Sorted on book title (not in series order)
No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry . . . but here she is, murdered in her own backyard on a bitter St. David's Eve. And when detective Stephen Ramsay starts asking questions in the village, a more ambiguous picture begins to emerge.Read more
Once again murder stalks in Lower Hutt and is brilliantly solved by the New Zealand detective Steve Arrow and his colleagues.Read more
In the little town of Mitford, four babies have disappeared, and Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte must find them. When the fifth baby disappears, its mother is found dead beside the empty crib, but for once, Murder Must Wait.Read more
It's Broadway in Reefton, the new, booming 1870s gold town.
Suspiciously, Gordon Trembath, a naive young police constable has been left in charge over Christmas and New Year. He is immediately faced with investigating a murder carried out by sly-groggers in the valley....Read more
Superintendent Gregory Summers has a new DCI. Striker Freeman is the fifth in four years. Hopefully this one will be competent and stick around for a while. Striker is ex-Israeli army and fit, so at least he won’t die in harness.
Freeman is just beginning to learn the ropes...Read more
The first blow took Hugh Parsley by surprise. It fractured his right temporal bone and tore the middle meningeal artery. He stumbled and fell face down on the grass. A blow to the back of his neck cracked the occipital bone at the base of his skull. He was struck several times about the...Read more
Syd Fielding is on a fishing trip when he hears a horrifying scream ... What he doesn′t yet know is that a young man is being fed to a saltwater crocodile.
So begins MURDER AND REDEMPTION, an absorbing crime novel which follows in the traditions of Jon Cleary and Peter Temple....Read more
Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James’s formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.
The Dupayne, a small private museum in London devoted to the interwar years 1919 -- 1939, is in turmoil. As...Read more
A young woman is murdered by a sniper's bullet in a Sydney apartment building. The killing is apparently motiveless, until it is discovered that the flat is owned by Boru O'Brien, a wealthy businessman with underworld connections - and connections of another kind with the Prime Minister's...Read more
A princely state in India, 1930, under the British Raj. To Bhopore and its opulent Summer Palace comes a handful of Western visitors to meet the outrageous Maharajah and his entourage. There they met the Maharajah's heir, the sensual Porgy, and his English chorus-girl mistress. They meet...Read more
An agent with the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, Denise Cleever welcomes the prospect of a special assignment on an island paradise. Deep undercover at an exclusive resort off the Great Barrier Reef, Denise finds nothing unusual until she encounters the owner's rebellious...Read more
If ever anyone deserved to die, it was millionaire Victor Holyoak.
Holyoak's favorite tactic was to kick people when they were down, then pick them up and kick them again. Now the great man himself was down -- brutally stabbed to death in his penthouse apartment.
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A body is discovered in a Milan apartment, and Inspector De Vincenzi investigates. The apartment happens to belong to an old university friend of his, Aurigi. When the body turns out to be that of Aurigi's banker, and a phial of prussic acid is discovered in the bathroom, suspicion falls on...Read more
Awakening with amnesia, Dr. Pippa Rowe is told she was hit by a car near the house of a doctor who was murderedRead more
Painter Felix Hassler is found strangled to death with his wife bound and gagged at his side, and Inspector Gautier, while investigating the crime, tries not to revive an old scandal involving Madame Hassler, a woman of dubious morals, and France's former presidentRead more
Newly promoted Detective Inspector Judy Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd investigate the complicated romantic lives of Mrs. Austin and Mrs. Beale, two women who were recently murdered.Read more
An armed robbery trial is about to take a macabre turn as a judge suddenly collapses in mortal agony. But as the wave of brutal robberies continues, it emerges that the judge's death may have been murder—and he's not the only judge whose life is in danger. It's down to Bob Skinner to piece...Read more
Priest isn’t a holy man. But his faith in humanity is about to be challenged by a series of sinister events.
First the body of a priest is found in an overgrown field, or what the maggots left of him.
Then a vicar suffers a fatal fall from a church clock tower....Read more
Maria Kallio has just been assigned her first murder investigation. To prove to herself and her squad that she has what it takes to be a detective, she’ll have to solve the death of Tommi Peltonen. Found floating facedown at the water’s edge of his Helsinki villa, Tommi had invited his...Read more
Inspector Pyke of Scotland Yard is staying with Maigret to observe his methods, Maigret receives word of a murder in the Midi on the island of Porquerolles. The victim is Marcellin, a man who claims to have been Maigret’s friend but was actually a criminal whose girlfriend, a sex worker,...Read more
Death is in the air at one of Milan's great fashion houses. As a new collection is unveiled, and the wealthy rub shoulders with the glamorous, owner Cristiana O'Brian escapes upstairs to discover the strangled body of her servant slumped on her bed--a single orchid by his side.
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Locking your door won′t help. He′s already inside ...
America in 1968 is in turmoil and the leafy Holloman suburb of Carew is being silently terrorised by a series of vicious and systematic rapes. When finally one victim finds the courage to speak out and go to the police, the...Read more
When magistrate Matteo Arconti's namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the court buildings in Piazzo Clodio, it's a clear warning to the authorities in Rome--a message of defiance and intimidation from a powerful crime syndicate.
Commissioner Alec Blume,...Read more
July 2005, and the entire globe is watching Scotland.
The assorted leaders of the G8 countries have gathered in the capital and with daily marches, demonstrations and scuffles on the streets, the police are stretched to the linit. But one detective is still...Read more
Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-...Read more
Violence erupts at an anti-nuclear demonstration in Eastvale, leaving one policeman stabbed to death.
At first there are over a hundred suspects, but then things narrow down to the people who live on "Maggie's Farm", an isolated house high on the daleside. Among the suspects is...Read more
A DANGEROUS CHASE. A SADISTIC KILLER.
DS Lucas Walker is on assignment for the AFP, and it couldn't be more personal. This is his last chance to take down Stefan Markovich - the Vandals leader who tried to have him killed after Walker uncovered...Read more
How do you catch a killer when you're the number one suspect? A man is caught on CCTV, shooting dead a cashier at a bank. Detective Harry Hole begins his investigation, but after dinner with an old flame wakes up with no memory of the past 12 hours. Then the girl is found dead in mysterious...Read more
