Irish-Italian detective Nick O'Hara, grandson of a Mafia don, knows who is responsible for his son's death, but his hands are tied. Abandoned by his wife, he grows increasingly desperate, going into a tailspin from which he can see only one escape: revenge.As Nick's...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : Murder Room
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Corporate hatchetman Hubbard is on his way to an industry convention to carry out a termination - a fancy way of saying he's about to toss a man and his family out in the street. But the convention is a modern Sodom of cheating husbands and ambitious wives, ready to put...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : Murder Room
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Martha Crayle trusted everyone, so when the frightened girl arrived at the National Guild for the Welfare of Unmarried Mothers on that drizzly, cold autumn afternoon,Martha gladly took her to the spacious Victorian house where in harder times she had taken in lodgers....

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : Superintendent Ditteridge
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'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneIvor Maddox has his hands more full than ever, with his wife Sue expecting a baby. To add to this, he also faces several of the most complex and frustrating cases of his career: the killing of a...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : An Ivor Maddox Mystery
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Beautiful Nell Varney was a newcomer to Contera - and to murder.Suddenly she found herself in a strange courtroom faced with seven pairs of hate-ridden, accusing eyes. Seven witnesses had identified her as the murderer who had caused the death of two women by performing...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : Jesse Falkenstein
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Sid Shanley couldn't stay in one place very long. He had to keep on the run, changing towns, changing jobs, changing women. He worked out the perfect setup - no attachments, no trails, no explanations. But now a girl has caught up with him. Her name was Paula - and a...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : Murder Room
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In the Hollywood Division of the L.A.P.D., chief of detectives Ivor Maddox and his team have their hands full. There are the routine cases, including the TV actress who overdoses on drugs and alcohol. There are the more complex cases, such as armed robber Dapper Dan,...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : An Ivor Maddox Mystery
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With a brief note to her employer, Dorrie Mayo left her job - and another note taped to a neighbour's door claimed she was taking her baby to live with her in-laws on the other side of the U.S. A natural enough thing for a young widow with a fifteen-month-old daughter...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : An Ivor Maddox Mystery
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On a winter night in a Bronx neighbourhood, a blow from a shovel fells a man in the street. From the scene flee six children, any of whom might have loosed the fatal strike. Weeks later, one of their fathers is executed for the crime.Four decades on, the Ryer Avenue...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : Murder Room
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Ivor Maddox and his men of the Hollywood police department face, as ever, a formidable load of tricky and puzzling cases.An unknown woman walks into a lawyer's office and shoots him dead: who is she and what is her motive? A housewife in a reputable neighbourhood is...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : An Ivor Maddox Mystery
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'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneHelen is eighteen, respectable, modestly pretty; she disappears. Juanita isn't much older, and a stunner; she picks men up in bars and then robs them at gunpoint. Old Mrs Peller's bungalow has been broken into...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : An Ivor Maddox Mystery
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Death is everywhere. A child in a playground. A playboy in a cheap hotel. A John Doe in a freight yard. A nanny and her two charges in a church pew.After twenty-six years in homicide, Lieutenant Luis Mendoza knows death is all in a day's work. But in the heat of a Los...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery
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'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneCharles O'Connor of the Glendale police and Vic Varallo are having dinner with their wives when they are interrupted by a call informing them of murder. The victim is an old, nearly blind woman, killed in her...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : A Vic Varallo Mystery
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Mystery writer Brendan Monroe is tormented by the fear that his flamboyant fictional detective P. I. Roy Barron has come to life. Is the author losing his mind? Or is someone making it seem that way?When Barron is found dead, Sergeant Dan Valentine of the Santa Monica...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : Murder Room
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'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneRonnie and Ruth, a young couple engaged to be married, are shot dead. Someone hated their guts so bad he reloaded and pumped nine shots into their car.Maddox was stymied. Why should anyone kill two nice,...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : An Ivor Maddox Mystery
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'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneIn the quiet suburb of Santa Monica, eighty-eight-year-old Mabel Foster loses her husband to a stroke. Rather than move Mabel into a retirement home, the neighbours hire Josephine Slaney to take care of her....

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : Murder Room
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The perfect book for fans of serial killer thrillers and crime writers such as Peter James, Mark Billingham and Peter RobinsonWhat if your upstairs neighbour wished their life was more like yours? Exactly like yours? Nigel never meant for it to happen. At first, he just...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-10-09
Collection : DI Harland
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Everything comes at a price... Hard-hitting and uncompromising, THE GOOD LIFE by the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian) and Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Martina Cole is a chilling thriller about power and protection, and what life is really like on the...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-10-09

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Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, in a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend,...

Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group
Parution : 2014-10-09
Collection : The Detective Kaga Series
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A community on the brink.An abandoned chapel burns. In this part of Manchester, destruction is not unusual. But this time, the body of a man lies inside.And it's down to Scott and Bailey to save them all...Detective Constable Rachel Bailey is struggling to come to terms...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2014-10-09

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