A person who would kill a cop respects no-one. A person who would kill a cop would kill anyone. Four cops, from four precincts, all shot dead. A chaotic wave is erupting through the American police force in Paula Gosling's second Jack Stryker novel, Backlash. When a federal investigator appears on the killer's hit list, the simple answers seem to be disappearing way too fast and time is running out. Are these homicides linked? Or is the killer choosing victims at random? Can the police department computer make any connections that stick? Detective Lieutenant Jack Stryker is on the case with his partner Agent Dana Marchant, and together they must track a marksman with an uncanny criminal brain and a ruthlessly persistent purpose.

Backlash

After her husband's tragic death Tess Leland has finally started to piece her life back together - but someone is determined to take it apart again .

Death Penalties

Now, in the blank-faced and mazed city, death had become vicious and secret and cold. Somewhere out there, an ego was coiled, waiting. Winner of a Golden Dagger award, Paula Gosling's Monkey Puzzle introduces us to Detective Lieutenant Jack Stryker. An obsessive cop, an oddball, and (occasionally) a genius. When Grantham University's most unpopular professor is viciously murdered there are a myriad of potential suspects, and one of whom happens to be connected to Stryker's past .

Monkey Puzzle

Every year, the normally staid citizens of Blackwater Bay celebrate Halloween with a carnival of madness and laughter - they call it the Howl. Practical jokes are the speciality of the day and every town in the county competes for the wildest 'Howler' of all. For one person however, the Howl means murder. Under cover of the carnival, the killer that struck thirty years ago strikes again. Or, at least, that is what Sheriff Matt Gabriel thinks. Everybody else says he's crazy. Suspicion, hatred and resentment surround him as he searches for the person who killed once, twice - and may kill again. Witty, full of incident and character, with a genuinely surprising solution, A Few Dying Words, once again proves Paula Gosling's mastery in the art of the whodunit.

A Few Dying Words

Clare Randell has a problem with her boyfriend and a lazy San Francisco Sunday to think it over. That's the Sunday she helps a passing stranger pick up the papers he's dropped from his briefcase. From then on Clare's problems got bigger and more dangerous. Someone puts a hole in her arm with a silenced gun in a crowded street. Is it the same someone who put the bomb in her apartment? The cop assigned to her case is Lieutenant Malchek, an ex-Vietnam sniper who now specialises in hit-men and contract killers. Maybe the man who dropped the papers was someone special. Maybe he's got Clare on his list.

A Running Duck

Ce n'est pas tous les jours que l'on tombe nez à nez avec un cadavre grignoté par les poissons en creusant un trou dans la glace pour pêcher. Surtout quand la cause de la mort s'apparente plus à un impact de balle qu'à une attaque de truites enragées...
Et dire que le shérif Matt Gabriel s'apprêtait à passer un hiver calme, seulement rompu par la traditionnelle fête de la Glace !
La disparition mystérieuse d'une jeune fille du lycée local, élève de Jess Gibbons, ne fait qu'aggraver la situation. De plus, on murmure que la disparue n'avait pas froid aux yeux...
Difficile de découvrir le moindre indice, quand la moindre surface à l'air libre est recouverte par trois mètres de neige, et que même les cadavres arrivent difficilement à remonter à la surface des eaux gelées...
Suspense et humour par -40° C, un exploit uniquement réalisable par Paula Gosling !

Au coeur de l'hiver

L'Arnaque n'est plus ce qu'elle était

Ce passé de tireur d'élite au Viet-Nam, il le traînait comme un boulet qui était devenu un remords. Son ennemi - public et intime - tuait pour l'argent et n'en éprouvait aucun remords. De l'orgueil, au contraire. Alors, entre celui qui avait honte et celui qui s'en croyait, s'interposa la tendresse d'une femme qui n'avait envie que de vivre.

Un flic pas tellement sale

Le fait de vous enlever les choses n'est pas la même chose que de les donner.

Il y a deux types de livres dans ce monde. L'un améliore l'esprit, l'autre le solde bancaire. Parfois, ils sont les mêmes - mais pas souvent. La plupart des éditeurs trouvent que la combinaison des deux est le seul moyen de rester à flot.

Ils ont partagé les tâches de la vie alors que certains couples font la majeure partie du travail et il l'a apprécié.

L'échec n'est pas une honte - mais ne pas tenter la tentative est méprisable.

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