Crime whodunit: the latest news
27 Jan 2011
Adaptation of The Mystery of Edwin Drood will hit TV screens later this year
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18 Jan 2011
The Conan Doyle estate commissions screenwriter Anthony Horowitz to pen new mystery
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06 Jan 2011
Author Tim Newark claims reputation of father of organised crime was heavily inflated
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17 Dec 2010
Undershaw said to be the last physical link to the Sherlock Holmes creator
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18 Oct 2010
The Millennium trilogy author aided a Marxist liberation group for a year
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11 Oct 2010
Brother of late author says unpublished manuscript for book four exists
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09 Sep 2010
"Delicious Death" is a chocolate-rich 'assault on the senses' inspired by A Murder is Announced
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01 Sep 2010
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo author has "substantial" impact
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13 Aug 2010
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo author is e-favourite
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10 Aug 2010
Finalists revealed in Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2010
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21 Jul 2010
A Sir Arthur Conan Doyle expert is campaigning to save the author's home.
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19 Jul 2010
Melissa Hill has branched out into crime fiction
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14 Jul 2010
A new instalment could be added to the popular Millennium series.
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13 Jul 2010
The crime writer extraordinaire has shed some light on the genre at a literary festival in Devon.
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25 Jun 2010
The author of Raven Black and Hidden Depths has returned to Devon to teach pupils at her secondary school about writing.
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23 Jun 2010
Barrister Paul Genney has enjoyed great success with his first novel, Pleading Guilty.
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02 Jun 2010
The author of the popular Bernie Gunther crime series is alleged to have lambasted a historian's latest book online following a series of bad reviews.
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01 Jun 2010
Henning Mankell is one of nine Swedish nationals captured by Israeli Commandos.
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24 May 2010
Arthur Conan Doyle's first ever book, A Study In Scarlet, is to be auctioned off at Sotheby's
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21 May 2010
Martina Cole's tale has been longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award 2010.
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This month's 'featured books'
Debuts of the Month
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The River Woman
Sorrel Pitts
May 2012 Debut of the Month.
'A fascinating story told by a very promising writer.' Sir Michael Parkinson.A young woman is found half frozen to death on a remote farm and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/09/2011
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The Light Between Oceans
M. L. Stedman
May 2012 MEGA Debut of the Month.
What a brilliant and memorable debut. Superb characters, heart-rending plot and, set on an island 100 miles from Australia, a uniquely beautiful setting. After the horrors...
Format: Hardback - Released: 26/04/2012
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Please Don't Stop the Music
Jane Lovering
Winner of the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2012 and the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel Award 2012.
Sarah Broadhurst's comment...
'“My congratulations to Jane Lovering for winning the Romantic Novel of the Year with Please Don’t Stop the Music (Choc...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2011
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The Playdate
Louise Millar
May 2012 Debut of the Month.
This gripping contemporary thriller will have you turning the pages, and re-evaluating people you call friends. How do you know whether it’s dangerous to leave your children...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2012
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This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Month
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Rome : The Eagle of the Twelfth
M. C. Scott
M. C. Scott makes these ancient landscapes jump off the page, with bold and brutal storylines inhabited by touchingly real and compelling characters. After a particularly bloody and catastrophic defeat, the ill-fortuned Twelfth Legion loses its treasured eagle. It is...
Format: Hardback - Released: 24/05/2012
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Rome : The Coming of the King
M. C. Scott
The second in an excellent Roman historical series following the adventures of the very real Sebastos Pantera, who in AD 65 was Emperor Nero's most trusted and most effective spy. These books are meticulously researched and bring to life the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2012
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Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
May 2012 MEGA Book of the Month.
With her dazzling, utterly absorbing style of writing Bring Up the Bodies focuses on the downfall and destruction of the charismatic Anne Boleyn. This is the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 10/05/2012
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I Left My Tent in San Francisco
Emma Kennedy
May 2012 Travel Book of the Month.
Startlingly honest and ridiculously funny, I Left My Tent in San Francisco is the miraculous story of how the hapless pair made it back alive to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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This month's 'featured books'
eBooks
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What You Don't Know
David Belbin
Bone & Cane, MP and ex-con - and ex-lovers - make for an interesting crime fighting partnership, even better when it's brilliantly set in the late 1990s and the New Labour experiment. Second in the series sees Bone promoted to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2012
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The Perfect Location
Kate Forster
Rose Nightingale is an Australian actress still recovering from a bad marriage. Sapphira De Mont is the world's most beautiful movie star, but hides a secret addiction and a broken heart. Calypso Gable is a young star on the rise...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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All That I Am
Anna Funder
May 2012 Debut of the Month.
An historical 'flash-back' novel based on the life of the author's friend. It recounts the challenges faced by German emigres living abroad during the rise of Hitler...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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Manhattan in Reverse
Peter F. Hamilton
In 1998 Peter F. Hamilton, the master of space opera and top ten bestselling author, published his first collection of short stories in A Second Chance at Eden. Thirteen years later he returns to short fiction with a new collection....
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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This month's 'featured books'
Author of the Month
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15 Seconds
Andrew Gross
May 2012 Book of the Month.
If you love fast-paced, topical thrillers that you simply can't put down, then Andrew Gross and especially 15 Seconds is a great place to go. Pulled over...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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Killing Hour
Andrew Gross
The jaw-dropping unputdownable new novel from the guy who co-authored five No. 1 James Patterson bestsellers including Judge and Jury and Lifeguard. Now a bestselling novelist in his own right with hit thrillers The Blue Zone and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/04/2011
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Reckless
Andrew Gross
Hauck has left law enforcement for a job with a big-time private security firm. But he quickly learns that life in the private sector can be every bit as dangerous as wearing a badge - if not more so...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Don't Look Twice
Andrew Gross
A revenge killing. A dead public attorney. And a family caught in the cross-fire. For local detective Ty Hauck, life is good. A waterfront house, a new girlfriend and, after uncovering a Wall Street scandal, he's even a local hero....
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/05/2009
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This month's 'featured books'
The School of Life
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How to Thrive in the Digital Age
Tom Chatfield, School of Life
What is the new digital technology doing to us and the people around us? Is it good for us or can it have negative effects, leaving us cocooned in our own little worlds, no longer engaging with each other in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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How to Find Fulfilling Work
Roman Krznaric, School of Life
How to know what you want to do, how to set about achieving your goal and how to sort out your need for certainty or money or is freedom of choice , with all the risks that involves, the most...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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How to Stay Sane
Philippa Perry, School of Life
Mental health is every bit as important as physical health and Philippa Perry explains the brain, how we organise our minds and the ways we can improve our mental agility and creativity but also help to deal with stress and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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How to Change the World
John-Paul Flintoff, School of Life
On our own, can we make a difference? Of all six books, this was the one I was drawn to most, the examples of change, one person at a time, are inspiring and thought-provoking. John-Paul Flintoff also looks at the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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