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Crime Fiction

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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Victim Without a Face

The first book in the Fabian Risk series, Victim Without a Face is a chilling novel about the ultimate revenge.

Criminal investigator Fabian Risk has left Stockholm with his wife, Sonja, and their two children to start fresh in his hometown of Helsingborg. He has planned...Read more

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The Vienna Assignment

A powerful and atmospheric thriller set during the Cold War, from the internationally acclaimed author of 'The Bridge of Sighs.' Vienna, 1966. To be wrongly accused of murder once is a misfortune. Twice - and it's a conspiracy. It is the height of the Cold War. When a defector mysteriously...Read more

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A View from the Square

Stepan Povin, the KGB’s chief of foreign intelligence, is the West’s most prized intelligence agent. For years he has been passing secrets from the heart of the KGB. Now he wants out, and is seeking asylum in the West.

In exchange he has a stunning piece of information to offer:...Read more

A Vigil of Spies

Will the Archbishop of York's final days be spent in peace? As the race to be his successor gathers pace, Owen must catch a determined killer who dwells among the archbishop's guests at Bishopthorpe Palace.

York, 1373: While the...Read more

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The Villa Of Mysteries

The second novel in the Italian crime series set in Rome, features Caravaggio-loving Detective Nic Costa. In this title, when a young woman turns up dead in a peat bog, a maverick pathologist thinks she's the victim of an ancient Roman ritual. But she's wrong.Read more

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The Village of Eight Graves

Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the Sixteenth Century eight samurais, who had taken refuge there along with a secret treasure, were murdered by the inhabitants, bringing a terrible curse down upon their village...Read more

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Villain

“I was aware of the weight of Spoole’s head, clutched against my stomach. I hadn’t thought of a head being something that was heavy to carry. Another new thing learned.”

Alistair’s another middle-aged casualty struggling with divorce and a career that’s hit a dead end. Erica’s...Read more

Villain

The body of Yoshino, a female insurance saleswoman, is found at Mitsue Pass, an eery inland spot in the southernmost region of Japan, rumoured to be home to ghosts. A young construction worker, Yuichi, is soon arrested by the Nagasaki police on suspicion of strangling the victim.As Yuichi...Read more

The Vintage Caper

Set in Hollywood, Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseille, Peter Mayle’s newest and most delightful novel is filled with culinary delights, sumptuous wines, and colorful characters. It’s also a lot of fun.

The story begins high above Los Angeles, at the extravagant home and equally...Read more

A Vintage Death

Rory James is fond of a good red, but that's not why he's asking questions in the wineries of Heathcote. The Detective Sergeant is trying to bring a cold case back to life. But another body at Lady's Pass Run sets Rory on a collision course with not just the colleague who almost ruined his...Read more

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Vintage Murder

Death served well-chilled.

The leading lady of a theatre company touring New Zealand was stunningly beautiful. No one-including her lover-understood why she married the company's pudgy producer. But did she rig a huge jeroboam of champagne to kill her husband during a cast party...Read more

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Vinyl Junkie

England, 1974. Reporter Simon Jardine and DJ + amateur private investigator Tom Freeman, attend a homecoming gig for a megastar band. After the show, Jardine and Freeman witness a record company manager threatened and roughed-up, later that night they hear a man was murdered yards from the...Read more

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