Colin Harrison Books

Highlights of the works of Samuel Palmer held in the collection at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Revised and expanded version of the Palmer title first published in 1999.

Jack Whitman is a powerful executive with a massive multimedia conglomerate. He is extremely well-paid, highly ambitious, and desperately lonely since his wife's murder. Then one night on a subway car, his eyes meet those of a woman he cannot forget. Dolores Salcines is a ravaged beauty on the knife-edge of despair - a woman on the run with secrets, and good reason to hide them. What she needs is a savior - an impulsive rescue from a dire past. What she has found is a man willing to give it to her. It begins as a reckless liaison. It spirals into a nightmare that threatens Jack's career, his fortune, and his life. A trap has been set. For Jack, the only chance at escape is to submit to the one final dangerous urge that resides in the dark side of every human heart.

The Havana Room is the tale of a man from his fall from the heights of power and wealth in New York to the moment where he might well die. Bill Wyeth is a successful real-estate attorney in his late thirties with a wife and son, who, by the merest chance, loses everything: family, job, status. Unmoored and alone, Wyeth drifts toward the city's darker corners. Restoration seems unlikely, redemption impossible, when Wyeth finds himself in an old-time Manhattan steakhouse. He is intrigued by the manager, Allison Sparks--sexy, complicated, and independent in all ways. She also controls access to the restaurant's private bar. This is the Havana Room, and what goes on in there, he's told, is secret. Wyeth agrees to help Alison's friend, Jay Rainey, in concluding a last-minute midnight real-estate transaction. As soon as he sees the players and the paperwork, Wyeth knows something is wrong. Within hours, Wyeth finds himself tangled in Rainey's peculiar obsessions, which involve a Chilean businessman who feels he's been swindled, an old farmer frozen dead to a bulldozer, an outrageous black owner of a downtown hiphop club, and a fourteen-year-old English girl. Only Rainey knows the connections among these people, which are revealed when Wyeth is finally admitted to the Havana Room--where the survival of its inhabitants is most uncertain.

A thriller from the author of The Havana Room and Manhattan Nocturne.

In a captivating blend of intrigue, an honest lawyer and a Czech hand model become entangled in a mystery surrounding a box of enigmatic Christmas ornaments. As their lives intersect, secrets unravel, revealing unexpected connections and challenges. Harrison crafts a narrative rich in suspense and character depth, inviting readers to explore themes of morality and the complexities of human relationships during the holiday season.

Ein fesselnder Thriller über die Abgründe des globalen Kapitalismus. Die Chinesin Jin Li, die in New York eine Reinigungsfirma leitet, wird Ziel eines Mordanschlags, nachdem ihre Industriespionage für Spekulanten aufgedeckt wird. Jetzt muss sie um ihr Leben kämpfen.

Colin Harrisons neuer grandioser Thriller aus dem Moloch New York - ein hochspannendes Gesellschaftspanorama Durch Zufall erfährt Paul Reeves, New Yorker Anwalt für Einwanderungsrecht, dass seine schöne junge Nachbarin Jennifer ihren Ehemann betrügt. Als Jennifer ihn kurz darauf bittet, ihren Lover vorübergehend in Pauls leer stehendem Elternhaus in Brooklyn unterzubringen, tut er ihr den Gefallen. Doch dann kommt Jennifers Mann, der schwerreiche Exil-Iraner Ahmed, hinter die Affäre. Ein »klärendes Gespräch« mit dem Nebenbuhler läuft etwas aus dem Ruder, und Paul findet sich unversehens inmitten einer verhängnisvollen Kette tödlicher Ereignisse wieder. »Harrison liest man nicht, man verschlingt ihn.« The Philadelphia Inquirer

In this full-bore detective tale of scandal and mayhem in the Big Apple, Colin Harrison whips up noir for the 90s, complete with a jaded newspaperman protagonist, a mysterious femme fatale, exhaustive travelogues of the meat-grinder labyrinth of Manhattan, and an elusive jade figurine. Harrison weds a literary sensibility to this tangled tale, but the pleasures of the novel come mainly from the conventional elements of all detective fiction: the assembling of apparently disconnected pieces into a coherent puzzle.

Unter dem Deckmantel einer Reinigungsfirma betreibt die Chinesin Jin Li in New York Industriespionage. Doch ihr muss jemand auf die Schliche gekommen sein, denn eines Nachts werden zwei Mitarbeiterinnen grausam ermordet. Jin Li ist klar, dass der Anschlag in Wahrheit ihr galt. Im Moloch New York muss sie nun um ihr Leben rennen …