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Hostage to Murder, the long-awaited sixth Lindsay Gordon mystery, is a lightning-paced story spliced with crackling action and an intense emotional dimension.Spraining an ankle is rarely a stroke of luck, but for Lindsay Gordon, jobless in Glasgow, the injury is her introduction to young freelance journalist Rory McLaren and the opening of a new chapter in her life. Rory's invitation to work along…
На протяжении нескольких лет то в одном, то в другом облюбованном туристами городе Европы находят трупы красивых женщин. Всем убитым от тридцати пяти до сорока пяти лет, все они задушены, и в каждом случае преступник унес сумочку жертвы. Ясно, что все убийства совершил один и тот же человек с нездоровой психикой. Полицейские дали ему прозвище Турист. Преступник невероятно хитер и не оставляет след…
A special gift for Reginald Hill fans on Father’s Day – the return of Joe Sixsmith in a beautifully packaged, witty new crime novelA sweltering summer spells bad news for the private detective business. Thieves and philanderers take the month off and the only swingers in town are those on the 19th hole of the Royal Hoo Golf Course. But now the reputation of the ‘Hoo’ is in jeopardy.Shocking allega…
One of the earliest psychological crime novels, back in print after more than 80 years.Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was in her husband’s medicine, his food and his lemonade, and her crimes are being plastered across the newspapers. Even her lawyers believe she is guilty. But Roger Sheringham, the brilliant but outspok…
“A MASTERPIECE OF THRILLER AND MYSTERY. Blake Pierce did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. Full of twists, this book will keep you awake until the turn of the last page.” –Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone) FACE OF MURDER is book #2 in a new FBI…
London. A snowy December, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing and back on cocaine after a disastrous Ripper investigation. Watson can neither comfort nor rouse his friend – until a strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris.Mlle La Victoire, a beautiful French cabaret star writes that her illegitimate son by an English lord has disappeared, and she has been attacked in the streets of Montma…
МИРОВОЙ БЕСТСЕЛЛЕР Ее называют «шведской Агатой Кристи». Камилла Лэкберг – ведущий автор среди прославленных мастеров скандинавского детектива. Первый же ее роман стал мировым бестселлером – как, впрочем, и каждый последующий. Лэкберг входит в десятку самых популярных писателей Европы. Ее книги переведены более чем на 30 языков и проданы тиражом более 20 млн. экземпляров. Фьельбака благонравна и б…
Пикантный сюжет романа разворачивается на Средиземноморской ривьере в уютном испанском городке, облюбованном английской аристократией, чтобы скоротать свои деньки в полном комфорте, однако внешнее спокойствие оказывается иллюзией, а неспешная курортная жизнь миллионеров превращается в сплошную суматоху. Как удалось им справиться с недоразумениями, вы узнаете по прочтении этого увлекательного роман…
The third Kiszka and Kershaw crime thriller.Things are looking up for Janusz Kiszka, big-hearted 'fixer' to London's Poles. His girlfriend/the love of his life, Kasia, is finally leaving her no-good husband to make a new life with him, and he’s on the brink of a deal to ensure their financial security for years to come.Then Kasia vanishes – and the big Pole’s world is torn apart. Convinced she’s b…
Lindsay Gordon investigates the murder of a bestselling author and discovers that, beneath the glittering facade, the London publishing world is a hotbed of seething rivalries, soured relationships and desperate power plays. Fifth in the series.Why would anyone want to kill Penny Varnavides, bestselling author of the 'Teen Dreams' series? Her demise can't be the freak accident it first appeared – …
The second Kiszka and Kershaw crime thriller.When masked men brutally stab one of his closest friends to death, Janusz Kiszka – fixer to East London’s Poles – must dig deep into London’s criminal underbelly to track down the killers and deliver justice.Shadowing a beautiful Ukrainian girl he believes could solve the mystery, Kiszka soon finds himself skating dangerously close to her ruthless ‘busi…
Val McDermid, creator of TV’s Wire in the Blood, mixes fact with fiction, dealing with one of the most important and symbolic moments in recent history.Twenty-five years ago, the daughter of the richest man in Scotland and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. But Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate has remained a mystery ever since. When a new clue is discovered in a des…
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the third Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.THREE CORPSES FOR INSPECTOR FRENCHA chance invitation from friends saves Ruth Averill’s life on the night her uncle’s old house in Starvel Hollow is consumed by fire, killing him and incinerating the fortune he kept in cash. Dismissed at the inquest as a …