Peter May
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Language
English
Description
In 1942, the United States Golf Association (USGA) cancelled its four golf tournaments for the duration of World War II. But then it did something different in only that year-it sponsored the Hale-America National Open on the same weekend as the cancelled US Open. The great Ben Hogan won that tournament and went to his grave believing he had therefore won a record five US Open titles.
In The Open Question, Peter May turns his attention to this controversial,...
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Language
Deutsch
Description
Wenn du jemanden getötet hättest, wüsstest du das - Oder? Ein Mann wacht am Strand der kleinen schottischen Insel Harris auf, ohne zu wissen, wer er ist. Er trägt eine Schwimmweste und ist vollkommen durchnässt. Von den Inselbewohnern erfährt er, dass er offenbar Neal Maclean heißt und ein Buch über drei Leuchtturmwärter schreibt, die im Jahr 1900 von einer benachbarten Inselgruppe verschwanden. Auf der Suche nach seiner Erinnerung landet...
3) The chessmen
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ex-Detective Inspector Fin McLeod discovers a light aircraft at the bottom of a spontaneously drained loch while investigating illegal activity on the estate of a poacher and former childhood friend.
4) Cast iron
Author
Series
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the West of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heat wave, a drought exposed her remains - bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime. No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now, forensic expert Enzo Macleod is reviewing this stone cold case - the toughest of those he has been challenged to solve. Yet when Enzo finds a flaw in the original...
5) Blowback
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Forensics expert Enzo Macleod tackles a twenty-year-old murder mystery, aided by clues the dead man left behind in his study to reveal his killer's identity to his son, who died too soon after his father to solve the crime.
10) Coffin Road
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Mysterious happenings have been occuring in the region of the Outer Hebrides and even further west: a man washes up on a deserted beach, and he doesn't know who he is or how he got there; a brutal murder has taken place at a lighthouse twenty miles West of the Outer Hebrides; and a young girl is certain her father did not commit suicide despite the evidence of a suicide note. Can George Gunn connect these cases and find a solution to what has been...
12) Snakehead
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2002
Language
English
Description
In the fourth of Peter May's China thrillers, American pathologist Margaret Campbell finds herself back on home soil, only to be faced by a truck full of dead Chinese and an unavoidable confrontation with her past.
13) Chinese whispers
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2004
Language
English
Description
A man calling himself the Beijing Ripper leaves a trail of dead prostitutes in his wake, and criminal investigator Li Yan calls in help from his lover, American pathologist Margaret Campbell, whose autopsy reports yield shocking results.
14) Going Om
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Language
English
Description
GOING OM explores the power of sound and silence and whether they can be used as tools for wellness.