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As the trains ran parallel, Mrs McGillicuddy could see into the lighted carriage only a few feet away. A man, standing with his back to her, was strangling the life out of a woman, her eyes starting from their sockets, her face purple. The end came as Mrs McGillicuddy watched - then the train accelerated rapidly and vanished from her sight... -
Dead Giveaway: Simon Brett
$15.00The television give-away panel game is the very lowest form of showbiz life. For Charles Paris, his acting career is in the doldrums. If The Cap Fits is the final humiliation. But when murder intervenes - and on camera, too - the other Charles Paris comes to the fore; the amateur detective, incisive, perceptive, forceful...and lucky. All the things that Charles Paris, actor, is not. There are plenty of suspects and a whole selection of motives - the victim was detested by all right-thinking people. But for Charles, nothing is ever straightforward. -
Paul Madriani 1. Paul Madriani, a brilliant criminal defense lawyer, had a once-promising career with a prestigious law-firm, until an ill-judged affair with the senior partner Ben Potter's wife led to his resignation. Now he scrambles for work amid the ghosts of his doomed affair and the remains of a failing marriage. Then Potter is found dead, an apparent suicide. But as details come to light, the case turns from suicide to murder and the needle of suspicion points towards the victim's seductive wife, Talia Potter. Indicted and arrested, Talia turns to Paul, her former lover, to defend her against the mounting evidence in a case that for her could result in the gas chamber. -
Detective Bill Corde looked at the beautiful girl dead in the mud and did not realise that his own life is about to turn into a nightmare. The girl's killer is now on the trail of Corde and his unsuspecting family - his wife, his teenage son and his imaginative, beautiful daughter Sarah. Sarah alone knows the identity of the man who killed the girl and who may be responsible for future deaths. The lesson Corde is about to learn is an education that no-one will ever forget. -
Scobie Malone XIII. In the gay community of Sydney, homophobic attacks happen all too often. But now, someone has taken the law into their own hands and is eliminating the culprits. To complicate matters further, each shooting appears to have been done by a different person. Whoever it is, Detective Scobie Malone realises that he is up against an intelligent, highly dangerous killer who is as elusive as he is deadly. At the same time, this difficult case is causing tension within the force as prejudices of all kinds – race, creed, colour and sexual preference – rear their ugly heads. It seems like the killer is always one step ahead, protected by those who believe the ends justify the means. But Malone’s determination to crack the case intensifies when his own precious daughter has a near escape. -
Rider Sandman, having fought Napoleon in the French wars, expected to lead the life of an English country gentleman, but now, two years after Waterloo, his family is impoverished, his name is disgraced and he has been forced to relinquish the woman he loves from her obligation to marry him. Desperate to earn money he accepts the job of being the government's Investigator; an official who discovers whether petitions for mercy sent by condemned criminals should be granted. His first case concerns a portrait painter who is due to hang for murder in a week's time and the government makes it clear that they want the verdict confirmed. But Rider Sandman, whose qualifications for the post are nonexistent, discovers that the painter is almost certainly innocent and, as he peels back the layers of a corrupt penal system, he finds himself pitted against some of the wealthiest and most ruthless men in Regency England who want to keep the truth hidden. -
A killer enacts a bizarre dance of death, his victims drawn from the women who answer his personal adverts in New York's trendy magazines...Erin and Darcy, besties since college. have moved to the city to embark on careers as a jewellery designer and an interior decorator respectively. Just for fun, they agree to help a friend with research for a television documentary on the kinds of people who place and answer personal adverts, by answering ads and sharing their experiences. Then Erin vanishes...and her body is found on an abandoned Manhattan pier; on one foot is her own shoe and on the other, a high-heeled dancing slipper. She is not the first victim of the 'dancing shoe murderer'...Darcy, guilt-ridden because she had persuaded Erin to participate in the research for the documentary, sets out to meet the men Erin had dated. hoping she will find the killer - not knowing that she has been targeted as the killer's next victim... -
The Brother Cadfael Chronicles XIX. In the chill, rainy autumn of 1144, two groups of visitors seek the hospitality of the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul and Brother Cadfael fears that trouble has come in with them. Among the first arrivals is Brother Tutilo, a young Benedictine with a guileless face and - to Cadfael' s mind - a mischievous intelligence. The second group, a ribald French troubadour, his servant, and a girl with the voice of an angel seems to Cadfael a catalyst for disaster. All of Cadfael’s fears become manifest as rising floodwaters endanger the abbey’s most sacred relic, the remains of Saint Winifred. When the bones disappear and a dead body is found, Cadfael - in a time that believes in signs and miracles - needs his prayers answered...as well as some heavenly guidance to crucial clues...to catch a killer hell-bent on murder. -
An omnibus volume containing: Where Are The Children? Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair and left California for the windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children and the pain has begun to heal - until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her children and finds only one red mitten. She knows that the nightmare is beginning again...Loves Music, Loves To Dance: A killer enacts a bizarre dance of death, his victims drawn from the women who answer his personal adverts in New York's trendy magazines...Erin and Darcy, besties since college. have moved to the city to embark on careers as a jewellery designer and an interior decorator respectively. Just for fun, they agree to help a friend with research for a television documentary on the kinds of people who place and answer personal adverts, by answering ads and sharing their experiences. Then Erin vanishes...and her body is found on an abandoned Manhattan pier; on one foot is her own shoe and on the other, a high-heeled dancing slipper. She is not the first victim of the 'dancing shoe murderer'...Darcy, guilt-ridden because she had persuaded Erin to participate in the research for the documentary, sets out to meet the men Erin had dated. hoping she will find the killer - not knowing that she has been targeted as the killer's next victim... Let Me Call You Sweetheart: When her daughter's face is cut in a car accident, Kerry McGrath is relieved that the plastic surgeon who treats her is the eminent Dr. Charles Smith. Then Kerry notices something bizarre...Two of Smith's patients bear an uncanny resemblance to Suzanne Reardon, a young woman killed eleven years earlier. Why would Dr. Smith create look-alikes of a murder victim? You Belong To Me: When Dr. Susan Chandler decides to use her daily radio talk show to explore the phenomenon of women who disappear and are later found to have become victims of killers who prey on the lonely and insecure, she has no idea that she is exposing herself - and those closest to her - to the very terror that she hopes to warn others against. Susan sets out to determine who is responsible for an attempt on the life of a woman who called in to the show offering information on the mysterious disappearance from a cruise ship, years before, of Regina Clausen, a wealthy investment advisor. Soon Susan finds herself in a race against time, for not only does the killer stalk these lonely women, but he seems intent on eliminating anyone who can possibly further Susan's investigation.
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