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  • The Distant Dead
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    The Distant Dead

    Nominated for the 2021 Edgar Award for Best NovelA body burns in the high desert hills. A boy walks into a fire station, pale with the shock of a grisly discovery.A middle school teacher worries when her colleague is late for work. When the body is...
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  • Dead And Gone
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    Dead And Gone

    There's nothing more dangerous than revenge. Judi Westerholme has been through it. Brave and strong-willed, she's just about coping in her new role as foster parent to her orphaned niece, taking a job at the local pub to help make ends meet...
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  • Simenon
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    Simenon

    The legendary Georges Simenon was the most successful and influential writer of crime fiction in a language other than English; Andr Gide called him 'the greatest French novelist of our times'.Celebrated crime fiction expert Barry...
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  • Reap The Whirlwind
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    Reap The Whirlwind

    A recently-discovered, long-lost novel and short stories from the 90s featuring private eye Nick Sharman.Follow Sharman as he patrols his seedily glamorous South London beat, with its cast of villains, eccentrics, misfits and losers. A magnet for...
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  • After Agatha
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    After Agatha

    From Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith to Val McDermid and JK Rowling, After Agatha is an indispensable guide to women's crime writing over the last century and an exploration of why women read crime Spanning the 1930s to present day, After...
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  • Death on The Lizard
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    Death on The Lizard

    Lizard Village, 1903. Cornwall is rich with natural wonders, but these natural beauties conceal dangerous secrets, as amateur detectives Lord and Lady Sheridan discover. Wireless telegraph companies around the world are scrambling to develop new...
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  • Death in Hyde Park
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    Death in Hyde Park

    Queen Victoria is dead, long live King Edward! Kate and Charles Sheridan are attending the new king's coronation ceremony when an anarchist blows himself up in Hyde Park with a bomb that was obviously meant for the Royals. Now, it's up to Kate...
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  • Death At Epsom Downs
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    Death At Epsom Downs

    It's Derby day at Epsom downs, and the Sheridan's are on the scene - Charles to take photographs, and Kate to gather information for her latest novel. But the race becomes life-and-death when one of the jockeys doesn't make it to the...
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  • Death At Whitechapel
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    Death At Whitechapel

    Sixth in the Victorian Mystery series that also includes Death at Devil's Bridge and Death at Rottingdean.Kathryn Ardleigh is becoming accustomed to the high-society circles of her husband, Lord Charles Sheridan. She has found...
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  • Death In Rottingdean
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    Death In Rottingdean

    Lord and Lady Sheridan (Charles is now Baron of Somersworth) have taken a house for a few quiet weeks in the late summer of 1897, in the sea-coast village of Rottingdean. Long known as Smugglers' Village, the hamlet sits on a labyrinth of ancient tunnels...
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  • Death At Devil's Bridge
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    Death At Devil's Bridge

    Newlyweds Charles and Kate Sheridan have moved into Kate's ancestral Georgian home Bishop's Keep, where Kate plans to devote herself to her writing and Charles to the responsibilities of the landed gentry. He agrees to host an automobile exhibition and...
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  • Death At Daisy's Folly
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    Death At Daisy's Folly

    Kate and Sir Charles gather with a host of memorable guests at the Warwicks' Eaton Lodge for an English country-house weekend. Meet Albert Edward, Prince of Wales; his 'darling Daisy,' the Countess of Warwick; their friends-and their enemies...
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  • Death at Bishop's Keep
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    Death at Bishop's Keep

    Kate Ardleigh is everythingthe Victorian English gentlewoman is not - outspoken, free-thinking,American...and a writer of the frowned upon 'penny-dreadfuls.' Soon after herarrival in Essex, England, a body is unearthed in a nearby archaeological...
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    Carlito's Way

    This powerful, gritty, and vivid novel is the unforgettable story of Carlito Brigante, a Harlem drug dealer in the 1960s, and his rise to the top. Drug dealer, thief, and murdered, Carlito Brigante was once just another Spanish Harlem street punk with a...
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  • The Dollmaker
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    The Dollmaker

    "A tour de force that has it all." -Annelise Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of A Death in Door County "You will devour this book." -Barbara Conrey, USA Today bestselling author of Nowhere Near Goodbye and international bestselling author of My Secret...
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  • The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn
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    The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn

    "The gradual but compelling unraveling of this family mystery captivated me." -Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award-winning author of Hiroshima Boy and Clark and Division "This book is a true delight to the senses!" -Keri Wilt, speaker, historian, and...
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  • The Dead Won't Tell
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    The Dead Won't Tell

    "VERDICT: Waters's first novel is an engrossing mix of small-town lack of privacy, quirky friendships, feisty women, and several plot twists that truly do surprise . . ." -Library Journal"The Dead Won't Tell is a remarkable and impressive debut." -Kris...
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    The Man of the Crowd
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    The Man of the Crowd

    How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American...
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  • Cocktail Waitress
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    Cocktail Waitress

    Following her husband's death in an accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer and a...
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  • Dukkha Reverb
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    Dukkha Reverb

    If you're going to fight bad guys, you might as well make them really mad at you!A few weeks ago, I had a good life-I was a respected Portland police detective and successful martial arts instructor. Then I shot somebody-then I shot two more people. It...
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    Kage

    Best Books Award Finalist - USA Book News Winner - eLit AwardIn the seemingly trackless waste of the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, a coyote cross border smuggler is found dead, another victim of the escalating violence on the southwest border.At the...
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    Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination
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    Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination

    This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe.Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with...
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    Catalogue Raisonne

    It is 1984. The latest recession is said to be over, and in the steel city of Hamilton, things are picking up. For Paul, however, an ex-rock guitarist and current art gallery attendant, life has slowed to the pace of a still life on a wall. He badly...
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  • The Sinner
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    The Sinner

    The basis for the highly acclaimed Netflix series starring Jessica Biel. "Instantly gripping" said the Washington Post.Cora Bender killed a man on a sunny summer afternoon in full view of her family and friends. But why? What could have caused this...
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    Day's End
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    Day's End

    Day's End is the next in the Australian rural crime series by critically acclaimed author Garry Disher, featuring beloved local copper Hirsch Hirsch's rural beat is wide. Daybreak to day's end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets small towns...
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    Great Swindle
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    Great Swindle

    And so is set in motion a series of devastating events that will inextricably bind together the fates and fortunes of Pradelle and the two soldiers who witness his crime: Albert Maillard and douard P ricourt.Back in civilian life, Albert and douard...
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    A Death in Diamonds
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    A Death in Diamonds

    THE ROYALLY BRILLIANT FOURTH BOOK IN THE HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN INVESTIGATES MYSTERY SERIES 1957 - A young woman is found dead in a mews house a mile from Buckingham Palace, wearing only silk underwear and a a diamond tiara. An older man is discovered...
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    The Windsor Knot
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    The Windsor Knot

    For fans of The Crown and The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. 'Like an episode of The Crown - but with a spicy dish of murder on the side' (DAILY MAIL) ______________________ The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle,...
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  • Superman '78
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    Superman '78

    DC follows the very successful Batman '66 with the new Superman '78, inspired by the Man of Steel's movie adventures starring Christopher Reeve. In the late 1970s moviegoers were thrilled by the words "You'll believe a man can fly!," which introduced...
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  • Killing Moon
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    Killing Moon

    THE BRAND-NEW DETECTIVE HARRY HOLE THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER.  'Nesb is one of today's most interesting thriller writers, a 100% buy-today-read-tonight delight' Lee Child _________________________________ This killer will...
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  • Jailhouse Lawyer
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    Jailhouse Lawyer

    Two brand-new legal thrillers in one book from the authors of Juror No. 3 - perfect for fans of John Grisham and Steve Cavanagh A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown - and ends up behind bars... In picture-perfect Erva,...
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  • Steal
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    Steal

    The third thrilling instalment of James Patterson's Instinct series The stakes are sky-high for Dr Dylan Reinhart. When a student in Reinhart's psychology class threatens to kill himself, everyone hopes it's a hoax. But when he can't be found after...
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    Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon
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    Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon

    She's practically perfect in every way! After being nearly killed by both a hired hit man and her former secretary, Agatha Raisin could use some low-key cases. So when Robert Smedley walks through the door of her detective agency, determined to prove...
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    Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance
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    Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance

    There may be trouble ahead . . . so will Agatha face the music? Can the feisty Agatha cut it as a private investigator? She soon learns that running her own detective agency in the Cotswolds is not quite like starring in a Raymond Chandler movie. But...
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    Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House
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    Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House

    A vengeful ghost comes back to haunt the living? Reports of a haunted house soon have Agatha snooping around, but it turns out the victim of the haunting is a universally disliked old biddy on whom someone is playing a practical joke. And then the old...
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    Agatha Raisin
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    Agatha Raisin

    A therapist had moved into the village of Carsely and Agatha Raisin hates her. Not only was this therapist, Jill Davent, romancing Agatha's ex-husband, but she had dug up details of Agatha's slum background. Added to that, Jill was counselling a woman...
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    The Brothers
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    The Brothers

    An isolated house. A mysterious note. Someone is watching ... An absorbing, atmospheric mystery about families, secrets and the bonds of brotherhood set on the Victorian south coast. Welcome home, Jake ... When Special Forces veteran Jake Harlow...
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  • Livid
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    Livid

    The #1 Bestseller Returns, With a Brand-new Kay Scarpetta Thriller Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is the reluctant star witness in a sensational murder trial when she receives shocking news. The judge's sister has been found dead. At first glance,...
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  • Anomaly
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    Anomaly

    When flight Air France 006 enters a terrifying storm, the plane - inexplicably - duplicates. For every passenger on board, there are now two. Just one thing sets them apart. One plane leaves the storm in March. The other doesn't land until June. For...
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  • Eeny Meeny
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    Eeny Meeny

    THE ROCKET-PACED SERIAL-KILLER THRILLER AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK FROM M. J. ARLIDGE 'What a great premise!' Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of The Skin Collector and Solitude Creek The girl emerged from the woods, barely...
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    Kingdom of the Strong
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    Kingdom of the Strong

    Acclaimed crime writer Tony Cavanaugh is back with a gripping new novel featuring Australia's answer to Michael Connelly's Hieronymus Bosch - Darian Richards. Darian Richards is an ex-cop, a good one. He did whatever it took to solve a crime and stop...
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  • The Son
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    The Son

    he brand new thriller from no 1 bestselling crime author, Jo Nesbo, which sees a charismatic young prisoner breaking out of jail to find out the truth about his father's death and seek revenge on those who lied to him 'Nesbo deserves to be crowned the...
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    The Drowning
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    The Drowning

    A work of rattling and serpentine suspense ... gripping and sinuous and so, so good.' Trent Dalton The body of a local teenage boy is found on the beach of a sleepy northern New South Wales town. David went for an evening swim and got into trouble . . ...
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  • Black Echo (30th Anniversary Edition)
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    Black Echo (30th Anniversary Edition)

    Celebrating 30 years of Michael Connelly, a special edition of the book that introduced the now legendary Harry Bosch to the world. LAPD detective Harry Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. One Sunday he gets a call-out on his pager. A body has been found...
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  • Bluffs
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    Bluffs

    When a school group of teenage girls goes missing in the remote Tasmanian wilderness, the people of Limestone Creek are immediately on alert. Three decades ago, five young girls disappeared amidst those dangerous bluffs, and the legend of ‘the Hungry...
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    Gone Girl
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    Gone Girl

    Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was...
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Crime & Mystery Books – Best Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Novels & Mystery Books in Australia

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