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Inspector Lynley No. XVII. Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough, Cresswell's uncle. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives. Deborah's investigation of the prime suspect - Bernard's prodigal son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict - leads her to Nicholas's wife, a woman with whom she feels a kinship, a woman as fiercely protective as she is beautiful. Lynley and Simon delve for information from the rest of the family, including the victim's bitter ex-wife and the man he left her for - and Bernard himself. As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family's veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone from the Fairclough patriarch to Tim, the troubled son Ian left behind. -
Beautiful Lisa Ramsey is found brutally stabbed to death in a Los Angeles park. Suspicion falls on the abusive husband - a television star in media-mad L.A. He cannot be treated publicly as a suspect - yet. A 12 year old runaway boy, Billy Straight, witnessed the murder - but having escaped from his mother's sadistic boyfriend, then witnessing a horrific act of butchery - will he come forward? And not only the police are looking for Billy. -
Fantastic country mansion Follymead is hosting a folk music weekend course. Most musos and singers are there to play, sing and listen. But passions and murder are brewing in this sylvan setting. Tossa Barber and her boyfriend Dominic Felse are amongst the students, and when disaster strikes, Dominic engages the aid of his father, D.I. George Felse, to unravel the tangle of events. -
Kay Scarpetta No. X. A cargo ship arriving at Richmond, Virginia's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. The post mortem performed by the Chief Medical Examiner, Kay Scarpetta, initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, where she receives critical instructions: go to the Paris morgue to receive secret evidence and then return to Virginia to carry out a mission. It is a mission that could ruin her career. -
Michael Bennett XII. Detective Michael Bennett and the mayor of New York have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett a discreet investigator with family worries of his own. The mayor's daughter is missing and in danger. Bennett has a son who's in prison. The two strike a deal. Just one father helping another. The detective is led to a homicide in the Bronx. The victim has ties to a sophisticated hacking operation - and to the mayor's missing daughter, Natalie, a twenty-one-year-old computer prodigy. The murder is part of a serial killing spree, one with national security implications. And suddenly Bennett is at the center of a dangerous triangle anchored by NYPD, FBI, and a transnational criminal organization. Bennett has always been an honorable man, but sometimes - when the lives of innocents are at stake - honor has to take a back seat. Survival comes first. -
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. -
Gordon Reeve is going to the funeral of his brother, a journalist, found dead in his car - a presumed suicide. When he gets there, no-one wants to answer his questions - like why the car in which his brother was found was locked on the outside - and why does the local cop shadow him and stop him talking to the friend who saw Jim last? And he feels that it wasn't a ghost he saw parked outside the crematorium...Ex-SAS, a professional killer with an anger management problem, it's not in Reeve's nature to let such questions go unanswered - particular when the killers come knocking on his front door.
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Sydney Bryant No. III. When P.I Sydney Bryant takes on a routine 'lover's profile' for smitten mate Victor, she has no idea it would lead to murder. But the mysterious blonde beauty was not quite what she appeared - and now she's dead. Someone has brutally stabbed Martina Saxon and left her lifeless body floating in the pool of her family mansion - leaving a whole lot of questions unanswered. At the top of the list is why the heiress to the mega rich Saxon family had taken a lowly reporters job on the local paper? While Sydney puzzles out what led Martina to give up bloodlines for headlines, she finds herself confronted by an entire family tree of suspects: from the besotted uncle to the conniving fiancee, from the jealous sibling to the Machiavellian matriarch. And now an anonymous source has put Sydney herself under a deadline: either find the killer or be his next victim.
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Ben Cooper & Diane Fry, No. III. The unidentified body of a dead man has turned up on a frosty roadside. An abused woman is found curled in the snow on nearby Irontongue Hill, an apparent suicide. And there's the lingering puzzle of a Royal Air Force bomber that crashed into Irontongue back in 1945, killing everyone on board except for the pilot, who reportedly walked away from the wreckage... and was never heard from again. With leave and sickness decimating the ranks of the Edendale police force, all hands are needed to solve the modern deaths. But Constable Cooper finds himself distracted by the World War II tragedy -mostly because of the beguiling young Canadian granddaughter of that missing pilot, who's come to Edendale determined to clear her ancestor's name.
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