London, 1955. When crime writer Donald Langham’s literary agent asks for his help in sorting out ‘a delicate matter’, little does Langham realize what he’s getting himself into. For a nasty case of blackmail leads inexorably to murder as London’s literary establishment is rocked by a series of increasingly bizarre deaths. With three members of the London Crime Writers’ Association coming to sudden and violent ends, what at first appeared to be a series of suicides looks suspiciously like murder – and there seems to be something horribly familiar about the various methods of despatch. With the help of his literary agent’s assistant, the delectable Maria Dupre, Langham finds himself drawing on the skills of his fictional detective hero as he hunts a ruthless and fiendishly clever killer – a killer with old scores to settle.
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Eric Brown is een auteur wiens werk wordt gekenmerkt door een rijke fantasie en een diep inzicht in de menselijke aard, vaak gesitueerd in futuristische en fantasierijke werelden. Zijn verhalen verweven behendig elementen van sciencefiction met boeiende vertellingen, waarbij thema's als menselijkheid, technologie en onze plaats in het universum worden onderzocht. De stijl van Brown staat bekend om zijn vloeiendheid en zijn vermogen om lezers mee te nemen in ingewikkelde plots en boeiende personages. Zijn schrijven spreekt een breed scala aan lezers aan en laat een blijvende indruk achter.






Wings on My Sleeve
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Eric Brown went to Germany in 1939 on an exchange course, and his first experience of the war came when the Gestapo arrested him, not knowing he was an RAF pilot. The rest is history. He is the only man alive to have flown every major and most minor combat aircraft of the Second World War (as well as all the early jets), and has been interviewed by the top Nazis. While testing the Nazi jets in war-stricken Germany, he interviewed (among others) Hermann Goering and Hanna Reitsch. A living legend among aviation enthusiasts, his amazing life story deserves to be told in full--from crashing in front of Winston Churchill to unmasking a Neo-Nazi ring in the 1950s to his terrifying flights in primitive jets and rockets.
Shortly after Lord Elsmere re-insures his favourite painting for a hefty price, it is stolen and with no sign of a break-in. Elsmere is known to be struggling financially, so is it a staged theft or has one of his guests taken it? Seething animosities, jealousy, secrets and deception are all found once PIs Langham and Ralph Ryland take on the case.
Ace Doubles
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Ed Bentley's wife has left him and he's been dropped by his publisher. Still, it's not the end of the world. All he has to do is ghost-write a science-fiction novel for Tuppy Cotton, a YouTuber young enough to be his daughter... When Ed uncovers an unearthly mystery at Tuppy's Yorkshire retreat, everything changes. The world might not be ending, but it will be turned upside down.Ace Doubles is Eric Brown's dazzling and moving tribute to his the writers who captured his imagination in his youth, inspiring him to become an award-winning author; and the ordinary people who do extraordinary things.
Jani and the Great Pursuit is the thrilling sequel to Jani and the Greater Game from best selling author Eric Brown.
Murder Takes a Turn
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When Langham's literary agent receives a cryptic letter inviting him to spend the weekend at the grand Cornish home of successful novelist Denbigh Connaught, Charles Elder seems reluctant to attend. What really happened between Elder and Connaught during the summer of 1917, nearly 40 years before--and why has it had such a devastating effect?fect?
Kat and Travis awaken freshly printed on New-haven. More than a century has elapsed since they left the planet, and much has changed in the interim. Society has devolved―technology is a thing of the past―but more startlingly, the remnants of humanity have become a gestalt, telepathic hivemind―an entity which identifies Kat and Travis as a threat which must be eradicated... Kon Tiki Coda is the moving finale to the successful Kon Tiki Quartet.DislocationsParasitesInsightsIterations
And then there was one . . . can Donald Langham and Maria Dupré stop a killer who's picking off victims one by one?December, 1956 . Donald Langham's wife Maria Dupré receives a chilling invitation to attend a death at the home of Maxwell Falwell Fenton in Essex. The once-prominent artist has a number of enemies, and has faded into obscurity since the war ended. Is the invitation to his own death or someone else's?Arriving at Winterfield on a cold winter evening, Donald and Maria meet five strangers who have also received numbered invitations. They all had a reason to hate or fear Maxwell, including Maria, who reveals a secret from her own past. But is she telling the whole truth?The soiree produces a gruesome and dramatic twist, but it's about to get much worse when someone starts picking off the six, one by one. Can Donald untangle lies, betrayal, and incredible revelations to identify the killer before Maria becomes the next victim?
New York Nights
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New York in 2040 is a city of the lost. burned alive when only child all those years ago. Hal to live in the past.
