Nothing can stop Beatrice from investigating the disappearance of the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite from her uncle's home, or her uncle's death. The Earl of Monkcrest is incensed with Beatrice and insists on giving his...
Detective or mystery stories
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Auteur:GREGSON, J. MSommaire:In an area famous for the Lancashire Witches four centuries earlier, it seems that witchcraft still flourishes. When a body is discovered in a derelict farmhouse, it is partly mummified, a pathetic ruin. Although an identity is...
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Auteur:RANKIN, IanSommaire:Witch is a terrorist - one of the best - but this job is going to test even her to the very limit. This time her cold calculation may desert her just when she needs it most. On her tail are three very different detectives, one woman,...
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Auteur:DARCY, EmmaSommaire:Hollywood's hottest property, Camilla Page, has just wrapped up the shoot of her latest movie and she's chosen an exclusive Barrier Reef island resort as the setting for her surprise wedding to Australian cameraman, Jimmy...
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Bianca Bernini did not foresee she would inspire her own murder when she boarded the legendary Ghan for the two day train trip from Sydney to Alice Springs. Note: this description in in error. The Ghan travels from Adelaide in South...
- Auteur:FRANCIS, DickSommaire:
An entertaining story combining horse racing, detection, suspense and a sensitive study of human relationships. Ex-jockey, Sid Halley, is a victim of his own success, overworked and stretched to do all the jobs he is offered, even with...
- Auteur:HALEY, RichardSommaire:
Second crime novel to feature Yorkshire-based private investigator John Goss. Hired by an insurance company to examine the circumstances of a fatal car crash, Goss finds himself falling for the dead man's widow..
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Auteur:MASTERTON, GrahamSommaire:Widowed fortune-teller Sissy Sawyer is trying to decide whether to join her son in Florida for a winter vacation. But then her cards warn her that something terrible is going to happen, and she decides to stay. Meanwhile, Fidelio...
- Auteur:STEWART, MarySommaire:
After the tragic death of her father, Bryony returns from abroad to find that her father's estate has become the responsibility of her cousin. There is something odd in her father's sudden death and danger and romance await...
- Auteur:GREGSON, J. MSommaire:
When the body of university student Clare Mills is dragged from the river, Superintendent John Lambert and his partner, Bert Hook, are first on the scene. It's a particularly tragic case, even in the eyes of the two seasoned...
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Auteur:EVANOVICH, JanetSommaire:Stephanie Plum may not be the best bounty hunter but she's pretty damn good at turning situations her way. Her cousin Vinnie has posted bail on Samuel Singh, who mysteriously disappears just as his work visa is running out.
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Auteur:LEON, DonnaSommaire:A luminous spring day in Venice, and Commissario Brunetti and his sidekick Vianello play hooky from the Questura along the Grand Canal to rescue Vianello's friend Marco, who has been arrested during an environmental protest.
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Auteur:GASH, JonathanSommaire:An expose of Triad culture in pre-British Hong Kong. A triad concerned by China's elimination policy towards criminal organisations may have only one hope left - a young homeless girl who talks to ghosts.
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Auteur:DAMS, Jeanne MSommaire:Dorothy interrupts a chat with a young man on the London train to get some coffee. When she returns, the man is dead.
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When Anna's husband is offered a job in the small Dorset village of Abbots Newton, she's as happy to move as he is. Her career as a novelist is going nowhere - and she hopes the country might inspire her. She then discovers...
- Auteur:WALTERS, MinetteSommaire:
November 1978. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, rubbish piles in the streets and somewhere in West London a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter. A young woman who finds her believes the dead woman was murdered.
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Auteur:SAVARIN, Julian JaySommaire:Gordon Gallagher, ex-RAF and ex-top secret agent, is still trying to put the past behind him. An unidentified man, a French politician and journalist Miranda Lacey had each been the target of an assassin's bullet. Only Miranda...
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Auteur:NICOLE, ChristopherSommaire:When Lady Miranda Lichton determines to marry a wealthy Bolivian rancher, her family is concerned, and when they discover that Ramon Cuesta grows cocaine on a global scale and will resort to murder when necessary, its time to call in DS...
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Auteur:JAMES, P. DSommaire:When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation...
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Auteur:Leroux, GastonSommaire:The story of a half crazed musician, living in the labyrinth of the Paris Opera, who creates a series of mysterious events to further the career of a young singer with whom he is infatuated.
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