Author: Callum Dalziel
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1035815826
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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> Detective Inspector Ron Scott of K Division, Greenock, Police Scotland, and his team are investigating a series of murders committed by a killer they are calling ‘The Gardener.’ > > Curiously, the victims have been murdered by a perpetrator who uses common garden tools as his weapons of choice. In addition, a four-year-old girl has been brazenly abducted from a shopping mall by a man, in full sight of security cameras. > > Greenock police have a lot on their hands, and time is of the essence.
Author: Jane Langton
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN: 9780140113822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Ex-detective Homer Kelly is called in to investigate pranks at the Gardner Museum. But when a wealthy art patron is murdered, the seemingly harmless becomes deadly serious.
Author: George Pelecanos
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0759567875
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Gus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the city's Violent Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local teenager named Asa whose body has been found in a local community garden. The murder unearths intense memories of a case Ramone worked as a patrol cop twenty years earlier, when he and his partner, Dan "Doc" Holiday, assisted a legendary detective named T. C. Cook. The series of murders, all involving local teenage victims, was never solved. In the years since, Holiday has left the force under a cloud of morals charges, and now finds work as a bodyguard and driver. Cook has retired, but he has never stopped agonizing about the "Night Gardener" killings.The new case draws the three men together on a grim mission to finish the work that has haunted them for years. All the love, regret, and anger that once burned between them comes rushing back, and old ghosts walk once more as the men try to lay to rest the monster who has stalked their dreams. Bigger and even more unstoppable than his previous thrillers, George Pelecanos achieves in The Night Gardener what his brilliant career has been building toward: a novel that is a perfect union of suspense, character, and unstoppable fate.
Author: Caitlin Rother
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786022182
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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A Pulitzer-nominated author presents a heartbreaking true-life thriller that follows the disappearances of Chelsea King, a popular high school senior, and 14-year-old Amber Dubois, both of whom, beloved by their families and friends, met a brutal fate at the hands of a predator hiding in plain sight. Original.
Author: Ray Clark
Publisher: Eternal Press
ISBN: 9781944956035
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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When Detective Inspector Stewart Gardener investigates the discovery of a body in a run-down Victorian property in the suburb of Rawston near Leeds, he knows he's in for a tough time: ashen faced police constables testify to that.Nothing could have prepared him for what lay ahead.The corpse is beyond recognition.Distraught residents, drug dealers, pornographers, and paedophiles add to his list of complications, especially when they're all hiding something.With little time to recuperate, a second body, bearing the same hallmark is found in the grounds of a small church in the center of Leeds.Gardener's already overburdened work schedule is stretched beyond endurance. Over the last six months, children have been going missing: the dead body of the third child having recently been found on waste ground - naked, has instigated a murder hunt.He now knows he needs to find a deranged serial killer, but are the cases linked?With a complex murder case to unravel, the last thing he needs is another problem ... but life is about to deal Stewart Gardener a whole new deck of cards when the next child to go missing is his own...
Author: Philip Weiss
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061969923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 619
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In 1975, a new group of Peace Corps volunteers landed on the island nation of Tonga. Among them was Deborah Gardner -- a beautiful twenty-three-year-old who, in the following year, would be stabbed twenty-two times and left for dead inside her hut. Another volunteer turned himself in to the Tongan police, and many of the other Americans were sure he had committed the crime. But with the aid of the State Department, he returned home a free man. Although the story was kept quiet in the United States, Deb Gardner's death and the outlandish aftermath took on legendary proportions in Tonga. Now journalist Philip Weiss "shines daylight on the facts of this ugly case with the fervor of an avenging angel" (Chicago Tribune), exposing a gripping tale of love, violence, and clashing ideals. With bravura reporting and vivid, novelistic prose, Weiss transforms a Polynesian legend into a singular artifact of American history and a profoundly moving human story.
Author: Neal Sanders
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781466476066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Who killed Sally Kahn? There hasn't been a murder in 15 years in tranquil, affluent Hardington, Massachusetts. But someone pushed a moderately wealthy 65-year-old widow down her basement stairs, and then tried to make it look like an accident. Two people will work - together and independently - to find the murderer. John Flynn, a retired Boston Police Department detective with an outstanding record, will lead the official investigation. He will solve the murder despite the best efforts of Hardington's police chief, who cannot abide the idea of a murderer on the loose in his bucolic town and so who arrests the first likely suspect. Liz Phillips has a life centered on her garden and her garden club. Sally Kahn was one of her best friends and it is Liz who found the body. But Liz is a lonely woman, her daughter married and living far away, and her husband constantly on the road. Liz will help solve the murder by using intuition, asking questions, and knowing her town. Their quest to find Sally Kahn's killer will lead Liz Phillips and Detective John Flynn into an unfamiliar world of email inboxes and wireless Internet routers, hazardous waste disposal and the economics of tearing down houses to build 'McMansions'. Their search will also take them through an emotional landscape of adultery and the simmering resentment between 'townies' and the new-money affluent.
Author: Amy Patricia Meade
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
ISBN: 9781780296128
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Literary chef Tish Tarragon is preparing her English Secret Garden-themed luncheon for Coleton Creek's annual garden club awards, but two days before the event one of the competitors is found dead in his pristine garden. After hearing that he was the favourite to win the top prize this year, Tish can't help being drawn into the investigation...
Author: Ashley Gardner
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781490557946
Category : Lacey, Gabriel (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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ondon 1816 After rescuing a lovely woman from an attempted robbery, Captain Lacey discovers that she's the widow of a colonel who had been accused of murdering an English officer during the recent war. Lydia declares that her husband was innocent and that she knows the true culprits' identities. Intrigued, Lacey begins to investigate, and soon finds himself mired in scandals past and present. Book 2 of the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries. This is a full-length novel.
Author: Heywood Gould
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440561249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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A mad director, off his meds, is making a movie about how he murders the producers who ruined his career. The movie is in his mind. The murders are real. Tommy Veasy, a pot-smoking homicide detective--our hero--who writes poetry to help him solve cases and ward off despair, thinks he sees a pattern in these seemingly accidental deaths. His colleagues think he's being dramatic. But the bodies keep piling up. The staff of a syndicated TV show in its tenth year, formerly an international hit but now only being aired in Montenegro and Botswana, worries about how they will maintain their Hollywood lifestyles when they become unemployable. How will the producer finance his two-hooker-a-weekend habit? How will the staff writer pay private school tuition, an underwater mortgage, tennis club dues, the housekeeper, the gardener, cable TV bills, the couples' therapist, et al.? Not a big problem: the mad director has planted a bomb in the office phone and is frantically trying to set it off. And meanwhile, a home invader keeps invading the wrong homes, to everyone's perplexity. In other words: it's just another day in paradise.
