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William Shaw

    Cet auteur est célèbre pour ses romans policiers captivants, plaçant souvent ses récits dans des paysages urbains historiques méticuleusement recréés. Son œuvre explore les aspects les plus sombres de la société, tissant des intrigues complexes avec une représentation atmosphérique de la vie citadine. Au-delà de ses séries de fiction, l'auteur s'est également penché sur des sujets de non-fiction fascinants, enquêtant sur les sous-cultures et les défis sociétaux avec un œil d'observateur averti. Cette production diversifiée témoigne d'un engagement à examiner la condition humaine à travers la narration imaginative et le reportage perspicace.

    Deadland
    The Trawlerman
    The Birdwatcher
    A Book of Scars
    Grave's End
    Spying in Guru Land
    • The Wild Swimmers

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      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
      3,9
    • The Trawlerman

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      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

      • 75pages
      • 3 heures de lecture

      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
    • Grave's End

      • 465pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      The gripping new novel in the DS Alexandra Cupidi series set in Kent

      Grave's End2020
      4,2
    • Deadland

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      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

      • 336pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

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

      The Birdwatcher2016
      4,1
    • A Book of Scars

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      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