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When the body of controversial talk-show host Walton Weeks is discovered hanging from a tree on the outskirts of Paradise, police chief Jesse Stone finds himself at the center of a highly public case, forcing him to deal with small-minded local officials and national media scrutiny. When another dead body – that of a young woman – is…
Once a rising VP at a topflight ad agency, Bill Moss now works as a “cold caller” at a telemarketing firm in the Times Square area. He’s got a bad case of the urban blues, and when a pink slip rather than promotion comes through, Bill snaps. Now he’s got a dead supervisor on his hands and problems no career counsellor can help with…
Nik Cohn is a rock legend – a Derry boy who became the omnipresent man in music’s developing story from the 50s to the present; a self-styled rat, addicted to adventure, forever at the heart of the real action.This short memoir provides a strong flavour of the person whose writing inspired Saturday Night Fever and several other…
When a woman’s partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it at first appears, and identifying the woman is just the first step in what proves to be a difficult and emotionally charged investigation……
Spenser knows something’s amiss the moment Dennis Doherty walks into his office. The guy’s aggressive yet wary, in the way men frightened for their marriages always are. So when Doherty asks Spenser to investigate his wife Jordan’s abnormal behavior, Spenser agrees. A job’s a job, after all….
London at the dawn of 1918 and Ireland’s most famous literary figure, WB Yeats, is immersed in supernatural investigations at his Bloomsbury rooms. Haunted by the restless spirit of an Irish girl whose body is mysteriously washed ashore in a coffin, Yeats undertakes a perilous journey back to Ireland with his apprentice ghost-catcher…
It’s December in Boston, and Spenser is busy planning the menu for Christmas dinner when he’s confronted in his office by a young boy named Slide……
When Nathan Smith, 51, is found in bed with a hole in his head it’s hard not to imagine his young bride as the one with the finger on the trigger. Even her lawyer thinks she is guilty….
“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…
Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gunrunners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his minor role in family operations and eager to set out on his own, Eddie crosses the border to work security for a major Mexican drug cartel led by the ruthless La Navaja….
The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn’t exactly beautiful, but she’d tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead….
Who massacred a carpet dealer’s entire family? The police have given up on solving the case, but Sharman finds some stones have been left unturned….
For south London private detective Nick Sharman too many things have gone wrong lately. So when he’s offered a job up west, with all the luxury of a posh Knightsbridge hotel chucked in, he doesn’t refuse….
It is 1964 and Ben Schroeder, first introduced in A Higher Duty, is building his career at the Bar; juggling the demands of different challenging cases, while trying to allow a little romance into his life.Ben is already defending a vicar, accused of indecent assault on a choir boy, when he is plunged into a capital murder…
A new collection of crime stories from the legendary hard-boiled writer Dashiell Hammett. The author of classic novels The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon, Hammett has been called ‘a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer’ (The Boston Globe), while Raymond Chandler raved that Hammett…
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…