Christoph Niemann
Christoph Niemann has illustrated covers for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Times Magazine. He is the creator of the picture book The Police Cloud, and the illustrator of The Boy with Two Belly Buttons, by Stephen J. ... [... more]
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Laura Wilson
Nominated for the Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award They lie, three elderly recluses shot to death, in a musty 1950s London town house crammed with hoarded belongings. When the death scene yields no clues, the police ... [... more]
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Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott is a pseudonym. The author first decided to tell her story to the police after taking inspiration from Dave Pelzer's powerful memoir A Child Called It and becoming convinced that she could no longer remain a silent victim of the ... [... more]
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Robin Lumsden
The SS originated as Hitler's personal bodyguard and following his rise to power in 1933 the organisation divided into two: the Waffen-SS, which comprised the military wing, and the Allgemeine-SS, whose role was to support the police in ... [... more]
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Christoph Niemann
Like many children's books, The Police Cloud was conceived when the author was sitting by his child's bedside to tell him a good-night story. The characters his sleepy son, Arthur, was interested in were very limited, and so the story evolved ... [... more]
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Derek Mahon
Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike ... [... more]
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Paul Barber
One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until ... [... more]
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J.R. Weil
In his long career as a confidence man, Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil swindled the public of more than eight million dollars and established the reputation for robbery and trickery. Always beating the police... A Master Swindler's Own Story J.R. [... more]
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Gini Sikes
Dismissed by the police as mere adjuncts to or gofers for male gangs, girl gang members are in fact often as emotionally closed off and dangerous as their male counterparts. Carrying razor blades in their mouths and guns in their jackets for ... [... more]
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Simon Tolkien
One summer night, two men break into an isolated manor house and kill Lady Anne Robinson. Her teenage son, Thomas, convinces the police that Greta Grahame, his father's beautiful personal assistant, sent the killers, but Thomas is known for his ... [... more]
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Richard North Patterson
When the body of nine-year old Thuy Sen is found in the San Francisco Bay, the police quickly charge Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder. A twelve-person jury, abetted by an incompetent defense lawyer, is nearly as quick to find the ... [... more]
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Jim Butcher
When the supernatural world spins out of control, when the police can't handle what goes bump in the night, when monsters come screaming out of nightmares and into the mean streets, there's just one man to call: Harry Dresden, the only ... [... more]
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