Meet Alice Quentin, a forensic psychologist who'll do anything to crack a case - even if it means putting herself in danger, in this collection of three gripping novels. CROSSBONES YARD: the discovery of a body in a former graveyard pulls Alice Quentin into a terrifying...

Editeur : Mulholland Books
Parution : 2016-01-07
ePub

A classic murder mystery by acclaimed author Bernard Knight.When a beautiful woman is found dead in a wrecked car, it’s assumed that she simply lost control and crashed while drunk – a sad but not unfamiliar story. Soon, though, a series of events makes the police...

Editeur : Headline Accent
Parution : 2015-12-31
Collection : The Sixties Crime Series ePub

Part 2 in the fast-paced and thrilling new episodic novella series from award-winning Markus Heitz. The gods are back, the world is in uproar - and only one man will seek the truthNOVEMBER, 2019I've never believed in any kind of god.But that's a problem when they start...

Editeur : Jo Fletcher Books
Parution : 2015-12-17
Collection : The Return of the Ancient Gods ePub

A classic murder mystery by acclaimed author Bernard Knight.When some boys find a human bone in a cave in Cardiganshire, Wales, a case that has gone unresolved for over thirty years suddenly springs back into life. For that grisly find is only the start of things...When...

Editeur : Headline Accent
Parution : 2015-12-17
Collection : The Sixties Crime Series ePub

'Tis the season for murder, mayhem, and mistletoe from New York Times bestselling author Tasha Alexander.In this new short story from Tasha Alexander, Lady Emily - called "Victorian London's most colourful and delightfully eccentric sleuth"* - and her dashing husband...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2015-12-15
Collection : Lady Emily Mysteries ePub

Tiger Mann, sleuth and expert in counter-espionage, is lunching with a friend when he notices a girl enter the restaurant. To his friend, the girl is Edith Caine, a UN translator. ButTiger knows her as Rondine Lund, an Austrian who was a Nazi spy during the war. He had...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : Murder Room ePub

When a young chambermaid is found dead, bitten by a cobra concealed in the bed of notorious libertine Armand de Périgord, Inspector Jean-Paul Gautier is certain that she was not the intended victim. The charismatic de Périgord is very wealthy and has never married, and...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : Inspector Gautier Series ePub

Inside the furnace was a seething pool of molten metal, bubbling with a heat great enough to destroy a man's body so completely it would be impossible to trace. And Gerald Norris had disappeared without a trace!In London, Julie Crocker was hunting for her brother...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : John Bryant Series ePub

Everyone had agreed that the industrialist Mark Bascombe had committed suicide, even the coroner. Only Bascombe's son David believed - or professed to believe - that it was murder. And it was he who had hired private investigator John Bryant, rather belatedly it is...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : John Bryant Series ePub

A fashionable French painter is found strangled, a crime highly embarrassing for the Establishment as his wife, a lady of dubious morals, was in the news a year earlier when the President of France happened to die in her bed. And the last thing the authorities want is...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : Inspector Gautier Series ePub

When car trouble forces private detective John Bryant to spend the night in the small village of Foxall, he is immediately struck by the antagonism and secrecy of the locals. Why was there so much hostility and fear? And why were the streets deserted after dark?Next...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : John Bryant Series ePub

The victim is Sophie Monterant: a young actress who is already challenging the divine Sarah Bernhardt for the finest roles. Inspector Gautier visits the theatre to see Sophie at the first night of Dame aux Camélias, but the first night is also to be her last: after the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : Inspector Gautier Series ePub

The house in Chelsea was smart, in an unpretentious way. But when detective John Bryant rang the front door bell, he found neither intellect nor artistry; what lay before him was a world of curious contrasts - of extravagance and squalor, luxury and murder.Bryant...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : John Bryant Series ePub

An aristocratic young woman, Denise de Richemont, has murdered an important journalist, Jaques Le Tellier. She is acquitted by a sympathetic jury when she confesses it to be a crime of passion - revenge for the journalist's indiscreet revelation of his mistress' sordid...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : Inspector Gautier Series ePub

The Dashkova Ballet Company - a visiting Russian troupe led by Inspector Gautier's charming Soviet mistress, Princess Sophia - is about to become the toast of Paris when the famous Judge Prudhomme is found with a bullet in his heart in a squalid hotel room. And when the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : Inspector Gautier Series ePub

When a homemade bomb explodes on a houseboat moored on the Seine, following two brutal stabbings in Pigalle, the Paris police receive a list of targets for assassination that includes the President of the Republic himself. Each murder will be announced beforehand by the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : Inspector Gautier Series ePub

A painter has vanished: normally an event of no importance, but Théo is the heir to a fortune, and so Inspector Gautier of the Sûreté is put on the case. Then a shady art dealer is murdered.A dealer who had acquired three paintings under dubious circumstances, from a...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : Inspector Gautier Series ePub

Two dramatically contrasting episodes face Inspector Gautier in his latest mystery: the death by stabbing of the vicar of the fashionable church of Saint Clothilde in the confessional box; and the theft of the Duchesse de Paiva's diamond necklace during the extravagant...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : Inspector Gautier Series ePub

'The English should confine their murders to their own country' is the view held by Parisians when Lady Dorothy Strathy, sister of the Earl of Tain, is discovered stabbed in her hotel room. This opinion is held by none more strongly than Courtrand, the head of the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-12-14
Collection : Inspector Gautier Series ePub

Called in to help dying millionaire Maximilian Kottle locate his estranged son, P.I. John Marshall Tanner doesn't know what to expect.Soon Tanner is on a quest to find Karl Kottle, a former sixties radical and alleged murderer. As his search continues, Tanner encounters...

Editeur : Mulholland Books
Parution : 2015-12-10
Collection : John Marshall Tanner Mysteries ePub