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Prodigy pianist Simon Duckworth has a dark past. After being violently raped when he was thirteen, he flees to London, ashamed and determined never to tell a soul. He gets a job at a Denmark Street music shop, but it stifles him. At the first opportunity, Simon answers an ad for a musician, an act that changes his life forever. Stephen Abednego has seen the same ad. He arrives in London with little more than his ambitions and a sheaf of poems, but...
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In 1942, Pearl Harbor has been bombed and the war is very much in evidence, but it would seem to have little to do with Frank Boyle, a respected Bronx born insurance investigator. He's a man who can keep secrets, and no one suspects that his boyhood friend-local mob boss Nicky Brooks-is his lover. When Brooks accidentally kills Frank's younger brother in a shootout, Frank must choose between his affair with Nicky and revenge for his brother's life....
11) Come to Dust
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Inspector Raft is tasked with solving a kidnapping when an old foe returns with information that could derail his career.
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Durant l'hiver glacial de 1891, alors que la nation est encore sous le choc de la crise bancaire de Baring, l'inspecteur Philemon Raft revient d'un congé sabbatique involontaire, et se retrouve chargé de résoudre l'enlèvement de Miriam Dewberry, une jeune fille de bonne famille. Projeté dans un milieu sordide où les classes supérieures se livrent à des investissements honteux, de l'autre côté de l'océan, pour engraisser leur compte en banque,...
14) Dark Water
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A Kildevil Cove Murder Mystery
They say trouble comes in threes. Detective Danny Quirke is already mourning his wife and mired in an internal investigation that will likely spell the end of his career. Now he must return to the Newfoundland fishing village of his youth to bury his abusive grandfather. At least his three are up. Right?
Then the bones of local boy Llewellyn Single, drowned thirty years before, wash up on the beach, and secrets Danny...
15) Dark Mire
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A Kildevil Cove Murder Mystery
You never know what trouble will rise from the bog.
When the body of an unidentified woman is found in a Newfoundland bog, Inspector Danny Quirke must scramble his team of investigators to find her killer. But what initially seems like a straightforward case soon becomes mired in a tangled web of lies and deliberate obfuscation.
With the strange mutilation of the body-one eye gouged out completely-evidence seems...
16) Dark Tide
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They say it never rains but it pours. Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Inspector Danny Quirke would have to agree.
First, someone murders a vulnerable Kildevil Cove man and dumps him in an abandoned well. Then the body of a sex-trafficking victim washes up on a nearby beach. Danny has to get to the bottom of both deaths, but with few leads and little support from his superiors, he's spinning his wheels in a mud pit of a case. Vital resources go missing,...
17) Dark Vows
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They say you shouldn't meet trouble halfway, but Inspector Danny Quirke never has to worry about that. Trouble always finds him.
When a house fire rocks his small town of Kildevil Cove, Danny's inquiries into the house's mysterious inhabitants prompt the dispatch of Inspecteur Blaise Pascal from Quebec.
Pascal arrives in perpetual ill humor, but he's an expert on this particular family. If anyone can determine whether this is a missing persons...
18) Dark Souls
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There's trouble brewing in the cold waters of Kildevil Cove, and this time Danny Quirke may be hard put to stop it.
Due to his suspected association with his former boss's human trafficking organization, Danny has been demoted and is no longer in charge. To make matters worse, he's broken up with his partner, Tadhg... who may be in serious hot water himself. But then a faceless killer begins targeting Kildevil Cove's most vulnerable, and Danny...
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