No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' Mail on SundayNow that Priscilla Halburton-Smythe has agreed to marry him, Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth can't imagine a more perfect life. There's not much crime in his remote Scottish village of Lochdubh, nothing much...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-06-01
Collection : Hamish Macbeth ePub

The third Hamish Macbeth crime mystery, from internationally bestselling author M.C.BeatonThe most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes, or - more accurately - has been dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remains of...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-06-01
Collection : Hamish Macbeth ePub

It's springtime in the Highlands but storms are brewing for Hamish Macbeth. His life is going to pot. He has - horrors! - been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-06-01
Collection : Hamish Macbeth ePub

Hamish Macbeth is savouring the delights of a Highland summer, but as fast as the rain rolls in from the loch his happy life goes to hell in a handbasket.The trouble begins when his beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythe returns to Lochdubh with a new fiancé on her arm....

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-06-01
Collection : Hamish Macbeth ePub

Stabbed and stuffed in a closet...When police constable Hamish Macbeth receives the news that there has been a murder at Arrat House, home of the relentless practical joker Arthur Trent, he doesn't race to the scene of the crime. After all, last time he was called to...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-06-01
Collection : Hamish Macbeth ePub

A busman's holiday for Hamish . . . After losing both his promotion and the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Hamish Macbeth decides the best cure for a broken heart is a week's break at the charming coastal village of Skag. When he arrives at the Friendly House B&B,...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-06-01
Collection : Hamish Macbeth ePub

Her table manners were a crime. But she didn't deserve to die! There's not a cloud in Hamish Macbeth's sky - just plenty of warm sunshine but not quite enough of the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe. But as eight hopeful members of the Checkmate Singles Club converge...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-06-01
Collection : Hamish Macbeth ePub

The second Hamish Macbeth crime mystery, from internationally bestselling author M.C.BeatonWhen Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiancé home to Lochdubh, everyone in town is delighted. . . except for love-smitten Hamish Macbeth. Yet the affairs...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-06-01
Collection : Hamish Macbeth ePub

A tart with a heart of stone...Maggie Baird is neither kind or generous, but she is very, very rich. So when her car catches fire, with her inside it, there are five likely candidates for the role of murderer. All five had been houseguests at her luxurious Highlands...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-06-01
Collection : Hamish Macbeth ePub

A collection of short stories from the internationally bestselling author and creator of Inspector Lynley.Three of these stories were originally published under the title The Evidence Exposed. This volume contains two brand new stories, a revised version of The Evidence...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-05-26
ePub

'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet EvansLegend has it that when the Gabriel Hounds run howling over the crumbling palace of Dar Ibrahim, high in the Adonis Valley of Lebanon, death will follow on...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-05-26
ePub

In the summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town; in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. Together with the sinister man known only as Washington Harold, she goes in search of the charismatic and elusive Dr Wheeler - the man...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2011-05-26
ePub

Meet the man with the voodoo eyes:Solomon Boukman. He'd used voodoo, black magic, and extreme violence to control his people, and to keep anyone who ever heard his name in a state of fear. He'd zombified his enemies with potions and hypnosis and used them as his very...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2011-05-26
ePub

Having extricated himself from the embarrassment of murdering his lady parishioner, the Rev. Oughterard is now plunged into the traumas of art theft.Forced by the shady Nicholas Ingaza into being a fence for stolen paintings, he endures the investigative probings of...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-05-26
ePub

Sometimes Jo still wakes suddenly, thinking she can hear Lauren's cry. Although twelve years have passed since her baby daughter was abducted, photos of the child continue to arrive by post with the words, I Still Have Her, scrawled across the back. The police think...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-05-26
ePub

After the unsettling exploits in the Auvergne the vicar and his companions try to resume a life of moderate respectability. But the recent events cast a long shadow and they are soon in the grip of sinister repercussions. Who is the menacing blackmailer stalking the...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-05-26
ePub

"And you are telling me," said Gil Cunningham, "that David Drummond vanished away forty years ago and is now returned, seemingly not a day older?" "That's about the sum of it," agreed Sir William Stewart.In Sir William's remote part of Scotland it seems almost possible...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-05-26
Collection : Gil Cunningham ePub

Revd Francis Oughterard is in the grip of a blackmailer and under orders to steal a valuable figurine. Relief at success is short-lived when the theft backfires, and further skulduggery ensues. The Reverend's efforts to distance himself from yet another murder lead to...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2011-05-26
ePub

Although he was watching closely when the mummer was poisoned, it took Gil Cunningham several days and three more poisonings to work out how it was done.Danny Gibson and Nanty Bothwell, rivals for the affections of Agnes Renfrew, the apothecary's pretty daughter, are...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2011-05-26
Collection : Gil Cunningham ePub

Elizabeth George's masterly new novel brings Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley back onto centre stage in an intricate crime drama. While DI Thomas Lynley is still on compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Isabelle Ardery is brought into the Met as his...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-05-26
Collection : Inspector Lynley ePub