Books: - Crime, Mystery & Thriller

Judith Cutler

Lina Townend, the orphaned natural daughter of somebody, somewhere, has been in care all her life. For the first time, at nineteen, she’s pretty happy, living with kind-hearted antique dealer Griff, who combines the roles of grandfather and employer. But there is still something mis...
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When Major Mearns receives a large delivery, he knows it is the beginning of something unusual ... Inside the sacking are two human legs.  The legs belong to one of Mearns's fellow soldiers, and the deliveries of body parts continue.  Major Mearns and his mate Sergeant Denny need...
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Laurie R King

Shortlisted for the Kobo eDunnit Award Returning to their tranquil Sussex home, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes discover a beautiful rock mysteriously planted in the flower bed – a rock they last saw in the Emperor’s garden in Tokyo. Perhaps the dangerous investigation they c...
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Rebecca Tope

The latest in the Cotswold Mystery series sees Thea Osborne agreeing to do a second spell of house-sitting for Lucy Sinclair, in her new home in Northleach. Lucy is scheduled for an operation on her back in Oxford and needs Thea to look after things for a few days. Thea is glad of the chan...
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Jacqueline Winspear

April, 1933. To the costermongers of London, Eddie Pettit is simply a gentle soul with a near-magical gift for working with horses. When he is killed in a violent accident, the costers are skeptical about the cause of his death, and recruit Maisie Dobbs to investigate. Maisie, who has k...
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