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Ex-cop Ted Conkaffey is slowing rebuilding his life in Crimson Lake, and getting to know his three-year-old daughter, Lillian. But when he and his PI partner Amanda take on the case of a boy who seems to have literally disappeared into thin air, his job once again threatens everything...Read more
When Diana Hamlyn's bludgeoned body is found on the playing field at the English school where her husband is deputy headmaster, detecting duo Inspecter Lloyd and Detective Judy Hill find a classroom full of suspects, including her grieving husband, his motley colleagues, and even the vice-...Read more
After gunshots echo through the summer night on Mount Macedon, Detective Sergeant Zoe Mayer and her loyal service dog Harry race to the summit at first light. What they find looks like a grisly an alleged fraudster named Piers Johnson, and his lawyer Antony Peterson, both dead from bullet...Read more
March, 1976. An IRA bombing campaign strikes terror across Britain. Nowhere and no one is safe.
Minutes before a deadly tube station blast, detective constable Jane Tennison spots the bomber. Too traumatised to identify him she is nevertheless a key witness....Read more
During a trip to Vegas, Charlie Howard - mystery writer and professional thief - is nonplussed to find his agent being charmed by a stage illusionist at a roulette table. Making off with a pile of the conjurer's casino chips would be adequate compensation, but matters are complicated when...Read more
Police corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy and the mystery of a little girl's silence - three unconnected things that will prove to be linked by one small town.
While Detective Cormac Reilly faces enemies at work and trouble in his personal life, Garda Peter...Read more
Erica Jewell can't worry about hunky hired gun, Jack Jones, and his commitment-phobic ways. She's flat out managing Dega Oil's sponsorship of the Australian Open tennis, and doing a pretty good job of it. That is until a devastating oil rig explosion sends Dega's reputation and share price...Read more
Sheer chance put Oxford don Patrick Grant on the Acropolis in Greece when the first victim, elderly Miss Amelia Brinton, suffered a fatal fall. Curiosity, however, sent him to the English village of Meldsmead to visit the charming 17th-century cottage Miss Amelia had left to her niece....Read more
Keeping on top of the family funeral directors' and private-investigation businesses is no easy task for the Skelf women, and when matriarch Dorothy discovers a human foot while walking the dog, a perplexing case presents itself … with potentially deadly results.
Daughter Jenny...Read more
The APA is on the offensive. First, a loudmouth redneck talkback radio broadcaster, Fred 'the Freckle' Freckleton, is forced to walk the plank from the 15th floor of a building. Then, a crusading journalist gets his neck wrung and a diehard monarchist MP is slowly cooked while his minder is...Read more
A young man is found hanging by a rope in his Edinburgh home. A simple, sad suicide, yet Detective Inspector Tony McLean is puzzled by the curious suicide note. A second hanged man and another strange note hint at a sinister pattern.
Investigating a brutal prostitution and human...Read more
When someone hangs a meddlesome ex-schoolteacher of an English coastal village and arranges her corpse in a macabre display, Inspector Kenworthy concocts an elaborate scheme to solve the near-perfect crimeRead more
AMSTERDAM NOIR IN THREE, ICE-COLD INSTALLMENTS ...
Maverick cop Henk van der Pol is thinking about retirement when he finds a woman's body in Amsterdam Harbour. His detective instincts take over, even though it's not his case. But his bigger challenge is deciding who his friends...Read more
The irascible Harry Curry and beauteous Arabella Engineer are back in a new suite of legal misadventures and relationship jousts.
In this final instalment of Stuart Littlemore’s incisive crime collection, Harry and Arabella get down and domestic dealing with a baby on the way and...Read more
A boy arrives - breathless and aghast - at his police station, to report the discovery of a horribly maimed body outside an isolated house in the woods. Yet there was another person in the woods that day - standing nearby, hidden within the trees, was the mysterious figure of the local...Read more
As Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón investigates a faceless, mutilated corpse, the beautiful city of Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. The discovery of a mosque in the basement of a devastated apartment building confirms everybody’s terrorist fears. Panic sweeps the city and the region...Read more
A hot summer on the Northumberland coast and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers.
This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope intrigued. But then another body is discovered...Read more
Timothy Blake has nothing to lose. He's headed to an isolated house in rural Texas with a hammer in his pocket and murder on his mind. His target is Fred, the ringleader of a criminal empire on the dark web. Once Fred is gone, Blake can disappear for good.
But it turns out that...Read more
Murder. Arson. Revenge.
Detective Inspector West investigates the grisly deaths of two elderly priests: one in a suspicious fire; the other obviously murdered.
The inspector is not the only one hunting the priest killer.
If you like murder mixed...Read more
When DS Theo Fleming is called back from leave to attend a crime scene, he has reservations. The victim is a geologist who had been researching long-disused copper mines on land whose title is disputed by local Māori. Given the complexity of tribal politics and distrust of the police, Theo'...Read more
Jay McCaulay was the only witness to a slick and professional assassination. She saw ex-soldier Sol Neill stabbed to death by a small blonde woman, so when a friend of Sol's - Max Blake - is arrested for Sol's murder, she knows she can't stand back and say nothing.
Determined to...Read more
The year is 2082. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime – descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster – sixteen-year-old Boo Ashworth and her uncle risk everything to save what's left of human knowledge, hiding the...Read more
The gripping sight of four burly policeman manhandling a bath down the front path of a respectable villa isn’t one the residents of Flaxborough see every day.
Net curtains twitch furiously, and neighbours have observations to make to Chief Inspector Purbright ...Read more
Powerful Prince Llewelyn still treasures his vision of a Wales united against the threat of the English kings. The dream seems near fulfilment until Edward, vigorous, ambitious, and arrogant, takes old Henry's place on the English throne—and more than his share of power. Trouble also looms...Read more
Old Ned Jones chokes on his food - or so his shocked family assume when they find him dead. Detective Inspector McKenna, his day soured by the loss of a promotion, is only interested in the extraordinary house of women Ned inhabited. But McKenna's colleague at the lab believes Ned was...Read more
The third novel in the acclaimed Factory crime series sees Derek Raymond’s nameless detective leave London for a remote village, where he’s meant to be investigating the disappearance of a local doctor’s wife. A fitting successor to classic noir writers such as Jim Thompson and David Goodis...Read more
They kill wild animals for sport. She’s about to return the favour…
Philippa is fed up with the big-game hunter posts clogging up her newsfeed. The passionate veterinarian can no longer sit back and do nothing when hunters brag about the exotic animals they’ve murdered and the...Read more
In the autumn of 2016 a wave of suicides swept through Stockholm’s underworld…
Investigative journalist Tommy T’s star has faded since he was a fixture on Sweden’s talk-show circuit. His deep dive into the mysterious suicides—and the role of the elusive ‘X’ who seems to...Read more
A blend of science fiction and stylish mystery noir featuring a robot detective: the newest stand-alone installment in the Ray Electromatic mystery series
Another Hollywood night, another job for electric-detective-turned-robotic-hitman Raymond Electromatic. The target is a...Read more
A child-murderer escapes from a Swiss insane asylum. The stakes get higher when Detective Sergeant Studer discovers the director’s body, neck broken, in the boiler room of the madhouse. The intuitive Studer is drawn into the workings of an institution that darkly mirrors the world outside....Read more