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policemen, the only two in the city not on the take, arrived too late. Minutes later only one is alive. The cop left standing is a devout Buddhist and swears to avenge the death of his partner and soul brother. To do so he must he must immerse himself in the moneyed underbelly of Bangkok where he will eventually find the killer. 447pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
74829 DEAD BEAT by Val McDermid
Hot on one liners, Chinese food, tabloid papers and Thai boxing, Kate Brannigan is refreshingly funny. Here we are introduced to a female private detective who does for Manchester what V. I. Warshawski has done for Chicago. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter in a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does
she realise that finding the songwriter is a prelude to murder. 275pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50
74837 KILLING THE SHADOWS by Val McDermid
Professor Fiona Cameron is a psychologist who uses computer technology to track serial offenders. She vowed never to work for the Met again after they went against her advice and screwed up an investigation as a result. But when her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin tells her a fellow crime novelist has been murdered, Fiona can’t help taking an interest. With the killer striking again, Fiona is caught up in a race against time, not only to save a life, but to bring herself redemption, both personal and professional. 605pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50
74864 GRAVE TATTOO by Val McDermid It is summer in the Lake District and torrential rain has uncovered a bizarrely tattooed body on a hillside. Could it be linked to centuries-old rumours that surround Fletcher Christian, mutinous First Mate on the ill-fated Bounty, a legendary massacre on a strange island of Pitcairn, and Christian’s possible return to England? An expert on Wordsworth, Jane Gresham wants to know and she has a theory that the Lakeland poet, a childhood friend of Christian’s, had harboured the fugitive and turned his tale into an epic poem - which has since stayed hidden. As she follows each lead, death is hard on Jane’s heels. The bounty could be worth millions of pounds. Lost manuscripts and enigmas. 546pp, paperback.
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74866 LAST TEMPTATION by Val McDermid
Dr Tony Hill, expert at mapping the minds of murderers, is reluctant to get involved, but then the next victim is much closer to home. Meanwhile his former partner DCI Carol Jordan is working undercover in Berlin on a dangerous operation to trap a millionaire traffiker. When the game turns nasty, Tony is the only person she can call on for help. Confronting a cruelty that has its
roots in Nazi atrocities, Tony and Carol are thrown together in a world of violence and corruption where they have no one to trust but each other. 592pp, paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3.50 74367 JOHNNY UNDER GROUND: Inspector
Tibbett Investigates by Patricia Moyes Emmy Tibbett goes to her RAF reunion with an inexplicable sense of foreboding. As a naive 19 year old auxiliary officer she has fallen in love with handsome pilot ‘Beau’ Guest. After the reunion Chief Inspector Henry Tibbett suspects his wife is on the brink of uncovering a dangerous secret, but he can’t prevent her from delving into a past that is dark with menace. First published in 1970, Irish born Patricia Moyes (1923-2000) was Peter Ustinov’s assistant for eight years. Facsimile paperback, 256pp. £6.99 NOW £4
74439 PAPILLON by Henri Charrière An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is one of the greatest true tales of courage, resilience and an unbreakable will. Condemned for a murder he did not commit, Henri Charrière, known as Papillon, was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. 42 days after his arrival, he made his first break, travelling a thousand gruelling miles in an open boat. Recaptured, his spirit remained untamed - in 13 years he made nine amazingly daring escapes, including one from the notorious Devil’s Island. 560pp, paperback. £9.99 NOW £2.50
74477 DAYS OF ATONEMENT by Michael Gregorio
As Napoleon’s troops sweep in Prussia, three children are found massacred in their beds. Then the crushed corpse of their mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Amid the chaos of invasion, Prussian magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis begins his investigation into the brutal killings. He travels to a remote fortress on the Russian border to try and find the children’s father, but learns that he too is dead and buried. Is it a tragic coincidence or part of a bigger plot that this entire family has been wiped off the face of the earth in less than a week? 445pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.50
73345 CLOSE UP ON DEATH by Maureen O’Brien
In an Inspector Bright mystery, here the body of talented TV actress Liza Drew is found in an empty house in north London. Her family and friends are stunned. Liza had no enemies. Sent to investigate, Detective Inspector John Bright concentrates on the motives of three people closest to her - her mother, her lover Paul, and her best friend Millie. 252pp in new paperback reprint of the 1989 original. £6.99 NOW £4.75
74508 OUR GG IN HAVANA by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
GG - who may or may not be Graham Greene - arrives in Havana in 1955 in search of a good time. He heads to the Shanghai Theatre and after becoming transfixed by the sex acts he sees, goes backstage to meet the star of the show, Charity. GG falls for her and the pair spend the night together but when he returns the following night he finds, to his horror, a dead body in her dressing room. The next day a newspaper article reveals that he is considered the murderer. Packed with Cuban intelligence officials, dead bodies, spies and the heady nightlife of Havana, Gutiérrez re-writes ‘Our Man In Havana’. 150pp, paperback. £9.99 NOW £2.50
74557 KINGDOM OF STRANGERS by Zoe Ferraris
In paranoid, sex-obsessed Saudi Arabia where adultery is punishable by death, policeman Ibrahim Zahrani’s lover had gone missing and he cannot report it. His colleague, forensic pathologist Katya Hijazi is desperate to be able to live freely, but has her own potentially lethal secrets. Then, just outside Jeddah, a hidden grave is uncovered containing the victims of a serial killer who has worked undetected for many years. 406pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.75
74581 ACCORDION CRIMES:
A Novel by Annie Proulx Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Africans, Irish- Scots, Franco-Canadians and many others, all linked by their successive ownership of a simple green accordion. The music they make is their last link with the past - a voice for their fantasies, sorrows and
exuberance. Proulx’s prodigious knowledge, unforgettable characters and radiant language make this an exhilarating, soulful, majestic and magical novel. 431pp in paperback. $16 NOW £5
74561 SALVATION OF A SAINT by Keigo Higashino
By the bestselling author of Japanese thriller phenomenon ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’, here is an extraordinary thriller. When a man is discovered dead by poisoning in his empty home, his beautiful wife Ayane immediately falls under suspicion. All clues point to her being the logical suspect, but how could she have committed the crime when she was hundreds of miles away? While Tokyo police detective Kusanagi tries to unpick a seemingly unrelated sequence of events, he finds himself falling for Ayane. As his judgement becomes dangerously clouded, his assistant must call on an old friend for help. 377pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.50
74580 WHAT DARKNESS
BRINGS by C. S. Harris Set in Regency England in September 1812, after a long night spent dealing with the tragic death of a former military comrade, heartsick Sebastian learns of a new calamity - Russell Yates, the dashing onetime privateer who married Kat a year ago, has been found standing over the corpse of Benjamin Eisler, a wealthy gem dealer. Yates insists
he is innocent, but surely he will hang unless Sebastian can unmask the real killer. Eisler’s clients include the Prince Regent and Napoleon, and he was a despicable man with many enemies and a number of dangerous, well-kept secrets, including a passion for arcane texts and black magic. Central to the case is a magnificent blue diamond that disappeared on the night of Eisler’s death. As the killer grows more desperate, Sebastian finds his marriage to Hero tested by the shadows of his first love. 353pp. Remainder mark. $24.95 NOW £5
74606 WINTER FROST: A DI Jack Frost
Investigation by R. D. Wingfield Coarse, insubordinate and fearless, DI Jack Frost is in serious trouble. Denton is having more than its fair share of crime. A serial killer is murdering local prostitutes, a man demolishing his garden shed uncovers a long-buried skeleton, and there is an armed robbery at a local minimart and a ram raid at a jewellers. DI Jack Frost’s main concern is for the safety of a missing eight year old. Then another girl is found, raped and strangled. Frost’s prime suspect hangs himself in his cell and subsequent evidence point to his innocence. 508pp in paperback.
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74980 NIGHT WATCH: A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett
For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer at loose in your city except perhaps a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution. The people have found their voice at last - the flags and barricades are rising and the question for a policeman, an officer of the law, a defender of the peace is: Are you with them, or are you against them? With all the trademark metaphysical wit of Pratchett, this is an inventive Discworld novel. 475pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £4.50
74736 CRIME: Short Stories by Great Writers selected by Rosemary Gray
Sad, funny, chilling, mysterious, romantic and always intriguing, these small masterpieces from the pens not only of literary legends but also of accomplished lesser- known writers of the past engage our emotions and linger in the memory. Virginia Woolf, E. W. Hornung, Ambrose Bierce, Maurice Leblanc, O. Henry, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Brett Harte, Charles Dickens, Poe, Edgar Wallace and Stephen Crane are among the chosen few. For each there is a mini biography. 320pp in softback. £6.99 NOW £3.50
74981 OSCAR WILDE AND THE DEAD MAN’S SMILE by Gyles Brandreth
Playwright and raconteur Oscar Wilde embarks on another adventure as he sets sail for America in the 1880s. On a rollercoaster of a lecture tour he meets P. T. Barnum, Jumbo the Elephant and Louisa May Alcott, becomes involved in a saloon shoot-out, and entertains Broadway’s brightest stars. But the adventure doesn’t really begin until Oscar boards an ocean liner headed back across the Atlantic and joins a motley crew led by a French actor and impresario. What begins with a curious death at sea soon escalates into a series of increasingly macabre tragedies as the acting troupe arrives in Paris to perform Hamlet. 365pp. Remainder mark.
$24 NOW £4.50 75026 UNRELIABLE LIFE OF
HARRY THE VALET by Duncan Hamilton
An impossibly daring jewellery heist aboard a train at Paris’s Gare du Nord station captures the attention of the world in October 1893. Who would have dared pull off such a feat? The author reveals the true story of Harry the Valet, the notorious crook who was the scourge of Victorian London, who
conned and stole his way into high society, living a life of excess in London’s best hotels and clubs. Dressed in bespoke suits and handmade shoes, Harry outwitted Scotland Yard with his trademark guile and panache. Harry was almost invisible, until blinded by love, he carried out the robbery that would prove his downfall. 311pp in paperback. Illus. £7.99 NOW £4
74668 FANTOMAS
by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain This legendary crime novel has been translated from the original French and was first published in 1915 and is here in unabridged reprint. A noblewoman is hacked to death in her chateau, a Russian princess is boldly robbed at a posh hotel, and a lord’s lifeless body is found stuffed into a trunk. Everyone recognises the deeds of Fantômas, a master of disguise, and his daring and diabolical crimes paralyse Parisians with terror. One man is sworn to bring the phantom killer to justice - Inspector Juve. This was the very first volume in a series of wildly popular French thrillers. 300 page paperback.
£10.49 NOW £4.75
74582 OPENING NIGHT MURDER
by Anne Rutherford At the dawn of the Restoration period, Suzanne Thornton hopes to find a second life in the theatre, but instead on opening night, she finds a dead body on stage. The triumphant return of King Charles II in 1660 creates opportunities for everyone from tavern keepers to brothel owners to actors. One of these is Suzanne. No longer a kept
woman since her man fled, she sees an opportunity to re-open a theatre and stage the greats - Shakespeare, Marlowe and the like and now, thanks to Royal decree, women can openly tread the boards. Suzanne secures financing from an old lover, assembles a troupe and restores the venue, none other than the historic Globe Theatre. Suzanne undertakes her own investigation to find a killer who may try to close her down for good. 309pp in paperback. Remainder mark. $14 NOW £4
74777 CARRIE, SALEM’S LOT, THE SHINING: Leather Bound by Stephen King
A magnificently presented silver edged hardback with red satin bookmark, blood-curdling endpapers and silver textured real leather cover with haunted house black and red embossed cover design and ridged spine, this is a marvellously collectable 1096 page omnibus. It features Stephen King’s three classic novels, Carrie, Salem’s Lot and The Shining, each of which went on to become tremendously popular and incredible scary films. The original publication dates were 1974, 1975 and 1977 respectively. Collectable glamorous edition. ONLY £12
74929 A NAME IN BLOOD by Matt Rees A highly acclaimed Oxford graduate best known for his Omar Yussef series. This novel is set in Italy, 1605. For the ruling Borghese family, Rome is a place of grand palazzos and frescoed cathedrals. For the lowly artist Caravaggio it is a place of rough bars, knife fights and grubby whores, until he is commissioned to paint the Pope. Soon he has gained entry into the Borghese family’s inner circle and becomes the most celebrated artist in Rome. When he falls for Lena, a low-born fruit seller and paints her into his Madonna series as a simple peasant woman, Italian society is outraged. Discredited as an artist but unwilling to retract his vision of the woman he loves, Caravaggio is forced into a duel, and murders his adversary. Caravaggio flees to Malta and undergoes the rigorous training of the Knights of Malta. 288pp.
£14.99 NOW £4 75007 GREATEST RUSSIAN STORIES OF
CRIME AND SUSPENSE edited by Otto Penzler 19 short stories by the greatest writers including Akunin, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Nabokov, Pushkin and Tolstoy. Crime and mystery fiction was a type of literature that was largely suppressed during the Soviet era if it did not glorify the state but instead gave individual characters the significance that the USSR despised. Nonetheless, the enormous talent and passion of Russian authors have long been justly acclaimed and the rare forays they made into this loosely defined genre rank among the world’s classics. This volume is the first collection ever devoted entirely to Russian crime fiction. 354pp in paperback. $15.95 NOW £5
Crime Fiction INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY
Case Files as seen on BBC TV starring Martin Shaw
75582 GENTLY DOWN THE
STREAM by Alan Hunter The staff at Stoley’s Boatyard were used to holidaymakers returning their pleasure cruisers a little late after a week or so exploring the network of waterways around Norchester. They were not used to finding their yachts burned almost beyond recognition with the charred remains of a client still aboard.
Taking on the murder investigation, Chief Inspector George Gently faces an enquiry like no other. Somewhere beneath the lies of the victim’s wife, somewhere obscured by the brittle edge of her daughter’s fear, somewhere hidden by her son’s hysteria, lies the truth. Gently’s only hope is to sweep aside the litter of chaos to uncover the identity of the killer. 248pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
75580 GENTLY BY THE
SHORE by Alan Hunter In a British seaside holiday resort at the height of the season, you would expect to find a promenade and a pier, maybe some donkeys, Kiss-Me-Quick hats, candy floss and kids building sandcastles with their dads. You would not expect to find a naked corpse, punctured with stab wounds lying on the sand. Chief Inspector George
Gently is called in to investigate and the case needs to be wrapped up quickly to calm the nerves of concerned holidaymakers. No one wants to think that there is a maniac on the loose in town, but with no clothes or identifying marks on the body, Gently has a tough time establishing who the victim is, let alone finding the killer. 266pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
75581 GENTLY DOES IT by Alan Hunter
Chief Inspector George Gently’s quiet Easter break in Norchester is rudely interrupted when a local timber merchant is found dead. His son, with whom he had been seen arguing, immediately becomes the prime suspect although Gently is far from convinced of his guilt. The City Police gratefully accept Gently’s offer to help investigate
the murder, but he soon clashes with Inspector Hansom, the officer in charge of the case. Hansom’s idea of conclusive evidence appals Gently almost as much as Gently’s thorough, detailed, methodical style of investigation exasperates Hansom. Locking horns with the local law is a distraction Gently can do without, especially when he is on ‘holiday’. 250pp in paperback. And now a successful TV series. £6.99 NOW £3.50
58200 A CHARLIE CHAN OMNIBUS by Earl Derr Biggers
Long out of print, Charlie Chan’s first three cases, ‘The House Without a Key’, ‘The Chinese Parrot’ and ‘Behind That Curtain’, have been collected in one volume. A family secret leads to murder in a house without locks. Someone is prepared to kill to procure a valuable set of pearls, and a parrot fluent in Chinese knows too much. A Scotland Yard Inspector is about to close his final case, but someone is prepared to kill to keep the mystery unsolved. He’s Honolulu’s greatest detective - prepare to savour the wisdom of Charlie Chan. From Hawaii to San Francisco, no crime is too baffling, no clue too insignificant. Paperback, 641pp. ONLY £2.50
74309 STEEL SPRING by Per Wahloo Chief Inspector Jensen is a policeman in an unnamed European country where the government has criminalised being drunk, even in private, and where the city centres have been demolished to devote more space to gleaming new roads. Recovering in a hospital room abroad after a liver transplant, Jensen receives a note instructing him to return home immediately. But when he reaches the airport he discovers that all flights home have been cancelled and all communication from within his homeland has ceased. One of the last messages sent requested urgent medical help from abroad and when Jensen is piloted across the border it soon becomes clear that some kind of epidemic has ravaged the country. 200 page paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
74300 MURDER ON THE THIRTY- FIRST FLOOR by Per Wahloo
Regarded as ‘The Godfather of Scandinavian Crime Fiction’ by Jo Nesbo no less, here is a novel first published in Sweden in 1964. In an unnamed country and sometime in the future, Chief Inspector Jensen of the 16th Division is called in after a publishers receive a threat to blow up their building. When the building is evacuated and no bomb explodes, Jensen is given seven days to track down the letter writer. It becomes clear that the directors and chairman of the publishers have their own secrets, not least the identity of the Special Department on the thirty first floor, which was not evacuated after the bomb threat. 215pp, Vintage paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
25387 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED STRAND
SHERLOCK HOLMES by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
‘Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories’. It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in
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