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Valerie de Chavannes, a financier’s daughter, summons private investigator Kemal Kayankaya to her villa in Frankfurt’s diplomatic quarter and commissions him to find her missing sixteen-year-old daughter, Marieke. She is alleged to be with an older man who is posing as an artist. To Kayankaya, it seems like a simple case: an upper class…
It starts when Nick Sharman’s eye is caught by a woman in a fashionable West End store. She is young beautiful and classy. And she is shoplifting….
When a successful businessman is the victim of a vicious murder, all evidence points to his wife and her young lover. But then the victim’s business partner suffers a similarly brutal fate and when yet another body is discovered, seemingly unrelated, the police are baffled. The only clue is DNA that leads them to two women: one dead,…
Ellis Alves is a bad kid from the ‘hood with a long record, but did he really murder Melissa Henderson, a white student from ritzy Pemberton College? Alves’s former lawyers think he was framed, and they hire Spenser to uncover the truth……
After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problems into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dump him, 35-year-old Jesse Stone’s future looks bleak. He is shocked, however, when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise hires him as their police chief. Once on board he doesn’t have to look for trouble in Paradise – it comes to him….
When the bodies of two black girls are discovered in North London, the pressure is on to find a killer before the case divides the local community. But motive seems to go far beyond race in DI Geraldine Steel’s first investigation in the nation’s capital….
David Blake is back in Newcastle, running three cities, top boy. Life is sweet until his bent accountant is arrested for murder. The money man is nailed on for a life sentence until he puts five million pounds out of Blake’s reach. Now Blake faces an agonising choice; fix the acquittal of a child killer or run out of the cash he needs…
When a Turkish labourer is stabbed to death in Frankfurt’s red light district, the local police see no need to work overtime. But when the labourer’s wife comes to him for help, detective Kemal Kayankaya, a Turkish immigrant himself, smells a rat. The dead man wasn’t the kind of guy who spent time with prostitutes. What gives? …
When you’re an ex-cop and an ex-doper scratching a living as a private investigator in the unromantic streets of south London, you take any work you can get. Even a dreary little debt collection job for some toe-rag of a used-car dealer….
Nick Sharman is nobody’s favourite person. Ex-cop, ex-doper, invalided out of the Met after a stray bullet in the foot saved him from an investigation into the missing evidence from a drugs haul. The cops don’t like him. The villains don’t like him. Sharman is unemployable. So he’s hired himself an office and set up shop as a private…
Investigator Petric makes his living from the dead. Lately business has been slow, what with the siege around Sarajevo. Condoned killing has displaced the crime of passion; his services with the civil police as a homicide investigator have been less in demand. Unluckily one premeditated death does land on the detective’s desk….
Death Row Breakout Stories brings together seven previously unseen short stories that draw fully on Edward Bunker’s incomparable experience of the U.S. prison system. – as James Ellroy says `by an ex-criminal, from the unregenerately criminal viewpoint…’…