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81) The bookseller
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2025
Description
A woman with a dark past... Helen Appleby just wants a quiet life. Recently released from prison for the manslaughter of her partner, she's trying to forget her past mistakes - all of them - to rebuild her life and move on. When she decides to open a bookshop, she?s certain this is the perfect new start. Here, amongst the quiet shelves of her shop and between the covers of her books, she can hide away from the real world and begin again. The world...
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Series
Lindsay Gordon volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Description
First in the popular series featuring Lindsay Gordon, a self-proclaimed ?cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist' with a penchant for hanging around police interrogation rooms under suspicion of some crime or other. Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is strapped for cash. Why else would she agree to cover a fund-raising gala at a girls' public school? But when the star attraction is found garrotted with her own cello string minutes before she...
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2012
Description
?Roseanna?: On a July afternoon, the body of a young woman is dredged from a lake in southern Sweden. Raped and murdered, she is naked, unmarked and carries no sign of her identity. As Detective Inspector Martin Beck slowly begins to make the connections that will bring her identity to light, he uncovers a series of crimes further reaching than he ever would have imagined and a killer far more dangerous. How much will Beck be prepared to risk to catch...
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Series
Tennison volume 10
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2024
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Description
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...
85) The rift
Author
Publisher
Canelo Crime
Pub. Date
2021
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Description
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...
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Series
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...
87) No sorrow to die
Author
Series
An Alice Rice Mystery volume 4
Description
?Red herrings, lies and cul-d-sacs interlink to create an enjoyable read and an awkward puzzle to solve? - The Dorothy L Sayers Society ?[Galbraith] offers a much needed female perspective on the city and the genre? - Scottish Field As Heather Brodie kisses her lover goodnight, her disabled husband lies dead, his throat cut from ear to ear.Who wanted Gavin Brodie dead? Many people, including Gavin himself. Devastated by an incurable illness, he had...
Author
Series
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 17
Pub. Date
2016
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Description
For years Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi - co-directors of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - have been helping people with the problems in their lives, but their partnership is tested by a curious case: a client who wants to rediscover the life she lost when she left Botswana 30 years ago. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi soon find that the quest for the truth takes them in very different directions. They are each convinced that they are on the right...
89) Fear No Evil
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Series
Alex Cross volume 29
Pub. Date
2021
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Description
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.
90) Accused
Author
Series
Trial and Retribution volume 3
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2024
Description
THE ACCLAIMED LEGAL THRILLER FROM THE QUEEN OF CRIME DRAMA Young Cassie Booth goes missing on her paper round. Then her bloodstained jacket is found in a boathouse belonging to Karl Wilding - but there is little evidence against him. Meanwhile, a routine visit by Detective Inspector Pat North to appease persistent complainer Stephen Warrington soon spirals into something far more sinister. As his behaviour becomes increasingly obsessive, North suspects...
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Series
A Cass Raines Mystery volume 2
Publisher
Canelo
Pub. Date
2021
Description
When Cass Raines, the former Chicago cop turned private investigator, looks into a suspicious death she makes some powerful enemies... Being a PI can be slow work, sitting around in cars on a stakeout, or serving summonses. But once in a while, it leads straight to danger. When Cass hears about the death of Tim Ayers, she agrees to look into the circumstances. A choice she may come to regret. Ayers was from a wealthy Chicago family, and was found...
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Series
A Cass Raines Mystery volume 3
Publisher
Canelo
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Cass Raines knows the streets of Chicago all too well as a cop turned private investigator. A new case gives a glimpse into how the other half lives - and how they die? Wealth. Power. Celebrity. Vonda Allen?s glossy magazine has taken the Windy City by storm, and she?s well on her way to building a one-woman media empire. Everybody adores her. Except the people who work for her. And the person who?s sending her flowers with death threats. Vonda has...
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Series
Bad Girls Detective Agency volume 1
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
It is 5:30 am on Clio's forty-fifth birthday and her hated ex is lying dead on her doorstep. Even worse, this is no accident. Someone's killed him... When single mum Clio's ex Gary turns up dead on the doorstep of her caravan - the one she's been forced to live in ever since he stole every penny she had - there's only one suspect. Her. What's more, she doesn't remember much about the night he was killed - not just because of the forgetfulness that's...
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Series
Bad Girls Detective Agency volume 2
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
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Description
They DID promise her a killer hen weekend... Jeanie?s getting married, and - despite her completely impossible four sisters - her best friends Clio and Amber are determined to give her a bachelorette weekend to remember. They?re in matching pink T-shirts and the drinks are flowing... But the night turns out to be unforgettable for all the wrong reasons when a girl turns up dead on the dancefloor. And - even though she?s a stranger - she is wearing...
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Series
Thursday Murder Club volume 4
Description
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,...
96) The Jealousy Man
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Meet a Greek detective who has become an expert on jealousy thanks to some hard-earned lessons from his private life. Far away, in another country, a taxi driver finds his wife?s earring in a car belonging to his boss and sets out to discover how it ended up there. High in the skies above, a woman is on board a plane heading to London, about to end her own life in the wake of her husband?s affair with her best friend. But who is the man sitting next...
97) Shattered
Author
Series
Michael Bennett volume 14
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
After returning from his honeymoon, Detective Michael Bennett is greeted with the shocking news that FBI agent Emily Parker is missing. Determined to track down his former partner, Bennett follows Emily?s investigation into an anarchist group that led her between Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC. Lurid rumours begin to surface about Emily?s disappearance, but Bennett will never give up hope of finding her. After everything they?ve been through...
98) Union Jack
Author
Series
Lindsay Gordon volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Fourth in the series featuring investigative journalist Lindsay Gordon. When union leader Tom Jack falls to his death from her bedroom window after a spectacularly public row with Lindsay, it seems the only way to prove her innocence is to find the real culprit. Leaving her new home in California for a trade union conference in Sheffield, Lindsay Gordon finds herself in the company of old friends - and enemies, including Tom Jack. When this unethical...
99) The affair
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
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Description
Her heart is thumping now, only just distinguishable from the roar of the water and the wind. This is not safe. She is not safe? She realises then, only one of them is coming back out alive. She?s the person I want to be. Sorcha Hannon, survivor of a devastating affair. She?s found the healing and hope I desperately need to find for myself. And now that Sorcha and I are friends, I am no longer alone. Instead of days hiding away from the world, I have...
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Series
Village Detectives volume 2
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
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Description
The brand new instalment in the Village Detectives Cozy Mystery Series from Fiona Walker We regret to announce the tragic death of Phoebe Fredericks? When crime novelist Phoebe opens the post and receives an invitation to her own funeral, she?s horrified. Not least because the date of her death is marked as tomorrow. Deciding it?s nothing more than a prank from an enemy from her past, she determines to put it to the back of her mind. But the next...
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