No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' Mail on SundayAmazing news is spreading like wildfire across the Scottish countryside: the most famous of all Lochdubh, remotely nestling in the Highlands, is perfectly anonymous... until well-known TV reporter Crystal...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2009-09-10
Collection : Hamish Macbeth
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Grime and punishment . . .When Fergus Macleod, Lochdubh's abusive, drunk dustman is put in charge of the local recycling centre and is dubbed 'Environment Officer', Hamish Macbeth smells trouble. Sure enough, Fergus, imbued with his new powers, becomes a bullying tyrant...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2009-09-10
Collection : Hamish Macbeth
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The serial killer to end all serial killers is out there and only one person in the whole city knows it...Twenty years ago John Costello's life, as he knew it, ended. He and his beautiful girlfriend, Nadia, were victims of the deranged 'Hammer of God' killer who...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2009-09-03

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'One of the bad girls of gritty crime' Daily Mirror Larry Logan is a small-time TV star with a mile-wide ego. Gutted when his latest show is axed, he's less than impressed when the only work he can get is fronting a fake game show - actually an undercover police sting...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2009-09-03

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'One of the bad girls of gritty crime' Daily Mirror It's the hottest new night club in town. . . ARE YOU IN? Jenna Lorde knows she's taking on a challenge when she inherits her dad's nightclub. But Zenith comes with a top class reputation and a location which other...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2009-09-03

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'One of the bad girls of gritty crime' Daily Mirror It begins on a winter afternoon, when schoolgirl Nicky Day runs from a gang of bullies. Then her little brother starts the fire. But the nightmare that is engulfing Sue and Terry Day is only beginning . . .A single...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2009-09-03

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'If you like Kathy Reichs, you'll like Jefferson Bass' The Times.A woman's charred body has been found inside a burned car atop a hill in Knoxville. Was this an accidental death, or murder? Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton is on the case, torching bodies to...

Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2009-09-03
Collection : The Body Farm
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Pre-order Val McDermid's masterful new thriller, 1989, now!'No-one can plot or tell a story like she can. The hairs on my neck literally stood up' Daily Express'So gripping it puts your life on hold' The Times'You should have been a detective. If there's one thing the...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2009-09-03
Collection : Tony Hill and Carol Jordan
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No stranger to sprawling country estates, well-heeled Daisy Dalrymple is breaking new ground at Wentwater Court to cover a story for Town & Country magazine. But her interview gives way to interrogation when suave Lord Stephen Astwick meets a chilly end on the tranquil...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2009-08-27
Collection : Daisy Dalrymple
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Leading anthologist Maxim Jakubowski presents the very best in crime writing from around the world - 40 short stories from an all-star line-up of international writers. They cover the full spectrum of crime fiction, from noir and thrillers, to whodunnits and...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2009-08-27
Collection : Mammoth Books
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With dashing Scotland Yard detective Alec Fletcher at her side, Daisy Dalrymple is enjoying a splendid performance of Verdi's Requiem featuring her neighbour Muriel Westlea's celebrated sister, Bettina. But the show comes to an abrupt end when what emerges from the...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2009-08-27
Collection : Daisy Dalrymple
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So who put the body in with the spring bulbs?The merest hint of spring has arrived in Cheshire, and so has young reporter Daisy Dalrymple. The feisty flapper's visit is a breath of fresh air for gloomy Occles Hall. But while photographing the rather barren grounds,...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2009-08-27
Collection : Daisy Dalrymple
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When DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change everything he understood about the events that sent him north twenty years ago.Walking again the narrow alleys and backstreets...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2009-08-25
Collection : DCI Banks
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In this "taut thriller full of whiplash plot twists and wisecracking dialogue," a lawyer will do whatever it takes to make sure an adorable Bernese puppy -- whose owner was brutally murdered -- doesn't fall into the wrong hands (Entertainment Weekly).Few can rival...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2009-08-06
Collection : The Andy Carpenter Series
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Spring, 1941. The armies of the Reich are masters of Europe. Britain stands alone, dependent on her battered navy for survival, while Hitler’s submarines – his ‘grey wolves’ - prey on the Atlantic convoys that are the country’s only lifeline. Lieutenant Douglas Lindsay...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2009-08-06

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Start right here! Discover the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and become obsessed with one of the most popular crime series in Britain.'Galloway now seems as real as Marple and Morse' The TimesDr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child's bones are discovered near a...

Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2009-08-06
Collection : The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries
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*NOMINATED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD*Family Album 'a hugely enjoyable read' from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively'This novel should delight her regular readers and ensnare new ones' Evening StandardAllersmead is a big shabby Victorian suburban house. The perfect...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2009-08-06

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'Beautiful and haunting... A tour de force' MICHAEL CONNELLY'There aren't nearly enough beautifully written novels that are also great mysteries... A Quiet Belief in Angels is one of them' JAMES PATTERSONA TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2009-07-30

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Are drugs responsible for a sighting of Nessie's long lost relative?Recovering addict Tommy Jarret has just rented a chalet to check out reports of a sea monster near the village of Drim. But when he turns up dead, apparently from a drug overdose, Lochdubh constable...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2009-07-30
Collection : Hamish Macbeth
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Truth is stranger than fiction...Patricia Martyn-Broyd, now in her seventies, has retired to the Highlands. She hasn't written a word in years and her books are out of print. But now a television company is about to film her last detective story, featuring the...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2009-07-30
Collection : Hamish Macbeth
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