Russell's ebook Library
The Ides of April
Lindsey Davis
Flavia Albia [1]: Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of a famous investigating family. In defiance of tradition, she lives alone on the colourful Aventine Hill, and battles out a solo career in a male-dominated world. As a woman and an outsider, Al...
If Death Ever Slept
Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe [20]: With Nero Wolfe on the job, you'd think murderers would take caution. But even the master detective can't stop a killing, especially if it's an inside job - right under the roof of his client, millionaire Otis Jarrell.What's more, it...
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [10]: Calder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped in the myriad limestone caves, lost in collapsed copper mines, injured on perilous gritstone ridges.But this time, when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of t...
In the Best Families
Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe [13]: Aging millionairess Mrs. Rackham asks Nero Wolfe to find out where her penniless husband has suddenly been obtaining mysteriously large sums of money, a request that leads to murder and to threats against the master detective himself...
In the Presence of the Enemy
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [8]: Hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at The Source, he disco...
Invitation to Die
Lindsey Davis
Emperor Domitian is hosting a banquet for the senators in honour of fallen soldiers, and it's an invitation Aelianus and Justinus Camillus dare not refuse.On arrival, they enter a black-painted room furnished with couches resembling those found in ma...
The Iron Hand of Mars
Lindsey Davis
Falco [4]: When Germanic troops in the service of the Empire begin to rebel, and a Roman general disappears, Emperor Vespasian turns to the one man he can trust: Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer whose rates are low enough that even the stingy ...
