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Firewater Blues by Caimh McDonnell
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBe careful who you love …It’s the year 2000 and while Bunny McGarry is theoretically on sabbatical from the police, he just can’t help sticking his nose in where it doesn’t belong.Rosie Flint is an old acquaintance of Bunny’s whose boyfriend mysteriously disappears off the face of the Earth... -
![Bury Them Deep: Inspector McLean Book 10 by James Oswald]()
Bury Them Deep: Inspector McLean Book 10 by James Oswald
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe tenth book in the Sunday Times-bestselling Inspector McLean series, from one of Scotland's most celebrated crime writers When a member of the Police Scotland team fails to clock-in for work, concern for her whereabouts is immediate... and the discovery of her burnt-out car in remote woodland to the south of Edinburgh sets off a desperate search for the missing woman... -
![Dead and Buried: A Scottish Detective Mystery by John Carson]()
Dead and Buried: A Scottish Detective Mystery by John Carson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes, the past is better left behind...Detective Chief Inspector Harry McNeil had found himself back in CID after a leave of absence saw his team disbanded. Now he's been temporarily assigned to an existing Major Investigation team, working alongside his old friend, Detective Inspector Frank Miller, after Miller's DCI dies suddenly.A body is found in the city centre, torn to pieces... -
![Bună seara, Melania! by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu]()
Bună seara, Melania! by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRodica Ojog-Braşoveanu a publicat romane poliţiste, istorice şi alte povestiri. Maestră in arta suspansului, Rodica Ojog-Brasoveanu se arată o fină cunoscătoare a maștilor dincolo de care se ascund întotdeauna oamenii și în literatura, și în viata. Această carte o dovedește din plin.Despre "Ciclul Melaniei": Melania este cheia întregii serii, prin unicitatea ei... -
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![Consummatum est by César Pérez Gellida]()
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![In My Time Of Dying by Douglas Lindsay]()
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![Jo Nesbø Collection 3 Books Set: The Redbreast, Nemesis, The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbø]()
Jo Nesbø Collection 3 Books Set: The Redbreast, Nemesis, The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbø
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTitle In This SetThe SnowmanThe RedbreastThe Devil's StarThe SnowmanThe night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother's pink scarf... -
![Le ossa parlano by Antonio Manzini]()
Le ossa parlano by Antonio Manzini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMentre Rocco Schiavone affronta a Roma i suoi fantasmi con la sensazione che a quella città non abbia più niente da dire, ad Aosta nei boschi vicino Saint-Nicolas, vengono rinvenute alcune minuscole ossa umane. Sono di Mirko Sensini, un bimbo di 8 anni strangolato dopo aver subito violenza sessuale. Rocco stavolta dovrà scavare nel terreno più torbido della psicopatologia la pedofilia... -
![L'ultimo traghetto by Domingo Villar, Federico Zanandrea]()
L'ultimo traghetto by Domingo Villar, Federico Zanandrea
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMónica Andrade è sparita da qualche giorno, e il caso non meriterebbe particolari attenzioni se non si trattasse della figlia di un celebre cardiochirurgo con cui mezza città (incluso il commissario Soto, diretto superiore dell'ispettore Leo Caldas) pare sentirsi in debito... -
![Lone Wolf by L.T. Vargus, E.M. Smith]()
Lone Wolf by L.T. Vargus, E.M. Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe package arrives first class. A manila envelope bulging with bubble wrap. With the top slit open, what lies within can just faintly be seen: A swath of human flesh sealed in plastic.When a popular podcaster receives a disturbing package in the mail, FBI profiler Victor Loshak heads to Denver to investigate. The grisly contents of the bubble mailer are unlike anything he’s seen... -
![Murder on the Orient Express / Cards on the Table / The A.B.C. Murders / Death Comes As the End by Agatha Christie]()
Murder on the Orient Express / Cards on the Table / The A.B.C. Murders / Death Comes As the End by Agatha Christie
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![Bryant & May: England’s Finest by Christopher Fowler]()
Bryant & May: England’s Finest by Christopher Fowler
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'Winningly eccentric . . . London, in all its non-homogenous, sprawling splendour, is as much a character as Fowler's sleuthing duo' Barry Forshaw, Financial TimesThe Peculiar Crimes Unit has solved many extraordinary cases over the years, but some were hushed up and hidden away. Until now.Arthur Bryant remembers these lost cases as if they were yesterday... -
![Mr. Monk is a Mess by Lee Goldberg]()
Mr. Monk is a Mess by Lee Goldberg
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsObsessive. Compulsive. Detective. An all-new original mystery starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place....No one likes to come home to a mess--least of all Monk and Natalie. But when they return briefly to San Francisco from an extended stay working as cops in New Jersey, Natalie discovers somebody has been sleeping in her bed... -
![Dies irae by César Pérez Gellida]()
Dies irae by César Pérez Gellida
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsDespués de Memento mori... ha llegado el día de la ira.La acción de este thriller implacable arranca en la peculiar ciudad italiana de Trieste, frontera entre dos mundos. Augusto Ledesma elige el que fuera hogar de James Joyce como primer escenario para continuar su siniestra obra, que alimenta del aliento de sus víctimas y de la humillación de sus perseguidores... -
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![Hər təmas iz buraxır by Emrah Serbes]()
Hər təmas iz buraxır by Emrah Serbes
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsƏmrah Sərbəstin yazdığı bu detektiv romanın əsas obrazı baş komissar Behzat Ç.-dir. Musiqi dinləməyən, amma polis ratsiyası ilə danışan, kitab oxumayan, lakin qəzeti oxumağa futbol səhifəsindən başlayan bu insan “yeni nizam”a heç cür uyğunlaşa bilmir... -
![Montalbano's First Case by Andrea Camilleri]()
Montalbano's First Case by Andrea Camilleri
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPrequel to the international bestselling Inspector Montalbano series. Montalbano is thirty-five years old and still a bit naïve—and there are plenty of criminals ready to take advantage of his inexperience.Montalbano’s First Case details our hero’s early years as a deputy inspector... -
![Cast in Stone by G.M. Ford]()
Cast in Stone by G.M. Ford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLeo’s boyhood hero, Henry “Heck” Sundstrom, was larger than life. Lately, however, Heck’s life has been spiraling out of control. First there was the honeymoon boating accident that killed Heck’s son and new daughter-in-law, Allison. And now the big man himself is dying—struck down by a delivery truck in a seedy section of Seattle... -
![Bum's Rush, The by G.M. Ford]()
Bum's Rush, The by G.M. Ford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen a homeless woman says she’s the mother of a deceased rock idol, sometimes private eye Leo Waterman takes it upon himself to investigate the lady’s claim. With the help of “the Boys,” a band of dissolute deputies, Leo begins a life-threatening pursuit of the truth nobody wants to hear... -
![Hard Fall by P.T. Reade]()
Hard Fall by P.T. Reade
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEx-New York detective Thomas Blume hunts the streets of London for the killers that tore his family apart. For justice, for closure, for revenge.But when Blume stumbles across a case that baffled local police, he unwittingly joins a world of criminals, corruption, and cops that will do anything to stop him... -
![The Monkey and The Tiger by Robert van Gulik]()
The Monkey and The Tiger by Robert van Gulik
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA.D. 666 and A.D. 676The Monkey and The Tiger includes two detective stories, "The Morning of the Monkey" and "The Night of the Tiger." In the first, a gibbon drops an emerald in the open gallery of Dee's official residence, leading the judge to discover a strangely mutilated body in the woods--and how it got there... -
![No Happy Ending: A Hector Belascoaran Shayne Detective Novel by Paco Ignacio Taibo II]()
No Happy Ending: A Hector Belascoaran Shayne Detective Novel by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe third English language case for Mexico City independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne, No Happy Ending, is Paco Ignacio Taibo II at his subversive, darkly comic best. First, Hector discovers the body of a dead actor, dressed like a Roman in full breastplate and regalia, propped up on the toilet in his office... -
![The Blood That Stains Your Hands by Douglas Lindsay]()
The Blood That Stains Your Hands by Douglas Lindsay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA haunting Scottish crime thriller, from the creator of Barney Thomson and DI Westphall. A young girl stands silently at a window in the dead of night. A stained-glass Jesus in blue looks down upon a lost church. A woman hangs by the neck from a bridge, the wings of an angel on her back... -
![Famous in a Small Town by Diana Anderson]()
Famous in a Small Town by Diana Anderson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe quiet town of Cypress, Mississippi is turned upside down when a former citizen, Raven Sawyer, returns for a funeral. Raven’s fictional novel goes viral when the town folk realize that she’s the author, and soon they’re thinking that her book is not fiction but truth... -
![The Death and Life of Bobby Z by Don Winslow]()
The Death and Life of Bobby Z by Don Winslow
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film). When Tim Kearney, a small-time criminal, slits the throat of a Hell's Angel and draws a life sentence in a prison full of gang members, he knows he’s pretty much a dead man... -
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![A Voice in the Night by Andrea Camilleri]()
A Voice in the Night by Andrea Camilleri
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwo deaths lead Inspector Montalbano into investigations of corruption and power in the twentieth installment of the New York Times bestselling seriesMontalbano investigates a robbery at a supermarket, a standard case that takes a spin when manager Guido Borsellino is later found hanging in his office... -
![Un mese con Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri]()
Un mese con Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUn mese con Montalbano è una raccolta di trenta racconti di Andrea Camilleri, pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1998 dalla Mondadori Editore; nel 2018 il libro viene ripubblicato da Sellerio Editore di Palermo.Il titolo si collega al numero di racconti, che coinvolgerebbero il lettore per un mese esatto, leggendo un racconto ogni giorno, come afferma lo stesso autore nella nota conclusiva... -
![Un mese con Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri]()
Un mese con Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUn mese con Montalbano è una raccolta di trenta racconti di Andrea Camilleri, pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1998 dalla Mondadori Editore; nel 2018 il libro viene ripubblicato da Sellerio Editore di Palermo.Il titolo si collega al numero di racconti, che coinvolgerebbero il lettore per un mese esatto, leggendo un racconto ogni giorno, come afferma lo stesso autore nella nota conclusiva... -
![Gli arancini di Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri]()
Gli arancini di Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Quando Montalbano incornava su una cosa, non c'erano santi." Il narratore che da anni ci racconta le storie del commissario di Vigàta, lo sa bene. Una parola stonata, un gesto incontrollato, un dettaglio incongruo bastano a mettere in moto la macchina delle sue indagini... -
![Disappearing Donuts by Gail Herman]()
Disappearing Donuts by Gail Herman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRuh-roh! All the donuts from Doodles Donuts are gone! Scooby-Doo is on the trail of crumbs in this big donut mystery... -
![Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce]()
Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAberystwyth's celebrated crimefighter Louie Knight finds himself at sea caught in a web of intrigue spanning the world from Patagonia ato Aberystwyth. He sets out on the trail of a legendary document stolen long ago from Adolf Eichmann. It is said to contain a revelation about the ultimate fate of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid... -
![Deadly Ashes by N.C. Lewis]()
Deadly Ashes by N.C. Lewis
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDoris Cudlow is a feisty reporter with a nose for the truth. When Doris takes a stroll on a blustery gray Skegness beach, the most she expects is a downpour. Instead, she walks straight into a baffling mystery—a body on the beach. It looks like the victim died of natural causes. No one believes it was murder, but Doris is not so sure... -
![The Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell]()
The Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe Man Who Smiled begins with Inspector Kurt Wallander deep in a personal and professional crisis after killing a man in the line of duty; eventually, he vows to quit the Ystad police force for good. Just then, however, a friend who had asked Wallander to look into the death of his father winds up dead himself, shot three times... -
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![King of Swords by Nick Stone]()
King of Swords by Nick Stone
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSuch was the acclaim that greeted Nick Stone's amazing debut novel, Mr Clarinet, that a curious syndrome soon developed: if you hadn't read the novel (and claimed to have any interest in the crime genre), you had to say (to all who would listen) 'I really must read Mr Clarinet -- I've heard so much about it!' (preferably said with a pronounced guilty note in the voice)... -
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![Handcuffs & High Heels by J.M. Edwards]()
Handcuffs & High Heels by J.M. Edwards
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeet Ruby Wisdom. Smart and sensible. Humorous and heroic. Tough and tender. As the only private investigator in tiny Wormwood, New York, Ruby handles a wide range of cases—everything from jewel heists and cheating husbands to stolen wedding gowns, kidnapped artwork and fraudulent heirs... -
![La estrategia del pequinés by Alexis Ravelo]()
La estrategia del pequinés by Alexis Ravelo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll our books are brand new... -
![Stick by Elmore Leonard]()
Stick by Elmore Leonard
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“A little beauty of a story….A hot, fast read with pungent characters.” —Los Angeles Times“A slam-bang, no-bull action thriller…and nobody but nobody writes better dialogue... -
![The Sicilian Method: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery by Andrea Camilleri]()
The Sicilian Method: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery by Andrea Camilleri
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMimi Augello is visiting his lover when the woman's husband unexpectedly returns to the apartment; he climbs out the window and into the downstairs apartment, but one danger leads to another. In the dark he sees a body lying on the bed... -
![Last Tango in Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce]()
Last Tango in Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTo the girls who came to make it big in the town's 'What the Butler Saw' movie industry, Aberystwyth was the town of broken dreams. To Dean Morgan who taught at the Faculty of Undertaking, it was just a place to get course materials. But both worlds collide when the Dean checks into the notorious bed and breakfast ghetto and mistakenly receives a suitcase intended for a ruthless druid assassin... -
![Sucker Bet by James Swain]()
Sucker Bet by James Swain
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA hardened ex-cop with great instincts, a sharp eye, and a short fuse, Tony Valentine still catches crooks, but a very special breed of them. He nabs hustlers who rob casinos, and finds the fatal flaw that allowed the place to get ripped off in the first place. Sometimes that means biting the hand that feeds him, but Valentine isn’t paid to sugarcoat the cold, hard truth... -
![The Unbearable Lightness Of Being In Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce]()
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being In Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis new novel in the 'Louie Knight' series is3 the most dark and disturbing adventure yet... -
![A White Merc with Fins by James Hawes]()
A White Merc with Fins by James Hawes
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe dazzling debut of a new voice in fiction, this is the funny, unexpected story of a balding, thickening 28-year-old who, having spent the bulk of his twenties avoiding a career in the quasi-black market of London's temp agencies, now finds himself not only without a job, but seriously without prospects... -
![Flynn's World by Gregory McDonald]()
Flynn's World by Gregory McDonald
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom one of the world’s best-selling and most entertaining mystery writers comes a beguiling new novel starring the beloved Inspector Flynn.Boston police inspector Francis Xavier Flynn is in for a tough day. He has hardly gotten a wink of sleep, due to a marathon bout of detective work. His daughter, Jenny, drags him to a cemetery, where her best friend is nailed to a tree by his ear... -
![Angelica's Smile by Andrea Camilleri]()
Angelica's Smile by Andrea Camilleri
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe seventeenth installment of the beloved New York Times bestselling series that boasts more than 600,000 books in print The last four books in Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano series have leapfrogged their way up the New York Times bestseller list, perfectly positioning Angelica’s Smile to ascend to even greater heights. A rash of burglaries has got Inspector Salvo Montalbano stumped... -
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![Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? by G.M. Ford, Patrick Lawlor]()
Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? by G.M. Ford, Patrick Lawlor
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen an old gangster friend of Leo's father makes a request he "can't refuse," Leo and his band of drunks, delve into the world of environmental politics in search of Caroline Nobel, a spoiled brat, without the sense God gave a gopher... -
![Fletch Won by Gregory McDonald]()
Fletch Won by Gregory McDonald
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFletch WonAs a fledgling reporter, Fletch is doing more flailing than anything else. That and floating around from department to department trying to figure where he fits in. His managing editor’s got him pegged for the society pages, but the kind of society Fletch gets involved with is anything but polite... -
![Ukradziony Sen by Alexandra Marinina]()
Ukradziony Sen by Alexandra Marinina
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeing an officer of Moscow milice Anastazja Kamieńska, attractive and delicate woman, is unreplaceable in investigation where intuition and nonconventional methods are needed... -
![Śmierć i trochę miłości by Alexandra Marinina, Alexandra Marinina]()
Śmierć i trochę miłości by Alexandra Marinina, Alexandra Marinina
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsśmierć i trochę miłości, kolejna powieść Aleksandry Marininej o przygodach błyskotliwej major Anastazji Kamieńskiej, rozpoczyna się w momencie dla bohaterki wyjątkowym: w przeddzień jej ślubu. Podczas gorączkowych przygotowań Anastazja otrzymuje anonimowy list: Nie rób tego. Pożałujesz... -
![Riccardino by Andrea Camilleri, Mark Meadows]()
Riccardino by Andrea Camilleri, Mark Meadows
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe twenty-eighth and final novel in the thrilling, wickedly funny Inspector Montalbano Mysteries series by bestselling author Andrea Camilleri.‘Contrary to what you think, I’m carrying out this investigation as best I can. But let’s do this: if I get stuck, if I find I can’t go forward or back, then I’ll let you know, and you can step in. And offer me a way out... -
![Cabaret Biarritz by José C. Vales]()
Cabaret Biarritz by José C. Vales
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGeorges Miet escribe por encargo historias populares para la editorial francesa La Fortune, hasta que un día su editor le pide una novela “seria” acerca de los trágicos hechos que habían conmocionado quince años antes la vibrante Biarritz de 1925, durante la temporada estival. Tras una terrible galerna el cadáver de una joven de la localidad aparece sujeto a una argolla en el muelle...
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