Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of private investigators who made their stunning debut in Right as Rain, are hired to find a 14-year-old white girl from the suburbs who’s run away from home and is now working as a prostitute in some dangerous neighborhoods. The two ex-cops think they know the dangers, but nothing in their experience has prepared them for Worldwide Wilson, the pimp whose territory they are intruding upon. The situation is compounded when one of the young stars of a community pee-wee football team – which Strange and Quinn spend their evenings coaching – is killed by a drug dealer while riding in a car with his uncle. Tracking down his killers becomes a point of honor for Strange and Quinn, and their off-the-Books investigation leads them back to Wilson. Soon, the two detectives are forced to sort through the pieces of evidence to put together the puzzle and solve the crime. Combining inimitable neighborhood flavor, action scenes that rank among the best in fiction, and a clear-eyed view of morality in a world with few rules, Hell to Pay is another Pelecanos masterpiece to be savored. Views: 10
When you give your life to the Circus, the Circus can take your life... Views: 10
**January 1936.
A strange tropical disease is terrorising the streets of London.**
Nobody in mainstream medicine knows of a cure for the condition, but one man, through his evil experiments, has learnt a lot about it and knows that a potential disaster has arrived in London.
When Dr. Abraham McIntee is murdered at Arundel House, he is found covered in flowers and New Scotland Yard are quickly sent to investigate.
It’s not long before a criminal underworld comes to light – a dangerous one of blackmail, revenge and ancient maladies.
Inspector McGonagle and Sergeant Spring are facing their most challenging case yet.
The chase is on to find the killer before he strikes again, but with an endless list of suspects to be eliminated from the enquiry, will they run out of time?
The cadaverous butler Searle and the maid, Mary Daw, from Arundel House all appear entirely innocent.
But could the obsequious Dr. Fayne be involved?
What of his companion Mervyn Lancaster, the suave Shakespearian actor?
Exotic Nancy Sanders tries to help but it quickly becomes apparent that someone wants to stop her speaking...
Can a lonely Indian Prince help the doctors working on the case before an anonymous criminal claims another victim?
Assistant Commissioner Sir Percival Merridew is under pressure to get results and his Detectives must follow a dangerous trail to discover the identity of the mysterious killer.
Angus MacVicar is a Scottish writer specialising in crime thrillers, young adult and autobiography.
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February 1806: Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho carries the news of Trafalgar to southern Africa, where he is to aid British ground forces in any way he can to retake Cape Town from the Dutch. Impatient to be home, Bolitho decides yet again that the boldest measures are best, and proves to the army that brave men do not die in vain. Views: 10
Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people as far away as California seem unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding's death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it. Views: 10
