From the author of Harry's Game - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickPeter Holt, a young diplomat, witnesses the horrific murder of his fiance and the British Ambassador within days of a new posting to the Soviet Union. The report of the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-03-27
ePub

Beautiful seductive and extremely dangerous Franca Tantardini is one of Italy's most ruthless political extremists. When she is captured in a shoot-out her fanatical young lover Giancarlo Battestini vows to set her free and with quiet watchfulness waits for the moment...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-03-27
ePub

After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor' The TimesDave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the business. Like them, he was tough, determined, and ruthless when the case demanded it. Unlike...

Editeur : Mulholland Books
Parution : 2014-03-27
Collection : Dave Brandstetter ePub

'A taut thriller so involving that I missed my bus stop!' Woman & Home'I read it in two sittings, pausing only to sleep and dream about it. Gripping, perfectly paced and beautifully written' ERIN KELLYA pandemic called 'The Sweats' is sweeping the globe. London is a...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-03-20
Collection : Plague Times Trilogy ePub

The first three cases in Elly Griffiths' bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway mystery series. THE CROSSING PLACES. Ruth Galloway is called upon by DCI Nelson to investigate human remains found in the Norfolk marshes, thought to be those of a missing girl about whom the police...

Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2014-03-20
Collection : The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries ePub

NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS...Blythe, a sixteen-year-old Kansas schoolgirl is abducted and kept in an abandoned silo by a survivalist, who is convinced that the world is about to end. Struggling to survive, crushed by loneliness and the terrifying madness of her captor,...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-03-13
ePub

This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Short Stories: 69 Horror & Crime Tales” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This collection comprises 69 short stories - all of the stories Poe is known to have written....

Editeur : e-artnow
Parution : 2014-03-13
epub sans DRM

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Patricia Highsmith has an extraordinary talent for the sinister' GUARDIAN 'Highsmith was a genuine one-off, and her books will haunt you' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A border zone of the macabre,...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2014-03-06
Collection : Virago Modern Classics ePub

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Highsmith's dark humour oozes through this new collection like a particularly delicious poison' ANDREW WILSON, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'This collection showcases the almost ventriloquistic...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2014-03-06
Collection : Virago Modern Classics ePub

When professional burglar, Albert 'Wheezy' Wallis, is found dead in a car full of exhaust fumes, with handcuff bruises on his wrists, the police assume it's a case of underworld revenge. But Wheezy's old friend - reporter for the Hampstead Explorer and secret...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2014-02-28
Collection : Horatio Parker Mysteries ePub

There had been nothing to suggest that Hampstead crime reporter Horatio T. Parker's day would be anything out of the ordinary. So when he discovers that he has just inherited £52 million, and that his old friend turned sultry film star Monique Karanekian has been...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2014-02-28
Collection : Horatio Parker Mysteries ePub

A gang of ruthless pirates and the prospect of civil war threaten medieval Britain... Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock, Michael Jeck's savvy sleuths, are on the case again in The Death Ship of Dartmouth, another compelling, well-crafted tale in the...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-02-27
ePub

Country or family... which will Sir Baldwin and Simon choose? When Simon's daughter becomes embroiled in the plans of a group of outlaws, he and Sir Baldwin take matters into their own hands in the thrilling twenty-seventh instalment of Michael Jecks' Knights Templar...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-02-27
ePub

Whether he is in Cannes, St Tropez, Nassau or Lucerne, the Saint always finds some action to interest him. In these seven stories Simon faces competition in the jewel thief business, encounters an unpleasant movie mogul, uncovers a Ponzi scheme that isn't what it seems,...

Editeur : Mulholland Books
Parution : 2014-02-27
ePub

Simon Templar is at his cavalier best in this collection of South American adventures. In Mexico, he meets an ice-cool blonde with her own Saintly ideas - and joins in the fun. In Baja California he gets caught up in a strange story of two women and a blind man's oyster...

Editeur : Mulholland Books
Parution : 2014-02-27
ePub

In these six stories, the Saint encounters monsters of both the human and the animal variety: unscrupulous fraudsters in Hamburg; a confrontation with a rhino; perfect murders in Paris; a temperance leader deserving to be taken down a peg or two; a thief duping tourists...

Editeur : Mulholland Books
Parution : 2014-02-27
ePub

In these six stories, Simon Templar's uncanny ability to find an adventure wherever he goes leads him into some very strange affairs.In Bermuda, he has to solve the case of a missing husband; in England, he has to stop a husband whose wives tend not to last long. He...

Editeur : Mulholland Books
Parution : 2014-02-27
ePub

In this collection of six stories, the fireworks go off with a bang. There's a murky tale of blackmail at a candy convention; a chance to turn the tables on an unscrupulous real-estate broker; a confidence trickster with a keen grasp of maths; a scientific invention...

Editeur : Mulholland Books
Parution : 2014-02-27
ePub

The Saint has become better known - but that just increases the number of people who seek out his help. In these nine short stories Simon has a chance to show off his skills: he matches his wits against confidence tricksters, objects to a hanging, gets the better of a...

Editeur : Mulholland Books
Parution : 2014-02-27
ePub

WINNER OF THE 2015 PETRONA AWARDA Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick!The most chilling novel yet from the Queen of Nordic Noir, not to be missed for fans of Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson.'Mummy dead.' The child's pure treble was...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-02-27
Collection : Thora Gudmundsdottir ePub