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Field of Blood

Author : Denise Mina
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316031615
Total Pages : 347 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 347 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 : 288 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 288 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 . . .

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.

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

The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing

Author : Rosemary Herbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195072396
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing written by Rosemary Herbert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the gen

Friend of the Devil

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551991713
Total Pages : 468 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 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth installment of the internationally bestselling Inspector Banks series 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 seamlessly weaves a complex and compelling story. Friend of the Devil is a superb showcase of how deftly Robinson balances horror with humour, police procedures with the nuances of all-too-human emotions, and endings with the promise of new starts. Once again, he transcends the usual limits of the genre in this dazzling novel about the obsessive power of vengeance.

Gallows View

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476745226
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Gallows View written by Peter Robinson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first “devilishly good” (The New York Times Book Review) book in the thrilling bestselling crime series featuring British inspector Alan Banks as he seeks to catch a Jack the Ripper-like killer who is prowling the countryside. Chief Inspector Alan Banks moved away from London to the quaint village of Eastvale to find some peace, but trouble can be found in a village as well as in the city. Soon Banks must contend with a Peeping Tom, a group of thieving young thugs, and the brutal murder of an elderly woman in her home. A growing friendship with psychologist Jenny Fuller and tension with wife Sandra complicate matters, particularly when Jenny and Banks’s family are threatened. Ultimately, as the story builds to a surprising and terrifying climax, Banks must make some hard decisions.

British Crime Writing: A-H

Author : Barry Forshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846450303
Total Pages : 867 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book British Crime Writing: A-H written by Barry Forshaw and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a substantial, wide-ranging A-Z reference of British crime writing - including crime fiction, true and historical crime. From Sherlock Holmes to Inspector Morse, via Father Brown, Miss Marple and the Sweeney, British crime writing has thrilled the world. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive, in-depth A-Z encyclopedia to cover the astonishing riches of the whole tradition. Classic authors of the Golden Age of British Crime, such as Margery Allingham and Agatha Christie, rub shoulders with hot new writers like Martina Cole and Christopher Brookmyre, and established stars mingle with the most promising tyros. The great detectives who solve the elegant riddles of country house murders feature alongside the rawest recruits on the mean streets of Edinburgh, gangland London - and Aberystwyth.In addition, there are articles on all sub-genres of British crime writing - thrillers, espionage, historical crime, clerical crime, crime in academe, noir (and tart noir), literary crime and true crime. Key British film and TV film scripts are also included, and entries on specific subjects are complemented by essays on key themes such as 'Crime Fiction and Sexuality' and 'Social Comment in Crime Fiction'. As an extra treat, many of the articles are written by the crime writers themselves, such as Val McDermid, Lauren Henderson and Laura Wilson. This title exerts strong popular appeal to a general readership; it uniquely combines both historical and fictional crime; and is the most substantial reference resource on the subject

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

Author : M. Joannou
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137292172
Total Pages : 329 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 329 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.

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.

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.

100 American Crime Writers

Author : S. Powell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137031662
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book 100 American Crime Writers written by S. Powell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.

The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective

Author : Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486846733
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Able to assume a multitude of disguises and with analytical powers rivaling those of Sherlock Holmes, Loveday Brooke solves every perplexing crime in these seven atmospheric and entertaining Victorian mysteries.

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:

Morningstar: Growing Up With Books

Author : Ann Hood
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393254828
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Morningstar: Growing Up With Books written by Ann Hood and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] enchanting journey through Ann Hood’s early fascination with reading.… Book lovers will find Morningstar irresistible.”—Lynn Sharon Schwartz, author of Ruined by Reading Growing up in a mill town in Rhode Island, in a household that didn’t foster a love of reading, novelist Ann Hood discovered nonetheless the transformative power of literature. She learned to channel her imagination, ambitions, and curiosity by devouring ever-growing stacks of books. In Morningstar, Hood recollects with warmth and honesty how The Bell Jar, Marjorie Morningstar, The Harrad Experiment, and The Outsiders influenced her teen psyche and introduced her to topics that could not be discussed at home: desire, fear, sexuality, and madness. Later, Johnny Got His Gun and Grapes of Wrath dramatically influenced her political thinking while the Vietnam War and Kent State shootings became headline news, and classics such as Dr. Zhivago and Les Misérables stoked her ambitions to travel the world. With characteristic insight and charm, Hood showcases the ways in which books gave her life and can transform—even save—our own lives.

The Red Thread

Author : Ann Hood
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393339769
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Red Thread written by Ann Hood and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the loss of her daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens an adoption agency to place baby girls from China with American families and discovers the painful and courageous journeys of both adoptive parents and birth mothers.

British Crime Writing

Author : Barry Forshaw
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9781846450228
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book British Crime Writing written by Barry Forshaw and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference of British crime writing - including crime fiction, true and historical crime. It features classic authors of the Golden Age of British Crime, such as Margery Allingham and Agatha Christie, and writers like Martina Cole and Christopher Brookmyre.