Hamlet, Revenge!
A murder executed during a private performance of Hamlet presents John Appleby of Scotland Yard with more than fifty suspectsRead more
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Hand In Glove
The April Fool’s Day had been a roaring success for all, it seemed – except for poor Mr Cartell who had ended up in the ditch – for ever.
Then there was the case of Mr Percival Pyke Period’s letter of condolence, sent before the body was found – not to mention the family...Read more
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A Hand In the Bush
In the heady days of the seventies, and at the tender age of nineteen, Decca Brand experimented with what was on offer - sex, drugs and intrigue. Far too much intrigue, it turns out, and of a sort that spells murder. Fast forward nearly thirty years and Decca is confronted by dangerous...Read more
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The Hand That Trembles
A Swedish county commissioner walks out of a high-level meeting and disappears. Many years later, one of the town's natives is convinced that he's caught a glimpse of the missing man while traveling in Bangalore, India. When the rumors reach his hometown, a veteran police officer stumbles...Read more
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Handling the Undead
Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There's a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up...Read more
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Handstands in the Dark
A unique life story from a true survivor, read by the author.
Born in the tough East End of Glasgow and married into one of the city's most notorious criminal families, Janey Godley's young life was far from ordinary. From the grim and far-from-swinging '60s,...Read more
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The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien
Georges Simenon's haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt, translated by Linda Coverdale as part of the new Penguin Maigret series.
A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there...Read more
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The Hanging
On a cold Monday morning before school begins, two children make a gruesome discovery. Hanging from the roof of the school gymnasium are the bodies of five naked and heavily disfigured men. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen and his team from the Murder Squad in Copenhagen are...Read more
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The Hanging Garden
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon... The hanging of four French villagers in World War II... The hanging of an old man in a Scottish cemetery... Seemingly random facts linked to one man...
Detective Inspector John Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his...Read more
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The Hanging Girl
In the middle of a hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive at first, but then he receives some shocking news.
Carl then has no...Read more
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The Hanging Shed
Glasgow 1946. Brodie's back in Scotland to try and save childhood friend Shug Donovan from the gallows. Everyone thought Donovan was dead, shot down in the war. The man who eventually returns is horribly burned, only venturing out for heroin to deaden his pain. When a local boy is found...Read more
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The Hanging Valley
A faceless corpse is discovered in a tranquil, hidden valley below the village of Swainshead. When Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrives, he finds that no-one is willing to talk. Banks' frustration only grows when the identity of the body is revealed. For it seems that his latest case may be...Read more
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Hangman's Holiday
Amusing and absolutely appalling things happen on the way to the gallows when murder meets Lord Peter Wimsey and the delightful working-class sleuth Montague Egg. This sumptuous feast of criminal doings and undoings includes a vintage double identity and a horrid incident of feline...Read more
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The Hangman's Song
A young man is found hanging by a rope in his Edinburgh home. A simple, sad suicide, yet Detective Inspector Tony McLean is puzzled by the curious suicide note. A second hanged man and another strange note hint at a sinister pattern.
Investigating a brutal prostitution and human...Read more
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Hangman's Tide
When someone hangs a meddlesome ex-schoolteacher of an English coastal village and arranges her corpse in a macabre display, Inspector Kenworthy concocts an elaborate scheme to solve the near-perfect crimeRead more
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A Hank of Hair
''For I prefer beauty always a little soured. When it comes to me as a spoonful of syrup, I spit it out.''
Gilbert Hand hasn't been the same since his wife died. He's moved to a dull but respectable hotel where silence seems to brood in the hall and stairway. In a secret drawer...Read more
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Happy Days
As ex-drug baron Bazza Mackenzie runs for parliament, ex-cop Paul Winter knows that his time with Bazza must, at whatever cost, come to an end, in the 12th in this highly acclaimed series of police procedurals
DI Faraday is gone and the police are left reeling...Read more
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Harbour
On a winter trip home to the island of Domarö, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse at Gåvasten.
And Maja disappears. Leaving not even a footprint in the snow.
Two years later, alone and more or less permanently...Read more
The Harbour Master
AMSTERDAM NOIR IN THREE, ICE-COLD INSTALLMENTS ...
Maverick cop Henk van der Pol is thinking about retirement when he finds a woman's body in Amsterdam Harbour. His detective instincts take over, even though it's not his case. But his bigger challenge is deciding who his friends...Read more
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Hard Choices
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America’s 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future.
“All of us face hard choices in our lives,” Hillary Rodham Clinton writes...Read more
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Hard Frost
Detective Inspector Jack Frost, Denton Division, is not beloved by his superiors. In fact, he's something of a pain in the unkempt and unruly, with a taste for crude humor and a tendency to cut corners. They'd like nothing better than to bounce him from the department. The only problem...Read more
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Hard Labour
From the Land Down Under comes seventeen dark criminal tales, including Garry Disher’s first ever Wyatt story, unpublished for over a decade, and new fiction by Peter Corris, Leigh Redhead, David Whish-Wilson, Adrian McKinty, Angela Savage, Helen Fitzgerald and more – including Greig...Read more
Hard Man
Has Pearce finally found his match? A time-served Edinburgh hard man, Pearce is still recovering from the recent loss of his mother in a stabbing incident in a post office robbery. He's invited by the dysfunctional Baxter family to protect their pregnant 16-year-old daughter from Wallace,...Read more
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Hardcastle's Mandarin
A DI Hardcastle Investigation - June 1917. - Ernest Hardcastle, head of the Whitehall CID, is called to investigate the murder of Sir Nigel Strang, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Munitions. Given his work, Hardcastle wonders whether the Germans might be responsible. Then another...Read more
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Harem
The body of a teenage girl is discovered in a cistern deep below the city of Istanbul. For the Turkish police force's most talented officer, Inspector Çetin Ikmen, this is a difficult case. The girl was his daughter's friend and her attire, that of a nineteenth-century Ottoman, offers no...Read more
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Harm Done
A young girl disappears, then another.
A notorious paedophile is released back into the community. The residents of the Muriel Campden Estate are up in arms, and even prepared to take the law into their own hands...
Chief Inspector Wexford is not only...Read more
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Harsh Recovery
Two cops in recovery. A brutal murder on a dangerous island. A secret history that threatens everything.
Constable Laura Romano is in recovery for drug and alcohol addiction and her partner - Jim Harris - is her sponsor. Both of them are stationed on Tunnel Island, a tropical...Read more
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Hat Dance
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Emilia Cruz, Acapulco's first and only female police detective, will risk a dance with the devil to catch an arsonist and find a missing girl. But the music comes with a price no honest cop can afford to pay.
By coincidence at the same restaurant as Acapulco's popular mayor,...Read more
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The Hatchet Man
Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer of Hong Bay's Yellowthread Street Station is on the trail of the fearsome Hatchet Man--a maniacal killer terrorizing the city and offering few clues to his identity. Hilarious, rough, heart-pounding and always breathlessly entertaining fiction.Read more
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Haunted Ground
When a red-haired girl's severed head is found in an ancient bog in southeast Galway, it may be an historical relic or the answer to a local mystery. As an archaeologist and a pathologist investigate, they reawaken interest in the two-year-old disappearance of a woman and her young son.Read more
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