Mystery

After a friend is brutually attacked, Cassidy James and one-time lover Erica Trinidad team up to find the assailant. Their investigation leads to the discovery of a gaming club which bets on people instead of cards. This time, the game is to find the famous lost treasure of Rainbow Ridge. James and Trinidad learn that members of the gaming club leave clues for unknowing victims of their schemes to discover. The two conceive a plan to beat the club members at their own game.

How far would you go to save yourself–and the country you love? A vicious terrorist group is operating deep within the wild reaches of Australia’s remote Kimberley region. Though the government is aware of their presence, the group’s cat-and-mouse tactics and absolute secrecy has made it impossible to stop. The only way to destroy this powerful threat to national security is from the inside. And no one’s better under cover than hotshot Intelligence Agent Denise Cleever. Using every ruse she knows, Denise infiltrates the terrorist training camp–knowing full well that if she is found out, her ruthless ‘comrades’ will torture her to death. But when she is ordered to kill someone as a final test of her loyalty, she faces the most difficult choice of her career: Take an innocent life–or lose her own.

‘Love And Death,’ Said Chief Inspector Wexford. ‘Those Were The Only Two Sensational Things That Ever Happened To Margaret Parsons, Love And Death. The Thing Is They Both Happened In My District.’The Police Knew All About Margaret Parsons’ Life, And By The Look Of It, It Was Very Dull. Margaret Parsons Had Been A ‘Good Woman’. Religious, Old-Fashioned And Respectable, Her Life Had Been As Spotless And Ordinary As Her Home, As Unexciting And Dependable As Her Marriage. But It Was Not Margaret Parsons’ Life That Interested Wexford. It Was Her Death. She Had Been A Predictable, Ordinary Woman – But Now She Had Met A Death Of Passion And Violence For Which There Seemed No Motive Or Clue.

Detective Inspector Carol Ashton is unaware that her investigation of execution-style murders and the bombing of a small-town police station has put her life in grave danger. The case leads her to the fringes of a mysterious underground group whose members are waging an undeclared war against anyone who does not share their extremist views. Eighth in the Carol Ashton Series.

When disgraced clinical psychiatrist Dr. Charlie Flint receives an anonymous package of press cuttings detailing the brutal murder of a groom on his wedding day at Oxford, she is drawn back into the cloistered world of her alma mater. The bride, Magda, is the daughter of Charlie’s former mentor, who suspects that the real killer is Jay Macallan Stewart a wealthy dot-com entrepreneur, author of a bestselling ‘misery memoir,’ and Magda’s charismatic new lesbian partner. While Charlie battles her own personal demons and a destructive infatuation with another woman that threatens her marriage, she begins to untangle Jay’s past, uncovering a chilling pattern of convenient deaths that suggests she may be hunting a brilliant, ruthless serial killer.

When a murderer tees off at the world’s most prestigious women’s golf tournament, Australian top cop Carol Ashton becomes an unwilling player in a much deadlier game. Loaded with brains, style, and megabucks, Australian fashion magnate Gussie Whitlew is used to getting everything she wants. And what she wants is the finest food, the fastest cars, and the most fabulous women. This time her bait is Whitlew Challenge, an exclusive golf tournament carefully designed to lure the world’s top female athletes to her private clubhouse. With a lot more at stake than the $1.5 million purse, tension soon flares among players, fans, and just about everyone else. Before long, so much is going on off the course that even abrasive sports reporter Mandi Fiedler has a hard time keeping her eye on the ball…until the fairway becomes a killing field and someone sets out to even the score. Thirteenth in the Carol Ashton Series.

Barred from practice, disgraced psychiatrist Charlie Flint receives a mysterious summons to Oxford from an old professor who wants her to look into the death of her daughter’s husband. But as Charlie delves deeper into the case and steps back into the arcane world of Oxford colleges, she realizes that there is much more to this crime than meets the eye. Val McDermid has published twenty-four novels. An internationally best-selling author, her books have been translated into thirty languages. She has won more than a dozen major awards, most recently the 2010 Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding achievement in the field of mysteries.

When young Australian opera star Collis Raeburn is found dead in a hotel room surrounded by pills and alcohol, the authorities are quick to rule it a straightforward suicide. Unconvinced by the tidy scene, Detective Inspector Carol Ashton steps in to spearhead a proper investigation, immediately drawing the ire of the singer’s powerful, hostile family. As Carol uncovers a tangled web of blackmail, hidden assets, and deep-seated fears within the music industry, she must trust her sharp instincts to find a killer all while navigating the pressures of her demanding career and her own private life as a gay woman in the public eye.