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1) The guilty
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Will Robie volume 4
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When Special Agent Will Robie gets the call to make his first visit home since he was a teenager, it's because his father, the local judge, has been arrested for murdering a man who came before him in court.
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From humble origins as a Cumbrian woodcutter?s son, he has risen to become a hugely successful entrepreneur, happily married to the girl of his dreams. A knock on the door one morning ends it all. Universally reviled, thrown into prison while protesting his innocence, abandoned by friends and family, Wolf retreats into silence. Seven years later prison psychiatrist Alva Ozigbo makes the breakthrough. Wolf begins to talk and under her guidance gets...
3) Rip tide
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Liz Carlyle volume 6
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When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames House. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how and why a young British Muslim could go and end up onboard a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean. Originally published:
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Returning home after lunch one day, Hercule Poirot finds an angry woman waiting outside his front door. She demands to know why Poirot has sent her a letter accusing her of the murder of Barnabas Pandy, a man she has neither heard of nor ever met.Poirot has also never heard of a Barnabas Pandy, and has accused nobody of murder. Shaken, he goes inside, only to find that he has a visitor waiting for him - a man who also claims also to have received...
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Aloysius Archer volume 1
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
2019
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For all those who love mystery, crime, Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie from one of the world's bestselling thriller writers, David Baldacci. In 1949, Aloysius Archer arrives in the dusty Southern town of Poca City. He has nothing but a handful of dollars, the clothes he?s wearing and an appointment with his new parole officer. After his wartime experiences in Italy and a prison sentence for a crime he didn?t commit, Archer is looking for a fresh...
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Katie Maguire volume 9
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Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2018
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ONLY SILENCE CAN KEEP YOU SAFE. Sergeant Kieran O'Regan was responsible for hunting down killers. Now he's become one of the dead: his decapitated body has been found in a graveyard, a tin whistle stuffed into his throat. O'Regan was due to give evidence at a trial for police corruption. His gruesome murder sends a clear message to whistleblowers: only silence is safe. DCI Katie Maguire is determined to uncover the truth. But corruption in the Garda...
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2014
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From locked-room mysteries to murders disguised as suicide, Inspector Zhang is able to draw on his experience as a detective along with tricks he has learned from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. See if you can solve the crimes before the inspector the clues are there!.
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Pub. Date
2019
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Tensions in the community are mounting following the gruesome deaths of two men, both of whom were accused yet acquitted of the murder of an undercover police officer. It looks like vigilante justice, but who is responsible? Alarmingly, suspicion falls on Assistant Chief Constable Iles. Matters escalate when a TV show investigating the murders is aired, further implicating Iles. Iles seems at ease with the accusations, as are his superiors in the...
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Ben Hope volume 29
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HarperNorth
Pub. Date
2024
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An unmissable new thriller from the master of the genre Scott Mariani?s pulse-pounding thrillers mix action, adventure, conspiracy and ancient secrets with modern mysteries and cutting edge tech - and at the heart of it all: a hero you?ll never forget. To his many thousands of fans, ex-SAS officer Ben Hope stands tall as a warrior, a protector of the innocent, a defender of those in need, relentless in his pursuit of those who exploit others or prey...
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EVERYONE?S INVITED.EVERYONE?S A SUSPECT. In a remote hunting lodge, deep in the Scottish wilderness, old friends gather for New Year.The beautiful oneThe golden coupleThe volatile oneThe new parentsThe quiet oneThe city boyThe outsiderThe victim.Not an accident - a murder among friends.?A ripping, riveting murder mystery? A. J. Finn?Very gripping? Sophie Hannah?Full of surprises? Simon Kernick?Chilling, you won?t sleep? Adele Parks?The Secret History...
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Head of Zeus
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What would you do for the perfect life? Would you lie? Cheat? Or... kill? Cecilia Wilborg has the perfect life. A handsome husband, two beautiful daughters and a luxurious home in the picture-postcard town of Sandefjord. She's the type of woman people envy, and she wants to keep it that way. But then Tobias enters her life. He's a gentle, lonely eight-year-old boy. But he threatens to bring Cecilia's world crashing down.
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2023
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**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW** From the Sunday Times bestselling author 'TIS THE SEASON TO BE WARY 'The perfect novella. . . I was not prepared for the shocking revelation.' 5* reader review 'All the Christmas cheer & nostalgia wrapped in a gothic murder mystery. I loved it!' 5* reader review 'Filled with lots of twists. . . the perfect one sitting read.' 5* reader review 'A perfect small jewel of a story.' 5* reader review 'I GASPED at several of...
13) Copycat
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Pub. Date
2017
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Your stalker is everywhere Your stalker knows everything Your stalker is?you Which Sarah Havenant is you? When an old friend gets in touch, Sarah Havenant discovers that there are two Facebook profiles in her name. One is hers. The other, she has never seen. But everything in it is accurate. Photos of her friends, her husband, her kids. Photos from the day before. Photos of her new kitchen. Photos taken inside her house.And this is just the beginning....
14) The librarian
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Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
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Since that fateful night I have always kept myself to myself. Reserved. Private. Alone. Some people think I am too quiet. That life is passing me by. But I know there is safety in my own company. That no one can hurt me if I don?t let them get too close. Until the day I meet him. A handsome, charming stranger. A chance for me to take a risk?finally? Or a man who threatens everything I?ve worked so hard for? You?ll be sorry? And that?s when my whole...
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Zaffre
Pub. Date
2019
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You always know who you're meeting online . . . don't you? Four women decide to explore online dating, downloading an app that promises they will swipe their way to love and happiness. But not everyone is who they seem online. Hidden behind a perfect smile and charming humour, one man appears to be the perfect date. But the night he has planned is unlike any other. The clock is ticking, and for one woman, this date might just be her last . . .
16) Marked for death
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Dempsey/Devlin volume 2
Pub. Date
2019
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When London?s legal establishment is shaken to its foundation by the grisly crucifixion of a retired Lord Chief Justice, Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy is tasked with finding his killer. With fifty years of potential enemies to choose from, only the identical murder of former solicitor Adam Blunt offers a ray of hope: what is it that connects these victims who met such a gruesome end? Assigned to the story from the start, news reporter Sarah...
17) The other woman
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Gabriel Allon volume 18
Pub. Date
2018
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She was his best-kept secret ? In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child taken from her in treason?s name. The woman is the keeper of the Kremlin?s most closely guarded secret. Long ago, the KGB inserted a mole into the heart of the West - a mole who stands on the doorstep of ultimate power.Only one man...
18) The guilty dead
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Monkeewrench volume 9
Pub. Date
2018
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Guilty Dead by P. J. Tracy, read by Sarah Borges. Gregory Norwood, wealthy businessman and close friend of Minnesota's leading candidate for Governor, is found dead on the first anniversary of his son's drug overdose. It seems clear to Detectives Gino and Magozzi that grief drove him to suicide. Until they realize that this left-handed man seems to have used his right hand to pull the trigger. And they...
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2018
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One moment, Dahlia is a successful Harvard student; the next, she wakes up from a party, the victim of a brutal assault. Her life veers into a tailspin, and what's worse - her memory of the attack has been ripped away, leaving a cold rage in its wayke. Now, years later, Dahlia is a tattooed paralegal suffering from PTSD and still haunted by that night. Until one day, a video surfaces online, and Dahlia sees her attack for the first time. Now she knows...
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No Exit Press
Pub. Date
2017
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In the depths of a Norwegian winter Vilhelm Thygesen discovers a frozen young woman in his garden. She has been stabbed to death. A well-known left-wing lawyer and no friend of the police, Thygesen is now sixty-three, given to wearing designer clothes and taking life easy. Stribolt and Vaage, the police officers assigned to the case, assume the victim was a drug courier from Eastern Europe. Shortly afterwards a young motorcyclist belonging to a biker...
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