A small town with big problems... The Cat Who Tailed a Thief is a witty mystery from Lilian Jackson Braun, featuring feline friends Koko and Yum Yum. Perfect for fans of cosy crime and clever cats.'Entertaining and absorbing mysteries which, in the tradition of all...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2011-11-24
Collection : The Cat Who... Mysteries ePub

Could feline interest in gruyere, brie and feta help to solve this strange case...? Lilian Jackson Braun's delightfully quirky mystery series continues in The Cat Who Said Cheese, the eighteenth novel to feature amateur sleuth Qwill and his feline companions Koko and...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2011-11-24
Collection : The Cat Who... Mysteries ePub

'If you like Kathy Reichs, you'll like Jefferson Bass' The Times.Early summer brings warm weather to the Body Farm in East Tennessee, but Dr Bill Brockton's about to get more heat than he's bargained for. A former student who's now an agent with the Florida Department...

Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2011-11-24
Collection : The Body Farm ePub

From the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet SkyAMERICA'S GREATEST ASSET. Robin Monarch, the CIA's top field operative, stumbles across a US governmental conspiracy during a mission in Istanbul. What he sees is enough to make him go rogue. IS NOW...

Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2011-11-24
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Stephanie's got a one-way ticket to trouble...Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home in Explosive Eighteen. No. 1 bestselling author Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series is not to be missed...

Editeur : Review
Parution : 2011-11-22
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When Pegasus, racing mega-star and lead driver of the Whites faction, is found stabbed to death in the alleyway beside a wineshop, Marcus Corvinus is already on site. The local District Watch - crooked to a man - claim that the killer's motive was a simple theft. ...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-11-10
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It is the morning after the nocturnal rite of the good Goddess, an all-female ceremony strictly out of bounds to the male of the species, and the body of a young woman has been found, her throat cut. Suicide or murder?Hoping to avoid scandal, Senator Lucius Arruntius...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-11-10
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Marcus Corvinus feels his heart sink when he is summoned by Empress Livia. Age has not sweetened her and she's about as trustworthy as a snake with a migraine. But Livia has a way of asking a favour that is impossible to refuse - which is howMarcus finds himself...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-11-10
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In voluntary exile in Athens, Marcus Corvinus receives a letter from his antiquarian stepfather Priscus, who has learned that the 4¬? ft solid gold statue of a female baker, one of a large number of valuable gifts to the Delphic Oracle by the 6th century BC King Croesus...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-11-10
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Ovid was banished by the Emperor Augustus and died in exile ten years late. No one known why he was banished. Years after Ovid's death Marcus Corvinus, grandson of the poet's patron, tries to arrange the return of his ashes to Rome for burial. But official permission is...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-11-10
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If there is one thing Marcus Corvinus hates more than doing the household accounts, it is politics. So when he is interrupted in the former to get involved in the latter, he is not best pleased. His brief is to conduct an unofficial investigation into an attack on the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-11-10
ePub

Immediately after his father's funeral, Marcus is approached by two senators who want him to dig up some dirt on Sejanus, emperor Tiberius's deputy and likely successor. Despite the dangers, Marcus cannot resist the thrill of more detective work, and his investigations...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-11-10
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The one 'fact' that everyone knows about Emperor Nero is that he fiddled while Rome burned. But what elements of nature and nuture combined to make this notorious character? An entertaining view is presented by Titus Petronius, Nero's pleasure-loving Advisor on Taste,...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-11-10
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Number One New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with another suspenseful thrillerBarrie Travis is a damn good reporter stuck at a low-budget television station when the First Lady calls her. Stunned by the loss of her infant son, the president's wife...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-11-10
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Dublin private-eye Leo Street feigns culinary prowess as she investigates marital infidelity in the countryside. Something for the Weekend is the first comic crime caper of the charming Leo Street series by Pauline McLynn. The perfect read for fans of Janet Evanovich...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2011-11-10
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In snowy Whitby in 1897, dangerous secrets emerge from the dark... A Christmas Homecoming is a Victorian tale of murder and intrigue during one snowy Christmas, from acclaimed author Anne Perry. Perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom and Sarah Perry.'Perry's gift is that she...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2011-11-10
Collection : Christmas Novella ePub

A powerful and unforgettable thriller from 'one of the finest American writers' GUARDIANDanny Boy Lorca was used to having apocalyptic visions - the beatings he'd taken in jail and the booze he drank to forget them made sure of that. But what he saw and heard that night...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2011-11-10
Collection : Hackberry Holland ePub

Laddish Marcus Corvinus is spending his time in ancient Tuscany, sampling wine and ogling local talent (under the beady eye of his lovely wife Perilla) when his stepfather is accused of murder. It doesn't take long for Marcus to get him off the hook, but finding the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-11-10
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When Licinius Murena, wealthy owner of a fish-farm, is found dead, drowned in one of his own eel tanks, not many tears are shed. Certainly not by Trebbio, who had just been booted out of his cottage by the landowner, and was heard bad-mouthing him drunkenly in public...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-11-10
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Obsession is about to get deadly . . .When Dr Rennie Newton is summoned to jury duty, she brings to the courtroom the same degree of dedication and composure that she displays in the operating room. And it is this commitment to duty and precision that compels her to...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-11-10
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