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(0)Robert Barnard
Author
Series
Charlie Peace volume V. 9
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
When an actor from a daytime soap opera dies under suspicious circumstances, Inspector Charlie Peace finds himself investigating suspects among a group of talented actors and an assortment of extras who exchange unethical services for their roles.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Kit Philipson has always felt like stranger in his family. An only child in Glasgow, Scotland, his mother was a teacher; his father, a journalist, escaped from Nazi Germany at the age of three on one of the 1939 Kindertransports. On her deathbed, Kit's mother tells him he was adopted and his birth name was Novello. A search of old newspaper files reveals that a three-year-old boy named Peter Novello was abducted from his parents' holiday hotel in...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Seventeen stories. The title piece is on a woman who marries older men in order to murder them, The Stuff of Nightmares is an old boys' reunion between a bully and the man he bullied, while Dog Television is on a murder from the point of view of a dog.
8) Dying flames
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2005, c2006
Edition
1st Scribner ed.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger-winning crime writer, dissects family bonds at their best and worst in this stunning novel of suspense. What an honor--to become trustee of an English stately home museum. Yorkshire Detective Inspector Charlie Peace's wife, Felicity, is initially thrilled when she's asked to join the board that oversees Walbrook Manor, an eighteenth-century mansion that's now part of a charitable trust....
