""But down these mean streets must go a man who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished or afraid."" When Raymond Chandler wrote these words in his classic The Simple Art of Murder, he drew a blueprint for the male private eyes who descend from Philip Marlowe to populate the world of crime fiction. But what if the private eye is a woman? And what if she is not a character in a novel but a real, working investigator testing not only the meanness but the absurdity of life on seamy streets? Who will tell her story?
Enter Manchester's Val McDermid, herself a skilled writer of the...
""But down these mean streets must go a man who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished or afraid."" When Raymond Chandler wrote these words in ...
First in the popular series featuring Lindsay Gordon, a self-proclaimed 'cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist' with a penchant for hanging around police interrogation rooms under suspicion of some crime or other.
First in the popular series featuring Lindsay Gordon, a self-proclaimed 'cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist' with a penchant for hanging ar...
The New York Times Book Review raves about author Val McDermid, calling her "as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there. She's the best we've got." Her newest thriller, Beneath the Bleeding, once again proves it to be so. Winner of the coveted CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year for The Mermaids Singing, McDermid reunites her popular investigating team of Dr. Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan in Beneath the Bleeding, as they search for the truth behind a horrific act of mass murder and wholesale destruction.
The New York Times Book Review raves about author Val McDermid, calling her "as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there. S...
On a freezing day in December 1963, Alison Carter vanishes from her rural village, an insular community that distrusts the outside world. For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted inspector, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case--a suspected murder with no body, an investigation with more dead ends and closed faces than he'd have found in the anonymity of the inner city, and an outcome that reverberates through the years.
Decades later Bennett finally tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but just when the book is poised for publication, he...
On a freezing day in December 1963, Alison Carter vanishes from her rural village, an insular community that distrusts the outside world. For the y...
- A Darker Domain] combines a thrilling story with heartbreaking questions of social justice and history.- --Seattle Times The New York Times calls Val McDermid, -As smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there...the best we've got.- Time spent with her extraordinary thriller, A Darker Domain, will prove that it's true. Set in Scotland, the milieu of Ian Rankin's John Rebus, McDermid's brilliant exploration of loyalty and greed intertwines the past and present. It was chosen as a New YorkTimes Notable Crime Book...
- A Darker Domain] combines a thrilling story with heartbreaking questions of social justice and history.- --Seattle Times ...
-McDermid is as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there....She's the best we've got.- --New York Times Book Review Scottish writer Val McDermid is one of the most respected authors at the scene of the crime, and Fever of the Bone offers a bravura display of her exceptional storytelling talents. Criminal profiler Tony Hill and his ally Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan are back in this terrifying psychological thriller, tracking down a brutal killer who's targeting a group of young people through a social networking site. A winner of the...
-McDermid is as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there....She's the best we've got.- --New York Times Book Review
Sehr interessant Originale von Zeitungs-und Zeitschriftenartikel uber die Arbeit des Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Lehrer in Labrador, Neufundland, Kanada 1960 bis 1970, als 18-jahrige Schuler - vor allem aus dem Vereinigten Konigreich, in den Schulen der Labrador Kustensiedlungen gelehrt. "Es ist uber 30 Jahre her, seit die Mitglieder des Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) waren wurden in Labrador stationiert und jetzt eine Suche im Gange, um diejenigen, die als Lehrer von 1960 bis 1970 (1 Jahr Begriffe) serviert lokalisieren. VSOS kamen aus dem Vereinigten Konigreich in isolierten...
Sehr interessant Originale von Zeitungs-und Zeitschriftenartikel uber die Arbeit des Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Lehrer in Labrador, Neufundland,...
