Russell's ebook Library
Ransom River
Meg Gardiner
A stunningly complex and atmospheric crime novel from Edgar Award–winning author Meg Gardiner, Ransom River features a deeply flawed, compelling heroine, a murder trial, and the long-unsolved mystery it exposes.Rory Mackenzie is juror number seven on...
A Rare Benedictine
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [21]: ‘Brother Cadfael sprang to life suddenly and unexpectedly when he was already approaching sixty, mature, experienced, fully armed and seventeen years tonsures.’ So wrote Ellis Peters in her introduction to A RARE BENEDICTINE – three vin...
The Raven in the Foregate
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [12]: Christmas, 1141 AD. A priest arrives from London to fill the vacant living of Holy Cross (the Foregate) - a man of presence, scholarship and discipline, but one who lacks the common touch. When he is found drowned in the mill-pond, susp...
Red Mist
Patricia Cornwell
Kay Scarpetta [19]: Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on ...
Report for Murder
Val McDermid
Lindsay Gordon [1]: Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is strapped for cash. Why else would she agree to cover a fund-raising gala at a girl's public school?But when the star attraction is garrotted with her own cello string, only moments before she...
The Retribution
Val McDermid
Tony Hill & Carol Jordan [7]: It's perhaps fitting that for McDermid's 25th novel she's revisited her most thrillingly murderous creation.To write one brilliant book is hard. To write 25 is a miracle. That is what Val McDermid has achieved over the c...
A River in the Sky
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [19]: August 1910. Banned from the Valley of the Kings by the Antiquities Service, Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, are relaxing at home in Kent, enjoying the tranquil beauty of summer. But adventure soon beckons when they are ...
The Rose Rent
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [13]: Judith Perle, a young widow who had greatly loved her husband, has conveyed one of her properties to the Abbey of Shrewsbury in return for the annual rent of one white rose from the bush growing on the property's north wall. A few years...
The Rose and the Yew Tree
Agatha Christie
First published between 1930 and 1956, the six novels written by Agatha Christie under the name Mary Westmacott, regarded by some as the writer's finest work, show a very different side of her talent. What they share with her other fiction is Christi...
