Before Jack Reacher . . . there was Mike HammerOne rainy night, Hammer sits brooding, alone, in a bar. But when he sees a desperate guy abandon his kid only to step outside and get blown away, Hammer's mood switches from bad to worse. By the time he reaches the man with...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-19
Collection : Mike Hammer ePub

The fourth novel in the Jimmy Suttle series, from 'one of the UK's finest crime novelists' (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY), author of LAST FLIGHT TO STALINGRAD'There is no-one writing better police procedurals today' Sunday TelegraphD/S Jimmy Suttle is called to a brutal murder...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2015-11-19
ePub

Some say they deserve their fate. But isn't everyone entitled to justice?Forensic psychologist Paula Maguire is in a race against time to solve a deadly crime in THE SILENT DEAD, the third novel in Claire McGowan's terrific, hard-hitting crime series. The perfect read...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2015-11-19
ePub

Something big is brewing in Trenton, New Jersey, and it could blow at any minute...Stephanie Plum faces her toughest case yet in Tricky Twenty-Two, the thrilling and witty twenty-second adventure in Janet Evanovich's bestselling Stephanie Plum series. The perfect read...

Editeur : Review
Parution : 2015-11-17
ePub

When Bertha Harris's husband dies she draws comfort from routine and expects the rest of her life to drift by in the same quiet, uneventful way. But she hasn't reckoned on her nephews and niece, who are quick on the uptake that Bertha is that most desirable of...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

'A masterpiece of mystery writing' H R F KeatingWho killed Gilbert Worth? The official verdict was suicide, but those that knew him best thought he was not the type to take his own life. Furthermore, before his death, a missing gun, a half-written letter and two...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Archie Wayne, successful playwright, could not say what impulse had made him return to the small town of his boyhood. On impulse, he called on his boyhood friend, and the matter would have ended there had he not met and fallen for his friend's daughter, the young and...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Laura Chance, wife of Borford's prospective Lord Mayor, becomes infatuated with her young hairdresser, Pierre, who resembles her dead son. Pierre is utterly selfish, unscrupulous and sees in the wealthy, middle-aged woman a dupe who can give him some of the material...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

A short story by Guy Cullingford 'See my finger's wetSee my finger's drySlit my throat if I tell a lie . . .'When a young girl approaches a man reading by a tree, warning him of a murder, he rushes to help. However, upon the disappearance of the girl - the only witness...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Deep was back in town after a twenty-five-year exile - to inherit an empire and avenge a death. He and Bennett had made the inheritance pact when they were kids; they had known that even New York was too small for them to share and so they had tossed a coin to determine...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

A Victorian family is left high and dry when its lord and master sails off to China to bring back the first tea of the season. Absent for six months at a time, he never ceases to dominate the lives of his wife and children.The yearly race to be the first home with the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Mrs Bonnet was renowned for the delicacies she concocted in her semi-basement kitchen, but never did she imagine she would serve up murder to her beloved mistress! But whenMrs Bonnet, who has the lightest touch with pastry, tries her hand at the science of detection,...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

The quiet town of Cattminster is shocked by news of a startling murder - startling because all the evidence points to the murderer being Richard Groom, grandson of the late canon of Cattminster Cathedral and ex-fiancé of the victim's wife.Richard, however, has five...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

When Dorothy Squirl's speech for the opening of the Fallowfield Fête blew out of her hands, she found herself under the heady influence of an overdose of pep pills, calling on all women to unite to put the world to rights. The husbands didn't like it, but once the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

In the cheerful, grubby backstreets of Soho, Jessie Milk finds herself a most unsuitable occupation as a receptionist in a hotel frequented by unsuccessful variety artists. Among the hotel's regulars is a dyspeptic conjurer with a plain wife and pretty assistant, both...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

George White, an inoffensive little chemist in East Anglia, finds himself the possessor of a somewhat unusual accomplishment - he only has to wish someone dead and his wish is granted.The first inkling of his abilities comes when Major James, a petty tyrant who made...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

As Miss Maggs made her way nervously home, a clock stuck one, the town's lights were switched off and footsteps sounded behind her. She broke into a desperate run. Later the doctor pronounced that she had literally died of fright.In a provincial town, who was there to...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Joyce Cave had her husband, Robert, exactly where she wanted him - in a private gaol with herself, her aunt and her uncle as warders. He had been charged with killing the local good-time girl, who had tried the oldest trick in the world on the panicky Robert and ended...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

When the milkman alerts police to two bodies at the fashionable Hampstead home of Andrew and Kim Light, it seems obvious who the deceased are . . . until Mr Light walks through the door.Just who is the other man? Is Andrew Light as innocent as he'd like to appear, or...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-11-14
Collection : Brock and Poole ePub

Maxim Jakubowski, together with Nathan Braund, edited the bestselling Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper (1999), which has reprinted several times and was reissued in 2008 in a revised and expanded edition.The book focused on the countless theories that have been put...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2015-11-12
Collection : Mammoth Books ePub