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Her name is Jane Smith. But to friends and foes, she's Jane Effing
Smith.
Why? Because she's the best criminal defence attorney in the Hamptons -
the elite world of New York's rich and infamous. Because she's as good
an investigator as she is a lawyer. Because she's tough. She's strong.
As Jane is preparing to defend a high-profile client accused of a
triple homicide, she's also hired to revive a cold case - a cluster of
unsolved murders.
Then another bombshell lands. A devastating medical diagnosis.
Terminal. She's got a year to live.
But for now, she has a trial to win. Unless one of her many enemies
kills her first.
When a body is found at the castle ruins, can DCI Lesley Clarke uncover
the killer?
After being injured in a bomb attack in Birmingham, DCI Lesley Clarke
relocates to the peace of rural Dorset.
But things don’t stay calm for long. Before she’s even started her new
job, Lesley has to hit the ground running as she’s dragged into
investigating a murder at one of England’s most iconic landmarks, the
imposing Corfe Castle.
Can she navigate the politics of a smaller force and work with her new
partner DS Dennis Frampton, who doesn’t appreciate her. And most
importantly, can she solve the murder before the killer strikes again?
An unputdownable, character-driven mystery, perfect for fans of Elly
Griffiths and Ann Cleeves.
The stunning new thriller from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling
author Two sisters One secret Someone knows what they did... Leigh
doesn't like to talk about her sister. About the night that tore
them apart. About what they did. But someone else is about to. How
far will Leigh go to protect her family? What readers are saying
about False Witness 'WOW!!! I absolutely loved it' 'My favourite
book of 2021' 'A rollercoaster of emotions' 'Wow! What a story!' 'A
one-sitting read' 'I binge-read it' Karin Slaughter's previous
novel The Silent Wife was a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller w/e
27/6/20
The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan,
released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon -
renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory
Fitzjohn. Vaughan sets to work farming the land, rearing geese and
renovating the cottage. Hard work and rural peace seem to make this
a happy bachelor life. On a nearby farm lives the bored,
flirtatious June St Cyres, an exile from London while her husband
is a Japanese POW. June's presence attracts fashionable visitors of
dubious character, and threatens to spoil Vaughan's Prized
seclusion. When Little Thatch is destroyed in a blaze, all
Vaughan's work goes up in smoke - and Inspector Macdonald is
drafted in to uncover a motive for murder.
One missing girl. Five bodies. Time is running out. When
nineteen-year-old university student Emma goes missing, Detective
Inspector Gareth Gravel is called in. But what is a simple missing
person case soon turns into something much darker as Gravel's
inquiries lead him to the graves of five young women - each of whom
looks just like Emma. With a serial killer on the loose and his
latest victim already in his control, can the police find Emma in
time? Or will Emma have to save herself? The Carmarthen Murders is
the first book in the dark, edge-of-your-seat Carmarthen Crime
thriller series set in the stunning West Wales countryside.
*Previously published as Portraits of the Dead*
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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Hired Guns
(Hardcover)
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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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?"
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