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Still waters run deep. English teacher, mother, wife, and convicted child predator Jane Thompson has made parole and she has a plan. She begins her life in the shadows while she bides her time. One month later, the bludgeoned body of the student she was found guilty of corrupting four years earlier is found on the shores of Lake Ontario. Officers Stonechild and Gundersund head up the investigation and Jane Thompson quickly becomes the prime suspect. But knowing guilt and proving it are two...
| Автор | Brenda Chapman |
While investigating a murder, RCMP undercover operative Jack Taggart finds himself in too deep when he tangles with an Asian organized crime syndicate and a rogue Chinese intelligence officer. When a seventy-five-year-old woman is killed in an apparently random car accident, it looks like a simple hit-and-run – until the car is linked to an Asian organized crime syndicate. Undercover operative Jack Taggart, who is called in to investigate, quickly identifies a top crime boss as the perpetrator,...
| Автор | Don Easton |
Nominated for the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel When murder stalks a family over Christmas, Kala Stonechild trusts her intuition to get results. It’s a week before Christmas when wealthy businessman Tom Underwood disappears into thin air – with more than enough people wanting him dead. New police recruit Kala Stonechild, who has left her northern Ontario detachment to join a specialized Ottawa crime unit, is tasked with returning Underwood home in time for the holidays. Stonechild,...
| Автор | Brenda Chapman |
A missing child. A dead mother. Kala Stonechild is about to discover what one betrayal can lead to. When Adele Delaney and her daughter, Violet, go missing, Jacques Rouleau is called upon to investigate. However, struggling with the impending death of his ill ex-wife, he sends Kala Stonechild and Paul Gundersund instead. Stonechild has been trying to adapt to life as her young cousin Dawn’s guardian, and even though Gundersund has offered support, Stonechild is at risk of losing custody. On the...
| Автор | Brenda Chapman |
Tenth book in the acclaimed Jack Taggart Mystery series In a nod to the past, A Delicate Matter brings back a longtime Taggart nemesis, Damien Zabat, who has been featured in several of the previous books, but most prominently in the debut title, Loose Ends With the eventual death of Zabat, Don Easton introduces Purvis Eaves, the new gang leader who makes Damien look like Mister Rogers, and sets up a brand-new master villain for Taggart to butt heads with Author is a retired RCMP undercover...
| Автор | Don Easton |
Hockey is a dangerous game, but it’s what happens off the ice that can get you killed … Curtis Ritchie is the only news in town when Ottawa takes the young hockey sensation first overall in the annual spring draft. But on the eve of Ritchie’s rookie season, the media frenzy over the signing and the controversial trades that secured the young star are eclipsed by news of his murder. As Ottawa Major Crimes Unit investigator Jack Smith reassembles Ritchie’s life, he is surprised by how much it...
| Автор | Nick Wilkshire |
Eleventh book in the acclaimed Jack Taggart Mystery series Taggart's family’s lives are threatened by the Satans Wrath Motorcycle Gang Taggart ignores his superior’s orders to exact vengeance on the gang Author is a retired RCMP undercover agent with an insider’s knowledge of how the force works Gritty style and real-world details culled from a career in undercover operations Series has already built a substantial fan base Series is set in Vancouver Series is currently optioned for film and...
| Автор | Don Easton |
As Halloween approaches, a pair of deaths set Dion and Leith on the trail of a suspected killer, and supernatural rumours about the murderer are almost beyond belief Book Three in the B.C. Blues Crime series, a noir series featuring two detectives whose lives have detoured badly off-course Two sleuths: Dion is recovering from a brain injury, while Leith’s ambition has slowly turned bitter Brings out the humanity of RCMP officers, depicting them without polishing off the rough edges First...
| Автор | R.M. Greenaway |
Inspector Danilov has always taken a unique approach to detective work. So, when he’s asked to investigate the violent death of a fellow police officer, killed in action, he doesn’t think twice about turning his attention to a different case altogether: the brutal murder of the Lee family, found massacred in their own home.How could the deaths of an ordinary family account for a shooting halfway across the city? And what clues lie with the letter found clasped in the dead girl’s hand? Inspector...
| Автор | M Lee J |
Shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger AwardThe Times Crime Book of the Month, April 2018‘A fascinating debut’ The Sunday Times‘A touch of Agatha Christie, a dash of Ann Cleeves’s Vera and a suitably moody setting in the Peaks…bring a formidable newcomer to British crime writing.’ Daily Mail***A SHOCKING DEATHA lawyer is found dead in a Peak District cave, his face ribboned with scratches.A SINISTER MESSAGEAmidst rumours of a local curse, DI Meg Dalton is convinced this is cold-blooded murder....
| Автор | Roz Watkins |
‘There are lots of twists and turns in this book and it has the makings of a great series’ – Annette (Netgalley)A missing child. A dead body. A killer on the loose.Returning to Exeter CID after his son’s unsolved disappearance Detective Sergeant Peter Gayle’s first day back was supposed to be gentle. Until a young girl is reported missing and the clock begins to tick.Rosie Whitlock has been abducted from outside her school that morning. There are no clues, but Peter isn’t letting another child...
| Автор | Jack Slater |
The latest in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves the murder of a notorious criminal in the home of a famous millionaire. But there are no clues, no evidence. The police are convinced that someone may have just committed the perfect crime.“The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. Now, almost 90 years later, these...
| Автор | Frank Froest |
First published by Collins in 1928, this was the first of 22 mystery novels by Vernon Loder, one of the most popular British mystery-thriller writers of his generation.When a guest at Stowe House is found dead, killed by a lethal dart, suspicion naturally falls on the resident collector of poisoned weapons from tribes in South America. With the entire house party as potential suspects, what part did the woman explorer play in this sinister tragedy? The local police are baffled, and call on the...
| Автор | Vernon Loder |
A special release of the very first crime novel by John Rhode, introducing Dr Priestley, the genius detective who would go on to appear in more than 70 bestselling crime novels during the Golden Age.When Harold Merefield returned home in the early hours of a winter morning from a festive little party at that popular nightclub, the ‘Naxos’, he was startled by a gruesome discovery. On his bed was a corpse.There was nothing to show the identity of the dead man or the cause of his death. At the...
| Автор | John Rhode |
The Detective Story Club’s first short story anthology is based around a London detective club and includes three newly discovered tales unpublished for 100 years, plus a story bearing an uncanny resemblance to a Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes story but written some seven years earlier.‘You will seek in vain in any book of reference for the name of The Crime Club. Its watchword is secrecy. Its members wear the mask of mystery, but they form the most powerful organisation against master criminals...
| Автор | Frank Froest |
Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission, But can the SAS prevent Britain descending into war-torn anarchy?Great Britain, 1995: With terrorist bombs destroying town and city streets, rising crime and a teenage drug problem that is out of control, police forces are stretched beyond their limit. And now a new threat is looming.A fanatical right-wing movement is spreading into the UK. Using terrorism and crime to fund its undercover activities, and a frightening new drug to spur on its growing army to...
| Автор | Peter Cave |
This book can also be read with The Present by Charlotte Phillips. Two books, one unforgettable Christmas…12 deadly gifts, one killer on a Christmas countdown…On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me… this is one deadly Christmas that you can’t forget.The police are baffled by the ‘Santa’ killer, who sends his intended victims gruesome presents based on the twelve days of Christmas. When a young journalist receives a mutilated bird in the post, it’s a race against time to find the...
| Автор | D Devlin S |
Gritty, complex and effortlessly chilling, Brolly’s Dead Eyed is a grisly crime thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.DCI Michael Lambert thought he’d closed his last case…Yet when he’s passed a file detailing a particularly gruesome murder, Michael knows that this is no ordinary killer at work.The removal of the victim’s eyes and the Latin inscription carved into the chest is the chilling calling-card of the ‘soul jacker’: a cold-blooded murderer who struck close to Michael once...
| Автор | Matt Brolly |
‘Utterly addictive. Compulsive, twisty, tense.’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS, author of Local Girl MissingJust how far is a mother willing to go?When a mysterious note arrives for seven months pregnant nurse Eliana Hughes, she begins to doubt every aspect of her life – from her mixed feelings about motherhood to her marriage to Martin, who has become distant in recent months.As the person behind the note escalates their campaign to out Eli’s husband as a cheat, she finds herself unable to trust even her own...
| Автор | Claire Allan |
Всю свою жизнь спецагент ФБР Мерси Килпатрик следовала заветам выживальщиков – закрытой общины, готовящейся к концу света. Но когда в ее родном городке появляется жестокий серийный убийца, эти правила начинают работать против нее. 15 лет назад Мерси внезапно разорвала отношения с семьей и сбежала из коммуны. Пришло время вернуться и взглянуть в лицо своему прошлому. Неуловимый убийца по прозвищу Пещерный человек одного за другим убивает выживальщиков. Неприязнь местных к чужакам и правительству...
| Автор | Кендра Эллиот |
Изуродованное тело женщины найдено в одном из старых мотелей Филадельфии. Для судебно-медицинского эксперта Лиама Двайера подобное – обычные будни. Только в этот раз жертвой оказывается его любовница, с которой он расстался совсем недавно. Кто-то не только с изощренной жестокостью расправился с девушкой, но и оставил на месте преступления намеки на ужасную историю из детства Лиама, подробности которой не знал никто, кроме самых близких людей. Более того, сам Лиам абсолютно не помнит, что он...
| Автор | Мэттью Фаррелл |
Что может быть страшнее и бесчеловечнее ритуальных убийств? Или они не ритуальные?.. У агента ФБР Мерси Килпатрик есть свое тайное убежище – небольшой домик в глуши орегонских лесов. Здесь она может побыть самой собой и отдохнуть от людей и работы. Но однажды холодной зимней ночью ее уединение разлетается в пыль. На подъезде к своему убежищу Мерси встречает маленькую девочку, выбежавшую из чащи. Та просит помощи – ее бабушка истекает кровью. Мерси бежит вместе с ней через лес и там, в хижине...
| Автор | Кендра Эллиот |
Дебютный роман, поразивший слушателя психологической точностью и ярким сюжетом Изуродованное тело женщины найдено в одном из потрепанных мотелей Филадельфии. Для судебно-медицинского эксперта Лиама Двайера подобное – обычные будни. Только в этот раз жертвой оказывается его любовница, с которой он расстался совсем недавно. Кто-то не только с изощренной жестокостью расправился с девушкой, но и оставил на месте преступления намеки на ужасную историю из детства Лиама, подробности которой не знал...
| Автор | Мэттью Фаррелл |
Что может быть страшнее и бесчеловечнее ритуальных убийств? Или они не ритуальные?.. У агента ФБР Мерси Килпатрик есть свое тайное убежище – небольшой домик в глуши орегонских лесов. Здесь она может побыть самой собой и отдохнуть от людей и работы. Но однажды, холодной зимней ночью, ее уединение разлетается в пыль. На подъезде к своему убежищу Мерси встречает маленькую девочку, выбежавшую из чащи. Та просит помощи – ее бабушка истекает кровью. Мерси бежит вместе с ней через лес, и там, в хижине...
| Автор | Кендра Эллиот |