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    Dukkha Unloaded

    Detective Sam Reeves is barely seated in a cab when he learns that during his two-week trip in Southeast Asia, hate crimes have rocked his city of Portland, including one very brutal lynching. As the crimes continue, thousands of fearful protestors march...
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    Enzan
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    Enzan

    Chie Miyazaki is wild and spoiled the pampered child of a cadet line of the imperial House of Japan. Minders have attempted to keep her drug use and sex life under control, or at least out of the tabloids. When she disappears in the United States...
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    Getting Off On Frank Sinatra

    In this award-winning mystery, a scorching Las Vegas summer is about to get even hotter. Aspiring journalist Copper Black has just found out that her boyfriend is responsible for his not-quite-ex-wife's pregnancy. An unexpected house-sitting job at a...
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    Murder Most Modern

    The first book-length study of Japan's detective fiction, Murder Most Modern considers the important role of detective fiction in defining thecountry's emergence as a modern nation-state. Kawana's comparative approach reveals how Japanese authors of the...
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    Hard-Boiled Masculinities

    The persona of the American male in the period between the two world wars was characterized by physical strength, emotional detachment, aggressive behavior, and an amoral worldview. This ideal of a hard-boiled masculinity can be seen in the pages and,...
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    The Great Leader

    Rapturously received by critics and enthusiastically embraced by readers, The Great Leader is an enthralling, blackly comic take on the detective story that follows a retired detective in hilarious and bold pursuit of a sinister cult leader. Detective...
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    Rise of the Knightshades: The Djinn

    FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE EZEKIEL CRANE NOVELS AND THE GRIM DAYS MYSTERIES!A Holy Land...A Holy War...A Holy Terror Against EvilIn the final years of the first Kingdom of Jerusalem in a vault hidden deep beneath the Temple Mount...
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    Clean Exit

    Anton Jax - Ajax Clean to those who know - is a professional cleaner. As in cleaner for the mob. Bloodstains on your shirt? No problem. Fingerprints and DNA evidence all over the crime scene enough to put you away forever? For the right price Clean will...
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    Wrong Poison

    Grace Adair is your typical suburban mom, except for one little secret...She's also a member of a 700-year-old order of assassins sacred to the Archangel Gabriel and sworn to remove evil men who elude man's justice. Think #MeToo with a poison solution...
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    The Road Hole Bunker Mystery

    Murder and skullduggery on the oldest course in golf. St. Andrews might never be the same again.Private investigator John Royle takes on a routine missing person case in search of his client's brother. When the body turns up in a bunker on the Old Course...
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    Dead in the Water

    The sleepy beach town of Summer Haven is waking up to a new nightmare-reality TV!Lance Avery-host of thepopular adventure documentary show "Mysterious Expedition"-is in town to investigate a sunken shipwreck rumored to be the flagship of the infamous...
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    Death Warmed Over

    DEATH TAKES A (WORKING) HOLIDAY!Becca Cole is a big fish in a small pond. The former big-city homicide detective is now the Chief of Police in Summer Haven a sleepy Florida beach town where nothing ever happens. But all that changes when she is summoned...
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    Murder on Voodoo Island

    [Originally published as Killypso Island]The Cold War is heating up in paradise...'Captain Joe' Thacker didn't come to the tiny Caribbean island of St. Noel looking for trouble. Just the opposite the former flying ace turned sometimes-smuggler wants...
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  • Deliver Me
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    Deliver Me

    At a meatpacking facility in Missouri, Dee-Dee and her coworkers kill and butcher 40,000 chickens in a single shift.The work is repetitive and brutal, with each stab and cut a punishment to her hands and joints, but Dee-Dee's more concerned with...
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  • Remain Silent
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    Remain Silent

    Erin McCabe's years as a criminal defence attorney have prepared her for almost anything - except for being on the opposite side of the interrogation table. A new client - a successful financial advisor - has been found stabbed to death on the...
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  • These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart
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    These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart

    A Publishers Weekly Selection: Spring 2024 Top-10 SF Fantasy and Horror'In a queer, noir technothriller of fractured identity and corporate intrigue, a trans woman faces her fear of losing her community as her past chases after her. This bold,...
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  • Circle of Animals
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    Circle of Animals

    When her hippie mother Edi goes missing the same week Sky Richard is assaulted at work-Sky wants to run away from everything. Instead, Sky goes looking for her mother and finds an estranged grandmother, the cult she was born in, and an unlikely ally. But...
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    Lackadaisy: Volume 2
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    Lackadaisy: Volume 2

    'A rollicking mix of gunplay, quips, and romance.' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'Beautifully captures the visual style of the Jazz Age.' BOOKLISTIt's 1927 and Prohibition is in full effect in St. Louis, Missouri...
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  • Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo
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    Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo

    Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely fourth-wave feminist reading of crime fiction in the age of #metoo.The book explores four major fourth-wave feminist focal points, #metoo, rape culture/reclaim the night, toxic...
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  • The Crossroads of Crime Writing
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    The Crossroads of Crime Writing

    Over a century ago, in his examination The Sensational in Modern English Fiction (1919), Walter Clarke Phillips declared, 'Whatever sources of appeal may come or go, there is one which from the very structure of modern democratic society seldom...
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    Do What Godmother Says
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    Do What Godmother Says

    A modern-day writer and a Harlem Renaissance artist are connected by a painting with a deadly secret in this gripping dual-timeline gothic thriller.Shanice Pierce knows better than to heed bad omens. But she has a hard time ignoring the signs when she...
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  • The Widows
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    The Widows

    In the sequel to Femicide, two bodies are discovered in a Stockholm park, one a policeman and the other an unidentified young woman.With the police believing the woman to be nothing more than unfortunate collateral damage, they focus on the murder of the...
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  • The Hollow Mountain
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    The Hollow Mountain

    The Tunnel Tigers were an elite group of construction workers who specialised in a lucrative but hazardous profession blasting tunnels through mountains and under rivers, in dangerous conditions few men could endure.Alice Larkin, the headstrong daughter...
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    The Cursing Stones Murder
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    The Cursing Stones Murder

    A body surfaces off the Isle of Man in a puzzling mystery by the master of the "pure British detective story" (The New York Times).The Manx Shearwater was scallop dredging-but it dragged up a body from the water instead. Considering that the corpse was...
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    When Cicadas Cry
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    When Cicadas Cry

    In this stunning debut by a South Carolina attorney, Zach Stander, a lawyer with a past, and Addie Stone, his indomitable detective and lover, find themselves entangled in secrets, lies, and murder in a small Southern town.A high-profile murder case A...
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  • Miss Melville Regrets
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    Miss Melville Regrets

    Good breeding simply doesn't pay the rent anymore.And while Miss Melville has bucketloads of breeding, she finds herself somewhat...lacking, shall we say, when it comes to finances. Distinctly lacking. Her rich friends are no help; they think...
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  • The Wooden Overcoat
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    The Wooden Overcoat

    A comedy of manners and the odd dead body.London is full of clubs. The Garrick, for example, caters to those with theatrical inclinations, the Athenaeum to eggheads. But the Asterisk may have the strictest membership regulations: Acquitted murderers only...
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  • The King of Video Poker
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    The King of Video Poker

    Arnold Palmer has just died and The King of Video Poker is about to lose everything he loves.In Paolo Iacovelli's debut novel, we follow a nameless narrator. He is a normative, upper-middle-class American who commutes to Las Vegas to play high-stakes...
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  • The Lover of No Fixed Abode
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    The Lover of No Fixed Abode

    The month, November. Glittering worldliness and dubious shabbiness overlap, passion and suspicion intertwine in a three-day Venetian adventure, bookended by the arrival of a plane and the departure of a ship.It begins with a troubling encounter on a...
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  • Saving Grace
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    Saving Grace

    An ambitious reporter seeks a window into an obsessed killer's mind-and is forced to take a hard look in the mirror, in this dark psychological thriller.It starts when a Cornwall fisherman finds a body in the ocean. The blood of the victim has washed...
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  • Letters to the Purple Satin Killer
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    Letters to the Purple Satin Killer

    Jonas Williker is considered one of the most sadistic serial murderers of the modern era. This epistolary novel explores the aftermath of his arrest and the psychological trauma of those who lived through it.The Pennsylvania native brutalized his way...
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  • The Replacement
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    The Replacement

    Your husband had an affair. What do you do when the woman who destroyed your marriage asks for your help? A new thriller from the "hugely engrossing" author (Catherine Ryan Howard, Edgar Award finalist).Lauren Wade hates Jem Carter, and Jem hates her...
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  • Snap Judgment
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    Snap Judgment

    Has a judge turned executioner? A twisting mystery thriller by the author of Deadly Grief.Nobody was happy when a mistake by the DA's office allowed Gilbert Russell to walk free-aside from the alleged child killer himself. Even the judge, in his...
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  • Obsessed
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    Obsessed

    How do you hunt a monster when you can't remember his face? The author of Her Dark Past returns with a new novel of trauma, terror and missing memories...Lisa walks in the woods on a regular basis. But this time when she emerges, she is badly injured...
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  • The Chinese Parrot The Chinese Parrot
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    The Chinese Parrot

    Return to the Charlie Chan Mystery Series with Earl Bigger's fantastic sophomore outing, The Chinese Parrot.After the events of The House Without a Key, Charlie Chan is ready for a vacation. But before he can relax in the Golden State he must follow...
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  • The Beast of Bradhurst Avenue and Other Stories The Beast of Bradhurst Avenue and Other Stories
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    The Beast of Bradhurst Avenue and Other Stories

    Rediscover George S. Schuyler with a brand new collection of pulp fiction stories never before published in book form. George S. Schuyler was an African American journalist, social commentator and author with a very complicated legacy. Despite making...
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  • The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I
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    The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I

    Here, in one volume, are the stories that transformed Sherlock Holmes into a household name: the fateful first meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson inA Study in Scarlet, the mysterious treasure ofThe Sign of the Four, the formidable Irene Adler of A...
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    Between This World and the Next
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    Between This World and the Next

    Winner of the 2022 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Praveen Herat's gripping international thriller is a breathtaking exploration of power, identity, unconditional love, and the question of how far we'll go to uncover the truth.British war...
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    In the Blind
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    In the Blind

    "Marten's powerful novel focuses on a man trying to put the shards of his life together...Fans of Chuck Palahniuk and Jim Thompson, in particular, should take note." -Roberta Johnson, Booklist (starred review)Eugene Marten's In the Blind takes readers...
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    Sex and Violence, A Love Story
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    Sex and Violence, A Love Story

    Professors are being murdered in a way that suggests a sexual motive in a novel that occupies in imaginative space an area homologous to the area occupied by Columbia University in actual space.Turtle Point Press' first murder mystery is a novel in the...
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  • Lines of Deception
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    Lines of Deception

    A West German nightclub owner goes behind the Iron Curtain on a desperate mission to save his brother, in this Cold War thriller by the author of Lost Kin.West Germany, 1949. Former actor Max Kaspar suffered greatly in the Second World War. Now he owns a...
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    Point of Order
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    Point of Order

    The trial for a fifty-year-old murder comes with plenty of danger for one judge, in this explosive legal thriller by the author of The Hanging Judge.Dominic O'Connell is one of Boston's most prominent businessmen. His rise from poverty to power as a...
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  • Double Proof
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    Double Proof

    1964. A hoard of the finest Scotch whisky ever made - the legendary Dalziel Double Proof - goes missing.2023. Albie, youngest son of the wealthy Dalziel family, vanishes. His desperate mother turns to Robbie Gould, a disgraced reporter with a reputation...
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    The Oracle
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    The Oracle

    Fears of a weaponized blockchain become reality when a software developer races to deactivate the rogue smart contract targeting him for assassination.Life is comfortable for a prominent, if schlubby, developer at a New York City blockchain company. That...
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  • NORMA
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    NORMA

    Widowhood and weirdos, online and off, NORMA is so dark it smarts.It's a terrible freedom to linger unaccounted for.Norma is waking up and cracking up. Decades of marriage, housekeeping, and family responsibility: buried with her husband Hank. Now, she's...
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    Honor the Dead

    Dr. Cate Spencer is back in this highly-anticipated third installment of the Dominion Archives Mysteries. It's been a few months since the events ofSpeak for the Deadand Dr. Cate Spencer is seeking a temporary reprieve in the bucolic Eastern Townships of...
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    The Book of Haatan
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    The Book of Haatan

    Occult detective Ariel Moravec investigates the theft of a mysterious grimoire.As Ariel Moravec starts her training as a magician and amateur sleuth, her studies are interrupted by the disappearance of what might well be a a powerful work of black magic...
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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.

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