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On holiday in Cornwall, Poirot meets a pretty young woman with an unusual name, Nick' Buckley.Upon discovering a bullet-hole in Nick's sun hat, the great detective decides the girl needs his protection. He also begins to unravel the mystery of a murder that hasn't...

The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: a Mafia-like organization calledand Odessa, a real-life fugitive known at the "Butcher of Riga", a young German journalist turned obsessed avenger...and ultimately, of a brilliant, ruthless plot to reestablish the worldwide power...

'There's a body in Lost Nation.' But the line goes dead before Chief Inspector Armand Gamache can question the caller.The head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec has no idea where Lost Nation is, or who woke him in the small hours of...

and and and and The first fall of snow can be fatal…A year has passed since DI James Walker cracked his biggest case yet, and he's hoping for peace and quiet this festive season.But across the fells, a local farmer returns home on Christmas...

The apparent suicide of his policeman brother sets Denver crime reporter Jack McEvoy on edge. Surprise at the circumstances of his brother's death prompts Jack to look into a whole series of police suicides, and puts him on the trail of a cop killer...

The instantand Sunday Timesand and Kindle #1 bestseller!A triple murder.A mother, her daughter and a family friend, are brutally killed at Kellon Manse one quiet summer's day.A young girl disappears and has not been seen since.One suspect.All fingers point to the husband of one...

In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Morck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive when he realizes that a new case...

Private Detective Lew Archer doesn't believe in coincidences…A forest fire has mysteriously broken out in the hills above southern California. Meanwhile, Lew Archer has been asked by a desperate mother to find her six-year-old son. Instead, he discovers the boy's wealthy father, murdered, and...

Evening draws in; families reunite, fires are lit, curtains snapped shut. But what is hiding in the shadows beyond the warm living-room glow, where the light won't reach? And what surprises will creaks in the night bring on Christmas morning?Weaving together celebrated stories of...

THE HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR PICK,and EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE*'Clever, satisfying, impossible to put down and gloriously inventive. It's fantastic'and STUART TURTONSIX WRITERS. FIVE DETECTIVES. FOUR DAYS. THREE WEAPONS. TWO MURDERS. ONE TRAIN . . .When the...

A gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller . . . What a glorious sunset song' -and The GuardianIt is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness....

The murder of women priests in Norfolk's spooky shrine town of Walsingham draws forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway into a thrilling new adventure. A must-read for all crime fiction fans, especially addicts of Ann Cleeves'and VERAand books and TV series.'Ever-more ingenious detective stories with...

Death Writ Large by Susie Dent is a linguistic mystery set in Oxford, where strange symbols begin appearing as graffiti around the city. Lexicographer Martha Thornhill recognizes the symbols as part of an alphabet created by a deceased writer whose papers she once worked...

London's scared. A killer haunts the city's streets. The poor are hungry; crime bosses are taking control; the police force stretched to breaking point.While the rich turn to Sherlock Holmes, the celebrated private detective rarely visits the densely populated streets of South London, where...

Bob Saginowski finds himself at the centre of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.