Jeffrey Ashford, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-312-03363-7
British author Ashford bases his new thriller on the sense of ethics guiding Mike Ansell, his wife Brenda and Detective Inspector Brice vs. the venality of one Stephen Poulton. Refusing to get ``involved'' in compromising circumstances, Poulton...
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Jeffrey Ashford. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8279-0
Copywriter David Ansell feels trapped in an unsatisfying career and marriage in this absorbing stand-alone from British author Ashford (Justice Deferred). A new assignment—to create an advertising campaign for client Rex Cruising Company—gives him...
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Jeffrey Ashford. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8100-7
falsehood seem more plausible? This psychological crime novel from British veteran Ashford (Criminal Innocence) succeeds in raising some interesting philosophical questions, despite a familiar plot, pedestrian prose, and two-dimensional characters.
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author Severn House Publishers $26.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5972-3
A computer expert's drive home takes a perilous turn after thugs hijack his car and hit a pedestrian.
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author Severn House Publishers $26 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5563-3
An old-fashioned title befits this somewhat old-fashioned British mystery, a police procedural that focuses on such eternal verities as the battle between the sexes and class conflict. Only when the threat of exposure on the Internet helps bring a...
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-18156-7
Ashford's tightly plotted novel begins with the kidnapping of the young, affianced daughter of an English lord. But neither the lord nor the police receive any ransom demands. When, two months later, the woman is released, having been raped and...
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13931-5
Calvin and Tim, ex-public school types in London, are friends. Penny, equally privileged, is Calvin's girl, but Tim cares more deeply for her. When Penny is raped by the electrician working at her family's house, Tim rushes to her side, while the...
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-11012-3
Sergeant Toby Ash of Molsham looks at the local map of Essex and Kent showing the spots where dead girls have been discovered. The pattern resembles a butterfly. The raped and mutilated bodies have been prepared with potions used by butterfly...
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-312-08916-0
Det. Sgt. Gerry Stone of the Kent police is not a crooked cop, but when his car fits the description of one involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident on the night his son Andy was driving, his paternal instincts win over the law. Although hard-pressed
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (156p) ISBN 978-0-312-05875-3
In the very British and highly civilized fashion for which he is noted, Ashford ( A Conflict of Interests ) poses a common modern moral dilemma: Can a policeman go outside the law to trap a suspect whose guilt remains otherwise unprovable? Detective-
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author . Severn $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5613-5
In British author Ashford's (An Honest Betrayal)
latest fast-paced police procedural, Esme Lynch (who has suffered "for having a name that was also a girl's") hires Carol Fowler, a tart, to smuggle from Sierra Leone a priceless red...
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-312-04284-4
The British author's seventh mystery reprises the theme from his earlier successes ( A Question of Principle ; The Honourable Detective ): moral values vs. the public welfare. Administrator of a government department to protect police informants,...
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (189p) ISBN 978-0-312-02181-8
A murder in the present and a death at sea during World War II are brought together in this evocative and skillfully written British mystery. A middle-aged homosexual is found murdered with a lot of unaccounted-for cash, the source of which could...
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author St. Martin's Press $13.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-312-01078-2
Returning home from his brother-in-law's, Terence Elham, a successful London attorney, hits a man who runs across the road. Realizing that he's drunk and would be disbarred if convicted of reckless driving, Elham leaves the scene of the crime....
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author Minotaur Books $20.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-19918-0
Richard Adeane, a struggling public relations officer in the small English city of Amersford, has become estranged from his loyal wife, Diana, and has taken up with a sexy but vacuous younger woman. Meanwhile, Diana's younger sister, the beautiful...
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Jeffrey Ashford, Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6935-7
Near the start of this taut legal mystery from British author Ashford (Jigsaw Guilt), a running man knocks barrister Steve Drury to the ground in a Flexford car park. Drury later identifies the man from his mug shot as Daniel Fitch, who'd been...
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author . Severn $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6800-8
Despite a tepid plot and flat characters, this contemporary police procedural from prolific British author Ashford (Illegal Guilt
) nicely illustrates the difficulty of interpreting circumstantial evidence. Imperious Australian Fiona Ross demands...
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author . Severn $27.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6687-5
This contemporary police procedural from British veteran Ashford (Illegal Guilt
) offers lackluster plotting and characterization. Kent County Det. Constable Andy Gregg finds himself in trouble when burglars strike shortly after Gregg’s...
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author . Severn $27.95 (187p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6530-4
Det. Constable Ron Perry runs afoul of his by-the-book superior, Det. Insp. Harry Clark, after the disappearance of Perry’s young niece, Elaine Oakley, in this pallid police procedural from Ashford, author of the popular Inspector Alvarez...
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Jeffrey Ashford, Author . Severn $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5614-2
British author Ashford (aka Roderic Jeffries) offers a smoothly written if unoriginal morality tale that ought to please established fans. When Det. Sgt. Frank Tobin, a corrupt, alcoholic cop, beats up his wife and child, Simon Wyatt, his father-in-l
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