Moving to remote Shetland has been unsettling enough for consultant surgeon Tora Hamilton; even before the gruesome discovery she makes one rain-drenched Sunday afternoon ...Deep in the peat soil of her field she is shocked to find the...
Detective And Mystery
- Auteur:BOLTON, S. J.Sommaire:
- Auteur:LA PLANTE, LyndaSommaire:
To mastermind stealing of Koh-i-noor, the most valuable diamond in the world is not an easy task.
- Auteur:FRANCOME, JohnSommaire:
A racing trainer whose career has been ruined by a dishonest owner is implicated in murder and drug running. Even his wife begins to doubt his innocence. Only desperation and quick wits are going to save him from a life sentence.
- Auteur:RANKIN, IanSommaire:
Rebus is ordered to join a team working on an old case, but someone on the team wants it to remain unsolved. Meanwhile, the murder of an art dealer draws Sergeant Clarke into an encounter with a notorious gangster - someone Rebus is...
- Auteur:GREENWOOD, KerrySommaire:
It's 1928 and St Kilda's streets hang with fairy lights. Magic shows, marionettes, tea dances, tango competitions and picnics on the beach are all part of the Flower Parade. Who else should be chosen to be Queen of the...
- Auteur:CORNWELL, Patricia DanielsSommaire:
A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedrooms. Unless Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner, can dig up new forensic evidence, the killings will continue...
- Auteur:CORNWELL, Patricia DanielsSommaire:
Between August and November 1888, at least seven women were murdered in Whitechapel. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear in the East End and gave rise to the enduring mystery of Jack the Ripper.
- Auteur:CORRIS, PeterSommaire:
Sacked by the Federal Security Agency, Crawley plays dangerous games in the Melbourne underworld. Arms deals, drugs, cross and double-cross, and a radical punk girl are all woven together in this seamy and steamy novel.
- Auteur:EVANOVICH, JanetSommaire:
Stephanie Plum is back in town, along with her sidekick Lula, her Grandma Mazur, and an ever-widening cast of freaks, criminals, deranged felons, and lunatics looking for love. And just when Stephanie thinks her life can't get any...
- Auteur:AIRD, CatherineSommaire:
Det.Insp. C.D. Sloan knew there would be trouble when he was called in to the student sit-in at Calleshire University. The dons were nervous, the students excited - a clash of some kind seemed inevitable.
- Auteur:Forbes, ElenaSommaire:
Hurting is her special skill. On a snowy February morning, London art dealer Rachel Tenison goes for a jog through Holland Park. Still giddy from the previous evening, her legs wobbly from too much drink and too little sleep, she falls...
- Auteur:CORRIS, PeterSommaire:
When Barnes Todd is killed in a car smash south of Sydney, people are lining up to say how sorry they are. But Cliff Hardy, private investigator, soon discovers the accident was really murder.
- Auteur:ADLER, ElizabethSommaire:
TV presenter Mallory Malone is approached by Boston detective Harry Jordan to help track down a serial killer. When confronted with a photograph of the killer, she recognises a face from the past - a past steeped in poverty and terror...
- Auteur:ROBERTS, NoraSommaire:
Lunacy, Alaska - population 506 - is Nate Burke's last chance. As a city cop, he had watched his partner die - and the guilt still haunts him. Maybe serving as Chief of Police in this tiny, remote town, where darkness falls by...
- Auteur:BENSON, RaymondSommaire:
Benson's latest James Bond novel is set in the south of France, where Bond defeats a vicious criminal - and harder still, an old friend turned enemy.
- Auteur:Connelly, MichaelSommaire:
FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's been dreading for years.
- Auteur:CHRISTIE, AgathaSommaire:
The corpse was lying face down in an open grave... a baffling mystery for all but Hercule Poirot.
- Auteur:UPFIELD, ArthurSommaire:
Murder and baby abduction. Five boy babies, all less than 3 months old, have been taken. The local C.I.B. have given up, but Inspector Boneparte is determined to solve the case.
- Auteur:BRETT, SimonSommaire:
Set on the Sussex Downs near the town of Fethering, the Elizabethan house of Bracketts is about to be turned into a museum. The transition is running far from smoothly when suddenly a skeleton is discovered buried in the kitchen garden...
- Auteur:CHRISTIE, AgathaSommaire:
A tense drama of jealousy and murder centred on a group of archaeologists. Poirot is called in.