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Author
Series
Nick Miller volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A detective takes on a vengeful ex-con in London’s seedy underworld in this classic thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Midnight Bell.
After nine years in prison, thief Ben Garvald has been released, and he’s headed back to the old neighborhood. His remarried ex-wife and sister-in-law aren’t happy about it, and they’ve asked for police protection. Det. Sgt. Nick Miller,...
After nine years in prison, thief Ben Garvald has been released, and he’s headed back to the old neighborhood. His remarried ex-wife and sister-in-law aren’t happy about it, and they’ve asked for police protection. Det. Sgt. Nick Miller,...
2) Instinct
Author
Series
Henry Christie volume 17
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grieving after a huge personal tragedy, Detective Superintendent Henry Christie is trying to pull his life back together and thinking seriously about retirement - after all, he's got the time in and he'd have a good life and decent pension. But all thoughts of a peaceful dotage are shattered when the phone rings in the early hours, and he is called out to investigate the brutal rape and murder of a teenage girl . . .
3) Backlash
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Spencer's deft writing and skilled plotting combine with an intriguing mix of all-too-human characters and a shocker ending to make for another outstanding entry in this excellent series" - Booklist Starred Review
The fourth book in the acclaimed new series featuring DCI Monika Paniatowski
DCI Monika Paniatowski has a bitter personal history with Chief Superintendent Kershaw, but that is not the only reason she...
The fourth book in the acclaimed new series featuring DCI Monika Paniatowski
DCI Monika Paniatowski has a bitter personal history with Chief Superintendent Kershaw, but that is not the only reason she...
4) Eeny meeny
Author
Series
Helen Grace volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two people are abducted, imprisoned, and left with a gun. As hunger and thirst set in, only one walks away alive. It’s a game more twisted than any Detective Helen Grace has ever seen. If she hadn’t spoken with the shattered survivors herself, she almost wouldn’t believe them. Helen is familiar with the dark sides of human nature, including her own, but this case—with its seemingly random victims—has her baffled. But as more people go missing,...
Author
Series
Hennessey and Yellich mystery volume 5
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner Barbara Havers are drawn from Cambridge to London as they investigate any possible connections between the suicide of a young man who leaped to his death from a Dorset cliff and a murder by poisoning in Cambridge.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When a Member of Parliament shows up at New Scotland Yard requesting an investigation into the suicide of the son of one of his constituents in the beautiful town of Ludlow, the Assistant Commissioner sees two opportunities in this request. The first is to have an MP owing him a favor, and the second is to get rid of Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, whose career at the Met has been hanging by a thread for quite some time. So he assigns Havers to...
8) Vertigo 42
Author
Series
Richard Jury volume 23
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"At Vertigo 42, a bar high above London's financial district, Richard Jury meets Tom Williamson - a friend of a friend who is convinced his wife, Tess, was murdered 17 years ago. Tess's death was ruled accidental - a fall caused by vertigo - but Jury agrees to re-examine the case. A young girl's fatal fall at a children's party 22 years ago at Tom and Tess's home may be connected. After an elegantly dressed woman falls from a tower near a pub that...
9) Taking pity
Author
Series
Detective Sergeant McAvoy volume 4
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It’s been three months since Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy returned home, or what was left of it after a horrific tragedy. All that remained was charred masonry, broken timbers, and dried blood—a crude reminder of the home invasion and explosion that tore his house and family apart. McAvoy’s wife and daughter are safe, he’s been assured; he just wishes he knew where they were. --
10) The old success
Author
Series
Richard Jury volume 25
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police is called in. Who could have killed this beautiful tourist, the only visible footprints nearby belonging to the two little girls who found her? While Macalvie reexamines the scene in the Scilly Islands, inspector Richard Jury-twenty miles away on Land's End-is at The Old Success pub, sharing a drink...
Author
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Brentwood's Ward: place an unpolished lawman named Nicholas Brentwood as guardian over a spoiled, pompous beauty named Emily Payne and what do you get? More trouble than Brentwood bargains for. She is determined to find a husband this season. He just wants the large fee her father will pay him to help his ailing sister.
The innkeeper's daughter: Officer Alexander Moore goes undercover to expose a plot against the king-and he's a master of disguise,...
Author
Series
Simon Serrailler mystery volume 4
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Serrailler investigates a seemingly random series of murders targeting young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton, cases he is certain are related in spite of their varying methods.
13) Now you see them
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The fifth book in the Magic Men series, Now You See Them is a wild mystery with detective Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto, as they investigate a string of presumed kidnappings in the swinging 1960s"--
Author
Series
Simon Serrailler mystery volume 5
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After two prostitutes are found strangled and the wife of the St. Michael's Cathedral Dean and a respectable woman on her way to work go missing, Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler is put on the case and faces the greatest danger of his life.
17) A false mirror
Author
Series
Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery volume 9
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mystery volume 6
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
20) Dust
Author
Series
Richard Jury volume 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Richard Jury investigates the death of a wealthy bachelor with a mysterious past who was last seen in a club named Dust.
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