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24 Karat schmooze - Marc Blake
ISBN: 0340768614
Rox Matheson arrives in London to retrieve her money from a Cockney con man. Aiding her is Reece, a minicab driver deep in hock to a South London crime family. By day, Steve and Archie operate a dodgy clamping scheme. By night, they deal in muscle and arson. And yet they have their softer side: Steve has a fondness for the ladies and Archie for the Rembrandt portrait they've recently lifted. 24 KARAT SCHMOOZE has a brace of comic hit men, a bungled kidnapping and a romantic clinch.
Set in and around the women's prison at Millbank in the late 1870s. AFFINITY is a complex and intriguing mystery. Margaret Prior is doing good works with the lady criminals and is increasingly drawn towards one of the most unlikely inmates - the spiritualist Selina Dawes.
In this classic mystery, Miss Marple - on holiday in London - stays at Bertram's Hotel. Attracted by the traditional decor, impeccable service and unmistakable atmosphere of danger lurking behind the highly polished veneer.
A parcel bomb explodes in London's East End, killing "Grecho" Samuels (notorious womaniser and chief executive of the world's top games software company) and a young technology journalist, who turns out to be six weeks pregnant. What the police and press want to know first is- whose baby was it?
Greenwich, South East London. The Met's crack murder scquad is called out by nervous CID detectives to a grim discovery. Five bodies, all young women, all ritualistically murdered and dumped on wasteland near the Dome. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery finds himself facing hostility within the force and echoes from his past. He employs every weapon modern forensic science can offer, for he knows it is only a matter of time before this sadistic killer strikes again.
Cool, sharp, streetwise Sam Jones attracts trouble like she does men. Finding herself in the midst of a twisted intrigue of blackmail and drugs - surrounded by anorexic Sloanes, raucous merchant bankers and a series of very expensive dinners - Sam is in a world not her own. As the deaths increase, she comes to realise her own life is at risk. You won't be able to sleep till you've found out whodunnit.
Canaletto and the case of Westminster Bridge - Janet Laurence
ISBN: 0330369822
It's 1746 and the famous Venetian artist Canaletto has arrived in London. Clearly people are eager to see him ö unfortunately, some of them want him dead.
When Newcastle-based journalist Stephen Larkin comes down to London to help find a missing girl, he is unprepared for the violence of life in the capital's underbelly. Caught up in a world of transsexual prostitutes, gun-toting Yardies and psychotic hitmen, Larkin must learn to fight dirty if he is to survive the experience. CANDLELAND is a sometimes brutal, sometimes poetic, journey through the dark heart of contemporary London.
Larkin drops into the Spice of Life pub, off Cambridge Circus on the cusp of Soho. There he reads the missing persons report on Karen Moir.
A psychopathic killer is at work in Chelsea, under the very noses of the police. They have three suspects. But which one is the killer and can they stop him before he kills again?
Docklands has been the scene of many terrifying crimes, but the discovery of a pile of infant skulls unearthed near police headquarters is particularly horrifying. Another major problem for Chief Commander John Coffin is the triple murder on his patch of a midwife and her two daughters. Two further murders add renewed urgency to both investigations. Coffin takes all this in his stride until the growing violence directly threatens the safety of his wife, the actress Stella Pinero.
When Terry Fielding meets the enigmatic Rosina, nothing matters but the time they spend together. Is Rosina really Terry's soul mate? By the time he realises she isn't, it's too late-
Marcus Kirkwall walks into Abby Penhaligon's legal clinic with an unusual problem. The young vicar had heard a dying man's confession to a murder committed years before. Another man had been tried and sentenced for this crime and Marcus had agreed to make amends for this miscarriage of justice.
Benjamin Weaver is an outsider in 18th century London - a Jew amongst Christians, a ruffian amongst aristocrats - hired by the London gentry to pursue debtors and thieves in the criminal underworld.
The Apothercaries' Hall is buzzing with intrigue after an extraordinary outbreak of food poisoning at the Livery Dinner claims the life of one of its members. But who would want to poison the Apothecaries?
A Shakespearean murder mystery featuring Nick Revill. It is London in 1601 and Queen Elizabeth is nearing the end of her reign. Treason and rebellion are in the air. Many believe the Earl of Essex is laying plans to seize the throne. The Chamberlain's Men at the Globe are approached by a member of Essex's inner circle, offering them money for a special performance of Shakespeare's Richard II ö the treasonous drama of a monarch deposed and murdered. Player Nick Revill finds himself forced to act as government spy and keep watch on his own company.
Amelia, a respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth doubts that it was a 19th dynasty mummy's curse that caused the death of a night watchman in the British Museum.
When American forensic photographer Claire Fleetwood - a young woman with no history - is left an old house and garden in London's East End (by a relative she's never heard of), it seems like a piece of the English dream. But after the brutal murder of her best friend, Claire learns that history can be a risky business. To find a meaning for her friend's death, Claire joins a botanical expedition that leads from Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel to India's opium gardens and the wide valleys of Tibet. Claire's story is dangerously overtaken by that of her distant relative's as the past and present of three families spiral together.
Patrick Freeman, celebrity chef with a legendary bad temper; Chris Marquand, successful doctor and father to be; Georgina Leyton, high powered lawyer; and Matthew Godwin, owner of the hottest South London bar. Four virtual strangers bound together by a dark secret about to blow up in their faces. This is a case unlike any Saz Martin has ever worked on before.
Dennis "The Menace" Pike, 34, former wild man of Tottenham, is going grey and going straight. Anyway, it was hard work being a yob! Then two old faces turn up from the past - the Bishop brothers, Chas and Noel. They were bad news then and they haven't aged well. What's worse, they need Pike's expertise on a scheme to offload one of the old gang's ill-gotten millions. Robbing the robbers.
Pike refuses to get involved but when he discovers his bank account has been mysteriously tampered with, he gets drawn back into the world from which he spent ten years trying to escape.
Set in the East End in the 1960s. Lorna Wright, a nice girl from a decent docker's family gets involved with Richie Clayton, a violent thug who makes up his mind to stop at nothing to climb his way up to the top of the East End underworld.
18th century London is a city of extremes ö squalor and superstition vie with elegance and enlightenment as the capital's architect Nicholas Dyer is commissioned to build several new churches in the aftermath of the Great Fire.
Two hundred and fifty years later in the vast, sprawling metropolis of London, the legacy of the past lives on as CID detective Nicholas Hawksmoor investigates a series of macabre murders that have occurred on the sites of certain 18th century City churches.
When a woman's crumpled body is discovered in a gas-filled flat in Primrose Hill, it looks like suicide, but D I Christy Kennedy is suspicious, especially when the dead woman turns out to be the famous American singer Esther Bluewood.
They're opening a new restaurant in Soho tonight. Susan Ball, the owner, is funding the joint with the money she ripped off her gangster husband, Frank "Ballistic" Ball. What's on the menu? Jello Salad. And what's that? A delirious mix of Tarantino violence and Almodovar camp.
Kate Ashenberry arrives in London to spend Christmas alone, disillusioned and in flight from her violent lover. The Victorian mansion block in which she has made her home is Kensington Court and nothing beats the variety of those living there. Kate finds herself a whole new family, sometimes fun, sometimes interfering but always neighbourly. Yet Kate has a sense that all is not quite right, and when the killing starts, the cosy camaraderie of Kensington Court collapses completely.
From her room, Kate can see George Gilbert Scott's Neo Gothic church of St Mary Abbots. The 250 foot spire makes it London's tallest parish church.
Eccentric Jarvis lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking the tube, compiling an obsessive history of the underground. A group of misfits drawn towards his strange house are brought together in violent and unforeseen ways by London's dark and dangerous underground system.
After ten years in the powders game, the narrator is biding his time, planning his exit. We know everything about him bar his name (he's far too savvy for that) - how he thinks, where he goes, what he has stashed. But events are soon spinning out of control. The Don, Jimmy Price, sends him on a wild goose chase to recover a runaway daughter. His gang is losing the plot, headless bodies are turning up and an international business deal is getting messy. The levels "Our Man" has to go to negotiate the layers of deals, double-crossings and rival factions to get his slice of the cake, finally seal his fate in a gripping contemporary debut.
Streetwise Fitzroy Maclean Angel is at a loose end AGAIN. His exasperated fashion designer partner Amy May gets him involved in her latest project, a big budget American movie being filmed at Pinewood. Angel discovers that the mishaps dogging the film are anything but accidental.
The chance discovery of a thirty-year-old blue movie leads back to the film's maker, Tim Purdom, and to the London of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Purdom was a pioneer of the black-and-white British porno film and a figure on the periphery of the Profumo sex scandal. He directed nine films. But who was directing him and what was their hidden agenda? And, come to think of it, where is Tim now?
When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years, for a vicious attack that he doesn't remember, Billy Norton is there to pick him up. But Norton works for loan shark and general hard man Tommy Logan, a man with his own plans for Mitchell.
A murder, a lost treasure buried in the vaults of a City bank, Greek monks, a 6th century manuscript of a homoerotic poem and bikers are combined with humour and intelligence in this updating of the classic crime novel. A compellingly eccentric, erudite tale of contemporary and historical detection.
It's London, the "Swinging Sixties". Welcome to the manor! Meet Harry Starks, club owner, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate and keen Judy Garland fan. A gangster novel set in Soho that recreates the city in the era of The Krays.
Rice is gunned down on the steps of a London registry office on his wedding day. The hunt for his killers soon leads his friend Carlton, recently arrived from Jamaica, back to the gang ties of his youth, and into a dangerous world of corruption involving his colleagues in the London police.
OLIVER TWIST is a classic Dickens tale contrasting the innocence of childhood with the criminal underworld inhabited by a cast of wicked or compromised characters. Its major characters -Fagin, Bill Sikes and the Artful Dodger - have become creatures of London myth and the great scenes have lost none of their power to terrify and move
Barrister Trish Maguire is a heroine for our times - competent, tenacious and adamant in her pursuit of justice. Totally convinced that Deb - serving a life sentence for the murder of her father - is innocent, Trish is determined to uncover the truth. Events take an unexpected turn when the MP who was supporting Deb's case is murdered.
When Nick Sharman takes on a job for a prosperous businessman looking for his runaway daughter Meena, he should perhaps have known better. He finds himself in a race against time to save the girl from the kind of trouble that gives families a bad name. Trying to do the right thing, Nick swaps sides and ends up starring in his own version of a Straw Dogs shoot out.
Spring 1941. Britain is standing alone, Russia on the brink of entering the War and America struggling to stay neutral. In Germany, after 10 years spying for the Americans, Wolfgang Stahl disappears during a Berlin air raid. The Germans think he's dead. The British know he's not. MI5 convince US Intelligence that Stahl will head for London. Captain Cal Cormack, a shy American aristocrat, is teamed with Chief Inspector Stilton of Stepney and between them they scour London. But things start to go terribly wrong and, ditched by MI5 and disowned by his embassy, Cal is introduced to his one last hope - Sergeant Troy of Scotland Yard.
King Edward is deeply interested in the murder of Ralph Crepyn by Lawrence Duket. He fears it might be linked to the rebels and their powerful underground society, the Pentangle. Duket has fled to the church of St Mary le Bow for sanctuary. Hugh Corbett, a clerk from the Court of King's Bench, is asked to conduct an investigation and is swiftly drawn into the dark and dangerous underworld of medieval London.
Sherlock Holmes's greatest cases - Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 0752847651
This volume combines the twelve short stories that make up THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (including "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Man with the Twisted Lip") with the most popular novel, THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. A great introduction to the world's best-loved detective.
His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate. DI Tom Thorne discovers the horrifying truth. It was the death of the first three victims that was his mistake. This killer is getting his kicks from toying with Thorne as much as pursuing his crimes, deliberately inducing strokes by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck.
Chris Small has been lying low for 7 years, keeping his nose clean after a previous entanglement with the police. Then one day he meets Edie, a waitress with a talent for blackjack. Chris agrees to become her playing partner and together they hatch a plan to outwit London's casinos. But a shadow from the past is after him.
Having coffee with a famous footballer would be the highlight of the year for many people. But not for Private Eye Billy Rucker. Only hours after meeting Jack Draper - "Super Jack" to his adoring fans - Billy is standing over the naked and brutalized body of a girl called Alison, thought to be Jack Draper's mistress. All the evidence points to Super Jack being a cold-blooded killer.
As the footballer goes on the run - his career in tatters - his wife Louise hires Billy to hunt down the truth, however devastating it may be.
London's burning and this time it's arson. Steve Jay is a fireman. Crippling debts and the return of his unfaithful partner have got between him and the job he loves. A horrific fire in an East London fashion store tests him and his watch to the limit.
Set in Walthamstow, a fast, funny trawl through the territory of London's new outlaw underclass. Nicky Burnett is a small-time East London crook, who progresses from stealing cars and scrapping to murder, when his friend Vinnie is viciously killed by drug dealers. The codes and customs of the grim, criminal, council-estate world are rendered impressionistically through Nicky's eyes, and there is a parallel narrative detailing his progress to and through prison.
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