Bloodless Shadow

Believing that she has finally escaped her traumatic youth, private detective Samantha Falconer comes face to face with the secrets of the past when her brother summons her home to Oxford to investigate the disappearance of a young woman and she receives a letter from her father, a man who has been dead for twenty-eight years. A first novel. Original.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Blake,Victoria

Mystery

Berkley Trade

Increasingly paranoid over her feeling that she is being watched wherever she goes, private detective Sam Falconer undertakes an investigation into the disappearance of a young rower from Oxford University, uncovering a web of professional jealousy, resentment, vicious competition, and murder. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Cutting Blades

Sam Falconer is pretty good at taking care of herself. Four times world judo champion, she now runs the Gentle Way investigation agency in London. But when her brother Mark asks her to return to Oxford to investigate the disappearance of a young woman, Sam finds herself confronting a past she hoped she'd left behind. Oxford is full of ghosts and Sam has never quite recovered from finding the body of a murdered 4-year-old girl there. To this day, she has no idea what led her to the scene and she dreads being back in the city. As Sam begins to investigate the woman's disappearance, she finds the trail leads back to the university. But the closed academic world is unwilling to share its secrets with a stranger. Soon it becomes clear that someone is determined to frighten her off the case, and then, out of the blue, Sam receives a letter from a man who's been dead for twenty-eight years - her father...Intricately woven and ingeniously plotted, Victoria Blake's debut novel marks her as an exciting new voice in British crime-writing.

Orion an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd

Sam Falconer is pretty good at taking care of herself. Four times world judo champion, she now runs the Gentle Way investigation agency in London. But when her brother Mark asks her to return to Oxford to investigate the disappearance of a young woman, Sam finds herself confronting a past she hoped she'd left behind. Oxford is full of ghosts and Sam has never quite recovered from finding the body of a murdered 4-year-old girl there. To this day, she has no idea what led her to the scene and she dreads being back in the city. As Sam looks into the woman's disappearance, she finds the trail leads back to the university. But the closed academic world is unwilling to share its secrets with a stranger. Soon it becomes clear that someone is determined to frighten her off the case, and then, out of the blue, Sam receives a letter from a man who's been dead for twenty-eight years - her father...

orion#

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. 2004 Orion Books trade paperback, Victoria Blake (Skin And Blister). Sam Falconer is pretty good at taking care of herself. Four times world judo champion, she now runs the Gentle Way investigation agency in London. But when her brother Mark asks her to return to Oxford to investigate the disappearance of a young woman, Sam finds herself confronting a past she hoped she'd left behind. Oxford is full of ghosts and Sam has never quite recovered from finding the body of a murdered 4-year-old girl there. To this day, she has no idea what led her to the scene and she dreads being back in the city. As Sam begins to investigate the woman's disappearance, she finds the trail leads back to the university. - Amazon

Orion Pub Co

When PI Sam Falconer is asked to investigate the disappearance of a talented young rower from Oxford University, she hopes it will take her mind off her creeping feeling of being watched. Harry was a stunning athlete, but just as trials for the Boat Race were beginning he literally vanished into the snow. Sam discovers that beneath the apparent camaraderie of the world of rowing, there's a simmering current of jealousy and resentment. Then a body surfaces in the water - and it's not Harry's.

Berkley_Pub Group

Before email,before the world wide web,before hackers,Before sexting,before always-on GPS,before titanium implants,before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri,before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon,there was cyberpunk.And science fiction was never the same.Cyberpunk writers—serious, smart, and courageous in the face of change—exposed the naiveté of a society rushing headlong into technological unknowns. Technology could not save us, they argued, and it might in fact ruin us.Now, thirty years after The Movement party-crashed the scene, the cyberpunk reality has largely come to be.The future they imagined is here.With an introduction by Victoria Blake and stories by: William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Jonathan Lethem, Kim Stanley Robinson, David Marusek, Benjamin Parzybok, Cat Rambo, Paul Tremblay, Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Mark Teppo, Greg Bear, Lewis Shiner, Rudy Rucker, James Patrick Kelly, John Shirley, Daniel H. Wilson, Paul Di Filippo, and Cory Doctorow.Welcome to your cyberpunk world.

Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution, and Evolution

Literature & Fiction

LETHEM, Jonathan

TREMBLAY, Paul

Sterling, Bruce

Parzybok, Benjamin

Shiner, Lewis

Gibson,William

Marusek, David

ROBINSON, Kim Stanley

United States

Underland Press

The Return of the Courtesan

Thrillers & Suspense

Black and White Publishing

Sam Falconer is pretty good at taking care of herself. Four times world judo champion, she now runs the Gentle Way investigation agency in London. But when her brother Mark asks her to return to Oxford to investigate a disappearance of a woman that's shaken the city's university, Sam finds herself confronting a past she hoped she'd left behind. Oxford is full of ghosts and Sam has never quite recovered from finding the body of a murdered 4-year-old girl there. She has no idea what led her to the spot and would do anything rather than return to the scene. As Sam begins to investigate the woman's disappearance, she becomes increasingly uneasy. Someone is determined to frighten her off the case and then she receives a letter from a man who's been dead for twenty years - her father...

Magna Story Sound

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Blake,Victoria. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Blake,Victoria

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Blake,Victoria. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Bloodless Shadow

Cutting Blades

Bloodless Shadow

Bloodless Shadow

Bloodless Shadow

Cutting Blades

Cutting Blades

Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution, and Evolution

The Return of the Courtesan

Bloodless Shadow