The Detective S Daughter

Author : Lesley Thomson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781853177

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The Detective's Daughter by Lesley Thomson Pdf

As winter closes its grip on snow-bound London, a cleaner determines to solve the case that her detective father never could. A Kindle number one bestseller. It was the murder that shocked the nation. Kate Rokesmith, a young mother, walked to the banks of the Thames with her three-year-old son. She never came home. For three decades, the case file has lain, unsolved, in the corner of an attic. Until the detective's daughter, Stella Darnell, starts to clear out her father's house after his death... Reviews for The Detective's Daughter: 'A haunting novel about loss and reconciliation, driven by a simple but clever plot' Sunday Times 'This book has a clever mystery plot – but its excellence is in the characters, all credible and memorable, and in its setting in a real West London street, exactly described' Literary Review 'A thoughtful, well-observed story... It reminded me of Kate Atkinson' Scott Pack 'A cerebral thriller... Evokes chills from more than just the frigid winter nights' Forward Reviews Magazine 'Lesley Thomson gets better and better' Ian Rankin

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : Random House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780099536826

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The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey Pdf

Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains, a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England's throne? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower.

Author : Lesley Thomson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784972240

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The Dog Walker by Lesley Thomson Pdf

Brand new from the #1 bestselling author of The Detective's Daughter. Stella and Jack must reawaken the secrets of the past in order to solve the mysteries of the present. January, 1987. In the depths of winter, only joggers and dog walkers brave the Thames towpath after dark. Helen Honeysett, a young newlywed, sets off for an evening run from her riverside cottage and disappears. Twenty-nine years later, Helen's body has never been found. Her husband has asked Stella Darnell, a private detective, and her side-kick Jack Harmon, to find out what happened all those years ago. But when the five households on that desolate stretch of towpath refuse to give up their secrets, Stella and Jack find themselves hunting a killer whose trail has long gone cold.

Author : Lesley Thomson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781857663

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Ghost Girl by Lesley Thomson Pdf

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER. Seven cryptic photographs. A decades-old case. Can one woman find a killer? Before his death, Terry Darnell was a famous detective. His daughter Stella, a cleaner, has inherited his methodical mind. She has also inherited a strange case file: seven photographs of empty streets. Why did her father keep them for so many years? One photo dates from 1966, to a day when a young girl witnessed something that would haunt her forever. As Stella scrubs away at the truth, the events of that day begin to haunt her too... THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER SERIES: The Detective's Daughter. Ghost Girl. The Detective's Secret. The House With No Rooms. The Dog Walker.

Author : Lesley Thomson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781857694

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The Detective's Secret by Lesley Thomson Pdf

They will learn the city's secrets. They will learn who plans to kill... A man has jumped in front of a late night train. Stella Darnell, a cleaner who solves crimes, suspects it's murder. Now she's stirring up the past with questions that no one wants to answer. Jack Harmon, a driver on the Tube, has a new home at the top of an old water tower, with a perfect bird's eye view of London. If he watches through binoculars, he will learn the city's secrets. He will learn who plans to kill... THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER SERIES: The Detective's Daughter. Ghost Girl. The Detective's Secret. The House With No Rooms. The Dog Walker.

Author : Lawrence L. Lynch
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667660776

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Madeline Payne, The Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch Pdf

The famous detective Lionel Payne was murdered when his daughter was only six months old. Years later, Madeline adopts her father’s career when she comes of age...and plots revenge on her scheming stepfather—who only married her mother to steal her inheritance!

Author : Rachelle McCalla
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780373444816

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The Detective's Secret Daughter by Rachelle McCalla Pdf

"Inspirational romantic suspense"--Spine.

Author : Lesley Thomson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786697196

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The Death Chamber by Lesley Thomson Pdf

From the number one bestseller of The Detective's Daughter. For forty years, someone has got away with murder... Forty years ago, seventeen-year-old Cassie Baker took a shortcut home from a small Cotswolds village, and was never seen again. Twenty years later, Cotswolds police found Cassie's remains while searching for another missing teenager, Bryony Motson. Bryony's body was never found. Now Stella Darnell, cleaner and private detective, has decided to find out what happened to Bryony. She knows her investigation will be dangerous. Because, for too long, someone has got away with murder. Someone who will do anything to keep it that way... PRAISE FOR LESLEY THOMSON: 'In the best traditions of the classic whodunnit, this is Midsomer Murders for grown-ups' Jake Kerridge, SUNDAY EXPRESS. 'Lesley Thomson is a class above' IAN RANKIN. 'Stella Darnell is one of the most original characters in British crime fiction' Joan Smith, SUNDAY TIMES. 'A wonderfully eerie setting, unique characters and a chilling plot' ELLY GRIFFITHS. 'Clever, credible and memorable' LITERARY REVIEW. 'Gloriously well-written... Thomson creates a rich and sinister world that is utterly unique' WILLIAM SHAW.

Author : Lesley Thomson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781788549745

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The Distant Dead by Lesley Thomson Pdf

A woman lies dead in a bombed-out house. A tragic casualty of the Blitz? Or something more sinister? Sixty years later, the detective's daughter unearths the truth... From the number 1 bestselling author of The Detective's Daughter. LONDON, 1940 Several neighbours heard the scream of the woman in the bombed-out house. One told the detective she thought the lady had seen a mouse. Another said it wasn't his business what went on behind closed doors. None of them imagined that a trusting young woman was being strangled by her lover. TEWKESBURY, 2020 Beneath the vast stone arches of Tewkesbury Abbey, a man lies bleeding, close to death. He is the creator of a true-crime podcast which now will never air. He was investigating the murder of a 1940s police pathologist – had he come closer to the truth than he realised? Stella Darnell has moved to Tewkesbury to escape from death, not to court it. But when this man dies in her arms, Stella, impelled to root out evil when she finds it, becomes determined to hunt down his killer and to bring the secrets he was searching for into the light... Praise for The Detective's Daughter series: 'Lesley Thomson gets better and better' Ian Rankin 'Cunningly plotted' Mick Herron 'One of the most original characters in British crime fiction... Thomson's plots are original and she draws her characters with genuine affection' Sunday Times 'In the best traditions of the classic whodunnit, this is Midsomer Murders for grown-ups' Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express 'Gloriously well-written... Thomson creates a rich and sinister world that is utterly unique' William Shaw

Author : Lesley Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9781788542982

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The Detective's Daughter by Lesley Thomson Pdf

A tense, evocative thriller set on the freezing banks of the Thames. A woman reconnects with her dead father by solving the murder case that obsessed him in life.

Author : Brad Ricca
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466883659

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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca Pdf

Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime! This is the shocking and amazing true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing 18-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer, detective, and first woman U.S. District Attorney who turned her back on New York society life to become one of the nation's greatest crime-fighters during an era when women were still not allowed to vote. After agreeing to take the sensational case of missing eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger, Grace and her partner, the hard-boiled detective Julius J. Kron, navigated a dangerous web of secret boyfriends, two-faced cops, underground tunnels, rumors of white slavery, and a mysterious pale man, in a desperate race against time. Brad Ricca's Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is the first-ever narrative biography of this singular woman the press nicknamed after fiction's greatest detective. Her poignant story reveals important clues about missing girls, the media, and the real truth of crime stories. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is a nominee for the 2018 Edgar Awards for Best Fact Crime.

Author : Lesley Thomson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784972202

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The House With No Rooms by Lesley Thomson Pdf

A woman lies dead on the ground. A girl watches from the shadows. What did she really see? The summer of 1976 was the hottest in living memory. A lost little girl, dizzied by the head, stumbled upon a deserted museum. She thought she saw a woman lying dead on the ground. But when she opened her eyes, the woman had gone. Forty years later, cleaner and detective Stella Darnell is investigating a suspected murder in the Botanical Gardens at Kew. Working methodically, stain by stain, she is drawn into an obsessive world, and towards a killer who has never been caught... THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER SERIES: The Detective's Daughter. Ghost Girl. The Detective's Secret. The House With No Rooms. The Dog Walker. What people are saying about THE HOUSE WITH NO ROOMS: 'I'd give it 6 stars if it were possible' 'An unsettling, accomplished book by a writer at the top of her game' 'There is a sense of menace, suspense and sadness all interspersed with pockets of humour. So cleverly written' 'Can't put it down, the perfect present'

Author : Lisa Regan
Publisher : Bookouture
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786813831

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The Girl With No Name by Lisa Regan Pdf

Author : R. A. Spratt
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781626722989

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Friday Barnes, Girl Detective by R. A. Spratt Pdf

Imagine if Sherlock Holmes was an eleven-year-old girl! When Friday Barnes, girl genius, solves a bank robbery, she uses the reward money to send herself to Highcrest Academy, the most exclusive boarding school in the country—and discovers it's a hotbed of crime! Soon she's investigating everything from disappearing homework to the terrifying Yeti haunting the school swamp. But the biggest mystery yet is Ian Wainscott, the handsomest (and most arrogant) boy in school who inexplicably hates her. Will the homework be found? Can they ever track down the Yeti? And why is Ian out to ruin her? With black-and-white art throughout, Friday Barnes, Girl Detective is the launch of an exciting new mystery series that "will keep readers laughing from start to finish." (Publishers Weekly)

Author : Erica Spindler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944323295

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The Detective's Daughter by Erica Spindler Pdf

A crime drama about a woman who risks everything to solve the cold case that destroyed her father-but will it destroy her as well?New Orleans Detective Quinn Conners is haunted by her father's whiskey-soaked, last words-that he solved the Hudson murder and kidnapping and that he'd uncovered what happened to Grace Hudson. It wasn't the first time he'd made that drunken claim, and she didn't believe him. Twenty-four hours later she found him dead by his own hand.Quinn's lived with that guilt for five years, so when she receives an anonymous message saying Your father didn't kill himself she wants desperately to believe it. Could he have truly uncovered the fate of Grace Hudson and been killed for it? Soon, Quinn finds herself entangled in the web of mystery surrounding Grace Hudson's disappearance and the powerful, secretive family at the heart of it.In too deep, she fears her fate may mimic her father's. Even so, she refuses to back down, determined to crack the cold case and unearth the truth of her father's death.