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Scarlet Stiletto - The First Cut

Scarlet Stiletto The First Cut presents a superb collection of spine-chilling crime fiction stories culled from the annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards hosted by Sisters in Crime Australia.

You'll find the whole gamut from murder and mayhem to police procedurals and crime in verse....Read more

Scarlet Stiletto - The Second Cut

This sequel to the bestselling First Cut features the 1st Prize winners from 2007 - 2010, and a selection of category winners from the 17-year history of the Scarlet Stiletto Awards.

A superb collection of page-turning mysteries in which fabulous female protagonists solve - and...Read more

Scarlet Stiletto: Short Stories 2013

In 1994 Sisters in Crime Australia realised that one of the best ways to uncover, encourage and foster a new generation of women crime writers was to host a writing competition.

The Scarlet Stiletto Awards for women's crime and mystery writing was born.

Little did we...Read more

The Scent of Murder

'If a black dog appears along the old corpse way, the route a funeral procession takes to the churchyard, it is thought to be escorting the dead soul to the afterlife. A black dog sighting without a funeral procession, however, is supposed to foreshadow death.'

For Doctor Dody...Read more

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The Scent of the Night

The number of Inspector Montalbano fans will continue to grow with this ingenious new novel featuring the earthy and urbane Sicilian detective. Half the retirees in Vigáta have invested their savings with a financial wizard who has disappeared, along with their money. As Montalbano...Read more

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The Scholar

When Dr Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit and run outside Galway University late one evening, she calls her partner, Detective Cormac Reilly, bringing him first to the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him.

A security card in the...Read more

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The School Of English Murder

Robert Amiss is in a mess. He’s left the Civil Service, the bank keeps writing him impertinent letters, and he may soon face the indignity of life on the dole. So when his old friends at the Criminal Investigation Division ask for his help, he is hardly in a position to refuse. The...Read more

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The Schoolgirl Strangler

The shocking true story of a serial killer in 1930s Melbourne.

November, 1930. One sunny Saturday afternoon, 12-year-old Mena Griffiths was playing in the park when she was lured away by an unknown man. Hours later, her strangled body was found, mouth gagged and hands crossed...Read more

Scimitar

Agents Ross and Lyle of the Defense Intelligence Agency are given the task of kidnapping a defecting Soviet scientist, despite opposition from the CIA and the KGB, in the midst of key SALT talks on the banning of the neutron bombRead more

The Scorpio Illusion

Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer - one of the best - until the rain-swept night in Amsterdam when his wife was murdered, an innocent victim of the games spies play. Now Hawthorne has been called out of retirement for one last assignment. For he is the only man alive who can...Read more

Scream

In this chilling thriller from the creator of the hit BBC drama Silent Witness DCI Mark Lapslie is singled-out by a twisted killer. Perfect for fans of M.J. Arlidge and Angela Marsons. You will never have felt pain like it in your life. I want you to know ... there's nothing you can do to...Read more

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Scream Black Murder

“I got her to pull the groceries from her shopping bag, there were a lot of things to eat, like bread, cheese and other stuff. So, I told her we would eat first. She was pretty scared and kept asking me not to kill her, that she would do whatever I wanted. I wanted to eat first.”McLaren...Read more

Scream Blue Murder

British detectives DC Jack Rutherford and DS Amanda Lacey revisit cases new and cold.

Two cold cases are about to turn red hot…

Detective Jack Rutherford’s instincts have only sharpened with age. So when a violent road fatality reminds him of a near-identical crime...Read more

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Scrublands

In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners before being shot dead himself. 

A year later, troubled journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend...Read more

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Sea Leopard

The British nuclear submarine HMS Proteus carries the most sophisticated anti-detection equipment in the world, codenamed "Leopard". Her first mission is to chart the new Soviet underwater defence system which poses the most deadly threat to NATO's northern flank.

But Proteus...Read more

A Sea of Troubles

The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the close-knit community of the island, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia. When the boss' secretary...Read more

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The Seals

On a remote Scottish island a fanatical religious sect is striving to build the Eternal City—with damp cement. On to the scene comes Detective-Superintendent James Pribble in response to a curious summons.

For Sir Francis Francis, twice Nobel Prize winner, is seemingly being...Read more

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A Season for Murder

After several years abroad with the British Foreign Service, Meredith Mitchell settles in Pook's Common and soon finds herself solving the riddle of her neighbor's death.Read more

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The Second Angel

July 2069: centennial of the Apollo 11 moon walk. What would Buzz Aldrin see if he were here? On Earth, plagues have destroyed the major food supplies, climatic changes have brought constant winter to the once-industrialized West, and a new and virulent virus--P2--has infected Earth's...Read more

Second Course

Rex Curtis is trying to save his freight company from bankruptcy, and the last thing he needs is a cheeky freelancer stealing his best customers.

Hal Spacejock, cheeky freelancer, is fighting for survival in the cut-throat interstellar cargo business. The last thing he needs is a...Read more

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The Second Grave

Dan Calder is back. Back in his native England once again to help his best friend and ex-partner Nick Hetherington. Nick’s daughter has been arrested in connection with the death of a Nottingham prostitute. Back to face his darkest moment as old acquaintances and old enemies set his...Read more

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The Second Man

The evidence was... damning. John Maudsley had had both motive and opportunity to strangle the elderly, wealthy aunt with whom he'd had a falling out. Around this defense of what seemed like a heartbreakingly hopeless case, Edward Grierson has constructed a novel that is taut, persuasive...Read more

Second Sight

A fugitive in the present. A runaway in the past.

Eliza Carmody returns home to the country to work on the biggest law case of her career. The only problem is this time she’s on the ‘wrong side’ – defending a large corporation against a bushfire class action by...Read more

The Second Stage of Grief

A false accusation. A brutal murder. Can Ngaire find a killer before he finds her?

Ngaire Blakes is trying to put her life back together. The ex-cop resigned from the police after a vicious assault left her battling PTSD. Dragged into a murder investigation, she’s shocked to...Read more

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Second Strike

In the early hours of October 13, 2002, Australian spy Alan McQueen is jolted awake by a phone call and told to immediately head to Bali, where more than 200 people have been killed in a series of bomb blasts. Assigned to keep an eye on the forensics teams working the bomb site, Mac learns...Read more

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The Secret Adversary

The novel that introduced Tommy and Tuppence, a bantering pair of 1920s bright young things who solve a mystery together while falling for each other.

The Great War is over and jobs are scarce. Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley, who were friends before the war, run...Read more

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Secret Asset

When Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle learns from one of her agents that suspicious meetings are taking place at an Islamic bookshop, she trusts her instinct that a terrorist cell is at work. Her boss, Charles Wetherby, immediately puts a surveillance operation into place. An attack seems...Read more

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The Secret Chord

The prophet Natan of THE SECRET CHORD does not train under a master, nor does he serve at temple as a young boy in preparation for a life of service to King David. The war mongering of David as he expands his empire is what awakes the Name, and the Name demands to be heard. Natan is...Read more

The Secret of Father Brown

Father Brown, an unassuming and shabbily dressed priest, possesses an incredible ability to solve crimes and murders. Here he reveals the secret of his success. He discovers the culprit by imagining himself to be inside the mind of the criminal. This fourth collection of Father Brown...Read more

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