A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Tennessee, where he's completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney - an attractive but hard-charging woman - is intending to run for governor and as a showcase she's planning to use a new crime initiative, At Risk. Its motto: 'Any Crime, Any Time. She's also looking to employ some cutting-edge DNA technology and she thinks she's found a 20-year old murder - in Tennessee. Solving the case would make them all look pretty good - right? Her investigator is not so sure - not sure about anything to do with this woman, really - but before he can say anything, a shocking piece of violence intervenes, an act that shakes everyone's lives and the lives of those around them. It's not a random event - is it personal? Professional? Whatever it is, the implications are very bad indeed - and they're about to get worse.
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At Risk: Patricia Cornwell
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Lew Archer is hired to find a stolen, valuable painting by Richard Chantry, who disappeared mysteriously in 1950 from his home. Archer deftly negotiates the web of dealers and collectors until he is drawn into family complications, masked brutalities and old secrets stretching back fifty years, when money talked - or bought silence... -
In Peak Forest, Derbyshire, a curious and anachronistic privilege still existed - a seventeenth century chapel outside the jurisdiction of bishops, where the priest had the right to solemnise marriage according to a set of rather liberal rules. In 1758, a young eloping couple were murdered on their way to Peak Forest. Two hundred years later, Julie Wimpole comes as a stranger to the village of Peak Low and everyone believes she is there to qualify for the fifteen days of residency needed in order to marry. But some of the villagers seem to know more about her than they like to admit - and she seems to know a lot about them. What did Julie know about another girl who was murdered in 1940 as she waited for residency qualification to marry?
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Percey Clay, one of America's foremost pilots and the uncompromising owner of a struggling charter flight service, was in the wrong place at the wrong time - she's now the target of the Coffin Dancer. Brilliant quadriplegic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme knows the killer only too well. he's a man who's raised murder to a form of high art and his weapons are knowledge of human nature. Rhyme must use his insight into the criminal mind to combat this hitman's genius.
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When it comes to the woman he loves, D.C. Dangerous Davies knows how to push the boat out: a walk through Kensal Green Cemetery, a meat pie in a greasy spoon and a weekend away complete with flannel pyjamas. Dangerous has two things on his mind: Jemma Duval, the beautiful, black, hymn-singing social worker and 'Lofty' Brock, the harmless old eccentric who drowned in the canal. To prove that Lofty's death was no accident, Dangerous sets out to do some undercover work on his own. He soon discovers something sinister is going on: something that requires intuition, dedication, brilliant deduction - and a timely blow with a blunt instrument.
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When a noted anthropologist arrives at an ancient Anasazi Indian ruin to dig for clay pots, she's angry to find that the pre-Navajo burial site has been despoiled - then she is terrified at what looms out of the darkness. Weeks later, Lt. Joe Leaphorn, investigating a report to the Navajo Tribal Police that the anthropologist has been stealing precious artifacts, discovers that she's also been reported missing. The case turns sinister when Officer Jim Chee, on a routine search for missing excavation equipment, finds more than he expected near a similar dig. Leaphorn and Chee join forces to unearth the past and solve a bizarre and mystifying series of murders that seem to have only one thing in common - the beautiful and valuable Anasazi pots.
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Cry Guilty: Sara Woods
$9.00A young man is charged with receiving a stolen Rubens painting - undoubtedly stolen and found hidden in his room. He seems to be guilty - but Antony Maitland, Q.C. has his doubts. He's intrigued by the prevalence of art thefts and the violence and death that has taken place apparently to conceal the leader of the art thieves' gang. In the dock is a woman charged with the murder of her husband and Maitland becomes Assistant Prosecuting Counsel - but he's not interested in establishing the guilt of the accused. He has a secondary objective!
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Travis McGee is a big tough beach-walker, a knight-errant and salvage expert, prepared to risk life and limb to recover stolen goods - provided he gets half. He can't resist the challenge of helping Cathy Kerr, a desolate young dancer defrauded of the treasure her father had amassed during the war. They don't know what the treasure is but they knew who stole it - Junior Allen, a smiling man who had met Cathy's father in prison. He took up with Cathy long enough to destroy her soul and find the hiding place. It's easy to find Allen's trail - by the money he flaunts the women he's depraved.
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Recovering from a skiing accident, and with two legs in plaster, doesn't stop Ellery Queen. He has his mind on the mystery murder of beautiful fashion designer, Sheila Grey. The police have charged wealthy Ashton McKell, believed to be her lover. But is he? And if not, why is he being blackmailed? Suspicion soon falls on McKell's scatty socialite wife, Lutetia. She had a motive. But so did Sheila's abandoned lovers. And what of Dane McKell who, it is alleged by the victim, tried to strangle her?
