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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 22
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Mma Ramotswe knows she is very lucky indeed. She has a loving family, good friends and a thriving business doing what she enjoys most - helping people. But the latest mystery she is called upon to solve is distinctly trickier than it initially appears, and, of course, there's plenty to handle in her personal life between Charlie and his new bride and Mma Makutsi and her talking shoes. In the end, Mma Ramotswe's patience and common sense will win out,...
23) Calendar girl
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Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Pub. Date
2012
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Stand-up comic Maggie has fallen for "the girl with the Kelly McGillis body", a mysterious woman who can't commit herself. Meanwhile, South London detective Saz is hot on the trail of a woman known only as "September", who commutes between London and New York in a whirlwind of drug smuggling, gambling, and high-class prostitution. A murder brings Saz and Maggie and their respective mysteries together.
24) Cold blood
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Lorraine Page volume 2
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Can she play the game, and win? Suspicion and fear surround the mysterious disappearance of a movie star's daughter. The race to claim the reward for finding Anna Louise Caley - dead or alive - spirals into a deadly voodoo trail in the French quarter of New Orleans. In her desperation to succeed in her first case as a private detective, ex-Lieutenant Lorraine Page is caught in a web of deceit and violence that threatens to drag her back into the murky...
25) Cold shoulder
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Lorraine Page volume 1
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She's lost everything, except her life... Lieutenant Lorraine Page once had everything - a devoted husband, two beautiful daughters and an impressive career with the Homicide Squad. It's impossible to believe that she could be thrown out of the police force and end up on Skid Row. Without Lorraine, her colleagues struggle on, as the hunt for a nightmare serial killer spirals into an all-out search for a missing witness: a victim who escaped. But Lorraine...
26) The Dark Wives
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Vera Stanhope volume 11
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2024
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A LOCAL MYTH. A DEADLY THREAT. Vera Stanhope, star of ITV?s Vera, returns in the eleventh novel in Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller Ann Cleeves? acclaimed series. 'Like Rendell and James before her, like McDermid and Rankin today, Ann Cleeves is one of our secret chroniclers, charting - under cover of a series of expertly plotted and mesmerising crime novels - how we live now' Mick Herron A body is found by an early morning dog walker on the common outside...
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Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021
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The perfect gift for fans of Agatha Christie and classic crime this Christmas. THIS CHRISTMAS IS TO DIE FOR . . . LET THE GAME BEGIN Lily Armitage never intended to return to Endgame House - the grand family home where her mother died twenty-one Christmases ago. Until she receives a letter from her aunt, asking her to return to take part in an annual tradition: the Christmas Game. The challenge? Solve twelve clues, to find twelve keys. The prize?...
28) 8th confession
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Series
Women's murder club volume 8
Pub. Date
2009
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Few people are as interested when a local hero, Bagman Jesus, is found brutally executed. Reporter Cindy Thomas, however, becomes fascinated by his story. He was loved by so many - who would want to kill him? Could the down-and-out Samaritan have been hiding a dark secret? Both Lindsay and Cindy need the help of their fellow members of the Women's Murder Club to crack these complicated cases; but with tensions running high, will the friends be strong...
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Killer Reads
Pub. Date
2016
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On a quiet summer morning, seventeen-year-old American exchange student Quinn Perkins stumbles out of the woods near the small French town of St. Roch. Barefoot, bloodied, and unable to say what has happened to her, Quinn?s appearance creates quite a stir, especially since the Blavettes-the French family with whom she?s been staying-have mysteriously disappeared. Now the media, and everyone in the idyllic village, are wondering if the American girl...
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Corvus
Pub. Date
2020
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I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now I am the woman who is going to catch him... You've just read the opening pages of The Nothing Man, the true crime memoir Eve Black has written about her obsessive search for the man who killed her family nearly two decades ago. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle is reading it too, and with each turn of the page his rage grows. Because Jim was - is - the Nothing Man. The more Jim reads, the more he...
31) Case sensitive
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Cassie Raven volume 3
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2023
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'I LOVE THIS SERIES!' ELLY GRIFFITHS 'TIMELY, GRITTY AND DARK' PAULA HAWKINS When the dead are silent, she will be their voice . . . Goth-girl mortuary technician Cassie Raven has seen thousands of dead bodies but when a drowned man knocks against the hull of her canalboat, it's a bit too close to home. Cassie is grappling with the loss of her 'gift' - her conviction that she could sense the last thoughts of the dead - and at first the mystery man...
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HQ DIgital
Pub. Date
2021
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Books 4-6 in the Ryder and Loveday series from million-copy bestseller Faith Martin in one volume! A Fatal Secret A young boy is found dead at the bottom of a well. It looks like a tragic accident - but Ryder and Loveday suspect otherwise... A Fatal Truth When a garden shed goes up in flames with someone trapped inside, WPC Trudy Loveday and the coroner are sent to investigate... A Fatal Affair Ryder and Loveday must crack the case when a young girl...
33) No more heroes
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Series
Teesside Crime volume 1
Publisher
A. S. French
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Blood Runs Deep in the Northern Streets. Danger Lurks Within and Without. After a year in psychiatric care, Detective Inspector Erasmus Bukowski is finally on the mend. But when a body surfaces on the cliffs of his hometown, he faces an impossible choice: stay safe in recovery or risk his mental health to solve the case? Still haunted by the unsolved disappearance of a young girl, Bukowski knows he can't walk away. Secrecy and lies have poisoned his...
34) Cold heart
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Lorraine Page volume 3
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2019
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Unabridged ed.
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Between grief and guilt lies the truth. Movie mogul Harry Nathan's lonely death in a Beverley Hills swimming pool is the beginning of a trail of lust and conspiracy leading to the darkest corners of the international art world. Private investigator Lorraine Page faces her toughest fight ever as she takes on the case for fading starlet Cindy Nathan, Harry's third wife. Lorraine believes the grieving widow's story. Unlike her ex-colleagues in the police...
35) Evil for evil
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Marjory Fleming volume 7
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Although the apparent victim of a crime of unparalleled brutality, the skeleton seems to belong firmly in the past. Detective Inspector Marjory Fleming, called in to investigate, anticipates a straightforward case unhampered by the pressures of time. But when a modern watch is discovered on the skeleton's wrist, Fleming realises the crime may be far closer to home than she initially assumed. Meanwhile, in the nearby village of Innellan, mysterious...
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Pub. Date
2022
Description
The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen?s - a small private boarding school in deepest Norfolk - is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident. But the local police cannot rule out foul play and the case prompts the return of high-flying Detective Inspector Jazmine ?Jazz? Hunter to the force. Jazz has her own private reasons for stepping away from her police career in London, and reluctantly agrees...
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013
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Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Stuart MacBride. 1993. The Parkside Rapist has been terrorising the women of South London, and Detective Chief Superintendent Charlie Bannan is in need of a secret weapon if he?s going to catch this particular monster. When fresh-faced PC Sean Corrigan is transferred to join the team, Bannan immediately spots his potential. Soon Sean will find himself exploring the scars his own dark past has left...
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Agatha Raisin volume 3
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Agatha goes digging where she shouldn't ... Agatha is taken aback when she finds a new woman ensconced in the affections of her attractive bachelor neighbour, James Lacey. The beautiful Mary Fortune is superior in every way, especially when it comes to gardening - and with Carsely Garden Open Day looming, Agatha feels this deficiency acutely. So when Mary is discovered murdered, buried upside down in a pot, Agatha seizes the moment and immediately...
39) In deep water
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Cat Connolly volume 2
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Good intentions can be deadly ... A missing girl. A case that's personal. A contract killer on Irish soil. Cat Connolly is back at work. Struggling to adjust to physical and mental scars, her workload once again becomes personal when her best friend Sarah Jane goes missing. Sarah Jane's a journalism student, the daughter of a decorated war correspondent, but what could she be working on that could lead to her disappearance? And how deadly will it...
40) Persons unknown
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Appears on list
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Brand new literary thriller from bestselling author of Missing, Presumed Susie Steiner. Manon Bradshaw is back. As dusk falls a young man staggers through a park, far from home, bleeding from a stab wound. He dies where he falls; cradled by a stranger, a woman?s name on his lips in his last seconds of life. DI Manon Bradshaw can?t help taking an interest - these days she only handles cold cases, but the man died just yards from the police station...
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