Showing results for "David Lloyd" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Colin Cavendish doesn't get the 21st century. Arguably born a hundred years after his time, he is an old-fashioned, rigid, pedantic man who relishes his well-ordered life selling theatrical memorabilia from his tiny London shop. But a chance encounter with a mysterious woman plunges him into a dangerous word of murder, espionage, and double-dealing. Drugged and kidnapped, he wakes up in a coffin somewhere in Italy, in possession of some earth-shattering information. So begins a deadly chase as he is pursued across Europe in his efforts to make it safely back to London.

Wilkie Collins was one of Victorian England's best-loved and best-selling authors, and a crime-fiction pioneer. His enthralling 'sensation novels' such as The Woman in White paved the way for today's thrillers and his tour de force The Moonstone is one of the first, and greatest, modern-detective stories. This collection features dramatisations of these two masterpieces, with star casts including Toby Stephens (The Woman in White) and John Sharp (The Moonstone). Also included are adaptations of three of Collins' other major novels.

Tales is a collection of six short stories by Montana author Dave Lloyd.

Sgt. Print Davis is reluctant to retire his trusted revolver until his MP squad is tasked with participating in the 1911 tests being held by the Army in their quest for a new semi-automatic service pistol. He becomes a convert of the new weapon. Afterward, John Browning, its inventor, gives him the Colt pistol used in the trials. Print carries the gun in combat in Mexico as his regiment chases Pancho Villa, then through World War I and to South America and China.

Criminals reveal who they are and where they live not just from how they commit their crimes, but also from the locations they choose. This is the claim of renowned criminal psychologist and profiler David Canter. In this groundbreaking book, now fully revised and updated, Canter leads us into the labyrinthine psyche of serial killers, rapists, and other violent criminals, and reveals how geographical profiling is changing the way police work and our understanding of the criminal mind.

Former Marine and Iraqi war veteran Wes Hansen is hired to hunt down the man who assaulted the daughter of billionaire oilman Cole Blackwell. Wes has only one name to go on: Meshach. And only one witness: a dog that Wes believes the man used as a prop so he could walk the dark streets of Lubbock, Texas, unquestioned.

Paris im Juni 1940, Einmarsch der Deutschen Wehrmacht. Inspecteur Eddie Giral, traumatisiert vom Ersten Weltkrieg und mit Leib und Seele Polizist, will gegen alle Widerstände den Mord an vier polnischen Geflüchteten und den Selbstmord eines weiteren Polen aufklären. Die Todesfälle scheinen miteinander in Verbindung zu stehen und ein besonderes Interesse der Wehrmacht zu wecken. Auch die Résistance ist involviert.