Crime and / or mystery fiction
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Wildside Press The Phantom Detective Harvest of Death
£12.39
Wildside Press The Yacht People
£14.11
Wildside Press The Black Doctor and Other Tales of Terror and Mystery
£15.60
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Masked Family
£15.99
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AuthorHouse The Kings Gambit
£16.09
Simon & Schuster Mobbed A Regan Reilly Mystery
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Gallery Books Cruel and Unusual
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£12.20
iUniverse OPEN AND CLOSED
£13.31
£9.63
iUniverse Sojourn
£25.09
Tyrus Books Dead Water A Loon Lake Mystery 3
£13.29
Tyrus Books Blood Country Claire Watkins
£13.29
Prologue Books The THRILL KIDS
£11.99
Tyrus Books Redemption Street
£13.29
Adams Media Corporation Dead Boogie
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Adams Media Corporation Dead Frenzy
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Adams Media Corporation Dead Hot Shot
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Adams Media Corporation Dead Renegade
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Xlibris Corporation The Bcmc
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Lulu Press EL Urracaõ
£22.79
Lulu.com ASALTO AL CONVOY antiCOVID
£13.50
Lulu.com The Hork
£16.32
Lulu.com Tocata Y Fuga de la Teniente Escali
£20.00
Lulu.com Laços Ocultos
£13.27
Lulu Press Eindeloos Verscheurd
£14.09
Lulu.com Low Life.
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Lulu.com Nerrtu lUltimo Pianeta
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Pan Macmillan The Chameleons Shadow
Book SynopsisA compelling look into damaged minds, The Chameleon's Shadow is a psychological thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, especially his ex-fiancee who seems unable to accept that the relationship is over. After his injuries prevent his return to the army, he cuts all ties with his former life and moves to London. Alone and unmonitored, he sinks into a private world of guilt and paranoid distrust . . . until a customer annoys him in a Bermondsey pub and he attracts the attention of local police investigating three murders which appear to have been motivated by extreme rage . . . Under suspicion
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Pan Macmillan The Killing
Book SynopsisDavid Hewson, is well-known for his crime fiction set in European cities. He is the author of nine novels in the highly acclaimed Detective Nic Costa series, which are set mostly in Rome. His other novels include The Fallen Angel and Carnival for the Dead - set in Venice. He has spent time in Copenhagen researching and writing the novel of The Killing.Trade ReviewAs gripping as the TV series. It will keep you pinned to very last page. -- Jens LapidusDavid Hewson has achieved the seemingly impossible . . . just as gripping as the television serial . . . this book is worth reading * The Literary Review *A novel in the hugely experienced hands of David Hewson that defies expectation. Hewson’s style is tight, lean, almost like a film script. * Express *Clear, clipped prose is beautifully up to the task, as is his forensic attention to the original's details . . . And the ending leaves a very different, but no less thought-provoking taste. * Mirror *David Hewson should be commended for writing such a page-turner of a book . . . The Killing has enough twists and turns to satisfy not only any avid follower of the series but also readers that are coming to it first time around. * www.shotsmag.co.uk *
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Pan Macmillan The Bone Seeker
Book SynopsisThe third novel in the hugely compelling Edie Kiglatuk series, set in the Artic's long summer nights.Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger award for best crime novel of the year.A missing girl. A dark betrayal.Summer in the High Arctic. When young Inuit Martha Salliaq goes missing from her settlement, her teacher, ex Polar Bear Hunter Edie Kiglatuk enlists her police friend Derek Palliser to help search for the girl. But once a body is discovered floating in a polluted lake on the site of a decommissioned Radar Station, Edie's worst fears are realised.As the investigation into Martha's murder begins, the Inuit community - and Martha's devastated family - are convinced the culprits lie within the encampment of soldiers stationed nearby. Before long Sergeant Palliser finds evidence linking two of the men with the dead girl. But Edie and local lawyer Sonia Gutierrez remain unconvinced. Why are the military quite so willing to coopeTrade ReviewWrap up warmly. Melanie McGrath's earlier Arctic-set novels were non-pareil in their freshness, and The Bone Seeker, the latest investigation for her female Inuit hunter/sleuth Edie Kiglatuk, is her best yet. There is an astonishing evocation of the frigid landscape here, along with the sharply conjured details of Inuit life. * Financial Times *Filled with cultural tensions, gorgeous Arctic scenery and pulsing suspense. * Booklist starred review *McGrath effectively evokes the spare Arctic landscape and brings life to the people who have inhabited it for generations. * Publishers Weekly *The chills McGrath's third Edie entry sends down your spine will rival those brought on by any Nunavut winter. * Starred Kirkus review *
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Pan Macmillan Locked In
Book SynopsisThey think they are safe at home. Someone knows better.
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Pan Macmillan Vigilante
Book SynopsisA killer behind bars is still killing . . .
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Pan Macmillan The Woman in Black
Book SynopsisSevered body parts. A woman in shadows. These are the only clues.
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Pan Macmillan Snow White Must Die
Book SynopsisA Richard and Judy Book Club pick.A mysterious whodunnit, Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus is the huge international bestseller and the first book in the Bodenstein & Kirchoff crime series.‘A must for mystery fans’ – The BooksellerOn a wet November day, Detectives Pia Kirchoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to the scene of a mysterious accident. A woman has fallen from a bridge onto the motorway below. It seems that she may have been pushed. The investigation leads them to a small town near Frankfurt, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer.On a September evening eleven years earlier, two seventeen-year-old girls, Laura and Stefanie vanished without trace from this same village. In a trial based entirely on circumstantial evidence, Stefanie’s boyfriend, handsome and talented, Tobias Sartorius, was sentenced to ten years in prison. He has now returned to his home in an attempt to clear his name. RTrade Review‘Snow White Must Die looks like being a must for mystery fans this summer, based on the great customer reviews it’s already getting across the Atlantic’ -- Emma Giacon * The Bookseller *‘The Nele Neuhaus thriller that’s captivated Germany (and been compared to Stieg Larsson) is finally getting published in the UK. The whodunit about two 17-year-old girls who go missing is filled with forensic detail and rattles along at a breakneck pace’ * Grazia *‘Nele Neuhaus has made quite a splash in her native Germany with her series of books about Hofheim regional crime unit’s oddly aristo detective Oliver von Bodenstein and his sidekick DI Pia Kirchoff * Metro *
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Pan Macmillan Bodies
Book SynopsisPolice superintendent Percy Trethowan found London''s Soho as colourful and full of life as every-except for the four corpses in a seedy photography studio. Shot doing a layout for Bodies, a soft-porn health and fitness magazine, the photographer, his assistant, and two models had left a camera loaded with film but no clues. Then one victim''s obsession with pumping iron sent Trethowan into the erotic world of body-building, where an out-of-shape policeman would learn that building biceps isbeautiful and the temptation to star in the buff in the bluest of movies could really be murder.
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Pan Macmillan Death and the Chaste Apprentice
Book SynopsisThe Ketterick Festival revolves around the Saracen’s Head, a Jacobean inn with its inn-yard and balconies miraculously preserved intact, due to the sloth of successive landlords. Here in festival time are performed the lesser-known masterpieces of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. This year it is The Chaste Apprentice of Bowe (a play of uncertain authorship, since no one owned up at the time). But the actors find that the Saracen’s Head has been transformed by its new landlord - an Australian know-all with an insatiable curiosity and an instinct for power. The loathsome Des’s activities bring him into conflict with actors, committee, even the performers of Adelaide di Birckenhead, the little-known Donizetti opera that is the other lynchpin of the Festival programme. So adept is Des at fomenting friction and ferreting in the undergrowth of private lives that it is not surprising that it all ends in biers. Barnard’s festive romp spares no one in the art
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Pan Macmillan A City of Strangers
Book SynopsisWith A City of Strangers, award-winning novelist Robert Barnard, acclaimed for his quick wit and astute insight into the vagaries of class distinction and human foible, achieves a new level of mastery.He also creates one of his most memorable characters ever: the dreadful Jack Phelan. Dirty, potbellied, vulgar, selfish, Jack is a man everyone loves to hate. And the rest of his family isn''t much better. The wife is slatternly, the teenaged children flirt with petty crime and prostitution, even the baby is unpleasant. Only twelve-year-old Michael Phelan seems to have escaped the family curse, and it may be just a question of time until he, too, sinks to the Phelan level.For years the infamous Phelans, known with equal horror to the Social Security office and the local school, have lived in slovenly squalor in their council house in the run-down Belfield Grove Estate in the northern English city of Sleate.The Phelans'' infamy has even penetrated the middle-
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Pan Macmillan High Five
Book SynopsisStephanie Plum has a whole lot of trouble on her doorsteps. Her Uncle Fred has disappeared and Grandma Mazur is convinced he''s been abducted by aliens. Meanwhile, cousin Vinnie has asked her to bring in the vertically challenged Randy Briggs who''s jumped bail. But instead of coming quietly, he has taken up residence in Stephanie''s closet. The mysterious man called Bunchy is trailing Stephanie in the hope of tracking down Fred. And Benito Ramirez is back from jail, quoting Scripture and vowing to introduce Stephanie to God - face to face. Thankfully Joe Morelli, the irresistible cop, is still around to give her the odd sleepless night - through now he faces tough competition from the enigmatic Ranger . . .
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Pan Macmillan Posthumous Papers
Book SynopsisThere were two Mrs Machins, relicts of the talented working-class writer Walter Machin, who was just about to be immortalised by the literary establishment. Viola was large, overbearing and, even in her seventies, still voluptuous. Hilda, the first (and divorced) Mrs Machin, was perky, sharp and the guardian of the deceased Walter''s literary papers. For ten years the two ''widows'' had lived together in the same house, not speaking to each other, but jealously guarding his memory and literary reputation.But before the Machin legend could really take off, there was a fire - and a murder. One of the Mrs Machins was silenced for good, and slowly, from the past, emerged a fascinating and intriguing assortment of characters. Somewhere, in their memories of Walter Machin, lay the catastrophic secret that had led to murder.''A literary whodunit - with an unusual ending'' London Mystery Selection''Freshly written with lots of sly fun'' Guardian''F
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Pan Macmillan A Perfect Match
Book SynopsisThe news rocked the town. A woman''s body found in a boathouse. And the woman''s last known companion Missing Presumed Fled. To the people of Stansfield it''s an open and shut case.But Detective Inspector Lloyd - teamed up once more with Sergeant Judy Hill - isn''t so quick to jump to conclusions. To begin with he''s certain of only two things. First, that nothing can stop the reawakening of his tender feelings towards his colleague.And second: in a murder enquiry you don''t rule out . . .Trade ReviewAn impressive first novel: the plot is tidily constructed, and the author handles a multiple point-of-view narration with considerable ease and aplomb. -- T J Binyon * Times Literary Supplement *A shapely and intelligent classic murder mystery * Mail on Sunday *Compelling * Sunday Times *
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Pan Macmillan Death of a Dancer
Book SynopsisThe murder of a deputy headmaster''s wife on the night of the Sesquicentennial Ball at a minor-league boys'' public school brings together the team of Inspector Lloyd and Judy Hill. Diana Hamlyn''s body has been found on the school''s playing field. Death had been caused by the traditional blunt instrument, her clothing was disarrayed, her underclothes missing. It was a particularly disturbing killing.As Lloyd and Hill begin the harrowing routine of a murder investigation they rapidly learn that the woman had been a nymphomaniac - her conquests many, her fidelities few, the list of suspects for her killing appallingly long. That list includes her husband, her lovers and her colleagues, none with perfect alibis, some ostentatiously lying.It is an old-fashioned puzzle peopled with very contemporary characters. Once again Jill McGown presents a true novel of detection.Trade ReviewJill McGown is a crisp writer and a spellbinding story-teller. * Financial Times *
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Pan Macmillan The Murders of Mrs Austin and Mrs Beale
Book SynopsisWhich is the odd one out:An ex-call girl wife of a wealthy crook, who has kept one step ahead of the law, a struggling artist married to Stansfield''s prospective Conservative party candidate, or the telephone line which links them?Answer: the telephone line. It isn''t dead.A double murder investigation brings Chief Inspector Lloyd and the newly promoted Inspector Judy Hill together again as colleagues. But the case is a severe test of both Judy''s professionalism and Lloyd''s ego, and soon threatens their more private relationship . . .Trade ReviewJill McGown is a crisp writer and a spellbinding storyteller * Financial Times *A cleverly twisting plot with a startling surprise ending * The Times *Satisfying, tightly knit whodunit with exophthalmic final twist. -- Matthew Coady * Guardian *
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Pan Macmillan Murder... Now and Then
Book SynopsisVictor Holyoak made his millions by selling state-of-the-art security systems. In the end, even the most sophisticated devices were no protection against the intruder who murdered him in his own factory.The millionnaire''s death shocked the townsfolk of Stansfield. But was there something they didn''t know about their deceased benefactor?Chief Inspector Lloyd was convinced he had seen Victor somewhere before. Was his memory playing tricks again? Or did the murky past hold the clues to a murder that seemed to come under the heading of unfinished business?Trade ReviewCareful plotting, strong characters and solid detection are the traditional values of Jill McGown's stories * Scotland on Sunday *All the essential ingredients of the best whodunnits * Daily Mail *Lavish with cumulative clues and revelations, McGown teases to the absolute, agonizing limit as murders ancient and modern are resolved. * Sunday Times *A highly enjoyable who done what, when and why. * Spectator *
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Pan Macmillan Picture of Innocence
Book SynopsisMore than half of Bartonshire, it seemed, had entertained murderous thoughts at some time or another about bullying farmer Bernard Bailey. Which might have explained why his property was protected by more security devices and surveillance cameras than Fort Knox.All, sadly, to no avail.After six months of highly publicised death threats, linked to a stubborn refusal to sell land for a new road, Bernard''s bloodied corpse is discovered in his isolated farmhouse by his wife Rachel. A gruesome beginning to the working week which launches DCI Lloyd and DI Judy Hill into the most unusual murder enquiry of their careers.For as the initial evidence is sifted, the question for once isn''t ''Who stood to gain from the death?'' but ''Why didn''t they do it sooner?''With the ever-present eye of the camera recording events, Lloyd and Hill have more evidence than they ever thought possible. But is it enough to stop a killer walking free . . . ?Trade ReviewA spellbinding story-teller * Financial Times *McGown has once again produced a classic English detective story and an entertaining read * Sunday Telegraph *McGown's latest Lloyd and Hill mystery possesses a wealth of psychological nuance and narrative depth . . . a masterpiece of controlled complexity * Publishers Weekly *
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Pan Macmillan Plots and Errors
Book Synopsis''I shot someone dead.'' He watched for her reaction, and there was more than just surprise in those dark blue eyes; there was something very like respect. ''I got out just over eight years ago.'' ''What was it like?''''Prison?''She shook her head, smiling slightly. ''Killing someone,'' she said.Andrew and Kathy Cope, the proprietors of a debt-ridden detective agency on the verge of losing their home, are found dead in their fume-filled car. Few doubt that it was suicide.But Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd does. He knew Kathy, and doesn''t believe she was a quitter. And why, he asks DI Judy Hill, were groceries put away on the wrong shelves? Why is Andy Cope''s wheelchair still in the boot? Even Kathy''s last case is a puzzle. Why, of all the detectives she might have employed, did a member of the super-wealthy Esterbrook family choose to hire the Copes?That night, the murder of matriarch Angela Esterbrook appears to vindicate Lloyd''s dTrade ReviewSuperior mystery fiction * Publishers Weekly *Plots, counter-plots, false trails, elaborately constructed alibis, this jigsaw of a crime novel is divided into acts and scenes à la Hamlet . . . Well worth puzzling over until the last piece falls into place * Yorkshire Evening Press *
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