Books

Race To Death

Leigh Russell

“Moments before, he had been enjoying a day out at the races. Now he could be dying…. As he fell a loud wind roared past his ears, indistinguishable from the roar of the crowd. The race was over.” A man plummets to his death during the York Races. Suicide or murder? Newly-promoted DI Ian Peterson is plunged…

Stone Cold

Robert B Parker

Investigating a serial killer in an affluent suburban town is difficult, and dangerous, and with the added pressures from the town selectmen and the media, the heat is turned up on Jesse Stone. He’s spending too much time with the bottle and with his ex-wife, neither of which helps him, or the case. And the harder these outside forces…

Fast One

Paul Cain

Fast One is possibly the toughest tough-guy and most brutal gangster story ever written. Set in Depression Los Angeles it has a surreal quality that is positively hypnotic. It is the saga of gunman-gambler Gerry Kells and his dipso lover S. Granquist (she has no first name), who rearrange the LA underworld and “disappear” in an…

Fatal Act

Leigh Russell

How far would you go to find a murderer? DI Geraldine Steel, known for pushing the boundaries of her position in the name of justice, is on the hunt for a conviction, even if it threatens her life. A glamorous young TV soap star dies in a car crash but despite the severity of the incident, the driver of the second vehicle has somehow…

Last Bus to Coffeeville

J P Henderson

Nancy Skidmore has Alzheimer’s and her oldest friend Eugene Chaney III once more a purpose in life – to end hers. When the moment for Gene to take Nancy to her desired death in Coffeeville arrives, she is unexpectedly admitted to the secure unit of a nursing home and he has to call upon his two remaining friends to help break her out…

Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland

Ace Atkins

Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry’s condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a…

Family Honor

Robert B Parker

In rescuing wealthy wayward teenager Millicent from a life of prostitution, Boston PI Sunny Randall finds she has not just a difficult teenager on her hands but is also now caught up in the middle of a shooting war with some very serious mobsters….

Blue Screen

Robert B Parker

Buddy Bollen is a C-list movie mogul who made his fortune producing films of questionable artistic merit. When Buddy hires Sunny Randall to protect his rising star and girlfriend, Erin Flint, Sunny knows from the start that the prickly, spoiled beauty won’t make her job easy. And when Erin’s sister, Misty, is found dead in the lavish…

Melancholy Baby

Robert B Parker

When college student Sarah Markham comes asking for help in finding her birth parents, Boston P.I. Sunny Randall realizes she must take the case, if only to distract her from her personal life. But life and work have a curious – and dangerous – way of intersecting. Before the investigation has a chance to take off, two key players are…

Shrink Rap

Robert B Parker

Melanie Joan Hall is a best-selling author in a bind. Her publisher needs her to tour on behalf of her newest blockbuster, and Melanie Joan needs a bodyguard-cum-escort to protect her from an overbearing psychotherapist ex-husband whose presence unnerves her to the point of hysteria. Step in P. I. Sunny Randall….

Potshot

Robert B Parker

Boston PI Spenser returns – heading west to the rich man’s haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires looking for a place to escape the pressures of their high-flying lifestyles. Potshot overcame its rough reputation as a rendezvous for old-time mountain men who lived off the land,…

Perish Twice

Robert B Parker

Sunny Randall comes to the aid of three very different women, with deadly consequences. Hired by prominent feminist Mary Lou Goddard to protect her from threatening phone calls and shadowy pursuers, Sunny must contend with Goddard’s reluctance to reveal all she knows about the unwelcome attention bestowed upon her. When a member of…

Dream Girl

Robert B Parker

When a mature, beautiful and composed April Kyle strides into Spenser’s office, the Boston PI barely hesitates before recognizing his once and future client. Now a well-established madam herself, April oversees an upscale call girl operation in Boston’s Back Bay. Still looking for Spenser’s approval, it takes her a moment before she can…

Sudden Mischief

Robert B Parker

When Susan’s ex-husband, Brad, appears after a decades-long absence, nearly broke and the object of a sexual-harassment suit, Spenser reluctantly agrees to help. As he investigates the circumstances surrounding the suit, he discovers that fund-raiser Brad is swimming in very deep water…

Gun Street Girl

Mark Timlin

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….

Take the A-Train

Mark Timlin

Nick Sharman is in traction, hospitalised for four months, and desperate for a distraction. Then Fiona arrives – a topless model for the tabloids who bullies him into convalescing in her flat in Camberwell……