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21) Case sensitive
Author
Series
Cassie Raven volume 3
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2023
Description
'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...
22) Calendar girl
Author
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Pub. Date
2012
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
HQ DIgital
Pub. Date
2021
Description
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...
24) Cold shoulder
Author
Series
Lorraine Page volume 1
Formats
Description
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...
25) The Dark Wives
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope volume 11
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2024
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021
Formats
Description
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?...
Author
Publisher
Killer Reads
Pub. Date
2016
Formats
Description
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...
28) Cold blood
Author
Series
Lorraine Page volume 2
Formats
Description
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...
29) No more heroes
Author
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...
30) Cold heart
Author
Series
Lorraine Page volume 3
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
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...
31) The daughter
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2025
Formats
Description
THE UNMISSABLE, UNRELENTINGLY GRIPPING NEW BOOK FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING MASTER OF THE UP-ALL-NIGHT THRILLER You thought she was safe. You were wrong . . . Lauren can't wait to see her daughter again, to pick her up from university at the end of her first term. But when she arrives at her hall and knocks on the door to her room, a stranger opens it. At first, Lauren thinks she must have the wrong room, or the wrong floor. Maybe even the wrong...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Formats
Description
Everyone has a secret. Who would you trust with yours? On Selena Murphy?s train home from work, a mysterious woman named Martha strikes up a conversation and shares a confession: she?s having an affair with her boss. In turn, Selena shares her own secret: she suspects her husband is sleeping with the nanny. At Selena?s station the two women part, and Selena never expects to see her again. Until she receives a message. I?d love to continue our conversation....
Author
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...
34) Life sentence
Author
Series
Cassie Raven volume 2
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
Description
Camden mortuary technician Cassie Raven returns to solve another ingenious forensic mystery. Perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen and Kathy Reichs. Mortuary technician Cassie Raven believes the last thoughts of the dead linger like static in the air... Cassie has always had a strange affinity with death, ever since her parents were killed in a car crash when she was four. At least that's what she grew up believing... But that was a lie. Cassie's father...
35) Missing pieces
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Formats
Description
Rebekah Murphy knows too much ... She knows she's alone on an abandoned island with a killer on her trail. She knows that to get home, she must live to understand why this is happening. She knows someone tried to kill her for a secret. What she doesn't know is what that secret is. Detective Frank Travis doesn't know enough ... He doesn't know where to find Louise Mason. He doesn't know how and why she vanished into thin air three months ago. He doesn't...
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 3
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Next Chapter
Pub. Date
2021
Description
But despite multiple searches, 23 years have passed without a trace of Becky Ann. When Abigail learns that death row inmate Megan Winnaker is the same age as her daughter, she begins to wonder if the kidnapper had Becky Ann's face surgically altered to prevent identification. Megan Winnaker maintains her innocence, but faces capital punishment if she loses her final appeal. As Abigail launches her own investigation to find out if Megan is truly her...
Author
Publisher
Manilla Press
Pub. Date
2021
Description
The sunniest places hold the darkest secrets . . . A stunning 1950s set debut mystery brimming with atmosphere and perfect for fans of Tangerine, Small Pleasures and Mad Men. Yesterday, I kissed my husband for the last time . . . It's the summer of 1959, and the well-trimmed lawns of Sunnylakes, California, wilt under the sun. At some point during the long, long afternoon, Joyce Haney, wife, mother, vanishes from her home, leaving behind two terrified...
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book
Pub. Date
2020
Description
If you go, there's no coming back. Dr Georgia Healey can't grieve. Her nineteen-year-old daughter went for a walk two years ago and vanished. The police never found Stephanie's body. The case has gone stale, but Georgia can't let it go. She knows Stephanie's out there, somewhere. On the anniversary of Stephanie's disappearance, Georgia's ready to re-interrogate university students, lecturers, Steph's past boyfriends, everyone. She treads the exact...
Author
Series
A Miss Dimont Mystery volume 1
Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Gerald Hennessey - silver screen star and much-loved heart-throb - never quite makes it to Temple Regis, the quaint Devonshire seaside town on the English Riviera. Murdered on the 4.30 from Paddington, the loss of this great man throws Temple Regis? community into disarray.Not least Miss Judy Dimont -corkscrewed hair reporter for the local rag, The Riviera Express. Investigating Gerald?s death, she?s quickly called to the scene of a second murder...
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