Money Mystery

Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss is in a very dark place. Personal tragedy has pushed her close to self-destruct mode; both colleagues and friends have started to give her a wide berth. But Bev is still a dedicated cop - and there are villains to battle as well as demons. Enter the Sandman, a vicious serial burglar who, disguised in a clown mask, plays evil mind games with his victims. But when the violence spirals into abduction, blackmail and murder, the bad guys soon discover Bev is in no mood to play.

Wall Street banker John Thatcher is drawn into this mystery as a financial man seeking to get his bank repaid. In this case it relates to a trust fund with an heir missing and then killed.

“I love the way [Ainsley Walker] goes to a different country in each book and explores. It makes me want to visit those places!” – 5-star review A faraway island. An impending hurricane. And a missing pearl brooch. An airplane en route to the U.S. is forced to land on the island of Puerto Rico—and onboard is AINSLEY WALKER Stranded in torrential rain, she is guided by another passenger towards an old plantation house in the island’s tropical interior, where she meets an elderly woman who has lost a precious family heirloom. It's a pearl brooch that had once belonged to an actual ...

Incluso en la más honorable mansión británica puede haber un robo. Lady Lydiard todavía no se cree lo que ha pasado, pero lo peor es que todas las sospechas apuntan hacía a su hija adoptiva, Isabel Miller. El abogado de la familia, el señor Troy, va intentar averiguar qué es lo que ha pasado exactamente. Por otro lado el mayordomo de la casa va a investigar lo sucedido a través de un viejo timador conocido por su agudeza a la hora de resolver casos similares.

Questo racconto in due parti (il cui titolo originale era "La cedola di Mitja") fu scritto non prima del 1904, e fu pubblicato postumo nel 1911. E' stato giudicato una requisitoria contro il denaro, inteso come strumento di corruzione individuale e sociale. In realtà è molto più di questo: è la continuazione ideale del suo ultimo grande romanzo, Resurrezione, che si conclude con l'affermazione del potere di redenzione del Vangelo.

"Tell your boss that I have one of his employees." With those words a kidnapping plot begins in the middle of a high-stakes corporate merger. But the kidnappers' plans don't unfold - they unravel. “If you're thinking of committing the perfect crime, read Charlie Peters’ elegant new thriller first. Find out just how many ways perfection can go wrong.” Dan Hearn, author, Bad August