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See You In September

Cassy blew a collective kiss at them. 'See you in September,' she said. A throwaway line. Just words, uttered casually by a young woman in a hurry. And then she'd gone.

It was supposed to be a short trip - a break in New Zealand before her best friend's wedding. But...Read more

Seeking Whom He May Devour

Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of their ewes with its throat cut. When one of the villagers too is killed people begin to wonder: could it be the work of a werewolf? Soon suspicion falls on Massart, one of the villagers, because of his...Read more

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Self's Punishment

Sixty-eight years old; a smoker of Sweet Aftons, a dedicated drinker of Aviateur cocktails, and the owner of a charismatic cat named Turbo, Gerhard Self is an unconventional private detective. several incidents of computer-hacking at a chemicals company, he finds himself dealing with an...Read more

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Semana Santa

Semana Santa (Holy Week) fills the streets with gawking tourists and thousands upon thousands of hooded penitents. The week gets off to a grisly start, though, with the most unholy discovery of a double murder. Visiting academic Maria Gutierrez is only supposed to observe the subsequent...Read more

The Semantics of Murder

Jay Hamilton lives a comfortable life in fashionable west London, listening to the minor and major dysfunctions of the over-privileged clients who frequent his psychoanalytic practice. But the darker recesses of his own psyche would not stand up to close examination: his brother Richard, a...Read more

The Sense of an Ending

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school.  Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they...Read more

Sensitive New Age Spy

All Alby wants is a decent coffee and a day off.  But there's a hijacked tanker with a deadly cargo in Sydney Harbour, and bullets are flying on board a US Navy cruiser.  Three sailors are dead and a Seahawk chopper is missing.  

Who's behind the mayhem?  Why is the government...Read more

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The Sentence is Death

"You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late…"

These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer. Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine – a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth £3,000, to be precise....Read more

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Sepulchre

One girl in the past, one girl in the present.

A Parisian debutante accompanies her brother for a stay in the countryside of uncertain duration.  Leonie loves her brother Anatole but is certainly not blind to the freely available sins easily accessed by a young man in such a...Read more

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The Serbian Dane

LISE CARLSEN:  A successful journalist trying to smooth over the cracks in a failed marriage.

PER TOFTLUND:  A crack member of Denmark's secret service, a lone wolf:  unattached, without family and fanatically committed to his work.

VUK:  a highly skilled political...Read more

Serious Intent

Richard Gardner lives in the peaceful commuter village of Haverscot, struggling with the mood-swings of his wife and the rebellious conduct of her two sons. Close by is The Willows whose frail owner has recently died, leaving behind a sinister legacy in the form of a hidden murder weapon....Read more

The Serpent's Sting

'It was suffocatingly hot, and the audience of howling children was viciously indifferent to the violence being done to my integrity as an artist by every ghastly syllable I was obliged to utter and by every mincing step I was obliged to take. As the foul smell of the ancient wig I was...Read more

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Service of All the Dead

This time Inspector Morse brings the imposition on himself. He could have been vacationing in Greece instead of investigating a murder that the police have long since written off. But he finds the crime--the brutal killing of a suburban churchwarden--fascinating. In fact, he uncovers not...Read more

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Set in Darkness

Edinburgh police inspector John Rebus's obsession--rock & roll--seems odd for a man whose dark, depressed side is so central to his character, but Ian Rankin always manages to work it gracefully into his noirish novels featuring Rebus. In Set in Darkness , Rebus has a fling with Lorna...Read more

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Set Up

Luke Dunlop is in Witness Protection. He has one job - to make people disappear. And that’s not easy when there’s no margin for error and each case is a matter of life and death.

Convicted felon Kerry Douglas Loew, recently married in prison, makes a deal to turn informer for a...Read more

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The Settlement

On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen’s Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women.

He has gathered together, under varying degrees of coercion and duress, the last of the Tasmanians, or so he believes. His purpose is to save...Read more

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The Seven Dials Mystery

Danger comes by sevens. In a suicide's room seven clocks tick ominously. And the last words of a dying friend are "seven dials." The enigmatic sevens lead dapper Jimmy Thesiger and his dashing cohort "Bundle" Brent to a soho club. There they learn of the Seven Dials Society: seven masked...Read more

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Seven Lies

It all started with one little lie . . .

Jane and Marnie have been inseparable since they were eleven years old. They have a lot in common. In their early twenties they both fell in love and married handsome young men.

But Jane never liked Marnie's...Read more

Severed Past

A car crash fourteen years ago. The result —amnesia. A terrible accident … or was it? Since that fateful day, computer expert David Hayes has been consumed by his need to learn more about his past. Frustrated at every turn, his search seems destined to fail until the sudden arrival of a...Read more

Sex Crimes

The things we do for sex - lie, cheat, scheme, kill ...

Sex Crimes is seven delicious helpings of irony, intrigue and full-on entertainment from the writer who the celebrated Australian author Marele Day described as 'a master of plot, pace and the killer one-liner'.Read more

Sexton Blake Wins

Contains The House of the Hanging Sword · Gwyn Evans · The Treasure of Tortoise Island · G. H. Teed · Under Sexton Blake's Orders · John Hunter · The Man I Killed · Rex Hardinge · The Green Jester · Donald Stewart · The Secret Amulet · Anthony Parsons · The Box of Ho Sen · Anthony Skene (...Read more

Shades of Murder

In 1889 the late Cora Oakley’s husband William was put on trial for her murder. The case was dismissed, but Oakley fled the country, never to be heard of again.

Over a hundred years later, the only remaining members of the family are two elderly sisters who, after years of...Read more

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Shadow Alley

Nine tautly plotted stories of crime and detection ranging from the darkly dangerous to the frankly comical.  All with young adult central characters - some authors have taken their own characters back to their childhood - others have created completely new characters.

The Shadow Broker

It is 2026 and individual freedoms are severely curtailed, and state surveillance is everywhere. State Security has a Watch List, and being on it means that nothing you do or say escapes the authorities, but does the Kill List really exist? And if it does, how would you know if you were on...Read more

Shadow of Doubt

How well do you know those closest to you?

Jessica McDonald appears to have it all: a successful London banking career, a happy marriage, and good friends.

Then a terrorist bombing rocks London in the wake of the Brexit referendum.

She narrowly escapes...Read more

The Shadow in the River

One June night, in a small town gripped by a sweltering heat wave, a young man is forced off the road and into the river.  Robert Bell, a disillusioned local journalist with a dry sense of humour and an escalating drink problem, leaves behind the banality of his quiet office to investigate...Read more

The Shadow Maker

A brutal predator is on the loose, targeting women and savagely attacking them. His first victim is found chained, blinded and hanging on to life by a thread. His next target isn't so 'lucky'. After a forced bondage session, her ears are cut off and she's left for dead.

As the...Read more

Shadow Over Edmund Street

Edwina’s death is brutal, a swift and silent killer who leaves no clues. Her murder seems unsolvable until a casual comment sends Inspector Alex Cameron and his seasoned team trawling through the dead woman’s childhood.

Raised in a poverty-scarred part of Auckland, Edwina was a...Read more

Shadow Sister

Lydia and Elisa, twin sisters, identical in appearance, different in every other way.

Lydia has her life in order and opinions on everything, from her husband's business to her sister's friends, to her fellow teachers. If only those around her could live up to her high...Read more

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