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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….
At age eight, Jenny Rowan was abducted and kept for two years in a box beneath her captor’s bed. Eventually she escaped and, after living for eighteen months on cast-offs at the local mall, was put into the child-care system. Suing for emancipation, at age sixteen she became a legal adult. Nowadays she works as a production editor for…
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……
Marijuana is the everyman drug. Teenagers surreptitiously toke on it, politicians refuse to inhale it, even your mum and dad have had a go. Marijuana is a mellow, let’s put on a Barry Manilow CD, open a bottle of vino, and order a pizza drug. It’s the easy drug. The no howling at the moon drug. No shooting up and losing your job….
When three dead bodies are discovered in quick succession, DI Ian Peterson becomes too embroiled in a complex murder investigation to worry about his forthcoming promotion or the state of his marriage.The first victim is a middle-class housewife, stabbed to death in a park. Her husband is in the clear until the prostitute who provided…
That most “literary” of narcotics – the enigmatic opium poppy and its various derivatives – and as these stories reveal, those who partake of the sacred flower are forever changed, but the price of paradise is often steep: overdose, hepatitis C, degradation and self-destruction….
Fred, Nickel and Annette share a dream, to escape to Canada, away from the crushing boredom of provincial Germany. Canada – where you can live free, rent a house on the lake, go fishing, become a famous photographer. But such dreams cost money and money comes from… banks. But the great bank robbery goes horribly wrong……
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…
When Spenser’s closest ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead while protecting bookie Luther Gillespie, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his friend in body and soul. Hawk, always proud, has never been dependent on anyone. Now he is forced to make connections: to accept the medical technology that will ensure…
It all began with a favour. Kayankaya and Slibulsky were only trying to protect their friend Romario from his protectors, men who were demanding hard cash for the service. It ended with two bodies on the floor of Romario’s restaurant, their faces covered in ghostly white make up. Kayankaya is determined to track down their identity,…
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…
She is caught up in a tangle of deception he left behind, facing violent assault, brutal murderers and deeply embedded corporate corruption….
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……
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….