Young Roderick Kinsmere was a country bumpkin when he strolled into the Great Court of Charles II's Whitehall Palace. Three days later he had lost his fortune, gained a wife, fought for - and been outwitted by - his king, and no one would ever call Rowdy Kinsmere a...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-12-19
Collection : Murder Room ePub

The scene is a fashionable French seaside resort; the witness, Eve Neill, is looking out of her window in the early hours of the morning when she sees the battered body of her prospective father-in-law in the room opposite.By Eve's side is her ex-husband, who has...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-12-19
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Jim Blake, journalist and successful spy novelist, is sent to New Orleans to do a story on James Claiborne Blake, a congressional hopeful in the 1912 election. But even from New York he senses following eyes. James Blake, it seems, is threatened by sexual indiscretions....

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-12-19
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Peaceful Mickleburgh is the perfect English market town - or so it seems. In fact, it is a perfectly constructed façade, having successfully hidden the secrets of its inhabitants for generations. But the casual murder of a man trying to prevent an act of vandalism...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2013-12-19
ePub

Louise Widdows has never been happy in her marriage. From a generation where the woman's role was one of support and supplication, she provided both in exchange for a secure roof over her head. But her facade of gentility disguises two secrets: a child born in adultery...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2013-12-19
ePub

A compilation of the first four books in the suspenseful and atmospheric Joe Sandilands Series . . . The Last Kashmiri RoseIndia 1922. The wives of officers in the Bengal Greys have been dying violently, one every year and each in March. The only link between them is...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2013-12-19
Collection : Joe Sandilands ePub

And only to DeceiveFor Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her stifling home life so when her new husband dies on safari, she feels little grief for she barely knew the man. Now, two years on, when she finds his journals...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2013-12-19
ePub

The first three Inspector Carlyle novels at a great priceLondon CallingCan you win an election and cover up murder at the same time? When Inspector John Carlyle finds a body in a luxury London hotel room he begins a journey through the murky world of the British ruling...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2013-12-19
ePub

Goodnight, Sweet Prince Mystery surrounds the death of Queen Victoria's grandson England, 1892. Victoria, Queen and Empress, is in the 54th year of her reign, when her grandson Prince Eddy, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, is found slaughtered in his bed at...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2013-12-19
ePub

From international bestseller Alex Connor - master of the art-based conspiracy novel and author of the forthcoming thriller The Caravaggio Conspiracy: THE FORGER: An exclusive ebook short story, set within the competitive and cutthroat circles of the elite London art...

Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2013-12-19
ePub

'Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth' New York TimesThe isle of Lewis is a land of strange beauty, harsh living and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith.Detective Inspector Fin Macleod returns from Edinburgh to the island of his childhood to...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2013-12-19
ePub

It was clearly no accidental drowning. When a young immigrant girl is found in the watery depths of Holbaek Fjord, a piece of concrete tied around her waist and two mysterious circular patches on the back of her neck, Detective Louise Rick is called to investigate.The...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2013-12-18
Collection : Louise Rick ePub

From the moment Helga Rolfe, the elegant wife of one of the richest tycoons, picks up a gum-chewing boy young enough to be her son, events jump back and skid through a series of 180-degree turns. Games of bluff and counter bluff quickly develop into a dangerous and...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-12-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

When Johnny Jackson unaccountably disappears, his grandfather contacts the police for help. As they prove to be uninterested, he turns instead to Colonel Parnell of the Parnell Detective Agency. It seems at first to be a simple case of a missing person - but they soon...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-12-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

The Russians will pay $4,000,000 for the top secret formula to a revolutionary new metal ... and the CIA will do anything to stop them.American inventor Dr Paul Forrester is the man that both sides want. He alone can decipher the vital code but, for two years, Forrester...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-12-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Jerry Stevens, an out-of-work bit-part movie actor, is offered a job at a thousand dollars a day to impersonate John Merrill Ferguson, one of the richest and most powerful men in the world.Ferguson needs to finish a secret deal but hungry journalists are continually...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-12-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Kidnapping has become a national pastime in Italy - but is there another reason why billionaire Carlo Grandi has put his beautiful daughter behind an electric fence, guarded by killer dogs and two fast-shooting guards?Mike Frost, always on the look-out for big money and...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-12-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Keith Devery, burdened with a criminal record, arrives in Wicksteed, a prosperous little town on the Pacific coast. He is looking for any job that will provide eating money. It is when he meets Beth Marshall - whose husband, a local drunk, is to inherit $1,000,000 -...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-12-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Private detective Bart Anderson is hired by Russ Hamel, a millionaire author, to shadow his beautiful wife, Nancy. For Hamel has been receiving poison pen letters claiming that his wife has been having an affair.But as Bart's investigation progresses, he discovers that...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-12-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Steve Manson's magazine dealt in corruption: he attacked the rich, the powerful and the famous - and he made enemies. In a job like that, you couldn't afford to have dirty secrets of your own. With the whole town itching for you to make a slip, it was like living in a...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2013-12-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub