![]() |
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
|
Your cart is empty |
||
|
Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery
Since taking on a famous celebrity client, defence attorney Jane Smith
has been chased down, shot at, and threatened with contempt of court.
She’s a survivor. For now.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks―She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True―Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable. Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model. Buoyed by them and by his mother’s enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves?
How can a man who’s already dead be wanted for murder?
A New York Times bestseller | Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment "Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining." -Wall Street Journal "Don't trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian sleuths in Osman's own laugh-out-loud whodunit." -Parade Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her first big case A brutal murder Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?
A rare masterpiece by Picasso is about to go to auction, and the whole
world is watching.
"Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about
the girl who disappeared last night..."
When barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms at exactly two
minutes to seven on a sunny May morning in 1901, his mind is so full of
his latest case – the disputed authorship of bestselling children’s
book Millie the Temple Church Mouse – that he scarcely registers the
body of the Lord Chief Justice of England on his doorstep.
Frankie Elkin usually prefers her cases cold. Until she finds herself
in the broiling streets of Tucson, Arizona, where an Afghan refugee has
been missing for three weeks.
Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club.
White Lotus meets Only Murders in the Building: a wealthy American widow's French cruise turns into a deadly mystery. Meet Mrs Blossom. . . A widower who has never left the US Determined to finally see the world, she’s starting with a cruise along the Seine. Just twenty-four hours into Mrs Blossom’s trip, however, a man is dead, a precious artefact is missing, and a mysterious stranger is claiming her life is in danger. Surrounded by luxury food, quaint towns and people with staggeringly high net worths, she has no idea who she can trust. But maybe blending into the background has its perks – whoever is responsible will never see this most unlikely of detectives coming.
Some doors are locked for a reason…
A twisting, pulse-pounding thriller from the New York Times bestselling
author of The Housemaid and The Coworker!
There are no silent nights for Alex Cross, star of the Prime series,
this Christmas. Someone is targeting Supreme Court justices, and
Cross--and his family--are in the crosshairs too.
It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I'm doing laundry. And one day I can't help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything... That's when I make a promise. After all, I've done this before. I can protect Mrs. Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe. Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It's simply a question of how far I'm willing to go...
A FATHER PUBLICLY BEHEADED. Killed in the blistering heat of a Saudi
Arabian public square.
Lt. Eve Dallas is back with a murder case with its roots in loyalty,
treachery, espionage and the long shadow of war...
The Murders at Fleat House is a suspenseful and utterly compelling crime novel from the author of the multimillion-selling The Seven Sisters series, Lucinda Riley. 'A thrilling whodunit for crime fans. Another Lucinda Riley legacy to treasure' - Lancashire Post 'A cleverly woven mystery to savour' - Sunday Express The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen's - a small private boarding school in deepest Norfolk - is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident. But the local police cannot rule out foul play and the case prompts the return of high-flying Detective Inspector Jazmine 'Jazz' Hunter to the force. Jazz has her own private reasons for stepping away from her police career in London, and reluctantly agrees to front the investigation as a favour to her old boss. Reunited with her loyal sergeant, she enters the closed world of the school, and as Jazz begins to probe the circumstances surrounding Charlie Cavendish's tragic death, events are soon to take another troubling turn. Charlie is exposed as an arrogant bully, and those around him had both motive and opportunity to switch the drugs he took daily to control his epilepsy. As staff at the school close ranks, the disappearance of a young pupil and the death of an elderly classics master provide Jazz with important leads, but are destined to complicate the investigation further. As snow covers the landscape and another suspect goes missing, Jazz must also confront her personal demons . . . Then, a particularly grim discovery at the school makes this the most challenging murder investigation of her career. Because Fleat House hides secrets darker than even Jazz could ever have imagined . . .
Bennie moet ’n ring koop. En nie sommer ’n hierjy-ring vir sy Alexa nie. Hoe op aarde moet hy nou dít bekostig? Terwyl hy wag om te hoor of die bank sal help, word ’n naakte vroueliggaam op Sir Lowryspas gevind. Uitgestal langs die pad; dit lyk soos die werk van ’n reeksmoordenaar. Ongeïdentifiseerd word sy na die staatslykshuis gebring – waar sy bekend word, weens die bleikmiddel waarmee sy geskrop is, as die Gebleikte Lyk. Kort daarna word sy Bennie en Vaughn se probleem toe daar besef word sy’s ’n buitelander: Alicia Lewis, ’n kunskenner op die spoor van ’n Fabritius-skildery wat kwansuis in die Kaap is – en hý was ’n Rembrandt-leerling van wie bloedweinig werke bekend is. ’n Onbekende Fabritius sou ’n gróót storie in die kunswêreld wees. Dan vind Lithpel Davids die naam Billy de Palma in Alicia se skootrekenaar, en Vaughn weet dadelik daar’s gróót fout. Want hy ken vir Billy, en Billy is bad, bad news . . .
A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The
police initially believe it to be that of a convicted armed robber -
but not everyone agrees with that theory. One of them is Decima
Mullins, who calls on the help of private detective Cormoran Strike as
she's certain the body in the silver vault was that of her boyfriend -
the father of her newborn baby - who suddenly and mysteriously
disappeared.
Anthony Fennell, a journalist, is in pursuit of a story buried at the
bottom of the sea: the network of tiny fibre-optic tubes that carry the
world's information across the ocean floor - and what happens when they
break.
The Complete Inspector Grant includes all five of the Inspector Alan Grant Mysteries by Josephine Tey. Josephine Tey - Inspector Alan Grant Mysteries: The Man in the Queue, A Shilling for Candles, To Love and Be Wise, The Daughter of Time, The Singing Sands. Alan Grant, is clever but very ordinary in many ways, save his dogged determination to find the truth. He is kind and fair and worries about whether he has found the right solutions, persevering when others think it is pointless. He uses his position to ensure that justice prevails, often against the odds.
Charlie Chan is a Chinese Hero, solving mysteries with wit and courage. Biggers created the character because he disliked the negative stereotypes around Asian people at the time. S. T. Karnick writes in the National Review that Chan is "a brilliant detective with understandably limited facility in the English language whose] powers of observation, logic, and personal rectitude and humility made him an exemplary, entirely honourable character. The books have been adapted to television and film, creating characters and stories that adults and children alike love. This Omnibus Edition of the six Charlie Chan Novels is a must-read for every Charlie Chan fan: The House Without a Key (1925), The Chinese Parrot (1926), Behind that Curtain (1928), The Black Camel (1929), Charlie Chan Carries On (1930), Keeper of the Keys (1932)
This is the sixth of Josephine Tey's 'Inspector Grant' novels from the golden age of British detective fiction. Grant meets a celebrity photographer, Leslie Searle, briefly at a party in London. He is later astonished to hear that he has vanished in the sleeply village of Salcott St. Mary, and sets off to investigate.
The gripping and brilliant debut crime novel from the universally acclaimed creator of TV series BROADCHURCH. When Detective Nicola Bridge moves back to Dorset from the big city, the last thing she expects is for the picturesque village of Fleetcombe to become a grisly crime scene. Jim Tiernan, pub landlord, is dead, the body staged with macabre relish on an isolated country road. Nicola soon realises everyone in the village has something to hide. The hairdresser. The delivery driver. The farmer. And even the little girl, hidden at the top of the playground slide. Whispers. Rumours. Lies. And somewhere among them, a killer hiding in plain sight. Because sometimes the smallest villages hide the darkest secrets... |
You may like...
|