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On her first visit for fifty years to Cork's main department store, the Queen's Old Castle, the Reverend Mother is struck by how little has changed. But when the store's owner staggers from his office and topples over the railings to his death, Mother Aquinas is once again drawn into a baffling murder investigation.
When three bodies are unearthed in the front yard of a cottage, DCI Henry Johnstone is summoned. Two victims are identified, but who is the third?
Johnstone's use of modern methods of detection soon ruffles feathers. Frustrated by the unhelpful local police, he fears the investigation is heading nowhere. Then there's another murder
An Ellie Quicke Mystery
Ellie Quicke is still inclined to act hastily, despite husband Thomas steadying influence. When she took in a young rape victim, she knew the commitment might become a burden, but she didnt expect it to become an invitation to further violence. Mias best friend Ursula is eager to help, but has a wedding to plan - as does Ellies daughter Diana. Both want Ellie to stage their receptions. Can Ellie keep Mia safe? Can she pull off two weddings, when one would be havoc enough? And can she wear the same outfit to both? . . .
Ellie Quicke is shocked when her daughter, Diana, turns up at her door with a suitcase in tow. Bunny Brewster has died of an overdose, and Diana's husband, Evan, is convinced that she is responsible for his friend's death. Diana and other wives of Evan's friends recently joked about killing their husbands. But is Diana guilty of murder?
Ellie Quicke finds herself the target of a local cult-like church, but are their motives truly Christian or is there darkness at their heart?
Ellie is desperate to find someone to look after her elderly housekeeper, Rose. But employing a carer proves to be a mixed blessing, for Claire is heavily involved with a local church with a charismatic pastor, who - seemingly coincidentally - is looking to Ellie's charitable trust for financial help. Can Ellie trust Claire and Pastor Ambrose?
A historical mystery series from award-winning science fiction writer, Eric Brown.
London, 1955. When crime writer Donald Langham's literary agent asks for his help in sorting out 'a delicate matter', little does Langham realize what he's getting himself into. For a nasty case of blackmail leads inexorably to murder as London's literary establishment is rocked by a series of increasingly bizarre deaths. With three members of the London Crime Writers' Association coming to sudden and violent ends, what at first appeared to be a series of suicides looks suspiciously like murder - and there seems to be something horribly familiar about the various methods of despatch. With the help of his literary agent's assistant, the delectable Maria Dupre, Langham finds himself drawing on the skills of his fictional detective hero as he hunts a ruthless and fiendishly clever killer - a killer with old scores to settle.
An Inspector Alvarez mystery
It seems impossible: to find a man who stole half a million pounds from among thousands of tourists, with only a visual description. And not only does Alvarez have to do it, he also has a female dragon to contend with, Raquel Rexach, Dolores' old and much disliked schoolmate, whose jewellery has been reported stolen. Alvarez likes the quiet life, but even he cannot foresee where this investigation will lead . . .
No good deed goes unpunished, as Ellie Quicke finds out in this engaging and entertaining mystery.
Ellie Quicke's latest protégé, the selfish and thoughtless Angelica, is by no means the easiest of house guests. But when a dead body is found in the garden after a riotous party she's organized, Angelica plunges Ellie's household into a situation too hot for any of them to handle.
She made one stupid mistake ... and paid a devastating price: a gripping psychological thriller.
When PC Helen Anderson takes the files for a forthcoming court case to study over the weekend, she commits a cardinal error. For those files are not supposed to leave the police station - and the moment they fall into the wrong hands, Helen's ordinary, uneventful life begins to spiral out of control. For one small lie will lead to another, then another - culminating in a rendezvous in an ordinary suburban house in an ordinary Bristol street...the scene of a gruesome and extraordinary murder.
June, 1584. The death of Sir Walter Pendennis prompts Rosamond Jaffrey to go Cornwall, where her half-brother and mother are. There she discovers that Sir Walter was murdered and works with Sir Francis Walsingham to unmask the killer. Rosamond's investigations lead her into a maelstrom of smuggling, piracy - and rumours of treason.