Cop To Corpse
Title | Cop To Corpse PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Lovesey |
Publisher | Sphere |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2012-04-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0748134190 |
The explosive twelfth Peter Diamond case. In the small hours of a Sunday morning in the city of Bath a policeman on beat duty is shot dead by an unseen gunman - the third killing of an officer in Somerset in a matter of weeks. The emergency services are summoned. Ambitious to arrest the Somerset Sniper, the duty inspector, Ken Lockton, seals the crime scene, which is confined by the river on one side and a massive retaining wall on the other. He discovers the murder weapon in a garden - and is himself attacked and left for dead. Enter Peter Diamond, Bath's burly CID chief. Middle-aged and not built for action, he pits himself and his team against the killer in a hunt that will test his physical powers to the limit...
Cop to Corpse
Title | Cop to Corpse PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Lovesey |
Publisher | Soho Press |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2012-06-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 161695079X |
“Next to Jane Austen, Peter Lovesey is the writer the tourist board of Bath, England, extols most proudly . . . The enduring draw of the Peter Diamond books derives both from the beguiling Bath cityscape and the brusque character of Diamond himself.” —NPR PC Harry Trasker is the third policeman in the Bath area to be shot dead in less than twelve weeks. The assassinations are the work of a sniper who seems to be everywhere and nowhere at once, always a step ahead.The younger detectives od their best with what little evidence he leaves, but they're no match for this murderer and his merciless agenda. When Chief Superintendent Peter Diamond is assigned to the case, he begins to find curious connections between the dead officers after talking to their widows. But then a chilling encounter with the killer leaves Diamond in the lurch and the sniper in the wind. Things get even more complicated when the evidence starts to suggest that the killer might be one of Britain's finest--a theory unpopular among Diamond's colleagues. Can Diamond manage to capture an elusive and increasingly dangerous killer while keeping his team from losing faith in him?
The Last Detective
Title | The Last Detective PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Lovesey |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2012-07-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1405519894 |
The very first Peter Diamond mystery, and Anthony Award winning novel, from the superb Peter Lovesey. A woman's naked body is found floating in the weeds of a lake near Bath, by an elderly woman walking her Siamese cats. No-one comes forward to identify her, and no murder weapon is found, but sleuthing is Superintendent Peter Diamond's speciality. A genuine gumshoe, practising door-stopping and deduction: he is the last detective. Struggling with office politics and a bizarre cast of suspects, Diamond strikes out on his own, even when Forensics think they have the culprit. Eventually, despite disastrous personal consequences, and amongst Bath's rambling buildings and formidable history, the last detective exposes the uncomfortable truth . . .
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
Title | The Corpse Had a Familiar Face PDF eBook |
Author | Edna Buchanan |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 2004-05-25 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1416578927 |
This classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is her nonfiction masterpiece--a tale of life and death on Miami's streets, which she covered for 18 years for "The Miami Herald." Reissue.
The Corpse on the Dike
Title | The Corpse on the Dike PDF eBook |
Author | Janwillem van de Wetering |
Publisher | Soho Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2003-07-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1569478309 |
A recluse has been shot right between the eyes as he stood looking out of his bedroom window. His neighbor, a schoolteacher who is a pistol shot champion, admits she discovered the body and failed to report it. Is she really guilty of murder?
Cop Hater
Title | Cop Hater PDF eBook |
Author | Ed McBain |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1999-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0671775472 |
"The murder of three detectives in quick succession in the 87th Precinct leads Detective Steve Carella on a search through the city's underside and ultimately into the murderer's sights"--NoveList.
The Slowest Death
Title | The Slowest Death PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Reed |
Publisher | Lyrical Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2018-02-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1516104544 |
A serial killer targets the cops and judges of a small Midwestern city in this mystery thriller by the acclaimed author and former homicide detective. Detective Jack Murphy can read a crime scene like a book. When the naked, brutalized corpse of a narcotics cop is found, it’s not the body that tells him a sick killer is on the loose, but the monkey figurine—of the “see no evil” kind—shoved down the victim’s throat. It’s not a clue. It’s a message. When a high-profile judge is set on fire, another figurine left behind. Murphy has a guess what’s next. But even he’s in for a grim surprise. Because the torture-killer taking out the defenders of law and order across Evansville, Indiana, isn’t the only one with secrets. The victims might have a few, too . . .