Friends of the Dusk

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The discovery of centuries old human bones; a haunted 12th century house; a medieval legend spawning a modern cult… Merrily must piece together a most insidious mystery.’No-one in the business deals …

The Unfortunate Englishman

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A thrilling portrait of 1960s Berlin and Krushchev’s Moscow, centring around the exchange of two spies – a Russian working for the KGB, and an unfortunate Englishman.Having shot someone in the chaos o …

Post Mortem

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Now a major ITV drama, filmed as The Tower. A thrilling and vivid crime novel written by a former detective in the Metropolitan Police’s murder squad. She could not escape the horror of it: falling un …

Favourite Sherlock Holmes Stories

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When this competition was first mooted I went into it in a most light-hearted way, thinking that it would be the easiest thing in the world to pick out the twelve best of the Holmes stories. In practi …

The Collegians

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Young Hardress Cregan is a collegian and a rogue, with a wicked, roving eye. Although he is courting his wealthy cousin Anne, he has also embarked on a passionate love affair with the lowly – but very …

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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In The Murders in the Rue Morgue, all of Paris is in shock following the ghastly murder of two women – but with all witnesses claiming to have heard the suspect speak a different language, the police …

Promises of Blood

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Even the dead like to keep their secrets.When William Gove, a dying millionaire and patriarch of a vast estate in Essex, asks Daniel Connell to execute his will, Daniel has no idea what he’s getting h …

The Polar Bear Killing

From the million-copy bestselling author, perfect forfans of Stieg Larsson, Anne Holt, and The Killing.”Michael Ridpath is on the war path, trouncing the Scandinavians on their home turf. This is inte …

Between Enemies

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November 1917. When Austrian forces advance into Northern Italy, the aristocratic Spada family find their estate requisitioned by enemy soldiers. A cruel act of violence against a group of local villa …

The House of Susan Lulham

The Diocesan Exorcist for Hereford must reveal the haunting presence of Susan Lulham…First rate crime with demons that go bump in the night. – Daily MailThe angular, modernist house was an unexpecte …

Midwinter of the Spirit (TV Tie-in)

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Adapted into a major ITV series based on Phil Rickman’s much-loved character Reverend Merrily Watkins featuring a BAFTA award-winning cast.’They’ll follow you home… breathe down your phone at night. …

Romanzo Criminale

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It is 1977. A new force is terrorising Rome – a mob of reckless, ultraviolent youths known as La Banda della Magliana. As the gang ruthlessly take control of Rome’s heroin trade, they begin an inexora …

Brother's Keeper

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Struck off and hooked on prescription pills, disgraced American surgeon Ryan Burkett flies to the war-torn Middle East to identify his murdered twin’s body. Staring down at the lifeless form in the mo …

Night After Night

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Grimly sinister. Written with blood-curdling aplomb. – Sunday TelegraphLeo Defford doesn’t believe in ghosts. But, as the head of an independent production company, he does believe in high-impact TV. …

The Raven's Eye

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A woman dies in her sleep in a houseboat on the Thames; the apparent cause of death, an unflued gas heater. It all seems straightforward, but DI Kathy Kolla isn’t convinced. Both Kathy and DCI Brock r …

Murder and Mendelssohn

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The twentieth Phryne Fisher murder mysteryAn orchestral conductor has been found dead and Detective Inspector Jack Robinson needs the delightfully incisive and sophisticated Miss Fisher’s assistance t …