Chatfield. The murder of a local art gallery owner - the flamboyantly camp Minim Minikin - after a private view one night in February 1986 and the theft of the painting on display had DCI Sheldon Hunter stumped. After months of enquiry, the investigation turned up nothing. No suspects, no murder weapon, no painting and, indeed no artist. The identity of the painter, Fayne, whose work disappeared that fateful night was as much a mystery to the police as to the art world at large. Reluctantly, wit...
A drug dealer is battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutch student, covered in blood, walks aimlessly through the streets of central Oslo. He is taken into custody, but refuses to speak. Five days later a shady criminal lawyer called Hansa Larsen is murdered. The two deaths don't seem related, but Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is unconvinced. Soon, she uncovers a link between the bodies: Larsen defended the drug dealer. But there are powerful forces working against Hanne...
This book is not for those of you who don't have a clue about the Resolution. For those of you who do know, the pieces are here. It's your puzzle now. Enjoy it!
Abandoned at the age of eleven by her beautiful, capricious mother, Theodora Cairns, twenty years on and with a painful divorce behind her, is still struggling to get over her childhood abandonment. With the urging of her new love interest, Fergus Costello, and a chance discovery, Theo becomes determined to find her mother and demand answers to the questions she should have asked years ago. Her search for answers leads her to Vermont, USA--but will she be able to handle the disturbing truth?
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