Mystery

M.C. Beaton / Death of a Glutton ( A Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery)

 Her table manners were a crime. But she didn't deserve to die!There's not a cloud in Hamish Macbeth's sky - just plenty of warm sunshine but not quite enough of the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe. But as eight hopeful members of the Checkmate...

Sydney Horler / The Traitor ( British Library Thriller Classics)

 In Paris in August 1918, Captain Alan Clinton spent the night with a young Frenchwoman and disclosed British military 17 years later his indiscretion has disastrous consequences. First published in 1936, Horler's spy novel is now part of the...

Julia Buckley / Death with a Dark Red Rose

   Writer's apprentice Lena London is enjoying life in Blue Lake and being newly engaged, but is soon drawn into the terrifying disappearance of one of her closest friends....Lena is starting to feel like having it all may actually be...

Andrew Wilson / Death In A Desert Land

 The author of the “thrilling” (The Guardian) A Talent for Murder and A Different Kind of Evil returns with another stylish mystery starring the Queen of Crime Agatha Christie as she travels to the excavation of...

M.C. Beaton / Death of a Dentist

 From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A A Hamish Macbeth MysteryA blinding toothache sends Hamish Macbeth 120 miles out of Lochdubh to the dentist Frederick Gilchrist, only to find him dead. Since everyone is pleased the...

Vaughn Entwistle / The Dead Assassin : The Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to the scene of a gruesome crime. A politician has been assassinated and his attacker’s body is riddled with bullets. More perplexing, the dead assassin is discovered to have been hanged two weeks previously...

Ann Granger / Rooted in Evil ( A Campbell and Carter Novel)

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M.C. Beaton / Death of a Scriptwriter

 From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A A Hamish Macbeth Mystery HOLLYWOOD IN THE HIGHLANDSWith the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth pines for company during the...

Alexander McCall Smith / The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds ( An Isabel Dalhousie Novel )

 As a philosopher, mother, employer and resident of Edinburgh - the birthplace of moral philosophy - Isabel Dalhousie is aware that to be human is to be responsible. But morals, it turns out, are rather like clouds: complex, changeable and tricky to...

Colin Cotterill / Curse Of The Pogo Stick ( A Dr. Siri Investigation)

 Following a rash moment of insolence, Dr Siri Paiboun, Laos' reluctant national coroner, confused shaman and disheartened communist, is forced to go on a road trip with Judge Haeng and the Justice Department. While newly pregnant Nurse Dtui and Dr...

Peter Lovesey / A Case Of Spirits

 The spiritualist movement has captivated a segment of society: manifestations, the occult, and “sensitives” are in vogue. But the séance sites seem to be targeted for burglaries. Then, while Cribb is on the case, someone murders...

Lynn Shepherd / The Mansfield Park Murder

 This is a superb retelling of the Jane Austen novel in which the house at Mansfield Park becomes the scene of one murder after another. Here is a new and surprising Fanny Price: forthright, ambitious, scheming and downright untrustworthy. What...

Lynne Truss / A Shot in the Dark

 After the notorious 'Middle Street Massacre' of 1951, when the majority of Brighton's criminals wiped one another out in a vicious battle as the local police force enjoyed a brief stop en route for an ice cream, Inspector Steine rather enjoys life...

M.C. Beaton / Death of a Celebrity

 The 17th Hamish Mcbeth crime mystery, delightfully recovered and re-issued for all the fans of Agatha Raisin. Amazing news is spreading like wildfire across the Scottish countryside: the most famous of all Lochdubh, remotely nestling in the...

M.C. Beaton / Death of a Charming Man

 No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' Mail on Sunday Now that Priscilla Halburton-Smythe has agreed to marry him, Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth can't imagine a more perfect life. There's not much crime in his remote Scottish village of...

Janice Hallett / The Twyford Code

 It's time to solve the murder of the century... Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Wanting to know more, he took it to his...

M.C. Beaton / Death of a Policeman ( A Hamish Macbeth Novel)

 Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure. This presents the perfect opportunity for Detective Chief Inspector Blair, who would love nothing more than to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth. Blair...

Beaton M.C. / Hot to Trot

 Private Detective Agatha Raisin immerses herself in the glittering lifestyle of the fabulously wealthy when Sir Charles Fraith is accused of murder - and Agatha is named as his accomplice! A high-society wedding, a glitzy masked ball, and an...

Henrietta McKervey / A Talented Man

 In the vein of Sarah Waters and Patricia Highsmith, a master forger 'discovers' a sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula ... and will stop at nothing to claim his prize. Ellis Spender, only son of a once-esteemed society family, believes money, success...

Victoria Walters / Murder at the Village Church

 Nancy Hunter is on a mission to find her mother. Samantha Hunter walked out on her family and left the village of Dedley End over twenty years ago. For two decades, Nancy has thought her mother was dead…until she discovered she was spotted...

Edward Marston / Under Attack ( Home Front Detective Series )

 June, 1917. While German bombers raid London from above, a man's body is fished from the Thames below. With no identifying items or labels about his person, Detective Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy waste precious time struggling to name the...

M.C Beaton - Death of a Policeman / Death of a Ghost / Death of an Honest Man Hamish Macbeth Series ( 3 Book SET - BRAND NEW PB )

Three books from the hugely successful MC Beaton Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery series. - paperbacks, BRAND NEW, published by Constable UK  Death of a Policeman Detective Chief Inspector Blair seizes the perfect opportunity to try to get rid of...

Steve Higgs / The Kidnapped Bride (Large Paperback)

A cruise ship filled with gangsters, a missing woman, and a new head of security who can't do his job. What's a middle-aged sleuth to do?Patricia just wants to spend more time in the company of Alistair Huntley, the offensively handsome captain of the...

Miles Burton / Devil's Reckoning (Large Paperback)

An old family legend brings murders in its wake, and Inspector Arnold and Desmond Merrion encounter an array of eccentrics who only complicate matters.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Miles Burton / Death in a Duffle Coat (Large Paperback)

Two old ladies, Miss Price and Miss Marsland, lived together in the Lodge Cottage. Old Miss Price's death looked like a tragic she must have slipped and fallen in the icy yard of the cottage when, wearing a duffle coat against the cold, she went to fetch...

Sam Blake / The Mystery of Four (Large Paperback)

A brilliantly twisty country house-set thriller from the No. 1 bestselling author of Remember My NameTess Morgan has finally made her dream of restoring beautiful Kilfenora House and Gardens into a reality.But during rehearsals for the play that forms...

Mike Nicholson / Museum Mystery Squad and the Case of the Roman Riddle (Large Paperback)

Strange lights, eerie sounds -- something spooky is happening at the museum. The ghostly goings-on center on a dented Roman helmet. Could it be haunted? The Squad aren't convinced but what better place is there for a ghost to hide than in a museum full...

Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine & Leslie Meier / Gingerbread Cookie Murder (Large Paperback)

The strong scent of gingerbread is in the air in this collection of mystery novellas by a trio of whodunit specialists. The stories could scarcely be more different; Joanne Fluke's "Gingerbread Cookie Murder" involves the homicide of a neighbor whose...

James Wilson / The Dark Clue (Large Paperback)

The Dark Clue is James Wilson's brilliant recreation of the Victorian suspense novel, as the characters from Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White - Walter Hartright and Marian Halcombe - are involved in another dramatic and dangerous investigation,...

Frances Brody / Dying in the Wool (Large Paperback)

Take one quiet Yorkshire villageBridgestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook, rolling hills and a working mill at its heart. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens…Add a measure of mysteryUntil the day that Master of the Mill Joshua...

Michael Cox / The Meaning of Night - A Confession (Large Paperback)

A cold October night, 1854. In a dark passageway, an innocent man is stabbed to death. So begins the extraordinary story of Edward Glyver, book lover, scholar and murderer. As a young boy, Glyver always believed he was destined for greatness. This...

Alexander McCall Smith / In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (Hardback)

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Alexander McCall Smith / Chance Developments (Hardback)

From the bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes this splendid collection. Inspired by vintage photographs, these five lyrical stories capture the surprising intersections of love and friendship that alter life's journeys.A...

Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968)

An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited)  Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS -  The...

George Mann / The Affinity Bridge ( Slipcased ) (Signed 191/500)

George Mann / The Affinity Bridge (1 Book Boxset) (Signed 191/500) Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by new...

Alexander McCall Smith / Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party (Signed by the Author)

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Richard Osman / The Thursday Murder Club (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Jim Lusby / Crazy Man Michael ( McCadden Mysteries )

 An elite Murder Squad is about to be re-formed, and DI Carl McCadden is hotly tipped to lead the new unit. But then an old acquaintance, an undercover cop named Wallace, turns up with a bizarre story. While on undercover work, Wallace stumbled on a...

M.C Beaton - Death of Yesterday ( Hamish Macbeth Series) - PB - BRAND NEW

A dead witness. A forgotten crime. Hamish Macbeth never had it so hard as in this newest Highlands mystery!Morag Merrilea is working at the Shopmark Fashions factory during her summer holidays to earn some extra cash. But when the art student complains...

M.C Beaton - Death of a Policeman ( Hamish Macbeth Series) - PB - BRAND NEW

Death of a Policeman Detective Chief Inspector Blair seizes the perfect opportunity to try to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth when local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure...So Blair suggests that...

Kat Richardson / Underground

 In the cold of winter, Pioneer Square's homeless are being butchered, and zombies have been seen roaming the streets of the underground city buried beneath modern Seattle. Greywalker H arper Blaine is asked to investigate by her friend Quinton, who...

Frances Brody / A Murder Inside

   1969. A job in the Prison Service is not for everyone. The training is hard, the cells are dark and a thick skin is needed. But for Nell Lewis, helping prisoners is something she cares about deeply, and when she's promoted into a new post...

Rye Curtis / Kingdomtide

 The lives of two women -- the sole survivor of an airplane crash and the troubled park ranger leading the rescue mission -- collide in this "gripping" novel of tough-minded resilience (Vogue). The sole survivor of a plane crash,...

Kwok Jean / Searching for Sylvie Lee

   A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women-two sisters and their mother-in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family...

Mark McCrum / The Festival Murders

 "A marvellous set of unsavoury suspects" Mail on Sunday, Thriller of the Week "A rollicking read" Evening StandardBryce Peabody is ready to give a scandalous talk at the annual literary festival in the pretty English town of Mold-on-Wold...

Beth Miller / The Missing Letters of Mrs Bright

 You’ve met Mrs Bright. She’s that nice woman who lives three doors down and always smiles at you in the mornings. She’s planning her thirtieth wedding anniversary with her husband. She wants to travel, read endless books and take...

Valerie Geary / Crooked River (Large Paperback)

 With the inventiveness and emotional power of Promise Not to Tell, The Death of Bees, and After Her, a powerful literary debut about family and friendship, good and evil, grief and forgiveness. He is not evil. I am not good.We are the same: broken...

Connelly Michael / Desert Star (Large Paperback)

 LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch’s “white whale”—a man responsible for the murder of an entire family. Discover more thrilling Bosch mysteries in the original...

James Patterson, Candice Fox / Liar Liar (Large Paperback)

 Detective Harriet Blue is clear about two things. Regan Banks deserves to die. And she’ll be the one to pull the trigger. But Regan – the vicious serial killer responsible for destroying her brother’s life – has gone...

Rahul Raina / How to Kidnap the Rich (Large Paperback)

 An exhilarating and propulsive debut novel from an emerging talent—a fresh, bitingly hilarious, sweeping satire of modern-day India for fans of Aravind Adiga, Trent Dalton, and Mohsin Hamid. The first kidnapping wasn’t my fault. The...

Elizabeth Brundage / All Things Cease To Appear EXPORT (Large Paperback)

 Late one winter afternoon in upstate New York, George Clare comes home to find his wife murdered and their three-year-old daughter alone--for how many hours?--in her room down the hall. He had recently, begrudgingly, taken a position at the private...

Alex Hart / Take Me Home

 When struggling photojournalist Harper tries to return a dress she bought that morning for a job that's fallen through something catches her the same little girl who was waiting there that morning is still there. The sales assistant doesn't know...