So Brilliantly Clever - Parker, Hulme and the Murder Th...
The brutal, premeditated murder of Honorah Parker in 1954 in...
A Very Expensive Poison - The Definitive Story of the M...
1 November 2006. Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned i...
James Pattersons The Murder Of King Tut
The Murder of King Tut adapts bestselling author James Patte...
James Pattersons The Murder Of King Tut
The Murder of King Tut adapts bestselling author James Patte...
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - or the Murder at Road Hi...
It is a summers night in 1860. In an elegant detached Geor...
The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
The Word is Murder
SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER MURDER? Buried secrets; murder and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitzâs page-turning new detective series. If you enjoyed BBCâs Sherlock; youâll LOVE The Word is Murder! âA very clever and inventive mystery'' (Bookbag)''A perfect detective novel in a unique style complete with an excellent twist!'' (...
Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
An ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Readers, Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book Prize and a Publishers Weekly Flying Start bookAmy Currys year sucks. And its not getting any better. Her mother has decided to move, so somehow Amy has to get their car from California to the East Coast. Theres just one problem: since her fathers death Amy hasnt been able to get behind the wheel of ...
Inspector Singh Investigates: The Singapore School Of Villainy - Number 3 in series
Inspector Singh is home and how he wishes he wasnt. His wife nags him at breakfast and his superiors are whiling away their time by giving him his usual youre a disgrace to the force lecture. Fortunately for Singh, there is no rest for the wicked when he is called out to the murder of a senior partner at an international law firm, clubbed to death at his desk. Unfortunately for Singh,...
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag - A Flavia de Luce Mystery Book 2
Pigtails, poisons and murder-most-foul A travelling puppet show arrives in the sleepy village of Bishops Lacey and a shocking murder takes place. For eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, the crime will test her precocious powers of deduction to the limit particularly when she discovers that the murder echoes a tragedy which occurred many years before
Praise for the historical Flavia de Luce ...
The Noose
Colonel Anthony Gethryn is recalled from a holiday in Spain to solve a murder in the November fogs of London. He finds that his wife is sheltering Mrs Bronson; whose husband is in prison awaiting execution for the murder of a gamekeeper six months before. A petition for reprieve has been rejected and Bronson will shortly hang for someone elseâs crime. Convinced by Mrs Bronson of her husbandâ...
The Time Of Singing
A Kings passion, a young mans love and a girls tragic choice The young Roger Bigod, heir to the powerful earldom of Norfolk, arrives at Henry IIs court to prove his worth and wrestle his inheritance from the arms of his half-brothers. While there, he encounters the pretty and gentle Ida de Tosney, young mistress to the King. A victim of Henrys seduction and the mother of his son, Ida...
Clue Cluedo - The Classic Mystery Game
Cluedo is a classic mystery game for the whole familyReclusive millionaire Samuel Blackâs been murdered in his mansion!Now, itâs up to you to crack the case! Question everything to unravel the mystery.Who did it? Where? And with what weapon? Ransack the mansion for clues, ask cunning detective questions and leave no card unturned. Solve the murder first to win!Fun twist on the classi...
Clue Cluedo - The Classic Mystery Game
Cluedo is a classic mystery game for the whole familyReclusive millionaire Samuel Blackâs been murdered in his mansion!Now, itâs up to you to crack the case! Question everything to unravel the mystery.Who did it? Where? And with what weapon? Ransack the mansion for clues, ask cunning detective questions and leave no card unturned. Solve the murder first to win!Fun twist on the classi...
The Likeness - Dublin Murder Squad: 2
Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam ONeill. When he calls her to the scene of his new case, she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her double. Whats more, her ID shows she is Lexie Madison the identity Cassie used, years ago, as an undercover detective. With ...
The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
This poem originally published anonymously, written after Wildes two years hard labour in Reading prison is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. The Ballad of Reading Gaol follows the inmate through his final three weeks, as he stares at the sky and silently drinks his beer ration. Heart-wrenching and eye-opening, the ballad also expresse...
Cruel as the Grave
April 1193. Englands King Richard Lionheart languishes in a German prison, and treason scents the air. Richards younger brother, John, seizes Windsor Castle, and Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine summons her trusted personal queens man, Justin de Quincy, to do the impossible mediate a truce with her rebel son. Amid such fateful events, the murder of a Welsh peddlers daughter seems smal...
The Owl Always Hunts at Night - (Munch and Kruger Book 2)
Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money Sunday Express From the author of the bestselling Richard and Judy bookclub pick Im Travelling Alone No one is safe in the dark
When a young woman is found dead, the police are quick to respond. But what they find at the murder site is unexpected. The body is posed, the scene meticulously set. And there is almost no forensic evidence to be found. Detec...
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences is considered by many to be the first work of the true crime genre. In this groundbreaking book, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family from information provided by newspaper articles and interviews. Dick became convinced that Perry was that rarity, a natural killer absolutely sane, but conscien...
The Last Coyote - A Harry Bosch Novel
Michael Connellys fourth novel cuts to the very core of Harry Boschs character, as he is drawn to investigate a thirty-year-old unsolved crime: the murder of his mother. Harrys life is a mess. His house has been condemned because of earthquake damage. His girlfriend has left him. Hes drinking too much. And hes even had to turn in his badge: he attacked his commanding officer and is susp...
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages
Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life. Thus we glimpse 11th century rural society through a conversation between a ploughman and his master. The life of Dick Whittington illuminates the rise of the urban elite. The stories of Roger the Raker who drowned in his own sewage, a merman imprisoned in Orford Castl...
Secrets in the Shadows
Everyone says her mother was mad. Is she doomed to repeat the past? Up in the attic, thats where Alices mother used to escape to and its where, so Alice has been told, she plotted the murder of her own stepfather. Now, years later, with her mother locked away for life, the attic is where Alice finds comfort in her solitude, writing poetry and painting pictures. When Alice finally finds ...
Death of the Demon
In an orphanage outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institutions ageing director, Agnes Vestavik, sees something chilling in Olavs eyes: sheer hatred. When Vestavik is found murdered at her desk late at night, stabbed in the neck with a kitchen knife with Olav nowhere to be found the case goes to Hanne Wilhelmsen, recently promoted to superintendent in the Oslo poli...
The Japanese Mind - Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture. Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explored: aimai (ambiguity), amae (dependence upon others benevolence), amakudari (the nations descent from heaven), chinmoku (silence in communication), ga...
Cream Buns and Crime - A Murder Most Unladylike Collection
Daisy and Hazel invite you to discover their untold stories . . . Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are famous for the murder cases they have solved but there are many other mysteries in the pages of Hazels casebook, from the macabre Case of the Deepdean Vampire, to the baffling Case of the Blue Violet, and their very first case of all: the Case of Lavinias Missing Tie. Packed with brilliant min...
The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay
It began with a phone call to Brisbane police on 20 April 2012. Allison, wife of real estate agent Gerard Baden-Clay, was missing. When investigating officers arrived at the family home, in one of the citys wealthiest suburbs, a neatly dressed Gerard had been getting the couples three daughters ready for school. Scratches on his face were shaving cuts, he told them. Police werent so sure a...
Watch Your Back (The Baltimore Series Book 4)
Her ex-partners actions have put her in path of a killer. Can she survive? WATCH YOUR BACK is a pulse-pounding thriller, part of the Baltimore series, from bestselling author Karen Rose. Intense, complex and unforgettable James Patterson. Stevie Mazzetti knew she would never get over the murder of her husband and son. But with their killer behind bars she was able to move on with her life...