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Thriller which explores music and madness, in which the main protagonist is both criminal and victim

In New York, in 1946, Ellen returns home to her husband after the breakdown that has interrupted her career as one of the city's most gifted harpsichordists. Over the next terrifying weeks, she will be both the criminal and the agonised victim.

Glasgow, 1976. Jake McGinty and his gang are running around town, drinking, fighting and getting involved in all sorts of minor criminal activity. Then a scam goes wrong and dead bodies start to pile up. The police are quick to try to pin it on Jake - but are the real suspects closer to home?

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Private detective Lew Archer is engaged to trace a spouse, who has vanished - apparently of her own free will - one day into her honeymoon. But as soon as he has found Dolly Kincaid, Archer finds himself embroiled in two murders, one 20 years old, the other so recent the blood is still wet.

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Set against the sweeping panorama of Arizona circa 1880, this work has many of the surface trappings of a standard western. However, from the first shocking realisation that the line between good and evil is being overstepped, the author then begins to dismantle the American cowboy myth

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