On a dark night, along a lonely country road, barrister Frank Amberley stops to help a young lady in distress and discovers a sports car with a corpse behind the wheel. The girl protests her innocence, and Amberley believes her;at least until he gets drawn into the mystery and the clues incriminating Shirley Brown begin to add up. In an English country house murder mystery with a twist, it's the butler who's the victim, every clue complicates the puzzle, and the bumbling police are well meaning but completely baffled. Fortunately, in ferreting out a desperate killer, amateur sleuth Amberley is as brilliant as he is arrogant, but this time he's not sure he wants to know the truth...A mystery tale of upstairs, downstairs and family secrets.
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Alvarez and Pescoli No. 8. The crime scene is as puzzling as it is brutal. Doctor Paul Latham and his wife, Brindel, are found dead in separate beds in their beautiful San Francisco home, each the victim of a gunshot wound to the head. There are no signs of forced entry, and despite the emptied safe it's clear this murder isn't random. For Detective Regan Pescoli, news of her sister's death brings grief mixed with guilt. She and Brindel weren't close, and Pescoli barely knows her teenage niece, Ivy, a secretive girl who lands on her doorstep in Grizzly Falls, Montana. Though Pescoli is on maternity leave, she's soon mired deep in the investigation headed by her partner, Selena Alvarez. But as the list of suspects keeps growing, so does the body count...And as the case takes a new, terrifying turn, Pescoli's loved ones and her life are at the mercy of a killer who'll go to any lengths to see her suffer... -
Winter Chill: Jon Cleary
$15.00Scobie Malone XII. It begins one rainy dawn: Orville Brame, prominent lawyer and president of the American Bar Association, is found shot through the heart, slumped in a monorail, silently circling downtown Sydney. The next day, the body of a security guard is fished out of the harbor. During the ensuing investigation, a talented rookie cop is ruthlessly gunned down. The trail Inspector Scobie Malone uncovers leads to betrayal; betrayal between brothers, when jealousy causes estrangement and murder; betrayal between countrymen, when cynicism triumphs over patriotism and sparks a multi-million-dollar international intrigue. -
In the late nineteenth century, 'Go As You Please' contests, or 'Wobbles', were bizarre athletic - or endurance - contests. The object of the race is to see how far a man could walk, run or hobble for six days and six nights. The prize: one hundred pounds - a fortune! - and a belt showing him to be the Champion Pedestrian of the World. It's an event that attracts a lot of punters and very serious money is wagered. The 'Wobble' of this tale is set in Islington in the late 1880s, run by a shady promoter who is looking to make money fast with little interest in the fate or state of the competitors. The intervention of more than one murder makes for a more grisly contest than usual - and as the police investigate, the race continues relentlessly. -
Jemima Shore VI. We don't want to hurt her. We must remember that. All of us. She is after all innocent - Well, isn't she ? With these words the leader of the secret group tries to establish the ground rules of its conspiracy concerning the bride, HRH Princess Amy of Cumberland, a 22-year-old British Princess about to marry the somewhat older and slightly dissipated European Prince Ferdinand. But there is more than one kind of innocence, and as preparations for the Royal Wedding advance, the group evidently has in mind some gesture which will call attention to the rights and wrongs of those who have no voice of their own. Jemima Shore, newly sacked from Megalith Television, is covering the Royal wedding for an American television company. As the terrible events unfold she must grapple with the drama in her own way, via a memorable scene at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
