The Murder Diaries Seven Times Over

A Preacher is run down on the by-pass, a Right Reverend falls under the London Express; a fisherman drowns in the canal. Accident suicide, or murder? Inspector Walter Darriteau of Chester police doesn't believe in coincidences. His doubts are confirmed with another killing. Maggie O'Brien on a bench in the forest, dew dripping from her nose, a cobweb from her hat to the bench, death by carbon monoxide poisoning, yet no car in the damp car park. There's a killer at large, a random killer, a serial killer, a ruthless killer who'll stop at nothing. Why? What's the purpose behind these unrelated deaths? It's a race against time; he or she must be stopped before they kill again. The Murder Diaries is set in the City of Chester. Darriteau is an adopted Cestrian, he's nearing retirement, and his oppo Sergeant Karen Greenwood covets his job. Walter isn't ready to end things on a sour note. He knows this case will define his career. He determines to trap the killer, putting his own life on the line.

For most that work with in the strip club industry, help comes far to late. Until now, the stripper code of silence has never been broken and the truth never told. Stiletto Diaries will take you off the stage, out of the bright neon lights, and straight into the truth behind the strip club industry, a world where drug overdoses and murder are a daily occurrence, a world run by the mob themselves. It is solely within the stories of those who have lost their lives due to the industry can the real story be told. So take my hand and come with me on a journey that few ever get to take.

"Down into the Darkness" is David Carter's tenth book and something of a departure from his usual English murder mysteries: "The Murder Diaries - Seven Times Over" and "The Sound of Sirens" plus "The Life and Loves of Gringo Greene". It's also a lot shorter than many of his books, running to around 140 pages. Here's the back cover blurb:Tony Jenks lives alone in a small first floor flat in an Edwardian House.There are three other flats in the building.Downstairs, lives Dick Riches with his aging parents. Upstairs lives Doc Maureen Hall, anxiously waiting on her monthly visit from her married lover, Gerald, while across the hall, opposite to Tony, lives Derek Chamberlain, ever eager to stop and gossip about the latest man in his life.Four ordinary flats, full of ordinary people, in modern day Britain, until one night Tony Jenks goes to bed, alone as usual, when he hears noises the likes of which he has never heard before.Tony's journey down into the darkness has begun.

Important Note for readers: "The Final Door" is the largest case-story Inspector Walter Darriteau has ever been involved in. The full investigation runs to over 700 pages and has been split into Parts One and Two. The book promoted here is Part One only. Readers should know all plot threads will not be resolved during Part One. Here's the blurb. On a squally November night beside the Dee estuary on the Wirral peninsula, a man falls to his death from Thurstaston cliffs. But is it an accident, suicide or murder? And who is the victim, and if it is murder, who killed him? Thirty minutes later, a pair of tripping, giggling kids ring the emergency services to report the incident. Wirral police are busy dealing with a catastrophic traffic pile-up on the M53, and seek help from neighbouring Chester. At midnight, Inspector Walter Darriteau is disturbed at home and asked to attend the incident to examine the scene, and secure the body. So begins "The Final Door - Part One", the eleventh book in the Inspector Walter Darriteau series, a chunky story that takes the reader on a journey no one could have foreseen after one phone call set everything in motion. Earlier books in the series: The Murder Diaries - Seven Times Over The Sound of Sirens The Twelfth Apostle Kissing a Killer The Legal & the Illicit The Death Broker Five Dead Rooks Old Cold Bones The Missing Man Falling

Important Note for readers: "The Final Door" is the largest case-story Inspector Walter Darriteau has ever been involved in. The full investigation runs to well over 700 pages and has been split into Parts One and Two. The book promoted here is Part TWO only. For the greatest enjoyment, readers are advised to read "The Final Door Part One" before starting this book. To avoid any spoilers the description for Part One is repeated here. On a squally November night beside the Dee estuary on the Wirral peninsula, a man falls to his death from Thurstaston cliffs. But is it an accident, suicide or murder? And who is the victim, and if it is murder, who killed him? Thirty minutes later, a pair of tripping, giggling kids ring the emergency services to report the incident. Wirral police are busy dealing with a catastrophic traffic pile-up on the M53, and seek help from neighbouring Chester. At midnight, Inspector Walter Darriteau is disturbed at home and asked to attend the incident to examine the scene, and secure the body. "The Final Door - Part Two" is the twelfth book in the Inspector Walter Darriteau series, a chunky story that takes the reader on a journey no one could have foreseen after one phone call set everything in motion. Earlier books in the series: The Murder Diaries - Seven Times Over The Sound of Sirens The Twelfth Apostle Kissing a Killer The Legal & the Illicit The Death Broker Five Dead Rooks Old Cold Bones The Missing Man Falling The Final Door - Part One The Final Door - Part Two

Britain's foremost writer on crime turns to the disappearance of Lord Lucan. The basis of the upcoming ITV drama, Lucan, starring Rory Kinnear and Christopher Eccleston For over thirty years, John Pearson has provided us with literary exposures of some of the most enigmatic people and underground organisations of our modern world. The Gamblers follows the fortunes of five men at the centre of the ultra-fashionable Clermont Set: the Clermont Club's eccentric founder John Aspinall; Dominic Elwes, who was to betray the Set's code of silence; the socialite owner of Annabel's, Mark Birley; the womanising, multi millionaire James Goldsmith; and the infamous Lord 'Lucky' Lucan. At the heart of the Set lay a belief that risk-takers are the people who make civilisation tick.Cruel, heartless and snobbish, they gambled with their fortunes and kept a stiff upper lip when they lost.This and a loyalty to each other that transcended everything else enabled them to rise above crises such as the long affair between Birley's wife and James Goldsmith, and the facial mutilation of the Birley's son by one of Aspinall's tigers.Pearson revels in the charisma, charm and wit of these dastardly but debonair millionaires, and reveals how their code led to one of the great unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.

In the spring of 2007, a brilliant computer programmer named Hans Reiser stands accused of murdering his estranged wife, Nina. Despite a mountain of circumstantial evidence against him, he proclaims his innocence. The case takes a twist when Nina's former lover, and Hans's former best friend, Sean Sturgeon, confesses to eight unrelated murders that no one has ever heard of.At the time of Sturgeon's confession, Stephen Elliot is paralyzed by writer's block, in the thrall of Adderall dependency, and despondent over the state of his romantic life. But he is fascinated by Sturgeon, whose path he has often crossed in San Francisco's underground S&M scene. What kind of person, he wonders, confesses to a murder he likely did not commit? One answer is, perhaps, a man like Elliott's own father.So begins a riveting journey through a neon landscape of false confessions, self-medication, and torturous sex. Set against the backdrop of a nation at war, in the declining years of the Silicon Valley tech boom and the dawn of Paris Hilton's celebrity, The Adderall Diaries is at once a gripping account of a murder trial and a scorching investigation of the self. Tough, tender, and unflinchingly honest, it is the breakout book by one of the most daring writers of his generation.

The Chilling Inside Story of Women Who Are Driven to Kill Killer Women are the most disturbing yet compelling of all criminals, representing the very darkest side of humanity and subverting the conventional view of women as the weaker sex. From Elizabeth Bathory, 'The Bloody Countess' whose vampire-like tendencies terrorised sixteenth-century Hungary, to the Moors Murderer Myra Hindley and the Florida Highway Killer Aileen Wuornos, these women transfix us with their extreme ability to commit savage acts of cruelty and depravity. Most chilling is the fact that many of their victims represent the most vulnerable in society: babies, the ill and infirm, and the elderly. In some cases their methods of disposing of the corpses fall nothing short of ingenious: meet Leonarda Cianciulli, 'The Soap-Maker of Correggio', who used the fat from her victims' bodies to make soap and teacakes to sell to unsuspecting customers. These killers' backgrounds, methods and their crimes are described in forensic and gripping detail. 50 terrifying cases of killer women are brought to life, including: Elizabeth Bathory 'The Bloody Countess' Amelia Dyer, The Reading Baby Farmer Jane Toppan, 'Jolly Jane' Juana Barraza, The Old Lady Killer Leonarda Cianciulli, 'The Soap-Maker of Correggio' Bonnie Parker, 'Bonnie & Clyde' Rosemary West Myra Hindley Aileen Wuornos