Jim Kelly
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"[A] superior fifth Shaw and Valentine police procedural . . . Long after the pieces of the puzzle fall into place, the mystery of the human psyche remains." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
When a body is discovered beneath the waves off Scolt Head Island, the contents of the dead man's pockets lead Detective Inspector Peter Shaw to suspect an outbreak of "samphire wars": a turf battle for control of the prized sea asparagus which sells for...
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The stunning new Shaw & Valentine mystery
When the newspapers turn up to cover Ruby Bright's 100th birthday, they find her seaside care home is a murder scene. Someone spirited Ruby away by wheelchair down to the water's edge on the idyllic north Norfolk coast, and strangled her. But why kill a harmless centurion?
As Detective Inspector Shaw and Detective Sergeant Valentine investigate, it's clear Ruby wasn't the first victim, and nor is she the...
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The story begins with Jim's introduction to paranormal activities and spirits by becoming involved in current events happening at the local spirit-inhabited "Haunted Hinsdale House." Shortly after this, Jim was taking some photographs and was astounded by what appeared to be showing up in the photos and so his journey begins...
He embarks on a quest, searching for the answers as to why this is all happening to him. Why has HE been blessed with such...
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Putting Information Technology first and the business second is putting the cart before the horse.
In most organisations, there seems to be a disconnect between the business and Information Technology, and in some regards, IT is looked on as the silver bullet that can be used to resolve all problems and issues. This has occurred due to Information Technology becoming so embedded in organisations and being required for the execution of most business...
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lone German bomber crosses the East coast of Britain on a moonless night in the long hot summer of 1940. The pilot picks up the silver thread of a river and following it to his target, drops his bomb over Cambridge's rail yards. The shell falls short of its mark, and lands in a maze-like neighbourhood of terraced streets on the edge of the city's medieval centre. D I Eden Brooke is first on the scene and discovers the body of an elderly woman, Nora...
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Cambridge, 1939. Wieder einmal zieht Detective Inspector Eden Brooke ruhelos durch die nächtliche Stadt. Seitdem er in Gefangenschaft gefoltert wurde, findet er keinen Schlaf mehr und leidet unter extremer Lichtempfindlichkeit. Nur in den verdunkelten Straßen fühlt er sich noch wohl - bis sich mehrere Sperrballons losreißen und eine Explosion im Stellwerk auslösen. Am nächsten Morgen wird eine Leiche am Fluss gefunden - auseinandergerissen von...
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Winter, 1940. Schnee fällt. Inspector Eden Brooke streift wie so oft durch das nächtliche Cambridge. Die friedliche Ruhe wird jäh durch Hilferufe unterbrochen: In einem Sack verstaut, wurde ein kleiner Junge in den eiskalten Fluss geworfen. Brooke tut alles, um ihn zu retten - vergeblich.
Brookes Ermittlungen ergeben, dass es sich bei dem Jungen um ein vermisstes Kind Irisch-Katholischen Glaubens handeln muss. Als eine Bombe in einer Fabrik explodiert...
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On the football field NFL great Jim Kelly was a strong-armed passer, leading his team to victory after victory. In The Playbook for Dads he passes principles instead of footballs, still using his talent to lead men, but now he leads them to greatness as fathers, in his view the world's most important job.
With an emphasis on preparation, hard work and perseverance, Kelly tackles such essential issues as respect, character, accountability and spiritual...
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When a diamond is stolen in Hong Kong, the company insuring the diamond sends a former CIA agent (Jim Kelly) to Hong Kong to retrieve it. Meanwhile, one of the thieves begins to have a change of heart because his girlfriend wants him to leave his criminal organization.
10) Death ship
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When an explosion rips across Hunstanton Beach on the north Norfolk coast, an abandoned Second World War bomb is assumed to be the cause . . . but is it? Could there be a connection with the new pier being built - and the increasingly bitter campaign to halt its construction?At the same time, DI Shaw and DS Valentine are on the hunt for an elderly female killer with a uniquely macabre method of despatch. And a 63-year-old Dutch engineer is missing,...
11) Death's door
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"One hot August day in 1994, 75 holidaymakers are ferried to an uninhabited island off the North Norfolk coast. Only 74 return alive. A young man has been stabbed and left to bleed to death in the island's surf. The case is never solved. Twenty years later, the new chief constable decides the murder is ripe for a re-evaluation using state-of-the-art forensics. DI Peter Shaw is in charge of the case and summons all 75 original suspects to a mass DNA...
12) Nightrise
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Philip Dryden novels volume 6
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When Philip Dryden is informed that his father has been killed in an accident, Dryden must discover how this could be since he knew the man to have been killed in a flood years earlier, and how this might to relate to two new unexplained cases
13) The funeral owl
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Philip Dryden novels volume 7
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"When a reader contacts local newspaper The Crow to report a rare sighting of the Boreal or so-called 'Funeral' owl, the paper's editor Philip Dryden has a sense of foreboding. For the Funeral Owl is said to be an omen of death. It's already proving to be one of the most eventful weeks in The Crow's history. The body of a Chinese man has been discovered hanging from a cross in a churchyard in Brimstone Hill in the West Fens. The inquest into the deaths...
14) Death wore white
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Detective Shaw mysteries volume 1
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 23 cm
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English
15) The skeleton man
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Philip Dryden novels volume 5
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
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vii, 343 p. : map ; 22 cm
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English
16) The water clock
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Philip Dryden novels volume 1
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
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303 p. ; 22 cm
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English
17) The fire baby
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Philip Dryden novels volume 2
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
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322 p. ; 22 cm
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English