In present day London, boy genius and amateur detective Lucas Voigt befriends time travellers (or are they out of work actors?) Sherlock Holmes and Wyatt Earp and, after various adventures, sets out to solve for once and for all the mystery of Jack the Ripper..."You're next, Lucas," he said, smiling thinly.Lucas stood his ground. "You kill prostitutes, you don't kill boys.""Up until now, I have indeed killed only prostitutes, Lucas. But now I shall kill you. I shall kill you, Lucas, because...Do you know why?""No.""I shall kill you, Lucas, because you have really pissed me off."

" What if time could be taken from us-the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it's taken? Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed her by. Until the night a strange photo comes across her desk, of a young woman in a hospital bed who has been subjected to a mysterious procedure. Against orders and against common sense, Grace sets out to bring the girl to safety, and finds herself risking her job, her future, and her life on whether she can find the missing girl before an obsessive and violent mercenary who's also looking. Big Time is a fast-paced thriller and a metaphysical mystery about the very nature of our lives." -- Amazon.

1983

Alison B. Gordon finds herself aiding a Mafia ganglord whose Las Vegas interests are threatened by an international terrorist group that will destroy the city's casinos and hotels if its demand for five million dollars is not met

A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, John Woman recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones into John Woman, an unconventional history professor--while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the shadows. At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. Five years later, as Herman lives out his last days, he shares his wisdom with his son, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself--as Professor John Woman, a man who will spread Herman's teachings into the classrooms of his unorthodox southwestern university and beyond. But there are other individuals who are attempting to influence the narrative of John Woman, and who might know something about the facts of his hidden past. Engaging with some of the most provocative ideas of recent intellectual history, John Woman is a compulsively readable, deliciously unexpected novel about the way we tell stories, and whether the stories we tell have the power to change the world.

The second in the Fearless Jones series from the author of the Easy Rawlins crime thrillers. 'Will not disappoint fans of the Easy Rawlins series. The prose is taut and sinewy and Mosley effortlessly creates a classic noir setting' Douglas Field, Big Issue Paris Minton is a man who would rather walk away from trouble, but in 1950s' Los Angeles, it just comes and finds you. Fearless Jones turns up on Paris's doorstep one night asking him to help an attractive woman find her husband. One night later a stranger shows up looking for the same man. It isn't long before Paris is running for his life, and it looks like even his friend Fearless might not be able to save him.

After being asked to investigate the charges against a white nationalist accused of treason and murder, Joe King Oliver, with help from bodyguard and mercenary Oliya Ruez, embarks on a winding quest to expose the truth.

The debut novel by the Emmy Award(-winning creator of "NYPD Blue" is a suspenseful, darkly comic crime novel about a Hollywood writer who witnesses a murder, and insinuates himself into the investigation in order to write a screenplay about it.

Linzi Birrell and Rhian Douglas: murdered. Angela McCabe and Josh Norbury: murdered. A killer the police have dubbed Billy Dead Mates is killing pairs of best friends, one by one. Just before each murder, he sends his victim a small white book...Three regional police forces are working together to identify and catch Billy. For five months, they've been failing. Then a fifth victim, scared by what she's seen and heard on the news, comes forward to seek help. Unlike Billy's first four victims, she isn't dead. Yet.Stand-up comedian Kim Tribbeck has one of Billy's peculiar white books. A stranger gave it to her after a gig she did a year ago. Was he Billy? Now Kim's life depends on working out why she - a woman who has no close friends because she trusts no one - should attract the attention of the Best Friends Killer... And, if Billy has her in his sights, why has he waited so long to strike?

Language:Chinese.Bleeding Kansas

Book by Rosenbaum, Ron

"Fans of Hillerman will love this unique and quirky detective duo."-Leslie Glass, bestselling author of Tracking Time A Howard Moon Deer Mystery In San Geronimo, New Mexico, a bizarre murder unearths the ancient secrets of the Anasazi. And rumors of evil flesh-eating spirits run rampant....The murder of an esteemed archaeologist is fueling an already heated war between natives and the academics who excavate their land. And when the coroner confirms that the victim was cannibalized, the story takes a twisted turn.... Private eye Howard Moon Deer and ex-police chief Jack Wilder are on the case. The killing appears to be a modern mimicry of the Anasazi's rumored past-one the tribe thinks would be best left buried. But Howard and Jack must search for clues even if it means digging up sacred land. As they struggle to fight tribal politics, the killer strikes again. And now they must race to solve the crime before fear swallows the town whole.... "Westbrook...possesses a masterful sense of narration."-The Washington Post Book World "A racy and readable writer."-The New York Times Book Review

The second Hob Draconian novel finds the smart but lazy detective in a race for his life. The laziest PI in the world takes a job that should be like shooting fish in a barrel--except he ends up being the fish! "Mr. Sheckley . . . has an engagingly madcap manner all his own".--"The Wall Street Journal".

Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives of his struggling neighbors. Instead, his very public and emotionally suspect generosity gets him beaten nearly to death. Ray refuses to name his assailant, which makes him intensely interesting to Detective Nerese Ammons, a friend from childhood, who now sets out to unlock the secret of his reticence. Set against the intensely realized backdrop of urban America, the cat and mouse game that unfolds is both morally complex and utterly gripping --

'You were some dish,' says Betsy Thornhill's boyfriend on seeing an old photograph of her. A casual remark, but Betsy, a fifty-one-year-old American living in London, finds herself conscious of age. She goes in for a 'little work' on her face and comes out looking marvellous, younger by fifteen years. She goes back to New York, where she has not lived for thirty years - to a city devastated by the aftermath of September 11. A few days after she arrives, Betsy is accused of murder. She looks at the police sketch. 'It isn't me,' she says. 'It's someone younger.' 'Look in the mirror,' says the cop. Betsy is trapped by her own face...

'This is jazz-loving, womanising Artie's fourth outing and consolidates his position as fiction's most exciting private dick - and keeps Nadelson up there with the crime greats.' Daily MirrorArtie Cohen's long-time girlfriend Lily Hanes, has been found beaten up, raped and left for dead in an empty Parisian apartment. In the wintry French capital, where drugs are sold like fries at Macdonald's and the hookers are trucked in with the vegetables, Artie looks for Lily's attackers and finds himself drawn in to a web of sex, death and deceit.Artie follows the trail from Paris across Europe to Vienna and then, finally, back to his native New York on a roller-coaster ride from which there is no return ticket.'This book is classy noir entertainment - edgy, witty, slickly plotted... She has a perfect pitch for the voice of her hard-boiled, jazz-loving , skirt-chasing hero.' Independent'Nadelson's skill is in evoking an atmosphere as thick as a nineteenth-century smog, and just as evil.' The Times

London at midnight on New Year's Eve. Artie Cohen realises something is horribly wrong with his long-time girlfriend, Lily Hanes. Two days later, a call takes Artie to Paris. Lily has been found beaten up and raped in an empty apartment. When she regains consciousness, she doesn't know where she is. Worse, she doesn't know Artie. In a wintry Paris, where drugs are sold like fires at McDonald's and the hookers are trucked in with the vegetables, Artie looks for Lily's attackers and finds himself in a web of sex, death and deceit. A brilliantly conceived plot moves Artie from Paris through Europe to VIenna and then, finally, back to his native New York on a roller-coaster ride where there is no return ticket.

An ex-KGB general has been killed on a live TV show in New York. Artie Cohen, a Russian American Jew and a special detective with the New York Police Department, unravels a Russian plot to acquire the infamous red mercury - a vital ingredient in the making of nuclear weapons.

It's a summer Sunday in downtown New York City and Artie Cohen is getting married... A message from his old friend Sid McKay asks Artie to come out to Red Hook in Brooklyn. It's his wedding day, but Artie goes - and finds a dead man spread-eagled in the water off the old docks. When Sid shows up he's scared and edgy; Artie suspects he's holding something back... It's not his case, but it drags him in, threatening his friends and a former lover. In the tense pre-election atmosphere, Artie becomes involved in uncovering the betrayals that have led to death on the Red Hook waterfront...