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The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings for each other as they desperately work to exonerate one of their own.When builders discover a human skeleton while renovating a café, they call in archaeologist Dr... -
![Death on the Nile / Murder on the Orient Express / The ABC Murders / Cards on the Table / Thirteen at Dinner by Agatha Christie]()
Death on the Nile / Murder on the Orient Express / The ABC Murders / Cards on the Table / Thirteen at Dinner by Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNovels included; Thirteen at Dinner/Murder on The Orient Express/The ABC Murders/Cards on the Table/ Death on the Nile... -
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Clint Wolf Boxed Set: Books 4 - 6 by BJ Bourg
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBooks 4-6 (But Not Forever, But Not For Naught, and But Not Forbidden) of the Clint Wolf Mystery Series by award-winning author BJ Bourg now available as a boxed set! BUT NOT FOREVER After a year of working as a tour guide in the swamps of Louisiana--and the day after a man’s body is found in a canal--former Police Chief Clint Wolf realizes he can’t stay away from law enforcement work... -
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![Purppuraverkko by Carmen Mola]()
Purppuraverkko by Carmen Mola
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSatoja tuhansia myynyt Espanjan Varistyttö.Kesän viimeisinä päivinä rikostutkija Elena Blanco ryhmineen tekee rynnäkön Madridin laitamilla sijaitsevaan taloon. He syöksyvät suoraan perheen teinipojan huoneeseen, jossa tietokoneen näytöllä kaksi huppupäistä miestä kiduttaa nuorta tyttöä suorassa lähetyksessä. Poliisit joutuvat todistamaan ruudun välityksellä tytön kuolemaa... -
![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... -
![Drip Drop Dead by Willow Rose]()
Drip Drop Dead by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEmma Frost is chasing a killer that seems to bend the laws of physics.Things are going well for Emma Frost for once. She has a sweet boyfriend and has just finished a new book. Her daughter, Maya, is doing well in high school and even Victor is thriving and playing with his new best friend, the strange girl who fell from the sky... -
![Free to Deceive by Julie Mellon]()
Free to Deceive by Julie Mellon
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSpecial Agent Katie Freeman and her partner, Michael Powell, step in to assist the local authorities after the discovery of thirteen bodies buried in a small park. The chilling pose of each body and the gruesome manner in which they died indicate a particularly sadistic killer... -
![The Early Classics of Agatha Christie by Agatha Christie]()
The Early Classics of Agatha Christie by Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGolden Deer Classics publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Agatha Christie was a British author of crime fiction. Christie's career spanned over 50 years and featured over 60 novels... -
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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... -
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Vecchie conoscenze by Antonio Manzini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRocco Schiavone indaga sull’omicidio di una professoressa in pensione. E intanto l’ombra del passato si fa pressante: la pena per Sebastiano, l’amico fraterno che non ha mai smesso di dare la caccia a Enzo Baiocchi, che gli ha assassinato la moglie, lo rende inquieto e gli ruba il sonno... -
![Under a Black Sky by Inger Wolf]()
Under a Black Sky by Inger Wolf
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThrilling Scandinavian mystery From an international best-selling author Anchorage, Alaska: A prominent Danish volcano scientist, Asger Vad and his wife and son, are found shot on the outskirts of the city.The killer has placed the victims around a table on which there is a doll house with four small dolls and a pile of volcano ashes. However, one person is missing at the table... -
![The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels by Dashiell Hammett]()
The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels by Dashiell Hammett
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHammett's continental op - tough, tired, intelligent, a snap-brimmed Sir Galahad with a Browning - was the prototype for a whole new tradition of private eye thrillers.Here are ten of his classic suspense stories from the twenties and thirties - selected and introduced by Lillian Hellman... -
![Certain Blindness by Roy Lewis]()
Certain Blindness by Roy Lewis
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThings other than beauty are in the eye of the beholder. In the eyes of solicitor Eric Ward there was something odd abut Arthur Egan's life and death. But Ward was a former police inspector, and trained to be suspicious. And he could no longer trust his eyesight, since it was a serious eye condition that had led to his resignation from the Force... -
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Exiles by Jane Harper
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAt a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing into the crowds.A year on, Kim Gillespie’s absence casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather deep in the heart of South Australian wine country to welcome a new addition to the family.Joining the celebrations is federal investigator Aaron Falk... -
![La nena by Carmen Mola]()
La nena by Carmen Mola
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSIN LÍMITES Vuelve Carmen Mola, el último fenómeno de la novela negra española (150.000 lectores) y su autora más audaz y enigmática, con una entrega aún más revulsiva, violenta y sorprendente. «Nadie regresa del infierno indemne.» Es la noche del fin de año chino, empieza el año del cerdo... -
![La casa delle voci by Donato Carrisi]()
La casa delle voci by Donato Carrisi
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsPietro Gerber non è uno psicologo come gli altri. La sua specializzazione è l'ipnosi e i suoi pazienti hanno una cosa in comune: sono bambini. Pietro è il migliore di tutta Firenze, dove è conosciuto come l'addormentatore di bambini. Ma quando riceve una telefonata da parte di una collega australiana che gli raccomanda una paziente, Pietro reagisce con perplessità e diffidenza... -
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Write to Kill by Daniel Pennac
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsBenjamin Malaussene is a downtrodden publisher at Vendetta Press. Treated as a scapegoat by Queen Zabo, the redoubtable doyenne of publishing, he has finally had enough. After one row too many with her, he resigns, only to have Zabo offer him a starring role. All he has to do is impersonate the world's best-loved but hitherto anonymous author, J.L.B... -
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Pressure Point by Ted Tayler
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGus Freeman’s Crime Review Team has two successful cold case investigations behind them. Will it be third time lucky? The victim’s profession might make it hard to find someone to talk. ‘Pressure Point’ has a wide array of characters, and offers action, romance, humour and drama. In their most recent case, DS Neil Davis’s father, Terry, came under the microscope... -
![Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper]()
Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEverybody Knows is a propulsive LA crime thriller about Mae Pruett, a "black-bag publicist" - she doesn't get the good news out, she keeps the bad news in – who works for “The Beast,” her name for the loose collection of lawyers, publicists and private security firms who protect and serve the wealthy and depraved of Los Angeles... -
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Trust Nobody by June Hampson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt is 1962 and Daisy Lane, whose husband Kenny is in jail for robbery, runs and lives over the family's cafe in Gosport with Kenny's older brother Eddie. Daisy looks out for pretty, vulnerable, 16-year-old Suze, who works in the cafe and, along with prostitute Vera, who also shares the house, the women form a strong and lasting bond... -
![Ο λαβύρινθος των πνευμάτων, τόμος 1 by Carlos Ruiz Zafón]()
Ο λαβύρινθος των πνευμάτων, τόμος 1 by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsΠριν προλάβει να τελειώσει καλά καλά την πρώτη παράγραφο, είχε ήδη ξεχάσει ότι αυτό που κρατούσε στα χέρια της ήταν στοιχείο της έρευνάς τους... -
![The Firm / The Pelican Brief by John Grisham]()
The Firm / The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTHE FIRMThe law student He was young and had dreams. He'd qualified third in his class at Harvard, now offers poured in from every law firm in America The Firm They were small , but well -respected. They we prepared to match, and then exceed Mitch's wildest dreams - eighty thousand a year, a BMW and a low interest mortgage. Soon the house, the car and the job are his... -
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Playdate by Alex Dahl
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt was meant to be your daughter's first sleepover. Now it's an abduction.Lucia Blix went home from school for a playdate with her new friend Josie. Later that evening, Lucia's mother Elisa dropped her overnight things round and kissed her little girl goodnight.That was the last time she saw her daughter.The next morning, when Lucia's dad arrived to pick her up, the house was empty... -
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![The Perfect Husband/The Other Daughter by Lisa Gardner]()
The Perfect Husband/The Other Daughter by Lisa Gardner
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Perfect HusbandWhat would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer?Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of...But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay... -
![Redemption Lake by Susan Clayton-Goldner]()
Redemption Lake by Susan Clayton-Goldner
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTucson, Arizona – Eighteen-year-old Matt Garrison is harboring two terrible secrets: his involvement in the drowning death of his 12-year-old cousin, and a night of drunken sex with his best friend’s mother, Crystal, whom he finds dead in a bathtub of blood. Guilt forces Matt to act on impulse and hide his involvement with Crystal.Detective Winston Radhauser knows Matt is hiding something... -
![Mary Higgins Clark eBook Sampler by Mary Higgins Clark]()
Mary Higgins Clark eBook Sampler by Mary Higgins Clark
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFeaturing an exclusive introduction from the beloved, bestselling “Queen of Suspense,” the Mary Higgins Clark Sampler includes bonus original pieces and 10 excerpts from reader favorites, such as Where Are The Children, Daddy's Little Girl, Two Little Girls In Blue, All Around the Town, and Pretend You Don't See Her, plus an extended excerpt from her new book, Daddy's Gone A Hunting... -
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The Face of Evil by Debra Webb
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDepraved is the tenth book in the bestselling, critically acclaimed Faces of Evil series. The finale is coming! Are you ready? Have you ordered Heinous, book 9? Don't miss a single book in this terrifyingly fast paced series! The serial killer obsessed with Deputy Chief Jess Harris has finally been cornered but the body count is still rising... -
![Agatha Christie's Detectives: Five Complete Novels: The Murder at the Vicarage / Dead Man's Folly / Sad Cypress / Towards Zero / N or M? by Agatha Christie]()
Agatha Christie's Detectives: Five Complete Novels: The Murder at the Vicarage / Dead Man's Folly / Sad Cypress / Towards Zero / N or M? by Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTales of mystery, adventure, and detection feature Agatha Christie's favorite sleuths--Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Superintendent Battle, and Tommy and Tuppence... -
![Selected Novels and Short Stories by Patricia Highsmith]()
Selected Novels and Short Stories by Patricia Highsmith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPatricia Highsmith's dark talents, obsessive interest in love and murder, and macabre sensibility produced some of the most influential and deeply unsettling fiction of the twentieth century. For the reader uninitiated in the deadly world of her canon, this collection offers the first serious introduction to her remarkable range and psychological insight... -
![Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Pit and the Pendulum...The Purloined Letter...The Tell-Tale Heart...A Descent into Maelstrom...and six other choice chillers by the acknowledged master of mystery, fantasy, and horror. These ten absorbing stories, selected by a famed anthologist of science-fiction and the supernatural, prove that even after a century Poe's imagination still works it macabre magic... -
![Three at Wolfe's Door by Rex Stout, Michael Prichard]()
Three at Wolfe's Door by Rex Stout, Michael Prichard
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDeath comes a-calling not once but three times in this murderous collection of cases from the files of the world's greatest detective. First there is the exclusive dinner party where the guests are gourmets, arsenic is the appetizer, and the suspects are five of the most gorgeous gals in New York. Next, a wandering cab pulls up to Wolfe's door, containing a lady driver who doesn't belong.. -
![Blood Ties by Jo Nesbø, Robert Ferguson]()
Blood Ties by Jo Nesbø, Robert Ferguson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn many ways, the brothers Carl and Roy Opgard have succeeded in life. Or at least they’ve had as much success as is possible in a small town like Os where they've had to kill their way to the top. Carl manages the area’s swanky spa hotel, while Roy has made ambitious plans for an amusement park complete with a roller coaster. The only way is up for the two brothers... -
![The Dreadful Lemon Sky by John D. MacDonald]()
The Dreadful Lemon Sky by John D. MacDonald
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTravis McGee has been offered easy money by a longtime lady friend. But when she gets killed, McGee's got a boatload of mystery. Navigating his boat into troubled waters, he heads for the seamier side of Florida--where drug dealing, twisted sex, and corruption are easy to find--but murderous riddles are hard to solve... -
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![Trust No One by Keri Beevis]()
Trust No One by Keri Beevis
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratings‘A long, long time ago, you did a bad, bad thing, Now it’s time to pay...’ When I first found the note, I assumed it was a prank.But then I am lured to a house where I witness a gruesome murder, and I realise the threat is real.But who is tormenting me though, and why? Noah Keen, my boyfriend, is determined to get to the bottom of things, and soon other familiar faces appear from my past... -
![The Legacy of the Bones by Dolores Redondo]()
The Legacy of the Bones by Dolores Redondo
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe second book in Dolores Redondo’s atmospheric Baztan trilogy, featuring Inspector Amaia Salazar. With masterful storytelling and a detective to rival Sarah Lund, this Spanish bestselling series has taken Europe by storm... -
![Il maestro delle ombre by Donato Carrisi]()
Il maestro delle ombre by Donato Carrisi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUna tempesta senza precedenti si abbatte sulla capitale con ferocia inaudita. Quando un fulmine colpisce una delle centrali elettriche, alle autorità non resta che imporre un blackout totale di ventiquattro ore, per riparare l’avaria. Le ombre tornano a invadere Roma... -
![Death on a Galician Shore by Domingo Villar]()
Death on a Galician Shore by Domingo Villar
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne misty autumn dawn in a quiet fishing port in northwest Spain, the body of a sailor washes up in the harbour. Detective Inspector Leo Caldas is called in from police headquarters in the nearby city of Vigo to sign off on what appears to be a suicide. But details soon come to light that turn this routine matter into a complex murder investigation... -
![The Other End of the Line by Andrea Camilleri]()
The Other End of the Line by Andrea Camilleri
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA wave of refugees has arrived on the Sicilian coast, and Inspector Montalbano and his team have been stationed at port, alongside countless volunteers, to receive and assist the newcomers. Meanwhile, Livia has promised their presence at a friend's wedding, and the inspector, agreeing to get a new suit tailored, meets the charming master seamstress Elena Biasini... -
![Death Deserved by Jørn Lier Horst, Thomas Enger]()
Death Deserved by Jørn Lier Horst, Thomas Enger
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPolice officer Alexander Blix and celebrity blogger Emma Ramm join forces to track down a serial killer with a thirst for attention and high-profile murders, in the first episode of a gripping new Nordic Noir series…Oslo, 2018. Former long-distance runner Sonja Nordstrøm never shows at the launch of her controversial autobiography, Always Number One... -
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Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStory by Cornell Woolrich. Originally published as It Had to Be Murder, in Dime Detective, February, 1942.The story that inspired the Alfred Hitchcock film masterpiece! Rear Window is a suspenseful tale about Hal Jeffries, a temporarily disabled man, who becomes obsessed with watching the lives of his urban neighbors. Seated in a chair by his rear window, Jeffries believes he has witnessed murder... -
![Faking a Murderer by Kathy Reichs, Lee Child]()
Faking a Murderer by Kathy Reichs, Lee Child
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJack Reacher walked out of the Baltimore bust depot into a world of frozen streets and dirty snow… In this short story from the thrilling anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors Kathy Reichs and Lee Child—along with their popular series characters Temperance Brennan and Jack Reacher—team up for the first time ever... -
![Memento mori by César Pérez Gellida]()
Memento mori by César Pérez Gellida
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVersos, canciones y trocitos de carneSeptiembre de 2010. Aquella mañana de domingo nada le hacía presagiar al inspector de homicidios de Valladolid Ramiro Sancho que acababa de dar comienzo una pesadilla que lo dejaría marcado para el resto de sus días... -
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![The Crocodile by Maurizio de Giovanni]()
The Crocodile by Maurizio de Giovanni
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is Naples as you’ve never seen it before. A chaotic, shadowy city full of ominous echoes and dark alleyways where each inhabitant seems too absorbed by his or her own problems to give a damn about anybody else. And that is exactly what makes it possible for a cold, methodical killer to commit his atrocious crimes largely undisturbed, to merge with the crowd as if he were invisible... -
![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... -
![Casebook of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov]()
Casebook of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvery month, the Black Widowers convene for sumptuous food, fine wine, and a cosmically baffling mystery. Attended by Henry, the all-knowing waiter, these gentle rogues ponder such imponderables as: * the one-syllable middle name that represents what every schoolboy knows, yet doesn't... * a murder by solar eclipse very far out in space.. -
![Banquets of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov]()
Banquets of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis book is the fourth of six that describe mysteries solved by the Black Widowers, based on a literary dining club he belonged to known as the Trap Door Spiders. It collects twelve stories by Asimov, together with a general introduction and an afterword following each story by the author... -
![The Last Whisper in the Dark by Tom Piccirilli]()
The Last Whisper in the Dark by Tom Piccirilli
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsProfessional thief Terrier Rand hasn’t gotten caught yet. It’s only his conscience chasing at his heels. In the follow-up to Tom Piccirilli’s acclaimed novel The Last Kind Words, prodigal thief Terrier Rand has come home to the family that has lawbreaking in its blood... -
![The Saint In New York by Leslie Charteris]()
The Saint In New York by Leslie Charteris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow Simon Templar cleans up corruption in Manhattan and brings the mob along with its mysterious leader to justice all in the space of forty-eight hours.Another long weekend - for the Saint...
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