The first novel in the best-selling Inspector Lynley mystery series. Fat, unlovely Roberta Teys is found beside her father\"s headless corpse, wearing her best dress and with an axe in her lap. Her first words are: \"I did it. And I am not sorry\" and she refuses to say more....

Elena Weaver, in her skimpy dresses and bright jewellery, exuded intelligence and sexuality. A student at St Stephen\"s College, Cambridge, she lived a life of casual but intense physical and emotional relationships, with scores to settle and......

Hailed as the \\\"king of sleaze,\\\" tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at The Source, he discovers that......

Inspector Thomas Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton, feels some trepidation as he introduces his bride-to-be to his mother at the ancestral home of Howenstow in Cornwall. But Lynley\"s private concerns are soon forgotten as the brutal murder of a local......

A kind and well-loved woman was brutally and inexplicably murdered - the pregnant wife of a respected police inspector - and her death has left Scotland Yard shocked and searching for answers. Perhaps most horrifying of all, the trigger of the weapon that killed her was apparently pulled by a stranger...a twelve-year-old boy....