Carne School kept itself apart from the Dorset town it dominated. But something terrible had happened in this enclosed world: the wife of a junior master had been murdered. Smiley goes to solve this murder. The author also wrote "The Secret Pilgrim" and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold".
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DCI Alan Banks is more than a little surprised when his boss, Chief Constable Riddle, asks for his help. Riddle's 16-year-old daughter has run away and Riddle wants Banks to use his unorthodox methods to bring her home without a fuss.
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Winner of the British Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award 1994
aus der Reihe Pan Books'>Mathilda Gillespie, eine wegen ihrer spitzen Zunge nicht sehr beliebte alte Dame, ist tot. Die Ärztin Sarah Blakeney findet sie zwei Tage nach ihrem Ableben. Vollgepumpt mit Tabletten und Alkohol im Blut liegt sie, die Pulsadern aufgeschnitten, in der Badewanne. Gesteigert wird der schreckliche Anblick noch durch eine blumenverzierte mittelalterliche Maske, die das Gesicht der Toten bedeckt. Was zuerst wie ein inszenierter Selbstmord aussieht, ...

Peter Darwin, a First Secretary in the Foreign Office, returns to England from Tokyo. On the way he stops in Miami, and there becomes entangled in a fracas which involves his going back to Gloucestershire. He has to use all his diplomatic skills to unravel cruel fates which befall racehorses.
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During a blistering summer, drought has depleted Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called Hobb's End, hidden from view for over 40 years. A young boy finds a human skeleton, and DCI Alan Banks sets out to uncover the murky past.
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Two masked men walk mild mannered accountant, Keith Rothwell, out of his farmhouse and clinically blow him away with a shotgun. Clearly a professional hit - but no one could believe that a man like Keith could be murdered. Chief Inspector Alan Banks discovers Rothwell's secret life.
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'Robinson is definitely one to watch' - "Independent on Sunday". 'Every page here is readable and compelling' - "Washington Times". The broken body of Jason Fox has been found in a dirty alleyway. At first, it looks like a typical after-hours pub fight gone wrong. But Inspector Alan Banks soon realizes that the truth is rarely so straightforward... Jason was a member of the Albion League, a white power organization. And there are many people who ...

A seventh novel from Minette Walters, which was extremely well received in hardback, and which should see further growth in terms of sales. "This long-awaited novel from a bestselling pen is probably the most unsettling and complex in the whole, extraordinary Walters canon, stamped more clearly than ever with the hallmark of her furious compassion." Frances Fyfield. ...

The latest Inspector Banks paperback, which follows in the footsteps of his most successful hardback yet. The identity of a serial killer, the Chameleon, has finally been revealed. But his capture is only the beginning of a shocking investigation that will test Inspector Alan Banks to the absolute limit. "Banks emerges as a definite contender for fiction's new top cop" )Independent On Sunday(.
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Olive Martin ist im Zuchthaus für ihre Tobsuchtsanfälle bekannt und auch dafür, daß sie ununterbrochen Figuren knetet und mit langen Nadeln spickt. Sie wurde verurteilt, weil sie sich schuldig bekannte, Mutter und Schwester brutal ermordet zu haben. Auf Druck ihres Verlegers sucht die Londoner Journalistin Rosalind Leigh die Inhaftierte auf und ist von der Persönlichkeit der "Bildhauerin" auf merkwürdige Weise fasziniert. Irritierend auf sie ...