Hamlet, Revenge!
A murder executed during a private performance of Hamlet presents John Appleby of Scotland Yard with more than fifty suspectsRead more
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Sir John Appleby
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2
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Hangman
How do you catch a killer who's already dead?
Eighteen months have passed, but the scars the Ragdoll murders left behind remain.
DCI Emily Baxter is summoned to a meeting with US Special Agents Elliot Curtis of the FBI and Damien Rouche of the CIA. There, she...Read more
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Fawkes and Baxter
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2
Harry Curry: The Murder Book
A brilliant new instalment in the compelling series that rivals Rumpole and Rake
The renegade barrister Harry Curry and his elegant partner, Arabella Engineer, return with more thrilling spanner-in-the-works criminal trials, every one of them in defence of clients charged with...Read more
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Harry Curry
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Harry's Quest
PI Harry Kenmare is back, with a visceral lust for vengeance.
Sydney’s elite and powerful are awash in corruption, like rats sunning themselves in an open sewer. And so, in these sordid episodes, Harry’s business is as busy as ever.
All the better, then, to finance...Read more
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Harry Kenmare
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2
Harsh Recovery
Two cops in recovery. A brutal murder on a dangerous island. A secret history that threatens everything.
Constable Laura Romano is in recovery for drug and alcohol addiction and her partner - Jim Harris - is her sponsor. Both of them are stationed on Tunnel Island, a tropical...Read more
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Tunnel Island
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2
Hat Dance
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Emilia Cruz, Acapulco's first and only female police detective, will risk a dance with the devil to catch an arsonist and find a missing girl. But the music comes with a price no honest cop can afford to pay.
By coincidence at the same restaurant as Acapulco's popular mayor,...Read more
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Emilia Cruz Mysteries
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2
He Kills Coppers
August 1966 - the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is abruptly shattered when three policemen are gunned down in a West London street. A bewilderingly senseless crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself and brings an end to the victory celebrations. Yet it also marks a...Read more
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The Long Firm Trilogy
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2
Heavenly Pleasures
No one has less interest in mysteries than Corinna Chapman, who has bread to bake, but they seem to be arising spontaneously in the vicinity of her bakery, Earthly Delights. Between the mouthwatering distractions of loaves and muffins, of Jason her apprentice and Horatio the cat, she's...Read more
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Corinna Chapman
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2
Helga's Web
Set in Sydney, Australia, where a young girl is involved in blackmail, Detective-Sergeant Malone reaches Helga too late to warn her about her dangerous game. She has already received her final pay-off. The author also wrote "Gunscope" and "The Sundowners".Read more
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Scobie Malone
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2
Hell's Bells
Eustacia Rose's life is beginning to return to normal: she is back teaching at UCL and her relationship with Matilde is blossoming. But when a man is found dead with a needle in his neck, that fragile peace begins to crumble. Eustacia finds a painting of herself with a syringe next to her...Read more
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Professor Eustacia Rose
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2
Her Enemy
After solving her first murder and leaving the Helsinki Police Department behind, Maria Kallio thought that a move to the neighboring city of Espoo would signal a fresh start—a chance to not only put her new law degree to use, but to nurture her budding romance with Antti Sarkela. But when...Read more
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Maria Kallio
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The Hidden Target
For Nina O’Connell, a trip round the world was the holiday of a lifetime. Travelling in a group led by the attractive James Kiley and his friend Tony Shawfield, she is surprised when she runs into an old flame on a sunny Amsterdam street. But Robert Renwick, ex-army major attached to NATO,...Read more
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Robert Renwick
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Hide and Seek
A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat — spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict, until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind...Read more
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Inspector Rebus
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2
Hiding to Nothing
Lay low, stay out of trouble and don’t get pulled over. It was probably the best advice I’d ever had. How long until I ignored it?
All Lachie Munro wants is a quiet life in sunny Newcastle. But Lachie and quiet don’t seem to get along.
When Lachie’...Read more
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Lachie Munro
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Hindsight
Mira Chambers has an infallible gift for solving mysteries ... but using it comes with a price.Determined to regain her independence after ten years in orphanages and asylums, Mira leaps at the chance to help her friend, Bennet Chiron, an enigmatic ex-con who risked his life to save hers....Read more
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Mira Chambers
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Hip Flask and Hanging
97 year old Alice Atkinson has many ghosts in her past, but she never expected to see this one walk past her in the street.
She doesn't have much time to think about the past though as her friend Teresa asks her for help. She thinks someone is breaking into her apartment and...Read more
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Silvermoon Retirement Village
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2
Hits And Memories
Underworld executioner Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read was released from Pentridge Prison in November, 1991, vowing never to return. He became a bizarre celebrity as his autobiography "Chopper From the Inside" became a bestseller. Six months later he was back in jail writing his second volume...Read more
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Chopper
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2
Holy Disorders
Oxford don and part-time detective Gervase Fen is in the town of Tolnbridge where he is happily bounding around with a butterfly net until the cathedral organist is murdered, giving Fen the chance to play sleuth. Tracking down the culprit pleases Fen immensely. Did the victim fall afoul of...Read more
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Gervase Fen
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2
Hoodwink
A perfectly preserved body, covered in Mayan occult tattoos, is discovered embedded in the concrete floor beneath the set of a teen werewolf TV series. The police identify the man as Earl Curtis, a famous director who went missing in 1939 while working on GONE WITH THE WIND. Hired to...Read more
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Kannon Dupree
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2
Horse Under Water
The dead hand of a long-defeated Nazi Third Reich reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakech in Deighton’s second novel, featuring the same anonymous narrator and milieu of The IPCRESS File, but finds Dawlish now head of the secret British Intelligence unit, WOOC(P). The Ipcress File was...Read more
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Secret File
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2
Hot to Kill
She’s literally getting away with murder…
Madeline Simpson is hot, sticky, and stressed to the max. She’s had it up to here with people treating her like dirt, and the hot flashes certainly aren’t helping. When her temper causes her to accidentally murder her landscaper, she...Read more
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Detective Amanda Lacey
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2
How to Kill Friends and Implicate People
Fergus Fletcher is a hit man. For five thousand pounds, he’ll kill anyone you want. For seven, he’ll frame someone else. Pretending to kill someone is a first, but Alex Pennan has stolen from the mob and needs to fake his own death.
Fergus is looking for love. So is Sam...Read more
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Sam Ireland Mysteries
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2
Hunter
His orders are simple: ‘The safety catch is off. Return that girl to her family and drag those bastards back to justice. Dead or alive. It makes no difference to me.’
Alex Morgan – policeman, soldier and spy for Intrepid, the black ops division of Interpol – is on the hunt for...Read more
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Intrepid
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2
Hunter
Timothy Blake, ex-consultant for the FBI, now works in body-disposal for a local crime lord. One night he stumbles across a body he wasn't supposed to find and is forced to hide it. When the FBI calls Blake in to investigate a missing university professor, Blake recognises him as the dead...Read more
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Timothy Blake
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2
I Always Find You
In September 1985, nineteen-year-old John Lindqvist moved into a dilapidated old building in Stockholm, planning to make his living as a magician. Something strange was going on in the locked shower room in the building’s basement—and the price of entry was just a little blood.
I...Read more
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Platserna
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I Have Sinned
Bunny McGarry is a man on a mission. He left behind his life in Ireland to go to New York to find the woman he loves, who happens to have a lot of very dangerous people looking for her. The good news is that they don’t know where she is, the bad news is that Bunny doesn’t either and the...Read more
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McGarry Stateside
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2
I Hear the Sirens in the Street
Sean Duffy knows there's no such thing as a perfect crime. But a torso in a suitcase is pretty close.
Still, one tiny clue is all it takes, and there it is. A tattoo. So Duffy, fully fit and back at work after the severe trauma of his last case, is ready to follow the trail of...Read more
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Sean Duffy
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2
I Saw You
For 10 years, newly retired policeman Michael McLoughlin has been haunted by the case of a young woman brutally murdered and the affection he felt for the victim's mother, Margaret. A favor for a friend leads him to another woman who has lost a child—her daughter has been found drowned in...Read more
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Michael McLoughlin
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2
The Icon Murders
A spate of vicious, brutal murders around Australia has police puzzled, until Detective Syd Fielding, now head of a national drug prevention squad, finds the link that draws them together. The problem is, the link appears to be him.
Syd′s always been a loose cannon, with a very...Read more
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Syd Fielding
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2
Ill-Gotten Gains
There are secrets in the sleepy town of Majic, where the past trips over the present ... and then looks the other way.
The country town of Majic is about to celebrate a milestone. It's been 150 years since the founding father, Petar Majic, rode into the bush after a liquid lunch...Read more
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Nell Forrest
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2