Lew Archer #19 No matter what cases private eye Lew Archer takes on – a burglary, a runaway, or a disappeared person – the trail always leads to tangled family secrets and murder. Widely considered the heir to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe,...
It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunters eye is drawn to a vivid splash of colour on the white ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbour...
** ** **Midnight.** **A call out to an isolated farm on the outskirts of Oxford.** **A body shot at point-blank range in the kitchen.** It looks like a burglary gone wrong, but DI Adam Fawley suspects there's something more to it. When the police...