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Crime Books And Whodunnit
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Relics of the Dead
Ariana Franklin
March 2010 Book of the Month.
This is the third in a seriously good medical crime series starring a feisty heroine, anatomist Adelia Aguilar. The first (a must read), Mistress of the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/03/2010
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Land of Ghosts
E V Seymour
March 2010 Book of the Month.
Paul Tallis returns this time to bring back an old friend it is feared has turned rogue agent. However, things are never that straight forward for Tallis...
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/03/2010
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The Warning Bell
Tom Macaulay
A story of espionage, secrets, murder and danger as a son attempts to uncover his father’s wartime past in a small village in Brittany. A cracking thriller, with a historical flavour. Very good.
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/03/2010
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The Edge
Chris Simms
Simms plunges DI Jon Spicer in to his most personal case. When his brother is brutally murdered Spicer finds his investigations lead him to a tight knit Peak District community who seem to have plenty to hide. Simms is definitely...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/03/2010
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The Neighbour
Lisa Gardner
A riveting book that I found hard to put down. A young mother disappears in a novel that explores how physical and sexual abuse can have a devastating effect on future relationships and how we protect ourselves from past memories....
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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The Bay at Midnight
Diane Chamberlain
Julie was twelve years old when her 17-year old sister was murdered and although a boy was tried and convicted for the crime, Julie blames herself for the catastrophe. Years later a letter surfaces laying the blame elsewhere and the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/12/2009
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Alone
Lisa Gardner
For 300-some pages, Gardner will keep youspellbound—not just by her plot but by the beautifully realized character of Massachusetts police sniper Bobby Dodge. A twisted, effective psychological thriller. Comparison: Tami Hoag.Similar this month: Jeff Abbott,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Get Carter
Ted Lewis
Gritty look at the criminal underworld in a northern town, revolving around Jack Carter returning home to look in to the suspicious circumstances surrounding his brothers death. Bleak and cool, grim and dangerous this is a true classic.
February 2010 Guest...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2000
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
Death in the cucumber patch and a young girl turns detective in a spirited pastiche of the English village murder-mystery with a nod to Agatha Christie and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Lisa Gardner
I have been reading this American thriller writer for some years, watching her books get better and better and knowing that a truly excellent one would come … well, here it is, her best yet. A mass grave of six...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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The Killing Hour
Lisa Gardner
We believe this will be Lisa’s breakthrough thriller. It introduces a new and likeable crime heroine, Kimberley Quincy.
Quincy / Rainie series: 1. The Perfect Husband 2. The Third Victim 3. The Next Accident...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Gone
Lisa Gardner
A gripping read which keeps you guessing for most of the book. It is the story of a hunt for a missing woman and child, with red-herrings galore. Pierce Quincy, a retired FBI profiler and who has featured in previous...
Format: Paperback (a Format) - Released: 04/03/2010
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Say Goodbye
Lisa Gardner
This American crime novelist is top notch. Tension ratchets up wickedly, it’s hair-tingling stuff and compulsive, addictive, inventive, surprising and very clever. It’s not a book to be missed. However, if you’re arachnophobic then don’t read it.
Comparison: Tami...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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The Way Home
George P Pelecanos
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 7 March 2010.
A crime novel that focuses largely on the relationship between a father and son. The crime element feels almost secondary to the intricate and tricky relationship between a son,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/12/2009
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The Double Comfort Safari Club
Alexander McCall Smith
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The 11th in the No1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series sees sleuth Precious Ramotswe and her assistant Grace Makutsi on the trail of a mystery safari guide who has been named in the will of a generous...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
August 2008
Book of the Month.
Winner of the Galaxy Crime Thriller of the Year 2009.
A forty year old mystery all mixed up with family feuds, fraud and corruption this is the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/07/2008
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson
July 2009 Book of the Month.
LISBETH SALANDER - Pierced, tattooed and garbed in extreme punk attire, computer hacker Salander is the touching, vulnerable but mightily determined heroine of the late Swedish author...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/07/2009
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
Stieg Larsson
October 2009 Book of the Month.
This is the final part of this brilliant trilogy and we will be sorry to see the last of Lisbeth Salander who has proved to be a...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2009
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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.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
With the Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie wanted to write a mystery that the reader couldn't solve. When Roger Ackroyd is murdered following the suicide of his friend Mrs...
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The Atlantis Revelation
Thomas Greanias
With the new Dan Brown published a few weeks ago the publishing industry believes there will be renewed interest in the religious conspiracy thriller so they are flooding into...
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Blacklands
Belinda Bauer
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 24 January 2010.
There is an echo of...
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The Rapture
Liz Jensen
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 21 February 2010.
A psychological eco-thriller is probably the best way to describe this book. The two main characters, psychologist Gabrielle Fox...
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The Last 10 Seconds
Simon Kernick
Simon Kernick is fast becoming one of the top crime writers in Britain today and at Lovereading we have been fans for a long time. Here we have another gritty,...
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Angel with Two Faces
Nicola Upson
Harking back to the detective crime novels of yesteryear this second book in the series follows Josephine Tey (a fictionalised version of the author) stumbling across murder and intrigue as...
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The Given Day
Dennis Lehane
A big novel in every way, packed with action, in a time of huge social upheaval, for this is Boston 1918-1919. With strikes, poverty, racism, corruption, anarchist bombs, riots on...
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The Missing
Jane Casey
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
A terrific novel taking place in two separate times, 16 years apart, but with both disappearances affecting...
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The Twelve
Stuart Neville
THE TWELVE, Neville’s first novel (titled THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST in the USA) is an outstanding debut about a haunted ex-IRA killer and British undercover agent striving to survive his...
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Fifty Grand
Adrian McKinty
The stylish Irish author who now lives in Australia but was for many years in America has followed his DEAD trilogy with FIFTY GRAND, a powerful revenge novel set in...
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Slammer
Allan Guthrie
If Guthrie had an American equivalent, it would be the incomparable James Ellroy. His world is dark, action-filled, rough and ready and his new novel SLAMMER is another walk...
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Blind Eye
Stuart Macbride
BLIND EYE is the 5th and latest volume in the increasingly popular series of Aberdeen thrillers with DS Logan McRae at the helm. In turns grim, gritty and gruesome, but...
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Washington Shadow
Aly Monroe
Her debut novel THE MAZE OF CADIZ was showered with praise by reviewers, plunging the reader into the murky world of espionage in the immediate aftermath of WW2 with...
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The Golden Silence
Paul Johnston
His early Quintin Dalrymple thrillers were set in a near future Edinburgh, but his Alex Mavros trilogy, of which THE GOLDEN SILENCE is the 3rd, occurs in the Greek islands...
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Sanctuary
Ken Bruen
2010 is going be Bruen’s year, with three major movies based on his books being released, including the star-studded LONDON BOULEVARD. His Galway PI series featuring Jack Taylor takes a...
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A Walk Among the Tombstones
Lawrence Block
Tenth book in the Matt Scudder series and still Block gets better and better. A gripping read from start to finish.
February 2010 Guest Editor Simon Kernick on A Walk...
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Gone, Baby, Gone
Dennis Lehane
Lehane creates believable and vulnerable characters, even the good guys have their faults. A child has gone missing without a trace, drug money has gone missing too. Are the two...
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The Godfather
Mario Puzo
The ultimate gangster book and yet this is not just a story of the mafia in the 1940’s but also a story about family. Don Corleone, The Godfather, is a...
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All the Dead Voices
Declan Hughes
Ed Loy is the Dublin investigator par excellence and the city dominates Hughes’ books like Los Angeles does in Raymond Chandler. From crooked race courses to dark streets and the...
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Skin and Bones
Tom Bale
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
With one of the best opening pages to a book you’ll ever read this electrifying debut thriller...
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Loss
Tony Black
Tony Black's third novel LOSS is another bleak investigation for his poignant Edinburgh washed up journalist turned involuntary private investigator Gus Dury. Black writes about urban blight and the curse...
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The Month Before's Featured Books
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The Fever of the Bone
Val Mcdermid
Val McDermid is the winner of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award 2010, which honours outstanding achievement in the field of crime writing.
CWA Hall of Fame Dagger 2009.
This award...
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Dead Spy Running
Jon Stock
January 2010 Book of the Month.
Daniel, the son of a disgraced MI5 chief and himself an MI5 operative, is about to fall...
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Sphinx
T.S. Learner
Fast-paced thrillers about quests for ancient artefacts are popular at the moment. This one centres around an Egyptian device supposed to have the power to predict a person’s death and...
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Plum Spooky
Janet Evanovich
Evanovich fans will know what I mean when I say this is an ‘in between numbers’ book but still a Stephanie Plum. Those not familiar with this crazy character are...
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Long Lost
Harlan Coben
Another great read from the master recently voted favourite crime genre author by viewers for ITV3’s Bestseller Dagger. It is a Myron Bolitar mystery, a character who has definitely improved...
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Awakening
S J Bolton
English rural gothic at its best, creepy, truly frightening and definitely not for those with an aversion to snakes. At the centre is a reclusive vet, an intriguing new heroine...
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Fatal Cut
June Hampson
Daisy Lane, a gangster’s moll with a difference, her man is in prison and she must watch over his interests, but she has a policeman sweetheart, two sons and a...
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Truth
Peter Temple
Peter Temple seems to get darker and darker in his storylines. In Truth not only is there brutal murder and torture but a bleak look at the way society is...
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No Lovelier Death
Graham Hurley
January 2010 Book of the Month.
The latest instalment from Graham Hurley sees Faraday and Winter pitted
against each other in another fantastic police...
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Whose Body?
Dorothy L. Sayers
Amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first outing in Whose Body? with Sayers creating a character that can grow and develop through future stories. A great murder mystery with...
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