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By Ian Rankin. 2009
Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their…
full title, but known colloquially as 'The Dark Side', or simply 'The Complaints'. It's where Malcolm Fox works. He's just had a result, and should be feeling good about himself. But he's a man with problems of his own. He has an increasingly frail father in a care home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship - something which Malcolm cannot seem to do anything about. But, in the midst of an aggressive Edinburgh winter, the reluctant Fox is given a new task. There's a cop called Jamie Breck, and he's dirty. The problem is, no one can prove it. 2009.By John Le Carré. 2001
After his young wife Tessa's murder in Kenya, British diplomat Justin Quayle investigates her death and the disappearance of her…
African colleague. He eventually discovers that Tessa had uncovered a scheme involving a multinational pharmaceutical company that unethically tests drugs on the local populace. Strong language. Bestseller. 2001.By Mary Higgins Clark. 1980
While in Westlake Hospital, Katie DeMaio sees a woman's body being carried to a car in the middle of the…
night. The next day the woman is found dead and declared a suicide. 1980.By Paul Erdman. 1977
By Stephen Dobyns. 1997
A sleepy hamlet in upstate New York awakens to a nightmare when three young girls disappear in succession, inspiring a…
wave of suspicion among former friends as old rumours, old angers, and old desires rear their ugly heads. Descriptions of violence. 1997.By Dan Brown. 2004
Professor Robert Langdon from "Angels and Demons" investigates the crime scene of the Louvre's murdered curator. Joining him is French…
cryptologist Sophie Neveu. The clues left behind pit two Catholic societies against each other in search of the Holy Grail. Some violence and some strong language. 2004, c2003.By Allan Folsom. 1994
American surgeon Paul Osborn is sitting in a cafe when he spots the man who killed his father in 1966.…
Without thinking, he attacks the man. This sets in motion a chain of events involving seven decapitated bodies, a massive train wreck, and an international conspiracy. Set in Paris in 1994. Violence, strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. c1994.By Frederick Forsyth. 1971
The story of an anonymous Englishman who, in the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief…
of the OAS, to assassinate General de Gaulle and to change the course of history. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex and violence. 1971.By Andrew Gross. 2008
New York hedge-fund manager Charlie Friedman is presumed dead in a train explosion. Meanwhile, Connecticut detective Ty Hauck investigates a…
hit-and-run accident whose victim had Charlie's name in his pocket. Ty works with Charlie's widow to uncover some startling connections. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2008.By Dean R Koontz. 2008
Amy Redwing recklessly risks everything in her chosen field of dog rescue. When she confronts a violent drunk in order…
to rescue Nickie, a beautiful golden retriever, Amy has no misgivings. Dogs always do their best, and so will she. Whatever it takes. 2008.By Gavin Lyall. 1985
When three shots from a Russian rifle narrowly miss the American President at a Westminster Abbey memorial service, it is…
the assassin's bad luck that Major Harry Maxim is on duty just outside. 1985. (Harry Maxim ; 3)By Robert Hough. 2007
After Hank narrowly escapes being pushed in front of a subway train, he re-awakens to the world and finds Anya,…
a young Russian woman, on a web site. When a troubling letter from home arrives on their doorstep, Hank unwittingly finds himself funding a terrorist scheme. Some descriptions of sex. Some descriptions of violence. Some strong language. 2007.By John Updike. 1979
Colonel Hakim, President of Kush, a small country on the southern fringes of the Sahara, talks of his adventures during…
the revolution and its manipulation by the USA and USSR. 1979.By Pauline Gedge. 1992
Newly widowed, Jessica visits her parents' former employers in England. Disturbing incidents remind Jessica of her sister's mysterious disappearance over…
20 years ago. Some descriptions of violence, some strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. c1992.By Ruth Rendell. 1993
When her mother, Eve, tells Liza she must leave their remote home, the gatehouse of a country mansion, Liza is…
terrified. Although 17, she has never been on a bus or a train or played with a child of her own age. She has almost no knowledge of the world her mother describes as evil and destructive. Their strange, enclosed life together is over because Eve has killed a man and he is not the first. Liza is cast adrift but is not alone. She keeps her love affair secret from her mother, and from her lover she learns about the world and about herself. 1993.By David L Lindsey. 1999
Former spy and recent widower Harry Strand has a second career as an art dealer in Houston. When client Mara…
Song contacts him about a portfolio of drawings, Harry's life changes. Then a videotape in Mara's VCR reveals that his past is not yet behind him. Some violence and some strong language. c1999.By John Grisham. 1993
Just before committing suicide, a Mafia lawyer tells 11-year-old Mark Sway something that the police, the FBI and the Mafia…
want to know. With a one-dollar bill, Mark retains his own lawyer, feisty Reggie Love. Strong language and some violence. Bestseller 1993.By Dorothy Gilman. 1975
By Gavin Lyall. 1982
Major Harry Maxim, SAS-trained and still mourning the loss of his wife to a terrorist bomb, is asked to help…
Corporal Blagg, on the run from his battalion in Germany. 1982.By Mark Gimenez. 2005
In this story of politics, greed and murder, a Dallas corporate lawyer could lose everything he holds dear. He has…
reluctantly agreed to defend a black, heroin-addicted prostitute, in a murder trial where the victim's father is a senator with presidential ambitions. Descriptions of violence. 2005.