Tag: crime
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The Cure
by Eve Smith Living forever can be lethal… Ruth is a law-abiding elder, working out her national service, but she has secrets. Her tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine against old age. Just one jab a year reverses your biological clock, guaranteeing a long,…
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We Are All Guilty Here
by Karin Slaughter Welcome to North Falls. A small town where everyone knows everyone. But nobody knows the truth. Emmy Clifton has lived here all her life. She thinks she knows her neighbours. She’s wrong. She thinks it’s just another hot summer night: a night like any other. She’s wrong. When her best friend’s daughter asks for…
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The First Gentleman
by Bill Clinton and James Patterson The President of the United States is up for re-election. Her husband is on trial for murder. Is the First Gentleman a killer? A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question. Bill Clinton reveals key White House details in murderous new political thriller… It’s…
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Slough House
by Mick Herron Slough House – the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the ‘slow horses’, are banished – has been wiped from secret service records. Reeling from recent losses in their ranks, the slow horses are worried they’ve been pushed further into the cold, and fatal accidents keep happening. With a new populist…
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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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Tell No-One
by Harlan Coben David Beck has just received an email from his dead wife… The thriller which made SUNDAY TIMES No.1 bestselling author Harlan Coben a household name. Eight years ago David Beck was knocked unconscious and left for dead, and his wife Elizabeth was kidnapped and murdered. Dr Beck re-lived the horror of what…