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William Shaw

    Tento autor se proslavil svými napínavými kriminálními romány. Jeho díla se často odehrávají v historických prostředích a ponořují se do temných stránek společnosti. Práce autora se vyznačuje pečlivě propracovanými zápletkami a atmosférickým zobrazením městských scenérií. Kromě fikce se autor věnoval i publicistice a zkoumal různá témata od subkultur po sociální problémy.

    Deadland
    The Trawlerman
    The Birdwatcher
    A Book of Scars
    Grave's End
    Spying in Guru Land
    • The newest instalment in the D S Cupidi Series, featuring a mysterious body washed up on the Folkstone shoreline and a suspect whose identity is hidden behind a string of intriguing first dates . . .

      The Wild Swimmers2024
    • THE STUNNING FOURTH BOOK IN THE DS ALEXANDRA CUPIDI INVESTIGATIONS FROM ONE OF CRIME FICTION'S FINEST WRITERS

      The Trawlerman2021
      4,1
    • Moore's Ethics

      • 75 stránek
      • 3 hodiny čtení

      A critical survey of the full range of G. E. Moore's ethical thought, including his rejection of naturalism in favor of the view that 'good' designates a simple indefinable property, his understanding of intrinsic value, his doctrine of organic wholes, and his critique of egoism and subjectivism.

      Moore's Ethics2020
    • The gripping new novel in the DS Alexandra Cupidi series set in Kent

      Grave's End2020
      4,2
    • Deadland

      • 480 stránek
      • 17 hodin čtení

      The new DS Cupidi thriller set in contemporary Kent from the bestselling author of The Birdwatcher and Salt Lane

      Deadland2019
      4,1
    • A murdered migrant is the first big case for the embattled DS Alexandra Cupidi in a new series by the acclaimed author of The Birdwatcher

      Salt Lane2018
      3,9
    • In the fourth Breen & Tozer, William Shaw marries a gripping police procedural with an espionage plot to bring the series to a stunning and moving climax

      Sympathy for the Devil2017
      3,8
    • The Birdwatcher

      • 336 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      Dark, intelligent crime novel about a policeman with a secret past, and an emotive exploration of violence within the family

      The Birdwatcher2016
      4,1
    • CWA Historical Dagger shortlisted third novel in the Breen and Tozer series reveals the crimes of Britain's colonial past.

      A Book of Scars2015
      4,1