Dark Side of the Street (Simon Vaughn: 1/ Paul Chevasse: 5) (Camden S.)
by Jack Higgins
For Harry Youngblood, escaping from prison is going to be easy. But escaping his past could cost him his life... Twenty years inside for one third of a million pounds: that was the price Harry Youngblood was paying. Drummond is Youngblood's cellmate. He is also intelligence agent Paul Chavasse, working undercover. And when Youngblood is broken out, Chavasse tags along for the ride. His objective is to break the crime ring headed by the Baron, to whom Young...
The Two-Faced Truth (Two-Faced Truth, #1)
by Dee Kay and Roy & Dee Kay
Shortlisted for the Australian 2007 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards C. A. Hocking's debut novel, A PLACE IN TIME, explores the theme of what good people are driven to do in order to survive when pushed beyond human endurance. Dan Campbell is a troubled man who sinks into depression as each birthday approaches. Thirty years earlier, on his 11th birthday, he'd witnessed his father's murder and saved his mother from a deranged stranger, but something is wrong with the memory of that terrible day....
Seventy-five years ago, a madman nicknamed the Torso Killer terrorized Cleveland, claiming dozens of victims. He was never caught. Today, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is called to examine a decades-old body that everyone assumes is a lost Torso Killer victim. Though few clues still exist, Theresa sees this as an opportunity to shed some light on a mysterious piece of Cleveland's past. But then another body - this one recently deceased - turns up, and all clues point to a new Torso Killer....