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Maurice Questing was left to die in a pool of boiling mud. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies he'd thwarted - if he wasn't a spy himself.

A winter weekend ends in snowbound disaster in a novel which remains a favourite among Marsh readers. It began as an entertainment: eight people, many of them enemies, gathered for a winter weekend by a host with a love for theatre. They would be the characters in a drama that he would devise. It ended in snowbound disaster. Everyone had an alibi - and most had motives as well. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn, when he finally arrived, knew it all hung on Thomas, the dancing footman....

Nach Jannas und Markus' letztem Abenteuer ist ein wenig Ruhe im Institut eingekehrt. Die beiden sind noch dabei, sich in ihrem neuen gemeinsamen Büro einzurichten und sich daran zu gewöhnen, täglich miteinander zu arbeiten. Da kommt ein neuer Auftrag gerade recht, um sie als Team auf die Probe zu stellen: Während einer internationalen Konferenz zum Thema Kriegs- und Krisenmanagement in Köln sollen sie den Personenschutz für Nadine Hochstaden übernehmen.

Kaum sind der Geheimagent Markus Neumann und seine zivile Partnerin Janna Berg von ihrem letzten Einsatz zurück, als sie erfahren, dass die gefährliche Auftragsmörderin Susanne Krause aus dem Gefängnis geflohen ist. Da Janna Monate zuvor nur mit knapper Not einem hinterhältigen Anschlag Krauses entkommen konnte, fürchtet sie nun erneut um ihr Leben und das ihrer Familie.

Life is good for Kit Marshall. She's a staffer in DC for a popular senator, and she lives with an adoring beagle and a brainy boyfriend with a trust fund. Then, one morning, Kit arrives at the office early and finds her boss, Senator Langsford, impaled by a stainless steel replica of an Army attack helicopter. Panicked, she pulls the weapon out of his chest and instantly becomes the prime suspect in his murder.

Blanche White is working as a temporary cook and housekeeper for a right-wing Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, Alistair Brindle, when someone tries to blackmail him. It's an ugly mess that Brindle's political team is eager to sweep under the carpet and that Blanche can't resist cleaning up herself...especially after a young black man is killed who knew too much about Brindle's dirty laundry. Her investigation raises dark secrets involving sex, environmental contamination, and political corruption, difficult stains that someone is trying to remove with murder.