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In Digital Pursuit
Digital Pursuit continues the story of criminal Tim Ridgway, first encountered in Following Digital Footprints. Tim has now been sentenced to ten years for his credit card and identity theft crimes and is taken to HMP Dinas Bay in Wales to serve his sentence.
Ever one to use his skills to his own advantage, Tim sets about planning his escape, whilst at the same time the authorities get wind of something big going down in the prison. Midshire Police set up an investigation and follow up various leads, putting two and two together and, in an entertaining fashion, not always coming up with four.
This is another enjoyable book from David McCaddon, in which the reader can become re-acquainted with old friends from Midshire Police and follow the threads of the plot which twist and turn in a satisfying manner.£8.99 -
Gemma Makes Her Mark
While in prison and preparing for parole after serving time for the murders of his mother and father-in-law, Mark met young probation officer Gemma. After his release, they develop a relationship and move in together. Although Mark feels that he is in control, Gemma is not as naïve as he imagines; she’s from a wealthy family and isn’t committed to a lifetime career in the probation service. She begins to see him as a means to help her gain some revenge for the way her mother (mis)treated her father during his terminal illness.After using Mark to help her achieve her aims, Gemma becomes increasingly bored with her situation and begins to separate herself from him. Mark won’t let her go easily and won’t let her get away with having used him to achieve her own ends. What ensues sees Mark returning to his previous sociopathic tendencies and extreme strategies.This insightful and disturbing thriller culminates in a gripping climax set on the Adriatic coastline of Yugoslavia in the early 1980s.Praise for Murderer: On Your Mark:‘Ian Marsh has used his experience to create a worthy academic crime novel, featuring a narrator who definitely doesn't put his students first. Murderer: On Your Mark is a wicked poison pill of a debut.’ Paul Johnston, CWA Dagger Winner
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From the Village of Lucca
What connects a brutal robbery in the Tuscan village of Lucca, to murders that occurred in the American Southwest? And how could a killing that took place in an Arizona bordello be related to what happened in a grim asylum nearly a lifetime later? Paul Rankin is about to learn the answers-and much more. The young lawyer has been practicing barely a year, but already hates it. He's been hoping for the thrills of the courtroom, but the firm's wealthy clients have infuriating whims about a lawyer's role-the last one paid five hundred an hour for him to walk her dog! Enter Louisa Locke, a tiny, dying widow with a mysterious missing person case. The brittle woman already spent staggering sums on useless investigators, but will stop at nothing to find out what happened to a tragic, childhood friend named Laura. With little time left she offers a fortune if Paul's firm can find out. The work has all the signs of another dog walker task, and then Paul discovers his firm's retired founder may hold the clues. But that's Paul's own father, and they're estranged. Worse yet, the old man suffers from Alzheimer's, and the keys to Locke's puzzle seem to be falling away from his crumbling mind. Paul's already fractured relationship with his father gets only worse when he learns of the bond Locke had with her friend, and the touching reasons for her obsession. He begins ignoring rules to find out more, until he reaches a dangerous crossroads. He makes a stunning decision, and starts down a trail of murder and deceit that leads halfway around the world. Within just a few months of getting this ‘dog walking' assignment he'll get his wish for courtroom work-in an ancient Florentine courtroom, no less. But there's a catch: It's the kind of trial most lawyers have nightmares about.
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Four Decades of Lies, Deceit, Corruption and Murder
Susan Aitken returns home looking forward to the Easter weekend to find her husband, Sir Gerald Aitken, with a bullet in his head. What appears to be a suicide is much more sinister. Four teenage friends, all now mature women, become reunited at his funeral. Thirty years have passed and none of them realise that their lives have been intertwined.The months following the funeral open up a catalogue of lies and as Susan struggles to cope with the consequences, police investigate further and find links to blackmail, homosexuality and child abuse amongst all of them. The family and trusted friends are in total disbelief, but one of them is Gerald's killer. How do these happenings, spanning over four decades, lead to a massive police cover-up and who is behind it all?
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Following Digital Footprints
Following digital footprints is a detective story with a difference. Different sections of a police force are investigating cases of hire car theft, credit card fraud and identity theft using traditional methods supported by ever more sophisticated IT systems. The criminals, meanwhile, become increasingly greedy but appear to be committing their crimes under the radar. The suspense builds, as the police build their case methodically and with the occasional element of luck. There are several twists and turns as the plot races towards a conclusion, and the reader can only wait and see whether the police or the criminals will succeed.David McCaddon has written an enthralling whodunnit by drawing on his many years of experience in law enforcement systems development working with police forces worldwide. The technical details are described with a light touch and this adds to the enjoyment of the novel. A satisfying read.
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Flake
Ness Gordon is an amateur journalist, ready to get the scoop by any means necessary. So when the opportunity to snoop around Sir John Woldarc’s (a potential secret spy) Gothic mansion arises, Ness jumps at the chance to prove herself and expose the most controversial story she’s had the chance to come across.But when Kalum, her brother, unleashes his fury upon hearing that Ness is living at the mansion temporarily, Ness must ask herself whether there’s more going on than she may realise... How does Kalum know so much about her target? Why doesn’t he trust her journalistic capabilities? And what is it about Ewan, Woldarc’s seemingly faithful second-in-command, that leaves her feeling so afraid?
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Family Ways
Bernard has a problem, he's barely four-years-old and his family is a dead loss. His mother, Donna, has a certain idea of what constitutes a job and his granddad, Jack, isn't the sharpest tool in the box and keeps bad company like Lennie Stevens. On the plus side his grandma, Nora, seems to hold things together, but only just - and she can't be everywhere ...Norman Burslem's Family Ways is a witty look into the working class world of petty - and not so petty - crime and what it's like to try and make ends meet when good jobs and nice lifestyles aren't really an option. Bernard Scrivens, at four-years of age, really only has one chance, but the trouble is it will take a good deal of mistakes from his carers to make that chance a reality. Enter Lennie Stevens, career opportunities for Jack and the distant promise of Wales.
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Droid: Part 1
Who are you? Why are you reading this? Can you help me? I am starting to get worried. You see, I killed my creator. Oh lord, what have I done? I just want to be normal like you, but I could not be normal with him knowing what I really am. Okay, I know what to do. Yes, I see what needs doing—I must run, run so far like Harrison Ford did in the Fugitive. I am not fake. I am real. My name is Droid and to be normal, I must kill.
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Destiny's Elbow
Working against the background of a campaign for Scottish independence, American undercover narcotics agent, Roz Tattarkowski, has to take over as lead investigator when her chief is killed in a mysterious accident in Edinburgh. From that time on, she receives minimal support from her organization in the U.S.A.Seemingly left alone to operate in a country she dislikes and struggles to understand, Roz relies on skills she learned as an aspiring but unsuccessful actor in New York. These enable her to track through political intrigue and deceit into a world of narcotics production, immigrant smuggling and trade in human organs. In the process, she becomes involved in further intrigue at the international level, when her acting talents are put to a final test: war will be the outcome if they fail.Throughout these events, Roz takes pride in her imagination and improvisation. But what appear to be actions taken freely and on personal initiative turn out to be plots scripted and directed by unseen hands.
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Delany's Challenge
Josh Delany had, in a previous life, been a Special Forces officer for many years, leaving the army after being seriously injured, indeed almost killed whist abroad on active duty, saving the lives of others, and forcing him to leave the army he loved.As a civilian, after witnessing very impressive police work by a friend, who brought the killer of his mother-in-law to justice, (described in the author’s previous book Delany’s Progess) he decided that his own future lay within that sphere.Because of his previous experience he was a master of intrigue and disguise, having the ability to infiltrate gangs of serious criminals, become an excepted member of those groups and work with them until eventually when the time was right bringing them crashing down. As time went on, he eventually had a very good relationship, indeed friendship with a lifetime small crook and old lag, Deuteronomy Golightly, who assisted him greatly on many occasions, sometimes in quite humorous circumstances. He is also a dedicated family man, loving his wife Wendy and his two daughters. This book leads into the start of the author’s book Beware My Shadow, when Wendy and one of his daughters met brutal deaths. Had the killers been aware of the capabilities of Josh Delany, it is certain that they would have been much more careful.
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Death of a Grey Man
Step aside Inspector Rebus, there's another crime solver stalking the not so mean streets of Edinburgh's New Town. This one comes with calculator, accountancy tables and a broken marriage. When Sandy Gray's father's murdered body is left in an Edinburgh tourist spot and the police investigation stalls he wants to know the reason why. He enlists the help of his erstwhile and much more worldly-wise friend Billy. Together they share the pursuit that moves the action from Scotland's Capital to the Border Country. This is a story that keeps the reader guessing and amused right until the end.
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Death Behind the Headlines
It is February 1986. Margery Moore, photojournalist and feature writer for the local paper, is unprepared for major news stories to unfold near her cottage, under the shadow of the mysterious and legendary Glebe Mound. When two of her acquaintances are found dying and historic documents go missing, Margery finds herself under suspicion. An eccentric recluse is arrested. Local gossip involves Margery’s Russian ‘fancy man’.Two inquests explain everything, or do they? Margery’s nosy neighbour is as perplexed as she is. Can it be down to the malignant spirits of the six witches of Havell-on-the-Marsh, who were hanged on the Glebe Mound four hundred years earlier?Angry demonstrations in the marketplace against the cancellation of the traditional midsummer fair, proposals for a bypass and plans to build on the green belt culminate in a fracas after the Valentine’s Ball. Can the detective from Scotland Yard enlisted by the mayor solve these mysteries? Or does his dismissive attitude to the provinces, legend and gossip blind him to the truth?
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