A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot.The suspects range from several individuals at the college where he used to teach to a woman who knew the victim back in the early '70s at Essex University, then a hotbed of political activism. When Banks receives a warning to step away from the case, he realises there is much more to the mystery than meets the eye — for there are plenty more skeletons to come out of the closet...

It’s the Summer of Love, but anxiety, not libido, is at the forefront of Easy Rawlins’s thoughts. His daughter, Feather, has contracted a rare blood disease; to save her life, Easy must come up with $35,000 lickety-split. Predictably, his Watts pal Mouse has a surefire money-making plan that involves armed robbery. Rejecting that risky option, Easy tries his luck instead with a missing-persons job involving an eccentric lawyer and an alluring woman named Cinnamon Cargill. Indelible atmosphere; memorable characters; realistic suspense.It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It’s farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time.And his friend Mouse tells him it’s a cinch. Then another friend, Saul Lynx, offers a job that might solve Easy’s problem without jail time. He has to track the disappearance of an eccentric, prominent attorney. His assistant of sorts, the beautiful “Cinnamon” Cargill, is gone as well. Easy can tell there is much more than he is being told-Robert Lee, his new employer, is as suspect as the man who disappeared. But his need overcomes all concerns, and he plunges into unfamiliar territory, from the newfound hippie enclaves to a vicious plot that stretches back to the battlefields of Europe.

Roman délimité de qualité supérieure par la chambre de commerce de Pointe-à-Pitre.Aurait dû s'intituler « La tour Eiffel dans le train », ce qui était bien plus marrant, moi je prétends ; mais « ils » ont trouvé que ça faisait vulgaire. Alors, bon, qu'est-ce tu veux que je te dise, hein ? Mais franchement, la démocratie, c'est juste l'idée qu'on s'en fait !Toujours est-il que la tour Eiffel est bel et bien dans le train et que tout ce qui s'ensuit, ben mon vieux, tu m'en diras des nouvelles !Tu connaissais pas « Les Mystères de Nouille York » ? Les voici !

From Wilshire to Watts, ambitious rookie Freddy Underhill patrols L.A. looking for glamor and glory. His dreams of being a hotshot California cop are bigger than the bats he makes on his golf game or the busts of the women he picks up.

So when a flashy lass he knows from a one-night stand is strangled, Underhill sees his chance to grab headlines with a quick collar. Until the clandestine set-up to catch the killer breaks open a locked door to kinky sex and sleazy secrets — and murder in smog city closes in on both Underhill’s career and his life.

They know who did it. Perhaps not consciously. Perhaps not yet. But they know.

When eight-year-old Daisy Mason vanishes from her family's Oxford home during a costume party, Detective Inspector Adam Fawley knows that nine times out of ten, the offender is someone close to home. And Daisy's family is certainly strange--her mother is obsessed with keeping up appearances, while her father is cold and defensive under questioning. And then there's Daisy's little brother, so withdrawn and uncommunicative . . .

DI Fawley works against the clock to find any trace of the little girl, but it's as if she disappeared into thin air--no one saw anything; no one knows anything. But everyone has an opinion, and everyone, it seems, has a secret to conceal.

With a story that feels all too real, Close to Home is the best kind of suspense--the kind that sends chills down your spine and keeps you up late at night, thrilled and terrified.

DC Ebony Willis must relive her own troubled past as she goes undercover to ensnare a ruthless and twisted killerWhen Tracy Collins agrees to meet up with the daughter she gave up for adoption more than twenty years ago, she is overjoyed to have the chance to kindle a relationship with her grandson, Jackson. But when Danielle suddenly disappears, leaving Tracy to look after Jackson, her new-found happiness is replaced by a living nightmare.When a young woman’s body is found frozen beneath the ice in a canal in North London, DI Dan Carter and DC Ebony Willis are worried it could be Danielle. But when Tracy receives a phonecall from a mysterious man, she receives terrible confirmation that Danielle, though alive, is in terrible danger.With time running out for Danielle, Ebony Willis must go undercover to infiltrate Danielle’s circle of friends. But playing the single mother is a role that is all too familiar for Ebony, and she’ll have to draw on every ounce of strength to deliver Danielle’s killer to the police, before the weight of her own past pulls her under.‘By the end of this book I was literally gasping for breath! Totally gripping’ Crimesquad.com‘A gritty and atmospheric read’ Closer