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Field of Blood

Author : Denise Mina
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316031615
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Field of Blood written by Denise Mina and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Glasgow in 1981, a time of hunger strikes, riots and unemployment that decimated the old industrial heartlands, The Field of Blood is the first in the tense Paddy Meehan series from Scotland's princess of crime, Denise Mina. The vicious murder of a young child provides rookie journalist Paddy Meehan with her first big break when the suspect turns out to be her fiance's 11-year old cousin. Launching her own investigation into the horrific crime, Paddy uncovers lines of deception deep in Glasgow's past, with more horrific crimes in the future if she fails to solve the mystery. Infused with Mina's unique blend of dark humor, personal insights and social injustice, the story grips the reader while challenging our perceptions of childhood innocence, crime and punishment, and right or wrong.

The Return of Captain John Emmett

Author : Elizabeth Speller
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 074812697X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Return of Captain John Emmett written by Elizabeth Speller and published by Virago. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1920. The Great War has been over for two years, and it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914. Following the death of his wife and baby and his experiences on the Western Front, Laurence Bartram has become something of a recluse. Yet death and the aftermath of the conflict continue to cast a pall over peacetime England, and when a young woman he once knew persuades him to look into events that apparently led her brother, John Emmett, to kill himself, Laurence is forced to revisit the darkest parts of the war. As Laurence unravels the connections between Captain Emmett's suicide, a group of war poets, a bitter regimental feud and a hidden love affair, more disquieting deaths are exposed. Even at the moment Laurence begins to live again, it dawns on him that nothing is as it seems, and that even those closest to him have their secrets . . .

Friend of the Devil

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551991713
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Friend of the Devil written by Peter Robinson and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a cliff edge overlooking the North Sea, a quadriplegic woman in a wheelchair stares unseeingly at the waves. She had been murdered. And, miles away, in a storeroom in the Maze, a medieval warren of yards and alleys at the heart of Eastvale, Yorkshire, a young woman lies sprawled on a heap of leather scraps. She too has been murdered. Their bodies are discovered at about the same time that DI Annie Cabbot, on secondment to the Eastern Area force, wakes with a severe hangover in the bed of a young man she barely recognizes. From these three strands, Peter Robinson weaves his latest complex and compelling story. While DCI Alan Banks tries to figure out how anyone was able to murder Hayley Daniels, when the closed-circuit cameras trained on the entrances to the Maze show that no one preceded or followed her into its shadows, Cabbot learns two things that make her blood run cold: the real intentions of her one-night stand and the true identity of the quadriplegic woman. A ghost from the past is back to haunt both her and Banks. Peter Robinson’s Inspector Banks novels are among the best detective fiction in the world, and their multi-layered stories continue to surprise, engross, thrill, and delight readers. Friend of the Devil is a superb showcase of how deftly he balances horror with humour, police procedures with the nuances of all-too-human emotions, and endings with the promise of new starts. Once again, Robinson transcends the usual limits of the genre in this dazzling novel about the obsessive power of vengeance.

The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories

Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192829689
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories written by Patricia Craig and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for all armchair detectives, this collection of 33 classic whodunits is the cream of crime writing.

Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel (Poirot)

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008516022
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel (Poirot) written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2024-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agatha Christie’s most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.

Dry Bones That Dream

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 033051458X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Dry Bones That Dream written by Peter Robinson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong’ – Stephen King Dry Bones That Dream is the seventh novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Wednesday's Child. A contract killing. A secret past. Banks is pushed to his limit. 2.47 a.m. Chief Inspector Alan Banks sees the body of Keith Rothwell for the first time. Only hours earlier two masked men had walked the mild-mannered accountant out of his farmhouse to the barn. They then clinically executed him with a shotgun. Clearly this is a professional hit – but Keith was hardly the sort of person to make deadly enemies. Or was he? The police investigation soon raises more questions than answers. The more Banks scratches the surface, the more he wonders what lies beneath the veneer of the apparently happy Rothwell family. And when his old sparring partner Detective Superintendent Richard Burgess arrives from Scotland Yard, the case takes yet another unexpected twist . . . Now a major British ITV drama DCI Banks, this novel is followed by the eighth book in this Yorkshire-based crime series, Innocent Graves.

Blood on Snow

Author : Rachel Amphlett
Publisher : Saxon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1913498700
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Blood on Snow written by Rachel Amphlett and published by Saxon Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas time can be murder… A suburban housewife is found dead in her garden. There is no weapon, no witnesses, and the only set of footprints belong to her cat. Probationary detective Kay Hunter and her colleagues are convinced it’s murder – but how can they find a killer when there are no clues? Blood on Snow forms part of the Case Files series of short crime stories from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett. Police procedural,british detective,female detective,women sleuths,mystery series,serial killer,murder mystery,short story,short stories,murder mysteries,Christmas mystery,cozy mystery,cosy mystery

Gallows View

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143173235
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Gallows View written by Peter Robinson and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chief Inspector Alan Banks of the Criminal Investigation Department has been recently transferred from London to Eastvale, a town in the Yorkshire dales. His desire to escape the stress of city life appears to be satisfied by Eastvale's cobbled market square, its tree-shaded river and its picturesque castle ruins. But the village begins to show a more dangerous side... As a peeping Tom disturbs the peace of Eastvale women, police are accused of underestimating the seriousness of the crime. At the same time, Banks is investigating the case of two local teenagers whose crimes are escalating from theft to violence. The two cases weave together as this tough, gritty novel of power and suspense reaches a terrifying and surprising climax.

Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030657604
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction offers an overview of the ways in which the past is brought back to the surface and influences the present in British detective fiction written between 1920 and 2020. Exploring a range of authors including Agatha Christie, Patricia Wentworth, Val McDermid, Sarah Caudwell, Georgette Heyer, Dorothy Dunnett, Jonathan Stroud and Ben Aaronovitch, Lisa Hopkins argues that both the literal and literary disinterment of the past use elements of the national past to interrogate the present. As such, in the texts discussed, uncovering the truth about an individual crime is also typically an uncovering of a more general connection between the present and the past. Whether detective novels explore murders on archaeological digs, hauntings, cold crimes or killings at Christmas, Hopkins explores the underlying message that you cannot understand the present unless you understand the past.

English Country House Murders

Author : Thomas Godfrey
Publisher : Mysterious Press
ISBN 13 : 9780445408456
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book English Country House Murders written by Thomas Godfrey and published by Mysterious Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities.

The Man with a Load of Mischief

Author : Martha Grimes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476732949
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Man with a Load of Mischief written by Martha Grimes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Martha Grimes, Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury is back on the case in an installment in the Richard Jury Mystery series. Long Piddleton had always been wary of newcomers. But the quiet town was stunned when the first stranger was found dead, upended in a butt of ale in the cellar of the Men with a Load of Mischief. Then the second body appeared, swinging in place of the mechanical man above the door of the Jack and Hammer. Suddenly Long Piddleton had good reason to be wary of everyone! Its cozy pubs and inns with their polished pewter and blazing hearths had become scenes of the most bizarre crimes. Who were the victims? And who was the murderer? A stranger? A maniac? Or the disarmingly friendly man next door?

The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Running Press
ISBN 13 : 9780762442676
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction written by Mike Ashley and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle delighted readers with the fictional genius detective, Sherlock Holmes, crime fiction has been plumbed by mystery writers everywhere. This volume of 12 stories spans crime from the Bronze Age to World War II, and will appeal to the current readers of The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures and Best British Mysteries.

100 British Crime Writers

Author : Esme Miskimmin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 113731902X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book 100 British Crime Writers written by Esme Miskimmin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: 'The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855-1918; 'The Golden Age and World War Two, 1919-1945; 'Post-War and Cold War, 1946-1989; and 'To the Millennium and Beyond, 1990-2015, each section offers an introduction to the significant features of these eras in crime fiction and discusses trends in publication, readership, and critical response. With entries spanning the earliest authors of crime fiction to a selection of innovative contemporary novelists, this book considers the development and progression of the genre in the light of historical and social events.

Scared to Death

Author : Rachel Amphlett
Publisher : Saxon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0994433751
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book Scared to Death written by Rachel Amphlett and published by Saxon Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brit Noir

Author : Barry Forshaw
Publisher : Oldcastle Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843446413
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Brit Noir written by Barry Forshaw and published by Oldcastle Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction from European countries, but his principal area of expertise is in the British crime arena, as demonstrated in such books as British Crime Writing, The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction and British Crime Film. After the success of earlier entries in the series, Nordic Noir and Euro Noir, he returns to the British Isles to produce the ultimate reader's guide to modern British crime fiction (taking in the best from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland). The word 'Noir' is used in its loosest sense as every major living British and Irish writer is considered, often through a concentration on one or two key books, and exciting new talents are highlighted for the reader. Forshaw's personal acquaintance with writers, editors and publishers is unparalleled, so Brit Noir features interviews with (and quotations from) the writers, editors and publishers themselves. The characteristics of the very different writing from London, the regions, Scotland, Ireland and Wales are examined and celebrated. 'Unsurprisingly Barry Forshaw's Brit Noir is a wonderful reference book that any self-respecting and serious connoisseur of crime fiction needs to have on their book-shelf' - Shots Magazine 'A must-have for crime fans: for reminding yourself about old favourites, for finding new authors, and for that "What shall we watch?" moment' - Mystery People Look out for the other books in Barry Forshaw's Noir series, Euro Noir, Nordic Noir, American Noir and Historical Noir, and for his latest book, Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide.

We Begin at the End

Author : Chris Whitaker
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250759676
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book We Begin at the End written by Chris Whitaker and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel from the Crime Writers’ Association (UK) Winner for Best International Crime Fiction from Australian Crime Writers Association An Instant New York Times Bestseller “A vibrant, engrossing, unputdownable thriller that packs a serious emotional punch. One of those rare books that surprise you along the way and then linger in your mind long after you have finished it.” —Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds Right. Wrong. Life is lived somewhere in between. Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. And he's in overdrive protecting Duchess and her brother. Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released. And Duchess and Walk must face the trouble that comes with his return. We Begin at the End is an extraordinary novel about two kinds of families—the ones we are born into and the ones we create.

The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945

Author : M. Joannou
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137292172
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945 written by M. Joannou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.