Sceptre

He Kills Coppers

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 02/07/2008 - 12:17pm by Karen Chisholm

August 1966 - the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is abruptly shattered when three policemen are gunned down in a West London street. A bewilderingly senseless crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself and brings an end to the victory celebrations. Yet it also marks a...Read more

Death Of A Red Heroine

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 02/07/2008 - 12:46pm by Karen Chisholm

A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal.

As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the...Read more