Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Crime

Andrei Dragomir moves to London, where the system allows him to expand his operation as one of Europe's leading exploiters of the demand for underage sex with young girls. To maintain the supply of girls Dragomir imports from Europe where those still at school kidnapped, whilst older girls are lured by the offer of well paid non-existent jobs. All are forced into the sordid sex trade.

His exploits are challenged when a schoolteacher searching for pupils, a woman who has duped into going to London is forced to work for Dragomir and a female police detective working for a London...

On the surface, Roman Hawker is the consummate professional. Behind that squeaky-clean facade lies a secret; he's a masterful thief. After yet another successful robbery, Roman and his partners-in-crime are ready to celebrate, but that celebration is short-lived when they are shaken by the death of Roman's estranged father.

When the facts leading up to his father's death come to light, Roman's friends rally around him to get revenge. But it means...

He caught the back of a chair, staggered and groaned. There was a heavy crash and fall, and the parson lay motionless and livid, while lilies from a vase fell, like a wreath, across his chest.

The Rev. Ulder, everyone agreed, was the parish priest from hell. In addition to tales of drunkenness and embezzlement, the repellent cleric had recently added blackmail to his list of depravities. There was scandal in the district, plenty of it, and Ulder had the facts. Until, that is, a liberal helping of morphia, served to him in the Bishop's Palace, silenced the insufferable...

'Listen I see I'd better take you into my confidence.'

'I'd rather you didn't, ' I said.

Betty Morrison, a lawyer's wife, is flung into the society of an ancient Edinburgh family, the Warrielaws. There's Neil the Rip, Cora the Siren, Rhoda the Business Woman, and Alison the little Beauty - not to mention the formidable, elderly Jessica and her meek sister Mary. The family all possess unusual gold-green eyes - and harbour a precious and historic jewel, a bauble under constant threat of theft. The alarmed Betty will become a crucial witness in a case that...