New arrival of ENGLISH BOOKS
We proudly present a small choice of our wide of range of Crime & Mystery Fiction Literature:
Jeffery DEAVER: The Cold Moon. A Lincoln Rhyme Novel. € 9,20
On a frigid December night, an eerie pattern emerges from two equally brutal murder scenes, where a killer's calling card is a moon-faced clock that seemingly ticked away the victims' last moments. From his wheelchair, criminologist Lincoln Rhyme tracks the Watchmaker, a time-obsessed genius. With every passing second, the Watchmaker is moving with razor-sharp precision to his next act of perfectly orchestrated violence - and Rhyme can't afford to have his trusted partner, Amelia Sachs, distracted by a daunting homicide case of her own. Up against a brilliant madman, Rhyme and Sachs are locked in a blood-chilling race with their deadliest enemy: time itself...
Jacqueline WINSPEAR: Pardonable Lies. € 9,20
London, 1930. Maisie Dobbs, the renowned psychologist and investigator, receives a most unusual request. She must prove that Sir Cedric Lawton's son Ralph is really dead.
This is a case that will challenge Maisie in unexpected ways, for Ralph Lawton was an aviator shot down by enemy fire in 1917. To get to the bottom of the mystery, Maisie mus travel to the former battlefields of northern France, where she served a s a nurse in the Great War and where ghosts of her past still linger. As her investigations moves closer to the truth, Maisie soon uncovers the secrets and lies that some people would prefer remain buried.
Dorothy L.SAYERS: Gaudy Night. A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery. € 10,20
Harriet Vane has never dared to return to her old Oxford college. Now, despite her scandalous life, she has been summoned back...
At first she thinks her worst fears have been fulfilled, as she encounters obscene graffiti, poison pen letters and a disgusting effigy when she arrives at sedate Shrewsbury College for the Gaudy celebrations.
but soon, Harriet realises that she is not the only target of this murderous malice - and asks Lord Peter Wimsey to help.
Mark GATISS: The Vesuvius Club. € 13,30
Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde: portrait painter, wit, dandy and rake - the guest all hostesses must have. And most do.
But few of his connections or conquests know that Lucifer Box is also His Majesty's most daring secret agent, at home in both London's Imperial grandeur and the underworld of crazed vice that seethes beneath.
And so of course when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to.
Lucifer Box ruthlessly deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (somebody has to live there), to the seediest stews in Naples, in search of the mighty secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its claw-like hands - the Vesuvius Club.
Raymond CHANDLER: The Long Good-bye. A Philip Marlowe Mystery. € 11,30
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigators. He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?
John HARVEY: Gone to Ground. € 20,50
Will's first thought when he saw the man's face: it was like a glove that had been pulled inside out.
Stephen Bryan, a gay academic, is found violently murdered in his bathroom. Police detectives Will Grayson and Helen Walker believe, at first, that his death is the result of an ill-judged sexual encounter: rough trade gone wrong.
But as they look further into Bryan's life, their inital assumption change. What, if anything, did his ex-lover have to do with his death? Is Bryan another victim of a spate of homophpbic attacks which are plaguing East Midlands? Bryan's laptop and his notes have gone missing - could the murder be connected to a biography he was writing on the life and mysterious death of fifties screen legend, Stella Leonard
Bryan's sister, Lesley, sees a connection between the biography and her brother's death. Stella Leonard's family is rich and influential and want whatever Bryan dug up to remain buried. But is whatever they're hiding reason enough to commit murder?
Jeffery DEAVER: The Cold Moon. A Lincoln Rhyme Novel. € 9,20
On a frigid December night, an eerie pattern emerges from two equally brutal murder scenes, where a killer's calling card is a moon-faced clock that seemingly ticked away the victims' last moments. From his wheelchair, criminologist Lincoln Rhyme tracks the Watchmaker, a time-obsessed genius. With every passing second, the Watchmaker is moving with razor-sharp precision to his next act of perfectly orchestrated violence - and Rhyme can't afford to have his trusted partner, Amelia Sachs, distracted by a daunting homicide case of her own. Up against a brilliant madman, Rhyme and Sachs are locked in a blood-chilling race with their deadliest enemy: time itself...
Jacqueline WINSPEAR: Pardonable Lies. € 9,20
London, 1930. Maisie Dobbs, the renowned psychologist and investigator, receives a most unusual request. She must prove that Sir Cedric Lawton's son Ralph is really dead.
This is a case that will challenge Maisie in unexpected ways, for Ralph Lawton was an aviator shot down by enemy fire in 1917. To get to the bottom of the mystery, Maisie mus travel to the former battlefields of northern France, where she served a s a nurse in the Great War and where ghosts of her past still linger. As her investigations moves closer to the truth, Maisie soon uncovers the secrets and lies that some people would prefer remain buried.
Dorothy L.SAYERS: Gaudy Night. A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery. € 10,20
Harriet Vane has never dared to return to her old Oxford college. Now, despite her scandalous life, she has been summoned back...
At first she thinks her worst fears have been fulfilled, as she encounters obscene graffiti, poison pen letters and a disgusting effigy when she arrives at sedate Shrewsbury College for the Gaudy celebrations.
but soon, Harriet realises that she is not the only target of this murderous malice - and asks Lord Peter Wimsey to help.
Mark GATISS: The Vesuvius Club. € 13,30
Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde: portrait painter, wit, dandy and rake - the guest all hostesses must have. And most do.
But few of his connections or conquests know that Lucifer Box is also His Majesty's most daring secret agent, at home in both London's Imperial grandeur and the underworld of crazed vice that seethes beneath.
And so of course when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to.
Lucifer Box ruthlessly deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (somebody has to live there), to the seediest stews in Naples, in search of the mighty secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its claw-like hands - the Vesuvius Club.
Raymond CHANDLER: The Long Good-bye. A Philip Marlowe Mystery. € 11,30
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigators. He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?
John HARVEY: Gone to Ground. € 20,50
Will's first thought when he saw the man's face: it was like a glove that had been pulled inside out.
Stephen Bryan, a gay academic, is found violently murdered in his bathroom. Police detectives Will Grayson and Helen Walker believe, at first, that his death is the result of an ill-judged sexual encounter: rough trade gone wrong.
But as they look further into Bryan's life, their inital assumption change. What, if anything, did his ex-lover have to do with his death? Is Bryan another victim of a spate of homophpbic attacks which are plaguing East Midlands? Bryan's laptop and his notes have gone missing - could the murder be connected to a biography he was writing on the life and mysterious death of fifties screen legend, Stella Leonard
Bryan's sister, Lesley, sees a connection between the biography and her brother's death. Stella Leonard's family is rich and influential and want whatever Bryan dug up to remain buried. But is whatever they're hiding reason enough to commit murder?
edogawa - 15. Feb, 15:15
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