'Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science' For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately associated with late Victorian and Edwardian society, yet curiously timeless in...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-04-10
ePub

'Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science' For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately associated with late Victorian and Edwardian society, yet curiously timeless in...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-04-10
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Lori herself is entangled in a messy - and dangerous - family dispute... Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday sees Lori, and the otherworldly sleuth Aunt Dimity, untangle the web of deceit surrounding a troubled family. Perfect for fans of M. C. Beaton and...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-04-10
Collection : Aunt Dimity Mysteries ePub

The first murder in the village of Finch for over a century propels Lori into a whirlwind of an investigation... Lori and Aunt Dimity's sleuthing skills are tested in a murder case in Aunt Dimity: Detective, the seventh mystery in Nancy Atherton's much-loved mystery...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-04-10
Collection : Aunt Dimity Mysteries ePub

Can Lori unravel a mystery that is thicker than the snow on the Cotswold hills? The snow forces Lori to take shelter in a house of treasures and secrets in Aunt Dimity: Snowbound, the ninth mystery from much-loved author Nancy Atherton. Perfect for fans of M. C. Beaton...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-04-10
Collection : Aunt Dimity Mysteries ePub

It will take all of Aunt Dimity's otherworldly powers to restore tranquillity to a sleepy English village... Savour a masterpiece of old-fashioned fun in Aunt Dimity Digs In, the fourth mystery to feature Nancy Atherton's supernatural sleuth. Perfect for fans of Agatha...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-04-10
Collection : Aunt Dimity Mysteries ePub

When dreams become reality, life is turned upside down... Aunt Dimity's Death is the first novel in Nancy Atherton's delightful crime series set in the Cotswolds. Perfect for fans of M. C. Beaton and Ann Granger.'Atherton smoothly blends history, village life, and the...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-04-10
Collection : Aunt Dimity Mysteries ePub

A sword forgedA home builtA new era bornThe Roman armies are now gone, and Publius Varrus, the legionnaire turned blacksmith, along with his former commanding general Caius Britannicus, begin to form alliances that will create a nation out of bloodshed and chaos.Using...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2014-04-03
ePub

A country in ruinsA struggle for survivalA dynasty begunThe Empire is collapsing and after 450 years of occupying Britain, the Roman legions are departing to defend the homeland. Soldier turned blacksmith Publius Varrus and his friend, the Legate Caius Britannicus,...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2014-04-03
ePub

When a dilapidated cargo ship sinks, killing the illegal immigrants packed in below decks, the man responsible goes free, but not for long. Two weeks later hi is found dead in bed with a knife in his back. Human trafficker Thomas Blackburn lived and died in the heart of...

Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2014-04-03
Collection : George Gently ePub

The fourteenth Peter Diamond case has the eminent detective in pursuit of a murderer after a theft at an auction house goes wrong.Just as the bidding gets exciting in a Bath auction house, three armed men stage a hold-up and attempt to steal Lot 129, a medieval...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2014-04-03
Collection : Peter Diamond Mystery ePub

Winter is savage and cold in Lapland. When a priceless local relic is stolen from Kautokeino, a village in the middle of the isolated snowy tundra, detectives Klemet Nango - a familiar face in the rural community - and Nina Nansen, fresh out of the local police academy,...

Editeur : Trapdoor
Parution : 2014-04-01
ePub

Do you love NYT #1 Bestselling Lisa Gardner's brilliant novels? Have you never read her? Do you want to know more about her series and characters?Undeniably one of Lisa Gardner's greatest characters, D.D. Warren is smart, tough and stubborn to a fault. This exciting and...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-04-01
ePub

Dillon Bryant, a successful engineer, is off on assignment after finishing his honeymoon. But news from home comes that his new bride, Laura, a beautiful woman whom he had met only weeks before proposing marriage, is in deep trouble. By the time he gets to her, Laura...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-31
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Clint Sewell knew there wasn't a wife within fifty miles who didn't have reason to murder Mary Olan - because there wasn't a husband around who didn't think the grass was greener in Mary Olan's bedroom. The latest occupant was Sewell's boss, Dodd Raymond - a man not...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-31
Collection : Murder Room ePub

The Varaki family run the local grocery store, but tragedy hits the family hard.The sudden death of the matriarch of the clan is followed by the favourite son's death in Korea.The teenage daughter falls in with a bad crowd and there's also the other son, Walter, who has...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-31
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Four years ago Gevan Dean found his fiancée Niki Webb in his brother Ken's arms and fled his hometown for a peaceful life in the Florida sun. But now Ken is dead - murdered by a thief, the police say - and Gevan is desperately needed to keep their company, Dean...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-31
Collection : Murder Room ePub

In Flower City, a sleepy resort town on Florida's Gulf Coast, wealthy Elizabeth Stegman is murdered in a jewel heist gone bad - her missing jewels insured for £750,000.It falls to hardboiled ex-cop Cliff Bartells to find the killer, retrieve the jewels and console the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-31
Collection : Murder Room ePub

The stage was set. Harry Mullin had hit town first. But he had just made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, and he was a little nervous about being seen. With him at the rented house where they planned to case the job was a girl named Sal. Then the Ace turned up. He'd been...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-31
Collection : Murder Room ePub

Her veneer was big city ... But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders bare. Eyes deep-set,...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-03-31
Collection : Murder Room ePub