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Robert Daley
0156032864 Trade Paperback
0151012296 Hardcover


The search for the culprit behind a blackmail plot takes ex-cop Vincent Conte from New York to Luxembourg to Italy to Amsterdam to Monaco and beyond.

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Don't Look Back
Don't Look Back
Karin Fossum
Translated by Felicity David
0156031361 Trade Paperback
0151010323 Hardcover


Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable. They evoke a world that is at once profoundly disturbing and terrifyingly familiar.
He Who Fears the Wolf
He Who Fears the Wolf
Karin Fossum
Translated by Felicity David
0156030497 Trade Paperback
0151010919 Hardcover


Shrewdly, patiently, as is his way, Inspector Sejer confronts a case where the strangeness of the crime is matched only by the strangeness of the criminals, and where small-town prejudices warp every piece of information he tries to collect.
The Indian Bride
The Indian Bride
Karin Fossum
0151011826 Hardcover


Another brilliantly conceived, dark novel from one of Europe’s most successful crime writers, featuring "the Morse of the fjords," Inspector Konrad Sejer.

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When the Devil Holds the Candle
When the Devil Holds the Candle
Karin Fossum
Translated by Felicity David
0151011885 Hardcover


When a simple purse-snatching from the handle of a stroller results in an infant's death, two teenagers are in trouble. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing still another. Another brilliantly observed, precisely rendered psychological mystery from the highly acclaimed Karin Fossum.
Darkness & Light
Darkness & Light
A Frank Elder Mystery
John Harvey
0156031418 Trade Paperback
0151011338 Hardcover


Former cop Frank Elder is once more drawn out of retirement by a phone call from his ex-wife. In a case in which neither memories, confessions, nor instincts can be trusted, Elder struggles with the weight of the past and Harvey delivers another psychologically trenchant page-turner.
Flesh & Blood
Flesh & Blood
A Frank Elder Mystery
John Harvey
0156031817 Trade Paperback


Retirement has not come easy for Detective Inspector Frank Elder. He's fled to a solitary existence on the Cornish coast, but he can't escape the past. In the first in the Frank Elder series, John Harvey sets in motion the events from which Elder's family will never recover.
Ash & Bone
Ash & Bone
John Harvey
0156032848 Trade Paperback
0151011397 Hardcover


"One of the best crime books you're likely to read this year." —The Times (London)

Maddy and Frank have a connection, a brief and clumsy encounter years before that has left a trace of lingering regret. In Ash & Bone their lives connect again when a second phone call persuades the unsettled, unhappy Elder out of retirement, only to find that a cold case has a devastating present-day impact.
Fiddlers
Fiddlers
A Novel of the 87th Precinct
Ed McBain
0156032783 Trade Paperback
0151012164 Hardcover


The 55th installment of the acclaimed 87th Precinct series by Ed McBain, "the greatest writer of the police procedural who ever lived." (The New York Sun)
Learning to Kill
Learning to Kill
Stories
Ed McBain
0156031477 Trade Paperback
0151012229 Hardcover


Here are kids in trouble and women in jeopardy. Here are private eyes and gangs. Here are loose cannons and innocent bystanders. Here, too, are cops and robbers. These are the stories that prepared Evan Hunter to become Ed McBain, and that prepared Ed McBain to write the beloved 87th Precinct novels.
Ice Moon
Ice Moon
Jan Costin Wagner
0151012695 Hardcover


Set in Finland during the unnervingly long days of late summer near the top of the world, this haunting book is an unsettling, poignant mystery.
The Blind Man of Seville
The Blind Man of Seville
Robert Wilson
0156028808 Trade Paperback


Bestselling and award-winning mystery writer Robert Wilson tells a gripping tale of a grisly murder that leads a police detective to the seamy side of his famous father's life.
The Vanished Hands
The Vanished Hands
Robert Wilson
0156032821 Trade Paperback
0151008418 Hardcover


This novel takes up the story of Javier Falcón just over a year after the events of The Blind Man of Seville. He is called to the scene of a suspicious suicide in a wealthy neighbourhood on the outskirts of Seville. There is, however, no solid evidence and he is struggling to put together a case when in quick succession there are two other definite suicides.
 



 

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