Mystery Books
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The Winds of Change
Richard Jury embarks on the darkest investigation of his career when the dead body of a young London girl leads to the col
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Divine Justice (Camel Club)
Following the instant # 1 New York Times bestseller Stone Cold, Oliver Stone and the Camel Club re
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A Sight for Sore Eyes
Teddy was born in squalor. Now he is a craftsman determined to banish ugliness from his life. Harriet is a beautiful, bored trophy
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Dead Heat
After a six-year absence from the bestseller lists, Dick Francis roared out of the gate with 2006's Under Orders, demonstra
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Even Money
The New York Times-bestselling authors return with a heart-stopping new novel.O n the first day of Royal Asc
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Double Whammy
R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman's scam
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Black Betty: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Gator Green" (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were
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Mystery Movies
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The Prestige
Award-winning actors Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Scarlett Johansson star in THE PRESTIGE, the twisting, turnin
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Phone Booth
A single phone call can change a man's life…or possibly end it. Colin Farrell delivers a captivating, off-the-hook performance a
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The Game
Nicholas Van Orton is a shrewdly successful businessman who is accustomed to being in control of each facet of his investments and
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Cube
DVD. Feature film. Rated R.
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Mystic River
Three friends who grew up in working-class Boston drift apart after a terrible tragedy. Years later, brutal events reconnect them.
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Mystery Authors
Book reviews - Five Roundabouts To Heaven
Five Roundabouts To HeavenAuthor: John Bingham FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOHN LE CARRÉ
"This novel comprises some of the best work of an extremely gifted and perhaps under-regarded British crime novelist....What gave John Bingham his magic was something we look for in every writer, too often in vain: an absolute command of the internal landscape of his characters, acutely observed by a humane but wonderfully corrosive eye."
Nineteen years is a long time. But when Peter Harding and Philip Bartels meet up again in the French countryside of their youth, the history and the dark secrets it holds are still there, tempered only slightly by time.
The two men share more than a past friendship. Decades earlier, trapped in a disenchanted marriage with his wife, Beatrice, Philip meets and falls in love with the graceful, charming Lorna Dickson. Overcome by the prospect of a humiliating divorce, Philip makes the decision to poison Beatrice. But when he invites his best friend, Peter, to meet his mistress at lunch one day, he unwittingly sets off a shocking chain of events that will forever change the lives of everyone involved.
Now available for the first time in over twenty years, Five Roundabouts to Heaven is one of master writer and storyteller John Bingham's greatest works. With a chilling, expertly calibrated plot and mesmerizing prose, it is the powerful study of how murder can so easily enter the minds of ordinary people. Tags:
Mystery fiction
Suspense fiction
Fiction
Mystery & Detective
General
Traditional British
Suspense
Thrillers
US publication:
1953
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