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Born in the Midlands, Will Dean now lives in Sweden, in an isolated clearing at the centre of an elk forest – a landscape of Nordic noir. His protagonist in these two much-acclaimed thrillers is Tuva Moodyson, a young, ambitious and deaf reporter on a small-town local paper, who will brave the menace of the forest to get the whole story. The two titles included in this set are: Dark Pines (Read more...) Red Snow (Read more...)

Confident, down-to-earth Rosie Strange doesn’t believe in witches. Then she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum and, with its enigmatic curator Sam Stone, finds herself investigating a series of eerie, unsettling mysteries. The two titles included in this set are: Strange Sight (Read more...) Strange Fascination (Read more...)

DCI Jejeune is having a hard time with his latest Norfolk murder enquiry, but it is questions about one of his old cases that cause greater concern, putting him at the centre of an internal inquiry and raising serious doubts about his conduct.

Strange things are happening at the La Fleur restaurant: apparitions pass through walls, and blood drips from the ceiling. Before Rosie and Sam can investigate, the chef is found murdered, and the only witness claims a ghost is responsible.

After developers move a centuries-old boulder marking the grave of a witch, paranormal phenomena afflict the village of Adder’s Fork, and people start to die in bizarre circumstances. Amid mounting hysteria, Rosie begins on uncover mysteries of her own.

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.

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.

When photographer Hseuh inadvertently witnesses a politically motivated assassination in Shanghai in 1931 he finds himself in a web of espionage and international intrigue. Forced to become a police collaborator, he realizes that no one is who they appear to be – not even his own girlfriend.

This period mystery unites Edgar Allan Poe with his fictional detective Auguste Dupin in the London of 1840, where a cache of letters appears to implicate Poe’s grandparents in the London Monster’s unsolved attacks on young women half a century earlier.

In this reimagined mystery, Poe and his fictional detective Dupin are friends who solve crimes together. Among anti-immigrant upheaval in Philadelphia in 1844, they are mystified by the arrival of a package of mummified bird parts and a young heiress in distress.

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