Although he was watching closely when the mummer was poisoned, it took Gil Cunningham several days and three more poisonings to work out how it was done.Danny Gibson and Nanty Bothwell, rivals for the affections of Agnes Renfrew, the apothecary's pretty daughter, are...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2011-05-26
Collection : Gil Cunningham
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'That night he did something so controversial that he'd rather be suspected of murder than tell anyone what he was really doing. What could possibly be worse than that?'Trainee journalist Annika Bengtzon has secured a summer placement at Sweden's biggest tabloid...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2011-05-26

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Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-05-26

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Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble.HenryWilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-05-26

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When Detective Catrin Price returns to Cardiff after 12 years of self-imposed exile she is determined to lay to rest the ghosts of her unhappy past. Then her ex-boyfriend Rhys, once a promising young policeman but now a washed-up junkie, is found dead on one of her...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-05-26

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Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-05-26

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The last of John le Carré's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance,The Secret Pilgrim is published in Penguin Modern Classics with an afterword by the author.The Cold War is over...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-05-26

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Elizabeth George's masterly new novel brings Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley back onto centre stage in an intricate crime drama. While DI Thomas Lynley is still on compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Isabelle Ardery is brought into the Met as his...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-05-26
Collection : Inspector Lynley
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'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet EvansThe rambling house called Thornyhold is like something out of a fairy tale. Left to Gilly Ramsey by the cousin whose occasional visits brightened her...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-05-26

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The tense, twisty murder mystery which will have you on the edge of your seat, from the author of Madam, Will You Talk? /font size> 'Mary Stewart is magic' New York Times Following a heart-breaking divorce, Gianetta retreats to the Isle of Skye hoping to find...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-05-26

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The original queen of the page-turner Mary Stewart leads her readers on a thrilling journey through a dangerous and deadly Provence in this tale perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym. 'Mary Stewart is magic' New York Times'One of the great British...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-05-26

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A compelling crime thriller perfect for fans of Martina Cole.A decomposed body washes up on a beach near Glasgow. The victim: Tracy Eadie. Junkie. Prostitute. Fourteen years old.Rosie Gilmour, tabloid journalist and crusader for justice, receives evidence linking police...

Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2011-05-26
Collection : Rosie Gilmour
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Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-05-25

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Outside a London theatre a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical. But as the doors open at last, something spoils all thought of entertainment: a man in the queue is found murdered by the deadly thrust of a stiletto...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-05-25

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Alec Fletcher's plans to attend his daughter Belinda's school sports day are thwarted by the discovery of three bodies buried in Epping forest. Sent to investigate, he and his team are hindered from the start by uncooperative Essex policeman, DI Gant, who resents...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-05-19
Collection : Daisy Dalrymple
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A powerfully gripping thriller from the two-time winner of the THEAKSTONS AWARD, 'one of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years' Ian Rankin.In Glasgow, a child goes missing, taken from the front garden of his home - and the investigation leads...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2011-05-19

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From the two-time winner of the THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD - a Scottish crime novel with a difference.The last time Maureen O'Donnell saw Ann Harris, she was in the Glasgow Women's Shelter smelling of a long binge on cheap drink. A month later...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2011-05-19

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A masterful crime thriller from the two-time winner of the THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR.Maureen O'Donnell wasn't born lucky.A psychiatric patient and survivor of sexual abuse, she's stuck in a dead-end job and a secretive relationship with Douglas, a...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2011-05-19

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'Not since Hammett and Chandler has anyone written quite as well as Joe Gores. He will probably be regarded as one of the masters in years to come' Ross ThomasNeil Fargo is a San Francisco private investigator hired by the wealthy Maxwell Stayton to find his missing...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2011-05-12

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'Not since Hammett and Chandler has anyone written quite as well as Joe Gores' Ross ThomasFrom Chinatown's dark alleys to the fog-shrouded Golden Gate, crooked politicians ran San Francisco. To Hammet, retired Pinkerton detective and struggling writer, it was all just...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2011-05-12

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