Sorted on book title (not in series order)
An archaeologist’s wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq.
It was clear to nurse Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig, something associated with the presence of ‘Lovely Louise’, the wife of the celebrated archaeologist Dr....Read more
When filming his TV series Race Relations, John Safran spent an uneasy couple of days with one of Mississippi's most notorious white supremacists. A year later, he heard that the man had been murdered – and what was more, the killer was black.
At first the murder seemed...Read more
When Mary, a deaf child, is found at the bottom of a cliff in idyllic Kinness, visiting birdwatcher George Palmer-Jones vows to get some answers from the reticent townspeopleRead more
The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself - a maze of sloping floors and strange staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny dolls. When a guest is found murdered in...Read more
Director Buzz Shaw invites reclusive former rock star Zirk to a screening of his latest film at 'Tropfest' short film festival, neither is aware that they are both about to take starring roles in a very different style of film production. Murder! The clapperboard has barely slammed shut on...Read more
When reclusive former rock-star Andrew "The Lizard" Zirk accepts an invitation to a rock and roll party in honour of Australia's nastiest, sleaziest, crudest and most successful musician, Sydney Melbourne, he little realises he has just started a new career as Australia's most successful...Read more
Winner of the Mystery Writers of Japan Award and the Honkaku Mystery Prize. Osaka, 1943. The Second World War rages, and American bombers rain down death upon Japan. The once prosperous Omari household, now ruined by the terrible conflict, is struck by a succession of ghastly murders. Young...Read more
Aimée Leduc, a Parisian private investigator, has always sworn she would stick to tech investigation—no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an old Jewish man approaches Aimée with a top-secret decoding job...Read more
Guy Fawkes' Night . . .
"Good night for a murder," Inspector Japp told his friend Hercule Poirot as they passed through Bardsely Gardens Mews. "Nobody would hear a shot, of instance, on a night like this."
Next morning, Barbara Allen was found dead in her locked...Read more
Rock-star-turned-detective Andrew "The Lizard" Zirk decides to take a vacation with his gorgeous chauffeuse, Fleur. And what better destination than a new resort on the Indonesian island of Ulambor. But no sooner have they polished off their first plate of gado gado than their romantic...Read more
Doctor Jack Nugent never liked looking at dead people and he hated touching them. In spite of this, he acquired detailed knowledge as to what happened to human remains. In the small community of Utopia, in the middle of Australia, he'd picked up skills he simply never could have learned...Read more
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m."
A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation,...Read more
The basin was brimful of a dark red fluid. He lifted his eye a little and looked at the bed. A woman was lying on it, half-naked. Her nightdress, delicately wrought with lacework all over, was drawn back and folded tight, wrapped round her stiffened limbs and body. Her ankles, firmly lashed...Read more
Looking for unforgettable heroes pitted against unbeatable odds?
Evil lurks in broad daylight. Conspiracies play out in the shadows. Nowhere is safe. And these 20 pulse-pounding mysteries and thrillers won't let you forget it...
Fans of Lee Child, James Patterson,...Read more
Murder Most Delectable is an anthology of short crime stories whose common elements include food, restaurants, and food preparation. Included are stories by Ruth Rendell, M. D. Lake, Edward Hoch, Joyce Carol Oates, and Rex Stout.
Contents:
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Hello, I'm Johnny Debonair and this is my book - Murder Most Fab . Buy it. You won't regret it. Everything that has happened so publicly is explained. Of course, I'd prefer it if you remember me as I was at my height, before the past caught up with me so spectacularly - TV's Mr Friday Night...Read more
When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable London advertising agency, it looks like an accident. Then Lord Peter Wimsey is called in, and he soon discovers there's more to copywriting than meets the eye. A bit of cocaine, a hint of...Read more
The year is 1929, and Melbourne is in the grip of an exhausting heatwave. But for elegant and irrepressible private investigator Phryne Fisher, the temperature is the least of her worries. She finds herself simultaneously investigating the apparent suicide of a man on St Kilda beach, and...Read more
A serial killer is targeting London literary agents. Led by the old-fashioned and slobbish 'Inspector No' and aided by crime author Lavinia Lenehan, DS Flick Fortune and DC Bagawath Chandavarkar narrow down their suspects, all entrants in the Debut Dagger crime writing competition.Read more
The Euganean Hills golf community in northern Italy is a golfer’s paradise. With a perpetual smell of freshly cut grass, rolling green plains, and bright blue skies, it seems nothing could go wrong for the tight-knit group that lives there.
But the normally laid-back residents...Read more
In Phryne's third adventure, Phryne is off to Ballarat for a week of fabulousness, but the sedate journey by train turns out to be far from the restful trip she was planning. What was planned as a restful country sojourn turns into the stuff of nightmares: a young girl who can't remember...Read more
The fourth book in the Verlaque and Bonnet Provencal Mystery series finds Verlaque and Bonnet on vacation on a remote island in the glittering Mediterranean.
Like Donna Leon and Andrea Camilleri, M. L. Longworth’s books enchant mystery lovers with a taste for good food and...Read more
When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a...Read more
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the famous Orient Express in its tracks as it travels through the mountainous Balkans. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year but, by the morning, it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment,...Read more
Reduced to making a living from voice-overs and commercials, stunned by his agent's and his girlfriend's indifference, and envious of rising star Gordon Wilde, struggling actor Philip Fletcher turns to murder.Read more
Ingenious amateur sleuth Tessa Crichton sets out to solve a puzzling murder in an elegant country house that conceals a dark and deadly secretRead more
Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband – an assistant master at Carne School - is trying to kill her. Reluctant to go to the police, Miss Brimley calls upon her old wartime colleague, George Smiley....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
Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James’s formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.
The Dupayne, a small private museum in London devoted to the interwar years 1919 -- 1939, is in turmoil. As...Read more
