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A Catholic Priest is brutally bludgeoned to death returning from a visit to a dying woman. In his shoe is a scrap of paper with a list of names - all of whom died recently and seemingly from natural causes and advantageously for those who gained by the deaths. There are whispers about a pale horse. A place? A person? An organisation? Mark Easterbrook hears the whispers that those prepared to pay can ensure that natural death becomes the ally of their ambitions. The search for a solution leads Easterbrook to a quiet Hampshire village where three modern witches boast openly of their occult powers... -
Three near death escapes in three days - is it accident or design? And then a fourth mysterious event occurs, leaving no doubt that some sinister hand is striking at Miss Buckley, the charming young owner of End House. Unfortunately for the murderer, Hercule Poirot is at hand to unravel the mystery. Cover art by Tom Adams. -
Female: age 32, single, self-employed and wiser than she used to be. For Kinsey Millhome, private investigator, only one thing stays the same - when a client sits down in the chair across the desk, she never knows what's going to happen next. Business was slow and there was nothing about Beverley Danziger to cause Kinsey concern. She was looking for her sister. She paid up front. It seemed like a lot of money for a routine job but Kinsey wasn't going to argue. She kicked herself later for the things she didn't see. But by then she was in danger, and money was the last thing on her mind... -
Book XIII of Brother Cadfael. When Judith Perle's husband dies, the young widow bestows one of her properties - a house in the Monk's Foregate - on the Abbey of Shrewsbury. The rent: a single white rose, to be delivered annually on the day of translation of Saint Winifred. A late spring in 1142 brings dismay to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, for there may be no roses by June 22nd. When nature finally complies, a pious monk is sent to pay the rent - and is found murdered beside the hacked-down rose-bush. Brother Cadfael follows the trail of bloodied petals. He knows the lovely widow's dowry is far greater with her house included and she will likely wed again. But before Cadfael can ponder if a greedy suitor has done this dreadful deed, another crime is committed. Now the good monk must thread his way through a tangle more tortuous than the widow's thorny rose bushes. -
Scarpetta I. A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedrooms. The killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. When Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner is awakened at 2.33 a.m. she knows the news is bad. There's a fourth victim. Unless she can dig up new forensic evidence to help the police, there will be more. -
Dana Saunders, host of Back Talk, is breaking new ground on the airwaves. But even as her guest, a 'reformed' child rapist takes his place in the hot seat, another child is being viciously assaulted. When rookie firefight Lennie Finn finds the terrified victim, memories of her own past come crashing down around her. And with a serial rapist on the loose, she's not the only one feeling scared. As the danger stalks closer to home, Lennie and Dana must nail the killer before history repeats itself. Before it's too late.
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Dead Cert: Dick Francis
$5.00Alan York, an amateur steeplechase rider, is riding in a race with his best friend, Bill Davidson, riding a horse called Admiral. Davidson and Admiral are the heavy favorites in the race; a "dead cert" to win. But Admiral trips over a fence, coming down on Davidson. York saw something suspicious just before his friend fell and he discovers that a wire has been stretched across the top of the jump, causing the horse to stumble and fatally injure Davidson. But by the time York can get the scene examined, the wire has been removed and there is no evidence that the horse was deliberately tripped. York begins his own investigation and finds that someone has been attempting to fix races - and now he's the target of a vicious gang. But he wants revenge and to hell with the risk! -
The skeleton of a crucified man has been unearthed in Jerusalem. Eminent Israeli archeologist Michal Dugan urges his celebrated colleague John Lambert, a Simonite monk, to examine the find and verify what he so strongly suspects - that the body is that of Christ. Such a sensational revelation will rock the world but before the find can be made public, Father Lambert is found hanged, apparently a despairing suicide...
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Maisie Dobbs 1. Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, began her working life at the age of thirteen as a servant in a Belgravia mansion. When discovered reading in the library by her employer, Lady Rowan Compton, Maisie is shocked when she realises that her thirst for education is supported by Lady Rowan and Dr. Maurice Blanche, a family friend. The Great War intervenes in Maisie’s education plans and soon after commencement of her studies at Girton College, Cambridge, she enlists to become a nurse. Finally, in 1929, Maisie sets up as an independent private investigator. Her first assignment, a seemingly tedious inquiry involving a case of suspected infidelity, takes her not only on the trail of a killer, but back to the war she had tried so hard to forget. -
A murder - four thousand years ago! Seeking peace after her husband's death, Renisenb returns to her father's house on the banks of the Nile. But beneath the calm surface of his prosperous household lurk greed, lust and hate. And with the arrival of the arrogant concubine Nofret, the family's passions explode in murder. -
Roderick Alleyn XXXII. "Is this a dagger which I see before me..." Four murders. Three witches. A fiendish lady. A homicidal husband. A ghost. No wonder Macbeth is considered such bad luck by theatre people that they won't mention its name out loud. But the new London production of "the Scottish play" promises to be a smash until gruesome pranks begin plaguing rehearsals. And when the last act ends in real-life tragedy, Chief Superintendent Alleyn takes center stage-uncovering a heartbreaking secret, murderous jealousy, and a dark, desperate reason for "murder for foul..." -
It's 1321 and the people of Tiverton are preparing for the Feast of St. Giles under the shadow of murder. Philip Dyne has confessed and claimed sanctuary in St. Peter's church but danger is still present within the community. Sir Baldwin, Keeper of the King's Peace and Bailiff Simon Puttock arrive at Lord Hugh de Courtenay's castle for the feast - and another body is found: Sir Gilbert of Carlisle, an important ambassador, lying near the decpaitated figure of Dyne. The coronor believes that Dyne killed the ambassador and then was murdered; as an outlaw, Dyne doesn't merit the law's attention, but Sir Baldwin feels that too many questions have been left unanswered. How could an unarmed peasant kill a trained knight? Cover art by Danuto Mayer. -
Scarpetta IV. At 11.05 on a December evening, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue, Dr Scarpetta waits for Waddell's body. Waddell's death is not the only event that freezing night: the grotesquely wounded body of a young boy is found propped against a rubbish skip. The two deaths seem unrelated, until Scarpetta recalls that the body of Waddell's victim had been arranged in a rather similar position. Then comes a third murder with very few clues: old blood stains, fragments of feather and - the bloody fingerprint that points to the one suspect who could not have possibly committed the murder. -
Homicide investigator Rita Trible has seen many hideous crimes - but none like the eleven year old altar boy who was abused, murdered then embalmed. And worse, he is but the first victim of a serial slayer out to make Milwaukee a killing ground. Rita follows the trail of death, only to find it going in the direction she dreads...into the most forbidden realm of the parish, where she uncovers the secret life of a priest the Church is desperate to conceal at any price...and towards the horrifying fear that her own little boy has been targeted by a killer who seems to read her mind and mock her every move... -
Campion has been summoned, by an anonymous message, to the picture-perfect village of Kepesake for the funeral of Pig Peters, who he remembers only as the sadistic school bully of his childhood. It is a decidedly unpleasant affair with one or two dubious mourners. Campion has practically forgotten the affair when he is called back to Kepesake to investigate a peculiarly distasteful death. The body is that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his funeral... This book was first published in 1937 and sounds worthy of being made into an episode of Midsomer Murders. -
Wayward daughters. Missing husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you've got a problem, then see Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - lady private detective. She's not exactly conventional, nor is she Miss Marple, but she has warmth, wit and an uncanny intuition, not to mention Mr Matekoni - charming proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. She's on the trail of a missing child which will be a hotbed of strange situations and more than a little danger. Made into a very successful TV series. -
Ridley Jones 1. If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfect - with only the tiny cracks of an angry junkie for a brother and a charming drunk with shady underworld connections for an uncle to mar the otherwise flawless whole. But that’s not what happened. Instead, those inconsequential decisions lead her to perform a good deed that puts her in the right place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that brings a mysterious package to her door - a package which informs her that her entire world is a lie. Suddenly forced to question everything she knows about herself and her family, Ridley wanders into dark territory she never knew existed, where everyone in her life seems like a stranger. She has no idea who’s on her side and who has something to hide - even, and maybe especially, her new lover, Jake, who appears to have secrets of his own. -
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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