Frank Smith
2) Stone dead
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A routine robbery investigation turns into something much more sinister when a corpse is found in the well of a cottage belonging to photographer Peter Foster. Foster fears the body is the ex-husband of his current girlfriend, a model shooting on location in France. Worse, he fears Lisa may have killed him.
But Lisa herself has mysteriously disappeared, and the true identity of the corpse adds a strange twist to the already-convoluted crime. A murder...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Despite the challenges of working with a new boss, DCI Neil Paget and team return to tackle their most frustrating case yet. The discovery of the body of local photographer Billy Travis leads DCI Neil Paget into one of the most frustrating cases of his career. The dead man had fallen fifty feet from a bridge onto the railway tracks below. The fact that the corpse is bound and gagged with the letter A carved into his forehead means that the death plunge...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
On a stormy night in Broadminster, DCI Neil Paget walks a young constable to her car in a dark parking lot. As she roars past on her way home, Paget is attacked from behind, his throat viciously slit from ear to ear. But for the grace of God he survives and is rushed to the hospital where he remains in critical condition, unconscious and perhaps ready to draw his last breath at any minute.
Meanwhile, the precinct is in an uproar. Who could have attacked...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Antonia Halliday is found dead in a barn, her head and neck slashed with an old-fashioned sickle, Paget and Tregalles attend the scene. The victim is from Bromley Manor, the country home of a highly respected family with links to the chief constable, and Chief Superintendent Brock warns Paget to tread carefully. With all the evidence drawing Paget back to the manor, he soon finds himself at odds with his superiors - and the killer is not quite...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
Formats
Description
A DCI Neil Paget Mystery - When Laura Holbrook, co-owner of Holbrook Micro-Engineering Labs, is brutally murdered one evening while her womanizing husband is out, and with little more than a few dog hairs as evidence, it is believed that Laura was killed by burglars. But DCI Paget and DS Tregalles suspect otherwise, and suspicion falls on several potential suspects. It is up to Paget and Tregalles to try to find the true killer . . .
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
Formats
Description
When DCI Neil Paget and DS Tregalles investigate an apparently standard missing person case, it soon emerges that Mark Newman, an aspiring journalist, was on the trail of a hot story, and now he's disappeared, along with every scrap of potential evidence. But as bodies start to pile up, Paget is struggling to keep his mind on the job, given the erratic behaviour and unexplained absences of his new live-in lover . . .
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
Formats
Description
The new DCI Neil Paget Mystery - When scribbled notes written by Barry Grant, a troubled teenager who committed suicide thirteen years ago, come to light, DCI Paget and DS Tregalles reopen the investigation into a series of robberies that ended with the vicious killing of two people. But, just before the house where Barry grew up is due to be searched for clues, an attempt is made to burn it down, and it becomes obvious that someone is dead set against...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the summer of 1971, New York's Attica State Prison is a symbol of everything broken in America -- abused prisoners, rampant racism and a blind eye turned towards the injustices perpetrated against the powerless. But when the guards at Attica overreact to a minor incident, the prisoners decide they've had enough and revolt -- taking their jailers hostage and making demands for humane conditions." --
10) Dead weight
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
High-flying Member of Parliament Stephen Lorrimer and his wife Julia are the parents of a bright five-year-old son, Michael, who has severe hearing and speech impediments. Michael is devoted to his caregiver Justine, and when she disappears, he is inconsolable. Julia is quick to report to DCI Neil Paget the girl's failure to return after leaving the house for Sunday service at the local church where she worshipped regularly. But no witnesses come...
Author
Publisher
Gulliver Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Photographs taken secretly by a young Jewish man document the fear, hardship, generosity, and humanity woven through the daily life of the Jews forced to live in the Łódź ghetto during the Holocaust.
Author
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The story of Jesse, a 17-year-old teenager who sets out to fulfill a dream of circumnavigating the world in his 34-foot yacht. Jesse would become the youngest person in history to sail around the world solo, nonstop and unassisted. This documentary captures all the highs and lows of his incredible journey.