Prospects for the 1907 archaeological season in Egypt are looking somewhat dull to Amelia. As a result of Emerson's less-than-diplomatic behaviour, they have been demoted to examining only the most boring tombs in the Valley of the Kings - mere leftovers, really.And...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Amelia Peabody ePub

Find a murderer - and save the Queen's Jubilee!It is 1897 and the London is preparing for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. But a corpse is with no head or hands is dragged out of the Thames. The dead man was old and proserously dressed, but there are no other clues to...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Lord Francis Powerscourt ePub

Treachery and ambition collide with devastating consequences... With a traitor among his ranks, Pitt has a difficult case on his hands in Dorchester Terrace, the twenty-seventh novel in Anne Perry's Thomas Pitt mystery series. Perfect for fans of C. J. Samson and Ann...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Thomas Pitt Mystery ePub

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery The lot of the working copper is getting harder: new regulations, regular rousting by the top brass, a budget tighter than a Victoria corset and a DC who thinks he's in a John Le Carré novel makes...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Bill Slider Mystery ePub

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMESA Bill Slider Mystery Detective Inspector Bill Slider - middle-class, middle-aged, and middle-of-the-road - is never going to make it to Scotland Yard. He's spent most of his working life at Shepherd's Bush nick, and stopped minding...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Bill Slider Mystery ePub

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery It looks as though Inspector Bill Slider has a serial killer on his hands: 'the Park Killer', as the media so innovatively label him, attacks his victims in London's public parks, and when Chattie...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Bill Slider Mystery ePub

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery The stabbed body of a well-dressed man is found slumped on a swing in a children's playground in the heart of Detective Inspector Bill Slider's patch.From the seedy pubs of Shepherd's Bush through...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Bill Slider Mystery ePub

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery Detective Inspector Bill Slider has always been keen on architecture, and The Old Rectory is the kind of house he would give anything to won. But the dead body of Jennifer Andrews in her shallow...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Bill Slider Mystery ePub

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery Detective Inspector Bill Slider is back at work with a thumping headache, courtesy of the last villain he apprehended. But he is minus Atherton, a friend and colleague, who's still recovering from...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Bill Slider Mystery ePub

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery There's a changing of the guard at Shepherd's Bush police station. But unfortunately for Bill Slider, incoming Detective Superintendent Barrington has something to prove and no desire to make...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Bill Slider Mystery ePub

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery Award-winning ex-Guardian hack Phoebe Agnew has a reputation for attacking the police in print. So when her strangled body is found in her chaotic flat, Detective Inspector Bill Slider must abide by...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Bill Slider Mystery ePub

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery With his on-off lover Joanna away with work, Detective Inspector Bill Slider almost welcomes a call-out to the BBC TV Centre at White City. Roger Greatrex, celebrated music critic and opera...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Bill Slider Mystery ePub

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery A call-out to a murder saves Detective Inspector Bill Slider from having to finish his canteen lunch, but it presents him with the problem of a dead conductor. In life Sir Stefan Radek was seriously...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Bill Slider Mystery ePub

'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' Daily MailDead one minuteYoung Harriet and her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry where their stone mason father works. So when they find him dead on thecold ground, they scarper quick smart...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Kate Shackleton Mysteries ePub

Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude!In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Amelia Peabody ePub

Pre-order Val McDermid's masterful new thriller, 1989, now!___________________'Brilliant . . . sensational . . . unforgettable' Guardian'The queen of crime is still at the top of her game' IndependentThere is one serial killer who has shaped and defined police profiler...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2011-09-01
Collection : Tony Hill and Carol Jordan ePub

The first in a stunning action-packed series from one of the writers of THE WIRE.Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defence attorney. He's good at it, and he has carved out a...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2011-08-25
ePub

All the Reverend Francis Oughterard had ever wanted was some peace and quiet, instead he becomes entangled in a nightmare world of accidental murder, predatory female parishioners, officious policemen and a drunken bishop. As the vicar's life spirals out of control it...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2011-08-25
ePub

Discover the debut novel of James Lee Burke, before the creation of his now-famous Cajun detective, Dave Robicheaux , as he weaves together the struggles of three very different men. Toussaint Boudreaux, a black docker in New Orleans, puts up with his co-workers' racism...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2011-08-23
ePub

She was beautiful and evil - she murdered minds as well as bodies...'A work of art - terrifyingly believable' NEW YORK TIMES'Superb ... BEAST IN VIEW is cunningly plotted and has an ingenious final twist' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Millar was the master of the surprise ending...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2011-08-18
ePub