Peter May
1) The Runner
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English
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In this heart-stopping installment of Peter May's award-winning China Thrillers, the Beijing Olympics are the setting for fierce competition, national pride -- and murder.
THE SUFFERER
A prodigious Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. Days later, a champion weightlifter suffers a fatal heart attack prior to competition.
THE LISTENER
Detective Li Yan senses a conspiracy surrounding the fatalities, and finds a female...
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English
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In 1942, the United States Golf Association (USGA) cancelled its four golf tournaments for the duration of World War II. But then it did something different in only that year-it sponsored the Hale-America National Open on the same weekend as the cancelled US Open. The great Ben Hogan won that tournament and went to his grave believing he had therefore won a record five US Open titles.
In The Open Question, Peter May turns his attention to this controversial,...
3) Snakehead
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English
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SUFFOCATED
A vehicle crammed with dozens of dead Chinese immigrants is found in southern Texas. Forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell must put aside her horror and find out why.
SUMMONED
Detective Li Yan -- an even more unwelcome memory for Campbell -- has arrived stateside to investigate a link in the case to a lucrative trade in illegal laborers.
SNAKEHEAD
Li and Campbell will soon find that the crime scene hides another secret: a biological...
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Deutsch
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Wenn du jemanden getötet hättest, wüsstest du das - Oder? Ein Mann wacht am Strand der kleinen schottischen Insel Harris auf, ohne zu wissen, wer er ist. Er trägt eine Schwimmweste und ist vollkommen durchnässt. Von den Inselbewohnern erfährt er, dass er offenbar Neal Maclean heißt und ein Buch über drei Leuchtturmwärter schreibt, die im Jahr 1900 von einer benachbarten Inselgruppe verschwanden. Auf der Suche nach seiner Erinnerung landet...
5) The chessmen
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Lewis trilogy volume 3
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English
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Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill - a local poacher, Fin's teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret. But when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realizes that revealing the truth could destroy...
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English
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Margaret Campbell had finally decided to leave Beijing--and the man she loved--and return home to the States. She had first come to Beijing to conduct a seminar on her specialty, forensic pathology, for the city's police. This was how she met and came to fall in love with the Beijing police detective Li Yan. Although they began as enemies, the attraction between them was overwhelming--until personal tragedies pulled them apart. Now the police need...
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English
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When a mass grave containing eighteen mutilated female corpses is discovered in Shanghai, detective Li Yan is sent from Beijing to establish if the bodies are linked to an unsolved murder in the capital. Here, Li will be working with Mei Ling, deputy head of Shanghai's serious crime squad. Mei Ling is a formidable woman: a fact that is not lost on Li's on-again, off-again lover, forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. But when Campbell, vulnerable...
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Series
Enzo files volume 7
Publisher
Riverrun
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than seventy years apart. Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former, forensics expert Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter. Two extraordinary narratives are set in train - one historical,...
10) Blowback
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Series
Enzo files volume 5
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Seven years earlier, France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world's culinary press to his remote restaurant in central France to make an announcement that he said would cause shockwaves in the culinary community. Speculating that Fraysse's restaurant was about to lose one of his precious Michelin stars, the reporters were shocked to find instead that the great chef had been murdered. In the end, the media left without a clue about the message...
11) The critic
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Series
Enzo files volume 2
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Gaillac, south-west France: Gil Petty, America's most celebrated wine critic, is found strung up in a vineyard, dressed in the ceremonial robes of the Order of the Divine Bottle and pickled in wine. For forensic expert Enzo Macleod, the key to this unsolved murder lies in decoding Petty's mysterious reviews - which could make or break a vineyard's reputation. Enzo finds that beneath the tranquil facade of French viticulture lurks a back-stabbing community...
12) Freeze frame
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Series
Enzo files volume 4
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On one tiny island, many hidden secrets - that Enzo Macleod must uncover to crack the fourth of France's most notorious unsolved murder cases. Ile de Groix, France. A Frozen Island. This tiny isle off the coast of Brittany is the scene of a murder left shrouded in mystery and grief. A Frozen Crime. Adam Killian's study has been left intact since his death - the perfect state for Enzo Macleod's forensic investigation. A Frozen Heart. Killian's widow...
13) Blacklight blue
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Series
Enzo files volume 3
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Enzo Macleod is facing a death sentence. Having been diagnosed with a terminal illness, time is running out to solve the most confounding of unsolved murders in France. But as he begins investigating the death of a rent-boy in a Parisian apartment, he suddenly finds himself under arrest. Someone is threatening to destroy his character. Someone is trying to frame him for murder. If he can use his genius for forensics to crack the cold case, he might...
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A thriller that alternates between the glamorous fashion world of Paris and the rugged beauty of the Isle of Harris in the Scottish Hebrides. When a fabric entrepreneur is killed in a car explosion in Paris, Niamh, his wife and business partner, becomes the prime suspect. The Parisian police continue to hound her when she returns to Harris to bury her husband's remains. After an attempt is made on her life, Niamh has to wonder if the motive is simply...
15) Coffin road
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
In the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, a man washes up on a deserted beach with no knowledge of who he is or how he got there, while homicide detective George Gunn makes the ocean crossing to a remote lighthouse on a rock in the North Atlantic to investigate a brutal murder.
In the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, a man washes up on a deserted beach with no knowledge of who he is or how he got there. At a remote, sea-battered lighthouse on a rock in the northern...
16) Entry Island
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
Description
When a murder rocks the isolated community of Entry Island, insomniac homicide detective Sime Mackenzie boards a light aircraft at St. Hubert airfield bound for the small, scattered chain of Madeline Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as part of an eight-officer investigation team from Montréal.
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 1
Publisher
SilverOak
Pub. Date
[2012], �2012.
Language
English
Description
When a grisly murder occurs on a Scottish island, Edinburgh detective Fin Macleod must confront his past if he is ever going to discover if the killing has a connection to another one that took place on the mainland.
19) Runaway
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life. London, 2015. A man lies dead in a one-room flat. His killer looks on, remorseless....
20) Cast iron
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Series
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Peter May's new thriller--the red-hot finale to the cold-case Enzo Files"--