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  • No Body Like Me No Body Like Me
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    No Body Like Me

    No Body Like MeCase 24Murray Barber is a private investigator with a difference, he can hear the dead speak. Along with his friend Jeff, from C.I.D. and the 'late' Jake Kelly, he solves a number of cases.The occupant of a hearse takes a ride with Murray...
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  • Dearest, Darling.. Dead Dearest, Darling.. Dead
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    Dearest, Darling.. Dead

    Dearest, Darling.... Dead.Case threeMurray Barber is a private investigator with a difference. He can hear the dead speak. Along with his 'late' friends, Alistair and Rita, and Jeff, his friend from C.I.D., Murray solves a variety of cases.Annette Castle...
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  • The Scandal At Bletchley The Scandal At Bletchley
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    The Scandal At Bletchley

    "I've been a scoundrel, a thief, a blackmailer and a whore, but never a murderer. Until now..."The year is 1929. As the world teeters on the brink of a global recession, Bletchley Park plays host to a rather special event. MI5 is celebrating its...
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  • Thunder, Lightning & Storm Thunder, Lightning & Storm
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    Thunder, Lightning & Storm

    A sinister missile project in the Gulf of Guinea escapes the attention of the big powers as the diabolical ambitions of a renegade scientist puts the security of the African continent at risk. The onus falls on Nigeria to live up to her potential as the...
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  • Il segreto di Francesco Il segreto di Francesco
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    Il segreto di Francesco

    Con lingua semplice ed evocativa, l'autore di questo romanzo ambienta nelle campagne del cagliaritano una fiaba per lettori senza età, introducendoci in un microcosmo familiare e contadino dove le asperità della vita s'intrecciano a un senso salvifico di...
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  • Two in the Bush Two in the Bush
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    Two in the Bush

    Adrian Dando has a good marriage, and a steady, if somewhat pedestrian life in the West of England. Without warning it all goes horribly wrong and he is left alone and bereft.Having two friends who have already moved out to Greece, he decides, with their...
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  • Het verwaarloosde lichaam Het verwaarloosde lichaam
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    Het verwaarloosde lichaam

    Ontwikkelingen rondom een onderzoek naar een moord op een jonge vrouw in Antwerpen. Het politieonderzoek komt op een dood spoor. De gevolgen zijn desastreus.
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  • LES AMANTS DE LA TABLE AUX SACRIFICES LES AMANTS DE LA TABLE AUX SACRIFICES
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    LES AMANTS DE LA TABLE AUX SACRIFICES

    Seul le hasard avait rŽuni les deux victimes ; mais de quel c™tŽ le coup pouvait-il tre venu ? Lui Žtait bien autre chose que le cadre commercial sympathique quÕil paraissait tre. Elle nÕŽtait quÕune jeune candidate au concours de recrutement des...
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  • Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence
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    Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence

    In this innovative book, now available in paperback for the first time, Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology archaeology and Darwin's theories of evolutionary...
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  • The Noir Thriller The Noir Thriller
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    The Noir Thriller

    What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? Lee Horsley's updated study of the genre, now available in paperback, ranges over hundreds of novels from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler...
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  • Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries
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    Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries

    Employing the methods of Poe's own detective, Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries offers new and surprising discoveries about Poe's stories "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt," and "The Purloined Letter." Kopley sheds light...
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  • Holocaust as Fiction Holocaust as Fiction
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    Holocaust as Fiction

    Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work. With the help of...
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  • NO EASY MONEY NO EASY MONEY
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    NO EASY MONEY

    No Easy Money “You never win playing by the rules.”Entrepreneurs face challenges every day from inside the business and from the world around them. It’s hard to be a hero. This is the story of an entrepreneur who wants to win and not...
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  • The Choir Boy The Choir Boy
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    The Choir Boy

    Filled with excitement and non stop action, a little boy's journey becomes more frightening then one can imagine but within, holding the key to courage and goes from a choir boy to a super hero and saves the world. I wrote this one when I was a...
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  • Whistling up a Ghost Whistling up a Ghost
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    Whistling up a Ghost

    Peter and Jenny Rogers return from their honeymoon to a pile of wedding presents including the deed to an old house. They open presents from the residents of Whistling Pines Senior Care Center ranging from thoughtful, to thrift shop purchases, and "what...
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  • L'assassin et son double L'assassin et son double
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    L'assassin et son double

    Le soleil se voilait derrire un promontoire. Le froissement du vent alternait avec le bruit des vagues et les voix rauques des mouettes Žvoquaient des lavandires sÕŽgosillant dans le battement rŽgulier des lessives. Bient™t, les ŽlŽments dispersŽs se...
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  • Assassinio in duplicato Assassinio in duplicato
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    Assassinio in duplicato

    Il secondo romanzo, "Assassinio in duplicato", è ambientato in una Varsavia ai tempi nostri, e si snoda durante lo svolgimento di un importante torneo di bridge, mondo che l'Autore ha frequentato per moltissimi anni.Ovviamente personaggi ed...
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  • Assassinio al Kirribilli Club Assassinio al Kirribilli Club
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    Assassinio al Kirribilli Club

    L'Autore è un Dirigente d'Azienda in pensione che ha trovato casualmente la "verve" narrativa, scrivendo brevi storie su Facebook.Da lì ha proseguito a scrivere e sono venuti alla luce sette brevi racconti, "Nove brevi sinfonie" e quattro romanzi...
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  • Time & Nemesis Time & Nemesis
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    Time & Nemesis

    'Time and Nemesis will do that which I would not, were it in my power remote or immediate.' Lord ByronFired by betrayal and obsessive jealousy, Laurie stalks her rival to Sicily but her journey leads along strange and unfamiliar pathways where dark...
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  • Within The Shadows Within The Shadows
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    Within The Shadows

    After a Westminster businessman is murdered, newly appointed Detective Inspector John Oulton gets his first case. Young, dedicated and eager to make an impression, Oulton begins an investigation that would shatter his world.An obscure tattoo, found on...
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  • Sacrificial Lamb Sacrificial Lamb
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    Sacrificial Lamb

    Detective Inspector Inga Larsson is enjoying a spot of retail therapy, sipping a cappuccino, and relaxing on a bright Sunday morning in Lincoln when her idyll is shattered by an alert to attend a major incident.She quickly discovers what started off as a...
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  • A Little Book of Misdeeds & Misdirection A Little Book of Misdeeds & Misdirection
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    A Little Book of Misdeeds & Misdirection

    From the mysterious confidence of Cal Turner to the irrepressible insouciance of Kathryn Blake, very little is what it seems. There are stones with a secret and stones with a purpose, answers found and answers withheld, eleven little tales of lies told...
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  • Assassinio sulla "Regina dei mari" Assassinio sulla "Regina dei mari"
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    Assassinio sulla "Regina dei mari"

    L'Autore dei due gialli precedenti, "Assassinio in terza liceale" e "Assassinio in duplicato", ha voluto cimentarsi col suo terzo romanzo, sviluppando la vicenda a bordo di una lussuosa nave da crociera in navigazione nel mar Mediterraneo.La vicenda si...
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  • BODY ART BODY ART
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    BODY ART

    Body Art is my 3rd Glasgow based crime fiction novel and follows on where Body Language and Bad Form. Lassiter Hagan Horner Dawson Hegarty and Bradford all return along with Maggie Sarah P.J. and other new feminine ...
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  • Assassinio al "Kirribilli Club" English Edition Assassinio al "Kirribilli Club" English Edition
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    Assassinio al "Kirribilli Club" English Edition

    The novel, perhaps the most delicate of the seven written by the same Author, is set in an exclusive location of the beautiful Sydney, which is worth discovering along with the new detective Riccardo, who took over the role of Mario Coppi. The novel...
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  • L'aveu fatal L'aveu fatal
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    L'aveu fatal

    Ce roman est un mélange de film policier, de comédie dramatique et enfin de la déchéance d'un homme qui, au fur et à mesure que l'intrigue policière se poursuit, perd peu à peu ses repères et sa maîtrise, emporté dans le souffle psychologique d'une...
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  • Un segreto sulla bocca Un segreto sulla bocca
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    Un segreto sulla bocca

    Una storia intrisa di noir sensuale: "Un segreto sulla bocca" mille luci e colori soffusi con due protagonisti d'eccezione Lucrezia e Igor. Immagini sensuali che si sovrappongono, amore, gelosia , intrigo, mistero, thriller, ...sguardi estremi che si...
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  • The Magic Clarinet The Magic Clarinet
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    The Magic Clarinet

    Shadowing an Excise officer in a tobacco factory, Nick Storey finds he is using incorrect procedures. When Nick carries out the right ones, he discovers that the company are importing large amounts of tobacco illicitly. But the evidence goes missing and...
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  • Is It Me? Is It Me?
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    Is It Me?

    Ginny has never been able to forget the night when she was eighteen years old and an intruder broke into her home and sexually assaulted her at knife point. Even now, forty-two years on, she still has trouble sleeping at night, and the incident has had...
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  • The Darcaelan Casebook - Volume One The Darcaelan Casebook - Volume One
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    The Darcaelan Casebook - Volume One

    Petty criminal Joe Sydney is trying to escape London. He is stopped by Edward Darcaelan, a detective exiled from his powerful family. Darcaelan requires Joe's help on a murder case - and soon, Joe begins to find himself inexplicably drawn into his new...
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  • Goodbye Jeremy Goodbye Jeremy
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    Goodbye Jeremy

    Jeremy Palmer is found dead at low tide on the bank of the River Thames. The police investigation found nothing suspicious and the inquest verdict is 'Death by misadventure, drowning'. A suicide note was found but the circumstances of death did not...
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  • The Manifesto The Manifesto
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    The Manifesto

    When the Chief Superintendent in Edinburgh's police headquarters starts to receive sinister notes claiming responsibility for a number of increasingly dark acts, he is forced to act. With disturbing glances into a warped mind, he has few options within...
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  • Class of '78 Class of '78
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    Class of '78

    "You made your bed, now lie in it, and I hope you go straight to hell..." Before Johnny could finish, he turned his back so his dad could not see his tears of rage.MeadowBrook is a picturesque town with rolling hills and meandering brooks. Weeping...
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  • The Puppy Mill The Puppy Mill
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    The Puppy Mill

    The characters and events in this book are fictional. The individuals, both human and animal, came to life after a turbulent night in dreamland from which I awoke compelled to put pen to paper. The events penned in this story are fiction; however, the...
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  • To Kill or Not to Kill is Not in Question To Kill or Not to Kill is Not in Question
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    To Kill or Not to Kill is Not in Question

    Family head Angelica arrived with her sisters, determined to become the exclusive provider of illegal drugs up and down the eastern American coast. But negotiations with mafia families do not go smoothly.   Successful hitman Dan is...
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  • Project Bizarre Project Bizarre
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    Project Bizarre

    When a media tycoon, with the help of a pharmaceutical conglomerate, secretly develops a new advertising technology that threatens to become weaponized against the world's population, two young men are forced to step in to try to stop it. They're...
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  • Deadly Lights Deadly Lights
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    Deadly Lights

    Texas PI, Kelly McWinter, has just landed a dream of a job. Nashville songstress, and family friend, Marcy Fischer has been nominated for the Academy of Country Music's female vocalist of the year award, but her husband is stuck in Russia on a special...
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  • Discarded Discarded
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    Discarded

    When the British arrived in Winnipeg in the 1800s it was convenient for the men to take Metis wives. They were called a la vacon du pays - according to the custom of the country. These women bore the brunt of ensuring survival in the harsh environment...
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    The Stoning
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    The Stoning

    *Longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2022: Debut Fiction**Longlisted for the ABIA Book Awards 2022: Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year*A small outback town wakes to a savage murder.Molly Abbott, a popular teacher at the local school, is...
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    Imminence
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    Imminence

    *Joint Winner of the NSW Translation Prize 2021*We're alone together, for the first time. I have to touch him now. I try stroking a foot, then a shoulder. But no current lifts in me, nothing pulls at my chest they way they said it would.A new...
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    The Broad Arrow
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    The Broad Arrow

    Caroline Leakey, writing as Olin Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. It tells the story of Maida Gwynnham, a young middleclass woman lured into committing a forgery by her deceitful lover, Captain Norwell, and then...
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    CUSP
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    CUSP

    Lena knew that the most tenuous of threads held everything together. At home she was known as the girl who lost things. Books, pens, wallets, her mother's jewellery - the more precious the thing, the more likely she would lose it. She rifled through the...
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Crime & Mystery Books – Best Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Novels & Mystery Books in Australia

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