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Vera Stanhope volume 3
Language
English
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A hot summer on the Northumberland coast, and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team intrigued. But then a second body - that of beautiful young teacher Lily Marsh - is discovered laid out in a rock pool, the water strewn with flowers. Now Vera must work quickly to...
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Series
Poirot volume 17
Language
English
Description
There's a serial killer on the loose. His calling card is an ABC Railway Guide, left beside each victim's body. But if A is for Alice Ascher, and B for Betty Bernard, then who will victim C be? Hercule Poirot is the man to find out.
3) Dark places
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Series
Claire Morgan Investigations volume 2
Publisher
Pinnacle
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A Killer's Tracks. . . Missouri detective Claire Morgan is eager to get back to work after recuperating from injuries sustained on her last job. But the missing persons case that welcomes her home in the dead of winter soon turns more twisted and treacherous than Lake of the Ozarks' icy mountain roads. . . Can Only Lead. . . The woman's body is found suspended from a tree overlooking a local school. She is bleeding from the head, still alive--but...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In the city that?s become a symbol for the death of the American dream, a nightmare killer is unravelling reality. The new thriller from Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls.Detective Gabi Versado has hunted down many monsters during her eight years in Homicide. She?s seen stupidity, corruption and just plain badness. But she?s never seen anything like this.Clayton Broom is a failed artist, and a broken man. Life destroyed his plans, so he?s...
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Series
Varg Veum volume 1
Publisher
ORENDA BOOKS
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
1998. Varg Veum sits by the hospital bedside of his long-term girlfriend Karin, whose life-threatening injuries provide a deeply painful reminder of the mistakes he?s made. Investigating the seemingly innocent disappearance of a wind-farm inspector, Varg Veum is thrust into one of the most challenging cases of his career, riddled with conflicts, environmental terrorism, religious fanaticism, unsolved mysteries and dubious business ethics. Then, in...
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Series
DI Mike Lockyer volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
For all those who enjoy Peter James, Mark Billingham and Peter Robinson. Three women have been found brutally murdered in south London, the victims only feet away from help during each sadistic attack. And the killer is getting braver ... Sarah Grainger is rapidly becoming too afraid to leave her house. Once an outgoing photographer, she knows that someone is watching her. A cryptic note brings everything into terrifying focus, but it?s the chilling...
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 23
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke behind bars. Now a new killer has recreated Burke's most infamous crimes - and disappeared without a trace. Reporter Cindy Thomas put Burke on the bestseller list, in her true crime book about the case. An obsessed fan is studying every detail - and committing fresh horrors that carry Burke's signature. Now Lindsay's tracking an elusive suspect, one who's penning a deadly playbook featuring Cindy's...
8) Liar
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Language
English
Description
Amelia White dreams of being a reporter. The closest she's come is selling advertising in the local paper - until the fateful day she stumbles on a shocking scoop. Round the corner from her home, she discovers the body of a murder victim, dumped among the rubbish. When the police and reporters descend, Amelia is horrified at the lies soon to be spread about the young woman. Determined to protect the victim from these smears, she convinces her paper's...
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
She can't see the killer But the killer can see her ... Naomi Hannah has been blind since birth. Struggling with living in a small, claustrophobic town, Naomi contemplates ending her life. But then she stumbles across the body of a young woman who has been brutally murdered. She senses someone else there at the scene - watching her. Naomi may not be able to see the killer's face, but she is still the only person who can identify him. As the police...
10) Blindside
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Series
Michael Bennett volume 12
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
The mayor of New York has a daughter who?s missing and in danger. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who?s in prison. The two strike a deal. Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett a discreet investigator with family worries of his own. Just one father helping another. The detective leaps into the case and sources lead him to a homicide in the Bronx. The victim has ties to a sophisticated hacking...
11) Flesh house
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Series
Logan McRae volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
Panic strikes the Granite City. 20 years ago 'The Flesher' was butchering people all over the Uk until Grampian's finest put him away. But 11 years later he was out on appeal. Now he's missing and people are dying again.
13) Unhinged
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Series
Alexander Blix volume 3
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Isis
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Investigator Sofia Kovic has uncovered a connection between several deaths in Oslo over the last year and a half. She tries to call her superior, Alexander Blix, but before Blix has time to return her call, Kovic is shot and killed in her own home. In the apartment below, Blix's daughter Iselin narrowly escapes becoming the killer's next victim. Four days later, Blix and online crime journalist Emma Ramm are locked inside an interrogation room, facing...
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
There is a sickness in the forest. First, it was the wild horses. Now it's innocent men and women, hunted down and murdered by a faceless figure. Lost in the darkness, they try to flee, they try to hide. In desperation, they call out for help. But there is no-one to hear their cries here... DI Helen Grace must face down a new nightmare. The arrow-ridden victims hang from the New Forest's ancient oaks, like pieces of strange fruit. Why are helpless...
15) Dying light
Author
Series
Logan McRae volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
It?s summertime in Scotland: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying? It?s summertime in the Granite City: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying? It starts with Rosie Williams, a prostitute, stripped naked and beaten to death down by the docks - the heart of Aberdeen?s red light district. For DS Logan McRae it?s a bad start to another bad day. Rosie won?t be the only one making an unscheduled trip to the morgue....
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Series
Museum mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
London, 1897. The capital is shocked to learn that the body of a woman has been found at the National Gallery, eviscerated in a manner that recalls all too strongly the exploits of the infamous Jack the Ripper. Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton are contacted by a curator of the National Gallery for their assistance. The dead woman, an artist's model and lady of the night, had links to artist Walter Sickert who was a suspect during the Ripper's spree...
17) Point of origin
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 9
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A farmhouse destroyed by fire. A body amongst the ruins. Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds a body which tells a story of a violent and grisly murder. The fire has come at the same time as another, even more incendiary horror: Carrie Grethen, a killer who nearly...
18) Better the blood
Author
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Aurora
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Hana Westerman is a tenacious Maori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland's Central Investigation Branch. When she's led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man hanging in a secret room. As Hana and her team work to track down the culprit, other deaths lead her to think that they are searching for New Zealand's first serial killer. With little to go on, Hana must use all her experience...
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