The Assize of the Dying

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

EDITH PARGETER

Mystery

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The Judas Sheep

Pawson, Stuart

Twelve-year-old Tammy Franklin has learned too much about death, too quickly. Two years ago she lost her mother to a long, lingering illness and now the body of the woman her father married in an attempt to replace his wife has been found on a railway embankment close to the Franklin farm. This time the death is murder.As Superintendent Markby, one of the first on the scene, well knows, Tammy now stands to have her father taken from her, for Hugh Franklin is suspect number one in the mind of the inspector to whom Markby has delegated the case. But, despite his need to distance himself from the murder, Markby begins to realise that the truth is destined to be far more complex than he ever envisaged ...

Beneath These Stones

GRANGER, Ann

Sal Kilkenny, single mother and private eye, has two very frightened clients on her hands.  One, divorcee Debbie Gosforth, is the victim of a deranged stalker; the other, teenager Luke Wallace, is afraid he might be a murderer.  Both are likeable, vulnerable but frustratingly unreliable - Debbie through blind fear, Luke because he simply cannot remember the night when, off his head on Ecstasy and alcohol, he is alleged to have stabbed his best friend, Ahktar Khan, to death.  But as Sal sets about finding the identity of the stalker who's making Debbie's life a living hell, the IRA bomb the Arndale Centre and a summer of terror begins...

Dead Wrong

STAINCLIFFE, CATH

Thrillers & Suspense

John Barnes: The Autobiography

Barnes,John

Biographies & Memoirs

<p>In this puzzling Victorian whodunnit master chef Auguste Didier issuspected of the murder of the steward Greeves and is forced to turn detective to prove his innocence. Greeves had not been the most popular figure below stairs, and Auguste uncovers a multitudeof motives amongst the staff, whilst finding time to concoct the most delectable dishes for the noble family upstairs. The family and guests find the murder most amusing - until one of them is killed.</p>

Murder in Pugs Parlour

MYERS, Amy

When Victoria Pryde opens her racing paper and reads that a horse called Mr Pryde is dead, she hopes that it's just a sick joke. But she has a nasty feeling that there might be more to the announcement than meets the eye. For her husband Edward has been missing for two weeks - and with good reason: he's run up massive gambling debts and his chief creditor, an unscrupulous bookie, has been leaning on him very heavily. Then comes the discovery of his burnt-out Jaguar, with the charred remains of a body in the boot, a body which the police identify as Edward's..

Declared Dead (Import)

Francome, John

Ties Of Blood

Literature & Fiction

SLOVO, Gillian

Contemporary

When a beautiful woman enters Michael Whiting’s London art gallery and asks for his help he is intrigued.  Isobel Sadler, as she introduces herself, has inherited a painting – ‘Landscape of Lies’ – completed c. 1537 and showing nine curious figures against a landscape background. To Michael the work is of ‘decorative value only’, but Isobel explains that an art historian, George Grainger, offered her £1,000 for it. She refused, but two days later she disturbed a burglar at her home trying to steal the picture. She is convinced there is a mystery attached to the landscape. Michael teams up with Isobel, and by careful detective work learn that the heirloom is in fact a ‘puzzle map’ which, properly read, could lead to a cache of priceless relics, buried at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries by a rich Somerset priory. However, Grainger has also acquired a copy of the painting, and the race is on – only Grainger will stop at nothing, even murder. A gripping novel of romance and suspense, Landscape of Lies has all the elements of a typical Hitchcock adventure.  About the author...   Peter Watson  was for many years a journalist on the staffs of  The Sunday Times ,  The Times  and  Observer . In 1982, after disguising himself as an art dealer, he exposed a gang of art smugglers who were stealing old master paintings in Italy and selling them in New York and London. The courier of the gang was a Roman Catholic priest attached to the Vatican’s mission to the United Nations. Watson’s account of the adventure, published in Britain as  Double Dealer  and in America as  The Caravaggio Conspiracy , won a Gold Dagger Award from the Crime Writer’s Association. The BBC TV film of the book was nominated for an Emmy. He lives in London where his recreations are opera, fishing and cricket.

Landscape of Lies

WATSON, PETER

As a racehorse, Moondancer had been a champion; but as a stallion he was a total failure. So when he is found dead in his box at the Drumgarrick stud one morning, his owners feel more relieved than sorry, and promptly make a massive five million pound insurance claim. But then Drumgarrick's owner disappears and his son Fergus is left facing financial ruin...and a corpse. A brilliant amateur jockey, Fergus has a vested interest in seeing the claim is met in full. But Jack Hendred, the insurance investigator, is sure that it is fraudulent, and is determined to prove it...

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