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Crime / Whodunit
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nature Girl
Carl Hiaasen
This is slapstick satire where one chaotic situation bounces on to another. Full of wacky characters and improbable scenarios and set in the dangerous world of Florida’s ‘gator-strewn Everglades, it’s just the most ludicrous fun you’ll have for a long...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/10/2007
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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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Here you will find book reviews and 1st chapter extracts from the well-established crime writers like P D James and Ruth Rendell, creators of Dalgliesh and Wexford, Peter Robinson with Banks, the gritty like Ian Rankin's Rebus or the good double-acts like Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe, but try someone new like Christopher Fowler's wonderfully cantankerous Bryant and May or move into the country, the Peak District, with Stephen Booth or the West Country with Hilary Bonner. Maybe the Americans are your poison, Private Eyes like Sara Paretsky's V I Warshawski, tough guys like James Patterson's Alex Cross, or the thoughtful like Jeffrey Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme.
Perhaps hard-boiled crime noir is your area, Authors like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos, or you'd like to try someone new like a recent Crime Writers' Association John Creasy First Novel winner, Mark Mills.
You can order all our crime novels online at discounted prices.
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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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Finger Lickin' Fifteen
Janet Evanovich
More fun and mayhem from Stephanie Plum. More bounty hunting, more tangled love lives more general silliness and crime fighting. Fans will be glad of another chaotic episode and if...
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Homicide
David Simon
David Simon was the first investigative journalist to gain unlimited access to a homicide department and in this book brings us a fascinating and insighful piece of true crime writing....
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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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Fearless Fourteen
Janet Evanovich
All the old characters are back in the next Stephanie Plum adventure. More sleuthing, more comedic situations and more sexual tension brewing away. To be honest nothing incredibly new but...
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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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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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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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Scottsboro
Ellen Feldman
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009
Alabama 1931 and nine black youths fight with white ‘trash’ boys all riding illegally on a freight train. Two white girls cry rape....
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