When Britain’s Home Secretary complained of abdominal pains, it seemed like a simple case of appendicitis. But minutes after his operation, the ill-fated politician lay dead on the table. When Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives to dissect the situation, he finds many a likely suspect, including a vengeful surgeon, a lovelorn nurse, an unhappy wife, and political foes.
The candlelight, the music, the rose petals strewn across the bed — a seduction meant for his benefit, not hers. He hadn’t intended to kill her. Lieutenant Eve Dallas hasn’t much to go on, but she’ll get him . . .
A cop is found bludgeoned to death, a case of serious overkill that pushes Eve Dallas straight into overdrive. Her investigation uncovers a private vendetta where everyone is judged.
When a famous thespian is killed right before her eyes, New York detective Eve Dallas takes a new place in crime as both officer and witness to murder.
New York cop Eve Dallas faces her most ingenious foe: a “secret admirer” who taunts her with letters…and kills without mercy.
A madman with the mind of a genius and the heart of a killer haunts the police with cryptic riddles that are always solved moments too late to save his victims’ lives. All have ties to an ugly ten-year-old secret of Roarke’s, and Lt Eve Dallas will pull out all the stops to solve them . . . and him.
