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  • Murder at the Bailey
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    Murder at the Bailey

    A notorious loan shark is shot dead, in broad daylight, right outside the front doors of the Old Bailey. The killer is arrested at the scene and Adrian Stanford is lined up to take on the toughest defence case of his career. Can he steer his client past...
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  • Warlock Holmes: The Finality Problem
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    Warlock Holmes: The Finality Problem

    Warlock Holmes is dealing with a jerk, who just so happens to be a stockbroker. There may be a link. He's also trying to hunt down some tokens to control something magical (it's all rather complicated), and Moriarty just won't stop taking over people's...
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  • Warlock Holmes: The Sign of Nine
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    Warlock Holmes: The Sign of Nine

    Warlock Holmes may have demons in his head, but now Dr. John Watson has a mummy in his bloodstream.Specifically that of the sorcerer Xantharaxes, who when shredded and dissolved in an 8% solution, results in some extremely odd but useful prophetic dreams...
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  • The Vinyl Detective: Low Action
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    The Vinyl Detective: Low Action

    Semi-retired god of rock guitar and local poseur Erik Make Loud has got himself a new girlfriend. Helene Hilditch - formerly known as Howlin' Hellbitch - of all-girl punk outfit Blue Tits is a mean guitarist, someone is trying to kill her.With a rare...
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  • The Vinyl Detective
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    The Vinyl Detective

    It's all Tinkler's fault. If it weren't for his obsession with the 1970s electric folk band, Black Dog, none of this would have happened. At the height of their success, the members of Black Dog invited journalists to Holy Island, a desolate island off...
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    Sherlock Holmes: The Spider's Web

    It is 1897, and Sherlock Holmes is investigating a murder that took place during a society ball. Holmes and Watson rush to the scene, but are shocked by the flippant attitude of the ball's hosts: the wealthy Ernest Moncrieff and his new wife Gwendolen...
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  • The Final Child
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    The Final Child

    Erin and her brother Alex were the last children abducted by 'the Father', a serial killer who only ever took pairs of siblings. She escaped, but her brother was never seen again. Traumatised, Erin couldn't remember anything...
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    Charlesgate Confidential
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    Charlesgate Confidential

    An ingenious debut-novel unravelling the heist of the century, in 1946, 1986 and present-day BostonA group of criminals in 1946 pull off the heist of the century, stealing a dozen priceless works of art from a Boston museum. But while the thieves get...
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  • Brothers Keepers
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    Brothers Keepers

    Can a monk on Park Avenue save his home from the wrecking ball? What will a group of monks do when their two-century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make room for a new high-rise? Anything they have to. 'Thou Shalt Not...
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  • The Vanishing Season
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    The Vanishing Season

    Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She's an officer in sleepy Woodbury, MA, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the...
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  • So Many Doors
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    So Many Doors

    A man sits in a cell on death row, sentenced to die for the murder of the beautiful woman called V. But as we learn the story of her death - and of her troubled, torrid life - one question haunts us: why would any man kill the woman he craves more than...
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  • Help I Am Being Held Prisoner
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    Help I Am Being Held Prisoner

    JAILED FOR A JOKE It isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold Knt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low...
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  • The Triumph of the Spider Monkey
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    The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

    Unavailable for 40 years, this seminal novel of madness and murder is acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates' powerful trip into the mind of a maniac. Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention...
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  • The Blackbird Season
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    The Blackbird Season

    In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a thousand dead starlings fall onto a high school baseball field, unleashing a horrifying and unexpected chain of events that will rock the close-knit community.Beloved baseball coach and teacher Nate Winters and his wife,...
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  • A Baby's Bones
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    A Baby's Bones

    Archaeologist Sage Westfield has been called in to excavate a sixteenth-century well, and expects to find little more than soil and the odd piece of pottery. But the disturbing discovery of the bones of a woman and new-born baby make it clear that she...
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  • Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Dust
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    Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Dust

    London, 1883. Mrs Hudson begs Holmes and Watson to help her friend, a fellow landlady whose lodger has been found poisoned. The police suspect the landlady of murder, but Mrs Hudson insists that her friend is innocent.Upon investigating, the companions...
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    Modesty Blaise - The Killing Game
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    Modesty Blaise - The Killing Game

    Wedding bells are sounding for Guido the Jinx, but as always he's in over his head and Modesty and Willie must fight to save him, and the world, from bio-terrorists in 'The Last Aristocrat'.Modesty and Willie are forced to become quarry in a big game...
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  • Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu
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    Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu

    A series of grisly murders rocks London. At each location, only a jumble of bones remains, along with a bizarre bone sphere covered in arcane symbols. The son of the latest victim seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, who discover a...
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  • Quarry's Climax
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    Quarry's Climax

    From the award-winning author of Road to Perdition, the new Quarry novel continues the deadly story of the assassin who stars in the acclaimed Cinemax original series Memphis, 1975. "Raunchy" doesn't begin to describe Max Climer's magazine, Climax, or...
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  • A Treacherous Curse
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    A Treacherous Curse

    Members of an Egyptian expedition fall victim to an ancient mummy's curse in a thrilling Veronica Speedwell novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries. London, 1888.As colourful and unfettered as the butterflies she...
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  • Lawless and the Devil of Euston Square
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    Lawless and the Devil of Euston Square

    "Before Holmes, there was Lawless - Before Lawless, the London streets weren't safe towalk" - London, 1859.Novice detective, Campbell Lawless, stumbles onto the trail of Berwick Skelton, an elusive revolutionary,seemingly determined to bring London to...
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  • Quarry's Cut
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    Quarry's Cut

    The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature a hitman as the main character, the Quarry novels tell the story of a paid assassin with a rebellious streak and an unlikely...
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  • Quarry's List
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    Quarry's List

    NOW A CINEMAX TELEVISION SERIES!The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature ahitman as the main character, the Quarry novels tell the story of a paid assassin with a rebellious streak...
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  • Vinyl Detective - Victory Disc
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    Vinyl Detective - Victory Disc

    This time the search for a rare record ensnares our hero in a mystery with its roots stretching back to the Second World War.Three young RAF airmen played in a legendary band called the Flare Path Orchestra. When a precious record of their music turns up...
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  • The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes
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    The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes

    In the depths of her blue eyes, he glimpsed... murder. Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to...
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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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  • 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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Crime & Mystery Books – Best Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Novels & Mystery Books in Australia

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