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Fergus Hume was renowned as the bestselling mystery writer of Victorian times after his first book, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, broke all records. In 1901 he returned to form with this ingenious tale, selected to represent Hume’s prolific output by Collins’ Detective Club panel in 1930.Cicero Gramp was, according to himself, a ‘professor of elocution and eloquence’ – to anyone else he was no more than an engaging and extremely craft vagabond. Hence it was that he found himself awakened from his...
| Автор | Peter Haining |
The psychological thriller debut of No.1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg.Now she is his forever.A small town can hide many secretsReturning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen in an ice-cold bath, it seems like she’s taken her own life.Meanwhile, local detective Patrik Hedström is following his own...
| Автор | Камилла Лэкберг |
The twenty-second book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye KellermanDetective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus have moved from the chaos of L.A. to upstate New York, to a quiet town that is home to elite colleges and pensioners. Semi-retired and faced with mundane call-outs at the Greenbury Police Department, Decker is becoming bored of life. So when he is called about a potential break-in at the local cemetery, he jumps at...
| Автор | Faye Kellerman |
The twelfth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye KellermanSomeone is watching your every move…Detective Peter Decker knows all too well the risks of police work, so he was horrified when his daughter Cynthia entered the LAPD. But as a first-year rookie, Cindy is fast proving she has the same razor-sharp instincts as her father.Now though, Cindy’s skills are put to the test like never before. Things in her apartment are moved,...
| Автор | Faye Kellerman |
Val McDermid, creator of TV’s Wire in the Blood, mixes fact with fiction, dealing with one of the most important and symbolic moments in recent history.Twenty-five years ago, the daughter of the richest man in Scotland and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. But Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate has remained a mystery ever since. When a new clue is discovered in a deserted Tuscan villa – along with grisly evidence of a recent murder – cold case expert DI Karen Pirie...
| Автор | Val McDermid |
No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg’s new psychological thriller – irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.Detective Patrik Hedstrom is no stranger to tragedy. A murder case concerning Fjallbacka’s dead financial director, Mats Sverin, is a grim but useful distraction from his recent family misfortunes.It seems Mats was a man who everybody liked yet nobody really knew – a man with something to hide…His high school sweetheart, Nathalie, has just...
| Автор | Камилла Лэкберг |
The fifth novel in the DI Sean Corrigan series – authentic and terrifying crime fiction with a psychological edge, by an ex-Met detective. Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Stuart MacBride.A serial killer stalks the streets…In the darkest corners of London, a killer is on the hunt. His murders are brutal. Teeth pulled out. Nails pulled out. Bodies abandoned.A detective follows his every move…DI Sean Corrigan desperately tries to use his ability to see inside the minds of...
| Автор | Luke Delaney |
‘Humour and topicality along a cold enigmatic trail of murder’ ObserverLife is on the up for Patrick Aldermann: his Great Aunt Florence has collapsed into her rose bed leaving him Rosemont House with its splendid gardens.But when his boss, ‘Dandy’ Dick Elgood, suggests to Peter Pascoe that Aldermann is a murderer – then later retracts the accusation – the detective inspector is left with a thorny problem.Not only have the police already dug up some interesting information about Aldermann’s...
| Автор | Reginald Hill |
The sixth thrilling installment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s – the novels that have inspired all Scandinavian crime fiction.Widely recognised as the greatest masterpieces of crime fiction ever written, these are the original detective stories that pioneered the detective genre.When Viktor Palmgren, a powerful industrialist, is casually shot during an after-dinner speech, the repurcussions – both on the international money markets and on the residents of the small coastal...
| Автор | Arne Dahl |
The second book in the hugely acclaimed Martin Beck series: the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime fiction and influenced writers from Stieg Larrson to Jo Nesbo, Henning Mankell and Lars Kepplar.A Swedish journalist has vanished without a trace in Budapest. When Detective Inspector Martin Beck arrives in the city to investigate, he is drawn to an Eastern European underworld in search of a man nobody knows. With the aid of the coolly efficient local police, he reveals a web of...
| Автор | Val McDermid |
Praise for Marnie Riches:‘Gritty and gripping’ KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS‘Fast-paced, enthralling and heartrending; I couldn’t put it down’ C. L. TAYLOR The fourth gripping thriller in the Georgina McKenzie series.Amsterdam: a city where sex sells and drugs come easy. Four dead bodies have been pulled from the canals – and that number’s rising fast. Is a serial killer on the loose? Or are young clubbers falling prey to a lethal batch of crystal meth?Chief Inspector Van den Bergen calls on criminologist...
| Автор | Marnie Riches |
THREE GRIPPING PETER DECKER AND RINA LAZARUS CRIME NOVELS FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR FAYE KELLERMAN.SACRED AND PROFANE: The second book in the Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series. Detective Peter Decker is enjoying a well-earned camping vacation—until Rina’s son Sammy stumbles upon a gruesome sight . . .Two human skeletons, charred beyond recognition, are identified by forensics as teenage girls—and for Decker, the father of a sixteen-year-old daughter, vacation time is over....
| Автор | Faye Kellerman |
Justice is worth every sacrifice.Part 8 of 8 in the chilling, high-octane FBI thriller TOUGH JUSTICE from NYT bestselling author Carla Cassidy and Tyler Anne Snell, Carol Ericson and Gail Barrett.Live or die. Her or Moretti. The time is now.The worst has happened; her mark is on the run. But Lara has no clues. No destination. Just fear for those she loves and bone deep belief that he’s coming straight for her. But she knows Moretti – just as he knows her. And when the final clue clicks into...
| Автор | Carla Cassidy |
Seven years ago Kaylin fled the crime-riddled streets of Nightshade, knowing that something was after her.Children were being murdered—and all had the same odd markings that mysteriously appeared on her own skin. … Since then, she’s learned to read, she’s learned to fight and she’s become one of the vaunted Hawks who patrol and police the City of Elantra.Alongside the winged Aerians and the immortal Barrani, she’s made a place for herself, far from the mean streets of her birth. But children are...
| Автор | Michelle Sagara |
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the third Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.THREE CORPSES FOR INSPECTOR FRENCHA chance invitation from friends saves Ruth Averill’s life on the night her uncle’s old house in Starvel Hollow is consumed by fire, killing him and incinerating the fortune he kept in cash. Dismissed at the inquest as a tragic accident, the case is closed – until Scotland Yard is alerted to the circulation of...
| Автор | Freeman Crofts Wills |
The award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller. The past is behind them, but what’s still to come will tear them apart…Some things just won’t let go.The past, for instance.That night in the cemetery.The girl’s body in the snow.On a freezing Fife morning four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in an ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only...
| Автор | Val McDermid |
AN INTENSE AND ADDICTIVE MYSTERY YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS!The twenty-fifth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye KellermanA murderOn a quiet suburban street in upstate New York, a body is discovered. Twenty-six-year-old Brady Neil lived a simple life—his murder seems senseless. But then Detective Peter Decker discovers Brady’s father was convicted of murder many years ago.A disappearanceDecker begins to suspect Brady’s death may...
| Автор | Faye Kellerman |
The tenth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye KellermanOne moment can devastate countless lives…It’s everyone’s worst nightmare. What starts out as a relaxed evening in a chic Los Angeles restaurant suddenly turns into a bloodbath when an angry former employee starts spraying bullets before turning the gun on himself. 13 people are left dead, and dozens more wounded.For Detective Peter Decker, the case, horrific as it is,...
| Автор | Faye Kellerman |
Perfect suspense from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham! The latest book in her New York Confidential series.Someone is murdering beautiful young women in the New York area and displaying them in mausoleums and underground tombs. The FBI is handling the case, with Special Agent Craig Frasier as lead.Kieran Finnegan, forensic psychologist and part owner of Finnegan's, her family's pub, is consulting on the case. Craig and Kieran are a couple who've worked together on more than one...
| Автор | Heather Graham |
From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions.When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel near Groote Park, it seems to be a straightforward case of a man struck by a passing train. But Inspector Vandam of the Middeldorp police isn’t satisfied that Albert Smith’s death was accidental, and he sets out to prove foul play in a...
| Автор | Freeman Crofts Wills |
No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg’s new psychological thriller featuring Detective Patrik Hedström and Erica Falck – irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.A missing childWhen a four-year-old girl disappears in the woods outside Fjällbacka, people are horror-struck. Thirty years ago, a child went missing from the same spot, and was later discovered, murdered.A murderBack then, two teenage girls were found guilty of the killing. Could one of...
| Автор | Камилла Лэкберг |
My name is Amelia Gray. I am The Graveyard Queen, a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts.My father passed down four rules to keep me safe and I’ve broken every last one.A door has opened and evil wants me back. In order to protect myself, I’ve vowed to return to those rules.But the ghost of a murdered cop needs my help to find his killer.The clues lead me to the dark side of Charleston—where witchcraft, root doctors and black magic still flourish—and back to John Devlin, a haunted police detective...
| Автор | Amanda Stevens |
A Hollywood shrine hides unholy deeds…. The 1940s: hard-boiled detectives and femmes fatale are box-office gold. In one iconic scene, set in a deserted museum, the private eye arrives too late, and the buxom beauty is throttled by an ominous Egyptian priest.Now: the Black Box Cinema immortalizes Hollywood's Golden Age in its gallery of film noir tributes. But the mannequin of that Egyptian priest is hardly lifeless. He walks—and a young starlet dies a terrifying death.Movie mogul Eddie Archer’s...
| Автор | Heather Graham |
Serve. Protect. Don’t fall in love…Rookie cop Kelly Jenkins thought that saving a terrified little boy from his abductors was the end of the story. It wasn’t. With the kidnappers on the loose and the child clinging to her as his “mommy,” Kelly is pulled into a world of wealth and privilege.Arrogant, handsome billionaire Trey Wentworth is the boy’s father, and a pain in her working-class butt. Yet even as the threats against Trey and Kelly mount, attraction blazes between them. Leaving now would...
| Автор | Sharon Hartley |