Bøger af Bruce Crowther

Locked away for many years in maximum security, the Caveman never speaks. Savagely beaten before facing trial for the slaughter of little children, the evidence against him is never tested in court. Did he commit these unspeakable acts? Or is the real killer still free? Is the truth hidden in the Caveman's damaged brain? Answering a call for help when an old friend is suspected of molesting a missing teenager, Jack Haley becomes entangled in present and past crimes. The people around him - an old girlfriend, her politician father, beautiful twin sisters, small-time crooks, policemen - all have secrets that won't stay buried.

Justice Minister Elaine Parry dies in an explosion. A terrorist attack? A political assassination? Or is it personal? Big-time criminals, an international media tycoon, the CEO of a pharmaceutical giant, even one of London's top cops - all have reasons for wanting the minister dead. Closer to home, Michael Parry desperately seeks a life-saving donor for teenage daughter, Leah, critically injured in the same attack - and political blogger, Rachel Denison, scenting scandal as well as murder, risks her life unearthing the truth. It is soon brutally clear that there are those who will stop at nothing to keep the minister's secrets buried.

In this blackly comic and politically incorrect tale, all kinds of prejudice are encountered - racial, religious, sexual. When Jimmy's forgetful mum disappears he is suspected of killing her, while he fears that she has fallen foul of a sadistic serial killer. Jimmy and his pals from the Team, West London pub quiz champions, set out to uncover the truth, inadvertently stumbling into a neo-Nazi plot to take over one of Britain's much-loved institutions. The Team is a motley lot: unemployed Jimmy, his Nigerian martial arts expert girlfriend, an old bomb-making Jewish street busker, a foxtrotting Arabian mystery man, and a dim-witted but weirdly gifted skinhead. Dogged by a jaded, ambitious and seriously bigoted policeman, the Team's search uncovers many unpalatable truths - not only about their dangerously intolerant and unpredictable world, but also about themselves.

The Colors Of Your Life is a play about racial and sexual discrimination in the USA in the 1960s and the present day, seen through the dramatic lives and often terrifying experiences of its two characters, May and Shirley, who are grandmother and granddaughter.The play can be performed with or without songs especially written by Ed Anderson.Without songs, it is an absorbing account of life for Black women in America, then and now.With songs, it remains a powerful statement, the songs adding to the account traced in the text.The play is for a cast of two and can be presented with the simplest of sets on stage, in any non-theatrical location (a school or community center for example), or on film/video, or on radio.

Confronting the grim world of human trafficking and sexual slavery, Suzie Miller changes her identity yet again and puts her life at risk.One of those lost innocents is Antonia Cortes, her hopes and dreams shattered beyond repair. Only fourteen years old when sold into the depraved world of sexual abuse, she plans vengeance on those who defile her.Searching for Suzie, the woman he loves, as Mike Kerrigan unveils the hidden lives she has led for decades he discovers that everyone has dangerous secrets.Suzie and Mike and Antonia are caught up in bloody battles between organized criminals with personal scores to settle.

Texas cop Phil Davis investigates the victim of a road accident who bears scars inflicted over decades. Discovering that similarly scarred men have recently died, Phil digs deeper. Seeking to unearth a dangerous undercover group of political extremists, FBI agent Luis Valdez makes a connection to the scarred men and the long-ago death of a young woman. While Phil and Luis tie together the two investigations, psychiatrist Rozalina Ericson pursues her own agenda through an old man who has served 25 years for the young woman's death. And then there is Quinn, ruthless, unstoppable, an all-purpose killing machine wreaking havoc in northern Texas and New Mexico. These lives intertwine explosively as today's upholders of law and order clash with centuries-old religious extremism.

Phil Davis, a cop in a small Texas town investigates a brutal triple homicide. Jack Ryker, enforcer for a Texas crime boss, sees a report on the murders and believes the victims are his wife and young children. He resolves to hunt down the killer. Barbara Nichols, the TV reporter covering the case sees it as her ticket to the big time. The lives of these three, Davis, Ryker and Nichols, intertwine as Phil Davis, more hindered than helped by a devious FBI agent, pursues the killer south through Texas. As Ryker wreaks havoc among the criminals with whom he has long been a feared associate, Barbara risks her life by getting uncomfortably close to him. Phil Davis, enmeshed in political double-dealing, closes in on the killer, simultaneously trying to extricate Barbara from the life-threatening trap into which she has walked.

Hollywood homicide detective, Toshiko Tanaka, investigating the sadistic killing of a bit-part player in old-time movies finds similarities with killings at Rialto Pictures a half century ago. Harry Kenning, who retired from making Western movies fifty years ago, returns to Hollywood with his old movie sidekick, Billy Ross, to visit some of the people they knew back then. More murders happen, and Toshiko and Harry team up in an unlikely partnership to try to solve today's murders. Along the way, they encounter Lee Castle, Harry's old rival, now internationally famous, Raoul Hernandez, one-time screen lover, Crusher Maguire, former screen villain, and Jane Carson, now a massively successful concert and recording star. Unexpectedly, Toshiko and Harry learn that the long-ago murder investigation was flawed and as they strive to solve the new murders they also discover the truth about the Rialto killings back in the 1950s.

A contemporary crime novel for young teenagers.

November 1963 - gray days, cold nights in Harlem. A Civil Rights firebrand, falsely accused of brutally killing three fellow activists, seeks the help of veteran investigator Daniel Leland. Yet more cold-blooded murders raise the stakes as Daniel plunges into a desperate search for the truth helped by Selena Gant, herself a black activist. Joined by a dying ex-cop and a former FBI agent, Daniel and Selena confront a ruthless organization spreading its tentacles and resisting change in an unjust society. And out of Daniel's past looms a murderous figure seeking vengeance.

Attending the funeral of his sister, victim of a traffic accident, Harry is plunged into a world as dangerous as his long ago military service.The unwitting beneficiary of millions of dollars ripped-off from an organized crime empire, Harry is targeted by murderous criminals who want their money back. Asking unanswerable questions about the money - and the accident - Harry and his sister's friend, Kay, are caught in the crossfire as brutal crime bosses fight it out.Delving into his sister's life, Harry and Kay discover troubling truths about her - and one another - before confronting those who kill to hold on to money and power.

In New York in 1939 the World's Fair is in full swing, a Joe Louis title fight is coming up, and there are hot times in Harlem every night. Harlem is home to Daniel Leland, a small-time private detective, retired from the NYPD when he was shot during a gunfight with robbers. When an industrial corporation offers Daniel a temptingly large fee he takes the job and is soon over his head in murder and mayhem - and espionage. With war in Europe looming he tangles with Nazi sympathizers. And on top of all this, everywhere he goes Daniel has to confront racism because he is black while most of those he encounters during his investigation - the good and the bad - are white.

HARLEM MADNESS A sequel to Harlem Nocturne, this crime novel is set in Harlem, New York, in 1943. Hunting an old friend's killer, Black detective Daniel Leland fights big-time gangsters. Helping a young Jewish soldier, jailed on phony espionage charges, he fights the FBI. When the woman he loves commits to the cause of civil liberties, he fights heart-ache. And while Daniel fights these personal battles the country is at war in Europe and the Pacific. And all this is before the riot starts . . .

Annie: beautiful and brilliant, a historian popular on television, with the worst possible taste in men, unprepared for the dangers into which she is plunged ...Joe: paraplegic, exposes corruption in politics and big business, believes his condition makes impossible a relationship with the policewoman who loves him ...Meg: teacher of maths, content in her job and with her string of uncommitted gay relationships, thrust suddenly into situations she has never imagined ...Ray: forced long ago from his post as history teacher by false accusations of sexual impropriety, now exists aimlessly until the past returns to haunt him ...Reunited after years apart, these four confront political extremism, discovering more about one another than they ever knew - and also learn about themselves, their hopes and ambitions, their sexuality, their weaknesses and their strengths ...

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