Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.When Chief Inspector Chen Cao is offered a week's break at a luxurious resort near Lake Tai, he accepts immediately. Increasingly worn out by the politics of his job, the opportunity to relax and recover sounds like heaven. But the...

Editeur : Mulholland Books
Parution : 2015-06-18
Collection : As heard on Radio 4 ePub

It starts as another day. But sometimes one day changes everything...Bell Elkins, prosecuting attorney and small-town heroine from Pulitzer Prize winner author Julia Keller, faces one of her most challenging days in this exclusive digital short story. Perfect for fans...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2015-06-09
ePub

London, 1728. A young, well-dressed man is driven through streets of jeering onlookers to the gallows at Tyburn. They call him a murderer. But Tom Hawkins is innocent and somehow he has to prove it, before the rope squeezes the life out of him.It is, of course, all his...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2015-06-04
Collection : Thomas Hawkins ePub

'There are stories here which will make you shudder, and which will linger long in the mind' Ian Rankin Passion. Obsession. Revenge.A stunning collection of chilling short stories from the queen of the psychological thriller.White nights of passion and revenge in St....

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2015-06-04
ePub

From Peter Tremayne, highly acclaimed author of THE DEVIL'S SEAL and THE SECOND DEATH, comes a digital short story featuring much-loved Irish super-sleuth Sister Fidelma.PRAISE FOR THE SISTER FIDELMA SERIES: 'The Sister Fidelma books give the readers a rattling good...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2015-06-04
ePub

From treachery in the Caribbean to mischief in the Mediterranean, from murderous drama to sleek black comedy, from a baffling number of suspects to a single confrontation with a maniacal rapist, here is a tantalising and varied excursion round motives and methods in the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2015-06-04
ePub

'The screams came again: by now they sounded quite blood-curdling to the girl alone in the small room - or was it that they were getting nearer?'From murders and ghostly visitors to devious plots and family feuds, Antonia Fraser's first collection of short stories is a...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2015-06-04
ePub

Two lovers rush toward doom, as an unseen killer stalks the world. A novel of the fourth dimension's conquest of Earth.

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-05-29
ePub

Wylie's final novel, published posthumously, focuses on man's destruction of the world through his unheeding and willful poisoning of the atmosphere, the land, the seas and rivers, and finally the human race itself.

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2015-05-29
ePub

The third in the Fearless Jones series from the author of the Easy Rawlins crime thrillers.Fearless Jones and Paris Minton return in a high-velocity thriller about family, betrayal, and revenge. 'I'm in trouble, Paris.' Paris Minton has heard these words before. They...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2015-05-28
Collection : Fearless Jones mysteries ePub

The second in the Fearless Jones series from the author of the Easy Rawlins crime thrillers.'Will not disappoint fans of the Easy Rawlins series.The prose is taut and sinewy and Mosley effortlessly creates a classic noir setting' Douglas Field, Big IssueParis Minton is...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2015-05-28
Collection : Fearless Jones mysteries ePub

From the author of the Easy Rawlins series comes a new crimebuster - Fearless JonesFearless Jones is a gritty, noirish thriller set in 1950s' Los Angeles. When sultry Elana Love walks into mild-mannered Paris Minton's bookshop, he knows she spells trouble. Elana is...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2015-05-28
Collection : Fearless Jones mysteries ePub

After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, life seems to be getting quieter for maverick Federal Agent John Corey. Professionally sidelined, away from his wife, and partnered up with a young, good-looking rookie named Tess, Corey is...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2015-05-26
Collection : John Corey ePub

* A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK SPRING 2016 *When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered, LAPD Detective Jessica Allen knows she's seen this MO before.A sadistic serial killer has been operating undetected for a decade, preying on lone female drivers who...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2015-05-21
Collection : Carter Blake Series ePub

Sentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows ... but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay.Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two pennies, engraved with a promise, to the two...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2015-05-21
ePub

Brendan Thorne, ex-army Ranger and master CIA sniper, has turned his back on violence. But while working as a game warden at a Kenya safari park, an FBI team appear from nowhere, kidnap him and fly him back to the US to meet the newly elected President.President...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-05-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Every morning, Miss Loveapple blesses her good fortune. She has property, a devoted maid and is young and beautiful. An independent woman, she has a mind never to marry. But a darker mind - one Clarence Club's - has a plan that will leave her accused of murder.About to...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-05-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

It's 1953, and Pierce Duncan leaves college an innocent. Seeking the freedom of the road, Dunc sets off to see America. His road trip brings strange, fateful encounters: with a savage Georgia chain gang; with a killer on a lonely Texas road; and with the darker side of...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-05-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Behind the ominous walls of Jamaica Court, Anthea Vine rules as a provincial Queen Elizabeth, imperious and wealthy, vain and pathetic.But Anthea holds chained to her in financial dependence five discontented souls, all with a motive for murder. Her tentacles reach...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-05-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Honolulu: Port of Call is a unique collection of short stories of the Hawaiian islands brought together by Joe Gores: thirteen tales by legendary writers including Jack London, Herman Melville, W. Somerset Maugham, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and Joe Gores...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-05-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub