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Austin Grant series volume 1
Language
English
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Police Commander Austin Grant investigates a series of murders in which the killer carves a number on his victim's foreheads which points to a transgression of one of the Ten Commandments and, in an effort to identify the murderer, Grant enlists the help of a NYPD detective.
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English
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It is 1896, and Thomas Pitt is in charge of Special Branch. He is beginning to understand the power he now commands, but is still ill at ease at the glittering events he and his wife Charlotte must attend.During a lavish party at the Spanish Embassy, a policeman breaks into Pitt's conversation with investor Rawdon Quixwood to break the terrible news that Quixwood's wife, Catherine, has been viciously assaulted at their home, and left for dead. Worse...
44) Pentecost Alley
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Series
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 16
Language
English
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"The murder of a prostitute named Ada McKinley in a bedroom on decrepit Pentecost Alley should occasion no stir in Victoria's great metropolis, but under the victim's body the police find a Hellfire Club badge inscribed 'Finlay Fitzjames'--a name that instantly draws Superintendent Thomas Pitt into the case. Finlay's father--immensely wealth, powerful, and dangerous--refuses to consider the possibility that his son has been in Ada McKinley's bed....
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
46) Die of shame
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Every Monday evening, six people gather in a smart North London house to talk about addiction. There they share their deepest secrets: stories of lies, regret, and above all, shame. Then one of them is killed - and it's clear one of the circle was responsible. Detective Inspector Nicola Tanner quickly finds her investigation hampered by the strict confidentiality that binds these people and their therapist together. So what could be shameful enough...
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May are back on the case in this whip-smart and wildly twisting mystery, in which a killer in London's parks is proving to be a most elusive quarry. Helen Forester's day starts like any other: Around seven in the morning, she takes her West Highland terrier for a walk in her street's private garden. But by 7:20 she is dead, strangled yet peacefully laid out on the path, her dog nowhere to be found. The only other...
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
he odd couple of detection - the brilliant but cranky detectives of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit - return in a tense, atmospheric new thriller that keeps you guessing until the final page. This time Bryant and May are up against a series of bizarre murders that defy human understanding - and a killer no human hand may be able to stop. A mysterious stranger in outlandish Edwardian garb defaces a painting in the National Gallery. Then a guest at the...
50) Nothing ventured
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Series
William Warwick novels volume 1
Language
English
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"Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer's #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . . William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a lawyer like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister...
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English
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As commander of the powerful Special Branch, Thomas Pitt has the job of keeping Britain safe from spies and traitors. So there's no obvious reason why he is suddenly ordered to investigate two minor incidents: the blood, hair, and shards of glass discovered outside the home of naval weapons expert Dudley Kynaston, and the simultaneous disappearance of Mrs. Kynaston's beautiful lady's maid. But weeks later, when the mutilated body of an unidentified...
Author
Series
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 21
Language
English
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Based on real events, this is the story of the political manipulations that cause Thomas Pitt to be assigned to the clandestine Special Branch in the dangerous East End of London.
53) Headlong
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When one of London's best-known literary agents is found dead in strange circumstances, having fallen headlong from his office window, DCI Slider is under pressure from the Borough Commander to confirm a case of accidental death. But when the evidence points to murder, Slider and his team find themselves uncovering some decidedly scandalous secrets in the suave and successful Ed Wiseman's past. An embittered ex-wife. A discarded mistress. A frustrated...
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Series
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 22
Language
English
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As a pivotal election approaches, Thomas Pitt finds himself investigating the murder of a clairvoyant as part of his job of protecting the Liberal candidate against the schemes of the Tory candidate and the secret society he leads known as the Inner Circle.
55) Seven dials
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Series
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 23
Language
English
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Thomas Pitt of Her Majesty's Special Branch investigates the murder of a diplomat whose body turns up at a mansion inhabited by the notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari and her rumored lover, Senior Cabinet Minister Saville Ryerson.
56) No place to die
Author
Series
Mike Lockyer novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
57) Highgate rise
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Series
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English
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Clemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor, has died in a tragic fire in the peaceful suburb of Highgate. But the blaze was set by an arsonist, and it is unclear whether she or Dr. Shaw was the intended victim-or did the doctor himself set the blaze in order to inherit his wife's large fortune? Baffled by the scarcity of clues in this terrible crime, Inspector Thomas Pitt turns to the people who had been closest to the couple-Clemency's stuffy...
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Series
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English
Description
In the ruins of Yorkshire's Fountains Abbey lies the body of a man wrapped in a cloak, the face covered by a gas mask. Next to him is a book on alchemy, which belongs to the schoolmaster, a conscientious objector in the Great War. Who is this man, and is the investigation into his death being manipulated by a thirst for revenge?
Meanwhile, the British War Office is searching for a missing man of their own, someone whose war work was so secret
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"London's most brilliant but unconventional detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, must plumb the depths of a particularly murky mystery. The Peculiar Crimes Unit faces its most baffling case yet--and if Bryant and May can't rise to the challenge, the entire unit may go under. Near the Tower of London, along the River Thames, the body of a woman has been discovered chained to a stone post and left to drown. Curiously, only one set of footprints leads...
60) No mark upon her
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Series
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English
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This mystery novel embroils Kincaid and James in the case of the puzzling drowning of a rower, a Met detective, on the Thames. It is twisting tale of psychological suspense, a story rich in deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals.
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