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Author
Series
Max Wolfe novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Meet London police detective Max Wolfe. Insomniac. Dog lover. Coffee addict. Boxer. Single parent. And every murderer's worst nightmare. There's a serial killer on the loose. He cuts throats. And he is good at it. Twenty years ago seven students became best friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field, founded five hundred years ago by King Henry VIII. Suddenly they have started dying in the most violent way imaginable... Detective Max...
Author
Series
Max Wolfe novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Max Wolfe is back-the two-fisted homicide detective with a small daughter and dog waiting for him at home and a crazed serial killer waiting for him somewhere out in the pitiless London streets. On New Year's Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community, their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon-a gun used to stun cattle before they are butchered-leads Max to a dusty corner of Scotland Yard's Black Museum...
3) The burning
Author
Series
Maeve Kerrigan novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Assigned to investigate a string of killings by a serial murderer who sets his victims on fire, ambitious Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan embarks on an investigation that is complicated by the critical judgments of her male colleagues.
Author
Series
Max Wolfe novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A band of vigilante executioners roam the hot summer nights, abducting evil men who they judge unworthy of living and hanging them by the neck until dead. Sentenced to death is the gang member who abused dozens of vulnerable girls, the wealthy drunk driver who mowed down a child, the drug addict who put a pensioner in a coma and the hate preacher calling for the murder of British troops. But do these rogue hangmen crave true justice--or just blood?...
5) Mayhem
Author
Series
Doctor Thomas Bond novels volume 1
Publisher
Jo Fletcher Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a serial killer begins stalking the streets of London's East End, his grisly dealings are overshadowed by the hysteria surrounding Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel crimes, enabling the seemingly supernatural killer's activities to spread unchecked.
Author
Series
Fawkes and Baxter novels volume 1
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"William Fawkes, a controversial detective known as The Wolf, has just been reinstated to his post after he was suspended for assaulting a vindicated suspect. Still under psychological evaluation, Fawkes returns to the force eager for a big case. When his former partner and friend, Detective Emily Baxter, calls him to a crime scene, he{u2019}s sure this is it: the body is made of the dismembered parts of six victims, sewn together like a puppet{u2014}a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Artemis Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle has been called-in to assist with a few unsound-mind murders, lately--murders committed by a person who appears to be mentally unhinged. This type of murder is always a concern for Scotland Yard, since it raises the possibility that there's a serial killer on the loose. And it doesn't help matters that the weather is so very cold and miserable--small wonder, that these killers have gone off the deep end; Doyle was...
Author
Series
Sherlock's war volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1942 London, Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Watson track down a serial killer, Crimson Jack, who is murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888.
Author
Series
Sherlock's war volume 2
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1943. Across the city, prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the Germans have deployed a new terror weapon, a desperate government turns to the one man who can track down the source of this dreadful menace--Sherlock Holmes. The quest for a solution drives Holmes into an uneasy alliance with the country's most brilliant scientific genius, Professor James Moriarty. Only Sherlock...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A series of grisly deaths are linked to the sacred Stone of Scone in this compelling medieval mystery featuring friar-sleuth Brother Athelstan. This abbey is a strange place, Brother Athelstan. A hall of ghosts, a place of flitting shadows. The dead throng here. I can hear them whispering as they ride the air. During the harsh winter of 1381 murder stalks the streets of London in all its grisly forms. The city's prostitutes are falling prey to a...
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