The bones of a woman are discovered in the grounds of an abandoned monastery and the case is handed to Dr.Temperance Brennan, Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec. Researching recent disappearances in the city convinces Brennan that a serial killer is at work, despite the cynicism of Detective Claudel, heading the investigation Breannan's forensic expertise and contacts at Quantico finally convince him otherwise, but only after the body count rises...
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Déjà Dead: Kathy Reichs
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From the creator of Cadfael. When Herbert Terrell falls off a mountain during his annual climbing holiday in Czechoslovakia, accidental death seems to be the inevitable verdict. But his young step-daughter, Tossa, doesn't accept the inevitable. She'd been planning a summer holiday in Europe, so what could be simpler than to persuade her companions to the scene of the crime? Dominic Felse, a little bewitched by Tossa's brown eyes, is game for a change of plans, although ignorant of her real motive. And he's certainly not prepared for their touring holiday to become a deadly game of cat and mouse. A fragment of an English folk song, the plaintive lament of a pipe and an unexpected corpse are the clues the amateur sleuths must solve to discover the riddle of the piper on the mountain.
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Landlords are never the most popular people, and there is little grief when the greedy, ruthless Mahendralal Bakhle is blown up in his boat on beautiful Periyar Lake. Suspicion falls on the boat-boy who died with him but Dominic Felse, a member of a party of young tourists who were accidentally involved with the tragedy, is not convinced of the boy's guilt. And when they move on, it seems the terror is still pursuing them. Violence and death erupt in the home of a very different landowner, where Dominic and his friends are guests, and follow them relentlessly south to the very tip of India where Dominic and the Swam Premanathanand, a man of peace, unravel a deadly Indian rope trick of hatred and murder.
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The Hawaii of 1930 was a colonial paradise of soft winds and smooth seas that lured the white man. The availability of cheap labour was also encouraging. Five families now control the wealth of the islands, the U.S. Navy patrols the Pacific from Pearl Harbour. The last Hawaiian family princess, Luahine, lives in exile on a distant island, stripped of her powers. Then the facade of genteel civilisation is shattered when Hester Murdoch, the young society wife of a Navy lieutenant, is found battered and bleeding on a lonely road. She unjustly accuses four local boys of rape and assault. The boys are brought to trial amidst unprecedented media attention, their only defence a scared young local lawyer. The verdict sets in motion a whirlwind of emotions, violence and passion. Based on the true story of the famous Massie murder and rape case that shook Hawaii in the 1930s. -
Pompeii: Robert Harris
$8.00A.D. 79 - Rome's rich and shameless are relaxing in their luxury holiday villas on the coast. The Imperial Navy is peacefully at anchor at Misenum. Tourists are out and about in the resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum and Pompeii. Only one man is worried. Engineer Marius Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples. Springs are failing for the first time in generations. His predecessor has disappeared. And now there's a crisis on the Augusta's sixty-mile mainline, north of Pompeii on the slopes of Vesuvius. Attilus - decent, practical and incorruptible - assures Pliny, the scholarly naval commander, the he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. But as he makes his way to Vesuvius he finds there are forces in the world which even the world's only superpower cannot control.
