Brooklyn River drownings aren't usually a pretty sight, but this corpse is obviously from the nicer side of town. The girl's father spared no expense or expertise - let alone time - in posting her missing and insisting that the NYPD find her . . . The tragic death of Eva Cruz is the first scene in a play that leaves Detective Dave Moser wondering just who his real friends are. It seems that everyone but himself, one Internal Affairs lieutenant and an FBI new girl, is on the take to the tune of thousands or millions of dollars. And as Moser gets nearer and nearer to the centre of the puzzle of why Eva Cruz died, the higher the NYPD blue wall of silence gets.
The UK debut of Brady's much-praised Irish-based Matt Minogue series.
An American tourist is found bludgeoned to death in the trunk of his rented car. Minogue soon learns that there's more at stake here than the murder of a visitor to Ireland. Patrick Shaugnessy is the son of American multimillionaire and patron of many Irish-American causes. While Malt and his colleagues struggle to assemble shards of information to map the way to Shaugnessy's killer, another body is discovered in a shallow grave close to the site of the latest antiquity theft. Old debts and the new booming Ireland seem to be a deadly mixture...
Dublin-born John Brady, author of six Matt Minogue novels, is now based in Canada, but often revisits Ireland, especially Minogue's birthplace County Clare.
Double Indemnity is the classic tale of an evil woman motivated by greed who corrupts a weak man motivated by lust. Walter Huff is an insurance investigator like any other until the day he meets the beautiful and dangerous Phyllis Nirdlinger and falls under her spell. Together they plot to kill her husband and split the insurance. It'll be the perfect murder...
James M. Cain was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892. Having served in the US Army in World War 1, he became a journalist in Baltimore and New York in the 1920's. He later worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Cain died in 1977
Three Great Novels
"Deal Breaker" "Drop Shot" "Fade Away".
An omnibus consisting of the first three novels in the award-winning Myron Bolitar series. Myron's career as a pro-basketball player is cruelly cut short when he suffer a vicious knee injury. And, after a period of rehabilitation, he decides to turn his hand to Sports Agenting - a la Jerry Maguire. But it's a vicious, cutthroat business and full of dangerous sharks who would like nothing more than to take a bite out of our fledgling hero. Combining a wry wit with some moments of surprising darkness, these novels contain all the elements of the very best of modern crime writing, and while slightly different to Harlan's stand-alone novel, will be lapped by all his new readers.
A beautiful socialite divorcing one of the most powerful men in Europe, an investigative journalist, a magazine needing a hot story and a publishing director with a taste for risk-taking - all inflammable ingredients, but who would have guessed they would have ended in a violent and horrible death.
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When Saskia Thomson is found dead, her war-reporter brother fights to save the magazine she created. But the predators are closing in . . .
A glamorous successful magazine editor apparently commits suicide, leaving her war photographer brother to look after her magazine and hyperactive son. He soon finds the predators closing in and discovers that whoever killed his sister is now after him.
From the author of With Friends Like These and Paper Tigers.
Nicholas Coleridge is managing director of Condé Nast in Britain, the magazine publishing house that includes Vogue, Tatler, House & Garden and Vanity Fair. He has written two previous novels and lives in London. He is married with four children.
On a Balinese island, in a private home of incredible luxury, Marcus Brand entertains his six godchildren. By the end of the weekend, secrets will be revealed that will change everybody's life, a climax to the web of lies and betrayals spun over the course of thirty years. The Godchildren... Charlie Crieff - the aristocratic Old Etonian, who's fascinated and enthralled by Marcus's wealth and who devotes his life to securing an inheritance; Mary Merrett - the daughter of one of Marcus's business colleagues, her life is blighted by tragedy; Jamie Temple - feckless but utterly charming, he drifts from one job to another, crossing Marcus's path just once too often for comfort; Saffron Weaver - delicate and sensitive as well as stunningly beautiful, she is unaware of her power of men - and of Marcus's power over her; Abigail Schwartzman - insecure and gauche, she is ripe for unhealthy obsessions; Stuart Bolton - the working class son of Marcus's dead chauffeur, he is torn between admirat ion and hatred for his supremely successful, capitalist godfather. Throughout their lives, the godchildren are irrevocably linked to Marcus Brand, one of the world's most charismatic tycoons. As they grow older, their relationships with Marcus and with each other become increasingly more complicated, until each of them must confront what it is to be a godchild to Marcus Brand
Nicholas Coleridge is the UK Publisher of Conde Nast, and the author of the well-received thrillers set in the magazine world he knows so well, With Friends Like These and StreetSmart.
Harry Bosch Mysteries
"The Last Coyote" , "Trunk Music" , "Angels Flight
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A team of surveyors working in the Shara happen upon an object buried deep in the rock. The object turns out to be a flying saucer and it is older than the rock it is buried in - 140,000 years old at least. Rip, a student working with the team is keen to find out as much about the flying saucer as possible. But so are many other people, including the US Military, a team working for a billionaire American businessman and s group of Arabs. Rip foils their attempts to commandeer the craft with the help of a disillusioned female pilot called Charley. Together they steal the saucer and Charley takes them both into orbit. Rip's plan is to take the saucer to his uncle's Missouri farm - but first he has to avoid being tracked down by everyone else. .
Revenge and murder become entwined in this riveting new novel by the New York Times bestselling author. Fans of Tami Hoag and Mary Higgins Clarke will love this rollercoaster of a ride...
Political speechwriter Becca Matlock is at the top of her professional game, working on the
re-election campaign of New York's popular governor. Then she receives the first phone
call: "Stop sleeping with the governor or I'll kill him." Even though Becca isn't sleeping with
the governor the menacing calls persist. The police deny that she's being stalked, even after
the stalker murders an innocent person to prove his point. Then the governor is shot.
Becca flees for the safety of coastal Maine, choosing to hide not only from the stalker but
also from the authorities. For sanctuary she goes to Riptide, the home of her college friend,
but soon finds herself at even greater risk.
With four back-to-back bestselling suspense thrillers to her credit Catherine Coulter has
earned an ever-growing following in the U.S. thanks to her original plots, vivid characters
and satisfyingly unpredictable denouements. Now she delivers a novel which can only
enhance her reputation.
Catherine Coulter is the author of bestselling Regency romances and historical novels as well
as the popularly acclaimed suspense novels The Cove, The Male, The Target and The Edge. She
lives in Northern California with her physician husband.
The brilliant new noir crime novel from the topselling fantasy writer.
When Mick catches a bullet taking out Puerto del Sol's only real crime lord, his partner and sometime lover Ginny decides to get them both out of town. But running doesn't seem to solve their problems... The first of Donaldson's crime novels to be published under his own name is full of strong characters, twisty plots and powerful atmosphere.
Since his debut in 1977, Stephen Donaldson has dominated the world's bestseller lists and fantasy awards. Orion are also publishing his earlier crime novels under his own name.