CRIME FICTION


As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.


- P. G. Wodehouse, The Man With Two Left Feet


76543 BONES BENEATH by Mark Billingham


Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is back in charge, but there’s a terrifying price to pay. Stuart Nicklin, the most dangerous psychopath he has ever put behind bars, promises to reveal the whereabouts of a body he buried 25 years earlier but only if Thorne agrees to escort him. Unable to refuse, Thorne gathers a team and


travels to a remote Welsh island at the mercy of the weather and cut off from the mainland. He is determined to get the job done and return home before Nicklin can outwit them. But Nicklin knows this island well and has had time to plan ahead. Soon, new bodies are added to the old, and Thorne finds himself facing the toughest decision he has ever had to make. A brilliantly plotted thriller in a special Collector’s Edition hardback containing exclusive content: a Playlist (because plays a large part in the protagonist’s life). 391pp, £18.99 NOW £6


76636 SCAREDY CAT by Mark Billingham By the author of ‘Lazybones’, this book was regarded as ‘an exceptional debut’. It was a calculated vicious murder at Euston station. The victim had been followed home on the tube, then strangled in front of her child. At the same time a second body is discovered at the back of Kings Cross station, killed in identical


fashion. It eerily echoes the murders of two other women, both stabbed to death months before on the same day. DI. Tom Thorne sees the link and comes to the horrifying conclusion that it is not one serial killer the police are up against, it is two. To stop them both, Thorne must catch a man whose need to manipulate is as great as his need to kill and his deadliest weapon of all is terror. 369 page paperback. ONLY £5


76552 DUST


by Patricia Cornwell A thrilling, addictive novel from America’s most chilling writer of crime fiction. After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to recover, but an unsettling call drives her straight back to work. The body of a young woman has been discovered inside the sheltered gates


of MIT, draped in an unusual cloth and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer’s first strike. A preliminary examination reveals that the body is covered in a fine dust that under ultra-violet light fluoresces blood-red, emerald-green and sapphire-blue, and physical evidence links this to another series of disturbing homicides in Washington, DC. Scarpetta discovers that the cases connect but also conflict and is drawn with her team deeper into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology, organised crime and shocking corruption at the highest level. 544pp in paperback with author profile.


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The Ultimate Collection by Gerald Seymour The massive bestseller Harry’s Game burst on to the literary scene in 1975 and was the first major thriller to tackle the modern troubles in Northern Ireland. Here is another tense, taut tale of mounting drama with a foreword by John Follain. The US Drug Enforcement Agency is desperate to capture Mario Ruggerio, the would-be leader of the


Sicilian Mafia and mastermind behind the international drugs trade. Charlotte Parsons, a young English schoolteacher, was the family’s nanny four years ago. When she is asked to take up her old job she is excited at the prospect of leaving behind a sleepy Devon village. But Charlie doesn’t realise that she is the live bait in an American trap. The novel has its grounding in hard fact so strong that its Sicilian characters and scenes take an almost journalistic view. The book’s anti-Mafia judge is evocative of the real life judge Giovanni Falcone, killed in an explosion in 1992. Like his character, he lived an absurd, isolated existence under armed protection. The book’s accounts of the dusty, depressing town of Corleone are just as real. An intelligent and accomplished thriller, 491pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3.50


76578 LATE SCHOLAR by Jill Paton Walsh


A Peter Wimsey Investigates novel based on the characters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Becoming the Duke and Duchess of Denver has not ended the detective partnership of Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. When Peter discovers he has inherited the job of Visitor, that is the ultimate regulator, of St Severin’s College, and the Fellows appeal to him to


solve a dispute, he and Harriet set off happily to spend some time in Oxford, the city of their engagement and


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76557 FIREFLY GADROON: An Original


Lovejoy Murder Mystery by Jonathan Gash ‘I don’t like to pack too much into an ordinary day and this one had already been pretty eventful - two arguments with women, a fight in a pub and a warning from the Old Bill. Then it got worse. A fiasco at auction lost me an exquisite antique Japanese firefly cage. The trouble was somebody wanted that little gem even more than I did. It was the key that would unlock a secret they’d do anything to keep under wraps, even murder. If they had gone about their dirty business without dragging me or my friends into it I wouldn’t have given a hoot, but when the master craftsman bravely trying to teach me the art of gadrooning fell foul of them and paid for it with his life, they had me to deal with.’ A lively and ingenious murder mystery featuring Lovejoy. 215pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


76563 GOLD FROM GEMINI: An Original


Lovejoy Murder Mystery by Jonathan Gash ‘To my mind, making love is a lot like picking blackberries - you need both hands and a lot of skill to do it properly and get away unscathed, yet your mind can be miles away. When my mind wanders, it’s invariably in the direction of an antiques deal, and what could attract an antique dealer’s mind more irresistibly than a trail of clues leading to a treasure trove of Roman gold? It might have put me off a bit had I known that following the trail would involve violence and murder, but not for long, and when your friends are in the firing line, you have to make sure your enemies get what’s coming to them.’ A decidedly exciting treasure hunt with Manx climax, some gore and buckets of lore with the ever popular Lovejoy. 236pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


76568 GRAIL TREE: An Original Lovejoy


Murder Mystery by Jonathan Gash ‘Antiques dealers are mostly lustful, greedy, savage, crude and vulgar. The difference between you and me is that I bet I am a lot more honest about myself. I was entirely honest with an old little forger who claimed he had the real Holy Grail - I told him he was nuts. If I had a penny for every crackpot ‘grail’ story I’ve come across, I’d be loaded by now. Yet he was a decent bloke and whatever it was he had, someone thought it was worth murdering him for it. What choice did I have but to find out what the hell it was all about?’ Lovejoy, ingeniously dishonest Norfolk antique dealer is nicely on form. 248pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


76575 JUDAS PAIR: An Original Lovejoy


Murder Mystery by Jonathan Gash ‘Not so long ago, like any other antiques dealer worth his salt, if you had asked me to find the Judas Pair, I would have laughed until I fell down. Everybody knew that they simply didn’t exist. The antiques business is riddled with myths that this supposedly exquisite, unique pair of 18th century duelling pistols was one of the


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greatest. Even when a thoroughly respectable new client offered me hard cash to track them down, I had to tell him that the pistols were a fantasy. But he knew different. You see, they had been used to murder his brother.’ Another collectors’ piece in this original murder mystery series. 251pp in paperback.


£6.99 NOW £3.50 76592 SLEEPERS OF ERIN: An Original


Lovejoy Murder Mystery by Jonathan Gash ‘I knew things were going badly when I’d been hospitalised and arrested for a crime that not only did I not commit, I had actively attempted to prevent. Top that off with a pending court appearance before a judge whose wife I knew rather better than he did, and the idea of tunnelling into an ancient Irish tomb with a gang of ruthless villains, a deranged scarecrow poet and an Eastern European hit man (whom I knew for a fact had been no further east than Billericay in his entire life) sounded perfectly reasonable to me. All I had to do was make sure that I didn’t end up joining ancient Irish tomb’s inhabitants.’ 247pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


76594 SPEND GAME: An Original Lovejoy


Murder Mystery by Jonathan Gash ‘The antiques game is nothing but trouble - beautiful, lovely trouble, all the time. Normally I can glide through it by turning on the trademark Lovejoy charm, or skip round it with a delicate sidestep. Sometimes, I simply blunder into it up to my neck. Standing by a roadside ditch in a thunderstorm, holding hands with a terrified woman and staring down at the lifeless body of an old friend, I was blundering in deeper than ever. In truth, I was probably more scared than she was. You see, I had a pretty good idea why he had been murdered.’ A splendidly energetic book. 252pp in paperback.


£6.99 NOW £3.50 76599 VATICAN RIP: An Original Lovejoy


Murder Mystery by Jonathan Gash Love says ‘Stopping my friends from getting broken when an Italian gentleman made me an offer I couldn’t refuse meant stealing a very valuable antique table. But who had it? Without a flicker of a smile he replied ‘The Pope.’ If you think the Pope lives in a big church called the Vatican, then think again. The Vatican is a complete walled city guarded by the ridiculously costumed Swiss Guard. Look a bit daft, don’t they? But they are highly trained young men. Well, if stealing antiques from the Pope was easy, everybody would be doing it, wouldn’t they?’ Fast paced fiction with the loveable rogue and a text stuffed with a magpie’s selection of antique information. 248pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


76760 ORIGINAL LOVEJOY MURDER


MYSTERIES: Set of 7 by Jonathan Gash Buy all seven paperbacks and save even more. £48.93 NOW £21


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74521 VENDETTA by Michael Dibdin Inspector Zen has an impossible murder to solve. An eccentric billionaire was killed inside a heavily fortified Sardinian fortress where every room was monitored by video camera. But although the cameras captured the billionaire’s grisly death, they did not record the face of his killer. As Zen gets to work, he is plunged into a menacing and violent world where his own life is soon at risk. Originally published in 1990, 400 page paperback reprint.


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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


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 and magical novel. 431pp, paperback. $16 NOW £3


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 and 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. 309pp, paperback. Remainder mark. $14 NOW £2.50


74592 A TOUCH OF FROST: A DI Jack Frost


Investigation by R. D. Wingfield Detective Inspector Jack Frost, officially on duty, is nevertheless determined to sneak off to a colleague’s leaving party, but first the corpse of a well-known local junkie is found blocking the drain of a public lavatory. When Frost attempts to join the revelry later on, the nubile daughter of a wealthy businessman is reported missing. A robbery occurs at a strip joint, the pampered son of a local MP is suspected of a hit-and-run offence, and to top it all, a multiple rapist is on the loose. Frost is under pressure with his paperwork piling up. 427pp, paperback.


£7.99 NOW £3.50 74668 FANTOMAS


wedding. But a quarrel about whether to sell an ancient manuscript turns out to be both bitter and lethal. Several of the Fellows at St Severin’s die unexpectedly and the causes of death bear an uncanny resemblance to the murder methods in Peter Wimsey’s past cases and Harriet Vane’s detective novels. The author puts her own stamp on the story and captures those imperial Sayers cadences perfectly. 356pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £4.50


76585 MURDER IN THE AFTERNOON: A Kate Shackleton Mystery


by Frances Brody Young Harriet and her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry where their stone mason father works, so when they find him dead on the cold ground, they scarper quick smart and look for some help. When help arrives however, the quarry is deserted and


there is no sign of the body. Were the children mistaken? Is their father not dead? Did he simply get up and run away? It seems like a sinister disappearing act and an unusual situation requiring the expertise of Kate Shackleton. This is one case where surprising family ties make it her most dangerous and delicate yet. If you love the Maisie Dobbs novels, you will love this. 387pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £4.50


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. 353pp. Remainder mark. $24.95 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 A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle’s matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson. Illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget. 1408 page well-bound softback. ONLY £6.50


75402 CUCKOO’S CALLING by Robert Galbraith (aka J. K. Rowling)


From the hushed streets of Mayfair to the backstreet pubs of the East End and the bustle of Soho, we are introduced to Cormoran Strike, a slightly overweight private detective. Wounded both physically and psychologically and his life is in disarray. When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-


covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed she has committed suicide but her brother has his doubts. The case is given to Strike and could give him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost. The more he delves into the young model’s complex world, the closer he gets to trouble. This is J. K. Rowling’s acclaimed first crime novel. 449pp. £16.99 NOW £6


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


by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain First published in 1915 and is here in unabridged translation. 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


73480 TOOTH AND NAIL: An Inspector Rebus Novel by Ian Rankin


Inspector John Rebus is on a train to London from Edinburgh. His Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn’t too happy at yet more interference. Rebus is going to have to deal with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac. When he is offered a serial killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive lady psychologist, it is too good an opportunity to turn down. But in finding an ally, he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack. A vividly sordid scalp-prickler. Photos and maps. 275pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


74929 A NAME IN BLOOD by Matt Rees


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. 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.


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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 £3.50


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