Classic crime and mystery fiction
Soho Press Against the Grain
Book SynopsisDetective Peter Diamond goes undercover at a seasonal festival in this delightful and bittersweet conclusion to the multi-award-winning series.Detective Peter Diamond, chief of the Avon and Somerset Murder Squad, is taking a short holiday in the country. His former colleague Julie Hargreaves has invited Diamond and his partner, Paloma, to visit the idyllic village of Baskerville (no relation to the Sherlock Holmes story, so he’s told). It turns out Julie’s invitation was not without ulterior motives. The woman who owns the village’s largest dairy farm has been convicted of manslaughter following a terrible accident in her grain silo. Julie’s ex-investigator instinct tells her there has been a miscarriage of justice and a murderer is on the loose—but Julie’s been keeping secrets of her own, and can’t take her inquiry any further.Diamond takes the bait; the case is a fascinating one, and he’s quite enjoying his incognito information-gathering, getting to know the villagers as they prepare for their annual Harvest Festival. The deeper into the cow dung Diamond mucks, the more convinced he becomes there was foul play. But maintaining his innocent tourist facade becomes harder as he closes in on his suspects. To protect his alias, he might have to learn how to operate a tractor or drive a herd of wayward cows. He might even be forced to attend a hoedown—not that he’d dance, not even to catch a killer. Or would he? The curmudgeonly detective has plenty to learn about himself as he tries on some new hats: undercover private investigator; village detective; country gentleman.Over 30 years and 21 other novels, Peter Lovesey has bewitched his enormous fandom with the wry, stubborn, and fiendishly clever Peter Diamond. Now he brings his Anthony, Macavity, and CWA Dagger–winning series to a close with this delightful and bittersweet final installment.
£18.96
Soho Press Wobble to Death Deluxe Edition
Book SynopsisThe 50th anniversary collector's edition of legendary British mystery author Peter Lovesey's debut, handsomely reissued in hardcover with an introduction from bestselling author Jeffery Deaver. London, 1879. Crowds have gathered at Islington's chilly Agricultural Hall to place their bets on who will become the next world champion in a six-day, 500-mile speedwalking race, the “wobble.” When one of the highly favored contenders dies under suspicious circumstances, Sergeant Cribb also has a race on his hands—to pursue a ruthless murderer. Fifty years ago, Wobble to Death launched the writing career of one of the world’s greatest crime fiction writers. Since its initial publication, Peter Lovesey has written forty novels and six short story collections, and has become one of three living writers to receive both the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and the Crime Writers Association Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. There is no better place to dive into Lovesey's legendary oeuvre than with this sparkling debut.
£16.16
Crooked Lane Books Fatal Roots: A County Cork Mystery
Book SynopsisSome secrets are too big to stay buried...A few months ago, Boston expat Maura Donovan was rekindled with her mother after more than twenty years of absence. Since then, Maura has been getting accustomed to Irish living, complete with an inherited house and a pub named Sullivan''s. But now, her mother has returned--and she''s brought Maura''s half-sister in tow. To make matters more confusing, a handful of Cork University students are knocking on Maura''s door asking about a mystical fairy fort that happens to be located on Maura''s piece of land.The lore indicates that messing with the fort can cause bad luck, and most everyone is telling Maura not to get too involved for fear of its powers, but Maura is curious about her own land, and she definitely doesn''t buy into the superstition. Then one of the students disappears after a day of scoping out the fort on Maura''s property.Maura treads carefully, asking the folks around town who might have an idea, but no one wants anything to do with these forts. She has to take matters into her own hand--it''s her land, after all. But when she uncovers a decades-old corpse buried in the center of the fort, nothing is for certain.
£7.59
Severn River Publishing LLC The Mudflats Murder Club
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£19.00
Poisoned Pen Press The Progress of a Crime: A Fireworks Night
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£13.49
Poisoned Pen Press The Man Who Didn't Fly
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£14.24
Poisoned Pen Press Murder Most Festive: A Cozy Christmas Mystery
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£14.24
Poisoned Pen Press Widow of Bath
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£14.24
Poisoned Pen Press Till Death Do Us Part
£14.24
Poisoned Pen Press Murder in the Basement
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£14.24
Poisoned Pen Press Green for Danger
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£15.29
Poisoned Pen Press Death of Jezebel
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£14.24
Poisoned Pen Press Death on the Down Beat: An Orchestral Fantasy of
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£14.24
Poisoned Pen Press Final Acts: Theatrical Mysteries
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£15.20
Poisoned Pen Press The White Priory Murders: A Mystery for Christmas
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£14.72
Poisoned Pen Press The Mysterious Mr. Badman: A Yorkshire
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£14.24
Sourcebooks Just Another Dead Author
£17.64
Sourcebooks In the Fog
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£15.72
Pushkin Press Unravelled Knots
Book SynopsisIt has been twenty years since Polly Burton last saw the Teahouse Detective, but one foggy afternoon she stumbles into a Fleet Street café and chances upon the cantankerous sleuth again. The years have not softened his manner, nor dulled his appetite for unravelling the most tortuous of conspiracies, shedding light on mysteries that have confounded the finest minds of the police. How did Prince Orsoff disappear from his railway carriage in-between stations? How could the Ingres masterpiece be seen in two places at once? And what is the truth behind the story of the blood-stained tunic that exonerated its owner? From the comfort of his seat by the fire, the Teahouse Detective sets his brilliant mind to work once more.Trade Review"The first and greatest armchair detective." -- Ellery Queen"A literary tour-de-force." -- E.F. Beiler"Simple but effective... cleverly contrived." -- Daily Mail"One of the only rivals to Sherlock Holmes who can stand comparison... Will delight fans of cosy crime and the golden heyday of British crime writing." -- New Books Magazine"I just wanted to snuggle up in a blanket and read these mysteries, trying to guess the end... I can't recommend them enough." -- Umut Reviews
£11.96
Pushkin Press The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Book SynopsisOne evening the wealthy Roger Ackroyd is discovered slumped in his armchair, a knife buried in his heart. It is the start of a murder case that spurs the inhabitants of the sleepy English village of King's Abbot to feverish speculation. The local police are perplexed, but soon a recently retired Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, joins the investigation. The truth he uncovers will shock even the most imaginative of the village gossips. With its famously shocking ending, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is one of Agatha Christie's greatest mysteries, and the book that changed her career.
£18.70
Atlantic Books Carver's Quest
Book SynopsisIt is 1870. When amateur archaeologist Adam Carver and his loyal but obdurate retainer Quint are visited in their lodgings in London's Doughty Street by an attractive young woman, their landlady is not pleased. The visitor's arrival pitches Carver and Quint headlong into an elaborate mystery which comes to centre on the existence (or not) of a lost text in Ancient Greek, one that may reveal the whereabouts of the treasure hoard of Philip II of Macedonia.Two deaths soon ensue as master and manservant follow what clues they can grasp in the roughest and most genteel parts of the teeming metropolis, with the whiff of cordite and blackmail never far from their nostrils. The scene shifts to Athens and the wilder fastness of a Greece gripped by political unrest as Carver and Quint join forces with Adam's former Cambridge tutor in an attempt to track down the elusive text. But nothing is quite what it seems, and no one involved is prepared for the final, shocking denouement amidst the extraordinary hilltop monasteries of Meteora...Trade ReviewA richly textured, thoroughly relishable helping of ripe Victoriana -- Phil Baker * The Sunday Times *It's entertaining stuff - knowing, but never too knowing - and Rennison's love of Victorian slang reflects a broader linguistic flair * Guardian *It's got the lot: mystery, murder, theft, blackmail, infamy, treachery, bandits, a beautiful maiden, heroes, villains, romance and adventure in bucket loads -- Sarah Broadhurst * Bookseller *Bristles with an energy and inventiveness that positively leap off the page... Readers may well be looking to spend more time in the company of Carver and Quint -- Barry Forshaw, Crimetime.co.ukA wonderfully researched, deftly written tale of deering-do * Bookseller *
£12.14
Ebury Publishing Sherlock: His Last Bow
Book SynopsisThe hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a new generation to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. This edition of the classic collection of stories, with an introduction by Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffatt, allows fans to discover the power of those original adventures.Could a woman die of fright alone? And who is the sender of a most grizzly package – two human ears in a box? Holmes and Watson tackle a whole host of new mysteries before Baker Street’s most famous detective finally leaves London for the quiet of a Sussex farm. But one final adventure puts an end to his retirement. As Britain stands poised on the brink of the First World War, can Sherlock Holmes keep a terrible new super-weapon from falling into the enemy’s hands?
£999.99
Little Creek Press Driftless Treasure
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£18.00
Clovercroft Publishing The Patterson Women
£15.19
Penguin Putnam Inc Local Gone Missing
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£15.30
Random House USA Inc She Lies in Wait: A Novel
£15.30
Random House USA Inc Watching from the Dark: A Novel
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£14.45
Random House USA Inc Lie Beside Me: A Novel
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£14.45
Random House USA Inc The Lords of Time
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£13.29
Random House USA Inc The Man in the Brown Suit
Book SynopsisA colorful murder mystery in which a spirited young woman plays amateur sleuth aboard a luxury cruise ship to South AfricaAfter young Anne Beddingfeld witnesses an accidental death in a London tube station—and the bizarre behavior of a man in a brown suit who flees the scene—she becomes convinced that foul play is at work. A woman is found murdered the next day and the police show no interest in Anne's theory that the two incidents are connected. Spurred by a cryptic note dropped by the man in brown, Anne impulsively uses all her savings to book passage on a cruise ship heading to South Africa. On the voyage she finds herself at the center of a high-stakes game involving stolen diamonds, high society idlers, a mysteriously attractive young man, and a master criminal and his double-crossing minions.
£10.45
Planeta Publishing Corp Un Triste Ciprés Sad Cypress
£14.20
Planeta Publishing Corp Asesinato En La Calle Hickory Hickory Dickory Dock
£12.63
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El largo camino a casa / The Long Way Home
£32.14
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Tigres de verdad / Real Tigers
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£30.32
Salamandra Un mes con Montalbano / A Month With Montalbano
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£17.95
La Eternidad Y Un Día Fallen in Love
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£21.22
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Ecos de muerte / An Echo Of Murder
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£30.88
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Sangre en el Támesis / Blood on the Water
£16.59
