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Crime Fiction

The Chinese Proverb

Army veteran Hunter Grant thought he had left war behind in Afghanistan – a conflict that left him with physical and psychological scars. But finding an unconscious girl in the Northland bush and gradually untangling her story involves him in a war of a different kind in his own country.Read more

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The Chinese Shawl

Miss Silver must intervene when an age-old family feud returns with fatal effect

All London loves Tanis Lyle. A beautiful amateur who happened accidentally on a career in the theater, she has just finished filming her first motion picture. Though not classically beautiful, she...Read more

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Chloe - Lost Girl

A missing student. A gunned-down detective. A woman in fear for her life. All three are connected. 

Detective Inspector Carl Sant and his team get on the case. But what links the disappearance of a university student, the death of an off-duty police sergeant, and a professor...Read more

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The Choke

Abandoned by her mother as a toddler and only occasionally visited by her volatile father who keeps dangerous secrets, Justine is raised solely by her Pop, an old man tormented by visions of the Burma Railway. Justine finds sanctuary in Pop's chooks and The Choke, where the banks of the...Read more

Christmas is Murder

Available in ebook for the first time ever, this duo of classic Christmas crime short stories by Sunday Times number one bestseller, Val McDermid - A Traditional Christmas and A Wife in a Million - introduces DI Maggie Staniforth.

In A Traditional Christmas, the peace of a...Read more

Cinderella Girl

WHEN THREE-YEAR OLD Hanna wakes up, she is alone in a locked apartment. The following morning detective Petra Westman from the Hammarby police department finds a badly injured infant and a dead woman in a park. Oddly - no one seems to be missing them. Before the police investigation barely...Read more

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A Citizen Of Nowhere

Paris. 1930.

Salazar is an English detective haunted by his experiences of the Great War, who wiles away the days playing chess and taking on as little work as possible. When the alluring Marie Poncelet hires him to find a missing man he quickly realises it's a case he wishes he'...Read more

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City of Animals

At Sydney's Royal Prince Albert Zoo, fear is mounting. First a curator is found dead in a giraffe enclosure, then three endangered animals - part of a controversial shipment from Burma - are brutally slaughtered.

TV Producer Nikiya Adams arrives at the zoo to research a new...Read more

The City of Blood

When a major Parisian modern art event gets unexpected attention on live TV, Chief of Police Nico Sirsky and his team of elite crime fighters rush to La Villette park and museum complex. On the site of the French capital's former slaughterhouses, the blood is just starting to flow, and...Read more

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City of Light

Snowy Lane, preoccupied with a ham sandwich and the odds of making the football team on Saturday, takes the terrible phone call that signals the beginning of a series of events which are to reverberate in his life and shake the city to its foundations ... ‘Gruesome' has taken another victim...Read more

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City Of Lost Girls

There's a killer on the loose. He kills the lost girls. And he always kills in threes.Read more

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City of Masks

An intriguing tale of the darker side of Hong Kong's financial world, in which a Chinese millionaire is threatened and a government agent, perplexed by the nature of the threat, in turn becomes a target.Read more

A City Of Strangers

For years the infamous Phelans, known with equal horror to the Social Security office and the local school, have lived in slovenly squalor in their council house in the run-down Belfield Grove Estate in the northern English city of Sleate.

The Phelans' infamy has even...Read more

City of the Snakes

The final, never-before-published volume in the noirish, gritty urban fantasy for adults from the bestselling Children's author. 'The Cardinal is dead -- long live The Cardinal' For ten years Capac Raimi has ruled the City as The Cardinal. Created by the first Cardinal to rule after him and...Read more

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City of Tiny Lights

Meet Tommy Akhtar, Ugandan Asian cricket fan, devoted son, and not very successful private investigator with offices over his brother Gundappa's mini-cab firm in deepest West London.
He's just woken up from his hangover (combing the parting on his tongue) when his next case comes...Read more

City of Vengeance

Florence. Winter, 1536. A prominent Jewish moneylender is murdered in his home, a death with wide implications in a city powered by immense wealth.

Cesare Aldo, a former soldier and now an officer of the Renaissance city’s most feared criminal court, is given four days to solve...Read more

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City Without Stars

The only thing more dangerous than the cartels is the truth...

In Ciudad Real, Mexico, a deadly war between rival cartels is erupting, and hundreds of female sweat-shop workers are being murdered. As his police superiors start shutting down his investigation, Fuentes suspects...Read more

Civil Twilight

A serial killer on the loose. A dark history rising up. Two cops on the brink. 

A rich businessman is found dead on Tunnel Island. Constable Laura Romano immediately recognises a pattern: a serial killer is on the loose, killing tourists. With help from Jim Harris — a local...Read more

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The Clan

No-one can mess with the clan and expect to live... The Killing: An unarmed teenage ram-raider is gunned down by police in a back alley … The Family: The Beatties, one of Melbourne’s most notoriously lawless clans stretching back to the Sixties. Now their youngest is dead, and Melbourne...Read more

Class Act

Can a man who’s lived a life of crime ever escape his past? The world’s most reluctant private investigator is about to find out.

Former bad boy turned local hero, Bill Murdoch, should be happy with his little piece of paradise. After all, he’s got the fancy...Read more

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Claustrophobia

Claustrophobia is the taut, compelling story of a young Perth wife who sets out to protect her husband by stalking his ex-lover, but unexpectedly falls into a passionate affair and a world of lies. In a novel that possesses the dark wit, psychological insight and narrative momentum of a...Read more

Clean Break

Manchester-based, kick-boxing PI Kate Brannigan takes on the hard men of European organised crime as she battles to recover a Monet in a case that stretches love and loyalty to the limits.

Kate is not amused when thieves have the audacity to steal a Monet from a stately home...Read more

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Clean Cut

When her boss DCI James Langton is horrifically injured, DI Anna Travis plays a major role in his rehabilitation.  Langton was working to solve the murder of a young prostitute, the suspect an illegal immigrant.  Anna is working on another murder case and gains enough evidence to send the...Read more

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The Cleaner

Meet Joe. He's a nice guy out to catch a copycat killer. The one copying him.

Joe is in control of everything in his simple life, including both his day job at the police department and his 'night work'. He remembers to feed his fish twice a day and visit his mother at least once...Read more

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A Clear Case Of Suicide

Laurence Deegan, QC, had just won his latest case. At fifty, already a distinguished and famous barrister, he seemed set to become a judge at an early age. That same evening, his triumph still fresh, he ran his bath, got into it and slit the veins in both wrists. Why had he done it? His...Read more

A Clear Conscience

Helen West, Crown Prosecutor in domestic violence court, is working up a good case of burnout because justice-by-the-book seldom seems to do the women she represents much good. Helen's love affair with Police Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey also seems to be losing its fire.

Then...Read more

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Clear to the Horizon

In 1999, a number of young women go missing in the Perth suburb of Claremont. One body is discovered. Others are never seen again. Snowy Lane ( City of Light ) is hired as a private investigator but neither he nor the cops can find the serial killer. Sixteen years later, another case brings...Read more

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Click

Melbourne is gripped by fear after a backpacker's body is found with a cryptic note, and two more women vanish without trace. When photographs begin to arrive in the inboxes of the media and police, it's clear the killer isn't hiding - they are performing.

Journalist Oli Groves,...Read more

The Cliff Hardy Case Files

Three Cliff Hardy Classics:

'Wet Graves'
Cliff Hardy is hired for a case that leads him back over fifty years to the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Getting to the truth takes all his contacts: police, press - and underworld.

'Beware Of The Dog'...Read more

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