Dead And Gone
10 best books like Dead And Gone (Dorothy Simpson): Wobble to Death, English Country House Murders, Sicken and So Die, Unbound, Grave Music, 'Tis the Season to Be Murdered, Losing Ground, Blood on the Line, Smallbone Deceased, Seeking the Dead
| Author | Peter Lovesey |
| ISBN | 0140055576 |
Dame Agatha Christie and Her Peers
BOOK 25
An unusual set for a story, certainly: wobbling!
CAST - 4 stars: Sol Herriott is the promoter of a 6-day "walk/wobble" race but he's never been in this kind of business. Why now? Herriott hires Walter Jacobs as his manager, and he has no experience...
| Author | Thomas Godfrey |
| ISBN | 0892963557 |
Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities.
Contents:
The adventure of the Abbey...
| Author | Simon Brett |
| ISBN | 0684824590 |
Things are going suspiciously well for Charles Paris. He's moved back in with his wife, Frances, and although he's not yet a permanent fixture in her bed, he has hopes. What's more, he's got a proper part in a proper play: Sir Toby Belch in a festival production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Charles...
| Author | Julie Kaewert |
| ISBN | 0553577158 |
England's prestigious Plumtree Press is about to release a shocking book that exposes coded messages in a famous novel--codes alleged to be printer's errors. The messages are so treacherous, that if discovered at the original time of publication, the author would have been hung for treason. Now,...
| Author | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles |
| ISBN | 0684800462 |
Detective Inspector Bill Slider and Detective Sergeant Jim Atherton have two different views of their latest investigation in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' fourth Bill Slider mystery, Dead End. It's another fascinating police procedural with characters who come to life on the page.
There's...
'Tis the Season to Be Murdered
Exhausted after shopping for teenagers, struggling with cappuccino machines, and eating way too many cookies, Susan Henshaw is glad she hired "The Holly and Ms. Ivy" to cater her annual New Year's bash. But when the blond and buffed Z Holly, chef extraordinaire and notorious ladies' man, is found strangled...
| Author | Catherine Aird |
| ISBN | 0749080507 |
The theft from a museum of a painting of no apparent worth together with a few small items from a display case leaves Sloan and Crosby baffled as there seems no motivation for the crime at all. Then someone sets fire to a house that used to belong to the subject of the painting and the plot thickens. The reader...
| Author | Edward Marston |
| ISBN | 0749008695 |
The year is 1855, and on the LNWR train to London, a criminal is being escorted to his appointment with the hangman. But the wily Jeremy Oxley, con-man, thief and murderer, has one last ace up his sleeve: a beautiful and ruthless accomplice willing to do anything to save her lover, including committing...
| Author | Michael Gilbert |
| ISBN | 0460024051 |
I've read a couple of other books by Michael Gilbert and have enjoyed them all so far. Smallbone Deceased ranks up there with Petrella at Q as my favorites of his. Smallbone is a perfect little mystery. It's billed as an Inspector Hazelrigg mystery and, indeed, the good Inspector does play a prominent...
| Author | Kate Ellis |
| ISBN | 0749908610 |
When Carmel Hennessy begins a new job in North Yorkshire, she finds the historic city of Eborby gripped by fear. A killer is on the prowl - a killer who binds and asphyxiates his victims before leaving their naked bodies in isolated country churchyards. The press are calling him the Resurrection Man.
Tragic...
| Author | R.D. Wingfield |
| ISBN | 0552145556 |
Detective Inspector Jack Frost, offically on duty, is nevertheless determined to sneak off to a colleague's leaving party. But first the corpse of a well-known local junkie is found blocking the drain of a Denton public lavatory - and then, when Frost attempts to join the revels later on, the nubile...
| Author | Quentin Bates |
| ISBN | 1472100840 |
When a shipowner is found dead, tied to a bed in one of Reykjavik's smartest hotels, sergeant Gunnhildur Gisladottir of the city police force sees no evidence of foul play but still suspects things are not as cut and dried as they seem. A Gunnhildur Gisladottir mystery set in Iceland.
When a shipowner...
| Author | Rhys Bowen |
| ISBN | 0312349424 |
Detective Constable Evan Evans and his new bride, Bronwen, are settling into married life in their little cottage above the village of Llanfair when they meet the daughter of one of the village’s newest families, a sixteen-year-old Pakistani girl named Jamila.
Bronwen and Jamila are becoming...
