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Crime Fiction

The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

'We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered song and when one came back, she wasn't the one we were trying to recall to begin with.'

So begins Tikka Molloy's recounting of the summer of 1992 - the summer the Van Apfel...Read more

Vane Pursuit

A gang of thieves determined to steal every Praxiteles Lumpkin weathervane in Balaclava County winds up snatching Helen Shandy as well, and it is up to her husband Peter to set her freeRead more

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Vanish

People go to the isolated Karpathy farm looking for a new life - and are never seen again. A chilling thriller from the award-winning and bestselling author of Australian noir, Shelley Burr.

Lane Holland's crime-solving career ended the day he went to prison....Read more

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Vanished

Sophie Graham is tired of life, with only a bleak future in a deadbeat bar job ahead of her. So when her childhood enemy, the glamorous Electra Jordan, strides into the bar with her father, Sophie decides to avoid the truth. She announces that she is a private investigator.

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Vanished

Lorcan and Naiyana are desperate to move their young family far away from the hustle and bustle of modern city life.

The abandoned town of Kallayee seems like the perfect getaway: no one has lived there for decades. It will be peaceful. Quiet. Secure.

But life in...Read more

Vanished

When an eccentric elderly widow claims she is being stalked, Detective Jack Warr is the only person willing to dig into the truth behind her wild claims.

Jack soon finds himself embroiled in an international drugs operation, art theft - and a murder investigation. On the back...Read more

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The Vanishing Act

Respectable appearances can hide the blackest of secrets.

The Vanishing Act is a spicy tale of intrigue set in 1960s New Zealand, where society’s constraints and the laws of the day made outcasts of lesbians and prostitutes.

Rosemary Cawley is used...Read more

Vanishing Falls

Celia Lily is rich, beautiful, and admired. She’s also missing. And the search for the glamorous socialite is about to expose all the dark, dirty secrets of Vanishing Falls…Read more

The Vanishing Place

On the remote West Coast of the South Island, vast forests stretch out between mountain ranges and rugged beaches. There, in the small town of Koraha, not a lot happens - until a young girl with blood on her hands walks out of the bush and into the local store, collapsing to the floor....Read more

Vanishing Point

Cruel, egotistical Noel, a thistledown, a cheap balloon whisking willy-nilly away from the piercing, deflating needle of her fine judgment. Geraldine needs to keep her cool through the highs and the lows, but it's maddening when Noel keeps missing the point. The trek up north was grueling,...Read more

The Vanishing Point

Young Jimmy Higgins is snatched from an airport security checkpoint while his guardian watches helplessly from the glass inspection box. But this is no ordinary abduction, as Jimmy is no ordinary child. His mother was Scarlett, a reality TV star who, dying of cancer and alienated from her...Read more

The Vault

The impossible has happened. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired from the crime force. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead, belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila.

Wexford takes great pleasure in his books, but...Read more

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The Veiled One

Chief Inspector Wexford couldn’t know that the bundle of rags in the parking garage concealed a body. He’d just been doing a bit of light shopping, after all, not looking for dead housewives. Wexford won’t be on the case for long; a car bomb sends him to the hospital, and Inspector Mike...Read more

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Velvet Dark

Sex, Drugs and Kitsch Art

Does memory truly reflect the reality we exist in? Is one person’s perception of the world the same for everyone?

At the death of the 20th century, Bill Myers is back in town. After fifteen years of marriage, Myers is single once more. But...Read more

The Venetian Affair

A game of espionage ...Fenner burned Rosenfeld's message, reminding himself wryly that he was behaving in the very best tradition. This was a game not too difficult to learn, he thought. A game? A game in deadly earnest. A vacation in Venice that was grim business. A girl constantly beside...Read more

Venetian Blonde

Bishop returns and nothing is as it appears.

Off the coast of Norway an abandoned container ship is discovered, its crew slain, and the only clue is a photo knifed to a bulkhead. A photo of Charles Bishop with a note that reads, “It’s all my fault”.

Bishop leaps into...Read more

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A Venetian Reckoning

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Death and Judgement

A lorry crashes on one of the treacherous bends in the Italian Dolomites, spilling a terrible cargo.

A prominent international layer is found dead in the carriage of an intercity train at Saint Lucia.

Can the two tragedies possibly be connected?

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Vengeance

She’s searching for her father’s killer…

…but her obsession is pushing her to the edge.

What if the price of revenge is too high?

Maya Raines is a spy haunted by tragedy.

Years ago, her father travelled to Malaysia on a secret diplomatic mission....Read more

A Vengeful Longing

n the heat of the St Petersburg summer of 1868, a doctor's wife and son are found dead, victims of a suspected poisoning. The doctor is arrested, but when further bodies are discovered it sets investigator Porfiry Petrovich on a thrilling and dangerous chase through the dark heart of the...Read more

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Venom House

The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of "Venom House." Perhaps that's because of its forbidding setting, an island in the center of a man-made lake, the treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. Perhaps it's because of the unquiet ghosts of the...Read more

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The Venus Fly Trap

‘The Venus Fly-Trap’ is one of the classier joints in London, a place with its own kind of feel. No strip club. No clip joint. But one of the top night entertainment spots around. Its entrance is hidden in the heart of Soho; inside it offers smooth luxury at the price of a king’s ransom....Read more

The Verdict

Terry Flynt is a struggling legal clerk, desperately trying to get promoted. And then he is given the biggest opportunity of his career: to help defend a millionaire accused of murdering a woman in his hotel suite.

The only problem is that the accused man, Vernon James, turns out...Read more

Verdict Unsafe

Detective Inspector Judy Hill anxiously watched the trial of serial rapist Colin Arthur Drummond from the public gallery--never forgetting his chilling threat that she would be his next victim. The prosecution should have an open-and-shut case.

But sixteen months later Drummond...Read more

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The Verge Practice

Charles Verge, a celebrated, cutting-edge architect, has disappeared into the blue leaving behind his firm, his beloved--and pregnant--daughter... and his young and very dead wife. The case sends Kathy to the streets of Barcelona, the British countryside, and back again to her own stomping...Read more

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Vertigo

"Do you think it's possible to live again, Monsieur? ... I mean ... is it possible to die and then ... live again in someone else?"

You're no longer in the police, but when an old friend asks you to look after his wife as a favour, how can you refuse? She'sbeen...Read more

Vertigo

Frances, a public servant, is struggling to come to terms with the disappearance of her colleague Eric, and the death of her brother. Asked to review Eric’s last work file, Frances becomes an accidental sleuth, analysing spreadsheets and reports for clues that may help solve Eric’s...Read more

A Very Good Hater

Goldsmith and Templewood investigate the background of a man, whom they think may be a Nazi war criminal, and plot his deathRead more

The Vesuvius Club

Meet Lucifer Box: Lucifer has a charming countenance and rapier wit that make him the guest all hostesses must have. And most do. But few of his conquests know that Lucifer is also His Majesty's most daring secret agent, at home in both London's Imperial grandeur and in its underworld of...Read more

The Viaduct Killings

Still grieving from the tragic death of her colleague, DCI Emma Gardner continues to blames herself and is struggling to focus. So, when she is seconded to the wilds of Yorkshire, Emma hopes she’ll be able to get her mind back on the job, doing what she does best - putting killers behind...Read more

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Victim 2117

The newspaper refers to her only as Victim 2117--the two thousand one hundred and seventeenth refugee to die in the Mediterranean Sea. But to three people, the unnamed victim is so much more, and her death sets off a chain of events that throws Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division...Read more

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