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Aue by Becky Manawatu
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTIONWINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVELauē (verb) to cry, howl, groan, wail, bawl. (interjection) expression of astonishment or distress.Taukiri was born into sorrow... -
![Lying Beside You by Michael Robotham]()
Lying Beside You by Michael Robotham
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIf I could tell you one thing about my brother, it would be this. Two days after his nineteenth birthday, he killed our parents and twin sisters because he heard voices in his head. As defining events go, nothing else comes close for Elias, or for me.As a boy, Cyrus Haven survived a family massacre and slowly pieced his life back together... -
![The Fossil Beach Murders by Rachel McLean]()
The Fossil Beach Murders by Rachel McLean
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Susannah Ramsay and Sadie Dawes cases are solved and DCI Lesley Clarke's team is back together.But there are tensions...Categorized as:
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Negeri Para Bedebah by Tere Liye
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsDi negeri para bedebah, kisah fiksi kalah seru dibanding kisah nyata.Di negeri para bedebah, musang berbulu domba berkeliaran di halaman rumah.Tetapi setidaknya, Kawan, di negeri para bedebah, petarung sejati tidak akan pernah berkhianat... -
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![Last Breath by Robert Bryndza]()
Last Breath by Robert Bryndza
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHe’s your perfect date. You’re his next victim. When the tortured body of a young woman is found in a dumpster, her eyes swollen shut and her clothes soaked with blood, Detective Erika Foster is one of the first at the crime scene. The trouble is, this time, it’s not her case... -
![The Monument Murders by Rachel McLean]()
The Monument Murders by Rachel McLean
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen a body is found draped over Swanage's iconic Globe monument, DCI Lesley Clarke is called in.A message points to the Go Home.Is this a hate crime? Or something closer to home?Lesley must find the killer before he or she strikes again, all while dealing with a mutiny in her team and political pressure from her boss... -
![The Flaw by Antonis Samarakis]()
The Flaw by Antonis Samarakis
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA man is seized from his afternoon drink at the Café Sport by two agents of the Regime - though what exactly he is suspected of we do not know, and neither, apparently, does he.What follows is a journey by car toward Special Branch headquarters, and the interrogation that undoubtedly awaits him there... -
![The Clifftop Murders by Rachel McLean]()
The Clifftop Murders by Rachel McLean
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDCI Lesley Clarke is settling into her new job in Dorset's Major Crimes Unit, and becoming accustomed to a slower pace of life.But then she's called in to solve the murder of a woman with links to Lesley's new girlfriend... -
![Reluctantly Home by Imogen Clark]()
Reluctantly Home by Imogen Clark
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Where the Story Starts comes a tale about dealing with the past—and finally facing the future.Pip Appleby seems to have it all, with her prestigious job as a human rights lawyer and her enviable London home. But then a tragic accident stops her life in its tracks, and in an instant everything changes... -
![The Whole Truth by Cara Hunter]()
The Whole Truth by Cara Hunter
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen an Oxford student accuses one of the university's professors of sexual assault, DI Adam Fawley's team think they've heard it all before. But they couldn't be more wrong.Because this time, the predator is a woman and the shining star of the department, and the student a six-foot male rugby player.Soon DI Fawley and his team are up against the clock to figure out the truth... -
![Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers by Alexander McCall Smith]()
Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt's not that poor Bertie Pollock is wishing his life away, but having anticipated his 7th birthday for so long he's now longing to be 18. But there's a lot of living to do and Bertie isn't alone amongst the residents of Scotland Street in trying to do just that - with mixed fortunes...Categorized as:
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![The Island Murders by Rachel McLean]()
The Island Murders by Rachel McLean
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn isolated community... a web of secrets... a mysterious death.When a body washes up on the shores of Brownsea Island, DCI Lesley Clarke initially suspects suicide. But as she gets closer to the island's close-knit community, she starts to suspect foul play... -
![The Shell House Detectives by Emylia Hall]()
The Shell House Detectives by Emylia Hall
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"A cleverly plotted and thoroughly enjoyable book about dark deeds in beautiful places."—Elly Griffiths Welcome to the coastal paradise of Porthpella, where murder lurks among the dunes… Late one night, a distraught young man knocks on the door of retired and recently widowed Ally Bright’s remote home on the Cornish coast... -
![The Importance of Being Seven by Alexander McCall Smith]()
The Importance of Being Seven by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe story of Bertie and his dysfunctional family continues in this sixth instalment alongside the familiar cast of favourites - Big Lou, Domenica, Angus Lordie, Cyril and others - in their daily pursuit of a little happiness. With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith has, yet again, given us a clever, witty and utterly delightful new novel... -
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![A Killing in November: a razor-sharp Oxford mystery by Simon Mason]()
A Killing in November: a razor-sharp Oxford mystery by Simon Mason
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRyan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classes. As a young Detective Inspector, he's lost none of his disgust with privileged elites - or his objectionable manners. But he notices things; they stick to his eyes...Categorized as:
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![A Time of Love and Tartan by Alexander McCall Smith]()
A Time of Love and Tartan by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series.When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the complications in her romantic and professional life that will follow... -
![The Bertie Project by Alexander McCall Smith]()
The Bertie Project by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOnce more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith . . .Bertie's respite from his overbearing mother, Irene, is over. She has returned from the middle-east, only to discover that her son has been exposed to the worst evils of cartoons, movies and Irn Bru, and her wrath falls upon her unfortunate husband, Stuart... -
![The Peppermint Tea Chronicles by Alexander McCall Smith]()
The Peppermint Tea Chronicles by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe latest adventures from Bertie and his family and friends in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series. An Anchor Original.Changes are coming to 44 Scotland Street, what with Bertie and his friends getting older, and the neighbors gossiping about Irene's latest drama... -
![The Scent of Death by Simon Beckett]()
The Scent of Death by Simon Beckett
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt has been a good summer for forensics expert Dr David Hunter. His relationship is going well and he's in demand again as a police consultant. His life seems to be on an even keel.But not for long. The call comes from an old associate: a body has been found, and she’d like Hunter to take a look . . .St Jude’s Hospital now stands empty... -
![The Revolving Door of Life by Alexander McCall Smith, Robert Ian MacKenzie]()
The Revolving Door of Life by Alexander McCall Smith, Robert Ian MacKenzie
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOnce more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith. With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another instalment in this popular series, now running in its ninth season in The Scotsman. Anything could happen to Bertie and the gang.. -
![The Cove by L.J. Ross]()
The Cove by L.J. Ross
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTHE PERFECT ESCAPE...Gabrielle Adams has it all – brains, beauty, a handsome fiancé, and a dream job in publishing. Until, one day, everything changes.The ‘Underground Killer’ takes his victims when they least expect it: standing on the edge of a busy Tube platform, as they wait for a train to arrive through the murky underground tunnels of London...Categorized as:
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![Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang]()
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsSly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents—also talented musicians—who fled China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution... -
![Model Undercover: London by Carina Axelsson]()
Model Undercover: London by Carina Axelsson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPosing as a model gets Axelle the kinds of connections that make her the fashion elite's go-to detective. Her newest case? The attack on famous fashion photographer Gavin Tempest that's left him in the hospital. The police may have ruled it a mugging, but Gavin's sister has special intel for Axelle that points to something more sinister..Categorized as:
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Star Crossed by J.S. Taylor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe final instalment in the bestselling Starlight Trilogy... A young singer and a dangerous mentor 'X Factor meets Fifty Shades - I can't get enough of this series!' Total Book Blog The last book in the Starlight Trilogy sees Summer and Adam explore the dangerous depths of their relationship. But when Adam opens his heart, a deadly threat could tear them both apart... -
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![Brodrick: A Dark Romance with the Notorious Scot by T.C. Clark]()
Brodrick: A Dark Romance with the Notorious Scot by T.C. Clark
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBrodrick: A Dark Romance with the Notorious Scot! 2nd Edition A dark tale about a killer looking for his runaway bride and a Scot who will do anything to protect her. This is a new series that features everlasting love with a sensual bite! The Campbell brothers are the most sought after bachelors in Northern Scotland and Brodrick was the leader of the pack... -
![Christmas in the Snow by Karen Swan]()
Christmas in the Snow by Karen Swan
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNo secret stays buried forever...In London, the snow is falling and Christmas is just around the corner - but Allegra Fisher barely has time to notice. She's pitching for the biggest deal of her career and can't afford to fail. And when she meets attractive stranger, Sam Kemp, on the plane to the meeting, she can't afford to lose her focus either... -
![A Promise of Ankles by Alexander McCall Smith]()
A Promise of Ankles by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series comes the latest adventures of Bertie and his family and friends. The winds of change are blowing through Scotland Street. Though Bertie is getting older, he can't resist an adventure to escape his domineering mother, and Bruce, ever the navel-gazer, will have to bring his best self to navigate the complexities of the pas de deux... -
![Cold is the Grave by Peter Robinson]()
Cold is the Grave by Peter Robinson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDetective Chief Inspector Alan Banks' life is shaken to the core when he is unexpectedly pulled into the investigation of a young girl's disappearance in this shattering suspense novel from the hand of a modern master.“Full of twists and surprises... Robinson shows he has only begun to dig into the personality of his tenacious, thoughtful inspector... -
![Strange Affair by Peter Robinson]()
Strange Affair by Peter Robinson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and very nearly erased—a policeman who has since gone missing.The dead woman in the car had been running from something—but she didn't run far or fast enough... -
![Garden of Lamentations by Deborah Crombie]()
Garden of Lamentations by Deborah Crombie
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsScotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are drawn into separate investigations that hold disturbing—and deadly—complications for their own lives in this powerful mystery in the bestselling series.On a beautiful morning in mid-May, the body of a young woman is found in one of Notting Hill’s private gardens. To passersby, the pretty girl in the white dress looks as if she’s sleeping... -
![Sunshine on Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith, Robert Ian MacKenzie]()
Sunshine on Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith, Robert Ian MacKenzie
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another instalment in this popular series, now running in its eighth season in The Scotsman...Categorized as:
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![The World According to Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith]()
The World According to Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"The World According to Bertie" is the fourth in the series and revolves around the many colourful characters that come and go at No. 44 Scotland Street. McCall Smith handles the characters with his customary charm and deftness - the stalwart Tory chartered surveyor, the pushy mother, and, most importantly in this novel, the beleaguered Italian-speaking prodigy, Bertie...Categorized as:
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![The Island of Adventure by Enid Blyton]()
The Island of Adventure by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsEnid Blyton’s classic adventure series is fantastically repackaged for a new generation of readers. For Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack, the holiday in Cornwall is everything they'd hoped for—until they begin to realize that something very sinister is taking place on the mysterious Isle of Gloom...Categorized as:
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![Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith]()
Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom the phenomenon Alexander McCall Smith comes the third book in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series.Domenica Macdonald has left for the Malacca Straits to research the domestic economy of contemporary pirate households. Meanwhile, back in Edinburgh, painter Angus Lordie’s dog, Cyril, has been dog-napped, and Pat gets herself caught up in a potential love triangle...Categorized as:
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![Blue Murder by Emma Jameson]()
Blue Murder by Emma Jameson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsTwo Dead Men In London’s fashionable Chelsea, a Halloween bash goes terribly wrong. Emmeline Wardle, daughter of a frozen foods baron, throws a party which results in the demise of two university schoolmates. Handsome golden boy Trevor Parsons is dead. So is pasty computer nerd Clive French... -
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Final Account by Peter Robinson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“Impressive. . . . A dark, unsettling story.”—New York Times Book ReviewThere’s more than blood and bone beneath the skin. . . . The victim, a nondescript number cruncher, was murdered just yards away from his wife and daughter. And the crime scene is one that could chill the blood of even the most seasoned police officer... -
![The Shadows in the Street by Susan Hill]()
The Shadows in the Street by Susan Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSerrailler has just wrapped up a particularly exhausting and difficult case and is on sabbatical on a far-flung Scottish island when he is called back to Lafferton by the Chief Constable. Two local prostitutes have been found strangled. When the wife of the St... -
![Buried by Mark Billingham]()
Buried by Mark Billingham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA MISSING BOY Teenager Luke Mullen was last seen getting into a car with an older woman. No one can understand why he has disappeared. His father - a former police officer - knows all too well that the longer he is missing, the more likely he is to turn up dead. A TERRIFYING VIDEO Then Luke's parents receive an anonymous video... -
![Mummy's Favourite by Sarah Flint]()
Mummy's Favourite by Sarah Flint
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHe's watching... He's waiting... Who's next? Buried in a woodland grave are a mother and her child. One is alive. One is dead.DC ‘Charlie’ Stafford is assigned by her boss, DI Geoffrey Hunter to assist with the missing persons investigation.As more pairs go missing, the pressure mounts. Leads are going cold... -
![The Dying Hours by Mark Billingham]()
The Dying Hours by Mark Billingham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA fantastic, never-before-published Tom Thorne novel by England's crime king.It's been twenty-five years since Tom Thorne last went to work wearing the "Queen's cloth" but now, having stepped out of line once too often, he's back in uniform. He's no longer a detective, and he hates it... -
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Kala by Colin Walsh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives.In the seaside village of Kinlough, on Ireland’s west coast, three old friends meet for the first time in years... -
![A Body in the Village Hall by Dee MacDonald]()
A Body in the Village Hall by Dee MacDonald
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKate Palmer has relocated to Cornwall for a quiet life. Moving into picturesque Lavender Cottage with her sister Angie, the little village of Lower Tinworthy should be the perfect place for their fresh new start. But within weeks of their arrival, there’s a death in the close-knit community…A woman is found dead in the village hall, with her own kitchen knife next to the body, covered in blood... -
![A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess]()
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 84 ratingsTold by the central character, Alex, this brilliant, hilarious, and disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism... -
![We Have Lost The Chihuahuas by Paul Mathews]()
We Have Lost The Chihuahuas by Paul Mathews
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLondon, 2046. The British Republic has a new First Lady. She’s Californian, ‘in-your-face, for sure’ and she’s got big plans for a Buckingham Palace refurb. When her three Chihuahuas go missing, one man is determined to avoid getting dragged into it all. His name is Pond. Howie Pond – presidential spokesperson, retired secret agent and cat lover... -
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![Undying Affinity by Sara Naveed]()
Undying Affinity by Sara Naveed
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTrue love never dies. It might vanish, but if it is true, it will always find its way backTwenty-two-year-old Zarish has everything in life she could ever ask for. She is rich, beautiful and popular. She and Haroon, her handsome childhood sweetheart, are inseparable until a new finance professor joins their university-Ahmar Muraad. Every girl in the university has eyes for him... -
![How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin]()
How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club , an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate.... Now it's up to her great-niece to catch the killer... -
![House of Secrets by Lynda Stacey]()
House of Secrets by Lynda Stacey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA woman on the run, a broken man and a house with a shocking secret … Madeleine Frost has to get away. Her partner Liam has become increasingly controlling to the point that Maddie fears for her safety, and that of her young daughter Poppy. . Desperation leads Maddie to the hotel owned by her estranged father – the extraordinarily beautiful Wrea Head Hall in Yorkshire... -
![Never Coming Home by Evonne Wareham]()
Never Coming Home by Evonne Wareham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Kaz Elmore is told her five-year-old daughter Jamie has died in a car crash, she struggles to accept that she’ll never see her little girl again. Then a stranger comes into her life offering the most dangerous substance in the world: hope... -
![When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley]()
When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA drama that untangles the complicated ties that bind families together--or break them apart--as a young Korean American man's search for answers about his girlfriend's mysterious death becomes a soul-searching journey into his own bi-cultural identity When the Seoul police inform Min that his girlfriend Yu-jin has committed suicide, he's sure it can't be true... -
![Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie]()
Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhen a body is found floating in a Thames river lock one damp and dreary morning, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are summoned from Scotland Yard to the Chiltern Hills outside London. The dead man is Connor Swann, son-in-law of two of London’s most renowned opera personalities. And prints on his neck suggest that Swann was strangled...
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