MIGNON is James M. Cain’s first novel in nearly ten years. Readers of previous bestsellers such as The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce will find Mignon Fournet, the heroine of the new novel, as remarkable a...
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Galatea may seem strange Cain to those who link him with California and violent stories out of the West. But to those who knew him earlier, particularly his origins in Annapolis and his life in the counties near by, it will hardly come as a...
This is a distinguished publishing event. Career in C Major and Other Fiction is the final anthology of previously uncollected short fiction by James M. Cain, the renowned author of Mildred Pierce, The Post matt Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity,...
Woody Lambert is in trouble. He comes from a broken family, suffers bad grades at school and his older brother, Tony, is on probation for a drug offence. When Woody inadvertently gets caught up with Tony and one of his friends, Garth, cruising...
A mother and child are found brutally murdered in an old caravan on a remote piece of land. A bloody footprint is discovered at the scene, and Chief Inspector Sejer is called to investigate. Meanwhile, another mother, dying of cancer, confesses to...
“He’d just learnt to walk,” she said. “He was sitting playing on his blanket, then all of a sudden he was gone.” A 16-month-old boy is found drowned in a pond right by his home. Chief Inspector Sejer is called to the scene as there is...
Автор: Джеймс Питер
Серия: Detective Superintendent Roy Grace #16
Язык: английский
Год: 2020
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Ending his secondment to London’s Met Police, Roy Grace gets a tip-off about a county lines drugs mastermind operating out of Brighton. On his first day back in his old job in Sussex, he is called to a seemingly senseless murder. Separately, Meg...
Автор: Джеймс Питер
Серия: Detective Superintendent Roy Grace #15
Язык: английский
Год: 2019
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You don’t know me, but I thought I knew you... A man waits at a London airport for Ingrid Ostermann, the love of his life, to arrive. Across the Atlantic, a retired NYPD cop waits in a bar in Florida’s Key West for his first date with the lady...
Автор: Джеймс Питер
Серия: Detective Superintendent Roy Grace #14
Язык: английский
Год: 2018
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Kipp Brown, successful businessman and compulsive gambler, is having the worst run of luck of his life. He’s beginning to lose, big style. However, taking his teenage son, Mungo, to their club’s Saturday afternoon football match should have...
Автор: Джеймс Питер
Серия: Detective Superintendent Roy Grace #13
Язык: английский
Год: 2017
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Lorna Belling, desperate to escape the marriage from hell, falls for the charms of another man who promises her the earth. But, as Lorna finds, life seldom follows the plans you’ve made. A chance photograph on a client’s mobile phone changes...