'Ingenious' New York Times'Mesmerising' The Times'Loveable' Evening StandardNine-year-old Tooly is spirited away from Bangkok by a seductive group of outsiders who take her from city to city across the globe. At twenty, she is wandering the streets of Manhattan with a...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2018-11-01

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Government minister Patrick Macready has been found dead in his flat. The coroner rules it an accident, a sex game gone wrong. Jon Swift is from the old stock of journos - cynical, cantankerous and overweight - and something about his friend's death doesn't seem right....

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2018-10-04

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Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new...

Editeur : Corsair
Parution : 2018-10-04

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November 1963: Easy's settled into a steady gig as a school custodian. It's a quiet, simple existence - but a few moments of ecstasy with a sexy teacher will change all that. When the lady vanishes, Easy's stuck with a couple of corpses, the cops on his back, and a...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2018-07-12
Collection : Easy Rawlins mysteries
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In the beginning . . . there was Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and Raymond "Mouse" Alexander - two young men setting out in life, hitting the road in a "borrowed" '36 Ford headed for Pariah, Texas. The volatile Mouse wants to retrieve money from his stepfather so he can marry...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2018-07-12
Collection : Easy Rawlins mysteries
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Easy should be living a contented life, with steady work as senior head custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, and a loving family. But happiness is as elusive forEasy as smoke in shadows. Easy's the man folks seek out when they can't take their problems to anyone...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2018-07-12
Collection : Easy Rawlins mysteries
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An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose.Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2018-06-21

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1993 GOLDEN DAGGER AWARD'In the crime field this is unquestionably the novel of the year' Literary Review'Perhaps the most important black literary figure to appear on the scene since James Baldwin's death' GuardianThe police don't show up on Easy...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2018-04-05
Collection : Easy Rawlins mysteries
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1992 GOLDEN DAGGER AWARD'This novel is so hot, it burns the fingers' Evening Standard'Mosley's second novel confirms him as one of crime writing's finds of the 1990s' Daily TelegraphIt's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2018-04-05
Collection : Easy Rawlins mysteries
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1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never meaner...or more deadly. Ordinarily, Easy would have thrown the two bills in the sleazy shamus' face - the white man who wanted him to find the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2018-04-05
Collection : Easy Rawlins mysteries
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DANGEROUSLY GOOD. DISTINCTIVELY DEAVER.Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme is back with his most harrowing case yet in this newest installment of Jeffrey Deaver's New York Times bestselling series.A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side street in broad daylight. A...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2017-02-07

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'FIRST ELECTRICITY. AND THEN TELEPHONES. I FEEL AS IF I WERE LIVING IN AN H G WELLS NOVEL' DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM'You can enjoy the novel as a jolly yarn about faux pas - there's a bit of Kipps in most of us - but you also sense that Wells found its theme a little...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2017-01-12

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Beyond City Limits...there are no eyeless, crawling things in this town, no vampire slumbers unseen behind the rusting rails of the city necropolis.Here are only car parks, and nightclubs, and taxi cabs. The pavements are bright and thronging, people laugh and...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2016-10-28

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Bleu is addicted . . . addicted to the luxe life and it has led her down a road of self-destruction. She knows what it feels like to be turned out by the game. With a crack cocaine addiction that she can't seem to escape, she is desperate for a saviour. Her problem is...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2016-10-04
Collection : Luxe
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Bleu Montclair knew as a young girl that she would one day escape the hard, unrelenting streets of Flint, Michigan, and when her desperate prayers are answered in the form of a scholarship to UCLA, she knows she's struck gold. But soon after she arrives there, all her...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2016-08-02
Collection : Luxe
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Seymour Brathwaite, a young physicist, was found standing over the body of a murdered man. Charcoal Joe, one of the deadliest men in America, wants Brathwaite cleared. Easy Rawlins, a renowned Los Angeles PI, cannot refuse Charcoal Joe. But what links the king of the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2016-06-16
Collection : Easy Rawlins mysteries
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Berlin. A city where nightclubs stay open from Friday night till Monday morning. A city with an underbelly as dark and addictive as the 24-hour drugs, drinking, dancing and sex in filthy toilets that it serves up. Three young men, from different backgrounds, meet here...

Editeur : Arcadia Books
Parution : 2015-09-17

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An Easy Rawlins Mystery - from Bill Clinton's favourite novelist.The year is 1964, and though Easy seems settled into honest work as a Los Angeles custodian, he's having other problems - notably, his adopted son's wish to quit school, and lingering remorse over the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2015-05-28
Collection : Easy Rawlins mysteries
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Easy Rawlins is back in an electric new story and facing his greatest set of challenges to dateEasy Rawlins comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend Christmas Black, left on his doorstep.Easy knows that this could only mean that the ex-marine Black...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2015-05-28
Collection : Easy Rawlins mysteries
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Available together for the very first time, these are the first three crime novels in the inimitable Bob Skinner series by Quintin Jardine.Skinner's RulesAs head of Edinburgh's CID, Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner has seen it all... but even he is shocked by...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2015-05-07

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