Alex Pillai
Language
English
Description
DI Rachita Ray is promoted to join a homicide investigation. When she's told the murder is a 'Culturally Specific Homicide,' it makes her suspect she's been chosen for her ethnicity rather than her ability. However, Rachita sticks to the case, determined to find the killer by delving deep into the dangerous world of organized crime, as well as calling out the obvious biases her colleagues are bringing to the investigation.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Follows three housemates as they do their best to live their lives as normally as possible despite their strange and dark secrets. Lovable George battles with his double identity as a mild mannered hospital porter who for one night of the month turns into a flesh hungry werewolf, Mitchell is a good looking and confident vampire trying to go cold turkey from his blood sucking urges and recently deceased Annie is a chatty yet underconfident ghost whose...
Author
Series
Wire in the Blood volume 2
Language
English
Description
Carol and Tony examine the brutal slaying of a religious couple in their home that seems to be linked to a local slaughterhouse. As Carol suffers a personal crisis, Tony works with a convicted murderer who claims he's reformed.
12) Ghost hunter
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Harry Price, a real-life psychic researcher famous for exposing the tricks of fraudulent spiritualists in London after World War I is infamous, too, for a few long-ago frauds of his own. After a séance goes tragically awry, Harry vows to play it straight, until a distraught, socially prominent woman asks him to rid her home of ghosts. Will he tell her the hard truth about the psychological source of her fear? Or comfort her with the lies she wants...
Author
Series
Midsomer Murders volume 5
Language
English
Description
When the boss of Calder's Biscuit Company is murdered in Copenhagen, Barnaby and Nelson join forces with two female Danish detectives, the abrasive and astute Poulsen and the charming and cool Degn.
Author
Series
Midsomer Murders volume 2
Language
English
Description
A series of murders in Midsomer St Claire seem to be inspired by macabre images on a medieval fresco recently discovered in the church crypt.
Author
Series
Midsomer Murders volume 1
Language
English
Description
The appearance of a headless horseman at Quitewell Hall foreshadows a number of deaths amongst an aristocratic family. In the midst of a Civil War re-enactment the family relive their own historic battles with their hostile neighbours.
Author
Series
Midsomer Murders volume 5
Language
English
Description
Harriet Farmer wakes up after being in a coma since the night she tried to elope. Soon afterwards, a killer strikes members of a chess club. Soon afterwards, a killer strikes members of a chess club.
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
There is something alive within the gloomy walls of Carwell Grange and it is not quite human. This spine-chilling, Victorian-era thriller pits bone-chilling fear against hot-blooded passion. As an orphaned child, Alice Maybell was taken in by Squire Fairfields. Now that she has grown into a beautiful young woman, his intentions have turned sinister. When she secretly marries his son, Charles, the Squire's wrath explodes and the desperate couple flee...
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 9
Language
English
Description
When the half-naked body of a 12-year-old is discovered floating in a drainage ditch near his school, the team is called in, bringing Nikki back in contact with one of her former teachers, Noel Hopkins, now headmaster. During Harry's preliminary examination they find clear signs of abuse, and when the police discover the victim was last seen with another boy, Liam, who has also gone missing, they fear he may have been abducted.