Mystery, Crime & Thriller
A nineteen-year-old Cobb is caught with the dock-workers' burial fund and will not say one word in his own defence — and the silence everyone has read as guilt is in fact the only act of love his family has left, and the one thing standing between the boy and the truth.The Burial Fund
The spectrometer said the wine was a forgery, the master of wine agreed, and a man's life was to be ended over a bottle — and not one of them had thought to ask the only question that matters about a fake, which is who it was made to please.A Question of Vintage
They had her on three cameras, her phone, and a swipe card, which in the modern view is the same as having a confession — and which proves only that the machine saw exactly what she did, and understood nothing whatever about why.The Camera Never Asks Why
There were eight people at the long table the night Aubrey Stint died, and only one of them had spent two years making a perfect little copy of the house — small enough to lie about, too honest to do it.The House That Saw Everything
The clocks in Halloran's shop had all stopped at ten to twelve, which made them right twice a day and right about one thing forever, and I stood among them at ten to one being wrong about everything.The Hour I Didn't Have
Nettlecombe had not had a murder in living memory, which was precisely the trouble, because it meant that when one finally arrived nobody recognised it, and they very nearly let it go out with the milk.Lights Out at the Regal
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