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Pyramids
“Look after the dead,” said the priests, “and the dead will look after you.” Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country whose largesse—and indeed treasury—is unlikely to pay for the construction of a monumental...Read more
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Discworld - 7
A Quantum Murder
Professor Edward Kitchener, a double Nobel laureate researching quantum cosmology for the powerful Event Horizon conglomerate has been savagely murdered. But was he the victim of industrial espionage, personal revenge, or a crime of passion by one of his handpicked team of live-wire...Read more
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The Queen's Messenger
Moving from the conference rooms of Whitehall to 1980 Thailand, the story is almost impossible to put down as Gordon Clive seeks answers to the unprecendented disappearances of a Queen's messenger from a train in Mongolia.Read more
A Question Of Guilt
Crown Prosecutor Helen West unravels the threads of a complex murder case in which a killer is caught and confesses, but the woman responsible for the crime--committed to free her lover of his wife--will stop at nothing to elude detectionRead more
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The Question of Max
Written by the author of "No Word From Winifred", "A Death in the Faculty", "The James Joyce Murder" and "Sweet Death, Kind Death", this is a detective story set in Oxford in the 20s.Read more
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A Question of Proof
The faculty and student body at Sudeley are shocked but scarcely saddened when the headmaster’s obnoxious nephew, Algernon Wyvern-Wemyss, is found dead in a haystack on Sports Day.
But when the young English master, Michael Evans, becomes a suspect in the case, he’s greatly...Read more
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Quicksand
Aldo has been so relentlessly unlucky – in business, in love, in life – that the universe seems to have taken against him personally. Even Liam, his best friend, describes him as 'a well-known parasite and failure'. Aldo has always faced the future with optimism and despair in equal measure...Read more
The Quiet Road to Death
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Blood On The Happy Highway
Breckham Market is a village with immaculate gardens, charming houses, friendly neighbors ... and a ghoulish murderer. — The tranquility of Breckham Market is shattered when Angela Arrowsmith's cat is found decapitated and the words "Your Turn Next" are scrawled on her door. The...Read more
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4
Quite Ugly One Morning
Quite Ugly One Morning is the book that made Christopher Brookmyre a star in his native Britain, establishing his distinctive, scabrously humorous style and breakneck, hell-for-leather narrative pacing. The novel that won the inaugural First Blood Award for the best debut crime novel in the...Read more
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The Quokka Question
Kylie Kendall is hired for a routine security detail to prevent an academic rival from disrupting Dr. Oscar Braithwaite’s keynote address at UCLA’s Global Marsupial Symposium. Sounds easy enough to be downright dull, but then Dr. Braithwaite is murdered, and his sister, the sexually...Read more
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Rainbow's End
The sleepy village of Middlehope is suddenly jerked into life by nouveau riche antiques magnate Arthur Rainbow. In a whirlwind of activity he extravagantly refurbishes the Manor House, joins the Golf Club, Angling Society and Arts Council—and, in a ruthless coup, dislodges the old church...Read more
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Rainstone Fall
Chris Honeysett, an artist and private investigator, takes on a surveillance job to pay for repairs to his roof and finds himself faced with abduction, blackmail, and murder.Read more
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Random Killer
The night before an interview with a terrorist, a reporter is killed at the Beaumont HotelFor a madman with an itch to kill someone famous, there could be no better venue than the Beaumont Hotel—Manhattan’s headquarters for the international elite. The omniscient manager Pierre Chambrun...Read more
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Ransom
Scobie Malone, Cleary's Australian policeman hero, has finally married his upper class girlfriend Lisa. While on honeymoon in New York, she is kidnapped, because she unfortunately happens to be present when the wife of the city's mayor is abducted; she is an innocent victim, taken only to...Read more
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Rat Race
Matt Shore was an experienced pilot. He'd done it all. From big jets to flying in supplies to war zones. So when he gets a job ferrying high class punters around England's race courses he might be forgiven for expecting the quiet life. But then his plane explodes in a massive fireball. He...Read more
Ratking
Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful Perugian industrialist. But nobody much wants Zen to succeed: not the local authorities, who view him as an interloper, and certainly not Miletti's children, who seem content...Read more
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The Raven In The Foregate
It is Christmas, A.D. 1141, Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross, also known as the Foregate. The new priest is a man of presence, learning, and discipline, but he lacks humility and the common touch. When he is found drowned in...Read more
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The Raven's Eye
It's one of Brock and Kolla's bloodiest investigations. On the trail of a brutal killer with a meat cleaver and a grudge they're also watching their backs as new technologies threaten their jobs. A throat-stopping, heart-thumping mystery from one of Australia's most acclaimed crime writers...Read more
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12
The Reader
For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems....Read more
The Reaper
After years spent saving souls, Otis Joy, the rector of St. Bartholomew’s Church in Foxford, Wiltshire, has found a new ending lives. His young French wife? Anaphylactic shock, what a shame. The bishop? Fell into a quarry. Tragic. It’s not Joy’s fault, really—not that he’s concerned about...Read more
Reasonable Doubts
Lawyer Guerrieri is asked to handle the appeal of Fabio Paolicelli, sentenced to sixteen years for smuggling drugs into Italy. Everything seems stacked against the accused, not least because he initially confessed to the crime. His past as a neo-fascist thug also adds credence to the case...Read more
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Recalled to Life
It was a crime of passion in one of England's great houses, an open-and-shut case. But thirty years later, when the convicted nanny is freed, then spirited off to America before she can talk, Yorkshire's Superintendent Dalziel retums to the scene of the crime with Inspector Pascoe,...Read more
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The Reckoning
It was on a beautiful morning in June 1973 that eleven-year-old Miller McAllister’s world fell apart … That was the weekend that police found the remains of three missing teenage girls on the tiny Scottish island of Fidra. And that was the weekend that Miller’s father, Douglas, was arrested...Read more
Recognition Factor
Australian undercover agent Denise Cleever is the only member of the worldwide intelligence community who has seen the never-photographed international terrorist Red Wolf face-to-face . . . and lived. Now the fear is that Red Wolf is in the United States to coordinate a series of terrorist...Read more
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The Recycled Citizen
Sarah Kelling and her husband, Max Bittersohn, have joined the rest of the Kelling clan to plan a black-tie charity auction with the proceeds going to the Senior Citizens' Recycling Center. But soon one of the Center's members is killed, and the Kelling clan enlists Sarah and Max to solve...Read more
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7
Red Centre, Dark Heart
A JOURNEY INTO AUSTRALIA'S LAWLESS PLACE HEART OF-DARKNESS – A LONELY, WHERE EVIL EXISTS AND CRIMES CAN GO UNNOTICED.
The Australian outback is a vast landscape of extraordinary magnificence. But it is also a notorious crime scene. Some of the most shocking and fascinating...Read more
Red for Rachel
David Cunane is Manchester’s most off-beat private eye. Fond of drink, fatally attracted to the wrong women and champion of the lost cause, he walks a thin line…
Rachel Elsworth is missing. Nineteen years old, she has mysteriously vanished into the city’s seamy underworld. Her...Read more
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The Red Fox
In his widely acclaimed, intelligently written first novel, Anthony Hyde gives us the thrilling story of a search -- from Canada to Georgetown to Paris to Leningrad, and finally to an isolated Russian village -- for a missing man, a missing fortune, and the key to a tantalizing mystery half...Read more
The Red House Mystery
The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore, A. A. Milne was also the author of numerous dramas, essays, and novels for adults — among them, this droll and finely crafted whodunit.
In it, Milne takes readers to the Red...Read more