A cosy Dandy Gilver mystery set in 1920s Scotland. For fans of PG Wodehouse, Alexander McCall Smith and Agatha Christie.'Dan Brown meets Barbara Pym . . . Dandy is brisk, baffled, heroic, kindly, scandalised and - above all - very funny.' Guardian 'One of several...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-12-09
Collection : Dandy Gilver
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Lily Bard is starting over again. She's disguised herself as much as she can, cutting her hair short and wearing baggy clothes, and she's moved to Shakespeare, Arkansas, where, working as a cleaning lady, she can sweep away the secrets of her dark, violent past.But...

Editeur : Gollancz
Parution : 2010-11-25

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It's playing more and more like it was for the thrill. Just for the rush. And if that's the way it is, he's already looking for the next thrill.'First it was a limo driver shot through the neck with a crossbow. Then it was a high-priced escort found stabbed through the...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-11-11
Collection : In Death
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A Knott-family holiday season mystery, as District Judge Deborah Knott and chief sheriff's deputy Major Dwight Bryant investigate three deaths in their Colleton County, North Carolina community.Judge Deborah Knott is looking forward to a family celebration when a...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2010-11-05

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With the precision of a surgeon, a serial killer preys on the most vulnerable of souls on the world's city streets. The first victim: a homeless person, found dead in New York City. No bruises, no signs of a struggle. Just a laser-perfect, fist-sized hole where his...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : In Death
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We seek only the purity of justice. By the time this message reaches you, the first execution will have taken place.New York, the summer of 2059, and the unbearable heat drives everyone to the very edge of madness. So when homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas is called to a...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : In Death
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She stood in Purgatory and studied death. The blood and the gore of it, the ferocity of its glee. It had come to this place with the wilful temper of a child, full of heat and passion and careless brutality.' In an uptown strip joint a cop is found bludgeoned to death....

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : In Death
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Eve Dallas has been chosen by a deadly revolutionary group, Cassandra, as their one true adversary. While investigating the seemingly simple case of a jealous lover killing her partner, she receives a disk from Cassandra, telling her to expect a demonstration of their...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : In Death
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He is an expert with the latest technology...a madman with the mind of a genius and the heart of a killer.He quietly stalks his prey. Then he haunts the police with cryptic riddles about the crimes he is about to commit - always solved moments too late to save his...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : In Death
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She smelled it, fresh death. Both metallic and fruity. Easing the door all the way open, she found it . . .It's Christmas-time in New York City, but homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas struggles to get into the holiday spirit. Finding a woman strangled to death by a...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : In Death
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Murder was work. Some went about the job devotedly, others carelessly. And for some, murder was a labour of love.On the day of his sixtieth birthday, Walter C. Pettibone is blissfully unaware of his impending death. His final act in life is to accept a glass of...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : In Death
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At the luxurious Roarke Palace Hotel, a maid walks into suite 4602 for the nightly turndown - and steps into her worst nightmare. A killer leaves her dead, strangled by a thin, silver wire. He's Sly Yost, a virtuoso of music and murder; a hit man for the elite....

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : In Death
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There was always an audience for murder. Opening night at New York's New Globe Theatre turns from stage scene to crime scene when the leading man is stabbed to death right on centre stage. Now Eve Dallas has a high profile celebrity homicide on her hands. Not only is...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : In Death
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Cold rimmed her belly, frosted its way up to her throat. She couldn't breathe through the ice of it. Fear scratched at her throat. 'How did you find me?'Nothing shocks Eve Dallas. As New York's most prominent and headstrong homicide Lieutenant, she's seen everything....

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : In Death
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She sat, her hands folded tightly together on her lap.She breathed in and out once. 'He took her eyes . . .'As Elisa Maplewood walks her dog in the still twilight of Central Park, she is oblivious to the man lurking behind her. Later that night Lieutenant Eve Dallas...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : In Death
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As Lieutenant Eve Dallas stood over what had once been a woman, she wondered when she would see worse than this.Jack the Ripper, the Boston Strangler, Ted Bundy. The worst murderers in history and a new madman's inspiration. In the lost hours of the night a man in a top...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : In Death
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Her face was young and pretty, lips and cheeks rosy. 'She's dead isn't she? In this picture, she's already dead'New York's top reporter is sent a glamorous portfolio - a beautiful girl in the prime of her life. But the camera lies. A closer look shows the girl's...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : In Death
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She screamed once. Something, someone slipped out of the shadows.She collapsed beside the dead who had betrayed her.Approaching her cheating husband and lying best friend, Reva Ewing is bent on revenge. But somebody got there first. In a desperate fight to prove her...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : In Death
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The eighteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. 'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction'The TimesKay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2010-10-28
Collection : Kay Scarpetta
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No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' Mail on SundayAgatha Raisin has never been one for enforced holiday cheer, but her friendly little village of Carsely has always prided itself on its traditional Christmas festivities. But this year the bells will not...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2010-10-14
Collection : Agatha Raisin
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