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Mystery - Thriller
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The Tenth Case
Joseph Teller
July 2009 Book of the Month.
An American legal thriller with a difference for it stars a clever but disillusioned man who has the feel of an Old Bailey hack to him. He...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/07/2009
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson
July 2009 Book of the Month.
One of the major success stories to recently come out of Sweden. It’s the second part of the Millennium Trilogy which began with The Girl With...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/07/2009
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Gauntlet
Richard Aaron
July 2009 Debut of the Month.
Exhilarating Action, clever plotting and a bunch of real characters make this debut simply sensational. It’s a brave author makes an autistic savant the hero of a...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/03/2009
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Even
Andrew Grant
July 2009 Debut of the Month.
James Bond and Jason Bourne better hope they don’t meet ex Royal Navy intelligence officer David Trevellyan, the new character created by Birmingham born novelist Andrew Grant,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2009
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Killer Year
J T Ellison, Jason Pinter
The story One Serving of Bad Luck by Sean Chercover is shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger 2009.
The second crime/thriller anthology from Mira. This time edited by Lee Child and the stories all come from new upcoming writers,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/06/2009
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Mammoth Book Of Best British Crime
Two stories from this collection (Served Cold by Zoë Sharp and Mother's Milk by Chris Simms) are shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger 2009. You may read both of them by downloading the extract.
A collection of 35 short...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/03/2009
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Dead Spy Running
Jon Stock
This is billed as the first in a trilogy but Daniel Marchant is such a charismatic character surely there will be more to come after that? The book opens with Daniel, a suspended MI6 officer, and his girlfriend running the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 25/06/2009
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Written in Bone
Simon Beckett
Simon Beckett is shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library 2009 - the prize awarded for an author's body of work.
A thrilling, twisted story with the resolution both expected and unexpected but the finale is a complete surprise –...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2008
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Echoes from the Dead
Johan Theorin
Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2009.
One of the next big names to come out of Sweden. This thriller concerns a missing child with the mother returning to the scene 20 years later. It is complex with fluctuating time...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
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Shadow
Karin Alvtegen
Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2009.
Having already won several prizes in her homeland of Sweden, Alvtegen is now making waves further afield. This slow-burning, psychological thriller builds to a suspense-filled and surprising ending. Stick with it, you won’t be...
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/02/2009
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Blood from Stone
Frances Fyfield
A powerful and imaginative thriller, Fyfield builds the tension brilliantly to the final pages. When a tough, successful female barrister is found dead, apparently a suicide, the police make it an open and shut case but others are not convinced...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/06/2009
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Blood Law
Steven Hague
Zac Hunter is back in his second outing as the ex-cop, now Private Investigator. This thriller sees him drawn in to the gangland world of LA and it’s just as gritty and hard hitting as his previous novel, Justice...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/07/2009
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Switch
Grant Mckenzie
Terrific, you’ve got to read this one. It’s a race-against-time thriller with a husband/father forced to commit crimes (including murder) to protect his kidnapped wife and child. Talk about warped, especially when you find out why! The emotions, both good...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
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Still Midnight
Denise Mina
One of Lovereading's favourite authors, Ian Rankin, describes Denise Mina as "one of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years". Although she has written several novels she has yet to get that big break, but...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2009
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Dead Tomorrow
Peter James
Peter James is shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library 2009 - the prize awarded for an author's body of work.
At Lovereading we have been following, and have loved all of the DI Roy Grace books from Peter James...
Format: Hardback - Released: 11/06/2009
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Bone By Bone
Carol O'connell
Small-town America full of strange characters and a bucket-load of secrets. One does wonder if such a small town could contain so many wacky people and secrets but who cares, it works! The narrative is calm, almost understated, no histrionics,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/07/2009
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Kill For Me
Karen Rose
This follows on from Die For Me and Scream For Me, both of which I urge you to read, but you can start here and be hooked. It’s got the lot: rape, murder, abduction, paedophilia and more. Within...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/07/2009
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Too Close to Home
Linwood Barclay
With the runaway success of last year’s No Time for Goodbye expectations have been high for Barclay’s next novel and luckily he
doesn’t disappoint. When the Cutter’s neighbours are all shot dead in
their home, one night, the Cutter family find...
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/07/2009
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A Simple Act of Violence
R J Ellory
April 2009 Book of the Month.
R J Ellory is shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library 2009 - the prize awarded for an author's body of work.
This is a big book...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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The Victoria Vanishes
Christopher Fowler
Bryant and May, like Holmes and Watson, Morse and Lewis or Poirot and Hastings are a detailed and engaging pair. This time they investigate a murder in connection with a pub that does not exist. Part fascinating London history, part...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/07/2009
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The Death Maze
Ariana Franklin
Ariana Franklin is shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library 2009 - the prize awarded for an author's body of work.
An extremely gripping tale on two levels, one historical, one crime mystery, and a worthy follow-up to her prize-winning,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/04/2009
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Raven Black
Ann Cleeves
Winner of the 2006 Duncan Lawrie Dagger.Bestselling novelist Val McDermid is spot on in her quote for this cleverly crafted crime story - 'A riveting read. Ann Cleeves probes...
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Silent in the Grave
Deanna Raybourn
This is the first in a new series of which we hope there are plenty more to come. Lady Julia Gray finds herself becoming an amateur detective after private investigator...
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Silent in the Sanctuary
Deanna Raybourn
Another instalment of the Victorian set crime novels. Once again Lady Julia Grey and Nicholas Birsbane find themselves thrown together in their investigative ways when a murder occurs at Julia’s...
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Flesh House
Stuart Macbride
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 12 February 2009.
The fourth book from an author who deserves to be up there with the big names. A gloriously gory...
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The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Exlusive Limited Edition. Barcelona, a city of secret police and secret love. In it a
bookseller’s son finds a forgotten novel and stumbles upon a mystery as
all copies of...
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Trust Me
Jeff Abbott
June 2009 Book of the Month.
Jeff Abbott keeps getting better and better. You will feel agitated and filled with a sense of...
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Paying for It
Tony Black
Edinburgh lowlife, crime, drugs and people trafficking but this is no Rebus replacement. This is tough, bad and highly dangerous, very violent, very cruel and very compulsive. It features a...
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Gutted
Tony Black
Following on from the gritty Paying For It there is no let up on the bleak and violent world that Gus Dury finds himself pulled in to. With very...
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Silent on the Moor
Deanna Raybourn
If you like a bit of romance thrown in with a good mystery then this series by Deanna Raybourn fits the bill. Our heroine, Lady Julia Grey, finds herself following...
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The Brass Verdict
Michael Connelly
Lawyer, Jerry Vincent is murdered leaving his client list to his
down-on-his-luck colleague, Mickey Haller. Haller thinks his time in
the spot light has come as one of his newly acquired clients...
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The Library of Shadows
Mikkel Birkegaard
A literary conspiracy thriller where a secret society of people, using an antiquarian bookshop as their headquarters, is infiltrated by a member out to misuse their power, for these people...
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The Stolen
Jason Pinter
Henry Parker is back in this third thriller from Jason Pinter. Henry is sent on an exclusive interview to interview a child, Daniel, who has mysteriously returned to his family...
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White Nights
Ann Cleeves
Setting a detective novel in the Shetland Isles is a stroke of genius in itself as a close knit community such as that is the last place you would expect...
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Revelation
C J Sansom
Revelation is the next instalment in the marvellous Matthew Shardlake series. This time Shardlake is hunting a serial killer who seems to be inspired by The Book of Revelation. Sansom...
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Thirty-three Teeth
Colin Cotterill
This is very special. It is the second in a series which you will enjoy on its own but appreciate a lot more if you read the first too (
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The Coroner's Lunch
Colin Cotterill
There will be comparisons to Alexander McCall Smith’s No.1 Ladies Detective Agency but this new series is different in many ways. The fascinating thing is that the books are...
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The Watcher
Brian Freeman
One of those lovely, psychological thrillers that harks back to an early case, digging up all sorts of surprises. I cannot praise it enough. It is the author’s fourth starring...
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Vision in White
Nora Roberts
The first of a new quartet from Nora Roberts (the Bride Quartet). Four female friends have formed a successful wedding planning business but, unfortunately, their own love lives do not...
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The Last Child
John Hart
With the success of Down River expectation for John Hart's new novel is high so take the opportunity to read the first chapter of The Last Child and you...
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Immoral
Brian Freeman
This debut novel from Brian Freeman will send a shiver down your spine with excitement at having found another great crime novelist to compare with the likes of Patterson...
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Stalked
Brian Freeman
An escaped murderer is out to wreak revenge on the woman who had him locked away, she just happens to be Selena Dial the private eye companion of Jonathan Stride....
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Stripped
Brian Freeman
Brian Freeman’s second novel keeps up the standard of his first with this chilling, suspense novel. Having moved to Las Vegas Stride finds life very different from Minnesota and the...
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Nothing To Lose
Lee Child
Jack Reacher arrives in a small American town called Despair, adjacent to Hope! Made welcome by the powers in charge, he joins up with a woman police officer to find...
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Curse of the Pogo Stick
Colin Cotterill
Dr Siri is back this time finding himself kidnapped while on a road trip with the Justice department. Meanwhile his new nurse and fiancé are trying to figure out who...
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Anarchy and Old Dogs
Colin Cotterill
Another wonderful, whimsical, humorous and magical tale featuring the ancient chief coroner of Laos and his bunch of eccentric colleagues, here with a plot to overthrow the government to be...
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Disco for the Departed
Colin Cotterill
Another outing for the sleuthing pathologist, Dr Siri. The great thing about these novels is the old fashioned crime solving, mixed with a little of Dr Siri’s supernatural skills, and...
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City of the Sun
David Levien
An exceptional first novel by a Hollywood scriptwriter, a gripping, horrifying, unputdownable story of abduction, murder and parental despair. It introduces ex-police officer turned private detective Frank Behr who is...
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Exposed
Alex Kava
The sixth book to feature FBI profiler Maggie O’Dell, here facing a seemingly impossible case for the killer is using a deadly virus as his weapon. It’s dark, gruesome and...
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A Quiet Flame
Philip Kerr
Bernie Gunther returns this time finding himself on a journey to South America where not only refugees from the Second World War have fled but also the Nazi’s trying to...
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Tomb of the Golden Bird
Elizabeth Peters
The latest in this fantastic series and if you haven’t read the earlier novels it is advisable to go back and start at the beginning as there are lots of...
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No Lovelier Death
Graham Hurley
The latest instalment from Graham Hurley sees Faraday and Winter pitted against each other in another fantastic police procedural. Gruesome murders and crime lords with grudges bring more crime to...
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Skin
Mo Hayder
It might be advisable to read Ritual before you read Skin as there are certain plot follow-ups to Ritual in this book. Mo Hayder is a writer who...
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The Reapers
John Connolly
There are returning characters in this fast-paced, action packed thriller, from John Connolly, but you don’t need to have read previous novels to enjoy this one. The Reapers of the...
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From Aberystwyth with Love
Malcolm Pryce
More from the ‘king of Welsh noir’ Pryce brings us another delicious mix of crooks and conmen told with his wry wit and slight nod to the absurd and Louie...
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Mystery Man
Bateman
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 17 June 2009
A gripping and blackly funny mystery. A bookshop manager becomes a reluctant private eye after the real private eye's business...
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