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Waiting for Wednesday

by Nicci French

2014

While consulting on the murder of housewife who was hiding a shocking secret, brilliant psychotherapist Frieda Klein is brought closer to a serial killer who has long escaped detection and wonders if she is solving both cases or if she is t…

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Skin Privilege

by Karin Slaughter

2011

It's no simple case of murder. The charred remains of a woman have been found, and Detective Lena Adams is charged with homicide. The evidence leads Sara Linton - Grant Country's resident medical examiner/pediatrician - and her husb…

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The Athenian Murders

by José Carlos Somoza, Sonia Soto

2002

In a dual story set in ancient Greece and modern times, the idealistic Diagoras teams up with Heracles Pontor to solve the murders of young Pluto's Academy students, and the present-day translator of the ancient text pursues what he bel…

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The Dogs of Riga

by Henning Mankell

2001

February, 1991. A life raft washes ashore in Skne carrying two dead men in expensive suits, shot gangland-style. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team determine that the men were Eastern European criminals. But what appears in Sweden to be …

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Fractured

by Karin Slaughter

2009

Discover second book in the gripping Will Trent series, from the Sunday Times bestselling crime and thriller author. 'Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled' MICHAEL CONNELLY 'One of the boldest thriller writers working…

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The Casebook Of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Doyale Conan

2019

This collection is the swan song of Sherlock Holmes, consisting of the twelve final cases of the famous detective and his inseparable friend John Watson. The mysteries are thrilling and packed with suspense, and the reader is sure to be dra…

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Miss Silver's Past

by Josef Škvorecký

1995

Karel Leden works in the State publishing house in Prague, where you publish what the Party likes, or risk life and liberty. Then the beautiful, mysterious Lenka Silver arrives. Passions rise--and suddenly there is a murder. There are plent…

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And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

2000

"First, there were ten - a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests …

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The Nine Unknown

by Talbot Mundy

2019

The Nine Unknown is a 1923 novel by Talbot Mundy. Originally serialised in Adventure magazine, it concerns the Nine Unknown Men, a secret society founded by the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka around 270 BC to preserve and develop knowledge that wou…

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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2019

Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will, Raskolnikov, and impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its…

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Trent's Last Case

by Edmund Clerihew Bentley

1995

A powerful and ruthless American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his English country house. But why is he not wearing his false teeth? Why is his young widow so relieved at his death? The artist and amateur detective Philip Trent …

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