Malta, 1913, and hot air balloons hover over the Grand Harbour. One of them comes down in the water but no one is hurt - except that the balloonist dies later when taken into the Naval Hospital for a check-up. But he is not the only one who had died there unexpectedly,...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2016-09-15
ePub

From the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books, the second in a series introducing Seymour of Special Branch and set in the British embassies and Consulates of Europe in the early 1900s. The Second Secretary of the Embassy in Istanbul has died in decidedly...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2016-09-15
ePub

Naples, 1913. Sun-baked, blue-skied, and with its amazing bay, one of the most beautiful spots in Italy - but also, one of the most backward. Into that world is sent a minor British consular official, Scampion, banished from Florence because he has allowed himself to be...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2016-09-15
ePub

Human experiments in Zimbabwe, an Australian farmer's death, and a Sydney CEO's suicide: these events are linked in the mind of one woman, Serena Swift. A ballsy advertising director with a guilty conscience, she decides to take on one of the world's most powerful...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2016-09-08
ePub

Antarctica is the coldest, most isolated place on earth. Luke Searle, maverick glaciologist, has made it his home. But soon his survival skills will be tested to the limit by a ruthless mercenary who must win at any cost. The white continent is under attack. The...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2016-09-08
ePub

*SHORLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2017* A book of the month in The TimesA thriller of the week in the Mail on SundayOne of the Guardian Readers' Books of the YearKey West is a small place, but there are criminal secrets buried everywhere . . . When...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2016-09-06
Collection : Andrew Yancy ePub

Nature versus nurture...The shots came quickly, silently, and with deadly accuracy. Within seconds, three people were dead at Central Park's ice skating rink. The victims: a talented young skater, a doctor, and a teacher. As random as random can be.Eve Dallas has...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2016-09-06
Collection : In Death ePub

'James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed.' Michael ConnellyOn its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2016-09-01
ePub

THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK INTHE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIESThe one with the woman who lost her past . . . Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi's friendship is tested by a curious case: a client who left Botswana thirty years ago and remembers little of her...

Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group
Parution : 2016-09-01
Collection : No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency ePub

'first rate set operational pieces' - Sunday TimesA migrant boat battles through the rough Mediterranean. Its passengers are desperate, starving and scared.They are also being ruthlessly targeted by the SAS.Islamic State militants are smuggling themselves into Europe...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2016-08-25
Collection : Danny Black ePub

Disease. Danger. Death. Sir Hugh Corbett returns...Hugh Corbett is takes up a life of danger yet again in Dark Serpent, the eighteenth novel in Paul Doherty's series. Perfect for fans of Susanna Gregory and Robin Hobb. After his recent unveiling of a devious assassin,...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2016-08-25
ePub

Mark Novak's greatest mystery might just be his own ...Private InvestigatorMark Novak's relentlessness as an investigator has been his professional calling card and curse, but the one case he has couldn't bring himself to pursue is the one closest to his heart: that of...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2016-08-25
ePub

A beautiful model's death uncovers an ugly conspiracy stretching all the way to Westminster in Rosie Gilmour's darkest case to date.When Scots supermodel Bella Mason plunges to her death from the roof of a glitzy Madrid hotel, everyone assumes it was suicide. Except...

Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2016-08-25
Collection : Rosie Gilmour ePub

Don't miss Past Lying, the twisty new Karen Pirie thriller'Incredibly suspenseful' Sunday Mirror__________'There are lots of things that ran in families, but murder wasn't one of them . . .'When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine...

Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group
Parution : 2016-08-25
Collection : Karen Pirie ePub

Peggy Nettleton was P.I. John Marshall Tanner's loyal secretary for over eight years, so when she calls from her new home in Seattle asking for help, he can't say no.About to marry wealthy investment banker Ted Evans,Peggy has a problem - Ted's young daughter Nina. The...

Editeur : Mulholland Books
Parution : 2016-08-18
Collection : John Marshall Tanner Mysteries ePub

Number One New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with another suspenseful thrillerWhen Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard lock eyes across a disreputable backwater bar, something sparks. Shaw's dangerous vibe makes men wary and women sit up and take...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2016-08-17
ePub

People will kill for a desirable address...When the Bishop of Lynchester visits Lord Francis Powerscourt at home in London, seeking advice about the death of an aged parishioner, Powerscourt advises that discretion rather than accusation is the best way forward - but...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2016-08-04
Collection : Lord Francis Powerscourt ePub

The 18th-century meets the sharp blade of forensic science...Newly released from the notorious asylum known as Bedlam, Lady Lydia Farrell finds herself in an equally terrifying position - as a murder suspect - when she stumbles upon the mutilated body of Sir Montagu...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2016-08-04
Collection : Dr Thomas Silkstone Mysteries ePub

Charlie Bronski, US Air Force security expert turned successful cookery writer, now lives the quiet life with his wife beside the sea in Denmark. So why would anyone plant a bomb under his car?Recognising it as a professional job,Charlie asks for help from the people...

Editeur : Headline Accent
Parution : 2016-08-04
Collection : The Road to Redemption ePub

When Marcia Salden, a successful business woman, is found drowned in the local river, the police are called in. There is no clear evidence that the woman was murdered, but to Inspector Luke Thanet this is definitely a suspicious death. It seems that Ms Salden's talent...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2016-08-04
Collection : Inspector Thanet ePub