Mystery

Belinda Rapley / Scout and the Mystery of the Marsh Ponies

Alice and her beloved pony, Scout, are on a winning streak. But Scout is only on loan to Alice and his success hasn't gone unnoticed... When Scout's mysterious owner Mrs Valentine suddenly puts him...

Amanda Flower / Because I Could Not Stop for Death

January 1855 Willa Noble knew it was bad luck when it was pouring rain on the day of her ever-important job interview at the Dickinson home in Amherst, Massachusetts. When she arrived late,...

Enid Blyton / Five On Finniston Farm

Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timothy. Together they are THE FAMOUS FIVE - Enid Blyton's most popular adventure series. All 21 titles also available as audiobooks! In book eighteen, the Famous...

Jasper Fforde / The Big Over Easy (Hardback)

It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is...

Susanna Jones / The Missing Person's Guide to Love (Hardback)

Isabel, Owen and Julia were childhood friends. But when they were fifteen, Julia disappeared without a trace - an event that had a devastating impact on the others. Years later, Isabel returns to her...

Peter Dickinson / The Yellow Room Conspiracy (Hardback)

Gerry falls in love with Nancy, and his brother, Paul, falls for her sister, Lucy. Both women marry others, but they are destined to come together. Nancy asks Gerry to partner with a property magnate...

Sarah Dunant / Fatlands (Hardback)

It's not the most glamorous job in the security world, chaperoning rebellious teenager Mattie. But Hannah is being paid a lot to do it: more than it's worth, until, that is, she discovers that...

Mary Higgins Clark / on the street where you live (Large Paperback)

La abogada Emily Graham se ha comprado una casa. No una casa cualquiera, sino una casa antigua que perteneció a sus antepasados, los cuales la vendieron en 1892 cuando Madeleine, la heredera,...

Jean-Francois Parot / The Nicolas Le Floch Affair

Paris, 1774. Commissioner Le Floch's stormy love affair with socialite Julie de Lasterieux has run its course but before Nicolas can formally end the relationship, Julie is found murdered in her bed,...

Donald Thomas / Dancing in the Dark

Written by the author of "Jekyll, Alias Hyde" and "The Ripper's Apprentice", this crime story is set in the underworld of the late 1940s. "Pretty Boy", Johnny McIver, cashiered officer and gentleman...

Gillian Cross / The Dark Behind the Curtain

Colin Jackus is angry because he has been forced into being in the school play; but gradually he begins to realize it is not just a play: the sinister old story they are acting out has its roots in...

Thomas Mullen / Midnight Atlanta (Hardback)

Midnight Atlanta is the stunning new novel in the award-nominated, critically acclaimed Darktown series, and sees a newspaper editor murdered against the backdrop of Rosa Parks' protest and Martin...

Dean R. Koontz / Sole Survivor (Hardback)

A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead- no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter. A...

Enid Blyton / The Secret Seven (Hardback)

The Secret Seven are siblings Peter and Janet, and Jack, Barbara, Pam, Colin and George. Together they are The Secret Seven - ready to solve any mystery, any time - in Enid Blyton's classic series of...

Jim Butcher / Skin Game (Hardback)

Chicago wizard Harry Dresden must help a hated enemy, Nicodemus Archleone, break into a high security vault to steal something belonging to the Lord of the Underworld.     This book is second hand,...

Jim Butcher / Cold Days (Hardback)

Following his death by a mystery assailant, Harry Dresden, Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness, must gather his friends and allies, prevent the annihilation of countless innocents,...

Marianne MacDonald / Faking it (Hardback)

Dido must investigate a dirty conspiracy stretching back over many years before she can find out the truth. Untangling this dangerous mess requires the help of her father and friends - as well as...

David Lozell Martin / Cul-de-Sac (Hardback)

A new novel of violence and suspense from the author of LOVE ME TO DEATH, BRING ME CHILDREN and LIE TO ME     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Catriona McPherson / A Step So Grave (Hardback)

'McPherson's wit has been compared to that of PG Wodehouse or Nancy Mitford, and her finely researched and choreographed narratives to the work of Agatha Christie... an absolute delight... these are...

Mark Daniel / Jack the Ripper

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Julia Lee / Nancy Parker's Diary of Detection

On this day 24th June 1920 I turned fourteen. I plan to have a very exciting future now that I have thrown off the SHACKLES of SCHOOL! A detective is what I would most like to be. I cannot think of...

Margaret Ryan / The Catsup High Detective Agency

Malarkey dipped his claws in some ink and wrote out a poster. He put it in his office window. VACANCY FOR ASSISTANT CAT DETECTIVE MUST BE HARD WORKING AND NOT EAT MUCH SPECIAL POWERS AN ADVANTAGE...

Colin Harrison / Risk

George Young, a world-weary insurance lawyer in New York City, has taken his fair share of knocks and bruises in the business of credit, bankruptcy, and fraud cases. One Friday he receives an unusual...

James Webb / Lost Soldiers

Brandon Condley survived five years of combat in Vietnam as a marine only to lose the woman he loved to an enemy assassin. Now he is back, working to recover the remains of unknown American soldiers...

Alan Drew / Shadow Man (Large Paperback)

An explosive serial killer thriller perfect for readers of Lee Child, Karin Slaughter and Michael Connelly. Southern California, 1986. Detective Ben Wade has returned to his hometown in search of a...

Josh Russell / Yellow Jack (Large Paperback)

In this "luminously haunting" ("Entertainment Weekly") portrait of decadence, Claude Marchand becomes hopeless entangled with both a voodoo-adept mistress and the erotically precocious daughter of a...

Elizabeth Speller / The Strange Fate Of Kitty Easton (Large Paperback)

When former infantry officer Laurence Bartram is called to the small village of Easton Deadall, he is struck by the beauty of the place: a crumbling stately home; a centuries-old church; and a...

Joe Gores / Spade and Archer (Large Paperback)

When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favours, and no way for anyone to get underneath the protective shell he wears like a...

Mons Kallentoft / Midwinter Sacrifice (Large Paperback)

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A. J. Skelly / Murder at Mistlethwaite Manor (Large Paperback)

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Lindsey Davis / The Jupiter Myth: (Falco 14) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

For Falco, a relaxed visit to Helena's relatives in Britain turns serious at the scene of a downtown murder. The renegade henchman of Rome's vital ally, King Togidubnus, has been stuffed head-first...

Richard North Patterson / The Outside Man (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Set in Alabama, society lawyer Adam Shaw is married to the beautiful Kris Ann who has bound him to a life he despises and her father, Roland Cade, his senior partner and rival. When Shaw discovers...

Simon Nicholson / Young Houdini: The Demon Curse

Young Houdini: The Demon Curse is the second book in the electrifying Young Houdini series. New Orleans, 1886. When the city's mayor is struck down by a terrifying, unexplained illness, whispers of...

Nigel West / Murder in the Commons (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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Gerald A. Browne / Hazard (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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Meg Gardiner / Mission Canyon (Older Edition Small Paperback)

After a hit-and-run accident leaves a friend dead, Evan Delaney wants justice. But she underestimates the power of the person responsible. When the witnesses begin dying one by one, Evan is...

Andrew M. Greeley / Virgin and Martyr (Older Edition Small Paperback) (1)

Catherine Collins was the belle of her upper-middle-class Catholic clique on Chicago's North Shore, whose struggles to find herself led her to a stormy career as a nun, a disastrous marriage, a stint...

Andrew M. Greeley / Virgin and Martyr (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Catherine Collins was the belle of her upper-middle-class Catholic clique on Chicago's North Shore, whose struggles to find herself led her to a stormy career as a nun, a disastrous marriage, a stint...

John Gilstrap / At All Costs (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Jake and Carolyn Donovan head the FBI's list of the "Ten Most Wanted" for a crime they didn't commit. For 14 years they have lived under assumed names, moving to new towns when necessary. Jake gets...

Tom Sharpe / Wilt (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Wilt is given to elaborate and vindictive fantasies about his wife, the massive, domineering Eva. But when Eva becomes a Missing Person, following an embarrassing incident at a party they both...

Richard Condon / Prizzi's Family. (Older Edition Small Paperback)

We join the Prizzis who are under seige by the Electronic Church and George F. Mallon, a mayoral candidate running on a platform of a corruption-free New York.   The picture shown is the actual book...

John Matthews / Past Imperfect (Older Edition Small Paperback)

An investigation and legal battle that spans three decades and two continents. Dominic Fornier is the French detective who finds himself at the heart of the case, which takes him from a sleepy rural...

Steve Martini / Prime Witness (Older Edition Small Paperback)

In the space of five days the college town of Davenport is rocked by four brutal murders: two couples - students - their bodies found tied and staked out on the banks of Putah Creek. Then two more...

Paul Brown / The Rocketbelt Caper

'We finished the rocketbelt, and from then on there was murder, kidnapping, and all kinds of other stuff'. When three friends set out on a quest to build a real-life Buck Rogers-style flying machine,...

Ellis Peters / The Will and the Deed (Older Edition Small Paperback)

When legendary diva Antonia Byrne's will is read, it contains some unpleasant surprises for her nearest and dearest - none of them get quite what they were expecting. When the mourners become...

Andrew M. Greeley / Ascent Into Hell (Older Edition Small Paperback)

When Hugh Donlon chooses the priesthood over his love for Maria Manfredy, he begins a series of events that will see him become disillusioned and disgraced as well as wealthy and powerful -- with a...

George Dawes Green / The Caveman (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Romulus Ledbetter has discovered a frozen corpse outside his front door. A fairly unusual circumstance as it is - but even more so as Romulus' front door is a cave in Central Park. A former musical...

Ellis Peters / A Rare Benedictine (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Peters has gained worldwide praise for her meticulous re-creations of 12th-century monastic life. Here, her chronicles continue with a Christmas story, a tale of robbery and attempted murder, and a...

Michelle Spring / Running for Shelter. (Older Edition Small Paperback)

For Laura Principal, PI, and her partner Sonny, business is flourishing—until, at the home of a wealthy client, Laura leaves a cherished photograph in the hands of a Filipina maid. Within 24 hours...

Laura Rowland / The Samurai's Wife (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Sano Ichiro, special investigator to the shogun, discovers that he needs the help of his new wife Reiko more than ever after he finds himself embroiled in a case involving a sinister murderer.   The...

James Patterson / The Thomas Berryman Number (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Three terrifying murders in the South culminate in a relentless manhunt in the North that centers on a ruthless assassin, the woman he loves, and the beloved leader he is hired to kill with extreme...

Andrew M. Greeley / St. Valentine's Night (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Top television investigative reporter Neal Connor finds romance and danger when he returns to his hometown of Chicago on assignment and reunites with his childhood sweetheart, the recent widow of his...