Tag: crime
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A Death on Location
by Richard Coles It’s spring 1990, and in Champton the whole village is aflutter as a glamorous Hollywood movie has taken over Lord de Floures’ Champton House as its set location. As the actors and extras hired from the village don their farthingales, gowns and crowns for a masque set in the 1600s, a murder…
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Nightshade
by Michael Connelly Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been “exiled” to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderly and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a…
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Guilty
by Martina Cole Steph Barker can’t forget her past. A single mother, Steph runs a women’s shelter for local prostitutes while coming to terms with a tragic loss. And it’s people like Joseph Potter, battling with his own grief, who keep her going. When Hennie, one of her friends from the shelter, goes missing, Steph’s…
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The Scape Goat
by Daphne Du Maurier ‘He turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking at myself.’ By chance, two men – one English, the other French…
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Murder At The House On The Hill
by Victoria Walters Nancy Hunter and her grandmother Jane Hunter run the Dedley Endings Bookshop, selling crime, thriller and mystery books, in a small, quiet Cotswold village where nothing ever happens… That is, until the wealthy and reclusive Roth family open up their mansion for the first time in thirty years, inviting the people of Dedley End to…
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Murder On Line One
by Jeremy Vine A brand new murder mystery series now! There’s a killer on the airwaves … and they’re calling for you. Darkness looms over sunny Sidmouth, when an unsolved murder comes to the attention of late-night radio talk show host Edward Temmis. Recently sacked from his beloved job after a devastating tragedy, Edward is…
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A Rising Man
by Abir Mukherjee India, 1919. A man is found dead. A note has been left in the dead man’s mouth. It warns the English to leave India. If they don’t, more blood will be spilled. Two police officers, Captain Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee must solve the crime quickly. But there are some people who will do…