A sharp and stylish debut in which an unwitting private eye gets caught up in a crime of obsession between a reclusive literary superstar and her bookseller husband, paying homage to the noir genre just as smartly as it reinvents it.
From #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline comes a pulse-pounding new novel.Your family has been attacked. Now you have to choose between law… and justice.Jason Bennett …
Charlie Walden picks his way through the issues of the day with satirical good humour, insight and wit. Another entertaining and insightful look at the British court system.
Will’s a nice guy. So he steps out of the way when a stranger staggers towards him. Moments later, one man is dead and another’s life is changed forever.
Geraldine agrees to look into the disappearance of a young woman, only to discover that several other young women have also gone missing locally. They all vanished unexpectedly, without trace.
What happens to a family when a child goes missing?
After You Were Gone is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that poses the question: How far would you go to find your child?
THE ACRES AND ACRES OF FERTILE SOIL – THE TWO-HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD ANTEBELLUM HOUSE – ALL GONE
And so is the woman who gave it to him. The foster mother who saved Jack Boucher from a childhood of abandonment now rests in a hospice. Her mind eroded by dementia, the family legacy she entrusted to Jack is now owned by banks and strangers. And Jack’s mind is failing too, as concussion after concussion forces him to carry around a notebook of names that separate friend from foe.
In a single twisted night Jack is derailed. Losing the money that will clear his debt with the queen of Delta vice, and forcing Jack into the fighting pit one last time. The stakes? Nothing less than life or death.
A teacher’s life unravels after being accused of molesting a pupil. As bodies pile up, Detective Geraldine Steel questions his guilt, challenging her colleagues’ beliefs.
The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in an open grave on a property on the lake. It’s ostensibly suicide, but Jesse has his doubts… especially because the piece of land where the man was found is the subject of a contentious and dodgy land deal….
A fascinating window in on life in a British maximum security prison, Billy Rags – by the author of Get Carter – is crime fiction at its best: lean, mean, and full of startling psychological depth….
The author of Get Carter returns to his greatest invention, a smooth-operating hardcase named Jack Carter, who is about to burn a city down in order to silence an informant……