"An MI6 operative is found dead, locked in a suitcase inside his own apartment. Despite an exhaustive search, no fingerprints are found at the scene. Emma Makepeace and her handler, Ripley, know an assassination when they see one, and such an obvious murder can mean only one thing: Someone is sending a message. As she digs into his past, Emma discovers that the unfortunate spy had been investigating two Russian oligarchs based in London. He'd become...

Meet Conrad. You've never met a cat like him before. Neither has Lulu Lewis, when he walks into her life one summer's day. Mourning the recent death of her husband, the former police detective had expected a gentle retirement, quietly enjoying life on her new canal boat, The Lark, and visiting her mother-in-law Emily in a nearby care home. But when Emily dies suddenly in suspicious circumstances, Lulu senses foul play and resolves to find out what...

"Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, an auditing of the British Secret Service "to investigate historical over-reaching." Monochrome's mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer--and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so. But MI5's formidable...

Ava Lee is in the French Riviera with Pang Fai and Lau Lau for the long-awaited premiere of Tiananmen at the Cannes Film Festival. As the film collects numerous awards and international acclaim, a distribution deal with a major American firm is arranged by the film's producer, Chen. When several months go by with no word from the Americans, Chen decides to travel to Los Angeles to determine what is preventing the film's release. En route from his...

Special Agent Garrett Kohl has just taken down a dangerous and deadly cartel boss when he finds trouble brewing back on his family's homestead. A powerful energy consortium, Talon Corporation, has started an aggressive mining operation that threatens to destroy Garrett's land, his family's way of life, and everything they hold dear. To achieve its goals, Talon is flouting the law, bribing public officials, and meeting anyone who challenges it with...

25 personajes del espectáculo y la vida pública e innumerables detalles inéditos de sus dolorosos fallecimientos—detalles que en la mayoría de los casos, se creía, habían sido enterrados con sus protagonistas—le dan forma al más exclusivo dossier de defunción de las estrellas. Desde las escenas cultural, sociopolítica y mediática, hasta la coyuntura del jet-set local, 911 V.I.P. reúne los últimos pasos dados por grandes nombres del...

La escritura de un anteproyecto de investigación demanda pensar y repensar las ideas, formularlas en el papel y pulirlas hasta dejarlas a punto; en otras palabras, volver concreta, comprensible y factible la investigación que antes estaba solo en la cabeza. Por eso, un anteproyecto elaborado con juicio es de gran utilidad: les da estructura a las ideas, demarca el camino a seguir, asegura el feliz término del trabajo y, como si fuera poco, garantiza...

Hindi feature film. "The film captures the protagonist Daniyal's journey to seek justice for the country and it takes him across India, Europe, America and Middle East to pursue the investigation. He is assisted by local agents in various countries including Nawaz Mistry who works for an American Security Agency"--From Worldcat.org.

Penelope Parish is ready to close the book on her amateur sleuthingfrom now on, The Open Book's writer-in-residence will be sticking to villains of the fictional variety while she puts the final touches on her new novel. But when an author is murdered inside the bookshop, all of Upper Chumley-on-Stoke goes on high alert. Now it's up to Pen and the quirky citizens of Chumley to stop a killer and protect the charming British town she's begun...