Alex Pillai
Series
Midsomer murders volume set 5
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British mysteries. The Dark Rider: Sightings of a headless horseman doom members of the aristocratic DeQuetteville family as they plan a Civil War battle reenactment. Murder of Innocence: The return of a convicted murderer to Midsomer sparks a series of revenge kilings, but the top suspect soon becomes a target. Death and the Divas: Tensions between Hollywood...
4) Ghost hunter
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Harry Price, a real-life psychic researcher famous for exposing the tricks of fraudulent spiritualists in London after World War I is infamous, too, for a few long-ago frauds of his own. After a séance goes tragically awry, Harry vows to play it straight, until a distraught, socially prominent woman asks him to rid her home of ghosts. Will he tell her the hard truth about the psychological source of her fear? Or comfort her with the lies she wants...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
DI Rachita Ray is promoted to join a homicide investigation. When she's told the murder is a 'Culturally Specific Homicide,' it makes her suspect she's been chosen for her ethnicity rather than her ability. However, Rachita sticks to the case, determined to find the killer by delving deep into the dangerous world of organized crime, as well as calling out the obvious biases her colleagues are bringing to the investigation.
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Series
Wire in the Blood volume 2
Description
Carol and Tony examine the brutal slaying of a religious couple in their home that seems to be linked to a local slaughterhouse. As Carol suffers a personal crisis, Tony works with a convicted murderer who claims he's reformed.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Follows three housemates as they do their best to live their lives as normally as possible despite their strange and dark secrets. Lovable George battles with his double identity as a mild mannered hospital porter who for one night of the month turns into a flesh hungry werewolf, Mitchell is a good looking and confident vampire trying to go cold turkey from his blood sucking urges and recently deceased Annie is a chatty yet underconfident ghost whose...
Author
Series
Midsomer Murders volume 1
Description
The appearance of a headless horseman at Quitewell Hall foreshadows a number of deaths amongst an aristocratic family. In the midst of a Civil War re-enactment the family relive their own historic battles with their hostile neighbours.
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Series
Midsomer Murders volume 2
Description
A series of murders in Midsomer St Claire seem to be inspired by macabre images on a medieval fresco recently discovered in the church crypt.
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Series
Midsomer Murders volume 5
Description
When the boss of Calder's Biscuit Company is murdered in Copenhagen, Barnaby and Nelson join forces with two female Danish detectives, the abrasive and astute Poulsen and the charming and cool Degn.
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Series
Midsomer Murders volume 5
Description
Harriet Farmer wakes up after being in a coma since the night she tried to elope. Soon afterwards, a killer strikes members of a chess club. Soon afterwards, a killer strikes members of a chess club.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 2
Description
Tensions rise as Harry and Nikki struggle to find any useful evidence from the post-mortems to help the police. No one will talk, and they have no leads. Meanwhile, Leo worries for Levi, who is being sucked further into a world of gangs and violence.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 5
Description
The team are called in to investigate an armed raid on a suspected terrorist cell. Two terrorists have been killed, together with a police officer. But when Nikki's findings point to a bungled raid with innocent lives being lost, people start to pass the buck.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 3
Description
Harry employs the help of his medical student, Holly Farr, with his latest case - the post-mortem of a woman found dumped on the side of the road with her face skillfully removed. With no DNA or missing persons match, Nikki's skills are called upon to reconstruct the victim's face. But the team are at a loss to explain the killers' motive in such a brutal act.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 7
Description
When the badly decomposed body of a Hasidic man is discovered on disused wasteland, Harry is tasked to investigate his death, and to treat the community with care. Everything points towards a brutal anti-Semitic murder by a Polish laborer - but when the time of death contradicts his wife's last sighting, Harry becomes suspicious. Leo, meanwhile, is trying to unravel the events leading to the death of an Australian backpacker at a party.