8 Crime Fiction
may have finally landed in his lap. A Tory MP’s secretary suspects her boss’s father has an unsavoury history that could taint his son’s prime ministerial ambitions. The ruthless entrepreneur in question sends two henchmen out to make sure the past stays in the past. The lethal pair despatched have some awkward secrets of their own. Four stories, two mismatched detectives. 362pp in elegant hardback. US first edition. $25.99 NOW £5
70936 THERE GOES THE
BRIDE by M. C. Beaton An Agatha Raisin mystery by the Scottish author of the Hamish Macbeth series who also published under the name of Marion Chesney. Unlucky in love, yet hopelessly romantic, Agatha is not happy. However much the upcoming marriage of her ex- husband James Lacey to the beautiful Felicity Bross-Pilkington
fills her with dread, she begrudgingly takes time from her successful detective agency to attend the wedding. Even though she has her sights on a new man, the handsome and beguiling Frenchman Sylvan, she can’t stop obsessing about James. But Felicity is shot just minutes before saying ‘I do’ and Agatha is named the prime suspect. Her sleuthing sidekick Toni stands ready to help clear her name, but the case proves trickier than ever as Agatha bumbles her way through the investigation, flirting shamelessly with the handsome man on the scene. Has Agatha had her last romp? The character is like Miss Marple with a drinking problem and major man lust residing in an English country cottage and solving murder mysteries. A wonderfully imperfect heroine. 277pp, hardback US first edition 2009. $24.99 NOW £6
70694 A CAPITAL CRIME by Laura Wilson
The real-life Rillington Place murders underpin a dark and disturbing novel in which post-war London and its characters come horribly to life. The bare bones of the story are these: John Davies confesses to strangling his wife and baby daughter. It looks like an easy case for Detective Inspector Ted Stratton. But not so. Davies recants, blaming respectable neighbour Norman
Backhouse for the crimes. But why would anyone believe him? Davies is convicted and hanged. Later, after a series of gruesome discoveries, DI Stratton begins to suspect that there has been a terrible miscarriage of justice. Did an innocent man hang for a murder he didn’t commit? Worse still, is the murderer still out there? 547 sinister, atmospheric paperback pages. £7.99 NOW £3
70853 DYING TO TELL by Robert Goddard
by the bestselling author of Sight Unseen here is a gripping tale with more twists than a country lane. Lance Bradley, idling his life away in Glastonbury, suddenly receives a call for help from the eccentric sister of his friend Rupert Alder. Reluctantly, Lance goes to London to discover that Rupe’s employers want him tried for fraud. A Japanese businessman claims he has stolen a document of huge
importance and a private detective is demanding money for trying to trace an American widow who was involved in a mysterious death near Glastonbury back in 1963 on Rupert’s behalf. A deeply satisfying mystery. 409pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
70856 HANDS THAT
TREMBLES by Kjell Eriksson Sven-Arne Persson suddenly walks out of a business meeting in Uppsala and disappears, leaving behind his wife. No trace is found of him. Inspector Ann Lindell is investigating the discovery of a dismembered foot washed up on the beach. Her boss is delving into a cold case - a man beaten to death - an unsolved mystery that he finds impossible to forget. What connects
the three cases? By one of Scandinavia’s top selling authors. 444pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
70861 PRINCESS OF
BURUNDI by Kjell Eriksson When the mutilated body of a tropical fish collector John Jonsson is discovered in Uppsala, the police are baffled. He may not have been a saint, but who would want to kill him and in such a brutal way? Inspector Ann Lindell is convinced that the killer has been swiftly identified but then doubts creep in. As increasingly sinister events unfold, and Jonsson’s family gets
further involved, Ann and her team must unravel the complex clues and stop the killer. By the winner of the Swedish Crime Academy Award for Best Crime Novel. 410pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
70860 PARIS VENDETTA by Steve Berry
Ex-agent Cotton Malone’s closest friend Henrik Thorvaldsen is in serious trouble, and the men who want to kill him are on Malone’s doorstep. Dragged into his friend’s dangerous scheme and secretly under pressure from the US government to stop both Thorvaldsen and a sinister group called the Paris Club, Malone discovers that the answers he
needs lie in the past and an astounding treasure that Napoleon took to his grave. An intelligent thriller in the very finest tradition. 418pp in paperback with writer’s note. Fairly small print. £6.99 NOW £3
68735 PRIVATE PATIENT by P. D. James
When the investigative journalist Rhoda Gladwyn is found murdered in a private hospital for cosmetic surgery in Dorset, strings are pulled by a fellow-patient to ensure that Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are put on the case. Dalgliesh is in the middle of meeting his future father-in-law when he gets the call. The cast of suspects gathered at Cheverell Manor private clinic
include the Harley Street surgeon Mr. Chandler-Powell, the beautiful Helena Cressett, the assistant surgeon Marcus Westhall, about to leave for Africa, and his sister Candace, who has lost her academic job. When Robin Boyton arrives, a figure from the past intent on blackmail, the scene is set for further violence. 395pp. £18.99 NOW £5
68672 A DEAD HAND by Paul Theroux A tense, funny and horrifying story. When Jerry Delfont, an aimless travel writer with writer’s block (his ‘dead hand’), receives a letter from an American philanthropist Mrs Merrill Unger with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son’s, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How and why did he die? And what is Jerry to make of a package containing a human hand? He is swiftly captivated by the beautiful, mysterious Mrs Unger. From the teeming streets of Calcutta to Uttar Pradesh. 280pp in paperback.
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Mystery by Ann Granger On the train, Lizzie encounters a strange man who discloses that her future employer harbours the delusion that her recently deceased tiny baby has been stolen. He himself has to determine whether she is mad but, to Lizzie, when they meet, her employer does not seem deranged. She determines to get to
the bottom of the mystery. The girl’s aunts are clearly withholding information, while the demeanour of a neighbouring gentleman farmer seems unduly familiar, and why has the young woman’s husband been banished to China? Tensions come to a head when a rat catcher is found dead in the garden. 313 pages. £18.99 NOW £3
67280 SHERLOCK HOLMES COMPANION: An
Elementary Guide by Daniel Smith Here are plot summaries for every single Sherlock Holmes story, presented in the order in which they appeared, and with good-humoured and even waspish assessments of their relative merits. Here too are biographies of the main characters - Holmes, Watson, Moriarty, Mrs Hudson, Inspector LeStrade, Dr Joseph Bell, Sidney Paget and Conan Doyle himself - and original interviews and a comprehensive chronology of all the actors to have portrayed the master sleuth, from Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett to Stewart Granger. 150 pictures in colour and b/w - period engravings, theatre posters, book jackets, location shots and film and TV stills. 192pp. £20 NOW £6
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69866 THIRTY-THREE TEETH by Colin Cotterill
Against all expectations, Dr Siri Paiboun, reluctant chief coroner to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, has rather enjoyed his first five months in office. Elucidating mysterious deaths with a blend of forensic deduction, spiritual acumen, irrasable charm and good, old-fashioned sleuthing appears to suit him. Now as hot-season nights close in, Siri is spirited away from Laos’ steamy capital on a Matter of National Security. He is a busy man, examining carbonised corpses, dining with the deposed king, attending a shamans’ conference and being rescued by the ghost of an elephant. Just watch what creature has 33 teeth? 244pp in softback. £10.99 NOW £3
70207 DEVIL’S STAR by Jo Nesbo
A young woman is murdered. One finger has been severed from her left hand and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star - a pentagram, the devil’s star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-term adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on notice to quit the force
and is left with little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor and get to work. Oslo has a serial killer on its hands. 522pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
70193 NEMESIS by Jo Nesbo
Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into a bank and putting a gun to the cashier’s head. He tells her to count to 25. When he doesn’t get his money in time, she is executed. Detective Harry Hole, still mourning the death of his police partner, is assigned to the case. While his girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame gets in touch but when he goes to dinner at her house, he wakes up back at home with no memory of the past 12 hours. That same morning, the girl is found shot dead in her bed and shortly after Harry begins to receive threatening emails. Is someone trying to frame him for this unexplained death? 706pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
70199 THE REDBREAST by Jo Nesbo Down on his luck, Detective Harry Hole is having a rough time. Reassigned, having caused a high-profile embarrassment, he finds himself lumbered with surveillance duties. But working alone is just the way Harry likes it and it’s not long before he discovers that a rare, high-calibre rifle, a type favoured by assassins, has been smuggled into the country. When a former WW2 Nazi sympathiser is found with his throat slit, Harry suspects a connection. As his investigation unfolds and the bodies mount up, it becomes clear that the killer is hell-bent on serving his own justice. 618pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
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69233 SILENT WORLD OF NICHOLAS QUINN / SERVICE OF ALL THE DEAD: Omnibus Edition
2 Books in One Inspector Morse Mysteries by Colin Dexter
In the first of the two novels in this omnibus edition, the newly appointed member of the Oxford Examinations Syndicate was deaf, provincial and gifted. His murder proves to be the start of a formidably labyrinthine case for Chief Inspector Morse as he tries to track down the killer through the insular and bitchy world of the Oxford colleges. In the second volume, Morse is alone among the congregation in suspecting continued unrest in the quiet parish of St Frideswide’s. Most people can still remember the churchwarden’s murder. A few can still recall the murderer’s suicide. 324 pages, paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
69590 WHEN WILL THERE BE GOOD NEWS?: A Novel by Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson made her name with Behind the Scenes at the Museum. On a sweltering summer’s day, a six- year-old girl witnesses an horrific crime: 30 years later the perpetrator is released from prison. 16 year old Reggie works as a nanny for a doctor devoted to her young son, but Dr Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person bothered. DCI Louise Monroe is looking for a missing person, unaware that she is about to meet up again with an old friend, Brodie, himself on a journey which has become fatally interrupted. As all these lives, events and histories intersect and collide. 388pp. $24.99 NOW £6
69825 BRASS VERDICT by Michael Connelly Defence lawyer Mickey Haller has had some problems but that is now all behind him and he is ready to resume his career. Then another lawyer dies, leaving him his entire practice, including a very high-profile and potentially lucrative murder case. Mickey is back in business, except that according to Detective Harry Bosch, the other lawyer was murdered, odds-on by one of his own clients, and now it is Mickey’s job to defend him. Suddenly it is not just about winning but about staying alive. 422pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.75
70155 BOOK OF MURDER by Guillermo Martinez
By the author of the bestselling ‘The Oxford Murders’ here is a clever, chilling novel. One sleepy Sunday morning in Buenos Aires, a struggling writer receives an unexpected phone call that draws him into the tangled story of Luciana, an old acquaintance, and Kloster, a rival author. What he discovers will make him question everything he has previously taken for granted about
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56204 SWEENEY TODD OR THE STRING OF PEARLS by Anonymous
‘The String of Pearls’ - the original tale of Sweeney Todd, a classic of British horror, was first published as a weekly serial in 1846-47 by Edward Lloyd, the King of the Penny Dreadfuls. One of the earliest detective stories, it became an important source for Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’. After 157 years of obscurity, it appears here for the first time in book form. 256pp. Paperback. ONLY £3
68678 ARCHER P.I. by Ross MacDonald The American private eye, immortalised by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by MacDonald, appears here in an omnibus. Ross MacDonald (1915- 1983) infused new life into the hard-boiled detective genre with psychologically complex mysteries including his intuitive and empathetic private eye, Lew Archer. Now discover three of his very best crime novels - The Ivory Grin (aka Marked for Murder) begins when a wealthy woman hires Archer to track down a maid who she claims made off with her jewellery. The Zebra Striped Hearse (1962) finds Archer investigating a rich man’s prospective son-in-law and in The Underground Man (1971) Archer tracks a missing, possibly kidnapped, child and uncovers a secret history of wayward parents, wounded offspring and murder. 650pp. ONLY £4
70298 PATIENT’S EYES: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock
Holmes by David Pirie A novel featuring Arthur Conan Doyle, this is subtitled ‘The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes’. As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle famously studied under the pioneering forensic detective Dr Joseph Bell. Taking this as his starting point, author David Pirie has woven a dramatic
literary thriller that partners Bell, widely believed to be the model for Sherlock Holmes himself and Doyle, as innovators in criminal investigation, exploring the strange underworld of violence and sexual hypocrisy running beneath the surface of the Victorian era. A combination of style and scholarship. 244pp in paperback. $14.95 NOW £3.50
68688 CRITIQUE OF CRIMINAL REASON by Michael Gregorio
At the dawn of the Enlightenment, criminal justice was evolving into a science. In this brilliant historical detective work, one of the great philosophers, Immanuel Kant, guides Hanno Stiffeniis, a young magistrate, as he investigates a spate of murders that has reduced the Prussian city of Königsberg to a state of terror. When the killer tries to murder him, Stiffeniis finds himself confronted by the demons of his own past. 401pp in paperback.
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70197 OXFORD BLUE by Veronica Stallwood In an attempt to come to terms with the death of her close friend Andrew, Kate Ivory has escaped Oxford and found sanctuary in a friend’s cottage a few miles away. Here in the peace of the countryside she hopes to find a healing tranquillity and the inspiration for her next novel. She has barely time to unpack before her gardener Donna is found dead in mysterious
circumstances. Kate starts to uncover the feuds and illegal goings-on behind the genteel village façade. What secret is the Reverend Widdows hiding? 279pp in paperback.
70417 THE MOVING FINGER: A Miss Marple
Mystery by Agatha Christie A series of poison-pen letters have shattered the peaceful way of life in the quiet village of Lymstock. No one is safe from the scathing accusations and alarming threats contained in these vicious notes, and everyone is wondering who the sinister mind is behind them. It seems
that no one is free of motive - not the village doctor, the vicar, the servants, not even the newcomers, narrator Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna. The stakes are raised when one victim apparently distraught over the content of the letter she received, takes her own life. Fortunately, Miss Jane Marple is staying on as the vicar’s house guest.
Agatha Christie herself felt that
this was one of her best novels. 201pp with fairly large print.
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70329 APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH by Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot overhears a young man saying ‘You do see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’ Then days later, the man’s stepmother, known to all as a sadistic tyrant, is found dead. But beyond a puncture wound to the wrist, the exact cause of the woman’s death is unknown and murder is only one possibility. In his meticulous fashion, the exacting Belgian sleuth interviews each of the victim’s beleaguered family members, then becomes interested in other members of the holidaying party. Suspense mounts as Poirot closes in on the circumstances surrounding the murky death. 256pp in fairly large print. $12 NOW £4.50
70425 THE TUESDAY CLUB MURDERS: Miss
Marple Mysteries by Agatha Christie A casual evening dinner party becomes a night of intrigue when one of the guests suggests that they each present a mystery - preferably one of which she or he has personal knowledge - and let the group try to uncover its solution. This lively proposal yields a plethora of haunting, perplexing tales and among them are ‘The Blood-stained Pavement’ in which an artist finds herself painting an unknown crime scene, and ‘The Idol House of Astarte’, in which a goddess seems to murder a man in full view of his companions. Fortunately for the other guests, Miss Jane Marple is in attendance. 256pp. $12 NOW £5
chance and calculation, cause and effect. One by one, Luciana’s loved ones are dying, and she or her sister could be next. She is convinced that Kloster is behind the deaths, punishing her for the break-up of his family in a murderous frenzy of revenge worthy of one of his bestselling crime novels. But which comes first, murder or fiction? The line is blurred. 215pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
70170 AFTERMATH by Peter Robinson Number 35 at The Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street but it is about to become infamous. Two police constables are sent to the house following the report of a domestic disturbance and they stumble upon a truly horrific scene which leaves one of them dead, and the other fighting for her life and career. The identity of a serial killer, the Chameleon, has finally been revealed. But his capture is only the beginning of a shocking investigation that will test Inspector Alan Banks to the absolute limit. 515pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
70172 ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK? by Sidney Sheldon
In New York, Denver, Paris and Berlin, four people have died in what appears to be random accidents. When two women, widows of the dead, find themselves under merciless attack, their fear and confusion help them to form an unlikely alliance. But why are they being targeted and is there a connection between their husbands’ mysterious deaths? Meanwhile, the Chief Executive of an international Think Tank is on the cusp of a discovery which could change the world, and deliver unbelievable power into the company’s hands. Could the mysterious deaths be connected to this volatile secret? 401pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £2.50
70176 DEATH DU JOUR by Kathy Reichs
On a bitterly cold March night in Montreal, forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is exhuming the remains of a nun proposed for sainthood in the grounds of an old church. Just hours later, she is called to the scene of a horrific arson. A young family has perished and there seems to be no witness, no motive and no explanation. From the charred remains of the inferno to a trail of
sinister cult activity and a terrifying showdown during an ice storm, Tempe faces a nerve-shattering test of both her forensic expertise and her instinct for survival. 436pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £2.50
70184 GRAVE SECRETS by Kathy Reichs The number one international bestseller at a bargain price. Guatemala, in the searing heat. The bones of a child no more than two years old are uncovered when mass graves are excavated. 23 women and children are said to lie where forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is searching for remains, in what is one of the most heartbreaking cases of her career. Then four young girls go missing from Guatemala City. When a skeleton is found in a septic tank at the back of a run- down hotel, only someone with Tempe’s expertise can deduce who the victim was and how they died. 420pp in paperback.
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70183 FROM DOON WITH DEATH by Ruth Rendell
‘Love and death,’ said Chief Inspector Wexford. ‘Those were the only two sensational things that ever happened to Margaret Parsons.’ No one believed Mr Parsons’ fears for his missing wife until two days later she was discovered in the woods, her face swollen and her
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