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The Invisible Code

Christopher Fowler · 352 pages

The game the two young children are playing is called Witch-Hunter. Spying a woman sitting alone in a church courtyard, they curse her and wait for her to die. And die she does. Her body is found in St Bride's Church - a building that no one else has entered. And unfortunately, Bryant & May are refused the case...

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The Tenant

Katrine Engberg · 368 pages

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The Case Is Closed

Patricia Wentworth · 312 pages

When a new clue arises in a long-closed murder inquiry, Miss Silver fights to free an innocent man. Marion Grey is growing used to the idea that her husband will never leave prison. After the horrors of a very public trial she is almost able to find relief in her resignation. But when new evidence suggests her husband may be innocent after all, she hires a professional—Miss Silver—to clear his

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Raven Black

Ann Cleeves · 379 pages

Raven Black begins on New Year's Eve with a lonely outcast named Magnus Tait, who stays home waiting for visitors who never come. But the next morning the body of a murdered teenage girl is discovered nearby, and suspicion falls on Magnus. Inspector Jimmy Perez enters an investigative maze that leads deeper into the past of the Shetland Islands than anyone wants to go.

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Death on the River Walk

Carolyn G. Hart · 336 pages

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The Black Tower

P.D. James · 288 pages

Scotland Yard Inspector Adam Dalgliesh races to solve a twisted murder in bestselling author P.D. James’ classic mystery The Black Tower, hailed as “splendid, macabre” by the London Sunday Telegraph and “a masterpiece,” by the London Sunday Times. Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh receives a call for advice from the elderly chaplain at Toynton Grange, an isolated nur

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Red, Green, or Murder

Steven F. Havill

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Nemesis

Agatha Christie · 256 pages

E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Nemesis;2) "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective.Even the unflappable Miss Marple is astounded as she reads the letter addressed to her on instructions from the recently deceased tycoon Mr Jason Rafiel, whom she had met on holiday in the West Indies (A Caribbean My

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Killing with Confetti

Peter Lovesey · 336 pages

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A Fatal Grace

Louise Penny · 320 pages

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Written In Blood

Caroline Graham · 387 pages

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Death of a Gentle Lady

M.C. Beaton · 256 pages

Gentle by name, gentle by nature. Everyone in the sleepy Scottish town of Lochdubh adores elderly Mrs. Gentle - everyone but Hamish Macbeth, that is. Hamish thinks the gentle lady is quite sly and vicious, and the citizens of Lochdubh think he is overly cranky. Perhaps it's time for him to get married, they say.But who has time for marriage when there's a murder to be solved? When Mrs. Gentle di

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Deception on His Mind

Elizabeth George · 716 pages

Balford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but growing Asian community, is found dead on its beach, his neck broken, sleepy Balford-le-Nez ignites. Working solo, without her long-time partner Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Sergeant Barbara Havers must probe not only the mind of a murderer and a case very close to her own heart, but the terrib

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The Old Silent

Martha Grimes · 425 pages

Dans une auberge du Yorkshire, Nell abat froidement son mari sous les yeux du commissaire Jury et remet aussitôt son pistolet au policier. Puisque la meurtrière est arrêtée, l'affaire semble close. Mais quel était donc le mobile du crime?

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Murder at Holly House

Denzil Meyrick · 410 pages

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The Incredulity of Father Brown

G.K. Chesterton · 195 pages

Father Brown , full-time Catholic priest and part-time amateur detective, returns in this third collection of short stories. Unlike the first two collections, this time Father Brown is investigating alone; his sidekick, the former criminal Flambeau, is nowhere to be seen. Father Brown has to solve a murder (including his own!) in each story, and since several also appear to involve the supernatura

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Monk's Hood

Ellis Peters · 268 pages

A stiff-necked old man deeds his estate to Shrewsbury Abbey, then dies via poison in a meal sent over by the abbey. Among the suspects Cadfael must work through are himself for brewing the poison and being part of the abbey, a hot-headed step-son, a bastard, and a villein.

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The Hangman's Daughter

Oliver Potzsch · 435 pages

Germany, 1659: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau. When more children disappear and an orphan boy is fo

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No Strangers Here

Carlene O'Connor · 320 pages

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The Last Party

Clare Mackintosh · 432 pages

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Jupiter's Bones

Faye Kellerman · 448 pages

Once Dr. Emil Euler Ganz was a preeminent astrophysicist with a world-renowned reputation. But then he vanished without any warning to his family or colleagues. Fifteen years later, he reappeared as "Father Jupiter," the founder and charismatic leader of the scientific cult, The Order of the Rings. And now he's dead--a vial of sleeping pills and an empty bottle of vodka standing near his lifeless

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One Fine Day the Rabbi Bought a Cross

Harry Kemelman · 293 pages

While on vacation in Jerusalem, Rabbi David Small runs into a baffling murder case after he meets most of the Jewish community from his hometown in Massachusetts.

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Snow White Must Die

Nele Neuhaus · 491 pages

On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: a woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer. On a September evening eleven years earl

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The Saltmarsh Murders

Gladys Mitchell · 292 pages

A quick-witted, clever mystery from the Golden Age of crime writingNoel Wells, curate in the sleepy village of Saltmarsh, likes to spend his time dancing in the study with the vicar's niece until one day the vicar's unpleasant wife discovers her unmarried housemaid is pregnant and trouble begins. It is left to Noel to call for the help of sometime-detective and full-time Freudian Mrs Bradley, who

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