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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 33 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Puzzle Wood by Rosie Andrews
    The Puzzle Wood - by Rosie Andrews

    £16.99   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781526637376 | ISBN 10: 1526637375

    'Arresting... [a] tale of madness, murder, disputed inheritances and hints of the supernatural' Sunday Times   'Delicious ... dark ... sinister' Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of number one bestseller, Pandora 'Thrilling' Emilia Hart, author of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto
    Tokyo Express - by Seicho Matsumoto

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241439081 | ISBN 10: 0241439086

    'An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train   'Matsumoto was Japan's Agatha Christie' Laura Hackett, The Sunday Times   'It was a puzzl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
    Troubled Blood - by Robert Galbraith

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780751579956 | ISBN 10: 0751579955

    Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough - who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Car Burning by Helen Mort
    Black Car Burning - by Helen Mort

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784706630 | ISBN 10: 1784706639

    How do we trust each other?   Alexa is a young police community support officer whose world feels unstable. Her father is estranged and her girlfriend is increasingly distant. Their polyamorous relationship – which for years felt so natural – ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Crossing by Brian McGilloway
    The Last Crossing - by Brian McGilloway

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912534340 | ISBN 10: 1912534347

    Tony, Hugh and Karen thought they'd seen the last of each other thirty years ago. Half a lifetime has passed and memories have been buried. But when they are asked to reunite - to lay ghosts to rest for the good of the future - they all have their ow ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Body in Barcelona by Jason Webster
    A Body in Barcelona - by Jason Webster

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099598268 | ISBN 10: 0099598264

    Tensions in Spain are rising: political violence and social unrest have suddenly re-emerged. Madrid is trying to keep a tight leash on Catalonia, where the call for independence is getting louder by the day. The last time Barcelona moved to break awa ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Case of Lisandra P. by Helene Gremillon, translated by Alison Anderson
    The Case of Lisandra P. - by Helene Gremillon, translated by Alison Anderson

    £11.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780143126584 | ISBN 10: 014312658x

    A gripping psychological thriller for fans of The Girl on the Train and The Silent Wife about a wife’s secrets, a husband accused of murder, and a marriage gone terribly wrong.   Buenos Aires, 1987. When a beautiful young woman named Lisandra is f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Perfidia by James Ellroy
    Perfidia - by James Ellroy

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099537755 | ISBN 10: 0099537753

    Los Angeles, December 6, 1941. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. War fever and race hate grip the city and the internment of Japanese-Americans begins.  Following the hellish murder of a Japanese fa ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bones of You by Debbie Howells
    The Bones of You - by Debbie Howells

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447276036 | ISBN 10: 1447276035

    I have a gardener's inherent belief in the natural order of things. Soft-petalled flowers that go to seed. The resolute passage of the seasons. Swallows that fly thousands of miles to follow the eternal summer.  Children who don't die before ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck
    Wolf Winter - by Cecilia Ekbäck

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444789553 | ISBN 10: 1444789554

    There are six homesteads on Blackåsen Mountain.   A day's journey away lies the empty town. It comes to life just once, in winter, when the Church summons her people through the snows. Then, even the oldest enemies will gather.   But no ... more

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  • Cover image of book Arab Jazz by Karim Miské
    Arab Jazz - by Karim Miské

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781848664395 | ISBN 10: 1848664397

    A ritualistic murder threatens to destabilise the turbulent multicultural melting pot of suburban Paris.   Kosher sushi, kebabs, a second-hand bookshop and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris is a cosmopolitan district where multicultural ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stranded: Short Stories by Val McDermid
    Stranded: Short Stories - by Val McDermid

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780751551297 | ISBN 10: 0751551295

    Passion. Obsession. Revenge.  A stunning collection of chilling short stories from the queen of the psychological thriller.  White nights of passion and revenge in St. Petersburg. A bingo-hall tyrant trapped by masked intruders. The sleaz ... more

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  • Cover image of book Thursday
    Thursday's Child - by Nicci French

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241950357 | ISBN 10: 024195035x

    Two crimes, generations apart . . .   Twenty years ago teenager Frieda Klein was brutally attacked in her own home. No one believed her - not the police, not her mother, not her friends. She left town, trained as a psychologist and never went ... more

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  • Cover image of book Belfast Noir by Adrian McKinty and Stuart Neville (Editors)
    Belfast Noir - by Adrian McKinty and Stuart Neville (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781617752919 | ISBN 10: 1617752916

    Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Glenn Patterson, Eoin Mc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Vendetta by Dreda Say Mitchell
    Vendetta - by Dreda Say Mitchell

    £6.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781444789430 | ISBN 10: 1444789430

    A fast-paced, race-against-time thriller. Dreda is the female equivalent of Simon Kernick and Stephen Leather.  Two murders. Two different crime scenes. One killer?   Mac wakes in an smashed-up hotel room with no recollection of what has ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dead Gone by Luca Veste
    Dead Gone - by Luca Veste

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007525577 | ISBN 10: 0007525575

    The young girl you have found isn’t the first experiment I’ve carried out. She won’t be the last.  A tense, unpredictable crime debut that will not only have you gripped, but will chill you to the bone. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Death of the Demon by Anne Holt
    Death of the Demon - by Anne Holt

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857892270 | ISBN 10: 0857892274

    In an orphanage outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institution's ageing director, Agnes Vestavik, sees something chilling in Olav's eyes: sheer hatred. When Vestavik is found murdered at her desk late at night, stabbed in the n ... more

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  • Cover image of book More Bitter Than Death by Camilla Grebe & Åsa Träff
    More Bitter Than Death - by Camilla Grebe & Åsa Träff

    £14.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857209504 | ISBN 10: 0857209507

    The new beautifully written and utterly compelling psychological crime thriller from number 1 Swedish bestselling sisters.  Sometimes reliving the past revives old demons . . .  In a Stockholm apartment, five-year-old Tilde watches from u ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid
    The Vanishing Point - by Val McDermid

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780751546101 | ISBN 10: 0751546100

    It's every parent's worst nightmare - your child abducted while you look on, helpless. But five-year-old Jimmy's life is shrouded in secrets, and his mother will be forced to make the most difficult choice of her life - a choice that will affect ever ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Golden Scales: A Makana Mystery by Parker Bilal
    The Golden Scales: A Makana Mystery - by Parker Bilal

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781408830369 | ISBN 10: 1408830361

    Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a da ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Killing by David Hewson
    The Killing - by David Hewson

    £19.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781447208419 | ISBN 10: 1447208412

    'Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs ...There is a bright monocular eye that follows, like a hunter after a wounded deer. It moves in a slow approaching zigzag, marching through the Pineseskoven wasteland ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trueman Bradley: Aspie Detective by Alexei Maxim Russell
    Trueman Bradley: Aspie Detective - by Alexei Maxim Russell

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849052627 | ISBN 10: 184905262x

    Trueman Bradley is a genius detective with a difference, he has Asperger's Syndrome (AS).  Trueman leaves his hometown of Heartville, Illinois, and arrives in New York City, hoping to fulfil his dream of becoming a private detective, like ... more

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  • Cover image of book Far South by David Enrique Spellman
    Far South - by David Enrique Spellman

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846688102 | ISBN 10: 1846688108

    Far South is no ordinary novel - but this is no ordinary disappearance...   Gerardo Fischer is missing. Can you help?  Theater director Gerardo Fischer has vanished from the Argentinian artists' colony where he was rehearsing a pioneering new ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hotel Bosphorus by Esmahan Aykol, translated by Ruth Whitehouse
    Hotel Bosphorus - by Esmahan Aykol, translated by Ruth Whitehouse

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781904738688 | ISBN 10: 1904738680

    Kati Hirschel, in her thirties, is the proud owner of Istanbul’s only crime bookshop. When the German director of a film starring an old school friend is found murdered in his hotel room Kati cannot resist the temptation to start her own maverick inv ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beekeeper
    The Beekeeper's Apprentice - by Laurie R King

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780749008529 | ISBN 10: 0749008520

    The long-awaited reissue of the very first book in the New York Times bestselling Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series.   In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees when a young woman literally stumbles in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kraken by China Mieville
    Kraken - by China Mieville

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330492324 | ISBN 10: 0330492322

    A dark urban fantasy thriller from one of the all-time masters of the genre.  Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and perf ... more

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  • Cover image of book Indian Country Noir by Sarah Cortez and Liz Martinez (Editors)
    Indian Country Noir - by Sarah Cortez and Liz Martinez (Editors)

    £11.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781936070053 | ISBN 10: 1936070057

    Brand-new stories by: Mistina Bates, Jean Rae Baxter, Lawrence Block, Joseph Bruchac, David Cole, Reed Farrel Coleman, O'Neil De Noux, A.A. HedgeCoke, Gerard Houarner, Liz Martinez, R. Narvaez, Kimberly Roppolo, Leonard Schonberg, and Melissa Yi.&nbs ... more

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  • Cover image of book Songs of the Dead by Derrick Jensen
    Songs of the Dead - by Derrick Jensen

    £17.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604860443 | ISBN 10: 1604860448

    A serial killer stalks the streets of Spokane, acting out a misogynist script from the dark heart of this culture. Across town, a writer named Derrick has spent his life tracking the reasons - political, psychological, spiritual - for the sadism of m ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rapture by Liz Jensen
    The Rapture - by Liz Jensen

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408801109 | ISBN 10: 1408801108

    An environmental disaster movie of a thriller, from the celebrated author of The Ninth Life of Louis Drax.  In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox’s main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood - by Charles Dickens

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099518891 | ISBN 10: 0099518899

    Featuring an introduction by Matthew Pearl.  The story of the fate of Edwin Drood is a mystery within a mystery. When young Edwin disappears after dinner on Christmas Eve and his watch and chain are later found in the nearby river, everyo ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre
    A Most Wanted Man - by John Le Carre

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340977088 | ISBN 10: 0340977086

    A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa.  Annabel, an id ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diablerie by Walter Mosley
    Diablerie - by Walter Mosley

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747591870 | ISBN 10: 0747591873

    Who doesn't wonder about how different their life might have been? Who doesn't dream of a more interesting, more dangerous past they could have had?  Ben Dibbuk is married to the beautiful Mona, has a lovely daughter and a well-paid job in NY ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Predict a Riot: Murder, Extortion and Carrot Cake by Colin Bateman
    I Predict a Riot: Murder, Extortion and Carrot Cake - by Colin Bateman

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780755334674 | ISBN 10: 0755334671

    Bateman's back with a fast-paced, unforgettable story of murder, intrigue and reincarnation on the streets of Belfast.  Walter has a rubbish job but so has Margaret, a security guard at Primark, and when they meet through a dating agency, neithe ... more

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