Jim Kelly
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"[A] superior fifth Shaw and Valentine police procedural . . . Long after the pieces of the puzzle fall into place, the mystery of the human psyche remains." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
When a body is discovered beneath the waves off Scolt Head Island, the contents of the dead man's pockets lead Detective Inspector Peter Shaw to suspect an outbreak of "samphire wars": a turf battle for control of the prized sea asparagus which sells for...
2) Funeral Owl
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English
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When a reader contacts local newspaper The Crow to report a rare sighting of the Boreal or so-called 'Funeral' owl, the paper's editor Philip Dryden has a sense of foreboding. For the Funeral Owl is said to be an omen of death. It's already proving to be one of the most eventful weeks in The Crow's history. The body of a Chinese man has been discovered hanging from a cross in a churchyard in Brimstone Hill in the West Fens. The inquest into the deaths...
3) Nightrise
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English
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Journalist Philip Dryden is shocked to be informed by police that his father has been killed in a car accident – he drowned during the fenland floods of 1977, 35 years before. At the same time, two unrelated cases are demanding Dryden's professional attention: a body riddled with bullets found hanging in the middle of a lettuce field, and a couple protesting that the local council has buried their baby daughter in a pauper's grave without permission....
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Putting Information Technology first and the business second is putting the cart before the horse. In most organisations, there seems to be a disconnect between the business and Information Technology, and in some regards, IT is looked on as the silver bullet that can be used to resolve all problems and issues. This has occurred due to Information Technology becoming so embedded in organisations and being required for the execution of most business...
5) Death's Door
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An idyllic island holds a dark secret...- On a hot August day in 1994, 76 holidaymakers travel to an island off the North Norfolk coast. Only 75 return alive – a young man is murdered, the case left unsolved. Twenty years later, using state-of-the-art forensics, the DNA results of a bloodsoaked towel prompts DI Peter Shaw to summon all 75 original suspects to a mass screening, but one of them, the beautiful Marianne Osbourne, is found dead in her...
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The story begins with Jim's introduction to paranormal activities and spirits by becoming involved in current events happening at the local spirit-inhabited "Haunted Hinsdale House." Shortly after this, Jim was taking some photographs and was astounded by what appeared to be showing up in the photos and so his journey begins...
He embarks on a quest, searching for the answers as to why this is all happening to him. Why has HE been blessed with such...
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Deutsch
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Cambridge, 1939. Wieder einmal zieht Detective Inspector Eden Brooke ruhelos durch die nächtliche Stadt. Seitdem er in Gefangenschaft gefoltert wurde, findet er keinen Schlaf mehr und leidet unter extremer Lichtempfindlichkeit. Nur in den verdunkelten Straßen fühlt er sich noch wohl - bis sich mehrere Sperrballons losreißen und eine Explosion im Stellwerk auslösen. Am nächsten Morgen wird eine Leiche am Fluss gefunden - auseinandergerissen von...
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lone German bomber crosses the East coast of Britain on a moonless night in the long hot summer of 1940. The pilot picks up the silver thread of a river and following it to his target, drops his bomb over Cambridge's rail yards. The shell falls short of its mark, and lands in a maze-like neighbourhood of terraced streets on the edge of the city's medieval centre. D I Eden Brooke is first on the scene and discovers the body of an elderly woman, Nora...
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Deutsch
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Winter, 1940. Schnee fällt. Inspector Eden Brooke streift wie so oft durch das nächtliche Cambridge. Die friedliche Ruhe wird jäh durch Hilferufe unterbrochen: In einem Sack verstaut, wurde ein kleiner Junge in den eiskalten Fluss geworfen. Brooke tut alles, um ihn zu retten - vergeblich.
Brookes Ermittlungen ergeben, dass es sich bei dem Jungen um ein vermisstes Kind Irisch-Katholischen Glaubens handeln muss. Als eine Bombe in einer Fabrik explodiert...
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When a diamond is stolen in Hong Kong, the company insuring the diamond sends a former CIA agent (Jim Kelly) to Hong Kong to retrieve it. Meanwhile, one of the thieves begins to have a change of heart because his girlfriend wants him to leave his criminal organization.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Philip Dryden, a newspaper reporter in Cambridgeshire, England, suspects foul play when two men who were childhood friends are found frozen to death in their homes during one of the country's worst cold snaps,and his investigation ties to his own past, as well as an ongoing query into allegations of wrongdoing at a Catholic orphanage.
14) Death watch
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Rookie detective Peter Shaw and his seasoned partner George Valentine uncover a secret world of criminal activity at a local hospital when they begin investigating the death of Bryan Judd, whose body was pulled from a hospital incinerator, and possible links between Judd's murder and the disappearance of his twin sister eighteen years earlier.