D I Ed Ogborne is sidelined from the Met to the fairly small town of Canterbury in Kent where she immediately finds herself in charge of the team charged with locating the person kidnapping young girls only to release them shortly afterwards with a little something extra. This is a story with a diff...
Someone is watching them… When a missing teenage girl reappears unharmed but pregnant, the case falls to DI Edina Ogborne, the newest recruit of Canterbury Police. But Ed’s already got her hands full with a team who don’t want her, an ex who won’t quit, and terrible guilt over a secret from her past...
Guilty pleasures by Lawrence Sanders The Fullsby family is into publishing and Barbara has just graduated from college. She informs her daddy that she wants to go into the business after her month long visit with her girlfriend to France and other places.They share a different kind of love for one...
It is early 1987 and a meeting of the Canton, West Virginia branch of the National Women's Union (NWU) has just broken up. Several women, including the president of the chapter, Norma Jane Laughlin, and Molly Turner, executive secretary and Norma's lover, linger on the steps of the church where the ...
When I started working as a bookseller in 1994 it was toward the end of Lawrence Sanders' life but at the peak of his popularity. His Archy McNally series, the first title of which, McNally's Secret was published in 1991, was so popular that after his death in 1998 his estate published another six ...
This book speculates about a number of technologies, conventions and social concepts that, by this date, actually didn't end up too far off the mark. Sanders envisioned ATM's when that idea was still long in the future. While some of his concepts, by now, may seem a little dated and even quaint, the...
Why I have even chosen this book? It's a full disappointment! There's nothing interesting in here, so don't pick it up !! the book just never develops into anything. Boring stuff. I cannot find anything in this book that I would like and usually I can find some aspects that are likable. There's noth...
Reads like a classic murder mystery; sometimes it was hard to remember the setting was modern day Florida. Overall enjoyable, easy and fun to read. Archy is an suave and entertaining protagonist.
It’s pretty hard not to love a book that throws in such uncommon words such as hirsute, acumen, trichologist, inamorata, prolixity, and characters who confuse the Nutcracker with the famous Christmas ballet the Ballbreaker.” Archy McNally is sort of an American Jeeves, and I can envision David...
[Thee notes were made in 1984:]. If I remember aright (and it's been a while), the "First" and "Second" books in this series are in the same pattern as this effort: the mystery is not in whodunit, or how, but why. Sanders takes us through two alternating narratives, one of the killer, and one of th...
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