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  • Hack (an F.X Shepherd Mystery)
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    Hack (an F.X Shepherd Mystery)

    It's a dog-eat-dog world at the infamous tabloid New York Mail, where brand new pet columnistF.X. Shepherd finds himself on the trail of a killer with a wicked sense of humour, who is hackingcelebrities to death.When a famous TV foodie's husband is...
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  • Crimson Peak
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    Crimson Peak

    Embargoed to 13th October, Simultaneous ReleaseIn the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend andthe temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away...
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  • Raging Heat (Castle)
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    Raging Heat (Castle)

    In New York Times Bestselling author Richard Castle's newest novel, an illegal immigrant falls from the sky and NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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    Joyland (Illustrated Edition)
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    Joyland (Illustrated Edition)

    Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work in a fairground and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both...
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  • Ultimate Storm
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    Ultimate Storm

    Collected for the first time in paperback, A Brewing Storm, A Raging Storm and A Bloody Storm are... The Ultimate Storm!Four years after he was presumed dead, Derrick Storm--the man who made Richard Castle a bestseller is back, lured out of retirement to...
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    Mike Hammer - Kill Me, Darling
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    Mike Hammer - Kill Me, Darling

    The course of true love never did run smooth for PI Mike Hammer. His secretary and partner Velda has walked out on him without explanation, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then an old cop turns up murdered, an old cop who once...
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  • Quarry's Choice
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    Quarry's Choice

    QUARRY RETURNS! Best-seller Max Allan Collins (ROAD TO PERDITION) Brings Back His Most Popular Series CharacterQuarry is a pro in the murder business. When the man he works for becomes a target himself, Quarry is sent South to remove a traitor in the...
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    Mandrake the Magician
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    Mandrake the Magician

    These are the further newspaper comic strip adventures of Mandrake The Magician and his ever-faithful companion and trusty side-kick, Lothar. Join them on their never-ending quest as they once again unravel mysteries, battle intrigue and lock horns with...
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    The First Kingdom, Vol 6
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    The First Kingdom, Vol 6

    The never-before-published conclusion to the six-volume First Kingdom saga! The incredible conclusion to Jack Katz's personal saga of science fiction and human achievement: forty years in the telling - begun in 1974 and concluded in 2014!Modelled on the...
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    Thieves Fall Out
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    Thieves Fall Out

    The lost pulp crime novel by great American novelist Gore Vidal! Hired to smuggle an ancient artefact out of Egypt, Pete Wells finds himself the target of killers and femme fatales - and just one step away from triggering a revolution that will...
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  • Borderline
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    Borderline

    THE SCORCHING PULP NOVEL BY LAWRENCE BLOCK, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 50 YEARS! On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide - with fatal results. You'll meet MARTY - the professional gambler who rolls...
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    Modern Japanese Short Stories
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    Modern Japanese Short Stories

    Modern Japanese Short Stories is a remarkable collection of Japanese stories from the pioneers of contemporary Japanese literature. This volume's twenty-five stories by as many authors display a wide range of style and subject matter - offering a...
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    Curse of the Reaper
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    Curse of the Reaper

    Decades after playing the titular killer in the 80s horror franchise Night of the Reaper, Howard Browning has been reduced to signing autographs for his dwindling fanbase at genre conventions. When the studio announces a series reboot, the aging thespian...
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  • Scarecrow Has a Gun
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    Scarecrow Has a Gun

    Never trust other people's memories, and watch out for your own He knows he wept, but he cannot recollect a single other detail. Tormented by the tragedy, Sean relives the horror over and over again. As he struggles to recall what really happened, his...
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  • The Goldenacre
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    The Goldenacre

    The Goldenacre a masterpiece by the painter and architect Charles Rennie Mackintoshhas been given to the people of Scotland. The beautiful canvas, the last work by the artistic genius, enthrals the art world, but behind it lies a dark and violent mystery...
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    Daggers Drawn
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    Daggers Drawn

    NINETEEN CWA DAGGER AWARD-WINNING SHORT STORIES FROM THE BEST OF THE BEST IN CRIME FICTION Maxim Jakubowski has edited all the great names in crime fiction and stories from his anthologies have won the CWA Dagger six times. Now he has collected 19 Dagger...
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    The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland Omnibus
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    The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland Omnibus

    Gathering Tremblay's two classic noirs, The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland, watch Genevich unravel the mystery of missing people when the questions are, when did he fall asleep and who hired him in the first place?The Little Sleep is Paul...
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    A Darker Shade of Magic: Collector's Edition
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    A Darker Shade of Magic: Collector's Edition

    Most people only know one London; but what if there were several? Kell is one of the last Travelers - magicians with a rare ability to travel between parallel Londons. There's Grey London, dirty and crowded and without magic, home to the mad King George...
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    Modesty Blaise
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    Modesty Blaise

    Continuing the only complete collection of Modesty Blaise adventures! The return of the 'ass-kicking femme fatale'. Full of classic action and adventure and dripping with '60's chic.
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  • Anybody Home?
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    Anybody Home?

    What came first, the home or the desire to invade?A seasonedinvaderwith multiple home invasions undertheir belt recounts their dark victories while offering tutelage to a newgeneration of ambitious home invaders eager to make their mark on the annals...
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  • The Complication
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    The Complication

    From the iconic houseboats of Seattle's Lake Union to the stunning San Juan Islands, The ComplicationBased on a shocking true story of medical wrongdoing, The Complication is Dr. DeathThe strong female protagonists-a brilliant but chaotic lawyer and a...
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  • Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
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    Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body

    Book will have French flaps New title in Feminist Press's Amethyst Editions imprint: American LGBTQ+ books that present queer narratives beyond adolescent coming-out, curated by author and literary organizer Michelle Tea In some ways, this novel tells a...
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    A Coin for the Ferryman
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    A Coin for the Ferryman

    The story can now be told.The shocking details of Caesar's visit and its effect on subsequent events have been protected by draconian nondisclosure agreements....until now.
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  • Rizzio
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    Rizzio

    It's Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She's hosting a supper party, secure in her private chambers. She doesn't know that her Palace is surrounded - that, right now, an army of...
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  • Where Demons Hide
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    Where Demons Hide

    Something scared Nuala Flaherty to death. When her body is found in the centre of a pentagram on a lonely moor, Rebecca is determined to find out what. Was she killed by supernatural means, or is there a more down-to-earth explanation?Rebecca's...
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  • Rizzio: Darkland Tales
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    Rizzio: Darkland Tales

    'a tour de force work of art' The Wall Street Journal, Best Books of the YearIt's Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She's hosting a supper party, secure in her private...
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  • A Rattle of Bones
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    A Rattle of Bones

    Longlisted for McIlvanneyScottish Crime Book of the YearIn 1752, Seamus a'Ghlynne, James of the Glen, was executed for the murder of government man Colin Campbell. He was almost certainly innocent.When banners are placed at his gravesite claiming that...
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  • The Vinyl Detective - Attack and Decay
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    The Vinyl Detective - Attack and Decay

    The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of death metal in his sixth adventure. Expect laughs, LPs, cats and the return of fan favourites, Nevada, Tinkler, Stinky Stanmer and more.It starts with a perfectly normal evening in, except for the...
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  • Sherlock Holmes and the Great War
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    Sherlock Holmes and the Great War

    December 1917. An important visitor arrives at a field hospital not far from the front, who makes sharp deductions about the way the ward is run based on small details that he sees.Sherlock Holmes is apparently only present for a tour, but asks searching...
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  • Later
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    Later

    SOMETIMES GROWING UPMEANS FACING YOUR DEMONSThe son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mother urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no...
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  • A Bloody Business
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    A Bloody Business

    The real story, unvarnished and uncensored, of the Mob's rise to power during Prohibition. The Italian Mob...the Jewish Mob...you've read the stories, you've watched the movies, you know the names: Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Bugsy...
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  • Sinner Man
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    Sinner Man

    To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a...
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  • Driving Heat
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    Driving Heat

    Richard Castle, New York Times mega-bestselling mystery writer and star of ChannelSeven's hit primetime show Castle is back.In the seventh novel of his popular Nikki Heat series, the NYPD's top homicide detective has beenpromoted to captain just in time...
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  • Vinyl Detective
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    Vinyl Detective

    His first adventure consisted of the search for a rare record; his second the search for a lost child. Specifically the child of Valerian, lead singer of a great rock band of the 1960s, who hanged herself in mysterious circumstances after the boy's...
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    The Kindness of Strangers

    In the third installment of the Amos Parisman Mysteries series, Amos finds himself on the twisted trail of a dangerous killer as he enters the heart of inequity in his community.Amos Parisman, L.A.'s oldest and most stubborn Jewish gumshoe, has never...
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  • So Nude, So Dead
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    So Nude, So Dead

    He'd been a promising piano prodigy, once. Now he was just an addict, scraping to get by,letting his hunger for drugs consume him. But a man's life can always get worse - as RayStone discovers when he wakes up beside a beautiful nightclub singer only to...
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  • Sherlock Holmes - Gods of War
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    Sherlock Holmes - Gods of War

    1913. The clouds of war are gathering. The world's great empires vie for supremacy. Europe is in turmoil, a powder keg awaiting a spark. A body is discovered on the shore below Beachy Head, just a mile from Sherlock Holmes's retirement cottage. The local...
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  • The Albion Initiative
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    The Albion Initiative

    George Mann's Newbury & Hobbes steampunk series concludes as our special agent heroes discover a plot of empire-changing proportions.A plot to kill a queen. A chance to save the nation.Queen Victoria has given the order for her agents to...
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  • Death at the Savoy
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    Death at the Savoy

    An atmospheric, entertaining new mystery series introducing a plucky heroine and set in the world's most famous hotel.It's 1968. London is in full swing and the Savoy Hotel is at the height of its legendary glitz and glamour, welcoming the rich, famous...
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    The Corpse with the Emerald Thumb

    Criminologist and foodie Cait Morgan was looking forward to her dream vacation in Mexico with her boyfriend Bud Anderson. She wasn't anticipating a fresh corpse on the floor of a local florist's shop, and she definitely wasn't expecting Bud to become the...
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  • My Mistress' Eyes are Raven Black
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    My Mistress' Eyes are Raven Black

    Southern Fiction: Terry Robert's debut novel with the same main character, A Short Time to Stay Here, won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction and received endorsements from critically-acclaimed authors including Lee Smith, Elizabeth Spencer,...
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    Paradise, WV
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    Paradise, WV

    Star-Studded Author: Rob Rufus is an author, musician, screenwriter, and advocate. He is the recipient of the American Library Association's prestigious ALEX Award and his literary debut, Die Young With Me, was named one of the "Best Books of the Year"...
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  • Death Comes to Greenway
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    Death Comes to Greenway

    Bathed in sweat from the same nightmare that haunted her dreams these last six months, Katherine Lambert rolled over, switched on the bedside lamp, and peered at the clock before reaching for the small-framed photograph on her nightstand. After a few...
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  • The Hidden Treasure of Harris-Stowe
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    The Hidden Treasure of Harris-Stowe

    A fun mystery and adventure fiction about three regular hardworking accountants taking on the challenge of finding a lost treasure within the walls of the HBCU where they work. Will they let time, fear, or work keep them from what could be the best...
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  • I.C. Mombosa, Private Investigator
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    I.C. Mombosa, Private Investigator

    The main character is a high profile private investigator who has learned some important lessons along the way. But now, she must confront those "skeletons" family secrets in her own closet.
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  • Kayla's Crossing
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    Kayla's Crossing

    In 1960, Milford is a typical small town in the deep south: white picket fences, neat yards, deep segregation, and parents taking their kids for ice cream on Sunday afternoon after church. High school student Joshua Davis, the teenage son of a white...
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Crime & Mystery Books – Best Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Novels & Mystery Books in Australia

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At Bookloop, you can explore bestselling crime fiction authors, such as Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as modern masters of the genre like Gillian Flynn and Tana French. Our collection includes thrillers with edge-of-your-seat action, detective novels that feature iconic sleuths like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, and mystery books packed with mind-bending puzzles and clever twists. Dive into true crime books that chronicle real-life cases, or immerse yourself in psychological thrillers that explore the darkest corners of the human mind.

Looking for crime novels like Agatha Christie, whodunit mystery books, or a thriller novel with a shocking twist? Our collection includes best crime fiction books, new crime novels, and mystery novels for adults that will keep you up at night. Find the best psychological thrillers, detective stories for adults, and gripping crime stories that will satisfy even the most avid crime fiction reader.

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