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1984 The Book Cover for 1984 by George Orwell - this edition has a head and shoulders drawing of a man with short hair and a moustache. He's wearing a high necked jumper, and his face is half in a red shadow. The title of the book and the author's name are prominent at the bottom. Bedside Shelves Sun, 01/12/2024
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A Deadly Game The image of the book cover for A Deadly Game by Laraine Stephens is a drawing of a man in silhouette, he's wearing a long coat, grey tie and hat on an angle. There's a 1940's style car behind him, and it is all laid out on a textured pale blue background. Google Books Tue, 02/07/2024
A Decline in Prophets The image of the book cover for A Decline in Prophets by Sulari Gentill includes the tagline 'A Rowland Sinclair Novel', with the quote 'Rowland Sinclair ... the gentleman sleuth ... with a penchant for living la vie de boheme' Sun Herald. The cover is made up of a shot of three men, and one woman standing in front of a deck railing, looking out towards a city view featuring high buildings. The men are wearing 1940's style suits, two in hats, and the woman is wearing a long dress with a coat over the top, and a hat. There is a paint brush above their heads with a blood spatter at the brush end. Library
A Few Right Thinking Men The image of the book cover for A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill includes the tagline 'Introducing Rowland Sinclair', with the quote 'Witty dialogue, lively characters, and a shrewd political awareness of the times. - Award-winning Novelist, Marele Day. The cover is made up of a shot of men standing, at the top, the lower half of their bodies only visible. They are wearing suits with dress shoes, and one is holding a hat in his hand. The colours are muted grey's, whites and slightly tinted brown. There is a blood spatter at the bottom of the book, beside the tagline with a paint brush lying across the image and the author's name below that. Library
A Man With One of Those Faces The book cover for A Man With One Of Those Faces by Caimh McDonnell (near as I can get it Caimh is pronounced KEE-va or KWEE-va). The cover is a silhouette of a man's head and shoulders against a red background, with the title of the book superimposed on the silhouette in a combination of red and white lettering, the typeface being big, bold and slightly uneven. Audible
A Man's Head The book cover of the audio version of A Man's Head by Georges Simenon has a small tagline 'Inspector Maigret'. The image is a dusky, foggy view of a city skyline with the hint of sun over the top of a main tower at the back. There's a river with an old, ornate bridge over it in the centre of the image, and a small boat heading towards it. Audible
Ace Post Mortem Twist The book cover of Mirror Mirror who's The Killer? has a tagline of 'Wyld Enchantment Woods Cozy Mystery'. The image is a fantasy styled cartoonish wintery scene with a castle at the top, snow covered trees in the middle and a cat in the foreground. There's somebody off in the distant with their hair streaming out to the left, and pumpkins at the bottom. A candle stick is in the centre of the title which says just Post Mortem Google Books
Angels in the Moonlight The book cover for Angels in the Moonlight by Caimh McDonnell (near as I can get it Caimh is pronounced KEE-va or KWEE-va). The image has a red background with a large white circle (?moon) in the background and an arm extended from the right holding a handgun. There is a shovel in the bottom left, all the elements within lines that look like window panes. The title of the book is bottom right in a large, uneven font. Audible
Bitter Wash Road The book cover of Bitter Wash Road by Garry Disher showing a dried out wheat field with two tyre tracks running through it, echoed by a hint of light against a dark cloudy sky. There's a quote 'Bitter Wash Road is superb.' The Australian. Library
Black Widow The book cover of Black Widow by Christopher Brookmyre (audio version) with the tagline 'She's on Trial for his Life' / 'A Jack Parlabane Thriller' The image is of a woman in a red coat, her long black hair blowing in the wind. She's got her back to the viewer, seated on a wooden park bench looking towards a foggy sky with the outline of trees visible. Library
Blood & Ink The book cover of Blood & Ink by Brett Adams includes the tagline 'A heart-stopping new crime novel by' immediately above the author's name. The background is pale blue, with a pile of books that have the names on the spines including 'Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Cold Blood Truman Capote & The Stranger Beside Me, Ann Rule'. On the top of the stack there's a white campervan and two small silhouettes of male characters - one pointing to the van. Borrowbox App
Boiling a Frog The image of the book cover for Boiling a Frog by Christopher Brookmyre with the tagline 'Riddled with humour and political satire. The Times'. It has a green background with a downward line that's forming a spiral after substituting as the i in Boiling. Library
Broken Bay Image of the book cover for Broken Bay by Margaret Hickey includes the taglines 'Where truth is dead in the water' and 'Author of Cutters End and Stone Town' The image is of a sinkhole filled with deep blue water, it has high surrounding vertical edges, sitting in the middle of dry paddocks with a small row of trees beside it. Off into the distance there's a small hill and the sky above is dark blue and cloudy. Borrowbox App
Bunny The book cover for Bunny by S.E. Tolsen has the tagline 'You can't outrun your childhood demons' at the top of a cover that's made up of a brightly lit small house / cabin surrounded by tall dark trees. There's a glow coming from somewhere behind the building, otherwise everything is dark, foggy and creepy. Google Books
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Chasing the Dragon The image of the book cover for Chasing the Dragon by Mark Wightman includes the tagline ' A Betancourt Mystery '. The image has a dark background with a bright red smokey looking cloud taking up most of the area, with a view of a bay with a lot of small boats moored on it at the bottom and the hint of a dark dragon's face in the centre, the title is superimposed over that in gold italic lettering. Directly below that is a golden long dragon. Google Books
City of Vengeance The image of the book cover for City of Vengeance by D.V. Biship includes the tagline 'Florence, 1536. An officer of the court, on the wrong side of the law ....'. The background is red, the title in a gothic style black font that takes up the majority of the space, with the additional tagline of 'Introducing Cesare Aldo' and the quotes 'Impressive and immersive' Antonia Hodgson and 'Richly atmospheric' Ambrose Perry, either side of a gold crest in the centre of the image. At the bottom there is an elaborate bridge crossing a still river with buildings either side. Library
Country of the Blind The image of the book cover for Country of the Blind by Christopher Brookmyre. It has a yellow background with a large key above Country, then a keyhole as the o in Of, and a small shadow coming off the N in Blind. Library
Crossing the Line The book cover for Crossing the Line by Nick McKenzie includes the tagline 'The explosive inside story behind the headlines' and a note after the author's name 'Walkley Award-Winning Investigative Journalist' The background of the image is textured black / grey with, at the top left, an image of the upper body of Roberts-Smith in full uniform, hands in his pockets he's smiling slightly. Lower down, on the right, there's an image of the same man, in a blue suit, white shirt, no tie, head down he's looking towards the ground, worried or frowning expression on his face. Kindle
Crossing the Lines The image of the book cover for Cross the Lines by Sulari Gentill includes the tagline 'Madeline thinks she's writing the story. But is she?', and 'The latest from Award-Winning Author Sulari Gentil;' The image is white, with a red line down the centre and two blocks of handwritten text which is basically illegible - one at the top centre across to the right, and one at the bottom left. The title of the novel is superimposed over the middle of the red line with the red of the line reflected in some of the letters that cross it (the N's in Crossing and Lines) and the The image has a pale pink background, with the tagline at the top and the author's name at the bottom followed by 'Award-Winning Author' In the centre there's a face of a startled / frightened woman with longish brown hair and eyes wide open - looking towards the right, her mouth is open and both hands held up to her face. She's looking out from the outline of a laptop on which two black hands are resting, the arms heading off to the right.There's an envelope in outline to the left with words 'A Mystery' written on it. Library

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