Crime & Mystery Fiction

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  Hiss And Hers
  M. C. Beaton - Paperback - C&R Crime
  Agatha has fallen in love again. This time it's the local gardener, George Marston, she has her eye on. But competition for his attention abounds. When George is a no-show at a charity ball Agatha goes looking for him and finds he has been murdered, having been bitten by a poisonous snake and buried in a compost heap.
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  The Woman Who Walked Into The Sea
  Mark Douglas-Home - Paperback - Sandstone
  Cal McGill watches the young woman through the dirty windscreen of his Toyota. There's something compelling about her stillness, about the length of time she has been standing there erect, staring out to sea. But why, 26 years earlier, did another young woman stand on the beach, before walking in to the sea.
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  Blind Justice
  Anne Perry - Hardback - Headline
  Oliver Rathbone, William Monk's close friend, has presided brilliantly over his first cases as a judge. But the next will bring a far greater challenge. Abel Taft, a charismatic minister adored by his congregation, stands accused of terrible corruption and fraud which has ruined the lives of those he's betrayed. In court, each victim affirms Taft's guilt, but when the defence's star witness tears their stories apart, the case seems lost. Rathbone realises he holds a piece of evidence that could change the outcome of the trial and bring true justice, but can he, as the judge, become involved?
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  Midnight At Marble Arch
  Anne Perry - Paperback - Headline
  There is no finer detective in Victorian London than Thomas Pitt. During a party at the Spanish Embassy, a policeman breaks into Pitt's conversation with Rawdon Quixwood to break the news that Quixwood's wife, Catherine, has been assaulted at their home and left for dead.
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  Death Of A Cad
  M. C. Beaton - Paperback - C & R Crime
  When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiancé home to Lochdubh, everyone in town is delighted - except for love-smitten Hamish Macbeth. But affairs of the heart will have to wait.
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  Death Of A Gossip
  M. C. Beaton - Paperback - C & R Crime
  When society widow & gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joins the local fishing class she wastes no time in ruffling the feathers of those around her. Among the victims of her sharp tongue is PC Hamish Macbeth, yet not even Hamish thinks someone would seriously want to silence her - until her strangled body is fished out of the river.
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  Death Of A Hussy
  M. C. Beaton - Paperback - C & R Crime
  Wealthy Maggie Baird is neither kind or generous. So when her car ignites, with her in it, there are five likely perpetrators. And finding who did it requires all Hamish Macbeth's extraordinary common sense and insight into human nature.
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  Death Of An Outsider
  M. C. Beaton - Paperback - C & R Crime
  The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes, or, more accurately, has been dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remains of the victim are his bones. But once the lobsters have been shipped off to Britain's best restaurants, the whole affair quickly lands on the plate of Hamish Macbeth.
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  Death Of A Perfect Wife
  M. C. Beaton - Paperback - C & R Crime
  Hamish Macbeth is savouring the delights of a Highland summer, but as fast as the rain rolls in from the loch his happy life goes to hell in a handbasket. The trouble begins when his beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythe returns to Lochdubh with a new fiancé on her arm.
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  Friend & Foe
  Shirley McKay - Paperback - Polygon
  St Andrews, 1583. The young king James VI is confined at Falkland palace, plotting his escape. Dissension rages between Kirk and Crown, the king and his 'lord enterprisers', and between the separate factions of the church.