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The fourth book in the acclaimed William Dougal crime series, from the bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London. James Hanbury is a reformed character. Or he would like to be. He plans to marry into respectability: his bride Molly is both rich and of good family. But alas,...

Within lie twelve vintage tales of true crime by master essayist William Roughead. Henry James himself once urged Roughead: “Keep on with them all please, and continue to beckon me along the gallery that I can’t tread alone and where, by your leave, I link my arm fraternally in yours: the gallery...

The first book in the brilliant William Dougal crime series, from the bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London. William Dougal, a post-graduate expert in the medieval script of Caroline Minuscule, stumbles on the garroted corpse of his tutor - and finds himself embroiled...

From the author of the acclaimed The First Rule of Survival, praised by Lee Child as 'excellent and uncompromising', comes Paul Mendelson's explosive latest thriller. Apostle Lodge looks out over the ocean, an award-winning mansion built by a renowned architect. Stark and minimal, its black...

Cyril Drecker, un antiquaire de Toronto, est mort par asphyxie dans l’incendie criminel de son commerce. Accident, suicide, meurtre prémédité ? Charlie Salter, à qui le surintendant Orliff a confié l’affaire – le Bureau des homicides est toujours aussi débordé –, trouve aussitôt plusieurs...

Charlie Salter et Annie, sa femme, sont en vacances en Angleterre. À la suite d'un accident de la route sans gravité, les voilà bloqués à Tokesbury Mallett, une petite ville dont le seul intérêt est la clientèle du Boomewood, l'auberge où ils logent. Quand monsieur Dillon, le propriétaire,...

Henry Fanshawe, the last family member of Fanshawes Commodities in the City of London, leads a quiet life trading spices in a large dealing room. His day consists of ignoring requests to tidy his desk, making money and spending it on his three great loves: French landscape paintings, fine wine, and...

In Glasgow, two very different worlds are on a collision course. Alex McBain is a crime lord who controls drugs, moneylending and prostitution in most of the north of the city. He has been pursued for years by local cop Erik Allensen, who suspects that McBain has millions of dirty money in...

This is a book about a young boy growing up in a rough neighbourhood with crime on the rise with no one to point him in the right direction what live choices will he take to make or brake his future will crime be all his future has in it or will he change what happens for the better and do something with him self

Collection XIX - "Après avoir dîné en tête-à-tête, le 22 mars 18..., dans une villa de la rue Sainte-Claire, à Passy, près du chalet illustré par Jules Janin et le poète Ponsard, la comtesse Berthe de Viviane et la marquise d’Ennesé prirent leurs dispositions pour passer la soirée...

When a wealthy businessman goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Detective Sergeant Tom Lancaster is asked to help investigate his disappearance as a favour to a Senior Officer. He soon finds himself engulfed in a maelstrom of deception, power and murder, forced to face serious professional...

BnF collection ebooks - "C'est une histoire d'hier. Le boudoir était tendu de soie bouton d'or, parce qu'elle était brune, cette merveilleuse Julia d'Orcival qui tenait si bien son rang à la tête du grand état-major de la galanterie Parisienne. Un feu clair brûlait dans la cheminée, garnie...

Her head throbbed as she stumbles up the stairs. Music vibrating and the sound of partygoers fill her head as she walks into one of the dark, empty rooms. As she sits on the bed, she hears the unmistakable sound of the door locking behind her. She is not alone. The body of college student Chrissie...

The fourth in a series of crime novels featuring Gina Gray and DCI David Scott, Weep A While Longer sets cosy Middle England against a dark crime. Picking up her granddaughter from nursery one summer afternoon, Gina Gray notices a mother and child with a dog. A few hours later she sees their faces...