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River of Darkness (John Madden #1) by Rennie Airth
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Madden Series
It is 1921 and a terrible discovery has been made at a manor house in Surrey - the bloodied bodies of Colonel Fletcher, his wife and two of their staff. The victims have all been stabbed and the lack of disturbance in the house suggests that the attack was one of terrifying speed. The Surrey police forc ...Show more
The Blood Dimmed Tide by Rennie Airth
Category: Crime and Thrillers
It is 1932 and John Madden, former Scotland Yard Inspector, is now a farmer in the peaceful Surrey countryside. Peaceful, that is, until he discovers the mutilated body of a small girl, Alice Bridger, hidden in a wood. Uneasy at the direction of police enquiries and convinced the killer has struck befor ...Show more
The Blood-Dimmed Tide (John Madden #2) by Rennie Airth
Category: Fiction
It is 1932. John Madden, former Scotland Yard Inspector, is now a farmer in the peaceful Surrey countryside. Peaceful, that is, until he discovers the body of a girl hidden in a wood. Uneasy at the direction of police enquiries, Madden begins his own investigation. A sequel to "River of Darkness".
The Blood Dimmed Tide (John Madden #2) by Rennie Airth
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Madden Series
It is 1932 and John Madden, former Scotland Yard Inspector, is now a farmer in the peaceful Surrey countryside. However his peace is about to be shattered, for when a young girl goes missing, it is he who discovers her disfigured body hidden in a wood. Disturbed by what he has seen he is convinced the k ...Show more
The Dead of Winter by Rennie Airth
Category: Crime and Thrillers
This is the eagerly awaited third novel featuring Inspector Madden, from the author of "River of Darkness" and "The Blood-Dimmed Tide" ...he could see in the distance, to the south-east, searchlights probing the night sky, illuminating the barrage balloons that floated like giant moths above the darkene ...Show more
The Dead of Winter by Rennie Airth
Category: Crime and Thrillers
During a blackout on the streets of London on a freezing evening in late 1944, a young Polish land girl, Rosa Nowak, is suddenly and brutally killed. For the police, their resources already stretched by war regulations and the thriving black market, this is a shocking and seemingly random crime. No one ...Show more
The Dead of Winter (John Madden #3) by Rennie Airth
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Madden Series
During a blackout on the streets of London on a freezing evening in late 1944, a young Polish land girl, Rosa Nowak, is suddenly and brutally killed. For the police, their resources already stretched by war regulations and the thriving black market, this is a shocking and seemingly random crime. No one ...Show more
The Death of Kings by Rennie Airth
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Madden series
From the critically acclaimed author, Rennie Airth, comes the fifth John Madden mystery, The Death of Kings. I have reason to believe that the jade pendant accompanying this letter is the same one that disappeared from Miss Portia Blake's body in August 1938 . . . Since the piece could not have been sto ...Show more
The Death of Kings (John Madden #5) by Rennie Airth
Category: Crime and Thrillers
I have reason to believe that the jade pendant accompanying this letter is the same one that disappeared from Miss Portia Blake's body in August 1938 ...Since the piece could not have been stolen by the man who was hanged for Miss Blake's murder, the question arises: who else could have taken it? And wh ...Show more
The Decent Inn of Death: A John Madden Mystery by Rennie Airth
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: A\John Madden Mystery Ser.
Airth's] meticulously detailed procedural mysteries are beautifully written . . . well worth reading, and rereading. --Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Snowed in at a country manor, former Scotland Yard inspectors John Madden and Angus Sinclair find themselves trapped in the company of a murderer ...Show more
The Reckoning by Rennie Airth
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Madden Series
The Second World War has ended, leaving a bruised and fragile peace. But this tranquillity is threatened when a shocking murder takes place in the Sussex countryside. Before long, police experts discover a link to another, earlier, killing hundreds of miles away ...While Scotland Yard detective Billy St ...Show more