Robert Glenister
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier....
2) Lethal white
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's...
3) The silkworm
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost...
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible-and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not...
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult. Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Private lives: A woman is discovered in critical condition in a quiet village on the outskirts of Denton, the apparent victim of a hit-and-run incident. Frost's investigation exposes the secret life of a rural England corner.
Keys to the car: Frost investigates a dapper con man with a taste for golf at posh clubs and other people's cars, especially after the body of a drug dealer is found in the trunk.
Line of fire: DI Frost investigates the murder...
Author
Language
English
Description
Lebanese-born Khalil Gibran spent a major part of his life in America in the early 20th century. He wrote many collections of stories with a wise and whimsical tone. Here, Naxos presents his two most popular works: The Prophet, his first collection, and The Wanderer, his final anthology.
Author
Language
English
Description
William Blake's highly personal messages of humanity and social conscience are as relevant today as in 18th-century London. Although Blake's works were ignored or dismissed until long after his death, their directness and unsentimental simplicity will strike a chord with many today.
10) Prime suspect: 4
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2004, c1994
Language
English
Description
In this PBS series Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison is promoted to Detective Superintendent.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Set in Victorian London, fearless young Sally Lockhart has a mind for numbers and for sleuthing. Recently orphaned Sally is armed with a pearl-handled pistol and her keen mind, uncovers the secrets of her father's death aboard the sunken schooner Lav
12) Cryptic
Author
Language
English
Description
8 members from various London crime families meet in a Crypt to guard a coffin. Nobody seems to know what the contents of said coffin are, but one by one they start winding up dead, and the word "vampire" comes to mind.
Author
Series
Sherwood volume 4
Language
English
Description
With two killers now on the run, Ian is forced to call in the Met to support the manhunt. Meanwhile, the hunt for the mystery spy cop intensifies as a link to Scott is found.
Author
Series
Sherwood volume 6
Language
English
Description
In a bid to protect those involved, Ian finds himself determined now more than ever to find the spy cop. The community attempts to heal in the wake of its loss.
Author
Series
Sherwood volume 2
Language
English
Description
As the hunt for the killer continues, Kevin Salisbury from the MET arrives to assist in the investigation. And tensions mount as the killer torments the community further.
Author
Series
Sherwood volume 1
Language
English
Description
DCS Ian St Clair is called to investigate a tragic and unexpected murder in an ex-mining town as news of the crime threatens to inflame historic tensions.
Author
Series
Sherwood volume 5
Language
English
Description
As the manhunt closes in on Scott and Andy's location, the search for the spy cop turns the clock back to 1984 to reveal their identity and the events of that fateful night.
Author
Series
Sherwood volume 3
Language
English
Description
As Ian and Kevin are called to the scene of a second murder, news breaks of a former spy in the community at Gary's memorial service. Meanwhile, Scott remains at large.