The Hitchhiker

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 30/10/2024 - 1:31pm by Karen

The book cover of The Hitchhiker by Gabriel Bergmoser has a yellow "sticker" on the front that says Bestselling Author, Must-Read Suspense, with part of the book cover and the title of The Caretaker in the middle. There's also a quote at the bottom 'I haven't found a cat-and-mouse game this captivating since Misery.' Jack Heath, author of Kill Your Husbands. The image is of a long, rough country road with electricity poles running alongside it, and a rail crossing right in front. There are fields off to the side, and a car barely visible through the dust it is kicking up. Overhead, a cloudy, grey and white vast sky.

The Driver:

Ahead he could see only the stretch of unending road, on either side brown-scorched plains of dirt and scrub, above it all a soaring blue sky and blinding sun. Desolation that looked, to him, a hell of a lot like freedom. He wasn’t playing by anyone’s rules anymore....Read more

A Town Called Treachery

BOOK ADDED: Sun, 20/10/2024 - 9:59pm by Karen

The book cover for A Town Called Treachery by Mitch Jennings has the image of a child kneeling on the floor, drawing or writing with a pencil in their hand. The tagline 'A deadbeat dad. A curious boy. A journo drowning in the past. ... And a town full of secrets.' There's also a quote from Malcolm Knox 'One of A Kind'. The image is orange and brown in town with a large window above the child glowing golden brown / orange.

A brutal murder in a town called Treachery? It's a story most journos would kill for, but for Stuart Dryden, it's a major inconvenience. He didn't take the gig at the local rag for its bustling crime beat. He'd sacrifice a career-making story for happy hour at the pub, but not even he can...Read more

A Line to Kill

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 02/10/2024 - 1:38pm by Karen

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.

When ex-detective inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don’t expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation - or to be trapped...Read more

The Caretaker

BOOK ADDED: Sun, 28/07/2024 - 1:05pm by Karen

The book cover for The Caretaker by Gabriel Bergmoser includes the taglines 'From the Bestselling Author of The Hunted' and 'She thinks she's safe. She thinks she's alone. She's wrong.' There's a quote at the bottom 'Straight-ahead, no holds barred brutal crime thrillers with an Australian feral tang' The Australian. The image is of the end of a ski lift (where the chairs go around to head back down a mountain) with a few chairs visible, and a wooden shed / control box beside it. Behind that is a view of sky, grey, cloudy, and the hint of hills far off in the distance.

An isolated, empty ski resort in the off-season. A woman who doesn't want to be found. A man who may not be who he appears to be. A game of cat and mouse - with deadly consequences. On the run from a controlling husband and his underworld associates in Melbourne, Charlotte has adopted a new...Read more

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Mrs Sidhu's Dead and Scone

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 20/06/2024 - 5:17pm by Karen

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 – unofficial Aunty to everyone, caterer, and amateur sleuth from Slough – spices up the lives of Berkshire's elite with both her mouth-watering dishes and her sharp detective skills. But when she stirs up trouble among the rich and ruthless, she finds herself an outsider in her...Read more

22 Dead Little Bodies

BOOK ADDED: Tue, 06/06/2023 - 12:00am by Karen

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.

A short novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of CLOSE TO THE BONE and A SONG FOR THE DYING, featuring his most popular characters, Acting DI Logan McRae and DCI Robert Steel.

CID isn’t what it used to be…

It’s a been a bad week for acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae. Every...Read more

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