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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From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction—and one of the best crime writers of our time—a new critically acclaimed novel centered around the unsolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986.It's August 2007, and Lars Martin Johansson, chief of the...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2014-10-09
Collection : The Story of a Crime
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'There has never been a writer like James Ellroy.' TelegraphLos Angeles, December 6, 1941. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. War fever and race hate grip the city and the internment of Japanese-Americans begins.Following the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2014-09-11

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"Consistently pulse-raising. . .an exhilarating ride. . .Personal wrests back the sheer gusto of the earlier novels; it's the best Reacher adventure in some considerable time." (Independent) Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2014-08-28

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It is the summer of 1891 and a young, beautiful bride is snatched from her wedding, leaving her guests shocked and her new husband distraught. A search is hurriedly mounted, but as each minute passes the trail grows colder. In angry desperation they turn to Scotland...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2014-08-15
Collection : Inspector Dearborn
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It begins with a father calling his daughter, but whoever answers is not Pia but his daughter’s killer. He must listen, horrified, to the sounds of his only child being murdered, powerless to intervene as the killer utters two chilling words.‘Beautiful skin…’Most men’s...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2014-08-14

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In all her novels, multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell digs deep beneath the surface to investigate the secrets of the human psyche and The Girl Next Door is no exception. This compelling and captivating mystery, with its taut plotting...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2014-08-14

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The Glendale Police Department are as busy as usual; crime, unlike the weather, is not seasonal. Detective Delia Riordan has moved into a new apartment with her parrot Harry after her father's death, but her colleagues feel it is time she found a new man.She won't have...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-07-28
Collection : A Vic Varallo Mystery
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Sergeant Andrew Clock of Homicide is an honest policeman, but now there's a very grave charge against him: concealing evidence in a murder investigation in return for a bribe. The evidence seems damning, but Clock's friends, including Jesse Falkenstein, cannot believe...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-07-28
Collection : Jesse Falkenstein
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'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneAs usual, crime is a boom industry in Los Angeles. A gunman walks into a café and shoots a waitress dead, seemingly at random. A schoolgirl is shot from a passing car. A prostitute trying to escape her job is...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-07-28
Collection : A Vic Varallo Mystery
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The bodies of three young children, abandoned on a bleak hillside, are discovered by Lieutenant O'Connor's Afghan hound, and so begins another long and tough investigation for the Glendale Police Department.Vic Varallo, O'Connor and team are also tasked with a serial...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-07-28
Collection : A Vic Varallo Mystery
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Raymond Austin, a neat, discreet banker, was Jesse Falkenstein's client. Jesse should only have been concerned with Austin's wife, Tamar, because she was being sued for divorce.But then Tamar is found dead, so Jesse has to find out a lot more about her and her friends:...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-07-28
Collection : Jesse Falkenstein
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'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneThe Glendale P.D. have their hands full again. What with an epidemic of motel hold-ups, a rapist with a fixation on hospital nurses, a teenager's suicide, an art gallery theft and a killing that leads to a zoo,...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-07-28
Collection : A Vic Varallo Mystery
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Jesse Falkenstein was just putting away his notes at the end of the day when he was visited by Mrs Lester, an acquaintance of his sister, who came to him claiming her husband, Glen, had been seen frequently dining with another woman.Jesse was loath to get involved, even...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-07-28
Collection : Jesse Falkenstein
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'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneVic Varallo and the Glendale P.D. are startled by the latest addition to their team: a woman detective no less, and a very smart one at that. Delia Riordan soon makes her mark with enthusiasm, flair and a...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-07-28
Collection : A Vic Varallo Mystery
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Four years ago Wayne Burgess killed his parents, and his plea of insanity lead to a verdict of not guilty. Now, after four years in a mental institution, he has been released and is obsessively determined to murder his wife and young daughter.Delia Riordan, the newest...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-07-28
Collection : A Vic Varallo Mystery
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