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The Corset
Laura Purcell
Dorothea uses her charitable visits to Oakgate prison to explore her belief in phrenology, but when she meets teenage seamstress Ruth, who claims the murders she is accused of had a supernatural dimension, Dorothea begins to question her own sense of what is rational.

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Rather Be the Devil
Ian Rankin
Drawn out of retirement, Rebus is haunted by the murder of a young woman forty years ago. In Edinburgh, rivalry in the criminal world results in a vicious attack on newcomer Darryl Christie, and rumours of crime boss Big Ger Cafferty’s return.

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Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes
Ed. George Mann
This second collection edited by George Mann includes new stories about major and minor characters from the Sherlock Holmes canon, including Mrs Hudson’s first case. Each new mystery, written in classic style, begins with a reminder of their original roles. Slightly off-mint.

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The Mitford Scandal
Jessica Fellowes
Based on the real-life Mitford sisters, this murder mystery takes newly married Diana to Paris with her husband Bryan, maid Louisa, and assorted friends. When one of their party is found dead, Diana begins to wonder if they have a murderer in their midst.

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The Death Knock
Elodie Harper
When Norfolk journalist Frankie Latch starts reporting a local serial killer’s crimes and a seemingly related kidnap, she is threatened by a misogynistic blogger. Faced with a potentially deadly dilemma, she must decide whether to continue her investigation into the murders.

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Condor
James Grady
The two Condor stories included here, the source for the major television series, are a post-9/11 reimagining of Grady’s classic Cold War novel, Six Days of the Condor, with assassins, conspiracies, spies and revolution haunting the secretive corridors of Washington DC.

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And So It Begins
Rachel Abbott
Lying barely alive on a blood-soaked bed next to her dead lover Mark, Evie confesses to killing him – but did she? Sergeant Stephanie King must untangle their complex backstory and discover who, if anyone, is telling the unvarnished truth.

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Nothing to Hide
James Oswald
Returning to her London flat while suspended from duty, DC Constance Fairchild stumbles across a mutilated young man who is barely alive. She undertakes an investigation into what is apparently the latest in a string of ritualistic attacks.

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The Orpheus Trail
Maureen Duffy
When strange historical artefacts are discovered alongside the bodies of murdered boys, the investigating detective enlists the local museum curator to help link the ancient symbolism to the modern crimes, before another life is lost. Slightly off-mint.

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A Patient Fury
Sarah Ward
In the third DC Childs novel, Connie is called to a fire-wrecked property in the Derbyshire Peak District. Three bodies from one family are discovered, which points her colleagues to an obvious suspect, but she uncovers a more complex mystery.

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Hush Hush
Laura Lippman
Having been found not guilty of infanticide by reason of insanity, Melisandre Dawes fled the country, leaving her surviving daughters with their father. Twelve years later, back in Baltimore under the reluctant protection of private detective Tess Monaghan, she becomes prime suspect in a murder enquiry.

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The Storm Without
Tony Black
After a harrowing case that cost him his job in the police, Doug Michie returns to his home town of Ayr to take stock but is soon drawn into a private murder investigation and uncovers a network of corruption.

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Careless Love
Peter Robinson
DCI Banks and his team investigate two suspicious deaths on their North Yorkshire patch: an apparent suicide in an abandoned car which the deceased couldn’t possibly have driven, and a 60-something man dead in a gully, dressed far too formally for an innocent country ramble.

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Cold Killers
Lee Weeks
When East End gangster Eddie Butcher is murdered, DI Carter and DS Willis monitor his funeral in case his violent brother Tony attends. But as the Butchers’ enemies surround him, Carter must confront his own personal connection to the family.

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The Absolution
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Shortly after a Snapchat video shows a terrified teenager pleading for forgiveness, her body is discovered. In this thriller from an Icelandic crime writer, Detective Huldar and psychologist Freya must stop a serial killer’s campaign of revenge on cyber bullies.

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The Accident
Chris Pavone
With the publication of the explosive biography of a media business tycoon at stake, this thriller follows literary agent Isabel Reed, CIA Station chief Hayden Gray and book editor Jeffrey Fielder through 24 crucial hours as the politically connected magnate tries to suppress its release.

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Angel Killer
A Jessica Blackwood Thriller
Andrew Mayne
Hired by the FBI because of her specialist knowledge of stage magic, Jessica Blackwood investigates a serial killer who uses illusionist’s tricks to add drama and misdirection to his crimes. Slightly off-mint.

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Apostle Lodge
Paul Mendelson
With a serial killer apparently on the loose, Colonel Vaughn de Vries looks into a gruesome murder in a designer mansion. Meanwhile, anti-terrorist police are investigating a van bombing, which leads to heightened political tensions in the heat of Cape Town.

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Bad Blood
Brian McGilloway
DS Lucy Black investigates the brutal murder of a young gay man: the case becomes more complex with the involvement of a hate-speech preacher and racist attacks on local minority groups. This densely plotted crime novel explores social tensions and conflicts in Northern Ireland.

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Blood Runs Cold
Alex Barclay
After FBI officer Jean Transom is found dead on a frozen slope in Colorado, Special Agent Ren Bryce is called to investigate, but Ren has secrets that could jeopardize the operation, and ruin her career.

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The Bone Readers
Jacob Ross
Jacob Ross’s award-winning novel is set on a small Caribbean island. Michael ‘Digger’ Digson, a young man with a natural talent for forensics, is recruited into DS Chilman’s rogue police department, but has his own cold case to pursue: the unsolved murder of his mother.

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Breaking Cover
Stella Rimington
Following a particularly gruelling assignment, Liz Carlyle is posted to MI5’s counter-intelligence desk, but any calm is short-lived: she is soon engaged in the hunt for a Russian spy who threatens to plunge Britain back into a Cold War.

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The Brewer of Preston
Andrea Camilleri;Trans. Stephen Sartarelli
From the creator of Inspector Montalbano, this comic novel is set in 1870s Sicily, shortly after its unification with Italy. The new prefect attempts to impose his authority on the unruly locals, who are determined to sabotage the opera he is producing for their theatre.

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Bright Young Dead
The Mitford Murders
Jessica Fellowes
As the cult of the 1920's rabble-rousing hedonists the Bright Young Things encroaches on the world of the Mitford sisters, their chaperone Louisa finds herself at the heart of a gripping murder mystery.

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Broken Promise
Linwood Barclay
David Harwood moved back to his small-town childhood home; but when he visits his cousin Marla and a new baby that she claims is her own, Marla’s bizarre story reveals dark currents below the surface calm of Promise Falls.

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Burial of Ghosts
Ann Cleeves
After a brief holiday romance with a fellow tourist in Morocco, a solicitor’s letter comes as a shock to Lizzie Bartholomew: Philip, her holiday lover, has died and left her £15,000 – with strange conditions attached.

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Buried
Graham Masterton
A murdered family, hidden under the floorboards of an Irish mill worker's cottage in 1921, is the starting point for DS Katie Maguire's investigation in this thriller, which also sees her attempting to pin down a well-known local villain. Slightly off-mint.

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Cast Iron
Peter May
In 1989, Lucie Martin was killed and her body dumped in a lake in western France. When her bones are exposed by drought 14 years later, forensics expert Enzo Macleod re-opens a stone-cold, seemingly unsolvable case.

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The Circle of Sappho
A Regency Detective Mystery
David Lassman;Terence James
A teacher and pupil are found dead at an exclusive girls’ school in Bath. Jack Swann must discover whether their deaths are a tragic accident, a suicide pact, or murder – but unseen forces are tracking his every move.

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Coffin Road
Peter May
In this many-layered mystery, George Gunn investigates a murder at a remote lighthouse in the north Atlantic; mystery surrounds the suicide of a scientist two years previously; and a man is washed ashore on Harris with no memory, just a map of the island and Coffin Road.

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Cold Earth
Ann Cleeves
After a torrential rainstorm triggers a landslide in Shetland, a woman’s body is found in the rubble of a ruined croft. When it emerges that she was dead before the storm, DI Jimmy Perez becomes obsessed with finding out who she was and how she died.

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The Colorado Kid
Stephen King
A man is found dead on an island off the coast of Maine. Two newspapermen and a forensics student investigate, only to find themselves baffled by an ever-more puzzling mystery. This edition of Stephen King’s classic thriller features new artwork throughout. Slightly off-mint.

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The Confession
John Grisham
Following a Texas cheerleader’s murder, an innocent man was sent to death row. Now the real murderer is dying and sets out to convince the disbelieving authorities that they made a mistake.

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A Crown of Lights
Phil Rickman
Sent to a village on the Welsh border to make peace between the local fundamentalist priest and a pagan couple who have bought a ruined church nearby, Merrily uncovers the sinister dynamics of Old Hindwell.

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The Dark
Valentina Giambanco
The second adventure for Seattle detective Alice Madison picks up a 20-year-old abduction and murder investigation. When fresh evidence in the case emerges, new crimes are committed that point to someone attempting to suppress the facts. Slightly off-mint.

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Dark Pines
Will Dean
Deep in the forest, two hunters are found dead, their eyes missing. This could be the story that gets Tuve Moodyson noticed by the big city newspapers; or it might be the story that makes her the next victim.

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A Deadly Thaw
Sarah Ward
The murder of a man who was supposed to have already been killed by his wife, Lena, twelve years previously begins the investigation for DI Francis Sadler in this fast-paced thriller. When Lena goes missing, her sister Kat follows the trail.

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The Death Box
Lorna Nicholl Morgan
On a summer night in Conduit Street, London, a woman approaches Joe Trayne and asks him for help with a dead man. She leads him to her flat, then disappears – leaving Joe with a body in a box. First published in 1946.

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Death Comes to Pemberley
PD James
A much-acclaimed sequel to Pride and Prejudice, PD James’s bestselling thriller is set in 1803, six years after Darcy and Elizabeth’s marriage. Their orderly world at Pemberley is shattered when Elizabeth’s sister, Lydia Wickham, arrives in distress, screaming that her husband has been murdered.

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Death Descends On Saturn Villa
M.R.C. Kasasian
While Sidney Grice, a Personal Detective in 1880s London, is away, his goddaughter March Middleton accepts an invitation from a long-lost uncle to visit Saturn Villa and then – apparently – murders him. Grice must return to Gower Street, rescue March and unravel the baffling mystery.

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Death is a Welcome Guest
Louise Welsh
Set in the present day, the second volume in Welsh’s Plague Times trilogy focuses on London-based comic Marcus McFall. Desperate to find sanctuary from the pandemic known as 'The Sweats', he sets off for his family's remote Scottish island.

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Death is Not Enough
Karen Rose
This sixth book in the Baltimore series revisits club manager Gwyn Weaver and defence attorney Thomas Thorne. When he is found unconscious with a naked, dead woman next to him, Gwyn rallies his friends in their campaign to unravel the truth and clear his name.

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Déjà Dead
Kathy Reichs
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is introduced in a thriller which sees her using her autopsy of a badly decomposed body to persuade her sceptical boss that a serial killer has been at work in Quebec.

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The Detective's Secret
Lesley Thomson
When a man dies under a late-night train, Stella Darnell suspects murder. With her friend Jack Harmon, whose home in an old water tower offers revealing views across London, she begins to investigate, stirring up questions nobody wants answered.

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Devices and Desires
P D James
Commander Adam Dalgliesh’s only reason for visiting a remote coastal village in Norfolk is to tie up his late aunt’s estate. A sinister figure known as the Whistler is terrorising the local community, and Dalgliesh finds himself drawn into its dark secrets.

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Don't Let Go
Michel Bussi;Trans. Sam Taylor
‘I’m just going up to the room for a second’; with that, Liane Bellion leaves her husband by the pool, goes to her room in the luxury hotel on Réunion and vanishes. When Monsieur Bellion and his daughter flee the hotel, police begin a frantic manhunt across the island.

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The Drowned Boy
Karin Fossum
This complex thriller opens with the death of 16-month-old Tommy Brandt, drowned in a pond behind his home. The boy’s mother is hysterical, his father distraught, but something doesn’t feel right and Sejer is called in to investigate a deeply troubling case.

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Entry Island
Peter May
When troubled, insomniac detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on a remote island, he has an uncanny feeling that he has met the victim’s wife before, and finds himself dreaming of a distant Scottish past.

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Essex Poison
The County Guides
Ian Sansom
In the fourth volume of The County Guides series of whodunnits set in 1930s England, Swanton Morley once again finds himself investigating a suspicious death when the Mayor of Colchester dies while visiting the local Oyster Festival.

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Fatal Crossing
Lone Theils;Trans. Charlotte Barslund
Found in a second-hand suitcase, an old Polaroid of two Danish girls standing on the England ferry intrigues the London-based journalist Nora Sand. Lisbeth and Lulu went missing 20 years ago; revisiting the mystery of their disappearance draws Nora into the hunt for a serial killer. Translated from the Danish by Charlotte Barslund. Off-mint.

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The Final Silence
Stuart Neville
This thriller opens with Rea Carlisle’s discovery of some macabre evidence incriminating her recently deceased uncle. The need for discretion forces her to engage an old flame, the disgraced detective Jack Lennon, to investigate.

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The Firemaker
Peter May
The grotesquely burned corpse found in a Beijing park is the first case for detective Li Yan and the forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. A day-trip to Shenzhen in 1983 fired Peter May’s interest in China. His ambition was to write the first crime thriller set in Beijing, and after years of research and travel, The Firemaker was published in 1999.

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Ford County
John Grisham
Hapless blood donors, gamblers, hustlers, a death row inmate and a down-trodden divorce lawyer – the people and crimes of Ford County, Mississippi are the subjects of these seven page-turners from one of America’s greatest storytellers.

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The Fourth Sacrifice
Peter May
Peter May’s second China thriller finds the American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell once more helping Detective Li Yan, this time investigating a series of four horrific ritual executions in Beijing, with an American diplomat among the victims.

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Freeze Frame
Peter May
Macleod travels to a crime scene on Île de Groix off the Brittany coast and despite hostility from the island community, he tries to honour a promise he made to a dead man 20 years previously – to investigate his murder.

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Glass Houses
Louise Penny
In this 13th case for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Quebec police department, a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines village, causing unease among the inhabitants. When the figure disappears, Gamache’s worst fears are realized: a dead body is discovered.

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Hellfire
Karin Fossum
Sejer is investigating the murders of Bonnie Hayden and her young son, both found dead in an old, abandoned caravan. But what is Bonnie’s connection with Thomasine, her 21-year-old son Eddie and his obsession with the father who left them?

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Her Every Fear
Peter Swanson
Traumatized following a brutal attack by her ex-boyfriend, Kate Priddy surprises everyone, herself included, when she impulsively accepts an apartment swap offer from her cousin and moves from London to Boston. When she arrives to find her stateside neighbour has been murdered, she needs to work out who, if anyone, she can trust.

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The Hermit
Thomas Rydahl
On the island of Fuerteventura, a car is found abandoned on a beach, with the body of a small child in a cardboard box on the back seat. Local police are baffled, but an unlikely detective, Erhard, old, drunk and in self-imposed exile, takes on the case and reveals a dangerous web of deceit behind a gruesome killing. Translated from the Danish by KE Semmel.

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How the Dead Speak
Val McDermid
As DI Carol Jordan and psychologist Tony Hill navigate the catastrophic fallout from their last case, a macabre discovery in the grounds of an old convent triggers a murder investigation that straddles past and present.

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I Can See in the Dark
Karin Fossum
When police suddenly enter his home and start questioning Riktor, the disturbing narrator of this psychological thriller, the realization dawns on him that they are investigating something that has nothing to do with his real and far more despicable crime.

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I'll Keep You Safe
Peter May
Lovers and business partners in a small tweed company on Harris, Niamh and Ruairidh are in Paris promoting their fabrics when Ruairidh is killed in a car bomb explosion. Back on Harris, Niamh begins to worry that it was a personal rather than a terrorist attack.

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I, Witness
Niki Mackay
After six years in prison for murdering her best friend, Kate Reynolds returns to her home town, unable to move on until she proves her innocence. For help, she turns to Madison Attallee, a private investigator now, but six years ago, the first police detective on the murder scene.

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In Dust and Ashes
A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel
Anne Holt
In the series’ finale, Detective Henrik Holme investigates a father questionably convicted of killing his wife and child. Working together, he and Hanne Wilhelmsen discover connections between the case, an eccentric blogger’s suicide, and a EuroJackpot millionaire’s grandson’s kidnap. Off-mint.

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In the Darkness
Karin Fossum
When Eva’s seven-year-old daughter saw a body in the river, Eva went to phone the police, but phoned her father instead and didn’t mention the dead man. Her strange reaction compounds the mystery facing Inspector Sejer as he investigates the man’s murder.

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The Infinite Blacktop
A Novel
Sara Gran
Driven off the road and left for dead, private detective Clara DeWitt knows someone from her past is trying to kill her. Making a break for it before the police arrive on the scene, she embarks upon an odyssey around Las Vegas and LA in search of the truth.

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The Inglorious Dead
Tony Black
Private detective Doug Michie’s background in the RUC comes in handy in this thriller when a murder takes place amid sectarian tensions during the Orange Order marching season in the West of Scotland.

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The Intrusions
Stav Sherez
This third outing for detectives Carrigan and Miller finds them investigating the abduction and murder of a woman in Bayswater, setting them on the trail of a killer who uses the internet to stalk and intimidate his victims before striking.

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Killing for England
Iain McDowall
Jacobson and Kerr investigate a double murder: a young black man whose drowning was written off as suicide, and his cousin, a journalist who had claimed it was a racist killing, possibly with far right involvement.

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The Killing II
David Hewson
When a body is found in a military graveyard, Lennart Brix, Copenhagen’s Head of Homicide, knows that only one person can solve the case: the disgraced detective Sarah Lund. Based on the award-winning TV series.

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The Lamp of the Wicked
Phil Rickman
Merrily, in Underhowle to conduct a funeral, intervenes when the village is suspected of being the home of a psychotic serial killer, and an ambitious DI links the village deaths to the sickening crimes of Fred West.

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Let Me Lie
Clare Mackintosh
In a chilling, twisting psychological thriller, Anna starts to question the circumstances of her parents’ deaths – two shocking suicides, just months apart – but sometimes it’s best to let things lie. By digging up the past, Anna endangers her future.

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The Liar's Girl
Catherine R Howard
Will Hurley, Dublin’s ‘Canal Killer’, is ten years into his prison sentence when the body of a young woman is pulled from the Grand Canal. It looks like a copycat murder and detectives want to speak to Will, but he will only talk to one person: his girlfriend of ten years ago.

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Living Death
Graham Masterton
As the city of Cork is hit by a wave of drug-dealing and dognapping, a girl goes missing. DS Katie Maguire begins to suspect that the cases may be connected, but time is running out for the abducted girl.

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A Long Way to Shiloh
Lionel Davidson
This 1966 thriller features an archaeological expert (long before Indiana Jones) as the hero who becomes embroiled in the dangerous hunt for a priceless menorah after deciphering an ancient manuscript that has been discovered in the Jerusalem temple.

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The Magus of Hay
Phil Rickman
In Hay-on-Wye, a couple are setting up a new pagan bookshop; meanwhile, a man is found drowned near the town. Investigating David Hambling’s death, DI Bliss is alarmed by his strange library and calls on the expertise of the exorcist.

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Memoirs is the second series of Holmes stories written for The Strand Magazine, starting with Silver Blaze (and its 'curious incident of the dog in the night-time’) and ending with Holmes and Moriarty's fatal encounter at the Reichenbach Falls.

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Midwinter of the Spirit
Phil Rickman
Newly appointed as Deliverance Consultant by the Bishop of Hereford, Merrily Watkins is off to an ominous start: an ancient church is desecrated, a saint’s tomb is smashed and a body is found in the River Wye.

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The Murder of Harriet Krohn
Karin Fossum
Unemployed and deep in debt, Charlo Torp decides to rob an elderly woman; but Harriet Krohn fights back and Torp loses control. He seems to have got away with the crime, but Torp can never shake off the guilt or the relentless Inspector Sejer.

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The Murder Pit
Mick Finlay
A freelance detective in 1890s London, William Arrowood is engaged by Mr and Mrs Barclay to find their daughter. The simple missing person investigation takes on a sinister aspect when they visit Birdie’s new home, a run-down pig farm south of London.

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Nine Lessons
Nicola Upson
Twenty-five years after the writer MR James gathered friends and fellow academics around the fire on Christmas Eve to listen to ghost stories, the same men are being brutally murdered, one by one. Can CI Archie Penrose and Josephine Tey unite to solve their most challenging case to date?

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Now We Are Dead
Stuart MacBride
Inspired by his mugging-up on Winnie the Pooh for Celebrity Mastermind, Stuart MacBride describes his book as ‘the story of what happens to Detective Chief Inspector Roberta Steel after she was caught being Very, Very Naughty in In the Cold Dark Ground’. Now, the man she was accused of fitting up is freed and back on the streets of Aberdeen – but Roberta knows he is guilty.

£14.99

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£4.99
One Last Dram Before Midnight
The Complete DCI Daley Short Stories
Denzil Meyrick
Two of these seven stories are set in Glasgow, with young Jim Daley and Brian Scott setting out on their police careers; other cases find DCI Daley and his sidekick in Kinloch, investigating ghosts from the past, a missing man and illicit whisky.

£8.99

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£4.99
Perfect Crime
Helen Fields
A would-be suicide, Stephen Barry was talked down from the Queensbury Crossing bridge, only to be found a dead at the bottom of a cliff a week later. Did he jump, or was he pushed? Callanach and Turner investigate Barry’s case among several suspicious ‘suicides’.

£7.99

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£3.99
Perfect Death
Helen Fields
A sadistic serial poisoner who watches his victims’ slow and agonizing deaths from afar is the third and most challenging case for detectives Luc Callanach and Ava Turner in this much-acclaimed series of Edinburgh-based crime thrillers. Off-mint.

£7.99

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£3.99
Perfect Prey
Helen Fields
A young man killed at a rock festival, another man hanged and a primary school teacher strangled: but there are no leads for Edinburgh detectives DI Luc Callanach and DI Ava Turner – until they realize that graffiti around the city anticipated each murder. Off-mint.

£7.99

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£3.99
Perfectly Dead
Iain McDowall
In the Midlands town of Crowby, Chief-Inspector Jacobson and DS Kerr investigate the deaths of a lowlife drug dealer and a suburban family. The interconnections between the crimes are gradually revealed as the detectives get closer to the truth. Slightly off-mint.

£8.99

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£3.99
The Prayer of the Night Shepherd
Phil Rickman
Merrily’s daughter Jane has a part-time job at Stanner Hall, a crumbling Gothic hotel, where the Sherlock Holmes-obsessed owner hosts murder mystery weekends. Behind the make-belief, Merrily detects a disturbing reality.

£8.99

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£3.99
Pretty Girls
Karin Slaughter
After their teenage sister Julia vanished, Claire and Lydia’s family was ripped apart. More than 20 years later, the murder of Claire’s husband, Paul Scott is followed by a shocking discovery, and the estranged sisters come together to unearth the truth of Julia’s disappearance.

£8.99

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£3.99
Prey
A Jefferson Winter Thriller
James Carol
This third adventure for former FBI profiler, Jefferson Winter finds him vexed by the psychological games of a mysterious woman who sets him on the trail of an old murder case.

£7.99

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£3.99
The Puppet Show
MW Craven
With only charred remains to go on, the disgraced detective Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw, a young data analyst, are searching for the serial killer whose victims are burned alive. Not for the faint-hearted, this thriller won the CWA Gold Dagger, 2019.

£7.99

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£3.99
Red Snow
Will Dean
In the sequel to Dark Pines, Tuva finds herself witness to a suicide and investigating a murder: the man who jumped to his death was the boss of the liquorice factory, the other was found with liquorice coins over his eyes.

£12.99

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£3.99
The Serbian Dane
Leif Davidsen;Trans. Barbara J Haveland
A successful journalist, a crack secret-service agent and Vuk, a highly skilled assassin who was raised in Denmark, but of Serbian descent: in a chilling political thriller, these three lonely people become trapped in a world of secret deals, private passions and organized crime. Translated from the Danish by Barbara J Haveland.

£8.99

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£3.99
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
Following the death of Sir Charles Baskerville – purportedly killed by a monstrous ghostly hound – Sherlock Holmes and Watson pursue the mystery across wild and desolate Dartmoor.

£6.99

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£2.99
The Shrouded Path
Sarah Ward
One day in 1957 six teenage girls walk into a railway tunnel, but only five emerge. Many decades later, a dying woman makes a desperate plea: 'Find Valerie'. As DC Connie Childs investigates, a thread of twisted female friendships past and present starts to unravel.

£12.99

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£4.99
Sleep No More
Six Murderous Tales
PD James
In this companion volume to The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories, PD James weaves psychological and moral complexity into the classic murder-mystery in six more tales of death, memory and revenge, including ‘The Yo-Yo’ and the ‘The Murder of Santa Claus’. Foreword by Peter Kemp.

£10.00

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£4.99

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