John Brady Boeken

Six noted screenwriters offer advice to future writers and filmmakers, and discuss the craft--from researching to directing--in this collection of interviews

It has been a long winter here in the hills of southern Austria. Felix Kimmel, officer with the Gendarmerie, is staring at two bodies on a path in the woods. This is too big for the local Gendarmerie detachment... The Kripo from Graz soon take over. Experts though they may be, they want his help: he is a local, right? But Felix's mentor, the old hand Gebhart, warns him to beware of these slick detectives as they have their own agenda. The dead men seem to be auslanders, Eastern Europeans.An autopsy reveals a diamond in one's digestive tract, and on the other, a tattoo.Then, the family whose call to the Gendarmerie led to the discovery of the bodies, perishes in a fire. Felix senses that the Kripo detectives' attitude to him has altered. Maybe he knows more than he lets on...? And, they hint, whoever set fire to that farmhouse may come after Felix next... When he finds old maps that his father had hidden, he begins to wonder if his own tangled family history is not part of this. He must discover what his loathed grandfather Kimmel knew, or did, before the Kripo does. He sets out on that narrow, winding mountain road that climbs to the remote Kimmel farm. This is where history and politics collide, where the global crime wave that is sweeping across Europe crashes into a small town cop."

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A young woman wants her share of the good life - but at what cost? The fifth Inspector Minogue novel begins on Dublin's Grand Canal. Long a favoured place for young lovers to take a romantic stroll, the canal banks have become a prime spot for drug deals and prostitution. Waters that harboured elegant swans now wash up syringes and dead bodies. This is where Mary Mullen is found, her body battered and callously left to jam in a canal lock. She wanted 'the good life, ' but after hooking up with the notorious Egan brothers, things spun out of control. Minogue's efforts to solve her murder plunge him into the depths of Dublin's underworld, a maze of drug trafficking, pornography and prostitution. Every path seems to lead back to the Egans. The Murder Squad beginS receiving frantic phone calls from a friend of Mary, a petty thief and drug user: he knows something but he's terrified of both the Gardai and the Egans. The case is soon complicated by Minogue's new partner Malone, a dyed-in-the-wool Dubliner whose twin brother Terry is an addict. Terry, about to be released from prison, is heading straight into the Egan's deadly web. 'An unwavering air of menace accompanies a brilliant depiction of the city's slatternly underside - all of it riveting to the last page.' - Kirkus Reviews (U.S.)"

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When the body of Jarlath Walsh is discovered on the grounds of Dublin's Trinity College with the head beaten in, Sergeant Matt Minogue suspects that it wasn't a random killing. Walsh was an idealist, but someone wants the detective to believe the young man was a drug-pusher. In a fateful clash near the Northern Ireland border, Inspector Minogue discovers the truth.

The love story of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner has been told piecemeal, from one side or the other, but has never been fully explored or explained, until now. Frank & Ava is not another storybook version of a Hollywood romance but a compelling drama of love and emotional war that left two iconic celebrities wounded for life.