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| Sunday, 18 May 2003 |
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Compiled by Farah Macan Markar Nothing like a heart racing, blood curdling tale of dead bodies and psychic killers to chill out on a Sunday. Here are some novels of suspense, mystery and murder from Peter's Book Shop, down McCallum Road, Maradana. "Dying to meet you" - by B.M.Gill Embittered ex-brilliant concert pianist Lowell Marshall feels strangely drawn to the rundown cottage that a surprise legacy has made him owner. His fascination is too strong to be explained away in ordinary terms. He discovers a long forgotten sepia portrait of a young Victorian woman who once lived there and falls obsessively in love with her. When Rose, her contemporary real life double walks in on him one day his sense of time begins to blur and his grip on reality weakens. Is she of the past or of the present? That the delightful, if bizarre, liaison with her might be dangerous doesn't occur to him. He has never been happier. All those violent impulses he once found hard to control have gone. Or have they...? **** "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" - by James Hadley Chase "They pushed Miss Blandish into the hard light of the unshaded lamp. Her hands were fastened behind her back with Flynn's muffler. Two pads of dirty cotton wool were strapped across her eyes with adhesive tape. Slim lounged against the wall, bored with the reaction of his killings. `Meet Miss Blandish, Ma' he said. `Baby, this is Ma Grisson'..." When Dave Fenner was hired to solve the Blandish kidnapping, he knew the odds on finding the girl were against him-the cops were still looking for her three months after the ransom had been paid. And the kidnappers, Riley and his gang, had disappeared into thin air. But what none of them knew was that Riley himself had been wiped out by a rival gang-and the heiress was now in the hands of Ma Grisson and her son Slim, a vicious killer who couldn't stay away from women...especially his beautiful new captive. By the time Fenner began to close in on them, some terrible things had happened to Miss Blandish... ***** "Destination Unknown" - by Agatha Christie A young woman's suicide mission gives impetus to a thrilling adventure... When a number of leading scientists disappear without a trace, concern grows within the intelligence services. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed? One woman appears to hold the key to the mystery. unfortunately, Olive Betterton now lies dying from injuries sustained in a Moroccan plane crashed. Meanwhile, in a Casablanca hotel room, Hilary Craven prepares to take her own life. But her suicide attempt is about to be interrupted by a man who will offer her an altogether more thrilling way to die... The chances of survival were a hundred to one. They were odds that perfectly suited Hilary's state of mind. ****** "People of Darkness" - by Tony Hillerman The old Indian was already dying when someone tried to murder him. A box stolen from a rich man's house was filled with rocks-but that man's wife offered Jim Chee $3 000 to get it back. It had been stolen by the People of Darkness. Chee, a Navajo Indian and a sergeant in the Tribal Police of New Mexico, had never heard of them... but he went to find them. However out in the Bad Country under the scorching Southwest sun, a lone assassin waits for Chee and his girlfriend to come looking for answers...to come too close to the secret behind a thirty-year-old version of death...a secret fed by greed, and washed in blood... ***** "Original Sin" - by P.D. James "Original Sin" is set in a long-established publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The Peverell Press, founded in 1792, is ripe for change. The chairman, Henry Peverell, has just died; his French partner, Jean-Philippe Etienne, has retired and Etienne's ruthless son Gerard has taken over as chairman and managing director. Gerard Etienne has made enemies: his discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author, his colleagues and threatened members of the Peverell staff. When he is found dead on the premises, his body bizarrely desecrated, there is no shortage of suspects. Adam Dalgiesh and his team-Kate Miskin and Daniel Aaron-are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary ingenuity and complexity, and a murderer who is prepared to kill again... |
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