Crime & Mystery Fiction

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  Rock Creek Park
  Simon Conway - Paperback - Hodder
  Former police protection officer Harriet 'Harry' Armstrong discovers the body of a beautiful young woman outside the home of a powerful US Senator. Detective Michael Freeman knows this case means pressure: pressure to close the case quickly, pressure to keep the Senator out of it, pressure from his wife not to rock the political boat.
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  Double Cross Purposes
  Ronald Arbuthnott Knox - Paperback - Murder Room
  The Hon. Vernon Lethaby is a flamboyant, headline-seeking exhibitionist with extravagant tastes and an allowance that barely covers his racing debts. In an unlikely partnership with middle-aged Canadian adventurer Joe 'Digger' Henderson, he strikes out for the Highlands of Scotland to hunt for Prince Charlie's treasure, which, according to legend, is interred on the isle of Erran. But Lathaby doesn't trust his partner, and has taken out insurance to cover him against being swindled. Enter Miles Bredon, who is sent by his employer to ensure than neither of them defrauds the Indescribable Insurance Company.
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  Still Dead
  Ronald Arbuthnott Knox - Paperback - Murder Room
  After Colin Reiver is acquitted of responsibility for killing a child in a car accident he sets out on a sea cruise in the hope that it might ease local feeling and the voice of his own conscience. But when a few days after his departure Colin is found dead by the roadside, Miles Bredon, investigator for the Indescribable Insurance Company, must travel to Scotland to establish precisely when the death occurred. The body has disappeared and reappeared in the space of forty-eight hours and a large insurance premium is at stake.
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  The Chessmen
  Peter May - Hardback - Quercus
  Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island.
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  The Chessmen
  Peter May - Paperback - Quercus
  The concluding part of the Lewis Trilogy. Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island.
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  Close To The Bone
  Stuart MacBride - Paperback - HarperCollins
  Someone's leaving little knots of bones outside Detective Inspector Logan McRae's house, but he's got more pressing things to worry about. Rival drug gangs are fighting over product and territory; two teenage lovers are missing; someone's crippling Asian immigrants; and Logan's been lumbered with an ambitious new Detective Sergeant, a mountain of paperwork, and the unwelcome attention of his superiors and the local crime boss.
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  Bitter Water
  Gordon Ferris - Paperback - Corvus
  When a man is murdered, suspicion automatically falls on the Marshals, and the police are quick to agree. But for Brodie, the crime is all wrong. The Marshals stand for justice, not murder. Enlisting the help of advocate Samantha Campbell, Brodie begins to investigate the death himself.
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  A Pound Of Flesh
  Alex Gray - Paperback - Sphere
  Detective Inspector Lorimer's worst nightmare is a serial killer loose in his city. But two serial killers operating at once in Glasgow is a nightmare come to life. When the latest murder is that of a prominent politician, Lorimer finds the media's relentless scrutiny turned on his investigation.
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  Winter At Death's Hotel
  Kenneth M. Cameron - Paperback - Orion
  1896. Arthur Conan Doyle, the renowned creator of Sherlock Holmes, arrives in New York with his wife, Louisa, ready to begin his first American tour. While he prepares his lectures, Louisa becomes mesmerised by this brash, vibrant, dangerous city, especially when a woman's brutally butchered corpse is found.
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  Gauntlet Of Fear
  David Cargill - Paperback - Matador
  When Professor Giles Dawson, historian of magic and the great illusionists, visits the Circus Tropicana, wintering at a former RAF airfield in Devon, he is not there to be entertained. He is there at the request of the circus boss, Ramon Mordomo to investigate a series of disasters at the circus.