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Author: Marcel TherouxCondition: NEWPublished Date: 2006
As Daisy bent her over her drink, Ron gave her an appraising glance. Her story hadn't quite checked out. He wondered what she was doing here, in his dark and crooked world of false certainties.
Author: Robert McCrumCondition: 3/10Published Date: 1990
Phillip Taylor was more fortunate than most. Part of a famous, old, family firm, he was brought up with all the advantages of tradition and security.
Author: Tony HillermanCondition: 6/10Published Date: 1989
A classic crime of searing ingenuity.
Author: Kathy BraidhillCondition: 7/10Published Date: 1993
The Grisly True story of the Lamb Funeral Home Scandal in Southern California.
Author: Dick Francis Condition: 9/10This books Published Date: 1995 Pages: 407
Features Sid Halley, ex-jockey turned investigator, who appears in "Odds Against" and "Whip Hand". Sid has uncovered a crime committed by a friend. On the morning of the friend's trial, at which Sid is a witness, other people's miseries send him into new dangers.
Author: Tami HoagCondition: 7/10Published Date: 2007
It was a crime so brutal it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community that nothing can erase, but everyone agrees convicting the alleged killer would be a start. Then Judge Carey Moore rules that previous convictions are inadmissable in court, causing a public outcry- and putting the judge in grave danger.
Author: Brian FreemantleCondition: 5/10Published Date: 1982
A man adrift from his homeland, his family and values who is compelled to take action and to recognise its consequences.
Author: Jonathan KellermanCondition: 9/10Published Date: 1992
Chiller thrilling form and genuinely engrossing. Alex Delawre at his best.
Author: Ed McBain Condition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2005 Pages: 259
Ed McBain's latest installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who doesn't fit the profile. A blind violinist taking a smoke break, a cosmetics sales rep cooking an omelet in her own kitchen, a college professor trudging home from class, a priest contemplating retirement in the rectory garden, an old woman out walking her dog--these are the seemingly random targets shot twice in the face.
Author: Patricia CornwellCondition: 6/10This books Published Date: 1995Pages: 339
Christmas had never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta. Although a holiday for most, it always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's violent fringe; and that usually means more work for Scarpetta, Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner. The body was naked, female and found propped against a fountain in a bleak area of New York's Central Park.
Author: Martin o' BrienCondition: NewPublished Date: 2007
Twnety years after leading the French Rugby Team to victory over England, billionaire bussinessman Pierre Dombasle organises a reunion for his former team-mates to mark the celebrated triumph. Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot, who scored the winning try, wouuld prefer to decline the invitation. On the Cote d' Azur Daniel Jacquot discovers that heroes can turn into villians and success can demand the ultimate price...
Author: Martin O'BrienCondition: NEWPublished Date: 2008
On the CÔte d'Azur , jealousy is a hot-blooded killer.
Author: Edited by Karen Slaughter Condition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2004Pages: 340With each crime writer picking up the story in their usual locale, each of the authors tell a gripping story of murder, betrayal and intrigue. Running through each story is a charm bracelet which brings bad luck wherever it's found.
Author: William Landay Condition: 9/10This books Published Date: 2003 Pages: 509
From its violent and shocking opening, through vivid depictions of battle-scarred inner-city Boston, to its intensely suspenseful conclusion, Mission Flats is the most thrilling literary crime novel in some years - combining intelligent, thoughtful and, precise prose with page-turning action.
Author: Daniel DefoeCondition: 8/10Published Date: 1993
Moll Flanders follows the life of its eponymous heroine.
Author: Catherine Sampson Condition: NEWPublished Date: 2005
A crime fiction to be read, author Catherine Sampson is making her mark in this genre. A womans search for a murderer is confronted with many obsticles.
Author: Michael symmons RobertsCondition: NEWPublished Date: 2006
When a teenage couple are found murdered in their car, a boy called Adam Sligo is the only suspect. Sligo is missing, and a manhunt begins, but the letter A is found blazoned on the wall at the murder scene. When the other letters of the Alphabet start appearing in sequence all over town, each immaculately painted in red, a seemingly random act of a violence appears to be part of a bigger and more terrifying picture. For the town's inhabitants, it feels like the beginning of the new age of terror, with Adam sligo still on the loose. What do the letters mean? Is he playing games with the police? Or putting a spell on the town?
Author: Peter RobinsonCondition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2006 Pages: 530
This is the stunning new Inspector Banks novel, by an author ready for the Number One slot. As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag. She has been brutally murdered.
Author: Dick Francis Condition: 7/10This books Published Date: 1984 Pages: 404
Tony Beach, wine merchant, knows his whisky, so to be asked to give his opinion of one particular bottle seems harmless enough - until he realizes that the bottle contains firewater of a highly-explosive nature.
Author: J.D Robb; aka Nora RobertsCondition: 7/10This books Published Date: 2005 Pages: 375
The newest in the number-one New York Times-bestselling In Death series featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke. Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb returns to the New York City of 2059-where Dallas will struggle to solve the murder of a seemingly ordinary family and to protect one small, terrified survivor.