The first in a sharply-written trilogy set in crumbling 7th Century Rome which introduces the most compelling anti-hero since Flashman.
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Five men murder an RUC Special Branch officer in front of his wife and son. The men who killed the RUC officer have been released from prison under the Good Friday agreement. And one by one someone is killing them, in exactly the same way that the RUC officer died. And possibly …
At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance.
Roman policier (énigme). Roman psychologique (intime) À New York, au printemps 2008, lorsque l'Amérique bruisse des prémices de l'élection présidentielle, Marcus Goldman, jeune écrivain à succès, est dans la tourmente: il est incapable d'écrire le nouveau roman qu'il doit remet…
"Dem Tod wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten. "Die engagierte Tierärztin Lilian führt auf ihrer Wildtierfarm in South Dakota ein erfülltes, aber auch abgeschiedenes Leben. Fast zu spät erkennt sie die Gefahr, der sie ausgesetzt ist, als ein offensichtlich traumatisierter Mann sie u…
It is 1852, and Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant Sergeant Victor Leeming are faced with their most difficult case to date. As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, a man is hurled from a carriage into the canal below. It later transpires that he has been stabbed to d…
Point de vue de l'éditeur: Auf der britischen Kanalinsel Guernsey wird der Millionär und Mäzen Guy Brouard ermordet aufgefunden. Die junge Amerikanerin China gerät in Mordverdacht. Ihre Freundin Deborah stellt gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann, dem engsten Vertrauten von Chief Inspector …
Discusses about a murder of a young Tibetan nun by the hands of Chinese border guards at the rooftop of the world that offers a unique parable for the tale of modern Tibet. This title investigates the clash of cultures at the rooftop of the world.
This innovative collection offers one of the first analyses of criminologies of the military from an interdisciplinary perspective. While some criminologists have examined the military in relation to the area of war crimes, this collection considers a range of other important bu…
When people talk about getting away with murder, few realise that in reality one in ten murderers do. This book examines just why so many murders go unsolved. It looks at ten unsolved murder cases from the 21st Century to discover where the problems lie and what can be done.
"Arctic Justice recounts a critical episode in how Canada came to control its High Arctic. In 1922 a mad trapper threatened to kill the sled dogs of a group of Baffin Island Inuit and, following the Inuit customary law that individuals who endanger the community must be killed, …