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Death Of An Expert Witness

Dr. Lorrimer appeared to be the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his brutally slain body is discovered and his secret past dissected does the image begin to change. Once again, Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh learns that there is more to human beings than meets...Read more

White Shoes, White Lines And Blackie

All Les Norton wanted was a quiet coffee and Sacher cake at the Hakoah Club in Bondi, and to be left alone to sort out his troubled love life. How he let notorious conman Kelvin Kramer talk him up to Surfers Paradise for five days, Les will never know. He went along expecting some...Read more

Cast Iron

West of France, 1989.

A weeping killer deposits the unconscious body of nineteen year old Lucie Martin, her head wrapped in a blue plastic bag, into the water of a picturesque lake.

Lot-et-Garonne, 2003.

Fourteen years later a summer heatwave parches the...Read more

A Novel Way to Die

In the sixth and final story in the Nevermore Bookshop Mysteries, Mina, Heathcliff, Morrie, and Quoth face off against their ultimate enemy.

Add meddling villages, an army of fictional characters to wrangle, Mina’s mother’s latest get-rich-quick-scheme, and a curious dog into...Read more

Babel

Murder, fundamentalism, intrigue - and that's just the start of Babel, Maitland's sixth gripping mystery in the bestselling Brock and Kolla series.; Professor Springer, one of Britain's leading and most outspoken philosophers, is dramatically gunned down on the steps of his own university....Read more

Babylon South

Two decades after High Court judge Sir Walter Springfellow disappeared, hikers uncover a skeleton wearing his signet ring. When Scobie reopens the inquiry, he finds that Venetia Springfellow has parlayed the fortune her husband left her into an empire her venomous sister-in-law Emma wants...Read more

Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist

Agatha Raisin's marriage was put off when her ex-husband showed up, unfortunately alive. Fortunately, he was murdered and Agatha solved the crime. Now she is off to Cyprus to track down her ex-fiance. Instead of enjoying their planned honeymoon, however, they witness the murder of an...Read more

The Relentless Tide

When Professor Francombe and her team of archaeologists find the remains of three women on a remote Kintyre hillside – a site rumoured to have been the base of Viking warlord Somerled – their delight soon turns to horror when they realise the women tragically met their end little more than...Read more

A Pocket Full of Rye

A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman!

Let us explain. Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his 'counting house' office when he suffered a sudden and agonising death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were...Read more

Death of a Daimyo

East meets West when superintendent Otani is invited to St Cuthbert's College, Cambridge to celebrate the opening of a new Institue for Japanese Studies. No sooner has the dry sherry been handed round that a rich Japanese tycoon is found murdered?Read more

The Fallout

In this, the sixth Wyatt novel, Wyatt takes on his most dangerous job yet - and it might be his last. The Fallout is Wyatt's sixth job, and it takes off where Port Vila Blues left him. On a boat with policewoman Liz Redding, and a fortune in stolen gems. He escapes, triggering a manhunt,...Read more

Cooking the Books

Corinna Chapman, talented baker and reluctant investigator, is trying very hard to do nothing at all on her holidays. Her gorgeous Daniel is only intermittently at her side (he's roaming the streets tracking down a multi-thousand dollar corporate theft). Jason, her baking offsider, has gone...Read more

Hands Down

Sid Halley is back and he has a new left hand having had a transplant since his last appearance in Refusal. An ex-jockey trainer friend calls him to ask for his help in finding out who has threatened him but Sid has his own problems of a marital nature, and he puts the friend off for a...Read more

Blood and Circuses

Phryne Fisher is bored. So when she is asked to investigate some strange goings-on in Farrell's Circus and Wild Beast Show, her curiosity gets the better of her. Stripped of her identity, wealth and privilege, Phryne takes a job as a trick-horse-rider, wearing hand-me-downs and a new name....Read more

Dead on Arrival

One of the novels featuring Inspector Luke Thanet, of which "Last Seen Alive" won the 1985 Crime Writers' Silver Dagger Award. Thanet is anonymously alerted to the murder of a young man, and soon another body is found - that of an elderly prostitute whom he had picked up the night before...Read more

Cold Grave

It feels like the safest place on earth. A family-friendly, floating palace. But, as Anya Crichton soon discovers, cruise ships aren't all that they seem...Statistics tell us that a woman is twice as likely to be sexually assaulted on a cruise ship than on dry land. Customers aren't...Read more

Murder on the Island

Belinda and Hazel find themselves on the island of Guernsey where they are invited by Sir Mark's mother, Melba, Lady Sallinger. Other house guests include her parents, a handsome interior designer, a slovenly bookseller, a Jesuit priest, and Catherine, a mysterious woman writer. Soon after...Read more

Beachdaze

He'd been given enough warnings...

Only a heart attack could make Peter Clancy leave his beloved London and the excitement of his work as an investigative journalist. He moves to a quiet coastal town in Australia, the perfect place to write a new book while avoiding all bad...Read more

Cross

cross /kr�s/ n., v., & adj. 

1 an ancient instrument of torture
2 in a very bad humour
3 a punch thrown across an opponent's punch

Jack Taylor brings...Read more

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

Precious Ramotswe, traditionally built proprietor of the famous No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, is finally married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, the agency is busy and life couldn't be better.

Well... it could, actually. Not only has Mma Ramotswe suffered a...Read more

How the Dead See

The theft of a valuable diamond necklace, and the death by apparent suicide of a notorious film star, have nothing in common. Nothing except Detective Franz Heineken, aka Pufferfish, scourge of an island’s villains and a deadly match for it unpredictable, unsettling crimes.

At...Read more

A Note Before Dying

A NOTE BEFORE DYING is the sixth stand-alone mystery in the fun, fast-paced series featuring gutsy ghostwriter Roxy Parker. 

With a battered heart and the hots for her next client, Roxy Parker heads to the Byron hinterland, to ghostwrite the life story of rock legend Jed Moody....Read more

Dead Girl Walking

Life is dangerous when you have everything to lose. Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes.

Meanwhile, journalist Jack Parlabane has lost everything: his career, his marriage, his self-respect. A call for help from...Read more

Black Seconds

Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, Helga Joner, her mother, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various friends, but no one has...Read more

Death's Own Door

Journalist Jill Francis and Inspector Richard Thornhill undertake a baffling investigation of criminal perpetration set against the background of the Welsh border town of Lydmouth in the 1950s.Read more

Gentlemen of Crime

A millionaire residing in an old castle in Norfolk is forced to pay over large sums of money to an unknown gang of racketeers and secretly he calls to his assistance some of the greatest detectives and the most notorious criminals in the world. We meet the incomparable Gilbert Larose, the...Read more

Coming Home

Coming Home sees Aussie FBI profiler Sophie Anderson return to Australia to solve her brother's thirty-year-old homicide.

When Sophie gets a call at 2am from her parents, she knows something is up. But nothing can prepare her for the bombshell...a boy has been found murdered in...Read more

Dying to Live

When the body of a Bushman is discovered near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the death is written off as an accident. But all is not as it seems. An autopsy reveals that, although he's clearly very old, his internal organs are puzzlingly young. What's more, an old bullet is lodged in...Read more

Murder at the Savoy

When Viktor Palmgren, a powerful industrialist, is shot during an after-dinner speech, the repercussions - both on the international money markets and on the residents of the small coastal town of Malmö - are widespread. Chief Inspector Martin Beck is called in to help catch a killer nobody...Read more

Browning Battles On

‘One of the bayonets came to rest just below my Adam’s apple. I looked down at the shiny steel and then slowly looked along the length of the rifle barrel up into the face of my executioner. He wore thick glasses with metal rims and he had gold fillings in his teeth. I could see the teeth...Read more

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