June 2008 Crime Fiction
Oscar Wilde And The Ring Of Death
$33.00 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
'I see murder in this unhappy hand!'
When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evenin... More »
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The Secret Lovers
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
A nervous courier delivers the handwritten manuscript of a dissident Russian novel to Paul Christopher early one morning in West Berlin. Minutes after the hand-off, the courier’s spine is neatly snapped by an impact with... More »
Careless In Red
$33.00 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
It is barely three months since the murder of his wife and Thomas Lynley takes to the South-West Coast Path in Cornwall, determined to walk its length in an attempt to distract himself from his loss. On the forty-third d... More »
Cemetery Lake
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Bantam Press )
Tate is a private investigator who is barely coping with life. He's at the cemetery exhuming a body for an investigation, and across the cemetery lake is buried his dead daughter, whose death was the beginning of many lo... More »
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Crime: A Series Of Extraordinary Interviews
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Fuel )
How much do criminal acts and their representation in cinema, literature and music really have in common? Is the execution of crime in everyday life as appealing or as inspired as creative artists have made it seem since... More »
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