Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries
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You'd better believe it , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 1
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The Lolita man , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 2
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Halo parade , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 3
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Protection , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 4
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Come clean , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 5
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Take , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 6
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Club , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 7
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Astride a grave , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 8
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Gospel , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 9
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10) Roses, roses
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Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 10
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1998, c1993
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1st American ed.
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In good hands , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 11
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The detective is dead , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 12
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13) Top banana
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Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 13
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2000
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In Britain, superintendent Colin Harpur and his colleagues debate the pros and cons of making a deal with drug dealers to stop the rising violence. The latest is a 13-year-old girl who worked as a drug courier.
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Panicking Ralph , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 14
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Lovely mover , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 15
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Eton crop , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 16
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Kill me , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 17
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Pay days , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 18
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Naked at the window , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 19
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2006
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1st pbk. ed.
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Chief of Police Mark Lane is transferred, undercover cops Harpur and Iles are in danger of losing their edge when the new chief comes to town, the drug lords of London fight for control, and Harpur sends a female undercover agent to infiltrate one of the gangs.
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Easy streets , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 21
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22) Wolves of memory
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2007, c2005
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First paperback ed.
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A large, carefully plotted "cash-in-transit" raid goes hopelessly awry when armed policemen intervene to seize the perpetrators. Relatives and friends of the incarcerated are convinced that information (the date, the time) was leaked by the only man to escape before his arrest. Deputy Constable Colin Harpur and Assistant Constable Desmond Iles are delegated the job of hiding and protecting the informant and his family.
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Girls , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 23
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Pix , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 24
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2009
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1st American ed.
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Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles's absence from a police undercover conference sets the stage for the moral and practical dilemmas faced by one of his colleagues, ACC Esther Davidson, as she works to bring down the largest gang operating in her sector.
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Hotbed , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 26
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I am gold , Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 27
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28) Vacuum
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When a drug kingpin gives up his evil ways, he leaves his empire open for takeover. Harpur and Iles try to prevent a bloody war as other firms fight to fill the vacuum.
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When Harpur and Iles are called in to investigate an undercover investigation gone wrong, they can sense dark, hazardous times ahead...- After a gang shooting involving an undercover police officer, Colin Harpur and his boss Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles are called to another Force's ground to investigate what the Home Office see as spectacular failings. Harpur can imagine the pressure the officer would have been under. If a gang decided...
30) Play dead
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Following a deep investigation into an incident in another Force, Colin Harpur and his boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, uncovered an unpalatable truth: there is corruption in the ranks. Corruption which led to murder.
31) Disclosures
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Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, worry about the safety of one of the big-time crooks on their ground, Ralph Ember, sometimes known as Panicking Ralph. Yes, Ralph is a villain, but he's a local villain, and Harpur and Iles feel a kind of bizarre affection for him. And in any case, Ralph helps Iles keep the city reasonably peaceful. But now some awkward repercussions from Ralph's lawless...
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Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur feels a sort of warmth towards Jack Lamb, a brilliantly prosperous but profoundly dodgy fine arts dealer. Lamb is the greatest informant Harpur has ever dealt with – might be the greatest informant any police officer has ever dealt with – and although Jack ended this arrangement some time ago, Harpur still feels indebted to him. Lamb's posh manor house is stuffed with expensive paintings, ripe for the...
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"Following the murder of his wife and son, tycoon drugs dealer Mansel Shale is determined to get vengeance--and he wants another drugs baron, Ralph Ember, to help him. Having heard of the movie Strangers on a Train, in which two men agree to undertake each other's murders as a way of preventing detection, Shale suggests he and Ralph should have a similar arrangement--and Ralph is in no position to refuse. When he learns of the plan, Assistant Chief...
34) Close
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"Thomas Wells Hart drifted into a dodgy career as a private investigator and grew clever at tailing suspects and all the other tricks of the game. Not quite clever enough, however. Coming across Hart's shot-up body, Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and Assistant Chief Constable Des Iles have to work out their own explanation as to how he came to be executed behind the wheel of a Ford Focus in a quite suburban street. The trail will lead...
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"Tensions in the community are mounting following the gruesome deaths of two men, both of whom were accused yet acquitted of the murder of an undercover police officer. It looks like vigilante justice, but who is responsible? Alarmingly, suspicion falls on Assistant Chief Constable Iles. Matters escalate when a TV show investigating the murders is aired, further implicating Iles. Iles seems at ease with the accusations, as are his superiors in the...
36) Low Pastures
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A well-dressed corpse found shot in the sand and gravel wharf sparks trouble for Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his unpredictable boss, Assistant Chief Constable Iles.
The man is found dead in the local dockyard, shot from behind. Colin Harpur, examining the impeccably dressed corpse on his hands and knees, predicts the execution spells imminent trouble - and not just the unexpected arrival of his spiteful, brilliant boss, ACC Iles,...