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Police Procedural

Rather Be the Devil

The death of Maria Turquand had all the ingredients that would have appealed to the salacious public forty years ago; a beautiful woman, gangsters, drugs and rock stars.  Not everyone from those glory days has moved on from Edinburgh and it pleases retired detective John Rebus that this is...Read more

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Ratking

Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful Perugian industrialist. But nobody much wants Zen to succeed: not the local authorities, who view him as an interloper, and certainly not Miletti's children, who seem content...Read more

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The Raven's Eye

It's one of Brock and Kolla's bloodiest investigations. On the trail of a brutal killer with a meat cleaver and a grudge they're also watching their backs as new technologies threaten their jobs. A throat-stopping, heart-thumping mystery from one of Australia's most acclaimed crime writers...Read more

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Recalled to Life

Dragged from a steam ship during a case, Sergeant Frank Hardy awakes in an underground prison with no idea where he is or how he got there. As he searches his memory for clues, his partner and his fiancee search for him. The answer is buried in the past and he will have to to dig it up...Read more

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Recalled to Life

It was a crime of passion in one of England's great houses, an open-and-shut case. But thirty years later, when the convicted nanny is freed, then spirited off to America before she can talk, Yorkshire's Superintendent Dalziel retums to the scene of the crime with Inspector Pascoe,...Read more

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The Reckoning

When the system fails, justice must take another form.

When two convicted rapists walk free on appeal, the town of Deception Bay splits down the middle. The men swagger onto a packed cricket ground on Australia Day to a hero’s welcome. Before lunch is over,...Read more

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Recognition Factor

Australian undercover agent Denise Cleever is the only member of the worldwide intelligence community who has seen the never-photographed international terrorist Red Wolf face-to-face . . . and lived. Now the fear is that Red Wolf is in the United States to coordinate a series of terrorist...Read more

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The Red Dahlia

Detective Anna Travis is working on a murder case that has created a media frenzy. The victim, Louise Pennel, a 24-year-old girl, was last seen in a London night club. Her body was found dumped by the River Thames. Anna must summon all her strength and guile to hunt down this sadistic...Read more

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Red Dirt Road

One outback town. Two puzzling murders. Fifty suspects.

In Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pub town deep in the outback, two men are savagely murdered a month apart - their bodies elaborately arranged like angels.

With no witnesses, no obvious motives and no apparent...Read more

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Red Lake

Sergeant Harper Quinn has returned to her sleepy hometown of Koorinda in search of a quieter life. Until she learns that the town's once glittering waterpark is being reopened, on the shores of its famous Red the place that her little brother vanished into thin air 30 years ago....Read more

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The Redbreast

1942:  Daniel, a soldier legendary among the Norwegians fighting at the Eastern front, is killed.  Eighteen months later in a Vienna hospital, a wounded soldier becomes involved with a young nurse.  The consequences will ripple forward to the end of the century....Read more

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The Redeemer

A fantastically gripping thriller from the best-selling author of The Snowman.

Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at...Read more

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Redemption

Two boys, brothers, wake tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. Their kidnapper has gone, but soon he will return. Their bonds are inescapable. But there is a bottle and tar to seal it. Paper and a splinter for writing; blood for ink. A message begging for help.

In Copenhagen'...Read more

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The Redline

An open road. A dead cop. A killer in the hills …

I flicked on the torch, swept the surrounds. Nothing. Then I directed the beam into the trees on the other side of the road.

Up on a high, jutting branch, something moved. It may have...Read more

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The Relentless Tide

When Professor Francombe and her team of archaeologists find the remains of three women on a remote Kintyre hillside – a site rumoured to have been the base of Viking warlord Somerled – their delight soon turns to horror when they realise the women tragically met their end little more than...Read more

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The Remorseful Day

‘Where does this all leave us, sir?’
‘Things are moving fast.’
‘We’re getting near the end, you mean?’
‘We were always near the end.’
The murder of Yvonne Harrison had left Thames Valley CID baffled. A year after the dreadful crime they are still no...Read more

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A Restless Evil

It sends a shiver down Detective Superintendent Alan Markby's spine when he hears that a rambler has stumbled on human bones in Stovey Woods in the heart of the Cotswolds.

Twenty-two years ago, as a fresh-faced young inspector, he had a rare failure in the hunt for a brutal...Read more

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Resurrection Men

Rebus is off the case - literally. A few days into a murder inquiry following the brutal death of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus blows up at DCS Gill Templer. He is sent to the Scottish Police College for 'retraining' - in other words, he's in the Last Chance Saloon. Rebus is given an old,...Read more

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Retribution

What was Lucy hiding? Why has she no family or friends? As the number of suspects mounts up, Archie begins to conclude that the real answer lies in Lucy’s dark and mysterious past, and that the murderer may be just a little too close for comfort....Read more

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The Return

Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is forced to unlock the secrets of a nearly perfect murder in this taut psychological thriller.

On a rainy April day, a body—or what is left of it—is found by a young girl. Wrapped in a blanket with no hands, feet, or head, it signals the work of a...Read more

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Riccardino

‘Contrary to what you think, I’m carrying out this investigation as best I can. But let’s do this: if I get stuck, if I find I can’t go forward or back, then I’ll let you know, and you can step in. And offer me a way out. You’ve gained a bit of detective work through me, haven’t you? What...Read more

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The Richmond Conspiracy

Victor Radcliffe, prominent Melbourne businessman, on the committee of the Carlton Football Club, lies murdered in a deserted warehouse—the bayonet wound suggests a trained killer, but Police Inspector James Maclaine, and his smart-taking sidekick Harry Devlin, are having trouble tracking...Read more

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The Riddle of the Third Mile

By the 16th of July the Master of Lonsdale was concerned, but not yet worried.

Dr Browne-Smith had passed through the porter's lodge at approximately 8.15 a.m. on the morning of Friday, 11th July. And nobody had heard from him since.

Plenty of time to disappear,...Read more

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The Ride

When justice and family loyalties collide, how far will we go to protect the ones we love?

On a blustery Melbourne night, Detective Jonathon Carver gets a call. Fourteen-year-old Summer King didn’t come home.

When Summer’s body washes up on the...Read more

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The Ringmaster

Death is stalking the southern South Island. And what role does the visiting Darling Brothers Circus have to play?

Sam Shephard is on the bottom rung of detective training in Dunedin, and her boss makes sure she knows it. She gets involved in her first homicide investigation...Read more

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Rip Off

It's November 2007. There's sewage in the big lake at the heart of the soulless city, Canberra, the TABs have been emptied by a deadly horse virus and the longest Federal election campaign of all time still has a fortnight to run.

One-time star detective Brad Chen seems...Read more

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River of Darkness

In a quiet and picturesque English countryside where people are still recuperating from the ravages of World War I, the peace of a small Surrey village is shattered by the discovery of a horrifying murder. Five victims; four of them killed with military efficiency and, judging from the...Read more

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River of Shadows

In a bleak valley in Northern Italy, the River Po is swollen to its limits. The thick fog that usually clings to the town, blurring its surroundings and plunging its inhabitants into near-blindness, has been driven out by the raging storm. So when an empty barge drifts downriver, the fact...Read more

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The Riverman

The River Clyde has collected its share of bodies through Glasgow's long history, and all have been retrieved by the riverman.  

This winter a local accountancy firm loses one of their own to the river's fierce currents following an office promotion and bon voyage party held...Read more

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