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The master of a Victorian mansion dies suddenly – and his sister is convinced it was murder…. When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard’s funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of...Read more
Miss Jane Marple has checked into Bertram's Hotel in London for a much-needed vacation. The last thing she expects is that this elegant establishment, known for its service and old-world charm, could be embroiled in scandal. But after a series of strange events—including the disappearance...Read more
A tough, gritty police procedural set in Leicester The discovery of a butchered pig deliberately left in a local mosque is the catalyst which ignites the simmering racial tension in inner-city Leicester into open warfare. As the police come under fire for their inappropriate response, and...Read more
"You think a second murder?" Sir Henry Clithering asked Miss Marple. "Why not? When anyone has committed one murder he doesn't shrink from another , does he? Not even a third?" "Miss Marple," said Sir Henry, "you frighten me. Do you know who is going to be murdered?" "I've a very good idea...Read more
Two teachers discover the body of the school's unpopular games mistress, shot through the heart from point-blank range. The school is thrown into chaos when the "cat" strikes again, and Julia Upjohn knows that without Poirot's help she could be next.Read more
One bored billionaire. A simple bet between two friends. Four ordinary people on opposite sides of the world. $10 million the prize on offer to them. But to get it they must kill.
Gerald Falcone, the richest man in the world, thinks the four contestants in his ruthless game...Read more
The moment I’d scanned the outside of the building, I turned to Bruno and said, “First impressions, it looks straightforward.” Looking back, I can’t help but wonder what I was thinking. I mean, put that line at the opening of a crime novel and it’s practically a guarantee that everything is...Read more
A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples. At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce, a hostile thirteen-year-old, boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub...Read more
Captain Shane Schofield and his elite team of marines is about to discover . . .
There is no hell like a man-made one.
It is an island that doesn’t appear on any maps. A secret location where the government conducts classified experiments...Read more
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor...Read more
Fraud Squad detective Patrick Aitken's efforts to stop a bungled robbery cost him his career, so he leaves Sydney for a reclusive life in the Blue Mountains. Lured back to the bright lights for a night out with his ex-partner, he stumbles over a carpark bashing that changes his life, and...Read more
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Mr. Fortune is suspected of murdering his wife. Grijpstra and de Gier begin a search that leads to the unidentified corpse of a man stuffed into the trunk of a stolen Mercedes. But where is the body of Mrs. Fortune? Tracking a killer without a corpse and a corpse without a killer, the...Read more
What better way to do away with an enemy than at the dinner table? Arsenic in the porridge, cyanide in the cocoa, a sauce laced with strychnine, or the chef with a cleaver in his back - the choices are boundless. This collection brings together great crime stories from all eras.Read more
Mrs Ferrars poisoned her husband …
But no one suspected her except her blackmailer … until she committed suicide, leaving a letter to the man she loved.
Roger Ackroyd never finished reading it …
For the blackmailer had turned to a new crime, murder....Read more
Crown Prosecutor Helen West unravels the threads of a complex murder case in which a killer is caught and confesses, but the woman responsible for the crime--committed to free her lover of his wife--will stop at nothing to elude detectionRead more
July 2069: centennial of the Apollo 11 moon walk. What would Buzz Aldrin see if he were here? On Earth, plagues have destroyed the major food supplies, climatic changes have brought constant winter to the once-industrialized West, and a new and virulent virus--P2--has infected Earth's...Read more
Dr Sam Ryan is a forensic pathologist who becomes involved with the parents of a teenage boy who was killed in a joy-riding accident. They believe his death was not what it seemed and only Sam believes them. She has to enlist the help of her nephew to track down the boy's killer.Read more
An attempted murder, the defection of a highly placed KGB official, and an explosive nuclear submarine chase beneath the Arctic Ocean seem to have little connection to one another. But they are the sparks that propel Pat Armstrong — also known as Harry Palmer — into the heart of a brutal...Read more
Eight years before the sensational events of THE BOMBER, fledgling reporter Annika Bengtzon has just started a summer job at a Swedish tabloid. Before she can even begin to get her bearings in the gritty, fast-paced world of journalism, Annika learns that the body of a young woman has been...Read more
The author of A Question of Guilt returns with another heart-rending mystery featuring Crown Prosecutor Helen West and Detective Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey. Thekely place for a crime of passion, but what else could account for the naked body of a woman found in the woods?Read more
The first in an ongoing series featuring the Italian detective, Inspector Anders. Anders has seen action in the past and even became a national hero when he closed down an anarchist cell. But he lost a leg in the process - and his nerve. Now he has been given one last job before early...Read more
