The Book Cover for 1984 by George Orwell - this edition has a head and shoulders drawing of a man with short hair and a moustache. He's wearing a high necked jumper, and his face is half in a red shadow. The title of the book and the author's name are prominent at the bottom.
1984
 
The book cover of 1989 by Val McDermid includes the taglines 'The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller', 'She'll Risk Anything for the Truth ....' and 'An Allie Burns Thriller' The image is looking up onto a set of concrete steps with low walls either side. There is a tower in the distance and birds flying against a cloudy light grey sky.
1989
 
The book cover of 22 Dead Little Bodies has two taglines 'The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller' and 'A Logan McRae and DCI Steel Story'. The image has a textured blue / green background with a 4 black birds flying around.
22 Dead Little Bodies
 
The audio book cover for A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz includes the tagline 'New York Times bestselling author of magpie murders & the word is murder' at the very top of a red background. In the centre of the image is an Ace of Spades white card with the title of the book across the middle and a single red slanted mark that looks a bit like a stylised cut across the middle of it. Below the card is a black fountain pen.
A Line to Kill
 
The cover for A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett, with the tagline 'The Lost Stories'. The background of the book is black with the author's name at the top in silver, the boot title in gold in the middle, and the tagline in silver at the bottom. Surrounding the text are two vines with candles in elaborate holders, pens, swords, and dragons interwoven through them. There's a lute and a small gnome at the bottom. The gnome is holding a light candle, wearing a blue outfit with bright red boots. There is a foreword by Neil Gaiman
A Stroke of the Pen
 
The image of the book cover for Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre with the quote from the Daily Telegraph. It has a pale green background with a yellow plastic / fake duck with a target on it, in the centre of the title.
Attack Of The Unsinkable Rubber Ducks
 
The image of the book cover for Be My Enemy by Christopher Brookmyre with the quote 'Hiaasen is one of Ameria's finest satisits, Brookmyre is Britain's Observer'. It has a purple background with the title down the page, cracked like a mirror.
Be My Enemy
 
The book cover of Black Widow by Christopher Brookmyre (audio version) with the tagline 'She's on Trial for his Life' / 'A Jack Parlabane Thriller' The image is of a woman in a red coat, her long black hair blowing in the wind. She's got her back to the viewer, seated on a wooden park bench looking towards a foggy sky with the outline of trees visible.
Black Widow
 
The image of the book cover for Boiling a Frog by Christopher Brookmyre with the tagline 'Riddled with humour and political satire. The Times'. It has a green background with a downward line that's forming a spiral after substituting as the i in Boiling.
Boiling a Frog
 
The image of the book cover for Country of the Blind by Christopher Brookmyre. It has a yellow background with a large key above Country, then a keyhole as the o in Of, and a small shadow coming off the N in Blind.
Country of the Blind
 
The image of the book cover for Dead Girl Walking by Christopher Brookmyre includes the quote 'Chilling, compelling. Brookmyre is unique. Mark Billingham '. The image is of a woman playing a violin with a swirling dress / coat behind her. The to half of the background is bright, textured pink, the bottom purple with the heads and shoulders of indistinct people looking upwards.
Dead Girl Walking
 
The book cover for Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood includes the tagline (in a red "sticker") 'A Marlow Murder Club Mystery' and a quote 'I love Thorogood's writing' Peter James. The cover is mostly white with the title in large lettering at the top, and a cartoonish view of a duck with only its belly and legs showing out of some blue water images (toes turned up in other words).
Death Comes to Marlow
 
The book cover for Death In A Lonely Place by Stig Abell includes the tagline 'In a quiet village, secrets stir ...' The image is of a body of still water, deep blue and mauve reflecting the sky above. There's a leafless tree in the middle of the water with birds flying around it, and across the other side there are a row of low purple coloured hills.
Death in a Lonely Place
 
The book cover for Death Under A Little Sky by Stig Abell includes the tagline 'Sometimes the quietest villages hide the darkest secrets ...' and the quote "Gloriously atmospheric" - Lucy Foley. The image is of a field with ripe grain in it, looking across it to a stand of leafless trees with birds flying around them, grey low hills in the background still and a blue / green cloudy sky above.
Death Under A Little Sky
 
The book cover of Fallen Angel by Chris Brookmyre includes the taglines 'It's 16 years since that holiday. She has been waiting.' and the quotes 'Guaranteed to keep you guessing' Ian Rankin on Black Widow and 'In the pantheon of great crime writers' Elly Griffiths The image is of a pool with the bottom of some chairs at the top, the water is very blue and just slightly rippled at the bottom left.
Fallen Angel
 
The book cover of Friends of Dorothy by Sandi Toksvig shows a small two seater red couch with a small rainbow pillow on it, against a blue wall and yellow floor. There is a pair of shoes, a pair of boots and a pair of slippers under the couch which is a bit battered and torn. The title of the book is in a rainbow sort of shape at the top, and the author's name at the bottom.
Friends of Dorothy
 
The cover of the audio version of Guilty By Definition by Susie Dent includes the notation 'The debut novel from...' above the author's name. The quote at the bottom is 'A tantalising mystery for word sleuths and crime fans alike' Janice Hallett. The cover has a background image of crowded bookshelves, in the gloom, with a book open on its back, pages sitting up slightly in the middle.
Guilty by Definition
 
The cover for John Cooper Clarke's I Wanna Be Yours, is an image of the author standing side on looking towards the right. He's got his hands in the pockets of his black suit and is looking slightly upwards. The author's name and book title are to the left against a matt grey background
I Wanna Be Yours
 
The book cover of In the Blink of An Eye by Jo Callaghan with the tagline 'One Detective. One Hologram. And a case that will test them both.' and the quote 'The most original crime novel you'll read this year' Clare MacKintosh The image is of one side of a woman's face with the eye the prominent feature. Half of the image is made up of ones and 0's and the other is a human face. Her eye is half blue and half grey.
In The Blink of An Eye
 
The image of the book cover for Mrs Sidhu's Dead and Scone by Suk Pannu includes the tagline ' The perfect village. The perfect fete. The perfect crime.'. The image is a black background with gold used for all of the lettering / images. At the top of the cover there's a line of bunting flags, Then the title of the novel, followed by a cake knife dripping something from it's tip. Then the tagline, author's name and at the bottom a decorative border.
Mrs Sidhu's Dead and Scone
 
The book cover for Murder by Natural Causes by Helen Erichsen has the tagline 'The Deadliest Assassins are Invisible' which is overlaid on the figure of a woman in silhouette to the right of the cover which is bright yellow. The silhouette has a shadow beside her showing the figure is holding a loaded crossbow.
Murder by Natural Causes
 
The book cover of Profile K by Helen Fields is a blue background with a blue and white fingerprint in the middle, with the figure of a woman in a short coat walking away. The taglines on the cover are 'He's going to kill you.' to the left and 'He just doesn't know it yet.' to the right at the bottom. The word "Profile" is in white lettering, and the 'K" is large and yello.
Profile K
 
The book cover of Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre. There's an unreadable (in this image) quote from Val McDermid at the bottom, the background is pale blue green and the title is in large Purple and white lettering down the page with a spill of, presumably blood, coming from the top on the right hand side. It splatters a bit across some of the letters.
Quite Ugly One Morning
 
The book cover for Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life has the tagline 'A radical guide to Shakespearean Tragedy' and the quote 'I've never read a book like this before, it's challenging, irreverent and funny' Roddy Doyle. The image on the cover is of (not surprisingly) William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare is Hard, But So Is Life
 
The book cover for The Dead of Winter by Stuart MacBridge includes the taglines 'The No 1 Sunday Times Bestselling Author' and 'Who Do You trust when everyone's guilty?' The image is of a snowy landscape with a small cottage / house in the centre right - there's snow blowing across a fence in front of it, and at the bottom there's a jeep with police markings deep in the snow.
The Dead of Winter
 
The image of the book cover for The Forever War by Nick Bryant includes the tagline 'America's Unending Conflict with Itself'. The image is of a roughly drawn version of the stripes on the American flag at the top, and a shot of the Capital Building with rioters in front of it.
The Forever War
 
The book cover for The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell has the tagline 'Being In Is Everything. Being Out is Murder' The image has a bright blue background with the outline of a two female figures from the head down. The one on the left is wearing a hat, the one on the right bare headed. They both have a long, dagger shaped earring, bright orange lipstick and a halter tie around their neck. There's a hint of a low backed top / dress that they are wearing which breaks out into a splash under and around the author's name at the bottom of the cover.
The In Crowd
 
The book cover for The Last Day of Christmas by Chris Brookmyre includes the subtitle 'The Fall of Jack Parlabane' and the tagline 'Her Girt Could Get Her Killed'. The image is black on the top, under the author name and title, then a shot of a woman in a shortish black coat, with long black hair walking away from the viewer. There is snow falling, and she's on a walkway with a lot of old street lights down the left.
The Last Day of Christmas
 
The cover for John Cooper Clarke's The Luckiest Guy Alive, which is mostly in grey colours, with the author's name at the top and the book title at the bottom in a form that looks like Scrabble tiles. In the centre is the image of the author, wearing black as usual, sunglasses as usual, and he's standing legs apart slightly off centre from the viewer with one arm held up in front of his body. His hair is gloriously messy.
The Luckiest Guy Alive
 
The book cover for The Marlow Murder Club has a stylised red "house" on the front with 4 different sized chimneys on top and a series of white squares like a crossword down the front - the title of the book is spread around the squares, as is the image of a woman standing on stairs, shining a torch upwards. There is a tagline 'Some Puzzles can be fatal ...' and a quote 'A hugely enjoyable murder mystery. Utterly delightful' Robert Webb
The Marlow Murder Club
 

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