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"South Korea, 1974 : a young Korean woman dressed in a traditional chima-jeogori is found strangled to death on the frozen banks of the Sonyu River with only a carefully calligraphed poem in her sleeve." --

An erotic novel on Adele, a high-class, bisexual prostitute in 1930s Paris. The story is told through the eyes of a modern-day English feminist who is researching her life. A study of the difference in attitude to love between men and women. By a British writer, author of Rose Reason.

Would a policeman murder to back his theory that a murder was the work of a serial killer? The very idea seems preposterous, yet detective Joe Keough of the NYPD is convinced this is what his superior, lieutenant Dan Slovecky, has done to assure a promotion. By the author of No Exit from Brooklyn.

Told with marvelously sustained suspense, persuasive conviction, and grace, this spellbinding novel about the delicate balance between illusion and betrayal, deceit and love reveals and conceals as it takes readers behind the crafted appearance of two performers in love.

Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant hunting for a ruthless killer. In over ten years on the force, she's seen it all--and knows her survival depends on her instincts. And she's going against every warning telling her not to get involved with Roarke, an Irish billionaire--and a suspect in Eve's murder investigation. But passion and seduction have rules of their own, and it's up to Eve to take a chance in the arms of a man she knows nothing about--except...

"For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office where he learns that he has been accused of assaulting a young woman. With his career and reputation on the line, Maigret must fight to prove his innocence." --Provided by publisher.

"When the badly decomposed remains of a young woman are discovered in an isolated wooded area just outside Birmingham, the victim is quickly identified as Amy Peters, a Manchester University student who disappeared three years earlier. She is one of five young women who vanished from the streets of Manchester within a two-year period. Called in to assist the police investigation, criminologist Will Traynor believes they are looking for an intelligent,...

"Crime-writing powerhouse Val McDermid is back with an explosive new thriller that sees psychological profiler Tony Hill and ex-detective Carol Jordan grappling with the consequences of their actions and the legacy of abuse in the Catholic Church. Construction is halted on the redevelopment of an orphanage after dozens of skeletons are found buried on the grounds dating from between twenty and forty years ago. Then a different set of skeletons are...

Aboard a police boat on the Hudson River, Detective Michael Bennett casts a wary eye into the cold, rough water. NYPD is searching for a murder victim{u2014}a young college student. They find her tossed in the dark waves, dressed for a night out in a sparkly black gown. The gruesome sight fills Bennett with the dread only a father could fathom. As the obsessive killer extends his spree, a pattern emerges. One that Bennett{u2019}s eldest daughter...