Posts Tagged ‘mystery’
Hardcore Twenty-Four
The blockbuster Stephanie Plum series continues as this Jersey girl hits hard – twenty-four seven. Print run 1,000,000.
Read MoreThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
“This collection includes many of the most familiar cases Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson ever solve, including “Silver Blaze,” “The Greek Interpreter,” and “The Musgrave Ritual.” As Holmes’s fame grows, it brings him a notoriety that piques the ire of London’s criminal underworld, who begin to scheme against him. It is in “The Final Problem”…
Read MoreThe Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime
A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn’t like to be told what to do. And, in crime…
Read MoreThe Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
Gathers stories of the gaslight era which feature the exploits of criminals rather than the detectives solving the cases, including such authors as E.W. Hornung, Arnold Bennett, and Edgar Wallace.
Read MoreThe Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign spies, blackmailers, cultists, petty thieves, murderers, swindlers, policemen (both stupid and clever), and his arch-nemesis Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes, together with his faithful…
Read MoreLet Darkness Bury the Dead
It is November 1917. Initially, in the loyal Dominion of Canada, people are mostly eager to support the Motherland and fight for the Empire, but the carnage is horrendous and with enforced conscription, the enthusiasm for war is dimming. William Murdoch is a widower, a senior detective who, thanks to the new temperance laws, spends…
Read MoreShetland 2 White Nights
WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD 2017White Nights is the second title in Ann Cleeves’ Shetland crime series featuring Detective Jimmy Perez.NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMAWhen Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognizes the victim…
Read MoreThe Glass Room (Vera #5)
WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD 2017″One of the best natural writers of detective fiction” Sunday ExpressDI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation so she has more tolerance for them than most. When one of them goes missing…
Read MoreMoth Catcher (Vera #7)
WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD 2017″One of the best natural writers of detective fiction” Sunday ExpressLife seems perfect in Valley Farm, a quiet community in Northumberland. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist named Patrick, to look…
Read MoreCold Earth (Shetland #7)
Cold Earth is the seventh book in Ann Cleeves’ Shetland series – a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall.In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Lerwick-Sumburgh road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez…
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