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Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Octogenarian detectives Arthur Bryant and John May investigate the baffling case of a girl strangled but peacefully laid out in a private, locked garden, the first in a series of similar murders in London's parks.
Author
Series
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine/Ballantine Pub
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In 1890s London, Superintendent Pitt of Bow Street police station investigates the death of a woman working as a researcher in a vicarage. An autopsy shows she was pregnant. There are three suspects, one of them the vicar, a married man.
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Bill Slider is called in to investigate a mutilated corpse abandoned in a children's playground, and he follows a trail that leads to a ruthless crime baron who will do anything to keep his identity secret.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After two women turn up dead in different boats floating down the Thames in 1878 London, Inspector Michael Corravan tries to find connections between the two and determine the killer's identity, in the first novel of a new series.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
While investigating a gas explosion in London, Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen and young policewoman Helen Tozer find psychedelic paintings by Bridget Riley and Peter Blake, along with the body of a playboy art collector.
Author
Series
Forgotten gods trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Cass Jones investigates three murders in economically-ravaged London, the third involving the supposed murder-suicide of his brother, sister-in-law and nephew, but becomes a suspect himself when he suggests they were killed by another person.
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"As a new series debuts, a young lawyer races to save his client from execution, putting him at odds with his own father: Thomas Pitt, head of London's Special Police Branch. 1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London and eager to prove himself, independent of his renowned parents' influence. And the new case before him will be the test. When his client, arrogant biographer Russell Graves, is found guilty of murdering...
90) Time of death
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tom Thorne is enjoying a Valentine's Day break with his girlfriend, DS Helen Weeks, when he becomes involved in a case concerning two young girls who have been abducted. The prime suspect in the case is the husband of an old schoolfirend of Helen's. Thorne becomes convinced that, despite overwhelming evidence of the man's guilt, the police have got the wrong person.
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawn together by a series of bizarre murders involving beheaded victims, the members of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit search for clues beneath the medieval buildings of St. Pancras Church, where they unearth a disturbing history of Christian rites and pagan rituals.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Thomas Pitt is tasked with playing bodyguard to Sofia Delacruz, a young and controversial British preacher who has been living in Spain and has returned to England on a mysterious errand, he thinks it's a waste of Special Branch's time and resources. But when kidnappers manage to reach Sofia, murdering two of her companions in the process, Pitt learns that the message the lovely evangelist was meant to deliver was far more urgent than he knew....
93) Triple jeopardy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Young lawyer Daniel Pitt must defend a British diplomat who's accused of a theft that may hide a deadly crime in this compelling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Twenty-one Days. Daniel Pitt, along with his parents, Charlotte and Thomas, is delighted that his sister Jemima has returned to London from the States for a visit. But it's not on the happiest of terms, since a violent theft just before her departure has left Jemima's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"June 1918. A patrolling constable discovers the body of Georgina Cheney, wife of a naval commander, in the basement area of a house in Westminster. At first it is thought to be suicide or even a tragic accident. But as Divisional Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle of the A or Whitehall Division of the Metropolitan Police begins to investigate --ably assisted by Detective Sergeant Charles Marriott--they soon discover a different story. It is clear...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The earthshaking year of 1968 comes to a sweeping and dangerous close as Detectives Breen and Tozer battle the most powerful members of London society in their probe into a case going back years--the murder of Tozer's younger sister.
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The post-Christmas lull is officially over.... The deceased is antiques expert Rowland Egerton, the darling of daytime TV, stabbed to death in his luxurious West London home. Egerton's partner, the granite-faced John Lavender, found the body; did he also do the deed? Or was it a burglary gone wrong? As Slider and his team investigate, none of the facts seem to fit. And it soon becomes clear that the much-loved, charming Mr Egerton wasn't as universally...
97) Southampton Row
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In Victorian England, a divisive election is fast approaching. Passions are so inflamed that Thomas Pitt, shrewd mainstay of the London police, has been ordered, not to solve a crime, but to prevent a national disaster. The aristocratic Tory candidate-and Pitt's archenemy-is Charles Voisey. The Liberal candidate is Aubrey Serracold, whose wife's dalliance with spiritualism threatens his chances. Indeed, she is one of the participants in a late-night...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
It is New Year's Eve 1915 and the Hardcastle family are welcoming 1916 at their home in Kennington, London. But an hour into the New Year, Hardcastle is called to a murder in a jeweller's shop in Vauxhall. In a first for the A Division senior detective, the killers apparently made their escape in a motor car.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Josephine and Archie gather with friends to celebrate the holidays on 1938 Cornwall’s stormy coast before the festivities are interrupted by two brutal deaths on St. Michael’s Mount and the arrival of a world-famous film star.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Celia Hooper discovers that her dear friend Clementine is to marry widower Seth Marlowe - a man with a sinister past - she calls upon her husband, Detective John Hooper of the Thames River Police, to help her find out what really happened to Seth's first wife several years ago. Rumor has it that she killed herself and Seth's daughter ran away to live on the streets but no one seems to know the truth"--
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