Spring fever has hit Luis Mendoza, both on the job and at home. But it hasn't erased the LAPD's endless caseload of bizarre crimes and difficult cases.'Dapper Dan', the rapist and murderer whose dashing looks and easy charm give him the perfect ploy to trap his pretty...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-11-21
Collection : A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery
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To a man, the members of the LAPD homicide department were yawning with unaccustomed inactivity. Then everything happened at once - a cop killed by a hit-and-run driver; the questionable suicide of a young girl; and the victim (apparently) of a heart attack found in the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-11-21
Collection : A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery
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A perfect collection of short stories for Dell Shannon fans and mystery lovers everywhere, featuring eight cases of her popular Lieutenant Luis Mendoza, alongside six intriguing non-series tales.Mysteries include the case of an exasperated husband who may have murdered...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-11-21
Collection : A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery
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A nice young man is helping little old ladies with their groceries . . . then stealing their Social Security; an enormous 'ape man' with a face like King Kong is robbing liquor stores; 'Jack the Stripper' is leaving gas-station registers empty . . . and the attendants...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-11-21
Collection : A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery
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Glamorous TV star Jan Warden is found gruesomely murdered in her bed. In her climb to fame, she has made plenty of enemies and the police are not short of suspects. It has fallen to Ivor and Sue Maddox and their LAPD colleagues to solve the murder, which they must do...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-11-21
Collection : An Ivor Maddox Mystery
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An early June hot spell takes its toll as it fuels a wave of bloody and bizarre crimes for Luis Mendoza of the LAPD. Grisliest by far is the psycho they call the werewolf, who gets his kicks by killing hookers before vanishing into the dark. A gorgeous teenage redhead...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-11-21
Collection : A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery
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The weather in LA hasn't been living up to its sunny reputation - the murder of an unwanted newborn and the assault of a twelve-year-old girl don't make things pretty for the family-man cop, especially with a new baby at home.The most puzzling crime of all is the murder...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-11-21
Collection : A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery
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A bunch of kids from a Catholic School on a school trip to the Museum of National History seems like a safe day out. But when the nuns counted heads outside the building, young Joyce McCauley was missing. The Feds, believing it to be a snatch, are waiting for the ransom...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-11-21
Collection : A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery
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September is the worst month for heat in Southern California, and LAPD lieutenant Luis Mendoza is feeling the burn as the sweltering temperatures raise tempers and violence.Heading the list is the bizarre murder of a young French girl - which eventually leads Mendoza to...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-11-21
Collection : A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery
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'Packs a killer twist' Prima'Wickedly funny' Sunday Mirror________To mark the twelve days of Christmas, he gives me a gift every day, each more horrible than the last . . .I am missing. Held captive by a blue-eyed stranger.The twelfth day is getting closer. After that,...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2014-11-20

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An original digital short story featuring DS 'Sauce' Haddock and Edinburgh's finest, Chief Constable Bob Skinner, from Scotland's Crime Master.When DS 'Sauce' Haddock visits his old teacher to investigate an alleged jewellery theft, it quickly becomes clear that...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-11-17

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Book 5 in the Rivers of London series, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch.In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and takes him out of London - to a small...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2014-11-13
Collection : A Rivers of London novel
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On All Hallows' Eve, ex-convict Peter Boutrup is visiting his best friend's grave when her estranged mother appears. Her son, Magnus, has disappeared, and she begs Peter to look for him.The next day a young nun is pulled out of the moat at the convent in Djursland. She...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-11-06

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Magic, murder and a mystery rooted in a murky wartime past. Meet DI Stephens and Max MephistoBrighton, 1950. When the body of a girl is found, cut into three, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is reminded of a magic trick, the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick,...

Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2014-11-06
Collection : The Brighton Mysteries
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CORRUPTION REACHES DEADLY HEIGHTS.The town of Brady is hiding dark secrets.Samantha Kofer had been riding high at a Wall Street law firm - until the recession hit. When she takes a new job in the Appalachian Mountains, she meets fearless lawyer Donovan Gray, who knows...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-10-23

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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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