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Kay Scarpetta 17. It's the week before Christmas and Dr Kay Scarpetta has offered her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast, she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesley’s. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds a suspicious package - possibly a bomb - waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta’s life finds her embroiled in a deadly plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom Scarpetta's niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past…. -
Department Q No. 7. Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division, meets his toughest challenge yet when the dark, troubled past of one of his own team members collides with a sinister unsolved murder. In a Copenhagen park the body of an elderly woman is discovered. The case bears a striking resemblance to another unsolved homicide investigation from over a decade ago, but the connection between the two victims confounds the police. Across town a group of young women are being hunted. The attacks seem random, but could these brutal acts of violence be related? Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q is charged with solving the mystery. Back at headquarters, Carl and his team are under pressure to deliver results: failure to meet his superiors’ expectations will mean the end of Department Q. Solving the case, however, is not their only concern. After an earlier breakdown, their colleague Rose is still struggling to deal with the reemergence of her past - a past in which a terrible crime may have been committed. It is up to Carl, Assad and Gordon to uncover the dark and violent truth at the heart of Rose’s childhood before it is too late. -
When an angry octogenarian holds a terrified and lovelorn secretary at gunpoint, Inspector Montalban is reluctantly drawn into the case. The secretary's boss, a financial adviser, is missing - along with several billion lire belonging to the good citizens of Vigata. Also missing is the financial adviser's young colleague, whose uncle just happens to be building a house on the site of Inspector Montalban's favourite olive tree... -
Cormac Reilly 2. When DS Cormac Reilly’s girlfriend Emma stumbles across the victim of a hit and run early one morning, he is first on the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him. The dead girl is carrying an ID, that of Carline Darcy, heir apparent to Darcy Therapeutics, Ireland’s most successful pharmaceutical company. Darcy Therapeutics has a finger in every pie, from sponsoring university research facilities to funding political parties to philanthropy – it has funded Emma’s own ground-breaking research. The investigation into Carline’s death promises to be high profile and high pressure. As Cormac investigates, evidence mounts that the death is linked to a Darcy laboratory and, increasingly, to Emma herself. Cormac is sure she couldn’t be involved, but how well does he really know her? After all, this isn’t the first time Emma’s been accused of murder... -
Mean, bitter Mathilda Gillespie has been dead for days: wrists slashed, pills spilled, body in the bath. It all shouts 'suicide!' but would even mad Mathilda have been crazy enough to force over her own head a scold's bridle - an instrument of punishment, an iron framework that enclosed the head, having a sharp metal bit or gag which entered the mouth and restrained the tongue? That was bad enough but for it to be grotesquely laced with nettles and daisies as well? A brilliant psycho thriller. Cover shows Miranda Richardson in the BBC-TV series of the same name. -
The Seagull: Ann Cleeves
$9.00Vera Stanhope No. VIII. A visit to her local prison brings DI Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent - now inmate - John Brace. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper - and Vera played a key part in his downfall. Now Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer who disappeared in the mid-nineties - if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall is dead, and that his body is buried close to St Mary's Island in Whitley Bay. However, when a search team investigates, officers find not one skeleton, but two. This cold case case takes Vera back in time and very close to home - Brace, Marshall and a mysterious stranger known only as 'the Prof' were close friends of Hector, her father. Together, they were the 'Gang of Four', regulars at a glamorous nightclub called The Seagull. Hector had been one of the last people to see Marshall alive. As the past begins to collide dangerously with the present, Vera confronts her prejudices and unwanted memories to dig out the truth... -
In this volume: Saint Peter's Fair: The great annual fair of Saint Peter at Shrewsbury is a high point in the city's calendar and attracts merchants from far and wide to do business. But when an unseemly quarrel erupts between the local burghers and the monks of the Benedictine monastery as to who will benefit from the levies the fair provides, a riot ensues. Afterwards a merchant is found dead and Brother Cadfael is summoned from his peaceful herb garden to try his skills as a detective. The Leper Of Saint Giles: A savage murder interrupts an ill-fated marriage between an ageing nobleman and a young woman, set to take place at Shrewsbury Abbey. Brother Cadfael has a terrible mystery to solve - but would a hunted man hide among the lepers in Shrewsbury's sanctuary? The Virgin In The Ice: Winter, 1139: Brother Cadfael's tranquil life in the monastery gardens is again interrupted by violent events. The civil war has sent many refugees fleeing north from Worcester, among them two orphans from a great family and their companion, a nun. But they have disappeared in the wild winter of frost and snow - and Cadfael sets out to find them. -
Marion Kerrison is given the defence brief in a notorious murder case. From the start she has her own theory of the crime but this does not square with the witnesses' evidence or that of her beguiling client, who seems to be enjoying the excitement rather than fearing the hangman's noose. The dangers, disappointments and her pursuit of the truth is told through Michael Irvine, her colleague in chambers who assists her at the trial and describes the legal battle that leads to a brilliant climax.
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Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anti-cancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising...yet coinciding with Nicholas Spencer's disappearance comes news that the FDA is denying approval. Then follows the shocking revelation that Spencer had looted Gen-stone of huge sums of money - including the lifetime savings of people who had risked every penny they had. Marcia "Carley" DeCarlo, the thirty-two-year-old columnist for the Wall Street Weekly, is assigned to cover the story. Carley is the stepsister of Spencer's wife Lynn, an aggressive PR woman and socialite - and she neither likes nor trusts her. The day after news of her husband's disappearance hits the headlines, Lynn attends a meeting of Gen-stone stockholders, flaunting expensive clothing and jewelry, indifferent to the anger and despair of those who have lost everything. That night, she narrowly escapes death when her mansion in Bedford, New York, is set on fire. She begs Carley to use her investigative skills to prove that she was not her husband's accomplice. As Carley proceeds with her investigation, she is confronted by seemingly impenetrable questions: Is Nicholas Spencer dead or in hiding? Was he guilty or set up? Why the sudden reversal in medical opinion of the vaccine from recognition to condemnation? And as the facts begin to unfold, she becomes the target of a dangerous group involved in a sinister and fraudulent scheme.
