Now a major BBC drama as part of the Cormoran Strike series When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible - and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them... A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, Career of Evil is the third in the number one bestselling series featuring Cormoran Strike and his assistant, Robin Ellacott.
. . A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force. *Some of the more complex layouts in the book are rendered as images in the ebook version so that you can enlarge on your preferred reading device*
Published under a pseudonym, J. K. Rowling's brilliant debut mystery introduces Detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates a supermodel's suicide in "one of the best books of the year" (USA Today), the first novel in the brilliant series ...
The most epic Robert Galbraith novel yet, Lethal White is "addictive, murderous fun" for British mystery lovers and crime fiction fans alike (Vox).
***The 7th novel in the Strike series, THE RUNNING GRAVE, is coming in September 2023.
The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published, it would ruin lives -- meaning that almost everyone in his life would have motives to silence him.
If you play games with a killer... you can't afford to lose.
Christobel Kent’s The Crooked House is a haunting thriller about one woman’s search for the truth about her past through a closed community full of dark secrets.
But the weathered mannequins looked so sad, with their wigs askew beneath their cheap straw hats and their plain cotton frocks blowing in the breeze, revealing their plastic legs. They were bound with rope to the wooden stakes, ...
Their owner placed a miniature cannon between them, and instantly they went to work with their beaks, first dropping a small ball in the muzzle, then running back to the breach and lighting it with a tiny match.
She introduced herself as Mrs Ferguson and apologized to Cal for greeting him in her dressing gown with the implicit reproach: 'I dare say you wouldn't expect anything else since it is well past midnight.