Eddings was murdered. Why did Scarpetta receive a call reporting his death before the police were notified? With the advent of a second murder, the case envelops Scarpetta, her niece, and police captain Morino in a world of technology...
Detective or mystery stories
- Auteur:CORNWELL, Patricia DanielsSommaire:
- Auteur:HOWATCH, SusanSommaire:
The story of Claire Sullivan's trail from New York to London following her sister's desperate "call in the night" for help and her subsequent disappearance.
- Auteur:UPFIELD, ArthurSommaire:
An extraordinary case for Detective-Inspector Napolean Bonaparte opens when a police car is bombed from the air on a lonely outback road by a mysterious pilot who plans to conquer a nation. The trail through the Land of Burning Water...
- Auteur:FRASER, AntheaSommaire:
When successful biographer Rona Parish is asked to write the life story of a recently deceased bestselling author, she is intrigued - to say the least. After all, Theo Harvey led a very colourful life, and died in mysterious...
- Auteur:KEATING, H. R. FSommaire:
All Bombay is buzzing with news of the murder of Anil Ajmani. It is certainly a baffling case, for the millionaire was found stabbed to death in his tightly secure mansion. Every inspector in the Crime Branch hopes to nail the killer...
- Auteur:UPFIELD, ArthurSommaire:
Detective Inspector Bonaparte investigates abduction and murder - and nearly gets marooned on Lake Eyre.
- Auteur:UPFIELD, ArthurSommaire:
Detective Inspector Boneparte investigates in Queensland.
- Auteur:FRANCIS, DickSommaire:
Kit Fielding's patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble. Her invalid husband is being threatened by a business partner and to enforce the threat all the Princess's best runners are being wantonly destroyed - shot by a bolt....
- Auteur:CORNWELL, Patricia DanielsSommaire:
Beryl Madison is found brutally murdered in her home in Richmond, Virginia. Inexplicably, she seems to have invited her killer in. Dr Kay Scarpetta, forensic pathologist, investigates this convoluted crime.
- Auteur:HOFFMAN, AliceSommaire:
Ethan and Jorie, the perfect couple have been married for 13 years and are still in love. Ethan is a pillar of the local community, but 13 years ago he committed a brutal rape and murder. Now, out of the blue, a phone call is to change...
- Auteur:LLEWELLYN, SamSommaire:
Former journalist Bill Tyrrell charters his yacht to a charitable organisation which takes juveniles out of prison and out onto the sea. When a youth is killed and Tyrrell himself is attacked he begins to smell a rat and starts his own...
- Auteur:GASH, JonathanSommaire:
The dark streets of Manchester's underworld, home to a horde of gamblers, drunks, prostitutes and their punters, plays host to a vigilante of the worst kind. Wanting to rid the city of evil, the assassin constructs a poison dart...
- Auteur:ABBOTT, JeffSommaire:
When Texas judge Whit Mosley opens an inquest into the murders of his friends, he's plunged into a shadowy world of ruthless treasure hunters, double-crossing tycoons and money-hungry sharks - all chasing a long-gone fortune.
- Auteur:Marsh, NgaioSommaire:
Superintendent Alleyn is involved in the investigation of a murder in the embassy of an emergent African nation.
- Auteur:ARMSTRONG, VivienSommaire:
Fay Browne is a middle-aged solicitor living with her family in the small village of Renham. One fateful night, Fay witnesses a woman's apparent suicide in front of a train and becomes deeply involved with the inquest. Did she...
- Auteur:MAITLAND, BarrySommaire:
The cold-blooded, public murder of a university professor sets off a catastrophic chain of events in the cultural melting pot of East London. DCI Brock investigates, and discovers his every move could have lethal consequences.
- Auteur:HARRISON, StuartSommaire:
When Robert French travels to the Greek island of Ithaca after his archaeologist father goes missing, he meets Alex, a young woman in search of her roots and the truth about her grandmother's exile from the island sixty years...
- Auteur:UPFIELD, ArthurSommaire:
A member of literary clique is murdered, an unfamiliar setting for Boney to investigate.
- Auteur:ADLER, ElizabethSommaire:
Marla Cwitowitz, a Los Angeles law professor and her lover Al Giraud, a private detective, can't help noticing the attractive couple in the Ritz bar. But what they are witnessing is the beginning of a nightmare.
- Auteur:FERRARS, ElizabethSommaire:
Martha Crayle worked for an association for unmarried mothers and thought she knew all their problems. But the blonde girl who strayed into her office one wet November afternoon posed a new one, for Amanda was pregnant and she was not...