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Alexandra “Zan” Moreland, a gifted, beautiful interior designer on the threshold of a successful Manhattan career, is terrified to discover that somebody is not only using her credit cards and manipulating her financial accounts to bankrupt her and destroy her reputation, but may also be impersonating her in a scheme that may involve the much more brutal crimes of kidnapping and murder. Zan is already haunted by the disappearance of her own son, Matthew, kidnapped in broad daylight two years ago in Central Park - a tragedy that has left her torn between hope and despair. Now, on what would be Matthew’s fifth birthday, photos surface that seem to show Zan kidnapping her own child, followed by a chain of events that suggests somebody - but who has stolen her identity? And why? Hounded by the press, under investigation by the police, attacked by both her angry ex-husband and a vindictive business rival, Zan, wracked by fear and pain and sustained only by her belief, which nobody else shares, that Matthew is still alive, sets out to discover who is behind this cruel hoax. What she does not realize is that with every step she takes toward the truth, she is putting herself - and those she loves most -in mortal danger from the person who has ingeniously plotted out her destruction. Even Zan’s supporters, including Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner and amateur detective and Father Aiden O’Brien, who thinks that Zan may have confessed to him a secret he cannot reveal, believe she may have kidnapped little Matthew. Zan herself begins to doubt her own sanity... -
Alexandra Cooper 7. Workers demolishing a nineteenth-century brownstone where Edgar Allan Poe once lived discover a human skeleton entombed -- standing -- behind a brick wall. When sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper hears about the case, it strikes her as a classic Poe scene...except that forensic evidence shows that this young woman died within the last twenty-five years. Meanwhile, Alex's old nemesis the Silk Stocking Rapist is once again terrorising Manhattan's Upper East Side. The attacks soon escalate to murder, and the search leads Alex and detectives Mercer Wallace and Mike Chapman to the city's stunning Bronx Botanical Gardens. There, an enigmatic librarian presides over the Raven Society, a group devoted to the work of Poe. In exploring the fabled writer's tormented life for clues, Alex will cross paths with a cunning killer and face some of the greatest challenges of her career. -
Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte 13. Broome - a town on the north-west coats of Australia. When Napoleon Bonaparte, half-caste detective, is called in to investigate the strangling of two attractive widows, a strange and terrible motive for murder is gradually revealed. The victims' nightgowns, stolen from their washing lines, are found ripped to shreds. On discovering that the killer suffers from a rare skin disease, Bony's search narrows. Then a third widow meets the same grisly fate...Aided by Mr Dickenson, the town drunk; Abie, an aboriginal tracker who delights in inhaling petrol fumes and one of the Broome widows, Bony must succeed in catching his fish - which is shaping up to be the biggest and most ferocious human shark ever to rise to his bait. -
For six years the Free Aristotle Macho Edwards (F.A.M.E) campaign has pulled a variety of exotic publicity stunts. To ITN crime reporter Kate Lewis F.A.M.E. is hot news, but to her fiance Chief Inspector Taff Roberts, it's a racket. To him, Ari Edwards is a black pimp who deserves his life sentence for the brutal murder of one of his high class prostitutes. But then a crucial new witness disappears and the detectives on the case begin pressing Taff to get at Kate - who is then grossly assaulted. Retaliating, Taff eventually gets t he murder conviction quashed and Ari Edwards released - but to fatal consequences as those behind the pimp's conviction - senior police and a top City company - close ranks to conceal their involvement. -
Pig’s Head: David Owen
$20.00Pufferfish I. Pufferfish (Contusus brevicandus): Body moderately short, pectorals rounded. Slow swimmer. Scavenger in the mud, at home in the murky shallows, where it roots out and feeds on detritus. Inflatable body able to bloat and even explode under extreme provocation...There are good cops, there are bad cops...and then there is Pufferfish, a.k.a Detective Inspector Franz Heineken. A severed head rolls out of the rubbish in a crowded Tasmanian caravan park, and the hunt is on for the killers ... and for their victim, a man no-one seems to miss, a man no-one wants to know. As Pufferfish digs deeper, he runs straight up against mainland law and order ... and the smell of corruption grows. -
Aztec Murder Mystery 1. Emperor Montezuma rules the known world. Daily canoes and trains of sweating bearers carry tribute to his island capital, Mexico-Tenochtitlán, while squadrons of ruthless warriors enforce his will. Gold, silver, cotton, jewels, and precious feathers change hands in his markets. The temples run with the blood of human sacrifices. All seems well, but Montezuma is troubled. Mysterious strangers have appeared in the East. Are they men or gods? Visions and rumors disturb his dreams. The soothsayers he turns to for guidance give him only enigmatic answers, and he knows he cannot trust his advisers...especially his chief minister, the unscrupulous Lord Feathered in Black. Yaotl, the chief minister's slave, is troubled, too. He was ordered to escort a sacrificial victim up the steps of the Great Pyramid, but the victim ran amok, uttering a bizarre and sinister prophecy and leaping to his death before the War-God's priests could cut out his heart. Then Yaotl learns that the emperor's soothsayers have vanished. The emperor senses a connection between these two events and orders Yaotl to find it - on pain of death if he fails. But it soon becomes clear that whatever the connection is, Yaotl's own master will stop at nothing - including murder - to keep it secret. To get to the truth will take all Yaotl's wits and will to survive. It will lead him into confrontations with the peril destined to overwhelm the whole Aztec world and with a monster from his own past - and into the hands of a sadistic killer. -
Dead Souls: Ian Rankin
$7.00Rebus 1o. As complex and unpredictable as the brooding mists that envelop his Edinburgh beat, Rebus is ever resourceful and determined - but this time, vulnerable and challenged as never before, with complications in his personal life and events that shake him to the depths of his being... A colleague's suicide. Pedophiles. A missing child. A serial killer. You never know your luck, muses Rebus. Driven by instinct and experience, he searches for connections, against official skepticism. But at night, unsoothed by whiskey, Rebus faces his ghosts-and the prospect of his daughter's possibly permanent paralysis. Soldiering through dank, desperate slums and the tony flats of the Scottish chic, Rebus uncovers a chain of crime, deceit, and hidden sins-knowing it's himself he's really trying to save... -
Temperance Brennan 2. Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Temperance Breman, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Elisabeth Nicolet, dead over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should lie in her grave. A strange, small coffin, buried in the recesses of a decaying church, holds the first clue to the cloistered nun's fate. The puzzle surrounding Sister Elisabeth's life and death provides a welcome contrast to discoveries at a burning chalet, where scorched and twisted bodies await Tempe's professional expertise. Who were these people? What brought them to this gruesome fate? Homicide Detective Andrew Ryan, with whom Tempe has a combustive history, joins her in the arson investigation. From the fire scene they are drawn into the worlds of an enigmatic and controversial professor, a mysterious commune and a primate colony on a Carolina island.
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Conclave: Robert Harris
$9.00The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.
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