Protection (Harpur and Iles)
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He begins with a decade-by-decade survey from through Bill James, Author W. Here's good news for James's fans: Norton seems to be publishing the author's British backlist at an ever-increasing pace.
The Bill James Book of the Month Club continues last month's entry was Split, a valiant effort to revive the spy novel with another worthy cause—a mystery about the way British police handle racially motivated crimes, which could have Powerfully written, taut with suspense, the second outing featuring detective chief superintendent Colin Harpur You'd Better Believe It is not for the faint-hearted. Its plot, following the diabolical actions of a psychopath who rapes, tortures If you're trying to read James's wonderfully mordant Harpur and Iles books in order, this one was originally published in England in —between Top Banana and Lovely Mover.
That fact is important only to timeline purists, who keep Clever and complex, James's ninth police procedural featuring Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur explores the shadowy, dangerous world of ""grasses""--informers with one foot in the underworld, the other in the police camp and a precarious An American Scandal in Black and White. While modern readers may not be familiar with the notorious Rhinelander trial of , Lewis dean of graduate studies at the University of Michigan and Ardizzone visiting assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame offer a detailed Bill James offers a stand-alone, Middleman, the tawdry if wryly amusing tale of a small-time Welsh operator who runs into trouble when he agrees to help a crooked real-estate developer sell an expensive property on the Cardiff waterfront.
The Politics of Glory: James, the acknowledged authority on baseball statistics The Baseball Abstract , discusses how players have been selected in the past and are chosen now for the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N. The Baseball Writers of America, which A well-preserved, months-old corpse found in a community college classroom poses an irresistible mystery for Penelope Spring and Sir Tobias Glendower, recently made a Dame and a baronet for saving the British prime minister's life in The Catacomb An ongoing gentleman's war between cops and local drug dealers takes a deadly turn when someone firebombs the house of a smalltime dealer in James's stellar new Harpur and Iles mystery Panicking Ralph , etc.
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Desmond Iles is in trouble, and that's enough to give a new jolt of energy to James's long-running series Naked at the Window , etc. In its last half-dozen titles, James's Harpur and Iles series has turned darker, concentrating on drug-related murders and betrayals.
Some identifying marks on the inside cover, but this is minimal. Review A tremendous writer. Nevertheless, James wants us to be aware of the history of his series, even providing a couple of footnotes to refer to events dramatized in earlier books. Jan 27, Procyon Lotor rated it really liked it Shelves: You forgot your password and you need to retrieve it. No trivia or quizzes yet.
What saves it is the author's ability to surprise and delight us with his language—a kind of powerful, deadpan British author James Wolves of Memories creates such memorable characters in his full-length mystery novels about Det. Chief Constable Colin Harpur and his immediate superior, Asst. Chief Constable Desmond Iles, who work in an unnamed British In British author James's darkly humorous 23rd police procedural featuring Asst. At the start of this run-of-the-mill contemporary police procedural from British veteran James, best known for his Harpur and Iles series Easy Streets , etc.
Constable Sharon Mayfield spots the horribly disfigured corpse of Claude Huddart in. The latest--which begins with the murder of Harpur's wife, Megan, on her way home This vibrant, pulsating novel is the latest in a series of crisp procedurals which nominally feature British copper Colin Harpur, but which are often usurped by a colorful array of secondary characters, most especially Harpur's Macchiavellian In James's world, the good guys--Detective Colin Harpur and his scheming, sarcastic superior officer, Desmond Iles--often seem more evil and lust-fixated than his bad guys, who here boast nicknames like Caring and Panicking.
This follow-up to Take Chief Constable Desmond Iles of an unnamed English city—a vain and So do stupidity, vanity, adultery and treachery.
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All are explored in this standout British thriller that traces a crime from both the cops' and robbers' angles. In the wonderfully real, amoral urban world of Detective Colin Harpur, The death of a criminal ripples through lives on both sides of the law in this nervy, understated masterpiece of a procedural that only nominally stars British copper Colin Harpur.
Suspects in the fatal bludgeoning of lowlife Ian Aston include his On the other hand, Harpur is left to wander around the city guessing where the serial killer might strike next. In the first book in the series, Iles always lurked in the background, but in the second book, he blossoms into a full character.
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Like in the first two books, Halo Parade picks up with the author dropping the reader in the midst of murder case. As expected, something goes terribly bad, and Harpur and his assistant Iles are left to pick up the broken pieces. If you see one missing just send me an e-mail below.
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