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The Chameleon's Shadow Author: Minette Walters
ISBN: 9781741755985 When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. He begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, and especially his ex-fiancee. After his injurie ... |
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God's Spy Author: Juan Gomez Jurado
ISBN: 9780752893242 In the days following the death of Pope John Paul II, 115 cardinals are called to the Vatican in order to take part in the conclave and elect the new Pope. With Rome under siege to foreign press and thousands of mourners, the last thing it needs is a serial killer on the loose...Paola Dicanti is a profiler who works wi ... |
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Blow Fly Author: Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: 9780751530742 After her resignation as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and the horrifying events which threatened her life in THE LAST PRECINCT, Kay Scarpetta has abandoned her elegant home in Richmond and is quietly living in Florida, beginning to get some balance back in her life and slowly establishing herself as a private fore ... |
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Dead Man's Footsteps Author: Peter James
ISBN: 9780330446136 Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed with a sound like a shovel smoothing gravel. She breathed in the smell of someone else's perfum, and lemon-scented cleaning fluid. The lift jerked upwards a few inches. And now, too late to change her mind and get out, with the metal walls pressing in around her, they lunge ... |
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Devil's Food Author: Kerry Greenwood
ISBN: 9781741147100 If there's one thing that Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, can't abide, it's people not eating well - particularly when there are delights like her very own, just-baked, freshly buttered sourdough bread to enjoy. So when a strange cult which denies the flesh and eats ... |
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Grotesque Author: Natsuo Kirino
ISBN: 9780099488934 Two prostitutes have been murdered in Tokyo. Yuriko had been working as a prostitute all her life, starting while still at school, where her stunning beauty compensated for what she lacked in intellect. Kazue worked for a blue-chip company. She chose to walk the streets at night where she hoped to get noticed. How and ... |
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Cursed Author: Carol Higgins Clark
ISBN: 9781416562177 Private Investigator Regan Reilly moved from Los Angeles to New York City when she married her husband, Jack no relation Reilly, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad. To help a friend she ends up taking on a case that calls her back to her old stomping ground... Cursed opens on a cold and gray January morning. Sleet and ... |
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Fatal Lies Author: Frank Tallis
ISBN: 9781844136957 The eagerly awaited third novel in the Max Liebermann series -- literature's first psychoanalytic detective -- is about sex, the will to power and deception. Vienna, 1903. In the rambling hillside edifice that is St. Florian's military school, a young cadet is found dead, his body lacerated with razor wounds. Once ... |
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The House Sitter: AND Upon a Dark Night Author: Peter Lovesey
ISBN: 9780751540147 The House Sitter The identification of the woman found murdered on Whiteview Sands poses more questions than it answers. Emma Tysoe was a respected psychologist and an official criminal profiler with several successful cases to her credit. Peter Diamond is brought into the investigation to shed some light on the matte ... |
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Born in Death Author: J.D. Robb
ISBN: 9780749937157 Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers - both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm - are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn't leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her best-friend Mavis, but that's supposedly what friends are for. Now Ma ... |
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Buried Author: Mark Billingham
ISBN: 9780751537246 Luke Mullen, sixteen-year-old son of a former high-ranking police officer, has disappeared, presumed kidnapped. While no-one quite dares to voice the fear that he could also be presumed dead, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is brought in to beef up the squad dedicated to locating the missing boy. The first thing the tea ... |
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Blue Shoes and Happiness Author: Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN: 9780349117720 Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to Mma Ramotswe's door seem, if anything, to have multiplied, and no sooner has s ... |
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The Visitor Author: Lee Child
ISBN: 9780553811889 Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook had a lot in common. Both high flying army women, both victims of sexual harassment, they left the army under dubious circumstances. Both are now dead, their bodies discovered, unmarked and unscarred, in their own homes. Jack Reacher, former US military policeman, loner ... |
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Body Double Author: Tess Gerritsen
ISBN: 9780553815030 Returning home from Paris, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles is greeted by a nightmarish scene. Slumped in a car in her driveway is a dead woman, a gunshot wound to her head. Cops and neighbours stare at her as she approaches and when Maura looks into the car, she understands why. The body on the front seat is her mi ... |
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Uniform Justice Author: Donna Leon
ISBN: 9780099415176 A young cadet is found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy. As Brunetti investigates, he faces a wall of silence as the military protects its own, and civilians are unwilling to talk. Is this the natural reluctance of Italians to involve themselves with the authorities, or is Brunetti facing ... |
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Run for Your Life Author: James Patterson
ISBN: 9781846052651 A fast-paced, exciting sequel to the best-selling powerful thriller, Step on a Crack. Detective Michael Bennett is back and the race is on to catch a deadly killer terrorising New York. The Teacher has a meticulous and calculated plan. Cold-hearted and cunning, no one knows who he is or where he came from. Until now ... |
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From Potter's Field Author: Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: 9780751530469 Christmas had never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta. Although a holiday for most, it always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's violent fringe and that usually means more work for Scarpetta, Virginia's Chief Medical ExaminerI. The body was naked, female and found propped against a fount ... |
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Strangers in Death Author: J.D. Robb
ISBN: 9780749908706 Technology may be different in 2060 New York, yet the city is still a place of many cultures and great divides. But as ever, some murders receive more attention than others - especially those in which the victim is a prominent businessman, found in his Park Avenue apartment, tied to the bed - and strangled - with cords ... |
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The Unknown Terrorist Author: Richard Flanagan
ISBN: 9780330423557 Gina Davies, aka The Doll, is a 26-year-old pole dancer at the Chairman's Lounge in Sydney's Kings Cross. She's a flawed woman, racist, obsessed with money, who finds her life suddenly being destroyed by the things she has up until that moment most firmly believed in. The evening of the Mardi Gras, 2007. Three unexplod ... |
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Cross Bones Author: Kathy Reichs
ISBN: 9780099441496 'Death by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head' is the on-scene assessment, but the victim's relatives are adamant in their rejection of suicide as an explanation. Discovered in a closet, a week after death, the body is barely recognisable. Extreme heat has accelerated decomposition, and Dr Temperance Brennan's for ... |