Crime & mystery

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  • 48 clues into the disappearance of my sister

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    48 clues into the disappearance of my sister

    When a beautiful woman mysteriously vanishes, her sister must tally up the clues to discover her fate. Marguerite has disappeared from her small town in Upstate New York. But was foul play involved? Did she merely get away for fun? Or did she finally make the decision to leave behind her claustrophobic life of limited opportunities? Her younger sister Gigi wonders if the flimsy silk Dior dress, so casually abandoned on the floor, is a clue to Marguerite’s having seemingly vanished. The police examine the footprints made by her Ferragamo boots leaving the house, ending abruptly, and puzzle over how that can help lead to her. Gigi, not so pretty as her sister, slowly reveals her hatred for the perfect, much-loved, Marguerite. Bit by bit, like ripping the petals off a flower blossom, revelations about both women are uncovered.

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  • A clock stopped dead

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    A clock stopped dead

    ‘Satisfyingly intriguing’ Faith Martin

    ‘J.M. Hall has mastered the warmth of a perfect modern cosy crime with all the twists and turns that go with it. I really enjoyed it!’ Hannah Hendy

    Retired schoolteachers and amateur sleuths Liz, Pat and Thelma are giving up their coffee morning for a brand-new mystery.

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  • A death in the parish

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    A death in the parish

    It’s been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Clement tries to steady his flock, the parish is joined with Upper and Lower Badsaddle, bringing a new tide of unwanted change. But church politics soon become the least of Daniel’s problems. His mother – headstrong, fearless Audrey – is obviously up to something, something she is determined to keep from him. And she is not the only one. And then all hell breaks loose when murder returns to Champton in the form of a shocking ritualistic killing.

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  • A lesson in cruelty

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    A lesson in cruelty

    Anna wants a fresh start. She doesn’t believe she deserves it, but after three years behind bars she has finally paid her dues. Most of them, anyway. Lucy craves the attention of the only man she can’t have, her alluring Oxford professor. He’s married – not for the first time. Maybe she should be next in line? Marie the recluse has been locked up for too long. She’s not ready to be free, but some rules are meant to be broken. Everyone wants a perfect life. But not everyone is prepared to take it. Unless someone decides to teach them a lesson.

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  • A place to bury strangers

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    A place to bury strangers

    DCI Mackenzie and Atticus Priest are back, but can they work together to solve a conspiracy? A dog walker finds a human bone on lonely Salisbury Plain. DCI Mackenzie Jones investigates the grisly discovery but cannot explain how it ended up there. She contacts disgraced ex-detective Atticus Priest and the two of them trace the bone to a graveyard in the nearby village of Imber. But the village was abandoned after it was purchased by the Ministry of Defence to train the army, so why have bodies been buried in the graveyard since the church was closed? At the same time, Atticus is approached by a single dad who needs his help to track down his missing daughter. Atticus takes on the case and finds himself battling a London gang who are selling their drugs in Salisbury and a host of witnesses who don’t seem to be telling him the truth.

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  • A Slow Fire Burning

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    A Slow Fire Burning

    Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She’s seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some even call her dangerous. Miriam knows that just because Laura is witnessed leaving the scene of a horrific murder with blood on her clothes, that doesn’t mean she’s a killer. Bitter experience has taught her how easy it is to get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Carla is reeling from the brutal murder of her nephew. She trusts no one: good people are capable of terrible deeds. But how far will she go to find peace? Innocent or guilty, everyone is damaged. Some are damaged enough to kill – look what’s been started.

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  • Alchemy

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    Alchemy

    The new historical crime thriller, a Sunday Times bestseller, perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom and Hilary Mantel

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  • All of us are broken

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    All of us are broken

    The electrifying new crime novel from the award winning author, Fiona Cummins, author of Into the Dark and Rattle.

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  • An honest living

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    An honest living

    A sharp and stylish debut in which an unwitting private eye gets caught up in a crime of obsession between a reclusive literary superstar and her bookseller husband, paying homage to the noir genre just as smartly as it reinvents it.

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  • Appointment with yesterday

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    Appointment with yesterday

    Milly Barnes has just arrived in the seaside town of Seacliffe. Between windswept walks on the beach, she settles into lodgings and finds work as a Daily Help. Except this isn’t her real name – ‘Milly’ is on the run from her past life, escaping a nightmare marriage. Abandoned by her first husband for another woman, she took revenge by marrying Gilbert: but this proved a terrible mistake. Trapped in a London basement flat, she became a victim of his increasingly paranoid delusions. But what really happened in that underground dungeon? And is somebody on her trail, the hunter in a game of cat-and-mouse?

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  • Auld acquaintance

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    Auld acquaintance

    Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind? Millie Partridge desperately needs a party. So, when her (handsome and charming) ex-colleague Nick invites her to a Hebridean Island for New Year’s Eve, she books her ticket North. But things go wrong the moment the ferry drops her off. The stately home is more down at heel than Downton Abbey. Nick hasn’t arrived yet. And the other revellers? Politely, they aren’t exactly who she would have pictured Nick would be friends with. Worse still, an old acquaintance from Millie’s past has been invited, too. Penny Maybury. Millie and Nick’s old colleague. Somebody Millie would rather have forgotten about. Somebody, in fact, that Millie has been trying very hard to forget. Waking up on New Year’s Eve, Penny is missing. A tragic accident? Or something more sinister?

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  • Best crime stories of the year. Volume 3

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    Best crime stories of the year. Volume 3

    International author Amor Towles, together with award-winning editor and founder of the Mysterious Bookshop, Otto Penzler, selects the best crime and mystery stories of the year for 2023 in one entertaining volume perfect for crime fiction lovers.

    £12.00
  • Billie Jo

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    Billie Jo

    Her dad’s a villain. She’s his princess.
    And their world is about to crash.

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  • Black thorn

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    Black thorn

    Black Thorn is a standalone novel from Sarah Hilary, Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year winner and author of Fragile. They thought that they had found their forever home on the wild Cornish coast, until one night their neighbours started dying . . . Perfect for fans of Belinda Bauer and Tana French.

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  • Bright and deadly things

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    Bright and deadly things

    A remote back-to-basics mountaintop retreat in the French Alps turns deadly as a widowed Oxford fellow finds herself in the crosshairs of her late husband’s dangerous secrets. Following the death of her husband, Emily is happy to find herself surrounded by friends and fellow Oxford peers at the rustic Chalet des Anglais in the French Alps. With no electricity, running water, or access by car, surely this trip will offer Emily the time and space she needs to heal. But before she makes it to the airport, Emily interrupts a break-in at her home, and on the first night at the chalet, she discovers an inappropriate sexual liaison between an undergrad and a colleague. When the undergraduate student suddenly disappears, and Emily sees her deceased husband’s number in her call history, she realizes she had better figure out who she can trust – or the next disappearance may be her own.

    SKU: 9781838950507 Category: Tags: ,
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  • Butter

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    Butter

    ‘Compelling, delightfully weird, often uncomfortable’ PANDORA SYKES

    ‘Unputdownable, breathtakingly original’ ERIN KELLY

    Delicious’ i-D Magazine

    ‘Luscious ? I devoured this’ IMOGEN CRIMP

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