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Goodnight Lady by Martina Cole
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA tour-de-force thriller of corruption and violence.In the sixties, Briony Cavanagh ran a string of the most notorious brothels in London. Only Briony knew what went on behind those doors, and she never opened her mouth - unless she stood to benefit. Only Briony knew the painful road she'd travelled to get there...Categorized as:
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![Deadly Choices by Rachel McLean]()
Deadly Choices by Rachel McLean
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratings'You get one of your children back. Your choice.' When Alison Osman takes her children on a trip to Cadbury World, she thinks their squabbling is her worst problem. But when she turns to find them gone, she's plunged into every mother's worst nightmare. And then the message arrives, telling Alison she has three days to choose one of her children... -
![Между строк by Boris Akunin]()
Между строк by Boris Akunin
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsВторой том переносит нас в Японию, 1878 года: ниндзя, гейши, самураи... Это история любви молодого дипломата Эраста Фандорина и роковой красавицы-ниндзя О-Юми, любви, изменившей всю его жизнь и напомнившей ему о себе через многие годы... -
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City on Fire by Don Winslow
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwo criminal empires together control all of New England.Until a beautiful woman comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire.Danny Ryan yearns for a more “legit” life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself... -
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![Gin & Murder by Beth Byers]()
Gin & Murder by Beth Byers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSeptember 1924. When Violet and Victor are called home to account for their actions, only one course of action is possible. They pack a liberal amount of alcohol and call on their friends to rally round... -
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Murder in the Shallows by Beth Byers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJuly 1924. Violet and Jack go for a simple day on the water. They little expect their day of sun and fun to end with finding a body in the water. The mystery of what happened to the girl in the shallows posses them both, and they unite in their desire to find out more... -
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The Mobster's Lament by Ray Celestin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLike every other mobster, the longer he stayed in the life, the closer he got to a shallow grave . . . New York, 1947. Mob fixer Gabriel Leveson needs to leave this city behind. But his plans to flee are upset when he’s given a job by the boss of all bosses, Frank Costello. A job he can’t turn down . . . Meanwhile, a killing spree in a Harlem flophouse has left an innocent black man on Death Row...Categorized as:
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![The Worthy Soldier by Sarah Woodbury]()
The Worthy Soldier by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMay 1147. Gareth and Gwen have traveled to Deheubarth in the retinue of Prince Hywel. The Prince of Gwynedd has temporarily allied himself with King Cadell and his Norman relations in order to finally evict the hated Flemings from south Wales. But while the battle goes well, the celebratory feast afterwards does not, leaving Gareth and Gwen among the few left standing... -
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The Favored Son by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNovember 1147. Gareth and Gwen have again been called to a castle belonging to Robert, Earl of Gloucester, this time by Prince Henry, who insists his uncle was murdered. Allying with Normans doesn't come easily to Gareth and Gwen, but initial doubts are swept aside as more losses come to light... -
![A Lark's Conceit by Lynn Messina]()
A Lark's Conceit by Lynn Messina
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVerity Lark is in a new flap!Bedeviled by Colson Hardwicke’s treatment—summarily dumping her via tersely worded message!—Verity Lark is lying awake in her bed seething over his behavior when she hears a floorboard creak. Immediately alert to the presence of a late-night intruder, she deftly thwarts the attack. Taking her would-be kidnapper captive is easy...Categorized as:
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![The Seamstress by Mary Kingswood]()
The Seamstress by Mary Kingswood
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA traditional Regency romance, drawing room rather than bedroom. Miss Fanny Winterton has only one wish in her romantic heart — to surrender to overwhelming love. She will accept nothing less than to be struck by the thunderbolt of everlasting passion... -
![Death by the Book by Beth Byers]()
Death by the Book by Beth Byers
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsInspired by classic fiction and Miss Buncle's Book. Death by the Book questions what happens when you throw a murder into idyllic small town England.July 1936When Georgette Dorothy Marsh’s dividends fall along with the banks, she decides to write a book. Her only hope is to bring her account out of overdraft and possibly buy some hens... -
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThese fifteen short stories, chosen by David Stuart Davies, former Editor of Sherlock magazine, show the master detective Sherlock Holmes at his most ingenious...Categorized as:
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![The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean]()
The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades.Six years later, with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed into the British state, Iain lives a quiet life, working as a bookseller in Inverness...Categorized as:
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![Hidden Killers by Lynda La Plante]()
Hidden Killers by Lynda La Plante
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe brilliant new crime thriller from the BAFTA-winning writer behind the TV series Prime Suspect and author of Widows, now a major motion picture When WPC Jane Tennison is promoted to the role of Detective Constable in London’s Bow Street CID, she is immediately conflicted... -
![Nor Will He Sleep: An Inspector McLevy Mystery 4 by David Ashton]()
Nor Will He Sleep: An Inspector McLevy Mystery 4 by David Ashton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBASED ON THE LONG-RUNNING BBC RADIO 4 McLEVY DRAMA SERIES ...WHILE THE STREETS OF LONDON HAD SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE DARK ALLEYS OF EDINBURGH HAD INSPECTOR JAMES McLEVY ELEGANT AND CONVINCING' The Times | 'ASHTON IS THE DIRECT HEIR TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON' Brian Cox | 'EXCELLENT' The Sherlock Holmes Society | 'DRIPPING WITH MELODRAMA AND DERRING-DO' Herald 1887... -
![Murder in Canton by Robert van Gulik]()
Murder in Canton by Robert van Gulik
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA.D. 681Murder In Canton takes place in 680 A.D. Judge Dee, recently promoted to Lord Chief Justice, is sent incognito to Canton to investigate the disappearance of a court censor... -
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Desperate Undertaking by Lindsey Davis
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Lindsey Davis's next book in the beloved Flavia Albia Series, Desperate Undertaking, a mad killer (or killers!) is strewing bodies around in the most gruesome of manners and, true to form, it is up to Flavia Albia to determine what is really going on and stop this bacchanal of death.In the first century, under Domitian's reign, strange and brutal goings on are nothing new in Rome... -
![The House of the Red Slayer by Paul Doherty]()
The House of the Red Slayer by Paul Doherty
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn December 1377 a great frost has the city in its icy grip; even the Thames is frozen from bank to bank. Murder, revenge and treachery also make their presence felt. The Constable of the Tower of London, Sir Ralph Whitton, is found murdered in a cold bleak chamber in the North Bastion...Categorized as:
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![Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis]()
Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFlavia Albia is a private investigator, always drawn to an intriguing puzzle - even if it is put to her by her new husband's hostile ex-wife. On the Quirinal Hill, Clodia Volumnia, a very young girl with stars in her eyes, has died, amid suggestions that she was poisoned by a love-potion...Categorized as:
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![Barriers to Entry by Ariel Lawhon]()
Barriers to Entry by Ariel Lawhon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn inquisitive woman defies expectations to become the mother of forensic science in this absorbing short story by New York Times bestselling author Ariel Lawhon.You will have ninety minutes to solve the murder. A startling declaration by a new Harvard instructor: sixty-seven-year-old Frances Glessner Lee. It’s 1945...Categorized as:
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![Dead Man's Blues by Ray Celestin]()
Dead Man's Blues by Ray Celestin
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsChicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place. A clique of city leaders is poisoned in a fancy hotel. A white gangster is found mutilated in an alleyway in the Blackbelt. And a famous heiress vanishes without a trace.Pinkerton detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are hired to find the missing heiress by the girl's troubled mother... -
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Off the Rails by Christopher Fowler
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsChristopher Fowler’s Peculiar Crimes Unit novels have been hailed for their originality, suspense, and unforgettable characters. Now Arthur Bryant, John May, and their team of proud eccentrics have been given only one week to hunt down a murderer they’ve already caught once and who is now luring them down into the darkest shadows of the London Underground.The young man they seek is an enigma... -
![Last Car to Elysian Fields by James Lee Burke]()
Last Car to Elysian Fields by James Lee Burke
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings'A lyrical and lovely novel that takes Burke back to the top of the crimewriting tree where he richly belongs' Independent On... -
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![Christmas at The Grange by T.E. Kinsey, Elizabeth Knowelden]()
Christmas at The Grange by T.E. Kinsey, Elizabeth Knowelden
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsListening Length: 2 hours, 5 minutesIt’s Christmas 1909, and for once Lady Hardcastle—respectable gentlewoman, amateur spy—and her lady’s maid, Florence Armstrong, are setting sleuthing aside. They are invited to the festivities up at The Grange, as guests of Sir Hector and Lady Farley-Stroud.But barely have corks been popped and parlour games played when a mysterious crime comes to light... -
![Food for the Fishes by David Wishart]()
Food for the Fishes by David Wishart
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Licinius Murena, wealthy fish-farm owner, is found dead, not many tears are shed. Certainly not by Trebbio, who had just been booted out of his cottage by the landowner, nor by his widow, daugher, or farm manager. With friends like these, who needs enemies? Marcus Corvinus is the man to find out, with the help, of course, of his clever wife, Perilla...Categorized as:
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![Death at Thorburn Hall by Julianna Deering]()
Death at Thorburn Hall by Julianna Deering
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDrew Farthering finds a new mystery on his hands when he arrives at Thorburn Hall in Scotland for the 1935 British Open. His host, Lord Rainsby, asks Drew to investigate a suspected embezzler--then dies in a suspicious accident the next day. However, the house is full of guests with potential motives... -
![A Trick of the Light: An Inspector McLevy Mystery 3 by David Ashton]()
A Trick of the Light: An Inspector McLevy Mystery 3 by David Ashton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe third in David Ashton's series of McLevy books, A Trick of the Light sees McLevy team up with Arthur Conan Doyle to pursue a ruthless killer. It is 1860 and a Confederate officer, Jonathen Sinclair, arrives in Edinburgh with a sheaf of money to purchase a blockade-runner from Clydeside shipbuilders. He is betrayed to the Union forces and brutally shot dead by their secret agents... -
![The Fledgling by Elizabeth Cadell]()
The Fledgling by Elizabeth Cadell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVitorina's escort from Lisbon to London wore a cloak of respectability which convinced the child's father and aunts, but even before the ten-year-old girl had made her disconcerting discovery of his theft from the rich, private chapel of her home, she had begun to take his measure. Circumstances, plus some contrivance on her own part, enabled the youngster to shake him off...Categorized as:
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![The Queen of the Night by Paul Doherty]()
The Queen of the Night by Paul Doherty
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRome: August 314 AD, and as the sun's insidious heat beats down, murderous forces lurk in the underbelly of the city. The normally cosseted world of Rome's rich and powerful is rocked by a series of violent abductions, as children of the elite are kidnapped and held for ransom...Categorized as:
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![The Chariots of Calyx by Rosemary Rowe]()
The Chariots of Calyx by Rosemary Rowe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLibertus is in Londinium, at the invitation of the Roman Governor, when news arrives of the brutal murder of Caius Monnius, the city's chief corn-officer. Still reeling from the shock of catching sight of the wife he lost to slavery 20 years earlier, only to lose her again, the ever-inquisitive Libertus is, for once, uninterested in unmasking the murderer... -
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A Roman Ransom by Rosemary Rowe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGlevum, AD 188. Lying in his sick bed, weak and disoriented, Libertus is strictly forbidden visitors. But when Marcus Septimus forces his way in, desperate to speak to the pavement-maker, Libertus knows that something is seriously wrong. Marcus's beloved wife Julia and their baby son have disappeared without a trace... -
![Into the Suffering City by Bill LeFurgy]()
Into the Suffering City by Bill LeFurgy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBaltimore, 1909. The city is jumping with danger and excitement. New thrills are everywhere: cars, cocaine, ragtime music, moving pictures. Old troubles also thrive, including murder, corruption, and the painful divisions of gender, class, and race.Dr. Sarah Kennecott is on the autism spectrum—a trait that is unidentified and unappreciated at the time... -
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The Dragons of Archenfield by Edward Marston
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDOMESDAY IS COMINGIn 1086, England's mighty king, William the Conqueror, sends out surveyors and census takers to record the resources of his land and its people. Some welcome these inquisitive royal agents and their day of judgment. Others hate them. But wherever the king's men go they bring excitement; *and sometimes murder. . . -
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![Neon Mirage by Max Allan Collins, Dan John Miller]()
Neon Mirage by Max Allan Collins, Dan John Miller
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 1946 Chicago, Nathan Heller—president of the flourishing A-1 Detective Agency—is hired to protect racing-wire gambling chief James Ragen, who is nonetheless shot down on the streets of Chicago. Not one to take such an affront sitting down, Nate goes after the killer, but he’s in for the biggest surprise of his career... -
![Prima Facie by Ruth Downie]()
Prima Facie by Ruth Downie
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA novella from the author of bestseller Medicus, featuring reluctant investigator Ruso and his partner Tilla. A tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal in Roman Gaul. It's AD 123 and the sun is shining on southern Gaul. Ex-military medic Ruso and his British wife Tilla are back after a long absence - but it's not the reunion anyone had hoped for... -
![West on 66 by James H. Cobb]()
West on 66 by James H. Cobb
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA classic noir mystery in the tradition of Elmore Leonard. The location is Route 66 in 1958, where a young L.A. deputy sheriff becomes involved with a mysterious woman, mobsters, and a lost fortune...Categorized as:
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![The Waxman Murders by Paul Doherty]()
The Waxman Murders by Paul Doherty
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1300, an English privateer named The Waxman was trapped and overrun by two powerful war cogs flying the streamers of the powerful Hanseatic League of North Germany. The ship was carrying a casket containing the Carta Mysteriosa, a collection of valuable and detailed maps and sea charts... -
![An Experiment In Treason by Bruce Alexander]()
An Experiment In Treason by Bruce Alexander
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSir John Fielding has trailed a packet of controversial letters from London to the colony of Massachusetts. But when the suspect in the theft is found dead, Sir John turns his eye on the possible involvement of Benjamin Franklin... -
![The Assassins of Isis by Paul Doherty, P.C. Doherty]()
The Assassins of Isis by Paul Doherty, P.C. Doherty
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe mysterious Sebaus--a sect taking its name from demons--has stolen a powerful secret, and the wrath of the fiery Hatusu knows no bounds. But when the empire's great military hero, General Suten, is bitten to death by vipers, it appears events have spiraled out of her control.Meanwhile, a dark shadow lies across the Temple of Isis...Categorized as:
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Saturnalia by John Maddox Roberts
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlthough not everyone can define 'Saturnalia' precisely, for almost everyone the Roman holiday conjures a picture of wild abandon- celebrations where all bets are off and everyone does-or tries to do-exactly what he or she wants. (And you can often guess correctly what that is likely to be... -
![The River God's Vengeance by John Maddox Roberts]()
The River God's Vengeance by John Maddox Roberts
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe would rise up as savior of the State, but Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger already has a lot on his mind. In the year of his aedileship, Decius is expected to stage elaborate and expensive games out of his own pocket...Categorized as:
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![A Point of Law by John Maddox Roberts]()
A Point of Law by John Maddox Roberts
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDecius Caecilius Metellus is moving up in the world. He's won some money and glory fighting pirates in the Mediterranean and expects a speedy election to the office of praetor.That all changes when a man he's never seen before publicly accuses him of corruption. Decius and his powerful family of Rome's leading politicians scramble to prepare a defense... -
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True Crime by Max Allan Collins
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBy the author of The Road To Perdition, this title sees Private Eye Nate Heller trying discover who the gunshot victim was, found next to the Biograph Theatre, the man the FBI confidently identified as John Dillinger. His search for the answer leads him into a confrontation with J. Edgar Hoover... -
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![The Leper's Return by Michael Jecks]()
The Leper's Return by Michael Jecks
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a local goldsmith, Godfrey of Harwood, is found brutally murdered in his home, Furnshill and Puttock are called on to investigate. But when rumors begin spreading that patients from a local leper hospital might have been involved in Godfrey's murder, a series of vicious attacks on the unfortunate victims ensues, culminating in a disastrous fire at the hospital... -
![London's Glory by Christopher Fowler]()
London's Glory by Christopher Fowler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn every detective’s life there are cases that can’t be discussed, and throughout the Bryant & May novels there have been mentions of some of these such as the Deptford Demon or the Little Italy Whelk Smuggling Scandal... -
![The Haunted Abbot by Peter Tremayne]()
The Haunted Abbot by Peter Tremayne
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn December of 666 A.D., Fidelma of Cashel and her companion Brother Eadulf, having completed their business with the Archbishop of Canterbury, make one final journey before returning to Ireland. At the insistence of Brother Botulf, a childhood friend of Eadulf, they detour from their trip to Eadulf's home village and make their way to Aldred's Abbey... -
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Badger's Moon by Peter Tremayne
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen a woman is killed just before October's full moon--the Badger's Moon--villagers suspect that strangers staying at the abbey are to blame, and demand answers, before another woman falls victim to the full-moon killer... -
![The Sacrilege by John Maddox Roberts]()
The Sacrilege by John Maddox Roberts
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen a sacred woman's rite in the ancient city of Rome is infiltrated by a corrupt patrician dressed in female garb, it falls to Senator Decuis Caecilius Metellus the Younger, whose investigative skills have proven indispensable in the past, to unmask the perpetrators. When four brutal slayings follow, Decius enlists the help a notorious and dangerous criminal...Categorized as:
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![Vita Brevis by Ruth Downie]()
Vita Brevis by Ruth Downie
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRuso and Tilla and their new baby daughter have left Roman-occupied Britain for Rome, but their excitement at arriving in the city is soon dulled when they find that the grand facades of polished marble mask an underworld of corrupt landlords and vermin-infested tenements. There are also far too many doctors – some skilled, but others positively dangerous...
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