Posts Tagged ‘mystery’

The next thrilling installment in the Harry Hole series. The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring…

Harry Hole returns in the eleventh installment of the author’s bestselling, electrifying crime fiction series–published in 48 languages, more than 30 million copies sold worldwide. In Police–the last novel featuring Jo Nesb�’s hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective–a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him.…

OVER 33 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE ‘Nesbo sets a cracking pace… A series of spectacular plot twists leads to a thrilling finale’ Guardian THE MARK OF THE DEVIL, THE SIGN OF A KILLER… A young woman is murdered in her flat and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is found…

“A real murder, a real family and a brand new crime fiction heroine are woven together to make a fascinating, and highly enjoyable, read. I loved it.” – Julian Fellowes, creator and writer of Downton Abbey and Belgravia Set amid the legendary Mitford household, a thrilling Golden Age-style mystery, based on a real unsolved murder,…

In the eleventh installment of the bestselling and Arthur Ellis Award-winning Ava Lee series, Ava uncovers an international terrorism conspiracy rooted in a college in Tawi-Tawi.

When Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is invited by Doreen Briggs, one of Charleston’s most prominent hostesses, to a oRat Tea,o she is understandably intrigued. As servers dressed in rodent costumes and wearing white gloves offer elegant finger sandwiches and fine teas, Theo learns these parties date back to early twentieth-century Charleston to promote…

GAME OVER is the twenty-seventh gripping Bob Skinner mystery from crime master Quintin Jardine, author of HOUR OF DARKNESS, LAST RESORT, PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS and many more. When supermodel Annette Bordeaux is found battered and strangled in her Edinburgh flat, former Chief Constable Bob Skinner’s old team instantly have a global case on their hands. The…

When her family–the owners of Aunt Pat’s barbeque–is accused of murdering a prominent restaurant critic for the Cooking Channel, Lulu Taylor will stop at nothing to get them out of hot water even if it means grilling possible suspects. Original.

The sixth book in the James Runcie’s much-loved series, which has been adapted for Masterpiece’s Grantchester starring James Norton, sees full-time priest, part-time detective Sidney Chambers plunged back into sleuthing when he discovers a body in a bluebell wood. It is May 1971 and the Cambridgeshire countryside is bursting into summer. Attending to his paternal…

It’s the summer of love in late 1960s England. Basil D’Oliveira has just been dropped from the English cricket team before for a test series in apartheid South Africa; the war in Biafra dominates the news; and the Apollo 11 astronauts are preparing to land on the moon. In the midst of all this change,…