Contemporary reforms of the fire and rescue service result from two excoriating reports from the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee that demonstrated the inadequacy of contemporary policy, service delivery and public assurance for fire and rescue services in England.
A devilishly complex mystery in a heavenly setting puts Emmy Tibbett in the role of sleuth—from “the author who put the ‘who’ back in whodunit” (Chicago Daily News).
For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco - and dreaming of the day of his release.
Intrepid writer and amateur sleuth Josephine Tey returns in this sixth installment of Nicola Upsons popular seriesperfect for fans of Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot and Jaqueline Winspears Maisie Dobbsthat unfolds in 1930s London as England prepares to crown a new king.
A prize-winning Cold War spy novel from the author of international megaseller THE READERYoung lawyer Georg Polger gives up a comfortable existence in Germany to work as a freelance translator in the South of France.
'A gorgeous mystery read to escape with this summer' - EJ, Amazon Reviewer, 5 starsWhen Penelope Kite swaps her humdrum life in Surrey for a picturesque farmhouse in the south of France, she imagines a simple life of long lunches and chilled ros .
Je rätselhafter der Mordfall, desto wichtiger der WeißweinIn Mosambik wird die Leiche eines Hotelbesitzers aus dem Pool gefischt, kurz darauf seine französische Exfrau verhaftet.
Provides an original approach to the emerging practice of reparations for international crimes and a fresh analysis of the recent jurisprudence at the International Criminal Court.
The first three Hercule Poirot books see the former Belgian policeman tempted out of retirement to solve a series of outlandish murders in Britain and France, assisted by the redoubtable Captain Hastings, setting him on the path to becoming the World's Greatest Detective!
Although Wasserstein calls herself a humanist, her works reflect a political rhetoric, if cloaked in humor, that she herself could not imagine to be anything but feminist.
'Rewarding, inventive and enjoyably perplexing' Sunday TimesA colleague writes an obituary for a fellow scientist and Nobel Prize winner, somewhat relishing his death; a train in the Scottish Highlands takes the wrong track during a snowstorm, resulting in a death, possibly murder; a publisher's reader reports on a hospital romance novel that bizarrely ends with a gory, Ripper-style murder.
When Lord Edgware Dies a most unnatural death, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum: if the obvious killer, the slain peers spiteful wife, didnt do it, who did?
Mord gibt es in den besten Familien: Knives Out meets Agatha Christie und den DonnerstagsmordclubEine mörderisch nette Familie: Ernie Cunningham, passionierter Krimi-Liebhaber, nimmt nur widerwillig am ersten Familientreffen seit Jahren teil.
In this breathtaking Agatha Christie mystery, theThird Girlsharing a London flat with two others announces to Hercule Poirot that shes a murderer and then disappears.
En el 221 de Baker Street, en Londres, se aloja Sherlock Holmes, un hombre peculiar, flematico, egocentrico, melomano y algo adicto a la cocaina y a la morfina, pero con unas portentosas dotes de observacion y una mente analitica y deductiva hiperdesarrollada, que hacen de el el mejor detective de Londres.
