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A Most Wanted Man
John le Carré

$32.99$27.95 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )

A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his na... More »

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A Simple Act Of Violence
R.J. Ellory

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Orion )

Washington DC, embroiled in the mid-term elections, did not want to hear about serial killings. But when the newspapers reported a fourth murder, when they gave the killer a name and details of his horrendous crimes, the... More »

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Doors Open
Ian Rankin

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Orion )

Set in a very different Edinburgh to that inhabited by DI John Rebus, this new thriller will show a whole new side to Ian Rankin. With echoes of OCEAN'S 11 and THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, this novel centres on the glamorous... More »

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Arctic Chill
Arnaldur Indriðason

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Harvill )

On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wou... More »


Die A Little
Megan E. Abbott

$22.95 (Paperback book / Simon & Schuster )

How does a respectable young woman fall into Los Angeles' hard-boiled underworld?

Shadow-dodging through the glamorous world of 1950s Hollywood and its seedy flip side, Megan Abbott's debut, Die a Little, is a gem of the... More »

The Last Supper
Charles McCarry

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

On a rainy night in Paris, Paul Christopher’s lover, Molly Benson, falls victim to a vehicular homicide minutes after Christopher boards a jet bound for Vietnam. To explain this seemingly senseless murder, The Last Suppe... More »

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The Murder Stone
Louise Penny

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Headline )

A brilliant, big, old-fashioned drawing-room mystery with a denouement worthy of Agatha Christie. Wealthy, cultured and respectable, the Finney family is the epitome of gentility. When Irene Finney and her four grown-up ... More »

My Sister, My Love
Joyce Carol Oates

$33.00 (Trade paperback / Fourth Estate )

Joyce Carol Oates's most controversial novel to date, and certainly her most satirical, My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike recounts the saga of a murder through the eyes of the ninteen–year–old "sur... More »


The Private Patient
P.D. James

$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful... More »

The Museum Of Dr Moses
Joyce Carol Oates

$29.95$16.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )

In The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza, a woman’s world is upended when she learns the brutal truth about a family friend's death and what her father is capable of. In the title story, The Museum of Dr Moses, an estranged... More »


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