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2) A known evil
Author
Series
Publisher
Killer Reads
Pub. Date
2018
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A gripping debut crime novel and the first in a groundbreaking series, from a new star in British crime fiction. Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin.A city on lockdown. In the depths of a freakish winter, Rome is being torn apart by a serial killer dubbed The Carpenter intent on spreading fear and violence. Soon another woman is murdered - hammered to death and left with a cryptic message nailed to her chest. A detective in danger.Maverick Detective Inspectors...
3) Dark corners
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Pub. Date
2015
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When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begin with subterfuge, extend to lies and culminate in murder. In Rendell's dark and atmospheric tale of psychological suspense, we encounter mistaken identity, kidnap, blackmail and a cast of
Author
Pub. Date
2019
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Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation officer, dealing with some of Glasgow?s worst cases and her job is on the line. Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and he?s published a series of letters to the dead woman, in a book that makes him an unlikely hero - and a poster boy for men?s rights activists. Liam is released on licence into Mary?s care, but things are far from simple. Mary develops a poisonous obsession with Liam and...
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Pub. Date
2019
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A shocking discovery. An island wrapped in secrets. A tiny island community is stunned by the discovery of a long-buried body. For Stella Harvey the news is doubly shocking. The body has been found in the garden of her childhood home - the home her family fled without explanation 25 years ago. Now, questioning her past and desperate to unearth the truth, Stella returns to the isolated island. But she quickly finds that the community she left isn?t...
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Pub. Date
2020
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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 realises how dangerously close Eve is getting to the truth. He knows she won't give up until...
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Series
The Olympia Brown Mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Mainly Murder Press
Pub. Date
2013
Description
No. 1 in the Olympia Brown Mysteries: When professor and college chaplain Olympia Brown discovers that one of her freshmen is being recruited by a shadowy religious cult, she and a priest colleague join forces to infiltrate the group and rescue the girl before she becomes another victim of their deadly mission. A menacing tangle of religious hypocrisy and the dark side of human nature reveals itself as Olympia and Jim risk their lives to uncover murder,...
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Series
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Jason Bourne is on the run. His old friend, General Boris Karpov, is dead. But Karpov, once head of the feared FSB, lives on in the cyber weapon he devised before his death, capable of penetrating the heart of America's final defense: nuclear launch codes. Both the NSA and Meme LLC, a black off-site cyber opertion, believe Bourne has taken over the enterprise, and a kill team is sent to terminate him for committing treason against the US. Flushed...
9) Overkill
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jeremy Estrada killed another boy after a fight over a girl: shot him point-blank between the eyes. No one disputes those facts. This kid is jammed up big-time, but almost unable to help himself. He's got the face of an angel but can hardly string together three words to explain what happened that day?yet he's determined to go to trial. All they've got is a "yesbut" defense, as in: "Did you kill him?" "Yes, but?" Jaywalker is accustomed...
10) A touch of death
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Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A few months? back, her lover embezzled $120,000 from a bank, but disappeared before she could get her hands on the cash. The police think he?s fled the state, but Diana is sure he?s dead, and knows who killed him: his wife, Madelon Butler, a sadistic drunk who is capable of anything. The cash is inside Madelon?s house, waiting to be stolen a third time, and all Diana needs is a patsy. Scarborough fits the bill.�The plan sails along smoothly until...
11) Death wish
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2012
Description
When his wife and daughter are attacked in their home, Paul Benjamin is enjoying a three-martini lunch. A professional man, soft around the middle, Paul lives happily isolated from the rougher side of New York City. As he nurses his gin headache, a call comes from his son-in-law asking him to come to the hospital. In a few hours, his world will collapse around him.�As Paul slurped down his lunchtime gin, drug addicts broke into his cozy Upper West...
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
It?s the swinging 60s, Sydney. Post-war Australia is booming and the excitement of the city lures two young women, Rose and Margot, eager for adventure in these rapidly changing times. At a coffee bar in cosmopolitan Kings Cross, they encounter two debonair Europeans, Stefan and Josef, former Polish army officers seeking to rebuild their lives. Yet romance between Rose and Stefan is thwarted by lingering wartime trauma. And Margot, well, she has no...
13) 1st case
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Pub. Date
2020
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A young tech genius is offered the opportunity of a lifetime ? One that could end hers. When Angela Hoot is kicked off her graduate programme at MIT for hacking into the computer of a fellow student, she fears she?s blown her chances of a glittering career. Angela is wrong: instead, she?s offered a dream internship with the FBI. She jumps at the chance and is thrown straight into her first case at a house in the Boston suburbs where a family of five...
14) The watcher
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Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2016
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She?s watching you, but who?s watching her? Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolition. A keen birdwatcher, she can?t help spying on her neighbours. Until one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly neighbour Jean is found dead. Lily, intrigued by the social divide in her local area as it becomes increasingly gentrified, knows that she...
15) Settled blood
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DCI Kate Daniels volume 2
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When a young girl is found dead at the base of Hadrian?s Wall, it?s not long before Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels realises her death was no ordinary homicide. She was thrown from a great height and was probably alive before she hit the ground. Then a local businessmen reports his daughter missing. Has Daniels found the identity of her victim, or is a killer playing a sickening game? As the murder investigation team delve deeper into the case,...
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Nick Buckley was an unusual name for a pretty young woman. But then she had led an unusual life. First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder missed her by inches. Later, an oil painting fell and almost crushed her in bed. Upon discovering a bullet-hole in Nick?s sun hat, Hercule Poirot decides the girl needs his protection. At the same time, he begins to unravel the mystery of...
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Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"A timeless delight. The more murder mysteries you have read, the likelier you will relish this one." - Toronto Globe and Mail "This book might well have been titled THE LAST MYSTERY, since it is most definitely the mystery to end all mysteries." -from the Introduction by L.A. Morse, Edgar award-winning author of THE OLD DICK Violet Cornichon, the Society-Girl Detective, is on-hand, and it is up to her to gather all the clues and point them toward...
18) Fifteen Seconds
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Fifteen seconds can tear a life apart. . OUT OF Town. Dr Henry Steadman has it all: a booming business, a daughter he loves, and plenty of time to enjoy life. But while visiting upstate Florida, a police-stop ends in the shooting of a local cop - with Henry as the prime suspect. OUT OF LUCK. Framed for a second murder, this time of a close friend, Henry goes on the run. His only lifeline is state-trooper Carrie Holmes, no stranger to tragedy herself,...
19) The shadow
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Norah has just moved from Berlin to Vienna in order to leave her old life behind her for good when a homeless woman spits these words at her. Norah is unnerved: many years earlier, something terrible happened to her on February 11. She shrugs this off as a mere coincidence, however, until shortly afterwards she meets a man called Arthur Grimm. Soon Norah begins to have a dreadful suspicion: does she have a good reason to take revenge on Grimm? What...
20) Win
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Pub. Date
2021
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Over 20 years ago, heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery at her family?s estate. Patricia escaped, but so did her captors, and the stolen items were never recovered. Until now. On New York?s Upper West Side, a recluse is found murdered in his apartment alongside two objects of note: a Vermeer painting and a leather suitcase bearing the initials WHL3. Windsor Horne Lockwood III - or Win as his friends call him - doesn?t know how his...
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