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  Charlie Parker: Book 6

  The Unquiet

  by John Connolly

  But that is the nature of revenge. It escalates. It cannot be controlled. One hurt invites another, on and on until the original injury is all but forgotten in the chaos of what follows. John Connolly's originality and talent for storytelling have quickly made him one of today's preeminent thriller writers. Now, in The Unquiet, private detective Charlie Parker returns to untangle a horrifying story of... (more)
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  Horse's Arse

  by Charlie Owen

  It is the Seventies and Horse's Arse is the affectionate name for Handstead New Town, a North Manchester overspill and an unholy dump. The police use it as a penal posting -- all the bad egg coppers end up there. Worst amongst the residents of Handstead are the Park Royal Mafia, a gang of violent thugs who terrorise their neighbourhood. They and the officers doomed to serve at Handstead wrestle constantly for... (more)
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  Erica Falck and Patrik Hedstrom: Book 1

  The Ice Princess

  by Camilla Läckberg

  For the first time in English, the psychological thriller debut of No 1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. Returning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen in an ice-cold bath, it seems, at first, that she has taken her own... (more)
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  A Joe Faraday Mystery: Book 7

  One Under

  by Graham Hurley

  A man has been chained inside a tunnel and then dismembered and scattered along the railroad tracks. This is the beginning of Detective Inspector Joe Faraday's most gruesome case yet. But is it a bizarre suicide, or the cruelest of murders? Checking the list of missing persons as the police attempt to identify the body, Detective Constable Winter comes across a missing man, someone who stepped out of their ordered... (more)
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  Tom Fletcher: Book 1

  Corn Dolls

  by Patrick Lennon

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  Inspector Devlin Mystery: Book 1

  Borderlands

  by Brian McGilloway

  'Brian McGilloway's command of plot and assurance of language make it difficult to believe that Borderlands is his debut.' - "The Times". 'A mystery of labyrinthine complexity' - "Sunday Telegraph". The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone- Donegal border, between the North and South of Ireland, in an area known as the borderlands. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin heads the investigation:... (more)
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  No Tears for the Lost

  by Adrian Magson

  This intelligent crime novel, the fourth in Magson's series to feature Riley Gavin and Frank Palmer (after No Sleep for the Dead), should garner the British author a larger following in the U.S. . . The crisp writing and fresh characters make this stand out from the mystery genre pack."" -Publishers Weekly. ""A former British ambassador to Colombia receives his son's finger in the mail. What lies beneath the... (more)
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  Jackson Brodie Series: Book 3

  When Will There Be Good News?

  by Kate Atkinson

  On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever... On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound... At the end of a long day, 16-year-old Reggie is looking forward to watching a little TV. Then a... (more)
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  DC Laura McGanity: Book 1

  Fallen Idols

  by Neil White

  Everyone would kill for their fifteen minutes of fame! A Premiership footballer is shot dead in cold blood on a busy London street, and a country is gripped by terror. Who is behind this apparently motiveless killing -- and who's next in the firing line? Jack Garrett is determined to find out. A small-time journalist who's left behind his Lancashire roots for the glitz and glamour -- and seediness and squalor --... (more)
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  Jacquot & The Fifteen

  by Martin O'Brien

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  Kurt Wallander: Book 9

  The Pyramid

  And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries

  by Henning Mankell

  Now available for the first time in paperback from Vintage Canada, this international bestseller is the missing piece of the critically acclaimed Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander's beginnings. The Pyramid is the prequel to the bestselling Kurt Wallander series, and reintroduces readers to a character they thought they knew everything about. Here, we see Wallander as a twenty-one-year-old... (more)
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  Joe Donovan: Book 2

  Bone Machine

  by Martyn Waites

  "Waites stands out in the field of young British noir writers . . . with his bruised characters, raw-edged dialogue, and extraordinary night vision."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review The body is discovered in an abandoned burial ground: a young woman, blond, ritualistically mutilated, apparently. Her eyes and mouth have been crudely sewn shut. The police come up with a... (more)
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  Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham: Book 1

  Into the Shadows

  by Shirley Wells

  Forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy leaves her high-powered job and moves to a sleepy village and is called on to solve the murder of the vicar's wife.
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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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  Reaper

  by Steven Dunne

  A damaged detective and a brutal serial killer collide in this nail-biting thriller debut. Detective Inspector Damen Brook thinks he's left his past behind him in London. But it seems a serial killer has followed him north...Brook's seeking sanctuary. Years in the MET have left their mark - so much so that he's fled to Derby leaving behind his marriage, his teenage daughter and very nearly his sanity to wind down... (more)
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  Inspector Thorne: Book 7

  Death Message

  by Mark Billingham

  British police procedural set in London. This is the seventh book in Mark Billingham's DI Tom Thorne series.
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  Tokyo Trilogy: Book 1

  Tokyo Year Zero

  by David Peace

  From “British crime fiction’s most exciting new voice in decades” ( GQ ) comes an electrifying novel that revisits a series of shocking crimes committed in post–World War II, bombed-out, American-occupied Tokyo. On August 15, 1946—the first anniversary of the Japanese surrender—the partially decomposed, raped, and strangled bodies of two women are found in Shiba Park. More murders will soon be uncovered: women... (more)
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  Gone to Ground

  by John Harvey

  When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker, investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay academic, their first thoughts are of an ill-judged sexual encounter or a fatal lovers’ quarrel: The man’s face was like a glove that had been pulled inside out. But they soon shift focus to the book Bryan was writing about the life and mysterious death of fifties film star Stella Leonard. While... (more)
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  Jacquot: Book 2

  Jacquot and the Master

  by Martin O'Brien

  In a sensual region of France, a crime detective like no other...Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot of the Cavaillon Regional Crime Squad is called to an artist's retreat in Provence, a luxury hill-top hotel where a young woman, it seems, has been murdered. There are bloodstains, but no body. The mystery deepens as Jacquot begins his investigation. Among the guests are those who have both means and motive, with... (more)
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  Dublin Murder Squad: Book 1

  In the Woods

  by Tana French

  As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. Twenty years later, the... (more)