Crime and True Crime books are very popular and should carry a warning as they are true stories of horrific inhumanity and cruelty. Truth is often stranger than fiction.
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EDGAR ALLEN POE Book Number: 58180 |
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This collection of Poe’s best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as 'The Pit and the Pendulum...
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JAMES MALCOLM RYMER Book Number: 64986 |
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With a new Introduction by Dick Collins. The exploits of Sweeney Todd, 'The Demon Barber of Fleet Street', have been recounted many times in plays, films and musicals, but the origins of the charac...
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SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Book Number: 31854 |
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Featuring the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast "with blazing eyes and dripping jaws" which roams the ...
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Book Number: 23793 |
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With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. After Sherlock Holmes's apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective...
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SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Book Number: 33873 |
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This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic adventure yarn, which ranges from the foggy, gas-lit streets of London to the burning plane...
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CAROL K. CARR Book Number: 85737 |
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Whether running a brothel or running from danger as a spy for Her Majesty, India Black knows how to use the tricks of her trade. This time she's off to Scotland to ensure that the Queen doesn't en...
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MALIN PERSSON GIOLITO Book Number: 87152 |
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"Lying next to the left-hand row of desks is Dennis...from Uganda. He says he's 17, but he looks like a fat 25 year old... Samir and I are in the same class because Samir managed to be accepted to ...
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DEAN KOONTZ Book Number: 87530 |
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Dr Frankenstein lives on, seemingly indestructible, more sinister than ever. Terrifyingly, with each new incarnation, the technology he can use to build a new human race, which he will control, is...
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KARIN FOSSUM Book Number: 87987 |
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A 16 month old baby boy is found drowned in a pond very near his home. Chief Inspector Sejer is called to the scene as there is something troubling about the mother's story. As even her own family ...
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KARIN FOSSUM Book Number: 87989 |
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Charlo Torp has problems. He's lost his wife and his job, and now his gambling debts are driving his daughter away from him. On a wet, grey night in early November, he makes his way through the s...
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DICK FRANCIS Book Number: 87979 |
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Tim Ekaterin's merchant bank, like all banks, only invests in sure things. Now he is about to involve it in five million pounds of prime horseflesh - to fund a champion racing stallion stud called...
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SUE GRAFTON Book Number: 87239 |
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A companion to 87231 and 87233, this is the third in the exciting Alphabet series. Kinsey Millhone met Bobby Callahan in the gym on a Monday morning. His story was hard to credit - a murderous as...
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LAURENCE ANHOLT Book Number: 88284 |
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Buddhism, love, art and murder, welcome to the world of the Mindful Detective. When a famously narcissistic performance artist is found floating in a tank of formaldehyde at her own private view, ...
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HARLAN COBEN Book Number: 88177 |
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Life isn't going well for Myron Bolitar. His business is struggling and his father has recently suffered a heart attack when, out of the blue, Myron's college sweetheart Emily appears. Her 13 yea...
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DAVID DICKINSON Book Number: 86315 |
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Lord Francis Powerscourt investigates the case of the dissolute and dead aristocrat. Master of the Hunt, the 15th Earl of Candlesby, has come to lead his riders once again, but this time he comes ...
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OLIVER HARRIS Book Number: 87679 |
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DC Nick Belsey is less celebrated. He can't shake his habit of getting into serious trouble, and his career at Hampstead CID is coming to a dishonourable end. He is currently of no fixed address,...
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GREGG HURWITZ Book Number: 88362 |
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Chance - that's me, the youngest Rain brother, and right now I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. More specifically, tied up and kidnapped. My captors? We call them Drones, and they serve the...
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GREGG HURWITZ Book Number: 88369 |
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Sharing a room with criminals is an occupational hazard for probation counsellor Daniel Brasher. He's ready to move on, looking forward to leaving it behind for good - that was at least the plan u...
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FRANCES FYFIELD Book Number: 88379 |
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Someone has stolen the only person John Smith has ever loved, his twin brother Cannon. Johnny will stop at nothing to get him back, but Cannon doesn't feel the same way anymore. He's married now ...
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EDWARD WILSON Book Number: 88457 |
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It is 1982 and both the British Prime Minister and the Argentine President are clinging to power. Having ignored the warning bells ringing in the South Atlantic for months, Britain finds itself in ...
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GREGG HURWITZ Book Number: 88551 |
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Set includes The Rains, Tell No Lies, Don't Look Back and Last Chance. Buy all four paperbacks and save even more.
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HARLAN COBEN Book Number: 88181 |
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Investigator and sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big-time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from...
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HARLAN COBEN Book Number: 88189 |
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Myron Bolitar once had a promising career as a sportsman, until an accident forced him to quit. After a spell in the FBI, he now runs his own sports agency business. He is asked to find a missing...
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SANDRONE DAZIERI Book Number: 88215 |
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A darkly compelling thriller which was a European bestseller and a Richard & Judy Book Club pick. Dante Torre spent 11 young years in captivity held by a man known only as The Father before outwit...
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HARLAN COBEN Book Number: 88241 |
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Myron Bolitar might have a slightly dubious past, but he knows just how to handle himself and is doing just fine as a sports agent. Then he meets Brenda Slaughter, one of the hottest female sports...
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ROBERT OLEN BUTLER Book Number: 88446 |
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It is autumn 1915 and World War I is raging across Europe, but Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches. However this hasn't stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to ...
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CARO RAMSAY Book Number: 88587 |
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In the attic of a deserted tenement, the body of a criminal is found hanging with his face horribly disfigured. Investigating officers DI Anderson and DS Costello believe he was a suspect in the d...
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ALEX MARWOOD Book Number: 88607 |
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"An absolutely gripping, ripped-from-the-headlines psychological thriller", this was a word-of-mouth bestselling debut. One fateful summer morning in 1986, two 11 year old girls meet for the first...
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SIGRID NUNEZ Book Number: 88857 |
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Ann Drayton and Georgette George meet as freshmen roommates at Barnard College in 1968. Ann, who comes from a wealthy New England family is bright and idealistic. Georgette, who comes from a bleak...
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MIKE RIPLEY Book Number: 88784 |
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A tense, dramatic and thrilling story with lashings of suspense and mystery, less of a Whodunnit than a How can they survive this? There are wartime classics about the Arctic convoys like HMS Ulys...
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