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Agatha Raisin volume 28
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Cotswolds inhabitants are used to bad weather, but the night sky is especially foggy as Rory and Molly Harris, the new vicar and his wife, drive slowly home from a dinner party in their village of Sumpton Harcourt. They struggle to see the road ahead - but then screech to a halt. Right in front of them, aglow in the headlights of their car, a body hangs from a lightning-blasted tree at the edge of town. But it's not suicide; Margaret Darby, an elderly...
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Bantam
Pub. Date
2016
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Includes a special preview of the highly anticipated new mystery from Laurie R. King, The Murder of Mary Russell! Laurie R. King takes readers way back in her bestselling series with this exclusive ebook short story, as Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes embark upon the riskiest adventure of their partnership: their wedding. Though she cannot entirely discount the effects of the head injuries they were both suffering at the time, Mary Russell is delighted...
3) Broken prey
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Lucas Davenport volume 16
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A Lucas Davenport thriller by internationally bestselling novelist John Sandford The first corpse is found on the riverbank. The second in an isolated farmhouse. Both have been savagely beaten, the skin flayed from their bodies, their throats cut. For both victims, there's a DNA match. Charlie Pope, a convicted sex offender, has cut himself free from his court-imposed ankle bracelet and disappeared. Now all Davenport has to do is find him. But something...
4) Storm prey
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Lucas Davenport volume 20
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A Lucas Davenport thriller by internationally bestselling novelist John Sandford When a gang carries out a daring drugs raid on a hospital pharmacy, during which several staff are injured and one medical orderly brutally killed, the Minneapolis police department can only conclude that it must have been an inside job. For Lucas Davenport, this case is about to get personal. Weather Karkinnen, Lucas's surgeon wife, was due to perform a high-profile...
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David Raker volume 4
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It was supposed to be the start of a big night out. But when Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house, she finds the front door unlocked and no one inside. Dinner's cooking, the TV's on, but Carrie, her husband and their two daughters are gone. When the police draw a blank, Emily asks missing persons investigator David Raker to find them. It's clear someone doesn't want the family found, but as he gets closer to the truth, Raker begins to uncover...
6) Silent prey
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Lucas Davenport volume 4
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Simon & Schuster UK
Pub. Date
2019
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A Lucas Davenport thriller by internationally bestselling novelist John Sandford Nestled in a cabin in the woods, Lucas Davenport?s life is free from conflict - and it's making him restless. Until, that is, former flame Lily Rothenbergsummons him to New York to help track down a murderer who has escaped from custody, a murderer Lucas knows only too well: the unhinged serial killer Mike Bekker. Lucas knows he should have killed Bekker when...
7) Certain prey
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Lucas Davenport volume 10
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Simon & Schuster UK
Pub. Date
2019
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A Lucas Davenport thriller by internationally bestselling novelist John Sandford "Don't worry, I'm just a sociopath. Like you. I'm not psychopath or anything." "How do you know I'm not a psychopath?" Attorney Carmel Loan is beautiful, intelligent, ambitious - and used to getting what she wants. When she becomes infatuated with fellow barrister Hale Allen, she isn't going to let a little thing like his being married get in the way. Through the contacts...
8) Phantom prey
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Lucas Davenport volume 18
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Simon & Schuster UK
Pub. Date
2020
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A Lucas Davenport thriller by internationally bestselling novelist John Sandford When a wealthy widow returns to her luxurious home in an exclusive Minneapolis suburb to find blood everywhere and her daughter gone, she instantly suspects the involvement of the weird Goth crowd her daughter was always hanging around with. Then, with no sign of the widow's daughter, dead or alive, a second Goth is found slashed to death. It's only when a third turns...
9) Mortal prey
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Lucas Davenport volume 13
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Simon & Schuster UK
Pub. Date
2020
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A Lucas Davenport thriller by internationally bestselling novelist John Sandford Clara Rinker is a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner. She's also the best hitwoman in the business. Lucas Davenport should know - she almost killed him. Clara is now retired and living in Mexico with her boyfriend, the son of a local drug lord. When a sniper's bullet narrowly misses her and kills her boyfriend, the boy's father vows vengeance, but Rinker knows...
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Very little disturbs the ordered calm of Fethering, a pleasingly self-contained retirement town on England?s southern coast. Which is precisely why Carole Seddon, who has left behind both her husband and her career at the Home Office, has chosen to reside there. So Carole is surprised to encounter a new neighbour with one name and a colourful past. 'Jude' is not really Fethering . . . but even she is not as surprising as the body Carole finds on the...
11) Star struck
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PI Kate Brannigan volume 6
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
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Bodyguarding had never made it to Manchester PI Kate Brannigan?s wish list. But somebody?s got to pay the bills at Brannigan & Co, and if the only earner on offer is playing nursemaid to a paranoid soap star, the fast-talking computer-loving white collar crime expert has to swallow her pride and slip into something more glam than her Thai boxing kit. Then offstage dramas threaten to overshadow the fictional storylines till the unscripted murder of...
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Aberystwyth Noir volume 1
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
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Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town's private investigator, soon realises that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Sospan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help find out what is happening to these boys and whether or not Lovespoon, the Welsh teacher, Grand Wizard of the Druids and controller of the town, is more than just a sinister bully. And just who was Gwenno Guevara?....
13) The bitterroots
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Former sheriff's investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. She's her own boss answering to no one - and that's just the way she likes it after the past few tumultuous years. But it's all going to change when an old friend calls in a favour: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young woman from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out...
14) Case histories
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Jackson Brodie volume 1
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Full of suspense and heartbreak, 'Case Histories' is a feat of bravura storytelling that conveys the mysteries of life, its inanities and its hilarities. Jackson is 45 but feels much older. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life is brought sharply into focus.
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2021
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Award-winning Paul Tremblay?s debut noir novels back in print after a decade, for fans of Raymond Chandler?s The Big Sleep, Raymond Carver and Dashiell Hammett. This omnibus brings Paul Tremblay?s debut novels - classic noirs, The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland - back in to print for the first time in over 10 years. Darkly comedic and carrying all the hallmarks of Tremblay?s later work, they introduce Mark Genevich, a narcoleptic detective...
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It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man?.
17) A wanted man
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Jack Reacher volume 17
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Nebraska - and Jack Reacher, huge, hulking and with a freshly busted nose, is still trying to hitch a ride east to Virginia. He's picked up by three strangers - two men and a woman. Immediately he knows they're all lying about something.
19) Private Moscow
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Private volume 15
Pub. Date
2020
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Karl Parker, a former Marine and noted African-American telecoms magnate, is killed during an attempted kidnapping that goes badly wrong. His wife, Victoria, hires Jack Morgan, an old comrade and friend, to get to the truth. In Moscow, Yana Petrov, an unassuming office worker, is brutally murdered in what looks like a gangland execution. Dinara Orlov, the head of Private Moscow, is made an offer she can't refuse and agrees to investigate Petrov's...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
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A gripping Colter Shaw short story from the master of suspense, with a twist you won?t see coming. A captive held at gun point.In search of a missing woman in Kansas, unique investigator Colter Shaw finds himself in the middle of a violent kidnapping that sends shockwaves through the rural community.An investigator running out of time.Someone has taken a local man captive and barricaded themselves in a lake-side property. The phone line has...