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A bold and brilliant short work by the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny.

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The eighth mystery in the DI Wesley Peterson series by award-winning crime writer Kate Ellis.

About the Author M.C. Beaton (1936-2019) was the author of both the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series, as well as numerous Regency roman...

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Review Call Him Mine, was one of last year's best crime novels. This much anticipated sequel sees the past coming back to haunt Andrew ― The i...

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About the Author Charles Stross is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of seven Hugo-nominated ...

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About the Author Nancy Spain was a novelist, broadcaster and journalist. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1917, she was the great-niece of the l...

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To compile and select all this documentation has meant over 400 days of dedicated work. The selection process has been done slowly and carefully, a...

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When a man's body is discovered near the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye, his death appears to be 'unnatural' in every sense. Merrily Watkins is dra...

The instant New York Times bestseller and prequel to the TikTok phenomenon We Were Liars. Return to the story of another summer, another generation...

'Epic... Apart from being the Emmy award-winning creator of the superb television series Fargo, the American author Noah Hawley is a talented devis...

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Things are about to get FREAKY in the sleepy American town of Sticky Pines! There's mystery, weirdness and laughs aplenty in The Bigwoof Conspiracy...

I saw the streets, the lights, the cars, the people - Everything moving in different directions at the same time. . . I wanted to make the map aliv...

Joseph K has a comfortable job in financial services and barely notices the growing chaos all around on the walk to work: the homelessness, the foo...

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'Private eye Philip Marlowe is transplanted into 21st-century Los Angeles in this tongue-in-cheek tribute to the classic works of Raymond Chandle...