Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Crime

Dangerous secrets threaten to destroy lives from the sink estates of Glasgow to the corridors of Westminster in this latest case for Rosie Gilmour

An attractive female student is found dead in the darkened gloom beneath an overpass . . .

The DA moves quickly to pin the brutal slaying--a "mugging gone wrong"--on a homeless man known to frequent the area. As Detective "Gunny" Hawkins of the Bristol Police investigates the seemingly impressive evidence and facts of the case, he grows less and less sure that the DA has the right man . . . and certain that something far more insidious is going on than a mugging. It becomes clear to Hawkins that a murderer is on the loose in Bristol . . . one willing to kill again...

"How would you like to be a rocket? A stranger for a week, an heiress for a week, then down with the stick and a stranger again."

Imperious, warm-hearted Honoria Maquisten plans to revise her will - but before the papers can be drawn up, she is dead from an overdose of pills. All eyes are on Carey Silence, a penniless orphan who was recently made Honoria's ward. Suspicion becomes evidence, Carey is arrested and her trial is prepared. So begins a classic golden age mystery with many suspects and twists. Who was the 'rocket' referred to? Who was it Honoria really...

"Sylvia had on the wrong stockings for her dress, and her lipstick was all crooked, so I think things are pretty grim."

Lovely, foolish Sylvia Colesborough knew him only as a voice on the telephone. It told her how she could earn the money she had lost at cards. She enlists her reluctant friend, debutante Gay Hardwicke, to help her earn this money, and safeguard her husband's reputation into the bargain. But blackmail turns to murder in this classic country house whodunit, and Gay's young man is soon suspect number one...

And Mr. Zero? Whether he loses or wins, his...

Ice is still. Death is still. But no living flesh should be as still as this...

Agent Stephen Enderby, known in Russia as Red Stefan, meets Elizabeth Radin, the lovely widow of a Soviet inventor, just at the moment she is about to throw herself into a river in despair. The Communists have been persecuting her in order to obtain the vital formula her husband devised just before his execution. Stephen prevents her from committing suicide, takes her away with him and tries to escort her out of the country, posing as his wife. But Elizabeth has not told Stephen her deadly...

"I went down to the pool, and he was lying half in and half out of it with his head bleeding and the tide coming in. The water was up to his shoulders."

The marriage between Nan Forsyth and Jervis Weare is a purely business arrangement - to Jervis. But for Nan there is true romance behind it - a romance which began for her in childhood days - and she is content to be considered for the time a scheming adventuress. But, as she soon discovers, both she and Jervis are now the targets of a golden-haired devil and her villainous partner who'll stop at nothing in this story of...

"You talk of him as if he were alive."
"He is alive," said Benbow Smith.
"And you think he would do murder?"
"I am quite sure that he would do murder, Captain Loddon."

Rose Anne disappeared on the eve of her wedding to Captain Oliver Loddon. Her fiancE received a letter posted from Paris saying she was sorry but there was someone else.

To the police it is quite simple. But Oliver can't believe Rose Anne capable of such a cruel act, and then discovers that her note carries quite another message. Benbow...

"Beware - walk with care,
Or mumbo jumbo will hoodoo you.

Young Jeremy Ware is suspected of stealing important papers, and Colonel Garrett of the Secret Service (last seen in Danger Calling) consults Benbow Smith about it. Even Rosalind Denny, still grieving for her late husband, suspects Jeremy. But when the young man, trying to exonerate himself, meets a beautiful sleepwalker in a cellar, matters quickly progress to a case of murder...

Walk with Care was originally published in 1933, and was the third novel to feature the series...

Tawcester Towers, the family seat of the Lyminster family, has suffered an unwelcome injection of distant cousins, so distant that they aren't even British Count Igor and Count Lyudmilla Bashusky had to flee Russia after the Revolution and have spent the intervening years building up debts in the hotels of Europe's capitals and sponging off ever more exasperated (and distant) relatives.
The Bashusky's arrival at Tawcester Towers causes a stir, and it's up to Blotto and Twinks, that indefatigable duo, to provide a solution to get them back to Russia. Reversing the Russian Revolution and...

London, 1912, and the famed Ballet Russes have come to London to perform. Anticipation is high, for Diaghilev's troupe is renowned throughout Europe.
At the end of their famed performance of Thamar at the Royal Opera House, the Georgian queen stabs her prince to death and throws him into the river. But life mirrors art when the prince is found truly dead, stabbed through the heart in the orchestra pit below stage. But the corpse is not the dancer in the programme. It is his understudy. Powerscourt is summoned to investigate. But who was the intended victim ? the understudy, or the...

The scene was Lanang District. The time was 1918. The experience and trauma of the people in Lanang is retold in this story.
This is Peninsula Malaya.
. . . This is where it begins!

A serial killer stalks the streets of 1950s Boston--and two friends take it upon themselves to bring him down.
Post-war Boston is down on its luck and looking for change. A year after the Great Brink's Robbery--the largest robbery in the history of the United States--Boston is known more for its seedy underbelly than for its rich, historical past. The winter of 1951 is the worst in recent memory, and the Bruins are suffering another losing season.
Like Boston itself, lifelong residents Cal O'Brien and Dante Cooper are struggling to find their identities after World War II. Cal has built...

If you love reading about drug cartel wars, corrupt police, and assassins, don't miss SETH, an action-filled book on a Marine's vigilante justice. Staff Sergeant Seth Collins wasn't your typical Marine. A member of the elite Marine Corps Force Recon, he had a Navy Cross on his chest and six combat deployments under his belt. Called home to care for his ailing father, he became a Hillsdale cop. Seth needed to quit and escape from the memories of Marines killed fighting the president's politically correct wars. Fate had a different plan. The Mexican Los Guerreros and Halcon Cartels declared war...

As Borough Task Force team Uniform-X-Ray 646 continue to battle crime on west London's streets, an insidious product of Britain's failed multicultural experiment, heads off to war in Syria. A young man with a grudge against British society is honing his battle skills in a far off land, and he's hell bent on seeking revenge on the cops who humiliated him. While the officers of Houndshale's BTF hold the thin blue line, Dawood al-Britani Akhtar is stalking Syrian villages, his AK47 spitting death. When two worlds collide, there will be hell to pay... Praise for Front Stack Written by someone who...

Contract Deception - This is a story set in post conflict Belfast, where organised criminal gangs have taken advantage of the vacuum left by the paramilitary groups, to establish their own territories of crime. In this hostile environment private investigator Danny Quinn struggles to prevent his own life from imploding, and when he agrees to help American, Katie Levy, find her aunt in the city, he unwittingly sets in motion a sequence of events that brings him into direct conflict with one of the most ruthless gangs in the capital. The only resources he can rely on in his battles against them...

Murdered criminals. Flawless forgeries. Encrypted operas. The murder of an opera house director forces world-renowned nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team into an impossible position: protecting notorious criminals-from what appears to be a serial killer. Genevieve plunges into the world of opera, uncovering secrets that a group of organised crime leaders would do anything to keep hidden. She cannot allow her previous case, unreliable witnesses or conflict with her team to distract her. Not if she wants to prevent many innocent lives being lost in a shocking...

Living in a small town comes with the good and the bad. The good thing about living in a small town is you know everyone. Unfortunately knowing everyone can also be a bad thing. When the whole town turns on Daniel for what his father did, Daniel decided to turn on the whole town.