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Book XVI of Brother Cadfael. In the summer of 1143, William of Lythwood arrives at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, but it is not a joyous occasion; he's returned from his pilgrimage in a coffin. William’s body is accompanied by his young attendant Elave, whose mission is to secure a burial place for his master on the abbey grounds, despite William’s having once been reprimanded for heretical views. An already difficult task is complicated when Elave drunkenly expresses his own heretical opinions and capital charges are filed. When a violent death follows, Sheriff Hugh Beringar taps his friend Brother Cadfael for help. The mystery that unfolds grows deeper thanks to a mysterious and marvelous treasure chest in Elave’s care. -
Miss Marple VI. A handful of grain, found in the pocket of a murdered businessman? Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his 'counting house' office when he suffered a sudden and agonising death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain rye grain. What is that all about? It was a second incident, this time in the parlour at his home, which confirmed Jane Marple's suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime - by rhyme. -
A quadriplegic since a beam crushed his spinal cord years ago, Lincoln Rhyme is desperate to improve his condition and goes to the University of North Carolina Medical Center for high-risk experimental surgery. But he and Sachs have hardly settled in when the local authorities come calling. In a twenty-four-hour period, the sleepy Southern outpost of Tanner's Corner has seen a local teen murdered and two young women abducted. And Rhyme and Sachs are the best chance to find the girls alive. The prime suspect is a strange teenage truant known as the Insect Boy, so nicknamed for his disturbing obsession with bugs. Rhyme agrees to find the boy while awaiting his operation. Rhyme's analytical skills and stellar forensic experience, combined with Sachs's exceptional detective legwork, soon snare the perp. But even Rhyme can't anticipate that Sachs will disagree with his crime analysis and that her vehemence will put her in the swampland, harboring the very suspect whom Rhyme considers a ruthless killer. So ensues Rhyme's greatest challenge - facing the criminalist whom he has taught everything he knows in a battle of wits, forensics, and intuition...facing his his best friend and soul mate. -
When notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr. Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for removal of a disfiguring and long-standing scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week's peaceful convalescence in a beautiful Dorset manor house and the beginning of a new life. She would not leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and his team, called in to investigate the murder and later a second death are confronted with problems even more complicated that the question of guilt or innocence.
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Douglas Kingsley is sent to Flanders in 1917 to investigate the murder of a British Officer amid the hell of the Third Battle of Ypres. But both the evidence and the witnesses are disappearing into the mud that surrounds him. Fundamental questions are explored: what is murder? What is justice in the face of horrific daily slaughter? Where is the honour in saving a man from the gallows if he is only to be returned to die in a suicidal battle? Most important of all - what is the first casualty of war? -
A Maggot: John Fowles
$6.00In the spring of 1736 four men and one woman, all traveling under assumed names, are crossing the Devonshire countryside en route to a mysterious rendezvous. A nobleman. His uncle, an actor. His manservant. A maid. A soldier. Before their journey ends, one of them will be hanged, one will vanish and the others will face a murder trial. A maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds -
Adrian Lancaster thought he'd beaten his heroin jag to become a doctor in a small Midwestern hospital. The burns victim in emergency was the first sign the dragon hadn't given up the fight. Now he's implicated in a series of murders and haunted by the woman who once shared his past. Proving his innocence means walking the line between a body-strewn hell and the deadly heaven of addiction... -
Book IV of The Cadfael Chronicles. 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. -
New Year's Eve, 2021. The one night of the year when the guards are less vigilant, and the perfect time for murder. Welcome to 21st century Edinburgh! Rogue detective Quintilian Dalrymple, a former bureaucrat who left his high-ranking job to work for the parks service and solve mysteries on the side, sets about catching a serial killer with a peculiar signature. The killer bites out the victim's throat, cuts out the tongue, removes the genitals, and leaves in the cavity a cassette of the electric blues of Clapton, Hendrix and others. In the allegedly crime-free Edinburgh city-state, blues music is contraband. So are casual sex, monogamy, fattening foods, all drugs, and more-than-weekly showers. So why does the killer leave cryptic messages via electric blues?
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