship, while maintaining separate lives and private worlds that do not overlap. Feisty New York banking executive, Merrily Morgenstern, keeps them all in stitches with her lurid tales of Manhattan high-life yet conceals her real anxiety about the threat to her own career. Sandy-haired Jessica, steeped in a world of culture and classical music, mourns a lost love whom she dare not discuss. And Cora Louise and Fontaine, mother and daughter from the steamy South, keep up appearances and dread the exposure of their own murky secret. By mutual consent, the holiday becomes an annual tradition as close friendships develop and the group starts to meet on each other's home ground. Yet the Caribbean sunshine has its own darker side. Someone is on the trail of a killer ... -
Maigret 41. When a man is found stabbed to death in an alley off Boulevard Saint-Martin, his identity card shows a workplace that had gone out of business three years earlier. As far as his wife knew, he still worked there, and she insists that the shoes and a tie he was wearing when he was killed “couldn’t be his.” It soon becomes evident that although he had a source of income, he spent most of his time sitting on a bench in the neighborhood, often with the same unknown man. Can Maigret find him? -
Andie DeGrasse, an aspiring actress and single mom, is not your typical juror. Hoping to get dismissed from the pool, she tells the judge that most of her legal knowledge comes from a bit part curling around the stripper's pole in The Sopranos. But she still ends up as juror number 11 in a landmark trial against a notorious mob boss. The judge is terrified of the defendant... The case quickly becomes the new Trial of the Century. Mafia don Dominic Cavello, known as the Electrician, is linked to hundreds of gruesome, unspeakable crimes. Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante has been tracking him for years. He knows Cavello's power reaches far beyond the courtroom but the FBI's evidence against the ruthless killer is ironclad. Conviction is sure thing. So is the jury...As the jury is about to reach a verdict, the Electrician makes one devastating move that no one could have predicted. The entire nation is reeling, and Andie's world is shattered. For her, the hunt for the Electrician becomes personal, and she and Pellisante come together in an unbreakable bond: they exact justice - at any cost. The verdict: Run for your life... -
Inspector Frank Stave 1. Hamburg, 1947. A ruined city occupied by the British who bombed it, experiencing the coldest winter in living memory. Food is scarce; refugees and the homeless crowd into shanty towns and sheds. There is a killer on the loose, and all attempts to find him or her have failed. Plagued with worry about his missing son, Frank Stave is a career policeman with a tragedy in his past that is driving his determination to find the killer. With the help of his colleague Maschke from the vice squad, and Lt MacDonald from the British military, Stave has to find out why - and who - in the wake of a wave of atrocity, the grim Nazi past and the bleak attempts by his German countrymen to recreate a country from the apocalypse - is still dedicated to murder. -
Mark Fairfax is a young, gifted London bond trader with a high-paying job, a stellar track record and a beautiful girlfriend. His older brother, Richard, owns FairSystems, a small company poised to do for the virtual reality world what Bill Gates did for personal computers. But one dark night Richard is brutally murdered in his workshop. Mark immediately steps into Richard's shoes - and his life. Through cunning and luck, Mark struggles to keep his brother's business afloat and to discover the secrets behind his death. Until Mark himself becomes the target, moving ever closer to his brother's fate.
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