Hugh Fraser
1) Harm
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What makes an innocent girl become a contract killer? Acapulco 1974: Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another quick, clean kill. When she wakes to discover her employer's severed head on her bedside table, and a man with an AK 47 coming through the door of her hotel room, she must use all her skills to neutralize her attacker and escape. Notting Hill 1956: Fifteen-year-old Rina is scavenging and stealing to support her siblings and her alcoholic...
2) Stealth
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One tough woman. One fight to the death... London 1967. A working girl is brutally murdered in a Soho club. Rina Walker takes out the killer and attracts the attention of a sinister line-up of gangland enforcers with a great deal to prove. When a member of British Military Intelligence becomes aware of her failure to fulfil a contract, issued by an inmate of Broadmoor, he forces her into the deadly arena of the Cold War, with orders to kill an enemy...
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Four novels in the edgy series about a female contract killer in 1960s London.
Harm
In Acapulco, Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another quick, clean kill-until she wakes to find a severed head in her hotel room and a man with an AK-47 charging through the door, in this action-packed series debut that takes us into the traumatic childhood in postwar London that made Rina what she is today...
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London 1961. Rina is hired by a Soho vice...
4) Malice
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Rina Walker is back and as deadly as ever... but it's not just her life at stake. London 1964. Gang warfare is breaking out. Rina Walker struggles to survive amid the battles and betrayals of a gruesome cast of racketeers and gangsters. Her considerable skills as an assassin are her only hope of survival. Playing one side off against the other to protect those she loves, Rina is, caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse where her life is just one...
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How far would you go to protect the innocent? London 1961. In the dying days of the Macmillan government, George Preston is in control of crime in West London and Rina Walker is his favored contract killer. When Rina is, hired by Soho a vice king to investigate the disappearance of girls from his clubs, she discovers that they are being, supplied to a member of the English aristocracy for the gratification of his macabre tastes. Rina's pursuit of...
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A bit of adventure and cash is all that drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from a friend. It sounds so simple: deliver the memoirs of a deceased European count to a London publisher. But the parcel holds more than royal secrets.
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Mark Easterbrook investigates the brutal death of Father Gorman, a Catholic priest who had just heard the deathbed confession of longtime town gossip Mrs. Davis. On his body, Father Gorman had a list of names, supposedly related to Mrs. Davis' confession. As Mark delves deep into the mystery, he uncovers a series of startling secrets.
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Wychwood-under-Ashe is a small village with a reputation for witchcraft and folklore. Retired policeman Luke Fitzwilliam meets one of its residents on a train, who tells him that someone is killing off the residents one by one, and she is on her way to notify Scotland Yard about it. However, before she arrives she is killed by a hit-and-run driver. A stay in the village provides Luke with a bewildering list of suspects, and he must enlist the help...
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Christie's superb stand-alone mystery, Passenger to Frankfurt, is a true masterwork of surprise and suspense, as a diplomat comes to the aid of a terrified woman in an airport, only to find that his identity has been stolen and his life is suddenly in serious jeopardy. Sir Stafford Nye's flight home from Malaya takes an unprecedented twist when a young woman confides in him that someone is trying to kill her. In a moment of weakness, he agrees to...
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At last, a single volume that gathers together all of the short stories featuring Agatha Christie's most famous creation, Hercule Poirot. The dapper, mustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head and curious mannerisms has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century-and, in his own humble opinion, is "probably the greatest detective in the world." In this complete collection of more than 50 stories, ranging from short tales...
12) N or M?
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Shortly before his death, a murdered government agent points Tommy and Tuppence Beresford in the direction of the culprit. Led to the Sans Souci Hotel, the duo encounters a mysterious host, a group of unfriendly guests, and reports of a missing girl. But when Tommy also disappears, Tuppence suspects that something sinister is taking place within the hotel.
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When civilian life proves too dull for Major Wilbrahams, he contacts Parker Pyne to escape his boredom. Pyne's assistant arranges a chance meeting with the beautiful Freda Clegg and the two join forces, but on leaving for Africa they encounter more than they had bargained for.
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On a dark evening, Mr. Harley Quin appears at the door of Royston Hall under the premise that his car has broken down. Once inside, he embarks upon the tragic tale of Royston Hall's former occupants, leading to a dramatic change in the perceptions of the current inhabitants – but has Mr. Quin's revelation come too late?
15) Yellow Iris
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An alarming telephone call, in which the phrases "it's life and death" and "the table with the yellow irises" are whispered, causes Hercule Poirot to rush to the luxuriant restaurant Jardin des Cygnes, desperate to stop an impending murder and find the person behind the voice on the phone. After bumping into an old acquaintance, he is invited to join a dinner party in full swing. But, just as the dancing and champagne are overflowing, a morbid announcement...
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Just as boredom is setting in on his long trip by motor coach across the desert to Baghdad, Mr. Parker Pyne reads about the case of the missing Mr. Long, the famous defaulting financier who, as the papers would have it, is in South America. Another member of his party, Captain Smethurst, tells Pyne that he is worried about something. But before he can tell Pyne what it is, he is found dead, with no visible wound. Pyne must piece together what happened...
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Hercule Poirot is about to tuck into a very traditional English supper with his old friend Bonnington when a lone diner sparks his interest. Like clockwork, the man has eaten at the restaurant on Thursdays and Tuesdays for the last ten years, but no one on the staff knows his name. When "Old Father Time," as they have fondly nicknamed him, suddenly stops coming, Poirot believes that he might have picked up the one essential clue that could shed light...
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Mystery writer Anthony Eastwood is lured to the crime scene of a faked murder, where two individuals masquerading as police officers arrest him and charge him for murder. As the phony police officers escort Mr. Eastwood home, the true goal of the masquerade becomes apparent.
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Tommy and Tuppence Beresford wait anxiously for a letter from Russia that may contain information of international importance hidden beneath the stamp. The letter is anticipated by more than just the Beresfords, and they must fight to keep the information from getting into the wrong hands.
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James has found himself at the fashionable resort Kimpton-on-Sea, all due to the persuasion of his girlfriend Grace, who during the last few months of their courtship has become more difficult to deal with. Among the upper echelons of society, including the Rajah of Maraputna, James feels disgruntled and out of place. Eager to both irritate and win over Grace, James bypasses the queue to the changing rooms and ducks into the private huts on the beach...