Lawyer Lennox Kemp's newly-wed happiness is slowly being eroded by a series of anonymous threats. Is it an aggrieved past client? A criminal he has helped put away? His friend Detective Inspector John Upshire points out that there is a multiplicity of enemies from which to choose. But then a colleague of Kemp's is murdered and Lennox is convinced that he was the intended victim. Weighed down by guilt, he feels disinclined to investigate the matter further, so it is left to his feisty w...
Britain has a new Prime Minister and a new King. Francis Urquhart is a ruthless politician determined to cling to power in spite of the troubles he knows are ahead, but he is frustrated at every turn by a caring, idealistic monarch. Their differences of opinion quickly degenerate into open hostility. The battlefield ranges from architecture to the underprivileged; the battle is fought with rigged opinion polls, manipulated newspaper headlines, sexual scandal and economic brinkmanship a...
Orchids And Lies (A Beatrice Barrington Thriller, #3)
by Fiona Gartland
The Court (Charley Sloan Courtroom Thrillers, #4)
by William J Coughlin
Dying to Live (Detective Kubu Mystery, #6) (Detective Kubu, #6)
by Michael Stanley
When the body of a Bushman is discovered near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the death is written off as an accident. But all is not as it seems. An autopsy reveals that, although he's clearly very old, his internal organs are puzzlingly young. What's more, an old bullet is lodged in one of his muscles ... but where is the entry wound? When the body is stolen from the morgue and a local witch doctor is reported missing, Detective 'Kubu' Bengu gets involved. Kubu and his brilliant young c...
Bob Bruce's retirement is settling into an easy rhythm of golf and gardening when a knock at his door brings a stranger with startling news that will change his life. Together they unearth a fraud being conducted by a financial investment firm in Edinburgh. Their decision to investigate puts Bob's life in danger and encourages them to take the law into their own hands. Their unmasking of the fraud leads to an attempt on Bob's life. The trail leads to a crooked Scottish MP, but things are not wha...
After getting a confessed killer off on a technicality, brilliant young defense attorney Jack Swyteck, estranged son of Governor Harry Swyteck, a proponent of the death penalty, finds himself framed for murder.
Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid takes on his sixth case, that of a former football hero who leads police on a car chase after his wife and children are found murdered.
The Return Of Rafe Mackade (The MacKade Brothers, #1)
by Nora Roberts
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'The most successful novelist on Planet Earth' - Washington Post The MacKade brothers - the embodiment of tall, dark, and dangerous - are back by popular demand. Bad boy Rafe has returned home after ten years, appealing as ever. And not even lovely Regan Jones, reserved antiques dealer, is immune to Rafe MacKade. Praise for Nora Roberts 'A storyteller of immeasurable diversity and tale...
Broken hearts. Broken promises. Deadly consequences. In glitzy Lake Tahoe, couples break up every day. But few are as successful as Lindy and Mike Markov, who built a $200-million business together—before Mike took up with a younger woman. Now he's claiming he doesn't owe Lindy a dime since they never married. Attorney Nina Reilly, struggling to make a living in her one-woman office and raise a young son alone, agrees to take Lindy's case. Nina knows winning is a long shot, even with a brillia...
"Infiltrating a Dutch human trafficking organization turrns deadly when two undercover agents are tortured and shot... leaders of the group... are about to learn what it's like to be hunted by the Executioner."--p.[4] of cover.
