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The first three crime thrillers in the Detective Sebastian Clifford series together in a single collection for the first time. This collection includes Web of Lies, Speak No Evil, and Never Too Late.

This intriguing, suspense-packed novel is the fourth Jack Taggart Mystery in the series commencing with Loose Ends, Above Ground, and Angel in the Full Moon. This time the implacable Mountie Jack Taggart goes undercover to follow the trail of a cheap Saturday-night special found at the scene of a murder. He traces the gun from the manufacturer to the person it was stolen from and through several criminals, until the trail leads him to a suspected heroin importer.

Contains books 4-6 of the bestselling, fast-paced Detective Sebastian Clifford series.

When a 75-year-old woman is killed in an apparently random car accident, it looks like a simple hit-and-run - until the car is linked to an Asian organized crime syndicate. Undercover operative Jack Taggart, who is called in to investigate, quickly identifies a top crime boss as the perpetrator, but he must still figure out how to infiltrate the man's inner circle. Taggart approaches a young Chinese woman on the fringes of the syndicate and tries to coerce her into becoming his informant.

En un mundo distópico donde Colosio es presidente y Borges premio nobel, el mandatario celebra los acuerdos de paz tras la insurrección que dividió a México en una república al norte y una dictadura militar en el sur. Pero esa tregua se tambalea cuando, en una iglesia, aparece el cuerpo de una monja asesinada, cubierto con la bandera de los Ozymandias: el grupo rebelde que dinamitó al país. El caso llega al investigador Séneca Espejel, quien descubre que, en esa misma iglesia, también fue robada la urna con los restos de su madre.

When private investigator Detective Sebastian Clifford is asked by his former society girlfriend to locate her fiancé—who’s disappeared along with some valuable pieces of art—he’s reluctant to help. He’s left the aristocratic world behind, and for good reason. But when his ex starts receiving threatening letters, Clifford is left with no choice. When he enlists the help of his partner Lucinda Bird, aka Birdie, they start digging and find themselves drawn into London’s underworld.

The course of true love never did run smooth for PI Mike Hammer. His secretary and partner, Velda, has walked out on him without explanation, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then an old cop turns up murdered - a cop who once worked with Velda on the NYPD Vice Squad. What's more, Mike's pal, Captain Pat Chambers, has discovered that Velda is in Florida, now the moll of gangster and drug runner Nolly Quinn.

A former Medal of Valor winner, Minnesota detective Alexander Rupert is now under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. So when he's asked to look into the false identity of a car-accident victim named James Putnam, a man who in fact died 15 years earlier, Rupert sees a potentially big case and an opportunity to regain his respectability. But the investigation puts him in the path of "the Beast", the nom de guerre of Drago Basta, a cunning veteran of the Balkan wars.

Legendary mystery writer Dashiell Hammett only wrote one novel about detective Sam Spade: The Maltese Falcon, the most famous private eye story ever told. But the case was never really solved—the priceless golden, bejeweled bird that men and women had been dying to possess turned out to be a fake.

Could a nightmare be used as a murder weapon? That's the provocative question confronting Gurney in the thrilling new installment in this series of international bestsellers. The former NYPD star homicide detective is called upon to solve a baffling puzzle: Four people who live in different parts of the country and who seem to have little in common, report having had the same dream - a terrifying nightmare involving a bloody dagger with a carved wolf's head on the handle.

Detective Sebastian Clifford and his partner Lucinda "Birdie" Bird are about to embark on their most challenging case yet when Lady Angelica Charing tasks them with finding the son she secretly gave away when she was only sixteen. Time's running out. This long-lost son isn't just a missing puzzle piece; he's the last hope for a life-saving kidney transplant for his dying half-brother. The stakes couldn't be higher.

Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner’s death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximilian Rose, convicted of the crimes has been locked in the state pen for years. But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cozy cabin in the woods, a murderer with Rose’s unmistakable trademarks appears to be back to his killing ways.

Es gibt ungewöhnliche Fälle – und dann gibt es Fälle, die man nie wieder vergisst … Die Geschichte, die Privatdetektivin und Ex-Polizistin Kinsey Millhone von ihrem neuesten Klienten aufgetischt wird, klingt so abenteuerlich wie abwegig: Ein mörderischer Angriff auf einer einsamen Landstraße, ein Aufprall am Fuß einer 100 Meter tiefen Schlucht, zwei Wochen Koma und das Gedächtnis voller Lücken; der angehende Arzt Bobby Callahan ist überzeugt, dass er nur mit knapper Not einen Mordanschlag überlebt hat.

Matthew Scudder and his wife, Elaine, talk of the night they met while listening to music in various places around their part of New York.

Il giornalista Matteo De Foresta pensa di aver chiuso per sempre con le indagini che lo hanno portato più volte vicino alla morte. Ma non può tirarsi indietro quando riceve la confessione di un ergastolano riguardante un caso irrisolto di quasi cinquant’anni prima: il luogo in cui trovare il cadavere di Giovanna Barberis, rapita e scomparsa nel 1978. Grazie alla collaborazione con Francesca Santi, agguerrita giornalista (genovese come lui), scoprirà che quello scheletro, nascosto così a lungo, riserva molti più misteri di quanto non si pensasse... Marvin Menini è nato a Genova nel 1971.

Hvordan kan han bevise at det var mord? Ingen fingeraftryk. Intet våben. Ingen vidner. Kan kriminalassistent Cross bevise at det var mord? Kriminalassistent George Cross stoler ikke på gætterier, og han har ikke tid til falske formodninger. Han er en betjent som arbejder ud fra de beviser der er for næsen af ham, ikke 'intuitioner' eller 'mavefornemmelser'. Han ved ikke hvad de er. Da en ung kvinde bliver fundet død, er Bristols Efterforskningsenhed hurtig til at erklære at der er tale om et selvmord da kvinden havde en fortid med stofmisbrug.

One dark Friday evening in October, Dillon Harper and Brian McDaniel went out to drink a few beers and smoke a little marijuana. Their bodies were found hours later on the railroad tracks north of town. They’d both been struck by the midnight train. The autopsies revealed copious amounts of alcohol in their system so their deaths were deemed accidental. However, the brothers of the two men believe the investigation was botched and, knowing them as they did, don’t believe they were drunk, high, or stupid enough to just lay down on the railroad tracks and go to sleep.

The phone call came on a Tuesday evening in the middle of August. Harry Starke hadn’t heard from his old school friend in almost five years, and he hadn’t thought about him in almost as long. Tom Sattler wanted to meet, and it wouldn’t wait until morning. But when Harry arrived at Sattler’s home less than an hour later, he found him lying in a pool of blood with a single gunshot wound to his head and .22 revolver lying close to his hand. Was it suicide, or was Tom Sattler murdered? If so, by whom and why?

Bob Skinner may be Chief Constable no more but he's indispensable to Scotland's police force when it comes to cracking the toughest cases. It's not just the brilliant detective work - it's the absolute determination to unearth the truth and see justice done. And Bob Skinner doesn't care whose toes he treads on as he pursues the guilty.

Kriminalhauptkommissar Werthofen konfrontiert Privatdetektiv Eric Holler mit einem Ereignis aus der Vergangenheit. Angeblich will er herausgefunden haben, wer hinter dem Anschlag steckt, bei dem Holler verletzt wurde und seine Beifahrerin ums Leben kam. Es bleibt verborgen, welche Gefühle Werthofens Information in Holler weckt, könnten es Rachegelüste sein? Der Privatschnüffler verspricht zwar dem Beamten nichts auf eigene Faust zu unternehmen, um die Attentäter zur Verantwortung zu ziehen, doch wird er sich an den Schwur halten?