Download or read book Raven and the Paperhangers written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London's favourite anti-establishment sleuth, John Raven, visits his photographer-girlfriend Kirstie in Paris. Kirstie, it seems, has inadvertently photographed three men involved in a high-class, multi-million-dollar forgery - the mastermind, financier Kent Tyler, sometime actor Rod De Wayne, and forgery expert Paolo Scotti. The threesome tries to retrieve the incriminating film, which sets Raven on their trail. And by the time Raven and Kirstie track down the villains, ringleader Tyler is set on eliminating his co-conspirators . . . 'Starts off fast and keeps speeding up' Los Angeles Times

Download or read book Raven s Shadow written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a bent London policeman carries out two ruthless murders, it is with the goal of making himself rich through the sale of stolen diamonds. And to cover his tracks he sets up an ingenious labyrinth of false covers and alibis. But when ex-cop John Raven is brought into the case by accident, it becomes a whodunit with Raven as detective in an exhilarating race against time. 'Donald MacKenzie is a born storyteller' Guardian

Download or read book Raven s Revenge written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Drake, the former Commander at Scotland Yard and nemesis of John Raven, is out of prison having served a sentence for police corruption. In court, Drake vowed retribution on Raven, who was instrumental in his conviction, and now he's out to snare him. When heroin is planted on Raven's houseboat and in his wife Kirstie's camera both husband and wife are arrested, but what will it take for John Raven to clear their names? 'Quick moving and sure footed, with sharp, realistic London details' Times Literary Supplement

Download or read book Raven in Flight written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Raven - the ex-cop with a taste for exotic adventures and voluptuous adventurers - is unexpectedly thrust into the thick of the action. His Andalusian holiday turns out to be no picnic when he finds himself at the crossroads of the snow-white heroin trail and the blood-red trail of international murder . . . 'A swift, stylish novel' Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Raven s Longest Night written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Raven and his wife Kirstie are holidaying in Lisbon at Ilona Szecheyi's villa when Ilona's father Stephen reveals his well-guarded secret: shortly before the communist occupation of Hungary in 1945, he was entrusted with 17 million in government gold bullion. Now, thirty-seven years later, the courts have awarded him full ownership of the money - and the current Hungarian regime is not pleased. They will stop at nothing to get it back, and when blackmail and murder strike, Raven can't pull out fast enough before he becomes the main suspect . . . 'Donald MacKenzie is a born storyteller' Guardian

Download or read book Raven After Dark written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kirstie Macfarlane's younger brother is framed for stealing a Van Eyck portrait, she puts the case in the able hands of ex-Scotland Yard Inspector John Raven. Seduced away from his quiet life on the Thames, Raven dives back into the seamy London underworld filled with police corruption and high-handed swindles. Kirstie and Raven soon realise they have more than one opponent and their lives are perilously on the line. 'Donald MacKenzie is a born storyteller' Guardian

Download or read book Raven Settles a Score written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Raven - the ex-cop with a taste for exotic adventures and voluptuous adventurers - is unexpectedly thrust into the thick of the action. His Andalusian holiday turns out to be no picnic when he finds himself at the crossroads of the snow-white heroin trail and the blood-red trail of international murder . . . 'A swift, stylish novel' Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Raven and the Kamikaze written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terminally ill Polish refugee Henryk Lamprecht, a decoder for British Security, has a score to settle with the Russian who killed his wife and daughter. As he is close to death, he has no time to lose when an opportunity he has been waiting for turns up. But now, through a chance meeting with his old friend Zaleski, ex-cop John Raven is involved, and so is Lamprecht's English sweetheart. And so the game of cat-and-mouse begins . . . 'Donald MacKenzie is a born storyteller' Guardian

Download or read book The Genial Stranger written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beware of the Genial Stranger. Confidence tricksters are operating throughout Europe! Be on your guard against the man wanting to reward you for returning his dropped wallet. Before parting with money to strangers on any pretext check with your banker or with the local police Thus read the warning posters...

Download or read book The Juryman written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerry Steel's loyalty to the man he worked for is total, and he will stop at nothing to ensure that Sullivan, on trial on an attempted murder charge, goes free. Once he has fixed the jury, and is assured that it will hang, Steel assumes there is nothing standing in the way of Sullivan's freedom. And there isn't - apart from the man himself . . .

Download or read book Salute from a Dead Man written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritchie Duncan, a convict, is released from prison and decides to go clean. But when he is handed some top secret film containing electronic data by a girl in a bar there ensues mayhem and murder. The film is the property of her communist agent boyfriend, and when she refuses to surrender it her connection is killed and she is kept quietly alive in a nursing home until Duncan can save her. 'Donald MacKenzie is a born storyteller' Guardian

Download or read book The Kyle Contract written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brady Jordan wasn't hired to fall in love. He was hired to make a pass at a strawberry blonde and be the evidence in a divorce set-up that her husband badly needed. So when he started getting the usual human twinges he expected something to go wrong. And that Californian evening, when he stepped on the verandah and sniffed the marijuana and found the corpse of a body that should have been live and warm, he knew it had.

Download or read book The Eyes of the Goat written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struan Dunbar thinks he'll make his fortune with the sensitive Czech computer discs he plans to sell to an English media mogul. But when he travels to Prague to get them, he suffers a fatal heart attack. His effects are passed on to his daughter, Catriona, but when her boyfriend decides to finish the job Dunbar started, he is also found dead. A desperate Catriona calls on ex-cop John Raven to travel to Czechoslovakia where more than a murder mystery awaits. 'Eyes of the Goat has all the hallmarks of a good yarn' Evening Express

Download or read book Sleep is for the Rich written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Henderson is a big time jewel thief on a run of bad luck. He has a seven-year-old daughter to support, so when he's offered a partnership in the biggest heist of all time he decides to try to take the baubles and run. He reaches Switzerland, where the crime is to take place, and wangles an invitation to a gala only to be confronted by a double threat, a double cross and a kidnapping. And all this is before the night of the burglary arrives . . . 'Donald MacKenzie is a born storyteller' Guardian

Download or read book The Lonely Side of the River written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defrauding an insurance company is not an unusual crime, but the way Stephen Venner planned to do it was not only unusual but macabre. But then Stephen Venner was a totally selfish and amoral man, and with the push of blackmail behind him, and the strength of his wife to support him, there was little he would stop at. Ross MacLaren didn't know that, and allowed himself to be lured to Portugal where he, Stephen and the beautiful but repressed Emma play out the last tense act of at least one of their three lives.

Download or read book Dangerous Silence written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For six years Kit Fraser has been an honest man, selling burglary insurance for his father-in-law. But no one knows the truth about his history, and why he is so uniquely placed to advise his clients. No one, that is, except Kline, who emerges from the shadows of the past with an offer that Kit may have no choice but to accept - even through it will jeopardise his secure life, and his future.

Download or read book Zaleski s Percentage written by Donald MacKenzie and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zaleski is a middle-aged philanderer determined to retrieve the Virgin's Dowry, a jeweled monstrance worth £500,000, which has reappeared for display in an art gallery in Conduit Street in London. This ageing Polish patriot carries out the crime but in doing so becomes the target for Detective Inspector John Raven of the CID - one of the most ruthless and capable policemen on the force. 'Perfectly fascinating and perfectly written' Chicago Sun Times