“Where a good crime can be had by all”
ISSUE #292 MAY 2010
AUSTRALIAN
TRUE CRIME
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MODERN CRIME David BALDACCI William Peter BLATTY
Deliver Us From Evil Dimiter 304pp Tp $32.99
Jeff ABBOTT 400pp Tp $32.99 It is the 1970s. When American agent
Adrenaline 480pp Tp $32.99 In South America, a Dimiter escapes from torture in an Albanian
Sam Capra #1. Sam Capra – brilliant CIA agent wealthy 96-year-old prison to complete a mysterious mission,
– loses everything that matters to him in a man dies, leaving a the scene shifts to Hadassah Hospital in
horrifying moment in London. An unknown trail of secrets behind Jerusalem. There we meet the Christian-
enemy has set him up as a traitor. But that him. Six months later Arab police detective Peter Meral, the
enemy has targeted the wrong man. Escaping in Provence, Shaw troubled but humorous neurologist Dr
from the CIA, Sam goes on a desperate hunt witnesses a murder Mayo, the attractive and sharp-tongued
for the killer who kidnapped wife and child. and barely escapes the nurse Samia, and an assortment of American
But the destruction of Sam’s life is only the incident himself. Then and Israeli functionaries and hospital staff
first step in an extraordinary plot. (American) he realises that there – all who become enmeshed in a series of
Due May is another rival secret unexplainable deaths. (American)
Jane ADAMS organisation at work. Andrew BLOSSOM (Ed)
Resolutions 224pp Hb $49.95 Meanwhile, half a world away, journalist Katie
Richmond Noir 290pp Pb $29.99
Rina Martin #4. James is working on a new story. But shortly
Akashic Noir. The
When DI ‘Mac’ after meeting with a potential inside source,
River City emerges
McGregor came to she’s unconscious and on a plane to an
as a hot spot for
Frantham, he was a unknown destination… (American) Due May
unseemly noir. This
broken man – guilt- Robert BARNARD volume includes
ridden at the death The Graveyard Position brand-new stories
of a child he had 288pp Pb $19.99 by Dean King, Laura
tried to save from a After a 20-year absence, Merlyn Cantelo Browder, Howard
killer had escaped. returns to Leeds to attend his late Aunt Owen, Yazmina
But he found Clarissa’s funeral. He is unwelcome, especially Beverly, Tom De
friendship there, in since his reappearance has thwarted the Haven, X C Atkins,
the shape of Rina prospect of a tidy inheritance. To complicate Meagan Saunders,
Martin’s strange matters, the teenage Merlyn only fled his Anne Thomas Soffee,
little household, home at the insistence of his clairvoyant aunt, Clint McCown, Conrad Ashley Persons, Clay
and romance with CSI Miriam Hasting. But who foresaw his life blighted by violence McLeod Chapman, Pir Rothenberg, David
now his past is catching up with him. There and death. To discover whether his aunt’s Robbins, Hermine Pinson, and Dennis
are new leads in the child-killer case, and fears were justified, Merlyn must delve into Danvers. (American) Due May
Mac rejoins the hunt – only to become the the murky history of the Cantelo family… S J BOLTON
hunted… (English) Due May (English) Blood Harvest 432pp Tp $32.95
12-year-old Tom
KEY to crime genres and his family have
just moved to a
Suspense Thriller Romantic Suspense small town, and
Tom begins seeing
a mysterious child
Feline Detectives Police Procedural lurking around the
nearby churchyard.
Psychiatrist Evi
Forensic BI
F is trying to treat
a young woman
Political/Legal Cosy/Malice Domestic haunted by the
disappearance of
her daughter. A
Military Journalists devastating fire burned down their home, but
she is convinced her daughter survived. Harry
is the town’s new vicar, quickly befriended
Spy Private Eye by the locals. But unusual events around the
church suggest he isn’t entirely welcome
– and that this odd little town harbours a
Banking Psychological terrifying secret. (English) Due May
Stephen BOOTH
The Kill Call 544pp Pb $24.99
Canine Clerical On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, the body
of a well-dressed man is discovered by
hounds from the local foxhunt. Called in to
investigate, detectives DS Diane Fry and DC
Culinary/Food Medical Ben Cooper are entangled in the world of
hunting, horse theft and a little-known sector
of the meat trade. As Fry tries to unravel
Sport Horse Racing the shady business interests of the murder
victim, Cooper realises that the answer to the
case might lie deep in the past… (English)
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Tp = Trade Paperback (slightly larger)
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Alan BRADLEY Elizabeth Lynn CASEY
The Weed that Strings the Death Threads 288pp Pb $12.95 Exit of Big Crime Boss,
Hangman’s Bag 368pp Tp $32.99 Southern Sewing Circle
Mystery #2. Yankee
Peter Milne
When a grisly murder
transpires during a librarian Tori Sinclair is
Having turned 70 in April, our treasured
travelling puppeteer’s basking in the warmth
crime expert Peter Milne has reluctantly
performance of Jack of her new circle of
scaled back his indispensable activities here
and the Beanstalk friends from South
at Abbey’s to two days per week.
in the village hall, it Carolina’s ‘Sweet Briar
reaches back to an Ladies Society’ sewing On 2 February next year, Peter will have been
earlier crime centring circle. That is until local with Abbey’s Bookshop for 40 years – and there
on an ancient, rotting author Colby Calhoun have been times when Abbey’s would have
gibbet that has lain reveals an unflattering fallen over if not for his invaluable efforts!
like a shadow over secret about the town’s Peter is a Life Member of the Australian
the village of Bishop’s historic past – and then Bookseller’s Association and will continue
Lacey for years. For Flavia, undoing the disappears, leaving to attend bookseller meetings, and spread
complex knot tying these strands together a bloody trail behind him. So when Tori his enormous bookselling knowledge and
will test her precocious powers of deduction detects a pattern of the townsfolk’s age-old experience.
to the limit! (English) Due May Southern pride standing in the way of justice,
Joan BRADY
she knows it’s time to unravel the mystery.
(American) Due May
Eve Abbey
Venom 480pp Tp $32.99
Recently released from prison, David F J CHASE
Marion averts death from a hit-man and – Bargain with the Devil
forewarned that a secret organisation is after 320pp Pb $14.95
him – goes into hiding. Meanwhile, physicist Peter Avakian #2. Security consultant and
Helen Freyl accepts a job offer from a giant Special Forces-trained Peter Avakian becomes
pharmaceutical company that seeks a cure snarled in a complex plot to stage a political
for radiation poisoning. But she soon doubts coup in central Africa. He turns to the CIA for
her employers’ motives, after the mysterious help – and is forced to become their mole
and sudden death of a colleague is followed inside the conspiracy. It’s all Avakian can
by another. David and Helen are brought do to stay alive, in a world where nations
together as they fight for their lives against a battle over oil supplies, drug dealers finance
backdrop of industrial espionage, corporate revolutions, and gunrunners sell themselves
greed and human tragedy. (English) Due May to the highest bidder. (American) Due May
Alafair BURKE Barbara CLEVERLY Peter Milne, our esteemed crime bookseller (right),
City of Lies 448pp Tp $32.99 Strange Images of Death with bestselling crime author Lee Child during his
When New York University student Megan 320pp Hb $46.95 recent tour of Australia.
Gunther is murdered after receiving threats Joe Sandilands #8. Provence, 1926. Scotland
on a campus website, NYPD Detective Ellie Yard detective Joe Sandilands is on leave,
Hatcher suspects the girl’s murder was more driving south to the Riviera while dropping PETER’S TOP 10
than just cyber obsession. Then phone off his niece at an ancient chateau in
the Luberon hills. But a crime has been After much deliberation, Peter chose the
records reveal a link between Megan and a
committed at the chateau, and Joe stays following (alphabetical by author):
murdered real-estate agent who was leading
a double life – and even more suspiciously, on to root out the murderer. Despite Joe’s The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin #1)
who was connected to a celebrity mogul vigilance, a child goes missing and an artist’s by Boris Akunin (Pb $22.99)
whose bodyguard was killed a few months beautiful young model is murdered in Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher Mystery #1)
earlier. Then Megan’s roommate disappears, circumstances eerily recreating a 600-year- by Kerry Greenwood (Pb $22.95)
and she must be found before it’s too late… old crime of passion. To solve the murder, Joe Death at la Fenice (Guido Brunetti #1)
(American) Due May must delve into a horror story from the past. by Donna Leon (Pb $24.95)
(English) Due May Belshazzar’s Daughter (Inspector Ikmen #1)
Tom CAIN
Michael CONNELLY by Barbara Nadel (Pb $19.99)
Assassin 528pp Pb $21.95
Samuel Carver #3. When a people-trafficker The Scarecrow 428pp Pb $22.99 The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
and a money-launderer are violently killed, Forced out of the Los (Precious Ramotswe #1)
Angeles Times amid by Alexander McCall Smith (Pb $22.99)
both incidents bear
the hallmarks of Sam the latest budget The Broken Shore by Peter Temple (Pb $23.95)
Carver. But someone cuts, newspaperman A Presumption of Death
is setting Carver up. Jack McEvoy decides (Return of Lord Peter Wimsey #2)
And now his old to use his final days by Jill Paton Walsh & Dorothy Sayers
paymasters at MI6 at the paper to write (Pb $19.99)
want him stopped. A the definitive murder The Ice House by Minette Walters (Pb $19.95)
copycat killer wants story of his career. He Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs #1)
to beat Carver at his focuses on Alonzo by Jacqueline Winspear (Pb $22.99)
own game, by hitting Winslow, a 16-year-old The Taint of Midas (Hermes Diaktoros #2)
the world’s most drug dealer in jail after by Anne Zouroudi (Pb $23.99)
prominent target: confessing to murder. Jack soon realises that
the President of the Winslow’s so-called confession is bogus. Jack Of course Peter also added that he was forced
United States. Alone is soon running with his biggest story yet, to leave out many other favourites, including
and on the run, Carver will have to use all his and now he must track a killer who operates Stieg Larsson, Robert B Parker, Kathy Reichs....
cunning and tradecraft to stop his deadly completely below police radar. (American) the list goes on!
opponent. (English) Due May Due May
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David CRISTOFANO Diane Mott DAVIDSON Patricia DUNCKER
The Girl She Used to Be Fatally Flaky 432pp Pb $14.95 The Strange Case of the Composer
288pp Pb $22.99 Goldy Schulz #5. When and His Judge 272pp Tp $29.99
When Melody was six, she and her parents local physician Doc New Year’s Day,
witnessed an act of violence so brutal that Finn dies in a tragic 2000. Hunters
the federal government lured them into the car accident, Goldy on their way
Witness Protection Program. 20 years later Schulz and her father home through a
and still on the run, she’s stunned when Jack suspect that forest in the Jura
a Mafioso man named Jonathan Bovaro Doc was murdered stumble upon a
accosts her and calls her by her real name. because of the half-circle of dead
Feeling safer in the hands of the mob than research he was bodies lying in
the Justice Department, can Melody trust her doing at the local the snow… and
life and identity to this stranger whose acts of spa – allegations a leather-bound
violence are legendary? (American) Due May that are confirmed book, written in
when Jack himself code, containing
Neil CROSS
is attacked. Goldy must don chef’s whites maps of the
Captured 256pp Tp $32.99 to go undercover at the spa, and find the stars. The Judge,
With only weeks to
clever killer who’s watching her every move. Dominique Carpentier, leads the investigation
live, Kenny wants to
(American) and has encountered this suicide sect before.
find his childhood
P T DEUTERMANN The pursuit begins. But has Carpentier met
friend Callie Barton
her match in the Composer? (Jamaican)
and say goodbye. Nightwalkers 336pp Pb $14.95
Due May
But when Kenny Following an
begins his search, he eventful detective Barry EISLER
realises that Callie career, Cam Fault Line 352pp Pb $14.95
has gone missing. searches for Alex Treven has sacrificed a lot to become a
Although cleared of peaceful pastures in partner in his high-tech law firm. So when
any involvement, her the North Carolina the inventor of a technology that Alex is
husband Jonathan countryside – banking on is murdered – and when Alex
seems to be hiding only to uncover himself barely escapes an attack in his own
something. Kenny has no choice but to mischievous pranks home – he turns to his estranged brother
take matters into his own hands. And he’s upon his 700 acre Ben, an undercover soldier paid to eliminate
prepared to do whatever it takes... (English) land – once the site targets in the US ‘war on terror’. To survive the
Due May of a Civil War-era forces arrayed against them, they will need to
massacre. When the survive one another… (American) Due May
Lila DARE
pranks turn hostile,
Tressed to Kill 304pp Pb $14.95 Conor FITZGERALD
Cam realises he’s being targeted by a killer
Southern
who holds him responsible for a crime he did
The Dogs of Rome
Beauty Shop Mystery
not commit. Now Cam must draw upon all 400pp Tp $29.99
#1. St Elizabeth, When an animal rights activist is brutally
of his resources to stay alive as he becomes
Georgia, offers killed, the victim’s widow is an elected
entangled in a place suddenly alive with its
charm, Southern member of the Senate, and the case is given
bloody past… (American) Due May
hospitality and special priority. Chief Inspector Blume, well
– most recently Gary DISHER acquainted with the Rome’s underworld,
– murder. When The Wyatt Butterfly: knows from experience that even a murder
hairdresser Grace Port Vila Blues (1995) / enquiry must bow to the rules of political
Terhune and her The Fallout (1997) expediency. But when he uncovers disturbing
mother, Violetta, 480pp Tp $32.95 procedural shortcuts sanctioned by his
gussy up all the Port Vila Blues: Wyatt snatches the cash easily superior, Blume takes matters into his own
high-society ladies enough. He bypasses the alarm system, hands, risking life to see justice done.
attending the town eludes the cops, but can he make it safely (English) Due May
meeting, they find their snobbiest client back to his bolthole in Hobart? Helen FITZGERALD
dead. The police believe the mother-daughter
duo did her in. But before things get snarled
The Fallout: Wyatt is stranded on a boat with The Devil’s Staircase
policewoman Liz Redding and a fortune in 224pp Pb $19.95
beyond repair, Grace sets out to clear their
stolen gems. After his escape, he triggers a Bronny – a young
names. (American) Due May
manhunt… but who exactly is hunting him? Australian – finds
Elizabeth DARRELL (Australian) Due May herself down and
French Leave 224pp Pb $27.95 out in London. She’s
Vicki DOUDERA
Max Rydal Military Mystery. During an intense a sheltered girl,
A House to Die For
heatwave, the West Wiltshire Regiment who has spent her
engages in a military exercise – but at its
336pp Pb $27.00
teenage years in a
Darby Farr Mystery #1. Realtor Darby Farr
conclusion, Private John Smith goes missing. fearful bubble. She’s
escaped her stifling hometown to build a new
Smith’s sergeant is adamant he’s gone AWOL, never taken drugs,
life, but a phone-call sends her back to the
but then the Special Investigation Branch had sex or killed
small Maine island to close a multimillion-
receive a chilling anonymous phone call. anyone. Within six
dollar sale. It all seems like a simple deal until
Military detectives Max Rydal and Tom Black weeks she’s done
a local scuttles the sale and one buyer is
are called in to investigate – and then Dan all three. A group
found hacked to death. Facing a huge storm,
Farley, the new Platoon Commander, also of backpackers break into an abandoned
a desperate buyer and a dangerous former
disappears… (English) Due May London townhouse seeking a rent-free life
Navy SEAL, Darby must piece together the
of debauchery. They don’t realise someone’s
puzzle and stay alive. (American)
already there: a terrified woman bound and
gagged in the basement… (Australian)
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Brian FREEMAN Carol GOODMAN Reginald HILL
The Burying Place Arcadia Falls 400pp Tp $32.99 Midnight Fugue 400pp Pb $24.99
416pp Pb $19.99 For 200 years, painters, poets and musicians Dalziel & Pascoe
Jonathan Stride #5. In a quiet town in have come to the mountain village of Arcadia #22. Gina Wolfe is
Minnesota, a baby vanishes from her Falls to pursue their artistic visions. When searching for her
bedroom. It looks like abduction, but Meg Rosenthal gets an offer to teach at missing husband,
Lieutenant Jonathan Stride suspects that Arcadia College, it seems a godsend, and she and thinks
the baby’s father has a great deal to hide. hopes Arcadia Falls will be a place where she Superintendent
That same night, a young policewoman and her daughter can find peace. But the Dalziel can help.
stumbles into the middle of a horrific crime college conceals deceit, betrayal, and murder. What neither
– an encounter that will draw a sadistic killer And Meg begins to fear that Arcadia Falls realise is that
right into her midst. Meanwhile, deep in the has put herself and her daughter in danger. others are on
woods, a shallow grave conceals a secret that (American) Due May the same trail: a
Stride and his team must unearth before time tabloid hack; an
Mitchell GRAHAM
runs out… (American) Due May MP’s secretary;
Dead Docket 432pp Pb $14.95
a ruthless
Barbara FREETHY Adams & Delaney #2. Katherine Adams and
entrepreneur;
In Shelter Cove 384pp Pb $14.95 John Delaney have settled into a long-
and two henchmen. Four stories, two
The theft of three priceless paintings sent distance relationship. He’s a streetwise
mismatched detectives, and 24 hours in
Derek Kane to prison and destroyed the ex-NYPD detective turned lawyer, and she’s a
which to figure it out! (English) Due May
dreams of his wife, Brianna. When Derek hotshot Atlanta lawyer. When a policeman’s
dies just weeks before his release, Brianna daughter is killed in a horrific accident in Matt HILTON
returns to Angel’s Bay, determined to prove Atlanta, John goes to settle her affairs and Slash and Burn 368pp Pb $24.99
her husband’s innocence and find the missing get some much-needed time with Katherine. Joe Hunter #3. When Kate Piers asks Joe
paintings. Her efforts are stymied by Jason But the dead woman’s past is disturbing, and Hunter to help find her missing sister, Joe is
Marlow, the police officer who sent Derek to her death was far from accidental. (American) obliged to assist when he realises that she
jail. When unexpected passion flares between Due May is his former comrade-in-arms’ sister. During
Brianna and Jason, she must choose between their search, Joe and Kate are attacked by
Elly GRIFFITHS
truth and lies… (American) Due May thugs, acting on behalf of local businessman
The Janus Stone 320pp Tp $32.95
Robert Huffman – who is linked to organised
Elizabeth GEORGE Forensic archaeologist
crime and a deadly reputation with a blade.
This Body of Death Ruth Galloway is called
Huffman is also looking for Kate’s sister, and
608pp Tp $32.99 in to investigate the
kidnaps Kate to act as bait. Looks like Joe is in
#16. DI Thomas discovery of a child’s
trouble again… (English)
Lynley is on leave skeleton – minus
after his wife’s the skull – during a Reece HIRSCH
murder, and Isabelle building demolition. The Insider 336pp Pb $14.95
Ardery is brought Was it a ritual sacrifice? The colleague of
into the Met as When it turns out the corporate attorney
his temporary building was once a Will Connelly hurtles
replacement. When children’s home and to his death outside
the discovery that two children went his office window,
of a dead body missing 40 years earlier, and within days, Will
offers Isabelle the Ruth is drawn ever more deeply into the is a prime suspect in a
chance to make her case… But someone is trying very hard to put murder, the target of
mark, persuading her off the scent. (English) an SEC insider trading
Lynley back to work seems the best way to investigation, and a
Andrew GROSS
guarantee a result; Lynley’s team is loyal to pawn in a complex
Reckless 416pp Tp $32.99
him and she will need them on side. However, criminal scheme
Ty Hauck has left law enforcement, to work
operating under the scrutiny of the media, involving the Russian
for a private security firm. When a successful
Isabelle is quick to pin the murder on a mafia. And, to top things off, he must ensure
trader at one of Wall Street’s largest firms is
convenient suspect… (American) Due May a deadly enemy doesn’t gain access to the
murdered with his family, it seems a case of
nation’s most sensitive and confidential
Mark GIMENEZ burglary gone wrong. Then another financial
information… (American) Due May
Accused 448pp Tp $32.99 executive is found dead in a suspicious
Texan lawyer Scott suicide. As Hauck digs deeper, he uncovers Declan HUGHES
Fenney receives a financial conspiracy that stretches from City of Lost Girls 320pp Tp $32.99
a phone call from New York to Central Europe to London. And Ed Loy #5. There’s a killer on the loose in
his ex-wife, who the masterminds behind it are ruthless… LA, killing young girls and always in threes.
stands accused (American) Due May Meanwhile, Ed Loy is reunited with Jack
of murdering her Donovan, an LA film director. When the third
Danielle HERMANS
boyfriend and young female extra fails to show for work
The Tulip Virus 288pp Tp $32.99
implores Scott on Jack’s movie, Loy grows suspicious. And
Holland, 1636: The body of Wouter Winckel
to defend her. If when the previous victims of the ‘Three-in-
– a well respected tulip-trader and collector
Rebecca is found One Killer’ are discovered at locations that
in the United Republic of the Low Countries
guilty, she will be Jack used for his movies, Loy liaises with the
– is found slaughtered in an inn. London,
sentenced to death LAPD on their investigation. He must find
2007: Dutchman Frank Schoeller is found in
under Texan law. something in his and Jack’s shared past that
his home by his nephew Alec. Just before he
Scott must question everything he believes can point to the killer – and away from Jack.
dies, he points Alec to a rare 17th century book
to find the truth and save the life of the ex- (Irish) Due May
about tulips – a clue to his murder. With the
wife he still loves… (American) Due May help of Damien Vanlint, an antiques dealer
from Amsterdam, Alec sets out to solve the
mystery. (Dutch) Due May
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James HUSTON Paul JOHNSTON Michael KORYTA
Marine One 528pp Pb $18.95 Maps of Hell 416pp Pb $14.95 The Silent Hour
On his way to a secret meeting at Camp Matt Wells #3. Crime writer Matt Wells could 304pp Pb $23.99
David, the US President’s helicopter Marine never have conjured a plot this twisted – a Uninhabited for 12 years, the mansion
One crashes into a ravine, killing all aboard. secretive militia running sick brainwashing ‘Whisper Ridge’ once housed Alexandra
The US government accuses the French experiments in the Maine wilderness, with Sanabria’s unique program for paroled
helicopter manufacturer of killing the himself as a subject. He knows they’ve been murderers. Parker Harrison, a former parolee
President. Accusations multiply as Mike subconsciously feeding him instructions… at Whisper Ridge, has asked PI Lincoln Perry
Nolan – a trial attorney and Marine Corps but for what? Taunted by maddening to find Alexandra, who disappeared with her
reserve helicopter pilot – is hired to defend snatches of a life he can’t trust as his own, husband after the program failed. Reluctantly,
the company against a wrongful death Matt must piece it together… (Scottish) Due Perry agrees to take on the case. But when
lawsuit brought by the First Lady. (American) May the skeletal remains of Alexandra’s husband
Due May are discovered, Perry is confronted with a
Bruce Kennedy JONES &
Elise HYATT mystery that will challenge his abilities as a
Eric ALLISON
detective... (American) Due May
French Polished Murder Fat Blackmail 376pp Pb $19.95
304pp Pb $12.95 The anonymous anti-hero of The Last Straight Camilla LACKBERG
Daring Finds Mystery Face (Pb $19.95) returns to farewell his friend, The Stonecutter 480pp Tp $32.99
#2. Divorced mum, the South London armed robber Monty. But When a little
Candyce Dare is Monty has one last request. There’s money girl is found in a
the owner of the owing on a job, and he needs someone he fisherman’s net in
furniture refinishing trusts to make sure his soon-to-be widow the remote resort of
store called Daring Noriko gets it. It looks like a simple enough Fjällbacka, the post-
Finds. When she favour… except that Noriko has been mortem confirms the
discovers decades- kidnapped and the only person who can help incident as murder.
old letters inside an is a corrupt copper locked up in Strangeways It becomes the grim
antique piano that prison. (English) Due May task of recent father
she’s renovating, she and local detective
Mari JUNGSTEDT
becomes distracted Patrik Hedström
The Killer’s Art 320pp Tp $32.95
by an investigation to discover who
Chief Inspector Anders Knutas #4. Inspector
that puts her at odds could be behind the
Knutas is called to investigate the murder of
with the letter-writer’s very powerful local methodical murder of a child that both he
art dealer Egon Wallins. Recently divorced
family… (American) Due May and his partner knew well. (Swedish) Due May
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bludgeoned to death, with no sign of
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completely identical the discovery of a decapitated corpse in his
unfolds. (American) Due May
twin sisters, whom not son’s empty apartment catapults him into
even their husbands a police enquiry full of contradictions. In
can tell apart. And his desperation to clear Ala’s name, Omar’s
when one of the mobsters is found with investigations place him at the heart of a
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was the best Tourist of all. Milo has spent the who’s recovering from his own girlfriend’s forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy and DCI
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elusive killer known as ‘the Tiger’. But when sexual relationship, Leon moves her into his residents are wary of newcomers to the
the Tiger unexpectedly gives himself up, it’s flat, setting her up with a new career and Lancashire village, but one in particular – Jack
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in the world of skewed politics and extreme Margot could never manage without Leon… investigation. Then another name crops up:
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cats, Jill has her hands Lauderdale hair commit suicide on a
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her from wanting to can cost as much as and the following
solve the mystery of a car payment and a day the Home
the milk cow that’s blow-out can wipe Secretary receives a
gone missing from you out. But when letter, threatening a
her friend’s farm. But a famous husband massive loss of life
imagine her surprise of one of the salon’s if certain demands
when a stolen cow clients is murdered are not met. Maisie
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one dead body – the victim of cold-blooded hairy… (American) Due May Scotland Yard’s Special Branch as an adviser
murder… (American) Due May Tim WEAVER on the case, and becomes involved in a race
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A serial killer is terrifying enough, but when Mary Towne’s son, Alex, went missing six
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real thing. (American) Due May (English) Due May a commanding officer who attempted to
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challenge the corrupt man for control of the
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without regaining Adeline Cooper studying physics at
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Yellich are brought The second note is paths, and it doesn’t
in to investigate, a threat. The first help that Oskar
their inquiries reveal victim disappeared feels Sebastian
that the man was near Adeline’s has not lived up
looking into the hometown in to his intellectual
death of his brother – and the trail leads Mississippi, and capacities – having
them to a vindictive divorcée, who is involved she won’t be chosen marriage
with a deeply suspect finance company with the last. Believing she is the killer’s ultimate and fatherhood
connections to other unsolved murders… target, Adeline must meet face-to-face a over science. When Sebastian’s son is
(English) Due May killer who obsessively craves her death… kidnapped, his life unravels and the only
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his family arrive jewellery. The occupying French army has Hall’s menace long before she happens upon
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coronation, his battle against the Russian invasion – but Harriet persuades reclusive anatomist Gabriel
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snatched in the confusion. A ransom letter
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arrives from international criminal Dr Lind,
troubled young man was enlisting Mary and happiness means
demanding the handover of the Count Orlov
her husband Sherlock Holmes’ help again – remaining in Sparta
– an enormous diamond on the royal sceptre,
this time in a search for his missing wife and – but Lysander, head
which is due to play a part in the coronation.
child. Before this case is solved, Mary will find of the secret police,
But can Fandorin find Mikhail in time?
herself on the trail of a killer more dangerous needs her help to
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