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About Author

Peter O'Donnell was born on 11 April 1920 in Lewisham, London, UK. He was interested in writing as a child, and began writing professionally at the age of 16. During World War II he served in the Royal Signals Corps, and was stationed in Persia, Syria, Egypt, the Western Desert, Italy, and Greece. After the war, he worked as a comic strip writer, and scripted the Daily Express adaptation of the James Bond novel Dr. No. He was most famous for inventing the character Modesty Blaise, an undercover agent who first appeared in comic strips in 1963. In 1965, he published his first novel, Modesty Blaise, which was based on the screenplay he had written for the motion picture of the same name. He also wrote short stories, plays, television and film scripts, and nine romance novels published under the pseudonym Madeleine Brent. In 1978, his novel Merlin's Keep won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2001, he retired from writing. He passed away on 03 May 2010.

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Books in this Series

A Taste for Death

O'Donnell, Peter, P. D. James

4.0 (4)

The rugged team of Modesty Blaise and her loyal lieutenant, Willie Garvin, take on impossible odds as they battle Simon Delicta, a man with a taste for death, and Swordmaster Wenczel in a duel to the death. As the adventure unfolds, and they travel from London to Panama to the depths of the Sahara desert, the pair will need all their killing skills to survive.

Last will

Liza Marklund

0.0 (0)

Detective and mystery stories. Inside the City Hall, over a thousand guests attend the prestigious Nobel Prizewinners' dinner. With a lavish meal laid on to the backdrop of a full orchestra, this is one of the city's most glamorous events of the year. Two shots are fired on the dance floor. Crime reporter Annika Bengtzon is there, covering the event for the Evening Post.

The Bomber

Liza Marklund

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Crime reporter Annika Bengtzon investigates the bombing of the Olympic Stadium, where the head of the committee organizing the Stockholm Games has been killed.

Innan frosten

Henning Mankell

3.4 (8)

Des animaux immolés par le feu, la tête et les mains d'une femme gisant près d'une bible aux pages griffonnées... Le commissaire Wallander est inquiet. Ces actes seraient-ils un prélude à des sacrifices humains de plus vaste envergure ? La propre fille de Wallander, impatiente d'entrer dans la police, se lance dans une enquête parallèle. Entraînée vers une secte fanatique résolue à punir le monde de ses péchés, elle va rapidement le regretter. [payot.ch]