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Simon Kernick

The Business Of Dying

It's a typical cold November night and DS Dennis Milne, a very untypical policeman, is in the car park of the Traveller's Rest Hotel awaiting instructions to kill three unarmed men. Cynical and jaded, Milne likes to think that he's hurting only those who deserve it. But this time he's been...Read more

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The Crime Trade

When an undercover sting operation designed to catch Columbian drug traffickers, goes horribly wrong in a Heathrow hotel, suspicion falls on one of the officers “Stegs” Jenner. But Stegs is no ordinary undercover cop; something of a maverick, he’s always lived life on the edge. Now, with...Read more

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Deadline

'We've got your daughter.'

It's evening, you're back late from work - and the house is in darkness.

You step inside, and the phone rings. You answer it - and your world turns upside down.

Your fourteen-year-old daughter's been taken, and...Read more

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A Good Day to Die

When Dennis Milne — now living under an assumed identity in the Philippines — hears that his old friend and colleague Malik has been gunned down in a restaurant, he decides to go back to the violent city he once called home, and bring the murderer to book.

Milne arrives in a pre-...Read more

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The Mammoth Book Of Best British Crime

Leading editor and reviewer Maxim Jakubowski has compiled another beguiling collection of the year's best new short crime fiction from the UK.  Ian Rankin's perennially popular Edinburgh cop, Inspector Rebus, makes an unexpected comeback in a short but intriguing story 'The Very Last Drop...Read more

The Mammoth Book Of Best British Crime, edited by Maxim Jakubowski

Mammoth by name, mammoth by nature - this collection has 42 stories in total, many of which come from well-known names, with a good sprinkling of new and emerging writers. Exactly the sort of thing short story fans would be looking for.

Preferring the darker side of the genre,...Read more

The Murder Exchange

When ex-mercenary Max Iversson accompanies a nightclub owner to an ill-fated rendezvous in a deserted north London industrial estate, it turns out to be not so much a set-up as a bloodbath. Three men have been shot, the briefcase Iversson has been guarding is empty--and he wants to know why...Read more