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Liz Evans is in top form in these, the first three investigations in the PI Grace Smith mystery series. Featuring a feisty and engaging heroine, and packed with cracking one-liners and unexpected twists, these pacey novels will keep you guessing to the end. Marilyn Monroe has been murdered...Read more
A strong novel about two couples in the process of getting divorced and how divorce is seen in the early 20th century.Read more
The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder -- especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that the...Read more
A bundle of death ...
On the rocks below was an ominous dark bundle ... It was a man of about forty, still breathing, though unconscious.
Bobby stared at the body, the crisp curling chestnut hair, the big nose, the strong jaw, the white teeth just showing through...Read more
What the Butler Saw ... A lonely old man is murdered in a quiet country lane, apparently shot as he was driving home. The only witness to the crime is a pretty young woman with a loaded automatic in her pocket - soon to become the main suspect.
But why, indeed, shoot a butler?...Read more
When Zoë Boehm agrees to track down the gang who knocked over Sweeney’s jewellery shop, she certainly doesn’t expect to wind up in a coffin. But she’s about to become entangled with a strange collection of characters, starting with suicidal Tim Whitby, who’s dedicating what’s left of his...Read more
Before PRIME SUSPECT there was WIDOWS . . . Facing life alone, they turned to crime together. Dolly Rawlins, Linda Pirelli and Shirley Miller are left devastated when their husbands are killed in a security van heist that goes disastrously wrong. When Dolly discovers her husband Harry's...Read more
"An easy day for a lady" is a phrase well known to Nell Bray, a suffragette with a knack for landing in the middle of murder mysteries. The saying, notorious among mountain climbers, denotes something so effortless it's not worth doing. Where Nell is concerned, things are rarely that simple...Read more
Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland widows managed the impossible: a heist their husbands had failed to pull off - at the cost of their lives.
But though they may be in the money, they're far from easy street.
Shocked by her husband's betrayal, Dolly...Read more
This is the story of Harry McKee -- sleazy local chat show host. A once loving husband, he's become a drunken unfaithful slob and even his kids won't speak to him. His wife is divorcing him and taking him to the cleaners. On his last night as a married man he winds up drunk and is beaten up...Read more
When you fall in love you lay yourself open to a whole set of unknowns.
But when the man you fall in love with turns out to be a former member of a loyalist paramilitary gang in Northern Ireland, who turned informer leading to the gang being disbanded and most of his former...Read more
Mystery lovers everywhere are addicted to Donna Leon's ever-honorable Commissario Guido Brunetti and her portrayal of Venice's beautiful but sinister byways and canals. In Willful Behavior, Brunetti is approached for a favor by one of his wife's students. Intelligent and serious ,...Read more
A shocking murder during a concert by the Markshire Orchestra sets a gory musical puzzle for Honorary Treasurer Francis Pettigrew, barrister hero of Cyril Hare's classic detective stories, Tragedy at Law, With a Bare Bodkin and That Yew Tree's Shade.Read more
Kate Forman has an enviable life: a loving family and a perfect husband, Paul. But late one night Paul comes home drunk and covered in blood, mumbling about having killed something - or someone.
When an attractive young woman who works for Paul is found murdered, Kate's...Read more
Denton is having more than its fair share of crime. A serial killer is murdering local prostitutes; a man demolishing his garden shed uncovers a long-buried skeleton; there is an armed robbery at a local minimart and a ram raid at a jewellers.
But Detective Inspector Jack Frost's...Read more
At nine, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland. At 11, she banished an ancient body-stealing evil. At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're 13.
But the Wintersmith isn't exactly a boy. He is winter itself: snow,...Read more
What could be easier than preventing a servant girl from marrying a prince, especially for 3 clever witches? But Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick face more than they bargained for when they journey to the distant city of Genua. For one thing, their power is limited to Mrs....Read more
Rape is a crime that particularly haunts prosecutor Helen West, especially when all the evidence in a recent string of murders points to a police officer who is best friend to her rumpled lover, Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey.Read more
A murder trial takes a diabolical turn when the wife of the accused takes a stand...
A woman's sixth—and a loaded revolver—signal premonitions of doom...
A stranded motorist seeks refuge in a remote mansion, and is greeted with a dire warning...
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In 1879, race walking competitions, known as “wobbles,” were all the rage. The death of a contender, followed by a second murder, introduces Sergeant Cribb, who goes on to investigate sports-related deaths in a series of eight books.Read more
He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujin's young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh...Read more
Anita Margolis has vanished. But with no body and no apparent crime, there's seemingly nothing for Inspector Wexford to investigate.
Anita Margolis has vanished. Dark and exquisite, Anita's character is as mysterious as her disappearance. But with no body and no apparent crime,...Read more
Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist --- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police.
A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But...Read more
They came for me, just like I knew they would. Luke had been dead for just three days.
Rose Wilks' life is shattered when her newborn baby Joel is admitted to intensive care. Emma Hatcher has all that Rose lacks. Beauty. A loving husband. A healthy son. Until tragedy strikes...Read more
In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the...Read more
When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel—owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann—arrives, it’s like the answer to a prayer. Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career, but post-pandemic...Read more
Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is announced that Gerald Arbuthnot has been appointed secretary to the sophisticated, witty Lord...Read more
A rare day off from policing leads DCI Vera Stanhope across the tidal causeway to Holy Island, the lure of crab sandwiches there too hard to resist.
While on the island, she is reminded of the day decades before when, as a teenager, she went with her father Hector on another day...Read more
The charmingly mischievous Felix Freer again teams up with his strong-willed ex-wife Virginia to unravel a mystery surrounding the death of an old man killed by a hit-and-run driver in front of Virginia's houseRead more
"A Woman's Burden: A Novel" by Fergus Hume is a work of fiction likely written in the late 19th century. The novel opens with a dramatic scene on Waterloo Bridge, where various characters are thrust into a dark and gritty narrative marked by themes of poverty, desperation, and crime. The...Read more