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Agatha Christie’s disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy.There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after.Yet…
‘A captivating read.’ Mel Sherratt‘She trusted the man she loved. It was the most dangerous thing she had ever done …’No one can touch Del Williams – the hardest gangster in Soho. He’s got the monopoly on the drugs, the clubs and the girls – it’d be a mistake to underestimate him. The one person he’d take a bullet for is tough, beautiful Bunny Barker, mother of their daughter Star.Bunny is determi…
New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings her two best-loved series characters together as Beaumont and Brady investigate a pair of cases that cross state linesSeattle investigator J.P. Beaumont is working a series of murders in which six young women have been wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline and set on fire. Their charred remains have been scattered around various dump sites, crea…
It’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and while she’s enjoying a leisurely morning, a man is shot dead five minutes from her house. The bullet tore through him as he unloaded groceries from his car. Yet nobody heard or saw a thing.It looks like the work of a serial sniper – one who leaves no trace except for tiny copper fragments, and whose seemingly impossible shots cause insta…
Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey.Seventeen-year-old Catherine ‘Cat’ Morland has led a sheltered existence in rural Dorset, a life entirely bereft of the romance and excitement for which she yearns. So when Cat’s wealthy neighbours, the Allens, invite her to Edinburgh Festival, she is sure adventure beckons.Edinburgh initially…
They wrote it on the wall above my bed. Hello, it said, my name is May. Please talk to me.May has been moved to a care home after her stroke. She can’t communicate, all her words are kept inside. If she tries to point, her arms swing in wild directions, if she tries to talk, strange noises come out of her mouth.May is sharp, quick, and funny, but only her daughter Jenny sees this, and Jackie, a ne…
С шестнадцатилетней Бет произошел несчастный случай: она попала в автомобильную аварию. Девушка погибла и стала призраком, застрявшим между мирами живых и мертвых. Но между Бет и ее отцом существует связь, которая позволяет ему видеть и слышать дочь. Он – детектив и отправляется в провинциальный городок, чтобы расследовать пожар в детском приюте. Бет следует за отцом к месту трагедии. Проникая в т…
Уильям Уилки Коллинз (1824–1889) – английский прозаик и драматург, основоположник так называемого «сенсационного романа», впоследствии разделившегося на отдельные жанры: приключенческий и детективный. Коллинз – подлинный мастер интриги и увлекательного сюжета. В его романах, пьесах и рассказах органично сочетаются логика расследования преступлений, психологизм в обрисовке персонажей, красочные пей…
Уильям Уилки Коллинз (1824–1889) – английский прозаик и драматург, основоположник так называемого «сенсационного романа», впоследствии разделившегося на отдельные жанры: приключенческий и детективный. Коллинз – подлинный мастер интриги и увлекательного сюжета. В его романах, пьесах и рассказах органично сочетаются логика расследования преступлений, психологизм в обрисовке персонажей, красочные пей…
