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Inspector Morse 2. Valerie Taylor has been missing since she was seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector Morse is sure she's dead. But if she is, who forged the letter to her parents saying "I am alright so don't worry"? Never has a woman provided Morse with such a challenge, for each time the pieces of the jigsaw start falling into place, someone scatters them again. So Valerie remains as tantalizingly elusive as ever. Morse prefers a body - a body dead from unnatural causes. And very soon he gets one… -
The Front: Patricia Cornwell
$10.00Win Garano II. Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate the death of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler, blind Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead in 1962. With no DNA and sketchy police records, this is a case that will test Garano to his limits. It will take him on a journey through the archives, into the latest innovations in forensic technology and into partnership with senior officers at London's New Scotland Yard. And as Garano unearths deadly secrets from the past, his hard-nosed boss Monique Lamont is putting both their lives in jeopardy with her lust for power and success. -
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. -
Book II of Dalziel and Pascoe. Lecturers having it away with students, midnight romps among the sand dunes...this all fits in with Superintendent Andy Dalziel's views of the benefit of Higher Education. But the discovery of a body buried beneath a statue in the grounds of Holm Coultram College surprises even his cycnical mind. Fortunately, he has an expert to hand, that prize product of H.E., Sergeant Peter Pascoe. Together they settle in on campus and the learning begins. The only trouble is that just as they think they have solved one problem, a second body turns up...and another...Pascoe is both helped and hindered by finding an old flame on the staff, while the students class Dalziel as a fascist pig and thick with it...which is a very serious mistake. -
Andie DeGrasse, an aspiring actress and single mom, is not your typical juror. Hoping to get dismissed from the pool, she tells the judge that most of her legal knowledge comes from a bit part curling around the stripper's pole in The Sopranos. But she still ends up as juror number 11 in a landmark trial against a notorious mob boss. The judge is terrified of the defendant... The case quickly becomes the new Trial of the Century. Mafia don Dominic Cavello, known as the Electrician, is linked to hundreds of gruesome, unspeakable crimes. Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante has been tracking him for years. He knows Cavello's power reaches far beyond the courtroom but the FBI's evidence against the ruthless killer is ironclad. Conviction is sure thing. So is the jury...As the jury is about to reach a verdict, the Electrician makes one devastating move that no one could have predicted. The entire nation is reeling, and Andie's world is shattered. For her, the hunt for the Electrician becomes personal, and she and Pellisante come together in an unbreakable bond: they exact justice - at any cost. The verdict: Run for your life... -
Isabel Dalhousie, Volume 11. A new baby brings an abundance of joy to Isabel Dalhousie and her husband, Jamie - but Isabel's almost four-year-old son, Charlie, is none too keen on his newborn brother. In fact, Charlie refuses to acknowledge Magnus, and Isabel must find a way to impress upon her older son the patience and understanding that have served as guiding principles in her own life. These are, of course, the qualities that bring Rosemary Hipple, an old acquaintance of Isabel's, to seek her help in a tricky situation. Rosemary is something of a matchmaker and has brought together a cosmetic surgeon and a successful banker at her most recent dinner party. But new information comes to light about the cosmetic surgeon that causes Rosemary to doubt the auspiciousness of the match. Isabel agrees to find out more, but her inquiries take an unexpected turn - and she starts to wonder which of the two she should be investigating after all. As ever, her intelligence, quick wit and deep empathy for others will come to her aid as she grapples with the issues that are her bread and butter: friendship and its duties, the obligation of truthfulness and the importance of perspective.
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When five women are brutally raped and murdered in Sierra Leone, Reuters correspondent Connie Burns questions the arrest of three rebel soldiers for the crimes. No-one listens - in a vicious civil wear where hundreds of thousands are killed, the rape and murder of women is of no consequence. And who cares if child soldiers are beaten into confessing? With nothing to go one except her witnessing a savage attack on a prostitute, Connie believes a foreigner is responsible - a man who claims to have been in the SAS and who works as a bodyguard for a Lebanese diamond trader. She remembers him when he was a mercenary of Kabila's Kinshasa regime, and she suspects he uses the chaos of war to act out sadistic fantasies against women. Two years later in Iraq, the consequences of her second attempt to expose him are devastating. Terrified, degraded and destroyed, she goes into hiding in England where she strikes up a friendship with Jess, a reclusive loner. Borrowing Jess's strength. Connie makes the decision to attempt a third unmasking of a serial killer, knowing he will come after her...
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Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears, leaving nothing behind but some personal belongings and the suspicion that his jealous uncle John Jasper, madly in love with Rosa, is a murderer. Beyond this presumed crime there are further intrigues: the dark opium dens of the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham, and the sinister double life of Choirmaster Jasper, whose drug-fuelled fantasy life belies his respectable appearance. Dickens died before completing The Mystery of Edwin Drood, leaving its tantalising mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective. Illustrated by C.E. Montford. -
Vortex: Jon Cleary
$12.00In the small town of Friendship, Missouri, a tornado is approaching. The chief of police, unable to sleep, makes a tour of inspection before dawn and finds a farmhouse already destroyed by a twister, a small forerunner of the greater whirlwind. Crushed in the ruins is the body of a woman - not the farmer's wife, but the wife of Friendship's leading citizen. The twister is not the killer - who is? Family securities unravel, skeletons emerge from cupboards and the great tornado comes closer and closer.
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