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From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions.When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel near Groote Park, it seems to be a straightforward case of a man struck by a passing train. But Inspector Vandam of the Middeldorp police isn…
Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard often calls upon Paul Temple to help with his latest unfathomable case…In a small country lane, the well-known American, Myron Harwood, is found dead. The murder heralds the start of a spate of celebrity deaths – and each time the victim is found with a small white piece of cardboard, bearing the inscription ‘The Marquis’.When a woman is pulled from the river wit…
As a sheikh, he always got what he wanted—until he met his beautiful and challenging new partner…Zafir Al-Nassar knows everything about Jade Van Everett. He’s studied the cases she’s worked for his family’s company and for the FBI. And it's hard not to notice that she’s absolutely gorgeous. Teaming up for a routine security detail, Jade is desperate to prove herself and Zafir can't help but admire…
John Leith is an easy-going Edinburgh accountant, a widower with a young son, and a long-standing relationship with an attractive woman which neither wants to turn into marriage.Suddenly his life is disturbed when he is attacked in his office, his flat searched and vandalised, and his sister’s home broken into. John can discern no reason for the incidents but as the violence against him steps up h…
Just do your job—protect the witness without falling for her.Former city cop Caleb Foster hopes playing by the rules will clear his record so he can get transferred far away from small-town Carpenter, Alabama. But one look into the terrified eyes of a beautiful witness and he'll make it his mission to protect her, no matter what it takes…Alyssa Garner thought testifying against a trio of lethal ba…
Two dark purposes prompted Kylie Grant's return to Coral Cove and its nefarious Victorian mansion: solve the mysterious disappearance of a young girl and find closure for her own complicated past. What her psychic abilities hadn't prepared her for was an encounter with sexy bad boy Matt Conner.It was his first assignment as a P.I., and Matt needed this job to show he was nothing like his hometown …
Paul and Steve are back to solve the latest hard-hitting case of robbery and murder. After a heist goes down at Harkdale bank, a gang of thieves flee and a car chase ensues.As police close in on them, the thieves come to a screeching dead end.All the police have to do is retrieve the money … but the only thing the thieves have on them is an Oxford Dictionary! And when Paul Temple returns home, he …
She won’t stop until she finds the truthCaroline Bennett is not looking for a summer romance. A police officer at Starlight Point amusement park, she’s got more important things to worry about, like solving a cold case involving a girl’s mysterious death thirty years ago. Construction engineer Matt Dunbar is one of the few people who’ll talk about the incident, but even he’s not eager to dig up th…
Witty and irreverent, this is the first in an irresistible crime series set in Tsarist Russia in the 1890s from the award-winning Michael Pearce.Tsarist Russia in the 1890s. Dmitri Kameron, a young lawyer, must deal with the disappearance of a well-connected young woman. She has been shipped off to Siberia, in one of the prison wagons outside the Court House. But is this a bureaucratic bungle or s…
‘Humour and topicality along a cold enigmatic trail of murder’ ObserverLife is on the up for Patrick Aldermann: his Great Aunt Florence has collapsed into her rose bed leaving him Rosemont House with its splendid gardens.But when his boss, ‘Dandy’ Dick Elgood, suggests to Peter Pascoe that Aldermann is a murderer – then later retracts the accusation – the detective inspector is left with a thorny …
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the second Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.THE RETURN OF INSPECTOR FRENCHWhen young Maxwell Cheyne discovers that a series of mishaps are the result of unwelcome attention from a dangerous gang of criminals, he teams up with a young woman who is determined to help him outwit them. But when she di…
She’s a target – and only he can save her…Bodyguard Todd Christian has been hired to protect ER nurse Eva Bowman, who’s been targeted by a dangerous gang. But she’s the woman Todd has never been able to forget! After walking away once – Todd’s not going to make that mistake again!
His life is dedicated to the SEALs.His heart is dedicated to her.Their mission was clear: do not engage! But when his SEAL team is ambushed, “Big Jake” Schuler sacrifices his safety to draw the terrorists away from his unit. When village missionary teacher Alexandria Parker runs right into Jake’s arms, they must hide together in the wild hills of Niger, causing Jake to discover that Alex is as tou…
Going undercover to take down murderous gun smugglers is what Duff Watson lives for. Until he tracks the ring to a Missouri farm . . . and meets paramedic Melanie Fiske. Now the KCPD detective has another critical task: Winning over the curvy redhead who tempts him yet who he can’t let himself trust.Something about the protective ex-soldier makes Melanie believe he can help her find out the truth …
Вся жизнь художника Адриана Картхэллоу была сплошной чередой скандалов – и даже смерть его оказалась скандальной. Адриана застрелили в упор, и его красавица жена Хелен – единственная, кто был с ним в момент трагедии в уединенном особняке на скале, – сама призналась в убийстве… Казалось бы, все ясно – типично богемная кровавая драма. Однако провинциального полицейского Пенросса, ведущего дело, что-…