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  Frieda Klein: Book 1

  Blue Monday

  by Nicci French

  The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, psychotherapist Frieda Klein is left troubled: one of her patients has been relating dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. A child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew.Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't... (more)
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  Twisted Wing

  by Ruth Newman

  The claustrophobic environment of Ariel College, Cambridge, has become the hunting ground of a serial killer. For the students, a siege mentality has developed following weeks of media interest in the 'Cambridge Butcher'. College life has become not about surviving their exams, but surviving full stop. Forensic psychiatrist Matthew Denison is sure that his traumatised patient, student Olivia Coscadden, has the... (more)
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  Roy Grace: Book 7

  Dead Man's Grip

  by Peter James

  Roy Grace sets his sights on America in this next crime novel by the #1 international bestselling author   Carly Chase is still traumatized ten days after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University.  Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered.  Now... (more)
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  Chief Inspector Wexford: Book 1

  From Doon with Death

  by Ruth Rendell

  When Margaret Parsons disappears, Inspector Burden tries to reassure her frantic husband that she will be back by morning. Privately, though, he is certain Margaret has run off with another man. But then the missing woman's body is found, strangled and abandoned in a nearby wood. And when Mr. Parsons lets the police into his home, a startling discovery leads everyone to question just who Margaret Parsons really... (more)
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  Chief Inspector Wexford: Book 10

  A Sleeping Life

  by Ruth Rendell

  Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life. In A Sleeping Life , master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel in the blood, thunder, and passion of dramas of old; whose current whereabouts are... (more)
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  Inspector Grant Mysteries: Book 5

  The Singing Sands

  by Josephine Tey

  On his train back to Scotland for a well-earned rest, Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger, one Charles Martin has been found dead. It looks like a case of misadventure - but Grant is not so sure. Teased by some enigmatic lines of verse - "the singing sands, that guard the way to paradise" - that the deceased had apparently scrawled on a newspaper, he follows a trail to the remote Outer Hebrides.
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  Chief Inspector Wexford: Book 6

  No More Dying Then

  by Ruth Rendell

  What kind of a person would kidnap two children? That is the question that haunts Wexford when a five-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl disappear from the village of Kingsmarkham. When a child's body turns up at an abandoned country home one search turns into a murder investigation and the other turns into a race against time. Filled with pathos and terror, passion, bitterness, and loss, No More Dying Then... (more)
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  Chief Inspector Wexford: Book 11

  Put On By Cunning

  by Ruth Rendell

  It has been said that the dramatic works of Shakespeare were written not by the poet-impresario but by another man with the same name. This is basically the plot of this otherwise very sophisticated and very English mystery by the author of such works as The Crocodile Bird (Audio Reviews, LJ 5/15/94). The term "anticlimax" scarcely does the work justice. In addition, reader Charles Kay, though sensitive and... (more)
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  Flaxborough: Book 10

  Blue Murder

  by Colin Watson

  Fearless journalist Clive Grail is bent on uncovering a scandal of blue films and blackmail in respectable Flaxborough. But when he publishes his revelations of the town's murky past he finds himself at the hub of a much more chilling and sinister crime.
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 8

  Lord Edgware Dies

  by Agatha Christie

  Alternate title: Thirteen at DinnerSure, actress Jane Wilkinson wants out of a miserable marriage, but is she guilty of stabbing her way out of it? She claims she's innocent. Hercule Poirot wonders if she's giving the performance of a lifetime.
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  The Sittaford Mystery

  by Agatha Christie

  Also published as The Murder at Hazelmoor. M-U-R-D-E-R. It began as an innocent parlor game intended to while away the hours on a bitter winter night. But the message that appeared before the amateur occultists snowbound at the Sittaford House was spelled out as loud and clear as a scream. Of course, the notion that they had foretold doom was pure bunk. Wasn't it? And the discovery of a corpse was pure... (more)
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  Chief Inspector Wexford: Book 8

  Some Lie and Some Die

  by Ruth Rendell

  A mutilated body found at a rock festival. In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in Kingsmarkham seemed to be going off without a hitch, until the hideously disfigured body is discovered in a nearby quarry. And soon Wexford is investigating the links between a local girl gone bad and a charismatic singer who inspires an unwholesome devotion in his followers. Some Lie and Some Die is a devilishly... (more)
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  Chief Inspector Wexford: Book 4

  The Best Man to Die

  by Ruth Rendell

  Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be the prelude to the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton? And Charlie's death was only the first in a string of puzzling murders involving small-time gangsters, cheating husbands, and loose women. Now Chief Inspector Wexford and his assistant join forces with the groom to track down a killer . . .
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  Malcolm Fox: Book 2

  The Impossible Dead

  by Ian Rankin

  The Complaints: that's the name given to the Internal Affairs department who seek out dirty and compromised cops, the ones who've made deals with the devil. And sometimes The Complaints must travel. A major inquiry into a neighboring police force sees Malcolm Fox and his colleagues cast adrift, unsure of territory, protocol, or who they can trust. An entire station-house looks to have been compromised, but as Fox... (more)
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  Shake Hands For Ever

  by Ruth Rendell

  1st edition paperback, fine
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  A Good Day to Die [Mass Market Paperback]

  by Simon Kernick

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  Jon Spicer, a detective inspector in Manchester, England: Book 5

  The Edge

  by Chris Simms

  An incredibly powerful new novel from one of crime writing's rising stars...
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  Jon Spicer, a detective inspector in Manchester, England: Book 3

  Savage Moon

  by Chris Simms

  The body of a woman with her throat ripped out is found on Saddleworth Moor, near Manchester. She is discovered in an area where several sightings of a mysterious large black cat have been made. When analysis shows that hairs caught under the victim's nails are those of a panther, it is assumed that the animal has killed its first human prey. But then a man DI Jon Spicer is investigating as part of an entirely... (more)
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  Tony Hill / Carol Jordan: Book 6

  Fever of the Bone

  by Val McDermid

  'You should have been a detective. If there's one thing the last year has proved, it's how good you are at finding things out. Not simple things. Hard things. Things that nobody is supposed to be able to find out. Things that are buried so deep nobody even thinks twice about them. The sort of things that turn people's lives inside out once they're exposed.' Meet Tony Hill's most twisted adversary - a killer with a... (more)
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  Tigerlily's Orchids

  by Ruth Rendell

  From the incomparable, award-winning Ruth Rendell — "the grand dame of British crime fiction" ( The Gazette ) —comes her latest psychological thriller. When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat he invites everyone in his building. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons.... Living opposite, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman,... (more)