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It all begins on a Monday, when four people board an elevator in a Manhattan office tower. Each presses a button for their floor, but the elevator proceeds, non-stop, to the top. Once there, it stops for a few seconds, and then plummets. Right to the bottom of the shaft. It appears to be a horrific, random tragedy. But then, on Tuesday, it happens again, in a different Manhattan skyscraper. And when Wednesday brings yet another high-rise catastrophe,...
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Zaffre
Pub. Date
2016
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Sam Wiseman is back to investigate murder and mystery in Montreal! For fans of Agatha Christie and M.C. Beaton, A Brush With Death is the second book in The Bookshop Mysteries series. When a famous author is murdered, bookshop owner and wannabe sleuth, Sam Wiseman, once again finds himself drawn into the investigation. Reuniting with Detective Gaston Lemieux, it seems that the investigative duo have their work cut out, and as they delve deeper into...
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2020
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The New York Times bestselling author of the Aimě Leduc investigations reimagines history in her masterful, pulse-pounding spy thriller, Three Hours in Paris. Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Fhrer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a...
4) Knife
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Harry Hole volume 12
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Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2019
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Harry Hole Faces a Deadly Foe in the New Thriller From Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Jo Nesbo. 'Nesbo is one of the best thriller writers on the planet' Daily Express Harry hole is about to face his darkest case yet. Harry is in a bad place- Rakel has left him, he's working cold cases and notorious rapist and murderer Svein Finne is back on the streets. The first killer Harry put behind bars is out to get him. Harry is responsible for the many...
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Atlee Pine volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
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Atlee Pine has spent most of her life trying to find out what happened to her six-year-old twin sister, Mercy. She was taken and Atlee was left for dead while their parents were apparently partying downstairs. One person who continues to haunt her is notorious serial killer Daniel James Tor, locked away in a Colorado maximum security prison. Does he really know what happened? The family moved away. The parents divorced. And Atlee chose a career with...
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Picador
Pub. Date
2020
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Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it?s the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: ?Why don?t you swallow broken glass.? Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2019
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William Blake Hazlitt is in hiding on Scotland?s picturesque Isle of Skye, roughing it in a canvas tent and watching tourists from a distance through binoculars. His disappearance has not raised any alarms so far at the university where he works as an administrator. But Caroline Nevis, the young American student he?s been seeing, is growing more concerned about his sudden, mysterious vacation. Now she?s decided to investigate. What Caroline...
8) Judas horse
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DC Jack Warr volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
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Violent burglars have been terrorising residents across the English countryside. But when a mutilated body is discovered in a Cotswolds house, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary group of opportunist thieves. As Detective Jack Warr investigates, he discovers locals with dark secrets, unearths hidden crimes - and hits countless dead ends. With few leads and the violent attacks escalating, he will have to act as audaciously as the criminals if...
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Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021
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You can always go home. But you can never go back . . . Summer 1983: Four-year-old Billy chases a rabbit in the fields behind his house. But when his mother goes to call him in, Billy has disappeared. Never to be seen again. Today: Veronica is a bereavement counsellor. She's never fully come to turns with her mother's suicide after her brother Billy's disappearance. When a young man walks into her group, he looks familiar and talks about the trauma...
10) Dead of winter
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Zaffre
Pub. Date
2022
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It was always going to be a night to remember WINTER 1987 Laura is excited to spend Christmas as usual with her beloved aunt Hedda and her friends. But her festive mood soon turns sour as she finds both old faces and new are keeping secrets from her. When a fire claims the life of her best friend, the beautiful and talented Iben Jensen, the scars of that night will remain with Laura for the rest of her life. TODAY With her aunt's death, Laura inherits...
11) No one home
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David Raker volume 10
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On Halloween night, four households gather for a party in the tiny Yorkshire village of Black Gale. Three hours in, they head outside, onto the darkened moors, to play a drunken game of hide and seek. None of them return. There's no trail, no evidence and no answers. An entire village has just vanished. With the police investigation dead in the water, the families of the disappeared ask missing persons investigator David Raker to find out what happened....
12) Driven to murder
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Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
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A perfect cosy crime for fans of M C Beaton's Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series. Change is coming to Wendlebury Barrow - and not everyone is happy about it? When the local bus company announces it will be stopping its route through their quaint Cotswold village, the people of Wendlebury Barrow are up in arms. Not least Sophie Sayers, whose driving lessons with her boyfriend Hector get off to a bumpy start. But the locals? peaceful protests against...
13) The kingdom
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2020
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When Roy and Carl's parents die suddenly, sixteen-year-old Roy is left as protector to his impulsive younger brother. But when Carl decides to travel the world in search of his fortune, Roy stays behind in their sleepy village, satisfied with his peaceful life as a mechanic. Some years later, Carl returns with his charismatic new wife, Shannon - an architect. They are full of exciting plans to build a spa hotel on their family land. Carl wants not...
14) Deeds of autumn
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Zaffre
Pub. Date
2022
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ONE TRAGIC NIGHT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING SOUTHERN SWEDEN, 1990 Five lifelong friends gather at their secret bathing place for a last farewell to their childhoods and each other. The mood is effervescent, but under the surface tensions run deep as not everyone is ready to let go - or be left behind. Dawn breaks and a body floats in the dark waters of the disused quarry. The police label it a tragic accident, but not everyone is convinced, and the incident...
15) The snow killer
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DI Barton volume 1
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2019
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?Fear the north wind. Because no one will hear you scream?? A family is gunned down in the snow but one of the children survives. Three years on, that child takes revenge and the Snow Killer is born. But then, nothing - no further crimes are committed, and the case goes cold. Fifty years later, has the urge to kill been reawakened? As murder follows murder, the detective team tasked with solving the crimes struggle with the lack of leads. It?s a race...
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Armstrong and Oscar Cozy Mystery volume 5
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Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
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Pre-order the BRAND NEW instalment in bestselling author T. A. Williams' Armstrong and Oscar cozy mystery series! A brand-new cozy crime series set in gorgeous Tuscany...It's murder in paradise! An old friend in need? Despite being retired from the police, Dan Armstrong is always on hand to help with solving a crime. So, when he?s contacted by an old colleague in need of help, Dan readily agrees. The only problem Dan can see is the location - an isolated...
17) No simple death
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Dublin Murder volume 1
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Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2021
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A detective follows a case from Dublin to Cornwall-but the suspect keeps disappearing into the mist... When Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West is called to investigate a murder in a Dublin graveyard, suspicion immediately falls on a local woman, Edel Johnson, whose husband disappeared some months before. But then she vanishes. Evidence leads West to a small village in Cornwall, but when he checks in to an inn, he finds Edel...
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Armstrong and Oscar Cozy Mystery volume 6
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Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
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Pre-order the BRAND NEW instalment in bestselling author T. A. Williams' Armstrong and Oscar cozy mystery series! A brand-new cozy crime series set in gorgeous Tuscany...It's murder in paradise! A secluded villa? When Dan Armstrong is asked to provide security at a private villa on the outskirts of Pisa, he?s pretty sure it will be an easy job. Villa Gregory is remote; the gathered guests are rich - what could possibly go wrong? A glittering gathering......
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Flora Maguire Mysteries volume 2
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Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
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Even the most glamorous stately homes hide secrets and lies from the past... When Flora Maguire receives an alarming telegram informing her of her father?s tragic death in a riding accident, she races back from London to her childhood home. But when Flora and her new husband, Bunny, get to Cleeve Abbey - where she was once Governess to Eddy, Viscount Trent, and her father was butler to Earl Trent - it?s all is not well. Flora?s intention was to bury...
20) Fatal isles
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Doggerland volume 1
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Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021
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In the middle of the North Sea, between the UK and Denmark, lies the beautiful and rugged island nation of Doggerland. DI Karen Eiken Hornby has returned to the main island, Heimo, after many years in London and has worked hard to become one of the few female police officers in Doggerland. So, when she wakes up in a hotel room next to her boss, Jounas Smeed, she knows she's made a big mistake. But things are about to get worse: later that day, Jounas's...