The Last Temptation

Literature & Fiction

Mcdermid. Val.

Literary

Minotaur Books

Torment Of Others

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

HarperCollins, Publishers

When torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed bodyon a Lake District hillside, old wives’ tales come swirling to the surface.For centuries Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian, infamous Bountymutineer, staged the massacre on Pitcairn Island so he could return home.And there he told his story to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth,who turned it into a long narrative poemone kept hidden lest it exposeWordsworth to the gallows for harbouring a fugitive.
Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham, herself a native of the LakeDistrict, feels compelled to discover once and for all if the manuscript everexistedand whether it still exists today. But as she pursues each new lead,death follows hard on her heels. Suddenly Jane is at the heart of a 200-year-oldmystery that continues to put lives on the line. Against the dramatic backdropof England’s Lake District a drama of life and death plays out, its ultimateprize a bounty worth millions.

Grave Tattoo

Genre Fiction

When torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a hillside in England’s Lake District, locals are convinced it is the corpse of Fletcher Christian, infamous mutineer on the Bounty. Though history records that Christian died in a massacre on Pitcairn Island, Lakelanders have long maintained that he returned home—where his old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, risked facing the gallows by harbouring the fugitive. It was rumoured that the poet had written an epic verse recounting Christian’s version of events, only to hide it away for fear its publication would result in his arrest.For the Wordsworth scholar Jane Gresham, the missing manuscript—if indeed it ever existed—is the ultimate prize. But on her trail is someone with a more than academic interest in the 200-year-old text, someone who will kill to get their hands on a bounty worth millions.

Nobody moves around inside the messy heads of serial killers like Dr. Tony Hill. He is asked to form a national task force of trained psychological profilers, a squad capable of moving in on particularly complex cases. One of his team members is murdered and he embarks on a campaign of psychological terrorism -- a game of cat and mouse where the roles of hunter and hunted are too easily reversed. . .

The Wire in the Blood (Signed)

HARPER/COLLINS

A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey―the writers of crime novels who have turned psychological profilers into the heroes of the nineties. But this killer is like no other. His bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom surrounding the motives and mechanics of how serial killers operate. And for one woman, the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life and death.Professor Fiona Cameron is an academic psychologist who uses computer technology to help police forces track serial offenders. She used to help the Met, but vowed never to work for them again when they went against her advice and badly screwed up an investigation as a consequence. Still smarting from the experience, she's working a case in Toledo when her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin, tells her a fellow crime novelist has been murdered. It's not her case, but Fiona can't help taking an interest.Which is just as well, because before too long the killer strikes again. And again. And Fiona is caught up in a race against time, not only to save a life, but to bring herself redemption, both personal and professional.Rich in atmosphere, Killing the Shadows uses the backdrops of city and country to create an air of threatening menace, culminating in a tense confrontation between hunter and hunted, a confrontation that can have only one outcome.

Killing the Shadows

Harpercollins

A clinically efficient killer is murdering psychologists on the Continent. Psychological profiler Dr Tony Hill is drafted onto the case. DCI Carol Jordan is en route to Berlin too, on a covert police operation. Both of them have to explore a past of atrocities and a present-day full of cruelty.

The last temptation

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Crack down

Clean Break

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