MARTHA GRIMES

Andi Oliver is back! Martha Grimes fans have waited nearly nine years for the return of the amnesiac heroine of Biting Moon, and this bristling stand-alone sequel won't disappoint them. In the interim, Andi's continued to drift, moving through the West, from one waitress job to the next. When she finally reached North Dakota, she signs up at Klavan's, a pig-farming factory that seems to specialize in skirting the law. While Andi is attempting to cope with dastardly livestock practices, her past is catching up with her. Two people are on her trail: One is a homicidal psychopath; the other, a person demanding secrets that Andi no longer has.

Ein ermordetes Mädchen in den Straßen von London. Eine unbekannte Tote im idyllischen Cornwall. Inspektor Jury ermittelt in seinem bisher schwierigsten Fall.Als Inspektor Jury an einem kühlen Märztag in London an den Ort eines Verbrechens gerufen wird, ist er fassungslos: Das Opfer, das durch einen heimtückischen Schuss in den Rücken getötet wurde, trägt ein geblümtes Kleidchen - und ist fünf Jahre alt. Eine erste Spur führt Jury gemeinsam mit seinem Freund Melrose Plant nach Cornwall auf den einstmals glanzvollen Landsitz Angel's Gate, der umgeben ist von einer wunderbaren englischen Parklandschaft. Denn dort, in den weitläufigen Gärten des Herrenhauses, hat sich ein weiterer Mord an einer mysteriösen Unbekannten ereignet, der mit dem Tod des kleinen Mädchens in Verbindung zu stehen scheint. Jury und Melrose beziehen Quartier auf Angel's Gate und stellen alsbald fest, dass keiner der ist, der er vorgibt zu sein - und dass sie die Maskerade durchschauen müssen, wollen sie den wa06hren Täter ausfindig machen ...01Martha Grimes wurde in Pittsburgh geboren und studierte an der University of Maryland. Sie unterrichtete lange Zeit kreatives Schreiben an der Johns-Hopkins-University und lebt heute abwechselnd in Washington, D.C., und in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

When the body of a Frenchwoman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police, is called in. With the only visible footprints belonging to the two girls who found her, who could have killed this mysterious tourist?While Macalvie stands stumped in the Isles of Scilly, Inspector Richard Jury - twenty miles away on Lands End - is at the Old Success pub, sharing a drink with the legendary former CID detective Tom Brownell, a man renowned for solving every case he undertook. Except one. In the weeks following the unexplained death of the tourist, two other murders are called in to Macalvie and Jurys teams: first, a man is found dead on a Northamptonshire estate, then a cleaner turns up murdered at Exeter Cathedral. When Macalvie and Jury decide to consult Brownell, the retired detective insists that the three murders, though very different in execution, are connected. As the trio set out to solve this puzzle, Jury and Macalvie hope that this doesnt turn out to be Brownells second ever miss. Written with Grimess signature wit, sly plotting, and gloriously offbeat characters, The Old Success is prime fare from one of the most fascinating mystery writers today (Houston Chronicle).

In the new mystery in the bestselling Richard Jury series, Martha Grimes brings Londons finest on a double-homicide case that involves Kenyan art, rare gems, astrophysics and a long-fermented act of revenge.Read any one [of her novels] and youll want to read them all. - Chicago TribuneRobbie Parsons is one of Londons finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theatre, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand - a man who shot Robbies previous pair of customers point-blank in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied art gallery-cum-casino, then jumped in and ordered Parsons to drive. As the killer eventually escapes to Nairobi with ten-year-old Patty Haigh - one of a crew of stray kids who serve as the cabbies eyes and ears at Heathrow and Waterloo - in pursuit, superintendent Richard Jury comes across the double-homicide in the Saturday paper. Two days previously, Jury had met and instantly connected with one of the victims, a professor of astrophysics at Columbia and an expert gambler. Jury considers the murder a personal affront and is soon contending with a case that takes unexpected turns into Tanzanian gem mines, a closed casino in Reno, and a pub that only Londons black cabbies, those who have the knowledge, can find.

The inimitable Richard Jury returns in a thrilling tale of mystery, madness, and mistaken identity. Written with Grimes's trademark insight and grace, "The Black Cat" signals the thrilling return of her greatest character. Martha Grimes has contributed to The Black Cat as an author. Martha Grimes is the bestselling author of twenty-three novels, including "The Old Wine Shades" and "Dust,"