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Combining the storytelling talents of Reese Witherspoon and Harlan
Coben into one masterpiece of suspense fiction, Gone Before Goodbye is
the unforgettable story of an indomitable woman, trapped in a
conspiracy she helped create but can’t understand. Her harrowing search
for the truth could expose a plot woven throughout the exclusive world
of the global ultra elite – but at an unfathomable cost to Maggie
herself.
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.
A rare masterpiece by Picasso is about to go to auction, and the whole
world is watching.
Lt. Eve Dallas is back with a murder case with its roots in loyalty,
treachery, espionage and the long shadow of war...
Introducing Detective Stilwell: a cop relentlessly following his
mission in the seemingly idyllic setting of Catalina Island.
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 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...
Merrin McKenzie returns to St Ives after a tragedy, seeking comfort in her hometown during the festive season. Stepping back from her career as a solicitor, she agrees to clean holiday cottages for friends, anticipating dirty laundry and sandy floors. Definitely not a dead body tucked up in one of the guest beds. The police are unable to identify the young man and are baffled by his mysterious death. As coincidences pile up, Merrin suspects something darker lies beneath the surface of this charming seaside town. Despite Inspector Louis Peppiatt's scepticism of her theories, she uncovers a sinister side to the Cornish coastline as the case unfolds.
Kassie has never had to cope with a case like this before, and his
emotions are getting the better of him. As a rookie cop he learned to
keep his distance from a case, not get emotionally involved, because
that’s when mistakes happen. But this case makes distance impossible .
. . children’s lives are at stake. And every time he and Rooi seem to
be making progress with the case, it slithers out from under them, like
a venomous snake.
Wanneer ’n nuuskierige toeris aan Zanzibar se kus vermoor word, peul die vreemdste karakters uit die spesery-eiland se tropiese woud. Die bou van Giorgio Comaneti se blinknuwe Zanzibar Zen Casino gaan die helfte van die Jozani-woud uitwis. Toast le Roux, omgewingsjoernalis, moet die stootskrapers betyds stop. Maar Comaneti se gevaarlike handlangers, Tjokkie en Bozo, is reeds op Toast se spoor. En hulle wil net vriendelik met hom gesels.
Josephine Tey wrote ingenious crime novels with utterly believable characters, beautifully crafted dialogues and plots that delight and intrigue the reader. For many, these books are their favourite crime novels, it is just a shame she didn't write more. The Singing Sands is the final Inspector Grant novel, discovered in Josephine Tey's papers and publish post-humously. 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.
When the gods made man, they made a weapon... After uncovering a fresh wave of corruption within the ranks of Northumbria CID, Detective Chief Inspector Ryan was looking forward to an uneventful summer. But, when a young woman is shot dead on the remote army ranges of the Northumberland National Park, Ryan is called in to investigate. Meanwhile, violent crimes are being committed across sites of historic importance in the North East, the perpetrator leaving only a graffitied symbol as their calling card. As the body count rises, Ryan and his team must unravel the mystery behind its meaning - before it's too late... Murder and mystery are peppered with romance and humour in this fast-paced crime whodunnit set amidst the spectacular Northumbrian landscape. "LJ Ross keeps company with the best mystery writers" - The Times "A literary phenomenon" - Evening Chronicle
Christmas can be murder... After a busy year fighting crime, DCI Ryan and his team of murder detectives are enjoying a festive season of goodwill, mulled wine and, in the case of DS Phillips, a stottie cake or two-that is, until a freak snowstorm forces their car off the main road and into the remote heart of Northumberland. Their Christmas spirit is soon tested when they're forced to find shelter inside England's most haunted castle, where they're the uninvited guests at a 'Candlelit Ghost Hunt'. It's all fun and games-until one of the guests is murdered. It seems no mortal hand could have committed the crime, so Ryan and Co. must face the spectres living inside the castle walls to uncover the grisly truth, before another ghost joins their number... Murder and mystery are peppered with romance and humour in this fast-paced crime whodunnit set amidst the spectacular Northumbrian landscape. "LJ Ross keeps company with the best mystery writers" - The Times "A literary phenomenon" - Evening Chronicle
** A creeping story of sibling rivalry and dangerous obsession from the multi-award nominated author of Sunburn ** January 1965. The orphaned O'Leary siblings - Tom, Jack, Anna and Peggy - arrive in the village of Ballycrea, tight-lipped about their troubled past and desperate for a fresh start. After being met with suspicion from most of the locals, the family are thrilled when they're taken under the wing of their well-respected neighbours, Bill and Betty Nevan, who offer them work, companionship and an opportunity to fit in. But for one of the O'Learys, this new friendship sparks an intense attachment that makes the dynamic dangerous for all. It's difficult to bury secrets, but almost impossible to bury feelings... Crackling with suspense, Heap Earth Upon It revisits the rural Ireland of Howarth's critically acclaimed debut and delves into claustrophobic relationships and tangled identities, leaving you wondering who to trust until the very last page. It combines the emotional intensity and slow-burn sapphic obsession of Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea and K. Patrick's Mrs S. with the unsettling gothic undertones of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Shirley Jackson's fiction.
FROM THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOLY ISLAND AND SEVEN BRIDGES He thought he was invincible, but he was wrong... When an old man is found dead inside the ancient hermitage at Warkworth Castle, Northumbria CID are called in to investigate. With no apparent motive, it's their job to unravel why he was murdered - and this time they're forced to do it without their star detective... DCI Ryan is thousands of miles away. He's tracked a killer across Europe and has sworn not to return until he has his man in custody. Nathan Armstrong is a dangerous psychopath but there's just one problem - he's also an international celebrity; a world-famous thriller writer with money and connections. Ryan is a stranger in a foreign land, but he knows one thing - he'll never give up. Murder and mystery are peppered with romance and humour in this fast-paced crime whodunnit set amidst the spectacular landscapes of Northumberland and Tuscany. "LJ Ross keeps company with the best mystery writers" - The Times "A literary phenomenon" - Evening Chronicle
Josephine Tey wrote ingenious crime novels with utterly believable characters, beautifully crafted dialogues and plots that delight and intrigue the reader. For many, these books are their favourite crime novels, it is just a shame she didn't write more.
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.
Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill, Vermont. But this morning that will change. And one innocent question could be deadly. What have you done? The teenagers get their kicks telling ghost stories in the old graveyard. The parents trust their kids will arrive home safe from school. Everyone knows everyone. Curtains rarely twitch. Front doors are left unlocked. But Diana Brewer isn’t lying safely in her bed where she belongs. Instead she lies in a hayfield, circled by vultures, discovered by a local farmer. How quickly a girl becomes a ghost. How quickly a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects, a place of fear and paranoia. Someone in Fairhill did this. Everyone wants answers.
This, the third-and final-book of the Leonaur series contains two of the six original Charlie Chan mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers. In the first tale, we find the inscrutable Chinese-Hawaiian police detective remaking and nearly loosing an acquaintance made in an earlier case-Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Duff. The English policeman has been pursuing his quarry across the globe following hard on the trail of murder after murder. In Honolulu Duff is shot and wounded and feels he must give up the chase-but Charlie Chan is on hand to carry on-giving the case its title-and bring the guilty to justice. In Keeper of the Keys-the final novel, Chan leaves his island home to visit California, where as a house-guest of a famous opera singer he finds himself denied relaxation and embroiled in murder instead. Ex-husbands, servants and a veritable company of suspects all come under Chan's scrutiny together with a dog called Trouble, two scarves and two little boxes. A mystery indeed!
A SECRET KEPT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS... After the dramatic theft of a priceless artefact from Durham Cathedral, the rest of the world believes that DCI Ryan and his team were able to recover and return St. Cuthbert's cross to its rightful home. But Ryan knows the cross he recovered was a fake-far from being over, their problems are only just beginning... Just as Ryan and his team begin to unravel the truth behind the spate of mysterious thefts, something even more priceless is stolen-something that can never be replaced. As the nationwide manhunt continues without success, Ryan is thrust into despair-until he realises the answer lies not in modern policing but in an age-old secret known only to a chosen few. To recover what's been lost, he must first crack 'Cuthbert's Code', following the trail of a long-dead saint across the wild, unpredictable hills and valleys of the borderlands. Can Ryan find what he's looking for, before it's too late? He's going to need a miracle... Murder and mystery are peppered with romance and humour in this fast-paced crime whodunit set amidst the spectacular Northumbrian landscape. "LJ Ross keeps company with the best mystery writers" - The Times "A literary phenomenon" - Evening Chronicle
n Televisieprogram oor die rekonstruksie van skedels dwing Carolien se gedagtes terug na ontstellende gebeure vyftien jaar tevore. En na die vreemdeling wat sy toe geteken het. Die taal van been is 'n roman oor gewone mense se strewe en verlies en die onthutsende werklikheid wat onder die oppervlak skuil. Dis tegelyk 'n speurverhaal met 'n politieke ondertoon, die storie van 'n kunsdosent wat haar werk deur regstellende aksie verloor en 'n eiesoortige liefdesverhaal. Uiteindelik gaan dit egter om veel meer. Hierdie roman bly subtiel spook omdat dit dinge se wat die teks verswyg.
Dr Sara Buhle, a troubled obstetrician, is thrust into a frantic search
for a missing newborn in Durban. Sara is pulled into the search by
rising SAPS star Vuyi Vilakazi. But with time working against them, and
rumours of muthi murders hounding the investigation, the pair find
themselves in a race from the city centre and an informal settlement in
the Hammarsdale Hills. Mere minutes will make the difference between
success and failure. |
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