In this second mystery featuring Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, the veteran detective is called out of retirement once again. His assignment appears simple: travel to Canada to retrieve the body of a murdered Scotland Yard colleague. But...
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- Auteur:Whellams, DavidSommaire:
- Auteur:Holman, SheriSommaire:
A fifteen-year-old prostitute rents a beautiful blue dress from her landlord in order to attract a higher class of clientele. While working to support her fragile only child, she also secures bodies for a local medical doctor's anatomy...
- Auteur:McCall Smith, AlexanderSommaire:
Alexander McCall Smith brings his peerless wit to this second entry featuring a motley collection of residents in London's Pimlico neighborhood. Literary agent Barbara Ragg has agreed to represent a man writing a book about his...
- Auteur:WYNDHAM, JohnSommaire:
Planet Earth is blinded by a cosmic meteor shower and the triffids, walking, semi-intelligent and dangerous plants, seize their opportunity to establish their dominance. The human survivors of the disaster must fight to survive.
- Auteur:Peace, DavidSommaire:
The hugely acclaimed novel of '70s football and the turmoil of the game's most charismatic and controversial manager, from the bestselling author of GB84 and Red or Dead. In 1974 the brilliant and controversial Brian Clough made perhaps...
- Auteur:HADDON, MarkSommaire:
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother...
- Auteur:Galbraith, RobertSommaire:
Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator until John Bristow asks him to look into the death of his sister, supermodel Lula Landry, ruled a suicide by the police. The case plunges Strike into the world of...
- Auteur:Lapena, ShariSommaire:
Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all--a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately focuses on...
- Auteur:Jordan, SophieSommaire:
New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan kicks off her amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying...
- Auteur:Austen, JaneSommaire:
The Complete Works of Jane Austen includes all six novels, and Austen’s shorter works; Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition, and her complete Juvenilia. Jane Austen is famous for her six novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and prejudice...
- Auteur:Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Paget, SidneySommaire:
The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear, and thirty-seven short stories from the Adventures, Memoirs and Return of Sherlock Holmes....
- Auteur:Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Paget, SidneySommaire:
The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear. Included are illustrations by Sidney Paget, George Hutchinson, James Greig & Charles...
- Auteur:Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Paget, SidneySommaire:
The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear, and thirty-seven short stories from the Adventures, Memoirs and Return of Sherlock Holmes....
- Auteur:Edwards, MartinSommaire:
Oxford historian and T.V. personality Daniel Kind and his new lover, Miranda, both want to escape to a new life. On impulse they buy Tarn Cottage in Brackdale, an idyllic valley in the Lake District that Daniel knew as a boy. He is...
- Auteur:Lloyd, EllerySommaire:
The Home Group is a glamorous collection of celebrity members' clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media. The...
- Auteur:Edwards, MartinSommaire:
Warren Howe is surprised by a hooded visitor while working in a garden in Old Sawrey, a lovely village in England’s Lake District. Soon it is Warren who is dead—murdered with his own scythe. The police identify several suspects, but...
- Auteur:Dickens, CharlesSommaire:
In the 1840s Charles Dickens wrote 5 short stories with strong social and moral messages. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rand an Old Year Out and a New Year In, is the second of these stories, whose predecessor was the...
- Auteur:Golabek, Mona, Cohen, LeeSommaire:
When the Nazis start closing in on Vienna, Jewish musical prodigy Lisa Jura is sent to London on the Kindertransport. As she makes a new life for herself, she dreams of reconnecting with the family she was forced to leave behind. The...
- Auteur:BOSTON, Lucy M.Sommaire:
When Tolley goes to live with his great-grandmother he is unsure what life will be like with this unknown relative. He finds a great friend in his great-grandmother, and is delighted to find that children who lived at Green Knowe...
- Auteur:Antonia FraserSommaire:
Jemima Shore investigates a ghost in a Cotswold stately home, and ends up in the middle of a murder investigation.