Paul Charles, Author . Do-Not Press $29.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-899344-70-3
Det. Insp. Christy Kennedy and his London police team—particularly Det. Sgt. James Irvine and Det. Constable Anne Coles—are a fine ensemble, and in their fifth outing, British author Charles (Last Boat to Camden Town, etc.) uses his...
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Paul Charles, Author . Do-Not Press $29.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-904316-03-9
British author Charles offers another smooth police procedural (the sixth in the series after 2002's The Hissing of the Silent Lonely Room), which begins with a grisly slaying in Greater London and ends dramatically in a remote corner of Det....
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Paul Charles, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-312-31872-7
In this modest but pleasing prequel to Charles's mystery debut, I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass
, Irish-born Det. Inspector Christy Kennedy of Camden CID investigates the death of an upstanding young doctor found drowned in London's...
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Paul Charles, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-31902-1
In British author Charles's first Insp. Christy Kennedy mystery (published in the U.K. in 1997), the humane and vulnerable CID detective's love interest, reporter ann rea, asks him to look into the disappearance of a record producer, who...
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Paul Charles, Author . Brandon $29.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-86322-367-9
In the satisfying eighth Det. Insp. Kennedy mystery, Kennedy picks up a missing person case in London’s Camden Town while easing back into work following an injury sustained in 2004’s The Justice Factory
. Elderly and prosperous, John...
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Paul Charles, Author . Brandon $34.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-86322-369-3
The excellent first in a new series from Irish author Charles (Sweetwater
and seven other Det. Insp. Christy Kennedy mysteries) introduces Garda Inspector Starrett, whose vast experience of the range of human nature is put to the test when a...
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Paul Charles, Author . Brandon $34.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-86322-377-8
In Charles’s ninth Det. Insp. Christy Kennedy mystery, one of the strongest in an impressive series (Sweetwater
, etc.), Kennedy of the Camden Town CID faces a particularly challenging puzzle—the murder of a former colleague,...
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Paul Charles, Author . Brandon $29.95 (334p) ISBN 978-0-86322-404-1
The complicated relationship between Inspector Starrett and his on-again, off-again significant other, Maggie Keane, threatens to overwhelm the crime solving in Charles's second procedural to feature the Irish policeman (after 2007's The...
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Paul Charles, Author Do-Not Press $14.95 (230p) ISBN 978-1-899344-39-0
Two men are dead--one with his throat torn out by a mad dog, the other brutally beaten by an extremely angry human--in Camden Town, Detective Inspector Christy Kennedy's patch of London and, not incidentally, a magnet for the young and trendy, and...
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Paul Charles, Author Do-Not Press $31 (230p) ISBN 978-1-899344-38-3
Two men are dead--one with his throat torn out by a mad dog, the other brutally beaten by an extremely angry human--in Camden Town, Detective Inspector Christy Kennedy's patch of London and, not incidentally, a magnet for the young and trendy, and...
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Paul Charles. Dufour, $29.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8023-1352-2
A trove of pop music lore enriches Charles’s leisurely 10th procedural featuring Ulster Det. Insp. Christy Kennedy (after 2008’s The Beautiful Sound of Silence). When investment banker Patrick Mylan is found hanging from his belt in his well-appointe
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Paul Charles. Dufour, $29 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8023-1358-4
Irish author Charles (A Pleasure to Do Death with You) launches his new Brendy McCusker series with this twist-filled tale of betrayal and revenge. McCusker, a retired detective inspector and contract employee of the Belfast police, assists Det....
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Paul Charles. Dufour, $29 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8023-1360-7
In Irish author Charles’s atmospheric third Inspector Starrett mystery (after 2010’s Family Life), Starrett investigates a murder at a home for wayward Catholic priests. The youngest of the residents, Fr. Matthew McKaye, was found dead in a chair in
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Paul Charles. Dufour, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8023-1362-1
Irish author Charles’s fine sequel to 2014’s Down on Cypress Avenue finds Brendy McCusker, a retired Ulster detective inspector who sometimes helps the Belfast police, and Det. Insp. Lily O’Carroll interviewing Elizabeth Bloom, the wife of Queen’s...
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Paul Charles. Dufour, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8023-1363-8
A suspicious hit-and-run accident forms the basis of Charles’s unconvincing 11th mystery featuring Ulster-born detective inspector Christy Kennedy (after 2012’s A Pleasure to Do Death with You). Outside the London embassy of the People’s Republic of
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