Книги, похожие на «C.B. Forrest, The Devil's Dust»

The seventh classic instalment in this genre-changing series of novels featuring Detective Inspector Martin Beck.On a quiet night a high-ranking police officer, Nyland, is slaughtered in his hospital bed, brutally massacred with a bayonet. It's not hard to find people with a motive to kill him; in fact the problem for Detective Inspector Martin Beck is how to narrow the list down to one suspect. But as he investigates Nyland's murder he must confront whether he is willing to risk his life for his job.Written in the 1960s, these masterpieces are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo – a husband and wife team from Sweden. The ten novels follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction. The novels can be read separately, but do follow a chronological order, so the reader can become familiar with the characters and develop a loyalty to the series. Each book will have a new introduction in order to help bring these books to a new audience.

Truck-stop waitress Luanne Evans had known the customer who wound up in her trailer one night was not exactly one of the local boys. As to who he was, she didn't care. For when he was gone, she would have nothing but memories. Or so she thought…. Prince Aleksander Vlastos had run out on Luanne eleven years ago, and he'd lived with regret ever since.But regret wasn't the only thing he'd left behind. There was a ten-year-old child – the heir to Alek's throne. Luanne had had him for ten years, and now it was his turn. She owed him. And he'd come to collect….

It is no mistake that Paxton visits Kelsey Moore’s shop every morning. It is his first mission back from injury: staking out the shop for a wanted man.But when Kelsey is held at gunpoint, Paxton blows his cover – and adds bodyguard to his list of duties.Now his secret is out in the open – and her life in danger – Kelsey’s days have just become far from routine…