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Heroes and Villains
'Classic Scottish noir: bad food, bad moods, too much booze and tight plots' @ey0k1, Twitter Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin, Stuart MacBride and Christopher Brookmyre, Heroes and Villains is the seventh book in the dark and gripping Scottish police procedural series that has set the bestseller charts alight. After a previous case got him sidelined to a drugs investigation, DS Scott Cullen closes in on a long-time adversary. Dean Vardy, Edinburgh's latest drug kingpin, and notorious rapist. Every time they close in on him, he gets off, aided and abetted by his lawyer, Campbell McLintock. But this time Vardy goes too far.Or does he? After a witness dies, Cullen is soon desperately trying to hold the case together, with Vardy's conviction dangling by a thread. Will McLintock get Vardy off yet again?But soon, Cullen and Police Scotland's Edinburgh Major Investigation Team are facing a different threat. A brutal vigilante, doling out frontier justice and obeying no laws. Can Cullen catch a killer who could be one of their own?From bestselling author Ed James, Heroes and Villains is a tightly woven, gripping crime novel that shows both sides of the crime coin.
Drax Vol. 1
You know him as the heavily tattooed muscle for everybody's favorite spacefaring super-team, but what does Drax do when he's not Guarding the Galaxy? Pursue his own bloodthirsty quest to achieve his destiny and slay Thanos, of course! Determined to find and kill the Titan once and for all, Drax is ready to take on the universe, one heavy hitter at a time! When Drax the Destroyer and Terrax the Tamer walk into a space cantina, it's no joke. Then there's the Temple of Foom! Fin Fang Foom, that is. But you know Drax's motto: The bigger they are, the harder they die screaming. It's Drax the Destroyer, rampaging through the cosmos on a starship named the Space Sucker. You just know, whatever happens, this one is gonna be epic! Collecting Drax issues #1 to 5.
Ghost in the Machine
'Classic Scottish noir: bad food, bad moods, too much booze and tight plots' @ey0k1, TwitterFor fans of Ian Rankin, Stuart McBride and Christopher Brookmyre, Ghost in the Machine is the novel that introduced readers to ambitious maverick Detective Constable Scott Cullen, whose series has set the bestseller charts alight.With a messy divorce behind her, Caroline Adamson's future is finally looking up. But after her mutilated body is found, police think Caroline's ex-husband is the main suspect. When one murder becomes three, Edinburgh faces up to the fact that it might have a serial killer in its midst. Then DC Scott Cullen of Lothian and Borders CID starts to question his superiors. Could th...
The Peacock Detectives
Shortlisted for the 2017 Text Prize Today would have been an ordinary Saturday, except that two things happened: 1) The peacocks escaped and 2) I started writing this story. Dad says if you want to write a story you should start by choosing a topic that you know a lot about. That’s why this is a story about peacocks. I know a lot about peacocks because: (a) Two peacocks live in the holiday flats across the road from me and (b) I’m good at finding them when they go missing. The last time William Shakespeare and Virginia went missing Cassie found them sitting on a coiled hose behind the fire station, and Dad called her ‘Cassie Andersen, Peacock Detective’. So this time she knows what t...
The Ghost in the Machine
An examination of the human impulse towards self-destruction suggests that in the course of human evolution, a pathological split between emotion and reason developed
Stab in the Dark: Previously Published as Dyed in the Wool
'Classic Scottish noir: bad food, bad moods, too much booze and tight plots' @ey0k1, TwitterFor fans of Ian Rankin, Ed McBain and Stuart MacBride, Dyed in the Wool sees the return of Detective Constable Scott Cullen, in the gritty and hard-hitting Scottish police procedural series that has set the bestseller charts alight.DC Scott Cullen likes to play hard and fast with the rules and while it might antagonise his colleagues - and superiors - it gets results. But resistance to his cowboy attitude, coupled with fears about a forthcoming police restructure, mean that things aren't looking good for the maverick cop, especially when his personal life begins to crumble.Then the body of a young man...
Snared
Vicky Dodds--single mother, commitment-phobe, Detective Sergeant--is adding Dundee, Scotland to the Tartan Noir map. When a dog breeder in and around Dundee disappears, DS Dodds and her team are tasked with finding out who is behind the attacks. But as the crimes escalate, and the attacker's message becomes clearer, Vicky begins to question where her own sympathies lie. From the acclaimed author of the Scott Cullen series, Snared is an unyielding police procedural that fearlessly examines the uncomfortable grey areas between right and wrong, and between "us" and "them."
Stab in the Dark
A dead body. A twisted car. A detective torn in two.DC Scott Cullen likes to play hard and fast with the rules and while it might antagonise his colleagues and superiors, it gets results. But resistance to his cowboy attitude, coupled with fears about a forthcoming police restructure, mean that things aren't looking good for the maverick cop, especially when his personal life begins to crumble.When the body of a young man turns up in a totalled car in West Lothian at the foot of a shale bing, it looks like a straightforward case.But when that seemingly accidental death turns into two undeniable murders and Cullen gets caught in the risky crossfire of several different investigations. When th...
Silent Mystery and Detective Movies
The silent film era was known in part for its cliffhanger serials and air of suspense that kept audiences returning to theaters week after week. Icons such as Douglas Fairbanks, Laurel and Hardy, Lon Chaney and Harry Houdini were among those who graced the dark and shadowy screen. This reference guide to silent films with mystery and detective content lists more than 1,500 titles in one of entertainment's most popular and enduring genres. While most of the films examined are from North America, mystery films from around the world are included.
Race, Gender and Empire in American Detective Fiction
This book highlights detection's malleability by analyzing the works of particular groups of authors from specific time periods written in response to other texts. It traces the roles that gender, race and empire have played in American detective fiction from Edgar Allan Poe's works through the myriad variations upon them published before 1920 to hard-boiled fiction (the origins of which derive in part from turn-of-the-20th-century notions about gender, race and nationality), and it concludes with a discussion of contemporary mystery series with inner-city settings that address black male and female heroism.
