GREGORIUS: An eccentric billionaire with ambitious plans for a chain of luxury hotels. But his life will cease if Stocelli doesn't get his gambling concessions. He hires Nick Carter to get Stocelli off his back.
STOCELLI: A mafia boss whose...
Georgia Fenchurch sells antique books in Victorian London, and helps secret Archivist Society investigators led by crippled recluse Sir Broderick. Frantic Edith Carter claims notorious handsome Duke of Blackford abducted neighbor Nicholas Drake -...
In An Easeful Death, someone is killing beautiful young women and taking extraordinary risks to carefully pose their painted bodies in public places. The first is bronze, then silver who will be gold? Detective Sergeant Stevie Hooper, young,...
It's not a mystery, it's a story of survival and triumph. That's what some people say about Romance, a would-be hit play about an actress pursued by a knife-wielding stalker. But isn't it romantic! Before the show can open, the leading lady is...
It’s late spring in 1321 and as Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King’s Peace, prepares for his wedding, he receives the news that one of his guests, Roger, Squire of Throwleigh, has just died.
Roger’s death is sad, though not entirely...
The second book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s “ the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired...
On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival – even before they departed for France, a...
When retired hitman Quarry turns down a million bucks to murder a presidential candidate, he becomes a "loose end" that the conspirators need to tie off. With his peaceful life in ruins, Quarry launches his own campaign - for...
"One of the most startling and provocative mysteries I've read in years." – Carl Hiaasen
"Read this book, savor the language – it's the last and the most compelling word in thrillers." – James Ellroy
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When James Lessiter returns to Lenton after many years to claim his family estate, his reappearance opens old wounds never healed. Then he is found bludgeoned to death by a fire poker and the suspects are too numerous to count. Thank heavens Miss...