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Hodder & Stoughton Death Trap
Book SynopsisFROM THE BESTSELLING AND CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF SPARE ROOM, GANGLAND GIRLS TRLIOGY and the FLESH AND BLOOD SERIESDreda Say Mitchell was awarded an MBE in Her Majesty The Queen''s 2020 New Year''s Honours List ''Dreda Say Mitchell has been flying the flag for crime writing for years'' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other, winner of the Booker Prize 2019PRAISE FOR DEATH TRAP:''Breathless from the first word and thrilling to the last'' LEE CHILD''Wonderful vivid writing and a truly original voice'' PETER JAMES Teenager Nikki Bell is the only witness to the brutal murder of two members of her family and their cleaner. She''s lucky to be alive. But the murder isn''t a one-off. It''s part of a bigger, more violent attack planned on affluent families in the area - and now Nikki, as the only living witness, is a dangerous threat to the well-orTrade ReviewIn DI Rio Wray, Dreda Say Mitchell has created a terrific character... Say Mitchell has positioned herself as the most authentic chronicler of crime and punishment in multiracial London * The Times *In DI Rio Wray, Dreda Say Mitchell has created a terrific character... Say Mitchell has positioned herself as the most authentic chronicler of crime and punishment in multiracial London * The Times *A meaty mixture of whodunnit and witness-protection saga...zippy, twisty plot...and a bevvy of memorable supporting goodies and baddies * The Sunday Times *A meaty mixture of whodunnit and witness-protection saga...zippy, twisty plot...and a bevvy of memorable supporting goodies and baddies * The Sunday Times *A vivid and original take on the police procedural and a very enjoyable novel * Literary Review *A vivid and original take on the police procedural and a very enjoyable novel * Literary Review *In this thoughtful but thrilling tale, Mitchell's wonderful creation DI Rio Wray has to cope with racism froma colleague as well as protecting the life of a 16-year-old girl who has witnessed a brutal triple murder. * Sunday Express books of the year *Praise for Dreda Say Mitchell * : *In this thoughtful but thrilling tale, Mitchell's wonderful creation DI Rio Wray has to cope with racism froma colleague as well as protecting the life of a 16-year-old girl who has witnessed a brutal triple murder. * Sunday Express books of the year *Breathless from the first word and thrilling to the lastWonderful vivid writing and a truly original voice.Dreda Say Mitchell is right up there at the forefront of British crime fiction
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Hodder & Stoughton Walk
Book SynopsisStephen had seemed enthusiastic about the walk, when Benny first invited him. He kept going on about how amazing it'd be, the two of them out in the wilderness - the landscape shots, the pubs, etc., etc. Benny didn't interrupt this stream of enthusiasm. They were in the car park of the Miners, and Benny was too busy concentrating on his own stream of piss. He didn't think about it at all until the next morning. When he remembered inviting Stephen, Benny laughed out loud - a single ha - then spent three minutes silent-screaming into his pillow. **** Benny thought that it would be him and his dad doing the walk. Just him and his father, hiking through the Welsh countryside, like they used to. Only, when his dad got ill, it became obvious that this would never happen. So Benny was forced to consider other options. If Benny is honest, him and Stephen haven't been close since school, but once Benny had dTrade ReviewA modern picaresque that will grab and guide you through some of Britain's last remaining wildernesses, both inner and outer: the Wales/England border, the ransacked sociopolitical contract, the crisis of contemporary masculinity and its effect on all kinds of interpersonal relationships, the crags and quicksands of the soul. It is compelling and propulsive from the serene and optimistic beginning all the way to the stricken end. Fantastic. -- Niall GriffithsA mad picaresque across Wales which is promising a twist that I know is coming but just can't guess from which direction. I'm half way through it and enjoying every step of the journey. * Wales Art Review *This one's special. Bold, unapologetic, superbly written. 'Walk' offers a masterclass in how to write lean prose that's visually stunning and dialogue that's entirely real. -- Caroline Smailes
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Hodder & Stoughton The Lincoln Myth
Book SynopsisInternational bestseller Steve Berry returns with another brilliant Cotton Malone thriller involving a mystery about Abraham Lincoln and a political issue that's as explosive as it is timely - not only in Malone's world, but in ours.Trade ReviewMy kind of thriller. - Dan BrownI love this guy. - Lee ChildWith its great plot and interesting characters, this book is a real page turner and an enjoyable read. Highly recommended. - Historical Novel Society on THE KING'S DECEPTIONBerry raises this genre's stakes. - New York TimesThe tension, the suspense and the adrenaline rush are all at their most fevered pitch. - Huffington Post on THE KING'S DECEPTION
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Pan Macmillan S is for Silence
Book SynopsisS is for Silence is the nineteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. Just after Independence Day in July 1953 Violet Sullivan, a local good time girl living in Serena Station Southern California, drives off in her brand new Chevy and is never seen again. Left behind is her young daughter, Daisy, and Violet's impetuous husband, Foley, who had been persuaded to buy his errant wife the car only days before . . . Now, thirty-five years later, Daisy wants closure. Reluctant to open such an old cold case Kinsey Millhone agrees to spend five days investigating, believing at first that Violet simply moved on to pastures new. But very soon it becomes clear that a lot of people shared a past with Violet, a past that some are still desperate to keep hidden. And in a town as close-knit as Serena there aren't many places to hide when things turn vicious . . .
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Pan Macmillan Wolf Winter
Book SynopsisThe deadly chill of winter would drive out something far more lethal than a wolf . . .
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Pan Macmillan The Hidden Girls
Book SynopsisFor fans of Jenny Quintana, Jane Harper and Kate Hamer, The Hidden Girls is the tense and gripping novel from Rebecca Whitney, author of The Liar's Chair.Trade ReviewMoving and terrifying, The Hidden Girls is a page-turning thriller with a compassionate heart that twists and turns on every page. I loved it -- Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat and CrushedAn intriguing and suspenseful psychological thriller with a fascinating protagonist suffering from postpartum psychosis . . . Original and timely -- Jenny Quintana, author of The Missing Girl and Our Dark SecretWhitney is definitely a name to keep your eye on * Stylist *An extremely promising literary newcomer * Grazia *Pacy and pitch-dark -- Sunday Mirror on The Liar's ChairThis impressive debut will cleverly draw you in, then spit you out shivering and on edge -- Sun on The Liar's ChairCompelling and unsettling -- Laura Wilson in the Guardian on The Liar's ChairGripping * Bella *
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Pan Macmillan How a Gunman Says Goodbye
Book SynopsisMalcolm Mackay was born and grew up in Stornoway where he still lives. The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter, his much lauded debut was the first in the Glasgow Trilogy, set in the city's underworld. It was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award for Best Crime Debut of the Year and the Scottish First Book of the Year Award and was chosen as Best Read by ITV3's Specsavers Crime Thriller Club programme. How A Gunman Says Goodbye, the second book in the series, won the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award. The final book in the trilogy is The Sudden Arrival of Violence. His other crime novels include For Those Who Know the Ending, Every Night I Dream of Hell and In the Cage Where Your Saviours Hide.
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Canongate Books Death Among the Ruins
Book SynopsisMidnight assignations, dresses fit to meet the queen . . . and murder most horrid! Printer''s apprentice Lucy Campion investigates a puzzling death in this thrilling historical mystery set in seventeenth-century London.London, 1668. Printer''s apprentice Lucy Campion is suspicious when she meets a young ragpicker who claims to have fine clothes to sell from a lady of quality. Are the garments stolen . . . or a sign of something worse?Her suspicions are soon realized when the clothes are identified as belonging to a recently deceased elderly aristocrat. Young Mercy Sykes has robbed a grave! Mercy is arrested, and it''s only thanks to Lucy''s intervention that the ragpicker, who''s struggling to support her family, isn''t locked up.Lucy doesn''t expect to see Mercy again, but their meeting soon has unexpected consequences. For when Mercy finds a dead woman in the ruins of Christchurch, dressed in unexpected finery, it''s to Lu
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Canongate Books Spirits and Smoke
Book SynopsisDeadly drinks, vicious gangsters, missing money . . . Reluctant sleuth Maddie Pastore is back with a bang, in the second Mystic''s Accomplice historical mystery set in 1920s Chicago.Miley''s storytelling skills do justice to her clever, gutsy, and endearing protagonist. This is a real treat for readers who love stories set in the Roaring ''20s- Publishers Weekly Starred Review December, 1924. Young widow Maddie Pastore feels fortunate to be employed by the well-meaning but fraudulent medium Carlotta Romany. Investigating Carlotta''s clients isn''t work she''s proud of, but she''s proud of how well she does it. Maddie''s talents, however, draw them unwelcome attention: sharp-eyed Officer O''Rourke from the Chicago Police. He doesn''t believe in spiritualism - but in a city packed with mobsters, con artists and criminals, he''ll take any help he can get. It''s not long before Maddie has a case to bring him. Why did tee
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Canongate Books The Inconvenient German
Book SynopsisWilli Geismeier is proving to be a headache for the Nazis yet again as leader of the Flower Gang - a secret organisation helping people flee Germany. But is his cover about to be blown? 1944. Captain Charlie Herder''s plane is shot down in woods near Munich. A week later, he has managed to evade capture by the SS, but for how much longer? As the American pilot desperately tries to make his way to the French border, a huge manhunt ensues. Former Munich police detective Willi Geismeier is still proving to be a thorn in the side of the Gestapo in his new incarnation as leader of the Flower Gang, a flourishing network of secret operatives helping Jews and others escape Germany. But a catastrophe occurs when the gang''s plan to help Charlie is compromised, and Willi faces a race against time to work out how their scheme was derailed if he and his operatives are to stand a chance of surviving the war . . .
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Canongate Books Murder on the Home Front
Book SynopsisDisrespect, disdain - and dead bodies! It''s all in a day''s work for WPC Billie Harkness, a pioneering female police officer protecting the home front in this gripping WWII British historical mystery.A fresh and different take on WWII stories with an appealing young heroine New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen on Death in a Blackout1940. It''s been a month since rector''s daughter Billie Harkness left her rural village to make a fresh start in the northern city of Hull. Now she has a new home and an exciting new job as one of only two female police constables in the whole city. But Hull still feels like a foreign country, and some people are less than impressed by the idea of a woman doing a ''man''s job''.Facing disrespect from her colleagues and suspicion from the public, Billie throws herself into her work. The tasks she''s assigned might be menial, but she''s determined to do her bit for the war effort. The
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Canongate Books Of Mushrooms and Matrimony
Book SynopsisTish Tarragon is catering for a wedding, but the weekend goes from sweet to sour when a guest at the venue is poisoned."A charming cozy with plenty of suspects for the romantically inclined sleuths to winnow out''" Kirkus Reviews Starred Review of From Ladle to GraveLiterary caterer and owner of Cookin'' the Books café Tish Tarragon is pushing thoughts of her impending eviction aside to prepare an appetising welcome buffet for a wedding weekend at Abbingdon Green Bed and Breakfast. While there, Tish witnesses one of the guests, controversial TV chef and restaurant critic, Gunner Randall, threatening staff after missing breakfast and making do with a mushroom omelet.When Randall is found dead the following day, it soon becomes clear that poisoned mushrooms were behind his demise. With no shortage of potential suspects and motives, can Tish and her new beau, Sheriff Clemson Reade, uncover who was enraged enough with the unsavoury star to silence him for good?
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Canongate Books The Kind to Kill
Book SynopsisA missing tourist spells trouble for Senior Investigator Shana Merchant in this page-turning twisty mystery set in an atmospheric island community with a small-town vibe.Former NYPD detective Shana Merchant is a skilled Senior Investigator keeping New York''s beautiful Thousand Islands community safe. She''s a loving partner. A strong woman. A survivor.She''s also bound by blood to a serial killer. And after months of concealing the truth from the world as she hunted Blake Bram down, her secret is finally out.Shana just wants to get on with her life and win back her community''s trust. But as Alexandria Bay fills up with tourists in advance of the annual festival known as Pirate Days, a visitor goes missing, and the case threatens to destroy not just the celebrations, but what remains of Shana''s reputation.Shana''s not to blame for the killer in her family, but people are starting to whisper that she attracts trouble. That A-Bay was saf
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Canongate Books Such a Winters Day
Book SynopsisJuliet Reid wasn''t able to save her murdered brother almost ten years ago. Can she face her demons to stop an ice-cold killer in their tracks a decade later? Nine and a half years ago, Juliet''s talented brother Fin should have returned home. He didn''t. When Juliet set out to find him that snowy winter evening, she made a devastating discovery. Now, Juliet returns to the small town of Parrish, Ohio to celebrate her twenty-fifth birthday with her parents. But when she arrives, she receives the shocking news that her father appears to have committed suicide. Why was he so distant shortly before his death? And why was he suddenly asking questions about Fin before his brutal murder? As Juliet tries to come to terms with another family tragedy, she finds herself at the center of a series of spine-tingling events. What chilling secrets did her father uncover, and can she stop an ice-cold killer who''s determined to keep them hidden?
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Canongate Books Reflections of Deviance
Book SynopsisRich. Successful. Dead . . . The mysterious death of Marion Cane leads criminologist Will Traynor into a deeply challenging and disturbing new case.Marion Cane swapped a successful city career in New York and London for a quiet retirement in a wealthy village on the outskirts of Birmingham. So why was she found dead in her new home two years later?Marion''s death was thought to be due to natural causes, until an anonymous note leads Superintendent John Heritage of West Midlands Police to ask DCI Bernard Watts and PC Chloe Judd to make enquiries. But when they arrive in Newton Heights, one of the villagers mysteriously vanishes. Still reeling from his own devastating news, criminologist Will Traynor is brought in to assist the team with an increasingly complex and disturbing investigation. Can Traynor push his own demons aside to see through distorted versions of reality, dangerous secrets and dark lies in his pursuit of the truth?
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Canongate Books Kill Her Twice
Book SynopsisChicago PI Dek Elstrom is called into action when a man acquitted of his wife''s murder asks Dek to investigate the strange circumstances around her death.A shocking chain of events occur after midnight one night on a quiet suburban street in West Chicago. The first neighbor hears a woman scream. The second sees the lights in the Tripps'' house being switched on, one by one, room after room. The third receives a call from a voice he doesn''t recognize, screaming at him to come over right away. But to where?When the police arrive on the street, Sara Tripp is discovered brutally murdered. Her husband, Martin Tripp, is put on trial for her murder and acquitted. Martin is convinced Sara was scared of something before she died, and he wants private investigator Dek Elstrom to find out what it was. As Dek investigates, he makes a series of disturbing discoveries. Can he get to the truth of what really happened that terrifying night?
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Canongate Books On an Outgoing Tide
Book SynopsisTwo murders, forty years apart. What links them? Detectives Anderson & Costello undertake their most baffling investigation to date. The body is found in the early hours of the morning, drifting lifelessly on the outgoing tide. Twenty-three-year-old medical student Aasha Ariti had been enjoying a night out to celebrate the end of lockdown. Anthony Poole, the last person to have seen her alive, is the prime suspect. Before detectives Anderson and Costello can make further headway, they are pulled off the case to investigate the murder of a pensioner in his own home. The body of eighty-one-year-old Jimmy Pearcey reveals evidence of prolonged, excruciating torture in the hours before he died. Of one thing DCI Anderson is certain: this killing was very close and very personal. But the victim was a loner, without friends or relatives.As they dig deeper however, the two detectives uncover a number of secrets in the dead man''s past. Secrets that lin
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Canongate Books Meat Thy Maker
Book SynopsisSausages to kill for . . . The competition to go into business with Hernia''s finest sausage makers is getting hotter than Magdalena Yoder''s frying pan in this sizzling culinary cozy.Schmucker Brothers'' Sausages are the talk of the town. The good folk of Hernia are obsessed with the delectable meaty treats, and the prospect of going into partnership with the brothers is proving equally irresistible to investors far and wide, including Magdalena Yoder''s current guests at the Penn-Dutch Inn - grocery store chain CEOs Christine Landis and Kathleen Dooley, restaurant owner Terry Tazewell, and Mr Duckworth Limehouse.All four are in town to pitch a business deal to the Schmuckers. But after a visit to the brothers'' pork factory, one of the would-be investors is found slaughtered back at the inn, and Mags must catch a murderer intent on turning her guests juicy pork dreams to rashers! Could there be more to the Schmuckers'' sausages than meets the eye?
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Canongate Books Kill Monster
Book SynopsisA golem created to assassinate a criminal in 1856 is reawakened in the present . intent on targeting his victim''s innocent descendants.When treasure hunters excavate the long-lost wreck of the steamship Arcadia from a Kansas cornfield, a buried creature awakens - a mindless assassin of accursed earth, shaped like a man though in no way mortal, created to kill a slave trader in 1856.With the original target long dead, the monster sets its sight on the man''s closest surviving descendant . . . a burned-out IT technician named Ben Middleton. Nothing could have prepared Ben for the horror now aimed directly at his lackadaisical life. But he isn''t only being chased by the monster, and it''s not just his own life in danger.Ben must pull himself together to not only save himself, but his estranged teenage son, Charley. Yet who are the mysterious people chasing him, and how do you stop a 150-year-old monster with no ''Off'' switch?
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Canongate Books The Mystics Accomplice
Book SynopsisThe first historical mystery in award-winning author Mary Miley''s 1920s Chicago-set series introduces reluctant sleuth Maddie Pastore and takes readers into a dark and dangerous world of mobsters, speakeasies and seances.It''s 1924, and Maddie Pastore has it made. A nice house, a loving husband with a steady job - even if it is connected to Chicago''s violent Torrio-Capone gang - and a baby on the way. But then Tommy is shot dead, and she learns her husband had a secret that turns her life upside down.Penniless and grieving, Maddie is sure of only two things: that she will survive for the sake of her baby, and that she''ll never turn to the mob for help. So when she''s invited to assist a well-meaning but fraudulent medium, she seizes the chance. She''s not proud of her work investigating Madam Carlotta''s clients, but she''s proud of how well she does it.When Maddie unearths potential evidence of a dark crime, however, she faces a terri
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Canongate Books Flesh and Blood
Book SynopsisKiller secrets. Killer crimes - the unmissable new DS McAvoy thriller from the Sunday Times best-selling, Kindle chart-topping author.McAvoy is a true original Mick HerronDS Aector McAvoy is on a well-deserved family holiday when the news reaches him that he''s been attacked and left for dead on one of Hull''s most well-to-do streets.It comes as something of a shock. But not as much as the discovery of who''s really been attacked - and his growing realization it''s no coincidence he''s far from home, in an isolated, rural campsite, on today of all days.McAvoy''s superior officer - and best friend - DS Trish Pharaoh has been keeping secrets. Secrets that are catching up with her.Secrets that could kill them all . . .David Mark brings Hull to dark, brutal life in this gripping novel in the critically acclaimed DS McAvoy series - a perfect pick for fans of Denise Mina, Val McDermid and Peter Robinson.
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Canongate Books One Extra Corpse
Book SynopsisHollywood intrigue, glamor . . . and murder: Enter the roaring twenties in this thrilling Silver Screen historical mystery, starring two very different female sleuths.May, 1924. It''s been seven months since young British widow Emma Blackstone arrived in Hollywood to serve as companion to Kitty Flint: her beautiful, silent-movie star sister-in-law. Kitty is generous, kind-hearted . . . and a truly terrible actress. Not that Emma minds; she''s too busy making her academic parents turn in their graves with her new job writing painfully historically inaccurate scenarios for Foremost Studios, in between wrangling their leading lady out of the arms of her army of amorous suitors.So when one of Kitty''s old flames, renowned film director Ernst Zapolya, calls Emma and tells her it''s imperative he meet with Kitty that morning, she''s not surprised. Until, that is, he adds that lives depend on it. Ernst sounds frightened. But what can have scared
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Canongate Books The Net of Steel
Book SynopsisUrsula Stannard faces the ultimate test in this gripping Tudor mystery. How far is she prepared to go to protect those dearest to her and save her own life?April, 1590. Ursula Stannard, the queen''s half-sister and occasional secret agent, has just left Sir Francis Walsingham''s funeral when she is summoned back to her childhood home, Faldene House, by her aunt. Uncle Herbert has died suddenly from natural causes, but Ursula''s arrival in the Sussex Downs triggers a shocking sequence of death and devastation. Through her service to the queen, Ursula has made dangerous enemies. The formidable Mercer brothers are set on revenge, and their cruelty knows no limits. As a deadly net closes around Ursula and her loved ones, can she keep those closest to her safe and stop the Mercers before they strike again?
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Canongate Books The Room with Eight Windows
Book SynopsisHenry Johnstone has retired from the police, but when he suddenly disappears his old colleague and friend, Inspector Mickey Hitchens, investigates.December, 1930. Henry Johnstone has retired from his role as detective chief inspector at London''s Scotland Yard and is staying at the home of the late Sir Eamon Barry on the south coast, cataloguing and inventorying his extensive library. Until he suddenly - and inexplicably - vanishes.Mickey Hitchens, Henry''s old partner-in-crime, now an inspector himself, investigates the house with his colleague, Sergeant Tibbs. The room Henry was staying in had eight unusual, curved windows, and the pair quickly uncover disturbing signs of a struggle, along with a blotter that has the name of a man who was murdered five years ago written on it. Is there a link between that case and Henry''s disappearance? Can Mickey find his friend and bring him home safely, or is it already too late?
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Canongate Books Reefs Royals Reckonings
Book SynopsisConstable Teddy Creque has to get to the bottom of a murder committed during a British royal reception in this lively and atmospheric mystery set in the sunny Caribbean.When Constable Teddy Creque is assigned to the security detail at a grand reception on the little island of Tortola for Princess Portia and her husband Lord Sutherland, he''s prepared for a British royal night out. He''s less prepared for an evening of dreary small talk about bond prices and tax havens. But at least the event is going smoothly, he tells himself . . . That is, until it''s cut dramatically short by a shot ringing out from the direction of the garden.Anxious that one of the royals is in danger, Teddy springs into action. He has to get the royal pair to safety, but first he has to find them. And they''re not the only ones missing - where is his superi
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Canongate Books Murder in the Mist
Book SynopsisTis the season of goodwill, and Dickens extends the hand of friendship to a stranded stranger and his nephews for Christmas, with deadly consequences . . .Wilkie Collins is looking forward to spending Christmas at Gads Hill, Charles Dickens'' Kentish country home, but the festivities are cut short when a body is found on the snowy marshland. Timmy O''Connor was invited to the gathering with his four nephews after a chance encounter with Dickens, but is now dead.Dickens is convinced the murderer is one of the convicts from a nearby prison ship, but Collins is not so sure. Who was this mysterious and unpleasant stranger from Cork who turned Christmas cheer to fear? With the convicts, guests and even Timmy''s nephews under suspicion, there is no shortage of suspects for such a violent act, but which one of them is a cold-blooded killer?
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Canongate Books Murder Off Stage
Book SynopsisWelcome to Broadway - and to an unthinkable crime! Former theatre starlet turned amateur sleuth Jessie Beckett gets mixed up in murder when an on-stage shooting turns all too real.New York, 1926. It''s not like Jessie Beckett goes around looking for murders to solve, but the vaudeville star turned movie script girl has a natural talent for it. After a lifetime on stage, she''s sensitive to details that other people miss.So when leading theater star Allen Crenshaw is shot live on stage during a performance of hit Broadway show Rules of Engagement - a horrified Jessie watching from the second row - she knows she has to act fast before Allen''s co-star, the beautiful Norah Rose, goes down for murder. After all, it was Norah who fired the fateful bullet . . . even if the shooting was all part of the show.Jessie investigates those closest to Allen - the presence of her theater companion, the superstar Adele Astaire, opening doors
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Canongate Books The Pierogi Peril
Book SynopsisLydia Wienewski has opened her Polish-American cafe and bakery on the shore of Lake Erie, but her idyllic new venture is shattered when the low tide leads to a terrible discovery.June, 1982. Lydia Wienewski''s dream has finally come true: Lydia''s Lakeside Cafe and Bakery, selling delicious Polish-American fare on the shore of Lake Erie, is now open and her fortunes are looking up. Even her old nemesis and tutor, the irascible Madame Delphine, has made time to sample Lydia''s delectable pierogi, with some of her students in tow. But when Lydia finds Madame Delphine dead in the water, her lakeside dream turns into a nightmare. Was it a bizarre suicide, or brutal murder? As Lydia and Grandma Mary investigate, they discover that there was more to Madame Delphine than meets the eye, and quickly find themselves drawn into an increasingly perilous situation! Can they uncover the truth about Madame Delphine''s untimely death
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Canongate Books Bright Young Things
Book SynopsisWhen a man dumps a body on a beach in full view of onlookers, the investigation that follows throws up a number of dark twists for DCI Henry Johnstone.January 5, 1930. On a cold, grey winter morning, a mysterious man walks along Bournemouth beach carrying a bundle in his arms. He lays it carefully on the shoreline and calmly walks away. The man has dumped a body.The dead young woman is Faun Moran, a wildchild in her twenties wearing a sparkling cocktail gown. But Faun was supposedly killed in a car crash after leaving a party attended by other wealthy bright young things the previous autumn. So who was the young woman in the car, and where has Faun Moran been all this time? Still recovering from the trauma of his last case, DCI Henry Johnstone returns to work to solve this baffling mystery. But as he and DS Mickey Hitchens investigate, the path to the truth is darker and twistier than they could ever have imagined.
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Severn House A Lurking Primrose
Book SynopsisThe peculiar death of an assistant matron at a distinguished boys'' school draws amateur sleuth Primrose Oughterard into another delightfully quirky mystery.Erasmus House, a prestigious prep school for boys in Lewes, is in uncharacteristic disarray over a looming visit from Her Majesty''s inspectors. Convinced that inspectors dislike old-established schools, headmaster Mr Winchbrooke devises a cunning plan to drag Erasmus House into modernity - by replacing the rustic paintings of eccentric local artist and amateur sleuth, Primrose Oughterard, with more ''challenging'' abstract works.But Primrose''s paintings are the least of Winchbrooke''s worries when the school''s assistant matron, Miss Memling, is found dead in a Brighton hotel room, clutching an empty gin bottle. Was there more to dull Aida Memling than met the eye? As one of the school''s trustees, Primrose springs into action. With her late brother Francis''s pets Maurice and Bouncer by her
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Canongate Books At Any Cost
Book SynopsisGreece is burning . . . and Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis is determined to save his country from disaster in the new novel in Jeffrey Siger''s critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling mystery seriesThoughtful police procedurals set in picturesque but not untroubled Greek locales The New York Times An atmospheric and exciting series Booklist (Starred Review) Terrific novels which take place on the Greek islands Readers DigestChief Inspector Kaldis is initially dismayed to be asked to investigate a series of suspicious forest fires that took place last summer. In Greece, forest fires are an inevitability, and he fears he and his team are being set up to take the political blame for this year''s blazes.He quickly becomes suspicious, though, that the forests were torched for profit - and for a project on a far grander scale than the usual low-level business corruption. There are whispers on
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Canongate Books Meat Thy Maker
Book SynopsisSausages to kill for . . . The competition to go into business with Hernia''s finest sausage makers is getting hotter than Magdalena Yoder''s frying pan in this sizzling culinary cozy.Schmucker Brothers'' Sausages are the talk of the town. The good folk of Hernia are obsessed with the delectable meaty treats, and the prospect of going into partnership with the brothers is proving equally irresistible to investors far and wide, including Magdalena Yoder''s current guests at the Penn-Dutch Inn - grocery store chain CEOs Christine Landis and Kathleen Dooley, restaurant owner Terry Tazewell, and Mr Duckworth Limehouse.All four are in town to pitch a business deal to the Schmuckers. But after a visit to the brothers'' pork factory, one of the would-be investors is found slaughtered back at the inn, and Mags must catch a murderer intent on turning her guests juicy pork dreams to rashers! Could there be more to the Schmuckers'' sausages than meets the eye?
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Canongate Books Death Comes to Santa Fe
Book SynopsisFormer New York darling turned amateur sleuth Madeline Vaughn-Alwin is once again thrown into a colourful yet deadly web of secrets, lies and soirees to die for! It''s the week of Fiesta in Santa Fe and Maddie is looking forward to enjoying the celebrations. But as ''Old Man Gloom'' Zozobra goes up in flames, so too do Maddie''s hopes for a carefree life . . . Human remains are found in the dying embers of Zozobra, and then Maddie and her dashing beau Dr David Cole find a body washed up in the arroyo at the edge of town.Soon identified as Ricardo Montoya, a wealthy businessman and head of one of the most affluent families in Santa Fe . . . the plot starts to thicken. While his beautiful wife Catalina and her complicated children seem less than heartbroken at his untimely demise, and with many disgruntled locals crawling out of the woodwork, Maddie is surrounded by suspects.With the celebrations of Fiesta continuing around them, Maddie and her ''Detect
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Canongate Books The Beautiful Risk
Book SynopsisHer husband died in a plane crash on Mount Blanc. It was a tragic accident.These are the simple facts.Except someone''s not telling the truth . . .After nine months of sorrow and grief, Junie Lagarde - a brilliant forensic accountant and passionate guitarist - is gradually accepting life without her beloved husband Olivier, a French safety consultant and climate-change expert, whom she lost in a tragic plane accident over Mont Blanc. If only she could have found her loyal hearing-dog Leo, who ran off in the terrifying aftermath of the crash, before she had to return home to America. But then Junie receives an unexpected call from France . . .Capitaine Philippe Brevard, the man in charge of investigating Olivier''s death, has seen recent CCTV footage which shows Leo being held by a man who closely resembles Olivier . . . right down to his distinctive jacket.It''s not Olivier. It can''t be . . . c
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Canongate Books In at the Death
Book SynopsisThe future of Thorncroft House and its occupants is in the balance while a mysterious murder brings up a past best forgotten! An authentic Victorian murder mystery depicting upstairs-downstairs life in nineteenth century England.October 1861, England. Harriet and Matthew Rowsley, the housekeeper and estate manager of Thorncroft House in Shropshire, have to cut short their successful trip to Oxford when they receive a telegraph: a decapitated and mutilated body has been found on the estate.While trying to help the strangely slow police investigation, the couple face an unsettling threat to their livelihood: after years of searching, a legitimate heir of Thorncroft estate has been found! They find themselves hosting an American gentleman whose charm doesn''t quite conceal his alarming plans for the future of the estate and all its inhabitants. Falsely imprisoned and forced to be silent about the identity of the murdered man, Harriet not onl
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Canongate Books The House on Cold Creek Lane
Book SynopsisAn unflinching examination of motherhood and the dark side of domesticity set against a suburban backdrop that''s anything but blissful. This twisty tale invites readers to a slow motion unravelling that culminates in a devastating finale!Who was I? What had I become?Breathe, I commanded. You''re doing this for your family.When Laurel and Rob West move into their new home in New Jersey, it seems too good to be true. But Laurel can''t shake off her old feelings of anxiety. The neighbor who pays far too much attention to the Wests'' two young children . . . Rob watching her every misstep . . . and there''s something people aren''t telling her about this house . . . I promised myself I wouldn''t go to that neighborhood again. Not that street. Not so soon.But I couldn''t help it. They made it too easy.Corey Sutton is trying to outrun her past. Recently divorced and reeling from a devastating loss, she moves into
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Canongate Books The Sons Secret
Book SynopsisWhat if you''re the only one who believes your son is missing? A chilling, twisty psychological suspense novel, perfect for fans of Laura Dave and Gillian Flynn.Maggie Lawson is the smart, capable dean of a boutique college, but even the most confident mother has a weakness - her child. When Maggie can''t reach her college senior son, Aiden, to tell him that his father has been shot, she starts to panic. She texts. She calls.Is Aiden ghosting her, or have the dangerous stories Aiden''s father, her investigative journalist ex-husband, pursues finally brought trouble to her door? Maggie is sure that something is very wrong, but no one believes her. As dark events unfold, she must rely on her own investigative instincts to find Aiden. But when Maggie uncovers a devastating secret, she faces a race against time to save him.
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Canongate Books Death Stalks Glevum
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Canongate Books Calico
Book SynopsisFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg, comes an explosive, page-turning investigative thriller - with a mind-blowing twist.There''s a saying in Barstow, California, a decaying city in the scorching Mojave desert . . . The Interstate here only goes in one direction: Away. But it''s the only place where ex-LAPD detective Beth McDade, after a staggering fall from grace, could get another badge . . . and a shot at redemption. Over a century ago, and just a few miles further into the bleak landscape, a desperate stranger ended up in Calico, a struggling mining town, also hoping for a second chance. His fate, all those years ago, and hers today are linked when Beth investigates an old skeleton dug up in a shallow, sandy grave . . . and also tries to identify a vagrant run-over by a distracted motorhome driver during a lightning storm. Every disturbing clue she finds, every shocking discovery she makes, f
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Canongate Books Not Dead Yet
Book SynopsisA corrupt millionaire. A suspicious plane crash. A sole survivor. Chief Inspector Kaldis is on the case in the latest installment of the internationally bestselling, critically acclaimed mystery series set in Greece?Thoughtful police procedurals set in picturesque but not untroubled Greek locales? New York Times ?A new Kaldis case is always a treat? Booklist (Starred Review) ?Terrific novels which take place on the Greek islands? Readers DigestWealthy Greek businessman Dimitris Onofrio is known to be corrupt to the core, but the police have never been able to make his crimes stick. Powerful, influential and extremely dangerous, Onofrio is not a man to cross, and every witness prepared to come forward against him has died before they could testify.So when Onofrio?s private jet crashes, seemingly with no survivors, the police breathe a sigh of relief ? quickly replaced by horror when Onofrio is found alive but catatonic on a remote Ionian beach, beside the body of his beloved wife.Was the crash an accident . . . or sabotage? Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis, head of Athens? Special Crimes Unit, knows that unless he can discover the truth before Onofrio recovers, the tycoon will be out for bloody revenge on all involved. Including Kaldis? own beloved wife, who is more mixed up in the accident than anyone would ever have suspected . . .With its gorgeous Greek locations, engaging characters and fast-paced plotting, this international crime series is a perfect pick for fans of Donna Leon, Louise Penny, Martin Walker and David Hewson.
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Canongate Books Dodge and Burn
Book SynopsisWashington, D.C.-based photojournalist Sophie Medina is not a murderer - but someone is determined to make sure she goes down for a crime she did not commit in this gripping mystery.When billionaire philanthropist and art collector Robson Blake hires Sophie Medina to take photographs for him, she doesn''t expect to show up and find her client dead. It seems he was the victim of a burglary gone wrong. But why was his state-of-the-art security system turned off . . . and why, in a house full of priceless Old Masters, is the only thing missing a beautiful but insignificant Ukrainian religious icon?Before long, Sophie finds herself in the crosshairs of a D.C. homicide detective who suspects she knows more than she is saying about Blake''s murder - and he''s not wrong. To Sophie''s mixed delight and horror, she''s recently learned she has a half-brother . . . who might also be an international art thief, with eyes on Blake''s collection.As the police get closer to finding Blake''s killer, Sophie is certain someone is trying to frame her for his murder. Can she find the real killer in time - even if it means turning in her own brother to prove her innocence?The latest instalment in this gripping series featuring fearless photojournalist Sophie Medina is a great choice for readers who enjoy high-flying female sleuths, deft red-herrings, page-turning plot twists, and glamorous settings.
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Canongate Books Molten Death
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Canongate Books The Quiet Woman
Book SynopsisNurse Florence Shaw is baffled when a quiet patient dies in an apparent suicide pact with her husband. Can she uncover the truth behind this mysterious woman?Richard and Christine Clay have been married for decades. Their relationship has stood the test of time despite Christine appearing passive while her husband is unmistakably dominant - at times bullying and controlling.Nurse Florence Shaw has seen Christine at the surgery a number of times with minor complaints over the past year, none of which has led to a serious diagnosis. But when Florence hears that the couple appear to have entered into a suicide pact, she is shocked, though not surprised that Richard has survived. Was Christine''s death really a suicide, or was there more to this quiet woman than meets the eye?
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Canongate Books Prey
Book SynopsisWill history repeat itself? . . . Moving from a London deep in the terror of the Blitz to the seemingly safer London of 2019, two women have to fight for their lives to survive a ruthless killer in this dual timeline psychological thriller that will make your hair stand on end!London, 1941. Amongst the air-raid sirens and horrors of bombings, artist Harriet Yorke manages Calla House: a small community of people from different backgrounds - but good friends who pull together in times of crisis. Like most Londoners contending with the Blitz, Harriet has grown used to withstanding danger, but when she goes on a late-evening stroll with her Cairn Terrier, George, and finds herself face-to-face with a killer, she unleashes a series of events that will put more than just her own life on the line . . .London, 2019. Libby lives amongst her grandmother''s paintings in Calla House - works of art into which Harriet poured all the horror of her wartime experiences, culminating in that one terrifying night.Libby''s Calla House is a comfortable safe haven for her and its other residents - until, that is, a crumbling chimney pot sparks an alert. Libby calls in builders, but as her troubles magnify, she begins to wonder if the ghosts of Harriet''s past aren''t going to bring more than the house down around her ears . . .
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Canongate Books At Any Cost
Book SynopsisGreece is burning . . . and Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis is determined to save his country from disaster in the new novel in Jeffrey Siger''s critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling mystery seriesChief Inspector Kaldis is initially dismayed to be asked to investigate a series of suspicious forest fires that took place last summer. In Greece, forest fires are an inevitability, and he fears he and his team are being set up to take the political blame for this year?s blazes.He quickly becomes suspicious, though, that the forests were torched for profit ? and for a project on a far grander scale than the usual low-level business corruption. There are whispers on the wind that shadowy foreign powers intend to establish a surreptitious mega-internet presence on the island of Syros, with the intent to weaponize the digital world to their own dark ends.Can Kaldis and his team stop the hostile foreign takeover of the idyllic island ? or will the rise of the metaverse set not just Greece, but the whole world, on fire?
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Canongate Books The Loose End
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Dundurn Group Ltd Eves Rib
Book SynopsisTimely and tantalizing, C.S. O'Cinneide masterfully blends domestic suspense with a touch of black magic in this bewitching thriller Erin Ruddy, author of Tell Me My NameAfter losing her young son in a tragic accident, Eve struggles to protect the one child she has left, a teenage daughter who just might be pure evil.The dark side of magic is where the Ragman dwells. Nobody knows that better than Eve. Desperate for a child, she called on that cunning conjurer eighteen years ago. Her daughter, Abbey, was the result.After Abbey's younger brother dies in a fall, Eve fears the worst about her daughter. Five years later, she still battles her guilt and grief over what happened the day she lost her son. Her husband, Richard, doesn't understand. He doesn't know the truth about Abbey; and besides, he has secrets of his own to keep.But when terrible things begin to happen to those who get in Abbey's way, Eve must overcome her own pain and Trade ReviewAn unflinching portrayal of a family torn at the seams. Timely and tantalizing, C.S. O’Cinneide masterfully blends domestic suspense with a touch of black magic in this bewitching thriller about a mother and her bad-seed daughter. Rife with secrets and tension, you’ll be glued until the haunting last page. * Erin Ruddy, author of Tell Me My Name *Full of secrecy and dark magic, C.S. O’Cinneide expertly weaves the differing voices of a grieving family into a story that is both creepy and atmospheric, with an ending that will haunt the reader far beyond the last page. * S.M. Freedman, award-winning author of The Faithful series, The Day She Died, and Blood Atonement *
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