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81) Fear No Evil
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Alex Cross volume 29
Pub. Date
2021
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Dr Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson venture into the rugged Montana wilderness - where they will be the prey. They?re not on the job, but on a personal mission. Until they?re attacked by two rival teams of assassins, controlled by the same mastermind who has stalked Alex and his family for years. Darkness falls. The river churns into rapids. Shots ring out through the forest. No backup. No way out. Fear no evil.
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Agatha Raisin volume 1
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Revenge is a dish best served warm... High-flying public relations supremo Agatha Raisin has decided to take early retirement. She's off to make a new life in a picture-perfect Cotswold village. To make friends, she enters the local quiche-making competition - and to make quite sure of first prize she secretly pays a visit to a London deli. Alas, the competition judge succumbs after tasting her perfect quiche, and Agatha is revealed as a cheat and...
83) Unholy murder
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Tennison volume 7
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021
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JUST PRAY YOU'RE NOT NEXT . . . The page-turning new Detective Jane Tennison thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante - now available to pre-order in hardback, eBook and audiobook. A coffin is dug up by builders in the grounds of an historic convent - inside is the body of a young nun. In a city as old as London, the discovery is hardly surprising. But when scratch marks are found on the inside of the coffin lid, Detective Jane Tennison...
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Thursday Murder Club volume 4
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You'd think you would be allowed to relax over Christmas, but not in the world of the Thursday Murder Club. On Boxing Day, a dangerous package is smuggled across the English coast. When it goes missing, chaos is unleashed. The body count starts to rise - including someone close to the Thursday Murder Club - as our gang face an impossible search and their most deadly opponents yet. With the clock ticking down and a killer heading to Cooper's Chase,...
85) Bloodstone
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Brother Athelstan volume 11
Pub. Date
2012
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An intriguing new Brother Athelstan historical mystery - December, 1380. When the corpse of Sir Robert Kilverby is discovered in a locked room, Brother Athelstan accompanies the King?s coroner to investigate. For Sir Robert had in his possession a priceless relic, a sacred bloodstone, which has now disappeared. Did Sir Robert die of natural causes or was he murdered? Athelstan is sceptical of rumours of a curse hanging over Sir Robert, but when it...
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Tennison volume 10
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2024
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IT ENDS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN . . . THE FINAL DETECTIVE JANE TENNISON THRILLER - AND THE PREQUEL TO TV HIT PRIME SUSPECT - FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING CRIME FICTION ICON, LYNDA LA PLANTE. Now available to pre-order in hardback, eBook and audiobook. DETECTIVE JANE TENNISON'S POLICE CAREER HANGS IN THE BALANCE: A SINGLE STEP FROM GLORY - OR RUIN. While she has elbowed her way into an elite team investigating non-domestic murders, there is nothing elite...
87) I, Anna
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Serpent's Tail
Pub. Date
2012
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Fifty, middle class and respectable, Anna lives with her teenage daughter in a small New York apartment. Trying to meet people after her divorce, she begins attending singles nights, which is how she finds herself late at night, in a strange man's apartment. What happens next is a blank, but it's only the beginning of her nightmare. Bernie, a police detective dazed by his own rocky marriage, is distracted from his duties at the scene of a brutal murder...
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Agatha Raisin volume 6
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2016
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Unabridged ed.
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Cold-blooded murder heats up Agatha's summer holiday ... In this sixth entertaining outing Agatha leaves the sleepy Cotswold village of Carsely to pursue love - and finds a murderer. Spurned at the altar, she follows her fleeing fianc� James Lacey to Cyprus, where, instead of enjoying the honeymoon they'd planned, they witness the killing of an obnoxious tourist in a disco. Intrigue and a string of murders surround the unlikely couple, in a plot...
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Manilla Press
Pub. Date
2022
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'Thrilling, haunting and darkly beautiful. This Wild, Wild Country enchants as mysteries deepen and secrets echo over the harsh realities of the American Dream' Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of We Begin at the End Three women. An isolated town. A decades-old mystery. They hate me down there, in Boldville. I can read it in their eyes, smell it on their noxious breaths. That dreaded little town hates everything about me: not just my personality...
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HQ DIgital
Pub. Date
2021
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The first three books in the Ryder and Loveday series from million-copy bestseller Faith Martin in one volume!A Fatal ObsessionRyder and Loveday investigate the mysterious death of a young woman, whilst a series of poison pen letters confound the police.A Fatal MistakeA student vanishes during a boat trip with friends, and Ryder and Loveday suspect a cover-up?A Fatal FlawAs a beauty contest gets underway, backstage dark secrets and murderous plans...
91) The confession
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Embla Books
Pub. Date
2023
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'Had me gripped... Fantastic crazy twists and turns which had me up late in the night reading. Could not put it down' Reader review 5 stars They said they killed her. But they didn't - you did. I should never have gone to her house. But I was desperate to ask her some questions about that night. About what she saw when Joe fell from the bridge. All I wanted was some honesty, for someone else to have seen what I saw. I never meant to hurt her. To push...
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Embla Books
Pub. Date
2024
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The phone starts vibrating in my hand. It's my father. He never calls. Pulse racing, I sit up in bed and answer. 'Caitlin,' he says. 'You need to come to the house. Right now. It's Olivia. She's back.' On the night when Caitlin and Olivia's parents leave them to go to a dinner party both girls are full of excitement about finally being old enough to stay home alone. What they don't see is the figure watching them through the open window. Who, after...
93) The lodger
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Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2022
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The brilliant new psychological thriller from bestseller Valerie Keogh. 'A wonderful book, I can?t rate this one highly enough. If only there were ten stars, it?s that good. Valerie Keogh is a master story-teller, and this is a masterful performance.' Bestselling author Anita Waller. She?s in your home? Leigh Simon can?t say for sure what made her do it. A moment of madness, perhaps, but when the young, loud and gorgeous waitress at her favorite coffee...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2001
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Seventy-eight-year-old Mary Oliver begins to clean out the garage after her husband's death. As she sorts through piles of junk with her daughter, she discovers a stack of old letters, neatly tied with a ribbon. The letters rekindle memories of her first love, the man she always presumed had died in Europe during World War II. As the story unfolds, Mary discovers that this man she loved so long ago is still alive. The narrative interweaves the present...
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Meet Cathy Connolly. Cop, kickboxing champion and soon-to-be single mother ? Detective Garda Cathy Connolly?s life has taken an unexpected turn. Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, Cathy?s struggling with how she?s going to balance motherhood with the very real dangers of life on the job. Called to what seems like a routine break-in, Cathy discovers a baby?s bones concealed in the hem of an old wedding dress. When the dress?s original owner, Lavinia...
96) Skies of ash
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2015
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Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise ?Lou? Norton arrives at the scene of a tragic house fire, to find the bodies of a mother and two children. Left behind is grieving husband Christopher Chatman. Unless, of course, he's the one who killed them. Or was the fire sparked by a serial arsonist known as The Burning Man? Searching for justice through the ashes of a picture-perfect family, Lou doesn't know if she will catch an arsonist or be burned ......
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An Alice Rice Mystery volume 1
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Birlinn
Pub. Date
2011
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This thrilling police-procedural debut from crime writer Gillian Galbraith introduces readers to Alice Rice, Edinburgh?s latest fictional detective and a new female presence in the macho world of crime detection. Galbraith draws on her own experience to give a realistic portrayal of the medical and legal worlds. Smart and capable, but battling disillusionment and loneliness, Alice races against time and an implacable killer to solve a series of grisly...
98) The rift
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Canelo Crime
Pub. Date
2021
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She's determined to save a stolen son. But will that mean justice? As a high-ranking woman in the Royal Military Police, Major Helen Scott gets the job done - no matter the task. So when she is pulled in to lead a NATO summit security team in Paris, it barely causes a ripple. Yet within hours she's dispatched to Lyon on a new mission. One with a complex problem at its heart. Kahlil Dalmani and Fawaz bin Nabil were close in childhood, growing up in...
99) The Sanatorium
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Detective Elin Warner volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
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An imposing, isolated hotel - high up in the Swiss Alps - is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But she's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when she receives an invitation out of the blue to celebrate her estranged brother's recent engagement she has no choice but to accept. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge. Though it's beautiful, something about the hotel, recently converted from an abandoned...
100) The quiet wife
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Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2025
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The BRAND NEW, chilling and unputdownable psychological thriller from bestseller Diane Saxon I want to be ordinary. To fade into the shadows where no one notices me and live a quiet life. A normal life. But I am not ordinary. Not anymore. I?ve been keeping a secret. From my colleagues, my friends and most importantly, my husband - who knows nothing of my past life. Twenty years ago, at college, a boy became obsessed with me. Craig Lane believed he...
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