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  • Hireling’s Tale
    Jo Bannister
    Two people are hiring out their services in Castlemere - a prostitute with only hours to live, and a hired assassin with only hours to make his kill . . .When the naked body of a young prostitute is found on a narrowboat on the Castlemere Canal, police enquiries focus on the nearby Barbican Hotel. For with a sales conference in progress there’s no shortage of men who could have...
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  • Burning Desires
    Jo Bannister
    A town the size of Castlemere might expect to see one major fire a year. When a derelict warehouse burns down just days after a blaze destroys Rachid’s Eight-Till-Late, Detective Chief Inspector Frank Shapiro is worried. Either of the fires could have been accidental, but together they suggest an arsonist at work. A third, and fatal, episode confirms it.Helped by his enigmatic ...
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  • Deadly Virtues
    Jo Bannister
    In this fast-paced thriller, Deadly Virtues, acclaimed writer Jo Bannister proves once again why she is considered 'one of the genre’s best' BooklistThe town of Norbold, England is famous for its low crime rate, thanks to the zero-tolerance policy of Chief Superintendent John Fountain. And Norbold’s newest police recruit, Hazel Best, is happy to help keep it that way. But numbe...
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  • Broken Lines
    Jo Bannister
    It’s nice to have a hobby. Detective Sergeant Donovan likes motorcycling. Mikey Dickens enjoys armed robbery. And their chance meeting in a Castlemere petrol station leads to a hot pursuit, an horrific crash and a remarkable act of heroism as Donovan pulls the teenager from the burning wreckage.The case against the young thief seems cut and dried, but the Dickens family are pro...
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  • Echoes of Lies
    Jo Bannister
    Brodie Farrell finds things for a living, and when she’s asked to locate the whereabouts of Daniel Hood, she sees nothing suspicious in the request. She finds the young man, passes the details on to her client, and commends herself on a job well done. But when the young man is found brutally tortured and left for dead, Brodie is overcome with guilt.Still blaming herself when Da...
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  • Changelings
    Jo Bannister
    Castlemere is under siege. Just one man is holding the town to ransom - to the tune of one million pounds. And if this demand is not met, no one will be safe from the frightening events he has in store.With the casualty rate rising, the pressure is on Detective Superintendent Frank Shapiro to uncover the blackmailer. But this is a clever man; finding him in time may prove impos...
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  • The Primrose Switchback
    Jo Bannister
    Shad couldn’t be guilty of murder . . . could he?Rosie Holland, agony aunt for the Skipley Chronicle, speeds to the aid of a woman supposedly held at knifepoint - only to discover the whole thing is a hoax organised by the makers of a TV programme.Merely annoyed at first, Rosie becomes worried when her gardener, Shad, is discovered unconscious and bleeding near the dead body of...
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  • No Birds Sing
    Jo Bannister
    Jo Bannister’s gritty police novels featuring DI Liz Graham have been likened to Lynda La Plante’s Prime Suspect.’The whole bloody town’s gone mad!’ exclaimed Superintendent Shapiro as Castlemere reels after a forty-eight-hour crime-fest including a ram-raid, a hostage crisis, a shocking rape and more . . .Making no progress by conventional means, Detective Inspector Liz Graham...
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    27,61 €

  • Sins of the Heart
    Jo Bannister
    When the body of teenage prostitute Charisma is discovered in the murky waters of Castle Canal, her throat cut back to the spine, Detective Chief Inspector Frank Shapiro and Detective Inspector Liz Graham head Castlemere CID’s investigation.Close to where the body was found, a travelling gospel crusade is setting up its tent. The Reverend Michael Davey’s road-crew have no infor...
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  • A Bleeding of Innocents
    Jo Bannister
    When Detective Chief Inspector Frank Shapiro of Castlemere CID loses his right-hand man to a hit-and-run driver he has two major problems. One is his sergeant, who won’t accept it was an accident: Donovan is convinced it was ordered by local crime baron Jack Carney, and he isn’t the kind of policeman to be put off by lack of evidence. The other is that someone has chosen this m...
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  • Death and Other Lovers
    Jo Bannister
    Meet Mickey Flynn. He’s an American by birth, a Londoner by choice, a photo-journalist by trade. Mickey’s sitting pretty, until a fire nearly destroys his home . . . and the woman he loves.According to his girlfriend, two men, Middle Eastern in appearance, broke into the flat, terrorized her, then made their way into the darkroom-which then exploded.Mickey doesn’t doubt that th...
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  • The Lazarus Hotel
    Jo Bannister
    A personal discovery course is Richard Speke’s last chance to recover his shattered nerve and save his job as a frontline TV reporter. With more hope than expectation he presents himself at the venue - the penthouse suite of a brand-new, indeed unfinished, London skyscraper, Lazaire’s Hotel.Richard barely has time to meet Dr Miriam Graves and the others on the course - among th...
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  • The Going Down of the Sun
    Jo Bannister
    The idyllic peace of a remote Scottish anchorage is shattered by an explosion aboard a luxury cruiser, which kills the woman on board and brings to an abrupt end the restful holiday which Clio Marsh prescribed for her detective husband Harry.Was the wreck of the 'Skara Sun' an accident? Was Alison MacAllister murdered, by the penniless young man sailing with her or by the rich ...
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  • Gilgamesh
    Jo Bannister
    Clio Marsh is enjoying a friendly dinner with a few neighbours when one of them, David, is shot in the back by an unknown intruder. The group had been celebrating David’s upcoming competition in the dangerous sport of horse-eventing, in which he had planned to compete on the fierce and supposedly unbeatable horse Gilgamesh. While David lies incapacitated and bleeding, a valuabl...
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  • Death in High Places
    Jo Bannister
    Two friends stand at the foot of the glacier, looking up to Anarchy Ridge. They can’t see the summit of the mountain, only its heaving shoulders, the snow whipping off of the thin blade of the ridge, making arabesques against the impossibly blue sky. As they stand in awe for a long time, gazing up at the seeming impossibility of their trek, the mountain awaits in silence.But on...
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  • A Cactus Garden
    Jo Bannister
    There was more to the brooding forest world of Mithras than the great Hive rising from its clearing, and somewhere there was an intellect more ruthlessly domineering than even the Lady Amalthea’s. Shah could feel it but not find it, at least not in time, and Paul with a war to prosecute, had other matters on his mind. Deceit and treachery hung about the city like a shroud. Who ...
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  • The Winter Plain
    Jo Bannister
    The Garden City of Chad was an oasis in a barren land, too rare and precious to escape the predation of someone like harry Jess. But the Barbarian made a mistake when he brought, along with his silver-studded cavalry, his concubine. Because when the bedslave teamed up with a nuclear engineer to rescue from Harry’s evil clutches the last scion of the royal house of Chad the resu...
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  • The Matrix
    Jo Bannister
    Dak Hamiko had never even heard of the Matrix. Nobody had, not for millennia, but The Matrix was not gone, only waiting. It had a purpose, in pursuit of which it was prepared to be every bit as ruthless as the imperialists of Tok-ai-Do. It was Dak’s misfortune to be caught between two such irresistible forces, yet ultimately it was his plight which stirred the conscience of the...
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  • Mosaic
    Jo Bannister
    Jo Bannister’s startling and sinister tale of international intrigue, suspense, and terror. In a colourful mosaic that stretches from the quiet country lanes of England to the brutal torture chambers of South Africa, Bannister explores the darker sides of world politics and the human psyche.Joel Grant is an expatriot white South African who once fought side by side with his bla...
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  • The Primrose Convention
    Jo Bannister
    When Matt Gosling, proprietor of The Skipley Chronicle, hired Primrose Holland as his paper’s agony aunt it was either the best decision he ever made, or the worst. For Rosie is larger-than-life in every sense, an ex-pathologist with enthusiasm, intelligence and heart - but no tact whatsoever.Perhaps that’s why her column ’The Primrose Path’ is such a huge success. Faced with q...
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    24,16 €

  • Death in High Places
    Jo Bannister
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