Capital Crimes: With a foreword from Peter James (The Plumber's Mate Mysteries #3.5 - The Drag Queen Wore Red)

Douglas Stewart, Charlie Flowers, J.L. Merrow, Maynard Sims, Lambert Nagle, Charlie Cochrane, Graeme Shimmin, Alan McDermott, Alex Shaw, Stephen Edger, Alison Ripley Cubitt


4.00 · 2 ratings · Published: 22 Dec 2015

Capital Crimes: With a foreword from Peter James by Douglas Stewart, Charlie Flowers, J.L. Merrow, Maynard Sims, Lambert Nagle, Charlie Cochrane, Graeme Shimmin, Alan McDermott, Alex Shaw, Stephen Edger, Alison Ripley Cubitt
Capital Crimes is an exciting anthology of short stories from ten members of the International Thriller Writer’s Organisation. It includes:

INSCRUTABLE by Douglas Steward

Three Asian men are taken captive and set alight in Chinatown. Det. Inspector ‘Ratso’ Holtom investigates their murder, which has many similarities to another, unresolved case ten years earlier...

BADAMI by Charlie Flowers

Holly Kirpachi, aka Bang-Bang, is an ex-heroin user whose friend has been murdered. While her husband guards the suspect, she goes in search of the killer.

THE DRAG QUEEN WORE RED by J L Merrow

During Pride day in Trafalgar Square, Tom is in a bar with his female friend. A drag queen called Scarlett enters, and some time later she leaves and is stabbed in the street. Tom goes after the suspect.

DEVIL LAW by Maynard Sims

Marshall Masters is a married barrister who enjoys a lavish lifestyle. He is skilled in getting guilty people off if they can pay him well, and he has never lost a case. He everything changes when he defends a gangster named Board...

CONTAINED by Lambert Nagle

A man discovers a dead body at the docks but leaves without reporting it to the police. He decides to take matters into his own hands and soon realises the tailor was not who he seemed ...

GAME OF CHANCE by Charlie Cochrane

Jonty Stewart is a Cambridge don who spends his time investigating crimes. But he himself becomes the victim on his last night of freedom before he is due to go and fight in the war

MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT by Graeme Shimmin

After a failed suicide bomber attack on Buckingham Palace parachuters land on the Jewel House of the Tower of London in order to take back the Koh-I-Noor jewel that the British stole from India over a hundred years ago.

KARMA by Alan McDermott

Vlatko Kasun, the Butcher of Bosnia, is a cruel man. After his death he ends up in another world where he is told that he is between the last life and the next, and is forced to relive his past wrongs.

HACKED by Alex Shaw

Neill Plato’s aunt has been conned out of a large amount of money due to her bank account being hacked during her house sale. He and a friend try to find the culprit.

WHAT GOES AROUND by Stephen Edger

Chris Butler has recently got engaged to Tina, and it is their wedding day. Chris receives a call from Victor, the man who has taken Tina hostage. Victor is part of the Russian mafia in Soho, and has been searching for Chris ever since Chris escaped from prison after being framed for murder.

'A rich and varied assortment of dark minds and dark deeds. Deliciously disturbing.' Peter James -2015 Voted by WH Smith readers The Best Crime Author Of All Time

"For anyone whose literary tastes run to the dark and the twisty, CAPITAL KILLS is a damn near perfect taster menu." - Simon Toyne - international bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy

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