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1) Hard man
Author
Publisher
Polygon
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A time-served Edinburgh hard man, Pearce is still recovering from the recent loss of his mother in a stabbing incident in a post office robbery. He's invited by the dysfunctional Baxter family to protect their pregnant 16-year-old daughter from Wallace, her 26-year-old husband, a man with a penchant for killing family pets. Having found out that the baby's not his, Wallace has sworn vengeance. Pearce declines the job: he's no babysitter. But when...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Before Burke, before Cross, Andrew Vachss created Wesley: a ruthless assassin who would stop at nothing to take out his targets. A BombBuilt in Hell is Wesley's story. While doing extended time for killing a fellow prisoner, Wesley meets Carmine Trentoni in a New York state prison. Carmine's life sentence hasn't cut him off from his outside sources, and he sees great potential in Wesley to carry out his revenge, and carry on his lucrative...
Author
Language
English
Description
Wolf Hadda's life has been a fairytale. From humble origins as a Cumbrian woodcutter's son, he has risen to become a successful entrepreneur, happily married to the girl of his dreams. A knock on the door one morning ends it all. Universally reviled, thrown into prison, abandoned by friends & family, Wolf retreats into silence.
4) Making money
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpok's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life, but, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long.
5) Hammered
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
His crime was renting a property in which cocaine with a street value of Đ645,000 was found during a police raid in May 2005. Ward never denied his involvement. Broke and with no permanent home at the time, he had accepted Đ400 a week from an acquaintance to rent a house for an unspecified "stash". He was sent down for eight years. He has always acknowledged his "stupid, terrible mistake". A footballer who was once spoken of as England material,...
6) The killer
Author
Series
Kaz Phelps volume 3
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
She was a woman, so they thought she'd be easy to kill ... Kaz Phelps is on the run - from the past, from the legacy of her criminal family, from the haunting memories of her murdered lover. The police want her back in jail and her enemies want her dead. While standing by the grave of her gangster brother, Kaz realises she only has one option. To fight back. Nicci Armstrong was one of the Met's best detectives until personal tragedy forced her to...
Author
Series
Aloysius Archer volume 1
Language
English
Description
Poca City, 1949. Fresh from serving time for a crime he didn't commit, Aloysius Archer is ready to put the past behind him and start again. Freedom never tasted so sweet. But who can he trust? Accepting a job as a debt collector for the local tycoon, he gets embroiled in a long-running feud between the town's most dangerous residents. When one of them is found dead, Archer is the number one suspect - framed for murder. A bloody game is being played...
8) The streets
Author
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, Jo Martin was released from prison after serving twelve years of a life sentence. She is now out on license - and she isn?t Jo anymore. Given a new identity by the courts, and with a different appearance, a ready-made history and even a change of age, Jo can pretend to be anyone . . . Cookie Mackenzie, is not only Ned Reid?s lover, but she also works for him. She supplies the girls - and boys - for Ned?s clients. There?s always some...
9) Flesh house
Author
Series
Logan McRae volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Panic strikes the Granite City. 20 years ago 'The Flesher' was butchering people all over the Uk until Grampian's finest put him away. But 11 years later he was out on appeal. Now he's missing and people are dying again.
10) Bombproof
Author
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Aurora
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fifty-four hours ago, Sami Macbeth was released from prison. Thirty-six hours ago, he slept with the woman of his dreams at the Savoy. One hour ago, his train blew up. Now he's carrying a rucksack through London's West End, and has turned himself into the most wanted terrorist in the country. Sami is not a master criminal. He's not even a minor one. He's not a jewel thief, or a safe-cracker, or an explosives expert. Sami plays guitar and wants to...
11) The innocent
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Matt Hunter's life has already been blown away once. At the age of 20, he got into a fight outside a party and accidentally killed someone. That momentary lapse of reason cost him four years in jail and a small sliver of his soul. But when he got out he set about rebuilding his life. He carved himself a job as a lawyer and married a beautiful woman. The break in the road seems to have only made him a stronger person. However, when he receives a...
12) Vagabonds
Author
Series
Emma Grady Trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
1885 - ex-convict Emma Grady has returned to her hometown of Blackburn and been reunited with her lover Marlow. Now married, with a beautiful home, loving husband and wonderful son, she is still haunted by the past, unable to forget the cruelty of her uncle Caleb Crowther, who ignored her desperate pleas to save her and her tragic first-born. A feared local justice, Crowther curses his niece?s return and sets out to destroy her anew, whilst also hounding...
13) Dying light
Author
Series
Logan McRae volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
It?s summertime in Scotland: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying? It?s summertime in the Granite City: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying? It starts with Rosie Williams, a prostitute, stripped naked and beaten to death down by the docks - the heart of Aberdeen?s red light district. For DS Logan McRae it?s a bad start to another bad day. Rosie won?t be the only one making an unscheduled trip to the morgue....
14) Hush hush
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 4
Language
English
Description
Harriet Blue used to be a detective. Now she's inmate 3329. Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop - as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis. So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside. But Woods is not there to gloat. His daughter Tonya and her two-year-old child have gone missing. He's ready to offer Harriet a deal:...
15) Lying beside you
Author
Series
Cyrus Haven volume 3
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, Cyrus Haven's family was murdered. Only he and his brother survived. Cyrus: because he hid. Elias: because he was the killer. Now Elias is being released from a secure psychiatric hospital, and Cyrus, a forensic psychologist, must decide if he can forgive the man who destroyed his childhood. As he prepares for the homecoming, Cyrus is called to a crime scene in Nottingham. A man is dead, and his daughter Maya is missing. Then a second...
16) Dream town
Author
Series
Aloysius Archer volume 3
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Los Angeles, 1952. It is New Year's Eve, and PI Aloysius Archer is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood actress Liberty Callahan when they're approached by Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter looking to hire him, as she suspects someone is trying to kill her. A visit to her Malibu residence leaves Archer knocked unconscious after he stumbles over a dead body in the hallway. Meanwhile, Lamb seems to have vanished. With the police now involved in the...
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