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1) Holy Island
Author
Series
The DCI Ryan Mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Ryan retreats to Holy Island seeking sanctuary when he is forced to take sabbatical leave from his duties as a homicide detective. A few days before Christmas, his peace is shattered, and he is thrust back into the murky world of murder when a young woman is found dead amongst the ancient ruins of the nearby priory. When former local girl Dr. Anna Taylor arrives back on the island as a police consultant, old memories swim...
2) Heavenfield
Author
Series
The DCI Ryan Mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
When a man is found dead at the remote church of Heavenfield, DCI Ryan is the only other person for miles around. The police have no weapon, no motive and no other suspects. Already suspended from Northumbria CID, Ryan must fight to clear his name. But soon more than his career is at stake when prominent members of the mysterious Circle begin to die. Somebody wants Ryan's name to be next on the coroner's list, and to survive he must unmask the devil...
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
One early December evening in 1972, a young widow named Jean McConville was abducted, in front of her children, from the family's apartment in Belfast. She was never seen alive again, and her disappearance would haunt her ten children, the perpetrators, and a whole society in Northern Ireland that has struggled to come to terms with the atrocities committed by all sides during the decades-long conflict known as `the Troubles'.
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Series
Wilde volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The man known as Wilde is a mystery to everyone, including himself. Decades ago, he was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. After the police concluded an exhaustive hunt for the child's family, which was never found, he was turned over to the foster system. Now, thirty years later, Wilde still doesn't know where he comes from, and he's back living in the woods on the outskirts of town, content to be an outcast, comfortable...
5) Memory man
Author
Series
An Amos Decker thriller volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When ex-detective Amos Decker returned home 18 months ago to find the bodies of his wife and only daughter, he didn't think he could carry on living. Overwhelmed with grief, he saw his life spiral out of control, losing his job, his house and his self-respect. But when his former partner in the police visits to tell him that someone has confessed to the murders, he knows he owes it to his wife and child to seek justice for them. As he comes to terms...
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English
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National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense...
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
You'll be silent forever, and I'll be gone in the dark.' For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com,...
8) High Force
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Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Ryan's worst nightmare has just become a reality. Notorious serial killer THE HACKER has escaped prison and kidnapped one of his best detectives from her own home. His brutality is the stuff of legend - Ryan lost his sister and nearly his own life bringing the man to justice first time around. Can Ryan do it again to save his friend?There's a nationwide manhunt underway but the trail has gone cold and fear spreads like a...
Author
Publisher
Avon
Language
English
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Description
Early on a Sunday morning in the North East seaside resort of Whitley Bay, a headless female torso washes up on the beach. Two days later, the body's missing head appears a mile down the coast - and with that, DI Jack Brady is plunged into one of the most harrowing cases of his career.
10) Penshaw
Author
Series
The DCI Ryan Mysteries volume 13
Language
English
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Description
When you sell your soul, the devil gives no refunds... When an old man is burned alive in a sleepy ex-mining village, Detective Chief Inspector Ryan is called in to investigate. He soon discovers that, beneath the facade of a close-knit community, the burn from decades-old betrayal still smoulders. When everyone had a motive, can he unravel the secrets of the past before the killer strikes again? Meanwhile, back at Northumbria CID, trouble is brewing...
11) Seven bridges
Author
Series
The DCI Ryan Mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
Ryan's most explosive case yet ? It's been five months since a killer walked free and DCI Ryan is preparing to leave Newcastle to hunt him down - this time, for good. But Ryan's plans are scuppered when events take a dramatic turn and he is forced to stay and face his past one last time, or watch a friend suffer the consequences. Amid the chaos, another killer is preparing to strike. When the Tyne Bridge explodes, Ryan's team are faced with a frantic...
Author
Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
On Easter Sunday 2015, experienced skydiver Victoria Cilliers undertook a parachute jump, a gift from her husband, British army sergeant Emile Cilliers. Her parachutes failed to open and she plummeted 4,000 feet to the ground, sustaining life-threatening injuries. Miraculously, she survived. Then the police arrived at her door. Someone had tampered with her parachute and they suspected Emile. In I Survived Victoria describes how she fell for Emile,...
13) Zodiac
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In a society divided along Zodiac lines, status is cast at birth - and binding for life. Who you are can be determined by a matter of days, hours, even minutes. When a series of uniquely brutal murders targets victims from totally different signs, is it misguided revolution or the work of a serial killer? They may disagree over whether the answers are written in the stars, but they are united by their belief that a grand plan is being executed ......
14) The pale horse
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English
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But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman?s head? Or was it when the priest?s assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman?s cassock? Or could it have been the priest?s visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier? Wherever the beginning lies, Mark and his sidekick, Ginger...
15) Dark corners
Author
Language
English
Description
When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begin with subterfuge, extend to lies and culminate in murder. In Rendell's dark and atmospheric tale of psychological suspense, we encounter mistaken identity, kidnap, blackmail and a cast of characters who are so real that we come to know them better than we know ourselves.
16) Angel
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Series
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English
Description
He?ll make you his angel, but first you have to die ... After a turbulent time, DCI Ryan?s life is finally returning to normal and he?s looking forward to spending an uneventful Easter bank holiday weekend with his fianceĢ. Then, on Good Friday morning he is called out to a crime scene at one of the largest cemeteries in Newcastle. The body of a redheaded woman has been found buried in a shallow grave and the killer has given her wings, like an angel....
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border, 13 passengers on a hot-air balloon flight witness a brutal murder. Within the next hour, all but one of them will be dead. Alone, scared and trusting no-one, she flees for her life, running to the one place she feels safe. But she's seen the killer's face, and he's seen hers - and he won't rest until he's eliminated the last witness to his crime.
18) All fudged up
Author
Series
A Candy-coated Mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the Historic McMurphy Hotel and Fudge Shop--where life is sweet, revenge is sweeter, and murder is here to to stay. . . You Can't Fudge An Alibi Allie McMurphy is up to her neck in renovations at the grand old hotel that's been in her family for generations. With its quaint Victorian charm--and world-famous fudge shop--the place is one of Mackinac Island's most beloved landmarks. Sure, every family has a skeleton or two in the closet. But...
Author
Publisher
Hookline Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Add three, four and even more, and watch neighbours turn on suspicious neighbours. Victoria Bullrush - or Bullface, as she is called by fellow police officers - is a stickler for rules. As she tries to maintain a faultless investigation, she can't ignore the public's growing anger. But what lies in the dark is palpable, waiting. Can anyone stay calm enough to catch the killer?.
Author
Publisher
Birlinn
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It is the story of these crimes and of the thirty year investigation that followed. This is not a gruesome tale of murder; the families of these young girls have suffered enough. Nor is this account devoted to the controversy in which the trial of Angus Sinclair was brought to an end in the Autumn of 2007.This is a story of heroes, of the families of Helen and Christine who, with a quiet dignity, have carried an unimaginable burden down the years,...
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