8 Crime Fiction
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 £2.50
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
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 £5
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 £2.50
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
68674 A MORTAL CURIOSITY: A Lizzie Martin
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 £2.50
62730 CASEFILES OF MR J. G. REEDER by Edgar Wallace
Let us introduce you to the enigmatic J. G. Reeder, a gentle, middle-aged man who carries a furled up umbrella and wears an old-fashioned flat-topped bowler hat. He is one of the great unsung sleuths of mystery fiction, created by the prolific Edgar Wallace. Reeder is a cold and ruthless detective who credits his success to his ‘criminal mind’ which allows him to solve a series of complex crimes outwitting the most cunning of villains. Contains the first three volumes in the Reeder canon: two novels, Room 13 and Terror Keep and the short stories The Mind of J. G. Reeder. 434pp. Paperback. ONLY £3
57496 SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Game’s
Afoot edited by David Stuart Davies Once more, the game’s afoot as Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street returns in 20 new adventures. Striding through the foggy gas lit streets of London, Holmes tackles such cases as the puzzle of the Green Skull. David Stuart Davies, Denis O. Smith, Mark Valentine, Matthew Booth, M.J. Elliott and the other talented writers who have contributed to this collection have followed closely in the footsteps of Arthur Conan Doyle in creating a wonderful feast of Sherlockian entertainment. Paperback. 416pp. ONLY £3
70366 HERESY: An Historical Thriller by S. J. Parris
Based on the real life of Giordano Bruno, this entertaining whodunit propels the reader breathlessly from gothic manors through seedy taverns and mysterious bookshops to the labyrinthine chambers of Oxford’s world-renowned library. It is 1583. Bruno - philosopher, poet, scientist and magician as well as one-time monk - is on the run from the Holy Roman Inquisition, which has
charged him with heresy for his belief in a heliocentric universe. He is recruited by Elizabeth I’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, and sent on a mission to Oxford, a hotbed of Catholic rebellion and foreign plots to assassinate the queen. Officially, Bruno is to take part in a debate with the learned doctors of the university on the theories of Copernicus. In secret he must attempt to infiltrate the underground Catholic network and learn whatever he can about a deadly conspiracy. His success depends on whether he can tear his attention away from the beautiful and enigmatic daughter of the college rector! But when one of the Oxford fellows is brutally murdered just outside his window, his mission is dramatically thrown off course - even more so when yet another fellow turns up dead, and Bruno is plunged into a sinister game of cat and mouse. 435 gripping pages. $25.95 NOW £5
70403 THE CASE OF THE
MISSING SERVANT by Tarquin Hall
Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India’s swindlers, cheats and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centres and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri’s main work comes from
screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests. But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maid servant, it takes all of Puri’s resources to investigate. How will he trace the girl, known only as Mary, in a population of more than one billion? Who is taking pot shots at him and his prized chilli plants? 310pp. $24 NOW £3.50
70431 TOOTH AND CLAW: A Mystery by Nigel McCrery
The author was a police officer in the Murder Squad and is the creator of the TV drama series Silent Witness and Old Dog New Tricks. His suspenseful new novel shows the same pacey, gripping qualities as does his television writing. DCI Lapslie and Sergeant Bradbury chase down one of the most terrifying characters ever to stalk the pages of a mystery thriller. A well-known TV reporter has been brutally murdered. There are no witnesses and no suspects. Then a second man is found dead in a train-station bomb explosion. Despite all the odds, the DCI begins to suspect that the two high-profile cases may be connected. Under pressure to produce results and with the media bearing down on him, he approaches breaking point. To make matters worse, the killer’s next target may be much closer than the inspector could possibly guess. Read on! 310 breathtaking pages. $25.95 NOW £6
! AGATHA CHRISTIE Glamorous hardbacks for your library
Born in Torquay in 1890, Agatha Christie began writing during the First World War and wrote over 100 novels, plays and short story collections. She was still writing to great acclaim until her death, and her books have now sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in over 100 foreign languages.
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. 201pp. $12 NOW £3.50
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
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 £3.50
ALSO IN THE SERIES:
70350 DEATH ON THE NILE 351 pages. $12 NOW £5
70394 THE A.B.C. MURDERS: A Hercule Poirot Mystery . 252pp. $12 NOW £5
70418 MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN: A Hercule Poirot Mystery 317pp. $12 NOW £5
70415 THE INFORMATION OFFICER by Mark Mills
Set in Malta in the summer 1942, the Maltese, a fiercely independent people, withstand the relentless Axis air raids. Max Chadwick is the British officer charged with manipulating the news on Malta to bolster the population’s fragile esprit de corps. This, and a few broken-down fighter planes, are all that stand in the face of Nazi occupation and perhaps even victory, because Malta is the stepping-stone the Germans need between Europe and North Africa. When Max learns of the brutal murder of a young island woman, and learns evidence that the crime was committed by a British officer, he knows that the Maltese loyalty to the war effort could be instantly shattered. 276pp. £15.99 NOW £4.75
70426 THE WATER’S EDGE: An Inspector Sejer Mystery by Karin Fossum
Reinhardt and Kristine Ris, a married couple, are out for a Sunday walk when they discover the body of a boy and see the figure of a man limping away. They alert the police, but not before Reinhardt, to Kristine’s horror, kneels down and takes photographs of the dead child with his mobile phone. Inspectors Konrad Sejer and Jacob Skarre begin to make enquiries in the little town of Husbey. But then another boy disappears and an explanation seems more remote than ever. Meanwhile, the Rises’ marriage unravels as Reinhardt becomes obsessed with the tragic events and his own part in them. From Norway’s Queen of Crime. 227pp. £15.99 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 paperback pages. £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. £6.99 NOW £3
70922 JOHANNES CABAL THE DETECTIVE by Jonathan L. Howard
With the charm of James Bond and the intelligence of Sherlock Holmes, Johannes Cabal is a Zeppelin-hopping detective and necromancer of some little infamy who has been digging up bodies without permission for several years. The indefatigable sociopath is in a remote corner of the world on the run from the local government. He has stolen a precious and mysterious book that has been under lock and key in a university library. ‘Borrowing’ (ahem) the identity of a minor bureaucrat, Cabal flees on the Princess Hortense, a passenger aeroship that is leaving the country. On the first night in the air, a fellow passenger throws himself to his death, or that is at least how it appears. When his detective work results in a vicious attempt on his own life, the gloves come off. He and feisty, beautiful Leonie Barrow reluctantly team up to discover the murderer. 288pp, US first edition. $25.95 NOW £5
70936 THERE GOES THE BRIDE by M. C. Beaton
Unlucky in love, yet hopelessly romantic, Agatha Raisin 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. A wonderfully imperfect heroine. 277pp, US first edition 2009. $24.99 NOW £5.50
EARLY LEARNING
T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
- Clement Clarke Moore
71334 UNCOVER A CROCODILE by Paul
Beck and Susan Hernday A big hit with 12 year old Cameron, one of the Bibliophile family, is this a book or a model or both? Turn each page and uncover a new layer of understanding as we look into the jaws of the world’s most fearsome
predator. It is a three-dimensional look inside a Nile crocodile. Flip the book over onto the back to see his skin and the final finished model. Start from the front to understand each layer of his body - skull and jaws (crocodiles don’t have lips, their mouths leak when closed), the skeletal system and his eight extra pairs of ribs on the underside of his body; the cardio-pulmonary system and how he is made to hold his breath and his heart has four chambers different from all other reptiles which have three-chambered hearts; the digestive system which allows a crocodile to swallow his prey and juggle meat into position before he tilts back his head and lets gravity push down the food. We uncover a crocodile’s reproductive system looking at adult to hatchling, his nervous system and see that his brain is divided into sections for different jobs, muscular systems with the bright red plastic model showing sections to better understand what works and how. A superbly produced very large publication for ages eight to adult. $18.95 NOW £6.50
71396 IMAGINE YOU’RE A KNIGHT
by Peter Chrisp
Piece together 3D models of a fully armoured knight, his noble horse and a helmet that you can actually wear. Dramatic illustrations bring the knight’s brave deeds to life. Learn about the dubbing ceremony, castle life, faithful steeds, coats of
arms, the knight’s code, arms and armour, tournaments and going into battle. On each double page spread there are not only fascinating facts but also small booklets and pamphlets to unfold as you lift the flaps, beautiful medieval illustrations in colour, specially commissioned artworks and full explanations of the chivalric code and protective layers of your armour in detailed diagrams and colour photos, all clearly labelled before the grand finale where you make your great helm, a bucket- shaped helmet with two eye slits. Big 20 page board book with super paper engineering. Suit ages eight to adult.
$18.99 NOW £7
71497 MASTERPUPPET THEATRE: Includes 60 Finger
Puppets by Michael Rogalski Masterpuppet Theatre presents the world of Shakespeare at your fingertips with some of the great scenes from Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Hamlet, Henry IV
Part One, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Twelfth Night and The Winter’s Tale. There are 12 stand-up sets of castles, forests, balconies and battlements and 60 finger puppets featuring the most famous characters including one ghost! The 96 page folio softback has the words to these classic scenes for all readers aged 13 to adult. A wonderful imported box set. £9.99 NOW £6
71204 MY BOB THE
BUILDER MAGNET BOOK by Keith Chapman It is a warm day in Sunflower Valley. Scrambler is going to take Bob to help Farmer Pickles today. Can you find Scrambler and add him to the picture? Choose from the assortment of magnetic figures the correct one to pop on the fun scenes as we turn the pages of this
large board book. Colour. £6.99 NOW £4
71324 LOOK, LEARN AND
PRACTISE NUMBERS by Heather Heyworth This special Wipe Clean numbers pad gives a child repeated opportunities to learn and practise essential numeracy skills - numbers and number words one to 20, number patterns, addition and subtraction and counting to 60. For best results use good quality non- permanent felt tip pens, wipe-off
pencils or china markers. A dry cloth or tissue will remove marks and leave pages clean to use again. A brilliant idea! Softback. Suit ages four to six, all in colour.
£1.99 NOW £1.25
71214 WINNIE-THE-POOH WONDERFUL STICKER SCENE PACK by Disney
Three Pooh-tastic books in one resealable plastic wallet - a padded hardback published at £9.99 is a classic storybook to read aloud. Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred-Acre Wood try to save
Christopher Robin from the mysterious Backson monster and find Eeyore’s missing tail along the way. The second is a colouring book with 30 pictures to colour in which are scenes from the Disney movie. The third book is also a large paperback published at £3.99 with 50 stickers to insert on the colourful scenes as you read along. Based on the work of A. A. Milne and the drawings of E. H. Shepard. £16.97 NOW £5
70720 STORYTIME by R. M. Cole
Subtitled ‘Easy Storytelling Techniques for Parents, Teachers and Carers’. Do you remember the excitement of settling down cross legged on the parquet floor at school to be told a story when you were a child? Do you remember the suspense of waiting to hear the tale unfold and the amazing adventures of your favourite characters? Here we can create that same magic for children in your life. Train yourself to be a great storyteller and use stories to teach children about values, goals, morals, creativity and emotional management. Make bedtime a breeze or hold children’s attention during difficult moments. Spend quality time with the child or children and involve them in creating stories together. 188 page paperback with additional lined pages with quotes at the top to help inspire you to jot down your ideas.
£8.99 NOW £3 44604 PAINT WITH WATER
There are six colours (green, red, yellow, aubergine, blue and orange) on a pallet across the top of each page. All youngsters need do is wet the brush, choose a colour and begin to paint the black and white outline large drawing beneath. There are traditional scenes with children, food, flowers and animals, eight per book, beautifully designed so each is detachable and could be framed. Large softback. ONLY £1.25
68760 WHAT CATS ARE MADE OF by Hanoch Piven
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Really designed for youngsters aged three to eight, we could not resist this kitty cat extravaganza. There are 39 registered breeds of cats and here we learn a little of some of the most celebrated cats in history. The Devon Rex is such a mischievous cat that it has been compared to a monkey. Feline facts include that cats usually land on their feet when they fall because of what is known as a ‘cat righting reflex’. Scottish Fold cats have ears that are folded forward and down onto their heads, just like
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