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Police Procedural

The Killings At Badger's Drift

Badger's Drift is the ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief...Read more

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Killman

The third murder mystery set on the exotic Solomon Islands featuring Sergeant Kella and Sister Conchita. 

Sister Conchita, the young nun with a flair for detection, is immersed in another Solomon Islands investigation when an islander who claims to be a reincarnation of Noah is...Read more

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Kimono For A Corpse

When a businessman is killed by a falling chandelier, and a foreigner is found strangled at a fashion show, the old-fashioned but imperturbable Japanese detective, Superintendent Otani must unravel the mysteryRead more

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A Kind of Dying

Men vanish all the time; often because that's what they've chosen to do. So when he's sent to investigate a disappearance, Inspector Jim Meldrum begins to ask himself why the Chief Constable and so many of his colleagues are taking an interest in what appears to be a routine investigation....Read more

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Kissed a Sad Goodbye

Scotland Yard's Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James face their most haunting case yet when the past devastatingly intersects with the present....
The call from Scotland Yard couldn't have come at a worse time for Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid. He has promised the weekend to...Read more

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Kissing the Gunner's Daughter

The thirteenth of May is famously the unluckiest day of the year. Sergeant Caleb Martin of Kingsmarkham CID had no idea just how terminally unlucky it would prove, as he embarked upon his last day on earth...

Ten months later, Wexford is confronted with a murder scene of horrific...Read more

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Kittyhawk Down

"A missing two-year-old girl, and the body of an unidentified drowning victim have brought Homicide Squad Inspector Hal Challis, of the Peninsula Police Force, to Bushrangers Bay at the Australian seaside not far from Melbourne. All is not idyllic in this resort community; far from it. Cars...Read more

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Knots and Crosses

"And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you ...?"

'That sort of thing' is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. Detective Sergeant John...Read more

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The Labyrinth of Drowning

Two years have passed since top cop Paul Harrigan walked away from the New South Wales Police Force to be his own man.  Since then his life has been a gift, and his home with his partner Agent Grace Riordan and their daughter a sanctuary.

When a trafficked sex worker is found...Read more

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Laidlaw

The unorthodox, complex, sardonically humorous, intriguing policeman Jack Laidlaw makes his debut in an engrossing tale of murder. In Glasgow, the city with the worst slums in Europe, a city of hard men, powerful villains, bitter victims and cynical policemen, Laidlaw uses unconventional...Read more

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The Lake Frome Monster

What is the Lake Frome Monster? Why are the aborigines so terrified of it? and what dreadful part did it really play in the sudden death of a former roving reporter? 

When inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called in, everything goes against him. 

There is even a...Read more

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Land of Shadows

Along the ever-changing border of gentrifying Los Angeles, a seventeen-year-old girl is found dead at a construction site, hanging in the closet of an unfinished condominium.

Homicide detective Elouise “Lou” Norton’s new partner Colin Taggert, fresh from the Colorado Springs...Read more

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Last Bus to Woodstock

Beautiful Sylvia Kaye and another young woman had been seen hitching a ride not long before Sylvia's bludgeoned body is found outside a pub in Woodstock, near Oxford. Morse is sure the other hitchhiker can tell him much of what he needs to know. But his confidence is shaken by the cool...Read more

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The Last Dance

The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham that introduces Detective Miller: a man who's unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated.

Maverick sleuth Declan Miller is back at work following the murder of his...Read more

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Last Ditch

The last ditch hidden behind a hedge, is a sheer drop, murderously deep—especially when someone stretches a wire across to trip a horse.

The last to jump is a young stablehand, who is duly crushed beneath several stone of well-groomed mare.

The last straw for...Read more

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The Last Exile

Trust No One.

After acting on false intelligence, officer Paul Tallis shoots a suspected terrorist in a Birmingham shopping centre.  Suspended from his job, his career is over.Read more

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The Last Man's Head

Detective Alec Probyn has his enemies too. His recent stand on police violence has led to his being suspended from duty.

He has a growing suspicion that a vicious crime is about to be committed. All the more disturbing as the suspect and victim are both members of his own...Read more

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Last Nocturne

What could make a successful, happily married man like Eliot Martagon take a gun and shoot himself? What made Theo Benton, a young artist on the brink of fame, throw himself to his death? As they are both suicides, officially they do not require the attention of a high ranking officer, but...Read more

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Last Seen Alive

It was all of twenty years since Alicia Parnell last saw Sturrenden. While she was still a schoolgirl a jilted boyfriend had killed himself, and her parents had tactfully moved away. Nevertheless the old crowd were delighted to welcome her back when she turned up out of the blue one day-...Read more

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Last Seen Wearing

Valerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector Morse is sure she's dead. But if she is, who forged the letter to her parents saying "I am alright so don't worry"? Never has a woman provided Morse with such a challenge, for each time the...Read more

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The Last Temptation

The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Dr Tony Hill, hero of TV’s Wire in the Blood, written by the award-winning Val McDermid. The hunt for a serial killer leads from Britain through Europe in this terrifying psychological thriller.

A twisted killer targeting...Read more

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The Last Train

THE LAST TRAIN is the gripping new Tokyo-based mystery by multi-award-winning author Michael Pronko

Detective Hiroshi Shimizu investigates white collar crime in Tokyo. He’s lost his girlfriend and still dreams of his time studying in America, but with a stable job, his own...Read more

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The Last Witness

James Machie was a man with a genius for violence, his criminal empire spreading beyond Glasgow into the UK and mainland Europe. Fortunately, James Machie is dead, assassinated in the back of a prison ambulance following his trial and conviction. But now, five years later, he is apparently...Read more

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The Late Monsieur Gallet

In the third Maigret mystery, the circumstances of Monsieur Gallet's death all seem fake: the name he was traveling under, his presumed profession, and, more worryingly, his family's grief. Their haughtiness seems to hide ambiguous feelings about the hapless man. Soon Maigret discovers the...Read more

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The Laughing Policeman

One blustery November evening someone guns down nine occupants of a Stockholm bus, one of them a colleague of Martin Beck. It appeared to be a random killing, but Beck's investigation would lead him to a different conclusion.Read more

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Lazarus

Sometimes the past won't stay buried.

All across Europe, the most ruthless criminals are suffering gruesome deaths. At first, it seems coincidental that their underworld affiliations are finally catching up to them. But when two of the victims are found to have disturbing...Read more

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Lazybones

A MONSTER MURDERED

It's only ten days since Douglas Remfry's release from prison, having served seven years for rape, and now he's dead: naked on a bare mattress in a grubby north London hotel room, his head hooded and his hands tied with a brown leather belt.

A DEADLY...Read more

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Leave the Grave Green

When a body is found floating in a Thames river lock one damp and dreary morning, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are summoned from Scotland Yard to the Chiltern Hills outside London. The dead man is Connor Swann, son-in-law of two of London’s most renowned opera...Read more

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The Leopard

In this electrifying new addition to Jo Nesbø’s internationally acclaimed series, Harry Hole must confront the darkest demons in his city—and in himself.
 
Inspector Harry Hole has retreated to Hong Kong, escaping the trauma of his last case in squalid opium dens, when...Read more

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A Lesson In Dying

Who hanged the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Hallowe'en party? Almost everyone in Heppleburn either hated or feared the viper-tongued Harold Medburn.

Inspector Ramsay is convinced it was the headmaster's enigmatic wife, but Jack Robson, school governor...Read more

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