Гейл Боуэн0.0 When a prisoner is shot to death in the exercise yard of a Saskatchewan penitentiary, Joanne Kilbourn finds herself haunted by a part of her past she wished had never happened. The dead prisoner is Kevin Tarpley, the man who six years earlier had brutally killed her politician husband, Ian, in a seemingly senseless act alongside the TransCanada Highway.
The haunting takes on a more menacing cast several days later when Tarpley’s sinister wife, Maureen, is discovered dead in a snow-swept Regina parking lot. A brightly coloured scarf is found wound tightly around her neck, a scarf that belongs to none other than Joanne Kilbourn. Soon this single mother, author, university professor, and TV-show panelist is deemed the “number one” suspect in Maureen Tarpley’s demise.
Joanne knows there has to be a connection between these two murders. But what is it? A cryptic letter sent to Joanne by Kevin Tarpley just days before his death intimates that Ian Kilbourn’s killing may not have been as senseless as first assumed. In fact, there are hints that some of Ian’s political colleagues may have been involved. But how deeply and in what way?
Then there’s the faded photograph of a pretty young woman and her baby that Joanne finds tucked in the wallet of her dead husband. Does it offer any clue to Ian’s murder, or to the deaths of the Tarpleys? Warily, Joanne Kilbourn is forced to follow a tangled trail deep into a heartbreaking past she never knew existed.
A Colder Kind of Death is the fourth novel featuring Gail Bowen’s “reluctant sleuth,” Joanne Kilbourn. With its deft mix of wry humour and mayhem, closely observed family scenes and gripping suspense, warm characterization and betrayal, it confirms Gail Bowen’s stature as one of the greats of mystery fiction.
Peter Abrahams0.0 After spending fifteen years in prison for a crime he had not committed, Eddie Nye is released and suddenly finds himself adjusting to the strange world outside prison, confronting his past, and coping with complex relationships with those around him.
Джон Брэйди0.0 Dublin’s canal gives up the body of a prostitute and reveals a drug underworld.
Dublin’s Grand Canal used to be a place for young lovers to take a romantic stroll. Now it’s a prime spot for drug deals and prostitution. The water which used to harbour elegant swans now washes up syringes and dead bodies. Mary Mullen is found battered and her body dumped callously, jammed against a canal lock. All she wanted was some of ‘the good life’, but after hooking up with the notorious Egan brothers, things began to spiral out of control.
In his efforts to solve Mary’s murder, Minogue is plunged into the depths of Dublin’s underworld. It’s a world of drug trafficking, pornography and prostitution. Every path Minogue follows seems to lead back to the Egans, whose organized crime family is already under surveillance by a joint police task force. The Gardai keep receiving frantic phone calls from a friend of Mary. Liam Hickey, a petty thief and sometime drug user, knows something but he’s terrified both of the Gardai and the Egans and wants to stay on the run. The investigation is soon complicated by a problem with Minogue’s new partner on the Squad. Tommy Malone, a dyed-in-the-wool Dubliner, has a twin brother: Terry, complete with his drug addiction, is about to be released from prison, and he’s heading straight into the Egan’s deadly web.
Л. Р. Райт0.0 Gordon Murphy doesn't look insane. But he is. He doesn't look dangerous. But he is. He doesn't look like a murderer. But he is.
Murphy has been looking for the perfect woman since he turned forty. Now that he's fifty, he thinks that Cassandra Mitchell fills the bill. The fact that she is living happily with RCMP Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg is completely irrelevant.
While Muphy plots to ensnare Cassandra, Alberg is preoccupied with a rash of crime on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast. An epidemic of bizarre robberies, an unpleasant young couple who are snatching their children back and forth from each other, and a drug-related murder all distract Alberg from the deadly menace that threatens his lover.
If Alberg doesn't act soon, Cassandra is about to become Woman Number Five in Gordon Murphy's murderous history
Спаркл Хейтер0.0 Robin Hudson's life is getting complicated. Her estranged husband's girlfriend is not only younger, prettier, and more successful - she's pregnant. Robin's job - on the trash crew for the prestigious All News Network - is rocky, too. She can't seem to keep from making on-the-air faux pas. Now her loathsome boss wants her to investigate a sperm bank. Her elderly next door neighbor vilifies her and assaults her, under the delusion that she is a call girl. A blackmailer tries to shake her down. And her disdainful cat, Louise Bryant, refuses to eat unless Robin stir fries her food. Just a normal day for a single, urban professional female. Then this spunky and appealing but "slightly rumpled, third string reporter in Rita Hayworth's body" finds herself accused of murder. She thinks her apartment may have been burglarized because it seems tidier than when she left it. Robin wants to trust charming supervising producer Eric Slansky but is afraid that the super-handsome, super-amorous Super Prod may be the murderer.
Сьюзан Норт0.0 A sushi chef, an owl with a hat fetish, an antique steam calliope—what does each have to do with murder at a trendy health spa in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies? Join camerawoman Phoebe Fairfax and her roving camera in this nightmare of western hospitality.
Мишель Спринг0.0 Wildfell Cottage is a serene weekend oasis for three career women whose lives have taken sudden turns. But they are barely acquainted before one of them is dead—and another is determined to find out why.
Between the worlds of academia, art, and politics, someone slipped into a woman's life and snuffed it out in a burst of rage, leaving Laura Principal to untangle a wicked web of secrets and hypocrisy. What Laura finds is the perfect suspect. Unfortunately, a better one has found her. . . .
Джеймс Хенеган0.0 Thirteen-year-old Declan lives only for revenge. His mother, father and sister were all killed on the streets of Belfast, and Declan will stop at nothing to settle the score. When he is torn away from his native soil and sent to live with relatives in Canada, he is disgusted by their efforts to welcome him into their lives, and determined to make them regret their hospitality. Can he devise a plan to return to Ireland and rejoin his cause? Or will the strange beauty of his new life and surroundings weaken his resolve?
