The tenth Robicheaux mystery, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award.
Megan and Cisco Flynn are back in town. Nobody had ever been caught for the Klan murder of their father, Jack, and Detective Dave R……続きを見る
'A macabre little tale about an unusual restaurant in Manhattan and its lonely patrons, it displayed both a debt to Edgar Allan Poe and an acute understanding of human nature that is the key to the ……続きを見る
A driving lesson goes terribly worng. A random accident - or something more sinister?
Tragedy strikes when sixteen-year-old Rebecca Patton fatally injures a woman while having a driving lesson. The ……続きを見る
It was strictly a duty call and Pat Carroll wasn't looking forward to it one bit. But she was in Wales and her fiance's family lived nearby. He was dead now, killed in an accident, and Pat felt that……続きを見る
Retired headmaster Malcolm Chance and his wife, Frances, have settled down in the quiet village of Ravenswood, where the greatest excitement revolves around the newest production of the local dramat……続きを見る
'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore Leonard
In an expensive Miami neighbourhood, Sergeant Hoke Mosely, Homicide Division, is called to investigate the lethal overdose ……続きを見る
'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald Tribune
As usual, crime is a boom industry in Los Angeles. A gunman walks into a café and shoots a waitress dead, seemingly at random. A schoolgi……続きを見る
Another 87th precinct novel from 'the undisputed master - and there's nobody who does it better' DAILY MIRROR
Irritating though he was, Lester Henderson had it all when he strode up to rehearse his ……続きを見る
In a small English town, family conflict can be murder...
Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club
When spinster Emily Foss, who ran the haberdashery, is found bludgeoned to death,……続きを見る
How did Donald Lam get all the dames? He was just a brainy little guy, but he had the damnedest way with women ...
The blondes melted like wax. "You're the first guy who's given me a break" said one……続きを見る
Even for a redhead, Helen Dester was wild - she'd driven one guy to drink and made another jump out of a top-floor window.
Glyn Nash realises that to tangle with her will be dangerous. But he has no……続きを見る
With the war over, the forties, fifties and sixties have the aura of a golden age. But nostalgia is deceptive. From teenage Teddy Boy razor gangs and casual stabbings at dance halls to the psychopat……続きを見る
'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles Times
Lieutenant Luis Mendoza is beset by two insistent puzzlers: how does his team nail the pair who are staging hold-ups at the best r……続きを見る
Death is everywhere. A child in a playground. A playboy in a cheap hotel. A John Doe in a freight yard. A nanny and her two charges in a church pew.
After twenty-six years in homicide, Lieutenant Lu……続きを見る
Corporate hatchetman Hubbard is on his way to an industry convention to carry out a termination - a fancy way of saying he's about to toss a man and his family out in the street. But the convention ……続きを見る
Mystery writer Brendan Monroe is tormented by the fear that his flamboyant fictional detective P. I. Roy Barron has come to life. Is the author losing his mind? Or is someone making it seem that way……続きを見る
In his sixth adventure, Sergeant Verity returns to London's 1860s underworld of alleys and brothels, peopled with sneak thieves, dancing girls, thugs, murderers and pimps.
From Newgate Gaol come sin……続きを見る
Simon Templar is the Saint - daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time. When the……続きを見る
'Evil, bigotry and doing the right thing. All are done as expertly as ever by a master writer' DAILY TELEGRAPH
Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape……続きを見る
When Johnny Jackson unaccountably disappears, his grandfather contacts the police for help. As they prove to be uninterested, he turns instead to Colonel Parnell of the Parnell Detective Agency. It ……続きを見る
In his first case, William Crane goes undercover in a private sanatorium to solve a theft, and makes no secret of the fact that he believes himself to be a great detective, even presenting himself a……続きを見る
'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore Leonard
Amoral, sexy and brutal, Wild Wives was written in a sleazy San Francisco hotel in the early 1950s while Willeford was on l……続きを見る
'From the way her buttocks looked under the black silk dress, I knew she'd be good in bed'
So begins the most hardboiled of Latimer's novels, whose notoriety meant that it was only published in unex……続きを見る
In THE 9th GIRL, Tami Hoag - the Sunday Times bestselling author of A THIN DARK LINE - returns with book four in the gripping Kovac & Liska detective series. A serial killer is kidnapping young wome……続きを見る
Olura Manoli is a lovely creature, though perhaps a little foolish in her friendship with an African prime minister whom she accompanies to Spain without police protection.
Olura and the politician ……続きを見る
Philip Castleford was more than worried. Were all those years he had spent attending to Winifred's whims, enduring her habits, to count for nothing? He hadn't minded it too much for he thought that ……続きを見る
When Sergeant Brian O'Malley's prostitute lover pushes him from a window, his friends in the police cover up the details and give him a hero's funeral.
His eldest son is encouraged to join the boys ……続きを見る
'I had a hunch that madness was a predominant theme and normal condition for Americans living in the second half of this century' Charles Willeford
Willeford's pulp classic features six incisive tal……続きを見る
When Chet Carson broke jail he thought he'd found a safe hideout in a lonely filling station. But instead he finds himself caught up in a dangerous threesome - an elderly owner, his gorgeous wife, L……続きを見る
'There is no one writing better police procedurals today.' Daily Telegraph
Is time running out for DI Joe Faraday?
The discovery of a headless corpse on the rocks below the cliffs on the Isle of Wig……続きを見る
