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Ex-cop Bierce has been in prison for over twenty years following his conviction for the murders of his wife and son. He has no memory of the tragedy and has never been able to say with certainty that he didn't do it. Unexpectedly he is released moments before his execution and teams up with the beautiful, feisty Alice Loong. Pursued by mysterious enemies who are convinced that Bierce knows more than he is telling about his wife's death, the pair embark...
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Anneliese Vos, sixteen-year-old daughter of Amsterdam detective Pieter Vos disappeared three years ago. Her distraught father's desperate search reveals nothing and results in his departure from the police force. One day, while Vos is wasting time at the Rijksmuseum staring at a doll's house that seems to be connected in some way to the case, Laura Bakker, trainee detective from the provinces, visits him. She's come to tell him that Katja Prins, daughter...
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Roy Grace novels volume 12
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Jodie Danforth had two dreams in life - to be beautiful and rich. She's achieved the first, with a little help from a plastic surgeon, and now she's working hard on the second. Her philosophy about money is simple. You can either earn it or marry it. Marrying is easy, it's getting rid of the husband afterwards that's harder, that takes real skill. But practice makes perfect.
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Roy Grace novels volume 9
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Macmillan
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A tie-up burglary at a secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly lady owner dying and millions stolen in valuables. But, her family tells Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, there is just one item that they are determined to get back above all else. Soon, he finds himself in a race against the clock on a murderous trail across two continents, chasing a killer driven by the power of one man's greed and another man's fury.
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Back in Rome after their dramatic adventures in Venice, Costa, Peroni and Leo Flacone are rebuilding their lives. But they team up once again when, in a museum exhibit displaying supposed evidence of communication from souls in Purgatory, the are faced with the sudden appearance of a shirt with fresh bloodstains belonging to a missing boy.-- Provided by publisher.
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Roy Grace novels volume 16
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Macmillan
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A Brighton gangster is on trial for conspiracy to murder. As the jury file into Lewes Crown Court, twelve anonymous people selected randomly from fifty, there is one person sitting in the public gallery observing them with keen interest, and secretly filming them. When Roy Grace is called in to investigate a murder that has links to the accused and the trial, and the suspicion that an attempt has been made to intimidate jurors, he finds the reach...
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Roy Grace novels volume 19
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Macmillan
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In the dead of night, a farmer hears a suspicious noise. It's everyone's worst nightmare: a break-in. When he confronts the intruders, he has no idea that just minutes later he will be left lying in a pool of blood. But the chilling truth lies not in the act itself, but what the perpetrators were willing to kill for. At the scene of the crime, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace senses something amiss. This is no mere botched robbery; it's the tip...
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North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder--Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's broken vases. Dr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved, though,...
10) Picture you dead
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Roy Grace novels volume 18
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Macmillan
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"Harry and Freya, an ordinary couple, dreamed for years of finding something priceless buried amongst the tat in a car boot sale. It was a dream they knew in their hearts would never come true - until the day it did... They buy the drab portrait for a few pounds, for its beautiful frame, planning to cut the painting out. Then studying it back at home there seems to be another picture beneath, of a stunning landscape. Could it be a long-lost masterpiece...
11) Wild fire
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Shetland mysteries volume 8
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Shetland: Welcoming. Wild. Remote. Drawn in by the reputation of the islands, an English family move to the area, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny's body is found hanging in the barn of their home, rumours of her affair with the husband begin to spread like wild fire. With suspicion raining down on the family, DI Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate, knowing that it will mean the return to the islands of his...
12) Cold earth
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Shetland mysteries volume 7
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In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide. Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and peaty water smash through a croft house in its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. In his mind, she shares his Mediterranean ancestry and soon he becomes obsessed with tracing her identity. Then it emerges that she was already dead before...
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Roy Grace novels volume 15
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A man waits at a London airport for Ingrid Ostermann, the love of his life, to arrive. Across the Atlantic, a retired NYPD cop waits in a bar in Florida's Key West for his first date with the lady who is, without question, his soulmate. The two men are about to discover they've been scammed out of almost every penny they have in the world - and that neither women exist. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace realizes he is looking at the tip of an iceberg....
15) Left you dead
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Roy Grace novels volume 17
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Macmillan
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"Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the case of a missing woman in Brighton. Is this Roy Grace's most challenging case yet? A mystery that is leaving him totally confounded for the first time in his career. Most Sundays, Niall and Eden Paternoster like to go for a drive and visit country houses. She likes to look at them, he likes to dream that one day . . . However, most weeks they also end up bickering about something or other. This...
16) The seagull
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Vera Stanhope novels volume 8
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Macmillan
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A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and now inmate, John Brace. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper--and Vera played a part in his downfall. Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer, if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall...
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