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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery
Family first. Family last. The Glass family always... Charley Glass
arrived in her family's lives like the hurricane she'd escaped. But
she hadn't run far enough: the ruthless Giordano family are on her
tail and want two things - her life, and the return of the property
she stole from them. No matter how many bodies stack up. After
years of hoping, Charley finally has the family she's always
wanted, but now she's going to have to tell them the real reason
she came looking for them. There is only one way she's going to
stay alive, and that is to employ the muscle of the notorious Glass
Family. The head of the family, Luke, isn't sure they're strong
enough to take on one of New Orleans' biggest crime gangs. But he'd
put his life on the line to protect the empire they've built - even
if they'll have to take on an enemy hurting enough to cross an
ocean for revenge. Page-turning, gritty, and utterly compelling,
Thief is Owen Mullen's best book yet. Perfect for fans of Martina
Cole, Kimberley Chambers and Mandasue Heller. What readers say
about Owen Mullen: 'Owen Mullen knows how to ramp up the action
just when it's needed... he never fails to give you hard-hitting
thrillers that have moments that will stay with you forever...'
'One of the very best thriller writers I have ever read.' 'Owen
Mullen writes a good story, he really brings his characters to life
and the endings are hard to guess and never what you expected.'
A passenger train hurtling through the night. An unwed teenage
mother headed to Moscow to seek a new life. A cruel-hearted soldier
looking furtively, forcibly, for sex. An infant disappearing
without a trace.
So begins Martin Cruz Smith's masterful "Three Stations," a
suspenseful, intricately constructed novel featuring Investigator
Arkady Renko. For the last three decades, beginning with the
trailblazing "Gorky Park," Renko (and Smith) have captivated
readers with detective tales set in Russia. Renko is the ironic,
brilliantly observant cop who finds solutions to heinous crimes
when other lawmen refuse to even acknowledge that crimes have
occurred. He uses his biting humor and intuitive leaps to fight not
only wrongdoers but the corrupt state apparatus as well.
In "Three Stations," Renko's skills are put to their most severe
test. Though he has been technically suspended from the
prosecutor's office for once again turning up unpleasant truths, he
strives to solve a last case: the death of an elegant young woman
whose body is found in a construction trailer on the perimeter of
Moscow's main rail hub. It looks like a simple drug overdose to
everyone--except to Renko, whose examination of the crime scene
turns up some inexplicable clues, most notably an invitation to
Russia's premier charity ball, the billionaires' Nijinksy Fair.
Thus a sordid death becomes interwoven with the lifestyles of
Moscow's rich and famous, many of whom are clinging to their cash
in the face of Putin's crackdown on the very oligarchs who placed
him in power.
Renko uncovers a web of death, money, madness and a kidnapping that
threatens the woman he is coming to love and the lives of children
he is desperate to protect. In "Three Stations," Smith produces a
complex and haunting vision of an emergent Russia's secret
underclass of street urchins, greedy thugs and a bureaucracy still
paralyzed by power and fear.
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The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James.
In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a
peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley, Darcy's impressive
estate.
But on the eve of their annual autumn ball, chaos descends. A chaise
appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland. As it
pulls up, Lydia Wickham - Elizabeth Bennet's younger, unreliable sister
- stumbles out screaming that her husband has been murdered.
Plunged into frightening mystery and a lurid murder trial, the lives of
Pemberley's owners and servants alike may never be the same . . .
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Hired Guns
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Paul Salamoff; Illustrated by Ana Teresa Rivera
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R736
Discovery Miles 7 360
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Three impossible crimes
Two unlikely detectives
One deadly voyage
It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being
transported from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam, where he is set to
face trial for a crime that no one dares speak of.
But no sooner is the ship out to sea than devilry begins to blight the
voyage. Strange symbols appear on the sails. A figure stalks the decks.
Livestock are slaughtered. Passengers are plagued with ominous threats,
promising them three unholy miracles. First: an impossible pursuit.
Second: an impossible theft.
Then: an impossible murder.
With Pipps imprisoned in the depths of the ship, can his loyal
bodyguard, Arent Hayes solve the mystery before the ship descends into
anarchy?
A beguiling historical mystery from the award-winning author of the
dazzling The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
THE INSTANTLY ICONIC NO. 1 BESTSELLER 'Devotees of Midsomer Murders
and Agatha Christie's Miss Marple stories will feel most at home
here' Guardian 'I've been waiting for a novel with vicars, rude old
ladies, murder and sausage dogs... et voila!' Dawn French 'Cosy
crime with a cutting edge' Telegraph 'Whodunnit fans can give
praise and rejoice' Ian Rankin 'Charming and funny' Observer Even
better than I knew it would be' India Knight 'Quintessentially
English' Sunday Express 'An absolute joy' Adam Kay ''Wry, tongue-in
cheek and whimsical' Daily Mail 'Glorious' Robert Webb 'Beautifully
written, charming, funny, intelligent and mordant too' Sunday Times
'Pitch perfect' Philip Pullman 'A cunning whodunnit' Daily Express
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, where he lives
alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless,
ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey - and his two dachshunds, Cosmo
and Hilda. When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in
the church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as
lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to
destroying the apparent calm of the village. And then Anthony
Bowness - cousin to Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton - is
found dead at the back of the church. As the police moves in and
the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and
keep his community together... and catch a killer.
Critics are raving about this deliciously chilling new thriller
from Scandanavian crime-writing sensation Camilla Lackberg.
Named by major media outlets, such as "USA TODAY," "The New York
Times," and "The Washington Post," as a main successor to Stieg
Larsson, Swedish author Lackberg is on the rise. Her new novel,
which "The Washington Post" has already named as one of their "Ten
Books We Love This Year" and praised as "richly textured and
downright breathtaking," continues the story of local detective
Patrik Hedstrom and his girlfriend, Erica Falck, the beloved
crime-solving duo whose first child has just been born. But while
they celebrate this new life, a suspicious drowning claims a little
girl they knew well. As the murder's implications widen, Patrik's
investigation threatens to tear apart the rural fishing village of
Fjallbacka, where a secret lurks that spans generations.
A deeply satisfying third installment in her internationally
bestselling series, "The Stonecutter "will establish Lackberg for
the U.S. audience once and for all. As "USA TODAY" says, "If you
haven't yet read the equally entrancing "Ice Princess" and "The
Preacher," what are you waiting for?"
Killer twists. Heroes to believe in. Trust Baldacci. Memory man FBI
agent, Amos Decker, returns in this action-packed thriller to
investigate the mysterious and brutal murder of a federal judge and
her bodyguard at her home in an exclusive, gated community in
Florida from international bestselling author David Baldacci.
Things are changing for Decker. He's in crisis following the
suicide of a close friend and receipt of a letter concerning a
personal issue which could change his life forever. Together with
the prospect of working with a new partner, Frederica White, Amos
knows that this case will take all of his special skills to solve.
As darkness falls, evil comes to light . . . Judge Julia Cummins
seemingly had no enemies, and there was no forced entry to her
property. Close friends and neighbours in the community apparently
heard nothing, and Cummins' distraught ex-husband, Barry, and
teenage son, Tyler, both have strong alibis. Decker must first find
the answer to why the judge felt the need for a bodyguard, and the
meaning behind the strange calling card left by the killer. Someone
has decided it's payback time.
The days off are the hardest, because they give Margaret time to
think. A moment of weakness leads to cocktails with a colleague -
an attraction she knows could be dangerous - at the luxurious Hotel
Bel-Air bar. A stroll through the grounds leads to a grim discovery
beneath the surface of Swan Lake: the body of a successful attorney
who made his fortune in international trade. It initially appears
to be death by misadventure, but the case is anything but
straightforward. As a series of shocking revelations emerge, Nolan
finds herself confronting a sinister cabal that just might destroy
her and everyone she loves.
**PRE-ORDER THE NEW MISSING PERSONS THRILLER FROM MILLION-COPY
BESTSELLING AUTHOR TIM WEAVER** 'Unsettling, brilliantly plotted,
and satisfyingly complex, these books are unputdownable. If you
haven't yet met Raker, you're in for a treat' MICK HERRON 'Grips
like a vice and twists like a rollercoaster. Impossibly clever.
Impossible to put down' CHRIS WHITAKER 'The master of the clever,
unpredictable plots is back with his best book yet! The Last
Goodbye floored me with its perfectly executed twists and tense,
original premise. With one of the most sinister fictional villains
I've come across this had me on the edge of my seat. Superb!'
CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'Tim Weaver is a master of the crime genre. His
David Raker novels, including the latest instalment, The Last
Goodbye, stand out from the rest. You'll be addicted from the hook
at the outset, gripped by the intricate plotting and
whiplash-inducing twists but what will keep you riveted to the
final page is their intelligent, unflinching examination of the
darker side of humanity and the damage it can cause us all. I
couldn't look away' GILLY MACMILLAN ONE DAY AGO... On the night Tom
Brenner and his nine-year-old son Leo visit the Seven Peaks theme
park, they head straight for the ghost house. They go in. But they
don't come out. Somewhere inside the ride, impossible as it seems,
the two of them simply vanish. FORTY YEARS AGO... When Rebekah
Murphy was three, her mother walked out of their childhood home and
never returned. Nearly four decades on, Fiona Murphy is still
missing. But then, out of the blue, a letter arrives in the post.
It says it's from Fiona. NOW... Missing persons investigator David
Raker is hired by Rebekah to find out if the letter is actually
from her mother - and soon makes a connection to the Brenners. But
these are mysteries whose secrets were never meant to be found. And
with his closest ally under arrest and about to reveal some truths
of his own, the danger to Raker is coming from all sides... Praise
For Tim Weaver: 'Terrific' Sunday Times 'A writer at the top of his
game' Claire Douglas 'Packed with twists' Daily Express 'Genuinely
original' Gillian McAllister 'What a talent' Daily Mail
'Impressive' Guardian
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