When a young police constable is stabbed to death at an anti-nuclear demonstration, Chief Inspector Alan Banks confronts a hundred suspects, anyone of whom could have wielded the murder weapon. And the arrival of Superintendent "Dirty Dog" Burgess to oversee the case just makes things worse.

Charlie Leathers was not the most popular man in the charming English village of Ferne Basset, but few people seemed to hate him enough to murder him. Still, that was his fate one night, and it brings Inspector Barnaby to the scene to investigate. What Barnaby doesn't know is that before his death, Charlie witnessed what might have been the suicide--or murder--of a young woman whose troubles with the law have landed her in the home of a local retired minister and his none-too-pleased wife. Now a man is dead, a girl is missing, and a town is in chaos as long-kept secrets begin to unravel, with deadly repercussions.

On navet jamais vu ça.Ben maint'nant on l'a.Et croye-moi, on a eu chaud aux plumes.L'péril jaune, merci bien : j'sais à présent d'quoi t'il retoume !Quant aux p'tites gonzesses de Bangkroche, tu r'passeras ! Pas une seule qui fusse t'à ma pointure !C't'un monde ! Comme j'dis : « Quand on veut faire pute professionnelle, faut s'assurer au prélavable qu't'es capab' d'héberger l'aillent ; même quand y l'est monté comm' un seigneur, dont c'est mon cas ; qu'autrement sinon ça d'vient d'l'abusement d'confiance, moi j'trouve.Enfin, viens quand même av'c nous en Taillelande ; si t'aimes pas le bouddha, on t'fera faire des massages.Alexandre-Benoît Bérurier.

After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana’s oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin.The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy. Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie, rock and roll-musician teenagers with magical voices, have fallen in love and run away after Isolde was given as a sex slave to Johnny’s uncle.As he seeks to uncover why, Detective Dave Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde’s mother and the mistress of her father, a venomous New Orleans mafioso whose jealousy has no bounds. In retribution, he hires a mysterious assassin to go after Robicheaux and his longtime partner, Clete Purcel. This hitman is unlike any the “Bobbsey Twins from Homicide” have ever faced. He has the ability to induce horrifying hallucinations and travels on a menacing ghost ship that materializes without warning. In order to defeat him and rescue Johnny and Isolde, Robicheaux will have to overcome the demons that have tormented him throughout his adult life — alcoholism, specters from combat in Vietnam, and painful memories of women to whom he opened his heart only to see killed.A Private Cathedral, James Lee Burke’s fortieth book, is his most powerful tale, one that will captivate readers — mixing crime, romance, mythology, horror, and science fiction to produce a thrilling story about the all-consuming, all-conquering power of love.

When a famous film actress is found dead on a secluded beach, it appears to be an open and shut case… except that Inspector Alan Grant’s intuition says otherwise. And when Grant’s investigation reveals the starlet’s hidden past, the murderer must hurry to cover his tracks.

A Shilling for Candles is the second novel in Josephine Tey’s Inspector Alan Grant series.

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‘He’s gone...’

When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days.

Rebus fears the worst — and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect.

He wasn’t the best father — the job always came first — but now his daughter needs him more than ever. But is he going as a father or a detective?

As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast — and a small town with big secrets — he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is the one thing he doesn’t want to find...

We uncovered the last of the bodies in the red hour before dusk, as the sun stained the snowcaps of the Tian Shan mountains the colour of dried blood and the spring air turned sharp and cold…

Inspector Akyl Borubaev of Bishkek Murder Squad has been exiled to the far corner of Kyrgystan, but death still haunts him at every turn.

Borubaev soon finds himself caught up in a mysterious and gruesome new case: several children’s bodies have been found buried together—all tagged with name bands. In his search for the truth behind the brutal killings, Borubaev hits a wall of silence, with no one to turn to outside his sometime lover, the beautiful undercover agent Saltanat Umarova.

When Borubaev himself is framed for his involvement in the production of blood-soaked child pornography, it looks as though things couldn’t get any worse. With the investigation at a dangerous standstill, Borubaev sets out to save his own integrity, and to deliver his own savage justice on behalf of the many dead who can’t speak for themselves…