When the naked body of a young prostitute is found on a narrowboat on the Castlemere Canal, police enquiries focus on the nearby Barbican Hotel. For with a sales conference in progress there's no shortage of men who could have met the girl there. But soon Superintendent Shapiro and his team have a great deal more to contend with. For the dead woman was not the only person to have hired herself out that night: a paid assassin is at large - and he is gunning for the conference organizer Philip Kendall. Jo Bannister's Castlemere novels are tough and very realistic - in the tradition of Lynda La Plante's Prime Suspect.

The Hireling's Tale

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

JO BANNISTER

Mystery

Pan/Macmillan

A Bleeding of Innocents

The woman's face and upper torso has been obliterated by the shot-gun blast. One minute she was talking to her husband, then she was gone. For Chief Inspector Frank Shapiro and Inspector Liz Graham of Castlemere CID it appeared to be a horrific random killing. Until the next murder.

Macmillan

Burning Desires

Suspended from the police force, Chief Inspector Frank Shapiro awaits an inquiry into an arson investigation he led eight years earlier, but a pyromaniac draws close to creating his ultimate masterpiece and Shapiro goes to desperate lengths to protect his family. Reprint.

A Taste for Burning

Worldwide Library

No Birds Sing by Jo Bannister released on Jun 24, 1998 is available now for purchase.

No Birds Sing (A Castlemere Mystery)

Romance

Contemporary

A group of six strangers meets for a weekend therapy retreat at London's incomplete new luxury hotel, but when the group realizes that they are all linked to a dead woman, they suspect that someone brought them here to die. Reprint.

Lazarus Hotel (Worldwide Mystery)

Echoes of Lies (A brodie Farrell Mystery) (A brodie Farrell Mystery)

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

st.martins press

A PEACEFUL EVENING OF STARGAZING FOR MATH TEACHER DANIEL HOOD TURNS TRAGIC WHEN HIS TELESCOPE FOCUSES ON THE BRUTAL MURDER OF A YOUNG MAN ON THE PIER IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE. DANIEL SAW THE KILLER'S FACE AND HE KNOWS IT DOES NOT BELONG TO THE PRIME SUSPECT, NEIL COCHRANE, WHO WAS ACCUSED-BUT NEVER CONVICTED-OF SIMILARLY BRUTALIZING THREE TEENAGE BOYS TEN YEARS EARLIER. THE POLICE WANT AN OPEN-AND-SHUT CASE. HOWEVER,HOOD INSISTS ON PROVING THEM WRONG.CLOSE FRIEND BRODIE FARRELL, SINGLE MOM AND OWNER OF THE ECLECTICE SEARCH SERVICE, "LOOKING FOR SOMETHING", KNOWS HOOD WELL ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND HE WILL SETTLE FOR NOTHING LESS THAN THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH. BUT NOT EVEN SHE COULD PREDICT THE DANGEROUS PATH HIS RECKLESS QUEST TO FIND THE REAL KILLER WILL THE TWISTED, TOURTURED AND ULTIMATELY TRAGIC SECRETS THAT LIE AT THE HEART OF THE CRIMES PAST AND PRESENT.

TRUE WITNESS by JO BANNISTER (TRUE WITNESS : A BRODIE FARRELL MYSTERY)

Reflections

SINS OF THE MOTHER Brodie Farrell's "Looking for Something?" investigation agency specializes in tracking down everything from the mundane to the murderous. It is the latter, now, that involves Brodie in the family life of a murdered woman, stabbed by her husband in a jealous rage. The couple's two daughters, fourteen and eleven, had the misfortune to discover the body. Brodie needs to find someone to care for the girls, but soon her job -- and her interest -- becomes dangerously personal. She enlists the help of her friend Daniel Hood, a teacher, to act as the girls' tutor while the police hunt for their missing father. But Daniel uncovers some terrible truths about the victim and her household -- inconsistencies that further complicate the case. And it is he who begins to unlock the tragic secrets at the heart of the murder, finding himself at the edge of sanity and dread as he is forced to confront the shocking nature of the crime.

The Depths of Solitude

Worldwide

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