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(0)Craig Russell
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Hutchinson
Pub. Date
2011
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As the flood waters recede after a massive storm hits Hamburg, a headless torso is found washed up. Jan Fabel of the Murder Commission's investigations lead him to a secretive environmental Doomsday cult called Pharos, the brainchild of a reclusive, crippled billionaire, Dominik Korn.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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Four bodies are found. There is nothing to connect them, other than that they have been killed in the same way: quick, efficient, and bloodless, each victim stabbed with the same instrument. The press call the killer 'The Ghost', as he leaves no trace. Nor can Fabel see any hint of any psycho-sexual or other motive. The victims are of both genders and from completely different walks of life. They are, however, all roughly the same age, which leads...
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Lennox liked Quiet Tommy Quaid. Perhaps it's odd for a private detective to like - even admire - a career thief, but Quiet Tommy Quaid was the sort of man everyone liked. Amiable, easy-going, well-dressed, with no vices to speak of - well, aside from his excessive drinking and womanising, but then in 1950s Glasgow those are practically virtues. And besides, throughout his many exploits outside the law, Quiet Tommy never once used violence. It was...
Author
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2023
Description
1927: Hollywood studio fixer Mary Rourke is called to the palatial home of 'the most desirable woman in the world', silent movie actress Norma Carlton, star of The Devil's Playground. When Rourke finds Carlton dead, she wonders if the dark rumours she's heard are true: that The Devil's Playground really is a cursed production. But nothing in Hollywood is ever what it seems, and cynical fixer Rourke, more used to covering up the truth for studio bosses,...
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Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
1935. As Europe prepares itself for a calamitous war, six homicidal lunatics - the so-called 'Devil's Six' - are confined in a remote castle asylum in rural Czechoslovakia. Each patient has their own dark story to tell and Dr Viktor Kosarek, a young psychiatrist using revolutionary techniques, is tasked with unlocking their murderous secrets. At the same time, a terrifying killer known as 'Leather Apron' is butchering victims across Prague. Successfully...
9) Hyde
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Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Edward Hyde has a strange gift - or a curse - he keeps secret from all but his physician. He experiences two realities, one real, the other a dreamworld state brought on by a neurological condition. When murders in Victorian Edinburgh echo the ancient Celtic threefold death ritual, Captain Edward Hyde hunts for those responsible. In the process he becomes entangled in a web of Celticist occultism and dark scheming by powerful figures. The answers...
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
All around the world, people start to see things that aren't there, that cannot be. As the visions become truly apocalyptic, some turn to religion, others to science. Only one man, driven by personal as well as professional reasons, is capable of finding the real truth.
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Publisher
ISIS Audio Books
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Prague, 1935: Viktor Kosrek, a newly-trained psychiatrist, arrives at the infamous Hrad Orlu Asylum for the Criminally Insane. The asylum houses the country?'s six most treacherous killers and Viktor hopes to use a new medical technique to prove that these patients share a common archetype of evil, a phenomenon known as The Devil Aspect. As he begins to learn the secrets of these patients, Viktor must face the possibility that these six may share...
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Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Human remains are recovered from the bottom of the River Clyde. Not an unusual occurrence, but these have been sleeping the deep, dark sleep for 18 years. Suddenly Glasgow's underworld is buzzing with the news that the dredged up bones belong to Gentleman Joe Strachan, Glasgow's most successful and ruthless armed robber.
13) Blood eagle
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Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2006
Description
'Blood Eagle' is a violently exciting thriller, and detective Jan Fabel's desperate attempt to solve the case before more victims are discovered gradually uncovers layer upon layer of intrigue. How can he track a murderer who leaves no trail and whose victims seem purposefully random?
14) Brother Grimm
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Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Jan Fabel, of the Hamburg murder squad, is on the trail of a serial killer who makes grisly references to folk stories by the Brothers Grimm. A predator who kills and then disappears into the shadows. A monster we all learned to fear in childhood.