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Blossom: Andrew Vachss
$8.00The plea for help wormed its way to the heart of the city: the kind of plea an old cellmate couldn't ignore. Virgil, from the wilds of Indiana, is shielding his teenage nephew from a murder rap drummed by by arrest-happy cops. A lover's lane sniper was terrorising the town and Virgil's nephew was the number one suspect. Burke was on his own - until help arrived in the slim and watchful form of Blossom. She's connected to the killer by the blood on the street - and screaming for justice. Burke's kind of justice. -
The shadows of William the Sailor and Charles Fallton reach across the decades from the colonial days of Australia to fall on two lovers in modern England as Langdon Bonython unravells the mystery that lies behind the enigmatic letter Peter de Frene receives on the death of his father. A fascinating mystery novel, first published in 1962. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Brownbill -
Kay Scarpetta II. After months of menacing phone calls and feeling that her every move is being watched, successful writer Beryl Madison flees Key West when a terrifying message is scratched on her car. But the very night she returns to Richmond, she deactivates her burglar alarm and opens her door to someone who nearly decapitates her. Why did she let him in, wonders Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta? And why is Beryl's latest manuscript missing? Pursuing the answers involves Scarpetta in the murder of another writer - Beryl's jealous mentor. While she copes with a variety of personal and professional problems, Scarpetta's high-tech forensic skills enable her to collect a body of evidence - clues that would mean little without her intelligence, compassion, and imagination - that leads her directly into a nightmare all her own. -
Three times a killer has struck in Daybreak, a one-pub town in Western Australia. Why should so many people suspect the strange 'bad boy' Tony Carr? Why were the local Aboriginal tribe far away from town at the time of the murders? Inspector Bonaparte finds this small community very tight, till the arrival of a job-seeking bloke by the name of Nat Bonnar... -
Good-looking Marvin Rhudder came home from college on a long summer vacation. The day it ended he raped Rose Jukes... Thirteen years later, after a long series of sex crimes, he returns to Timbertown - wanted for murder. Some remembered him with hatred, some with love, but no one ever forgot Marvin. -
Maigret And The Madwoman: Maigret knew the words would haunt him to his grave. As the famous inspector stared down at the lifeless body of of the frail old lady, her last words to him kept hammering at his ears: I'm relying on you. I trust you. The little old lady had been hanging around Police headquarters for days. She insisted on seeing only her hero, Maigret. Finally, she confronted the Inspector and patiently told her story. Somebody was trying to do her harm. She didn't know who, and she didn't know why. Maigret had promised to call on her as soon as he could find a free moment. Now he felt partially responsible; how could he not? This was going to be a special case. He would find the killer if it was the last thing he ever did. Maigret And The Killer: Maigret, accompanying his physician on an emergency call, is drawn into one of his most stubborn cases yet. The victim, a son of a wealthy perfume manufacturer, had been enjoying an odd hobby before his death: collecting human voices with a tape recorder, often in the rougher districts of Paris. But his wallet and his tape recorder have been left untouched, so the killer's motive is unclear. The absence of clues begins to exasperate Maigret - until an anonymous letter reveals that he is dealing with no ordinary criminal. DVD: This set contains series 1 and 2. Each of the 12 episodes are based on a single book by Georges Simenon and filmed in Budapest as the background for post-World War II France. Also starring Geoffrey Hutchings, Jack Galloway and James Larkin. Episodes: The Patience of Maigret; Maigret and the Burglar's Wife; Maigret Goes To School; Maigret And The Madwoman; Maigret On Home Ground; Maigret Sets A Trap; Maigret And The Night Club Dancer; Maigret At The Hotel Majestic; Maigret On The Defensive; Maigret's Boyhood Friend; Maigret And The Minister; Maigret And The Maid. 4 discs; preloved; region 4; very good condition -
Brat Farrar: Josephine Tey
$45.00When Bill and Norah Ashby were killed in an air crash, Aunt Bee stayed on at Latchetts, the family country house, to bring up the four children: Simon, Patrick, Ruth and Jane. Soon afterward Patrick disappeared without trace, leaving a suicide note on a lonely clifftop. None had suspected the depth of Patrick's grief but the years passed and the memory of him dimmed. On the eve of Simon's coming of age, a young man turns up at Latchetts. He calls himself Brat Farrar and his physical resemblance to Patrick is so strong that the family solicitor is convinced of his claim as Patrick to share to family inheritance. But Simon denounces him as an imposter!
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The first corpse is found on a river bank. the second in an isolated farmhouse. Both have been savagely beaten, their skin flayed, their throats cut. There's DNA match for both victims - Charlie Pope, a convicted sex offender recently released of a security hospital. Pope's cut himself free from his security ankle bracelet and disappeared. But there's something still not right. The killings were calculated, methodical. And Pope is of low intelligence, incapable of such forethought and planning. To track down this killer, Lucas Davenport needs the help of the Big Three - three vicious serial killers locked in the state security hospital, all as cunning as they are deranged. -
Book XX of Brother Cadfael. November 1145 - the bitter rift between King Stephen and Empress Maud at last has achance for reconciliation. With both sides pndering the wisdom of further conflict, they agree that a council should take place. It is hoped that the meeting will at least resolve the question prisoners of war, a number of whom were taken following the shocking defection to the King’s cousin Philip, younger son of the Earl of Gloucester. Brother Cadfael seeks leave to attend the meeting - he has learned that among the prisoners is one Olivier de Bretagne, a young man who calls upon loyalties even higher than Cadfael’s monastic vows. As Cadfael observes, ‘Before I was a brother, I was a father…’ and his determination to come to his son’s aid prompts a perplexing investigation of a uniquely personal nature.
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