Crime & mystery fiction

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  • A haunting in the Arctic

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    A haunting in the Arctic

    Something has walked the floors of the Ormen for over a century.

    Something that craves revenge?

    *Longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize*

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  • A spring of love

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    A spring of love

    Esther Williams is thirty and single. She lives with her grandmother in a small house and her life is one of routine and order; she takes a seaside holiday each year and every Thursday she goes to the cinema alone. She does not know if she is happy or unhappy with her life – it merely follows the same pattern that it has always done. Until one day, on a Thursday night, she meets Raymond Banks. Raymond becomes everything to Esther. Suddenly she feels, for the first time ever, truly alive. Raymond alters her awareness of the world around her and she is soon very much in love with him. But when she discovers something about Raymond that threatens to ruin their happiness Esther is horrified.

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  • A study in scarlet

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    A study in scarlet

    Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.

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  • Agatha Christie Trivia

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    Agatha Christie Trivia

    Put your little grey cells to the test with this dastardly deck of Christie questions!

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  • An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb

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    An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb

    ‘This gripping tale of three women who are suspected in the disappearance of a 9-year-old is a powerful read you won’t want to put down.’ – Pedestrian.tv’An incredible debut full of rich characters and a plot that will keep you guessing. Louise Wolhuter is a writer to watch.’ – J.P. Pomare, author of In The Clearing and The Wrong WomanJessie Else disappeared the summer the Lambs came to Magpie Beach. Not that the two events were connected at all, in reality; only in my own head, in my own world. They marked for me the end of a certain quiet time and the start of a more complicated living.Winifred is a small town full of prejudices and assumptions. Meg and Lily are outsiders who live on its margins at Magpie Beach, where they’ve managed to keep out of each other’s – and everyone else’s – way for years. That is, until Rosemary comes along and draws them into an unlikely friendship. When nine-year-old Jessie Else goes missing, the resident

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  • And then there were none

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    And then there were none

    Solving the world’s most puzzling mystery novel just got even more fiendish in this gorgeous new hardback collector’s edition – with the final solution sealed in an envelope at the back of the book!Can you crack all the clues and catch the killer before you unseal the ending?

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  • Argylle

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    Argylle

    One Russian magnate’s dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA’s most legendary spymaster, can prevent it. But to do so, she needs someone special. Enter Argylle. His life came to a crashing halt as a teenager. Since then he has been treading water, building barriers between himself and the world. Until one moment of brilliance will bring him to the attention of the most powerful woman in the secret world. Coffey knows all about Argylle’s dark past. She knows it haunts him. But she also knows it may give him the skills to join the team going up against one of the most powerful men in theworld. His crash course in espionage will take him from the jungles of Thailand to the boulevards of Monaco, from the monasteries of Mount Athos to a forgotten cavern buried deep in the mountains.

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  • Beautiful ugly

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    Beautiful ugly

    A deliciously dark revenge from bestselling author of Rock Paper Scissors and Good Bad Girl, Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises

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  • Best crime stories of the year. Volume 4

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    Best crime stories of the year. Volume 4

    Author and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz, together with founder of Mysterious Press, Otto Penzler, selects the very best of the year’s crime and mystery tales in this collection perfect for crime fiction lovers. Featuring stories from Jeffery Deaver and Brendan DuBois among many others! These twenty tales represent the best of short form crime and mystery fiction from over the past twelve months.

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  • Bodies in the Library Short Stories

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    Bodies in the Library Short Stories

    Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy deluxe short story compilations, this latest in the series is packed with amateur detectives solving mysterious murders, suspicious butlers and terrifying encounters. This collection contains a fabulous mix of classic and brand new writing, with contemporary authors from the US, Canada, and the UK.

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  • Can’t run, can’t hide

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    Can’t run, can’t hide

    Do not read late into the night! A number one bestseller in Iceland in 2022, Can ‘t Run, Can’t Hide is a masterclass in tension guaranteed to surprise and chill, for fans of Catriona Ward, CJ Tudor and Stephen King.

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  • Chronicle of A Death Foretold

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    Chronicle of A Death Foretold

    Angela Vicario’s new husband is furious when he discovers she’s not a virgin, and he returns her to her family home. Angela’s mother beats her and her brothers set out to find the man who violated her. Waking to the thoughts of the previous night’s revelry, Santiago Nasar is unaware that there are people who want to kill him.

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  • Close to Death

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    Close to Death

    Richmond Upon Thames is one of the most desirable areas to live in London. And Riverview Close – a quiet, gated community – seems to offer its inhabitants the perfect life. At least it does until Giles Kenworthy moves in with his wife and noisy children, his four gas-guzzling cars, his loud parties and his plans for a new swimming pool in his garden. His neighbours all have a reason to hate him and are soon up in arms. When Kenworthy is shot dead with a crossbow bolt through his neck, all of them come under suspicion and his murder opens the door to lies, deception and further death. The police are baffled. Reluctantly, they call in former Detective Daniel Hawthorne. But even he is faced with a seemingly impossible puzzle. How do you solve a murder when everyone has the same motive?

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  • Cocaine Nights

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    Cocaine Nights

    ‘Snort up “Cocaine Nights”. It’s disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock’ Will Self

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  • Dark Mode

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    Dark Mode

    Once you’re online, there’s nowhere to hide  Is it paranoia – or is someone watching?   For years, Reagan Carsen has kept her life offline. No socials. No internet presence. No photos. Safe.    Until the day she stumbles on a shocking murder in a Sydney laneway. The victim looks just like her.  Coincidence?    As more murders shake the city and she’s increasingly drawn out from hiding, Reagan is forced to confront her greatest fear.  She’s been found.    A riveting psychological thriller drawn from true events, Dark Mode delves into the terrifying reality of the dark web, and the price we pay for surrendering our privacy one click at a time.PRAISE for Dark Mode LoveReading Book of the Month April 2023 ‘A Hitchcockian chiller with a powerful sense of rampant terror’ – Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘Drawn from real life cases, this brilliantly twisty thriller exposes the grim

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