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21) The reckoning
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
To the public, he's a hero: a brutal killer who targets sex offenders. Two men are dead already - tortured to death. Even the police don't regard the cases as a priority. Most feel that two dead pedophiles is a step in the right direction. But to DC Maeve Kerrigan, no one should be allowed to take the law into their own hands. Assigned to the case with the new DI, Josh Derwent, Maeve is determined to prove she has what it takes to make it as a female...
22) The burning men
Author
Series
DI Alex Finn volume 1
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When a high-rise development in South London catches fire mid-construction, a close-knit team of fire fighters tackle the blaze. But during the course of the night they find a man unconscious, suffering from smoke inhalation. He's carrying several cases full of money. The fire crew make a fateful decision and leave the man to die, stealing his cases and splitting the cash between them. In the months that follow they appear to have got away with it,...
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Series
Museum mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"London 1895. Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton have been hired by the Natural History Museum to find out who deliberately smashed the fossilised skeleton of a small dinosaur. At first Daniel is reluctant to take the case, pointing out that they deal in murders, not vandalism. But then one of the attendants in the dinosaur room is murdered, his body found tied to a dinosaur skeleton and a note pinned to him saying 'The price of betrayal'. As Daniel...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A past kiss with adorably bookish Miss Olivia Norley should be barely a memory for Marlowe Drake, the Duke of Thornstock. After all, there are countless debutantes for a handsome rakehell to charm beyond a young lady whose singular passion is chemistry--of the laboratory type. But Thorn has not forgotten--or forgiven--the shocking blackmail scheme sparked by that single kiss, or the damage caused to both their names. Now Thorn's half-brother, Grey,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
London, 1815. Lily Adler is settling into her new London life when her semi-estranged father arrives unexpectedly, intending to stay with her while he recovers from an illness. Lily is drawn into spending time with Lady Wyatt, the new wife of an old family friend. One morning Lily arrives to find Lady Wyatt's husband, Sir Charles, has died. All signs indicate that he tripped and struck his head late at night, but Bow Street constable Simon Page suspects...
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a prominent politician is crushed by a fruit van making a delivery, the singular team of Arthur Bryant and John May overcome insurmountable odds to reunite the PCU and solve the case in the brainy new mystery from acclaimed author Christopher Fowler. On a spring morning in London's Strand, the Speaker of the House of Commons is accidentally killed by a van unloading oranges and lemons for the annual St. Clement Danes festival. It's an absurd...