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81) The Murder Game
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A woman appears on the streets of Shanghai. She has thousands of cuts – and is screaming for Inspector Danilov... Days later, the woman is dead. But another body is left waiting for the Inspector. Someone is playing with Danilov… someone prepared to kill, just to get their message across. At first, the victims seem unconnected. But with each body bringing a new message for Danilov, he knows this is a riddle especially designed for him. As more...
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The death of a local evil is only a sign of a more terrifying threat...
Crime is a way of life for the Devlin brothers. Groomed at an early age and trained as criminals by local gangsters, they get their thrills out of instilling terror amongst their victims. The brothers' macabre pact? Never to be arrested or caged.
Brutality hits the town of Harrowfield when the scourge of the community is found dead, his companion slaughtered. The locals react...
83) The Killing Time
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As tensions simmer in Shanghai, children go missing…Shanghai 1932: Inspector Danilov hasn't recovered from the death of his child... but across a Shanghai riven with communal tensions, children are going missing. Missing, and then murdered. Who is responsible? Why have the children's bodies been exhibited for all to see? Just as Danilov thinks the stakes couldn't be higher there is a new dimension, Japan, a rising power flexing its muscles. In fractious...
84) White Lilies
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The third in the D.I. Jack Dylan series, set in Yorkshire and written by the husband and wife team who are the storyline consultants to TV's Happy Valley and Scott & Bailey
Work has taken over Dylan's life once again and Jen, now heavily pregnant, feels sidelined. When a newly promoted detective sergeant arrives in Harrowfield, she proves more of a distraction than an asset. With stabbings, fatal road accidents and brutal attacks on girls to deal...
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Stay up late reading this twisty and gripping crime thriller collection. Includes the first three books in the Detective Catherine Bishop series; On Laughton Moor, Double Dealing and From the Shadows.
On Laughton Moor: When the body of a well-known local thug is discovered carrying a personal message for DS Catherine Bishop neither she, nor her team, can figure out why. Soon, a second victim is found and it is clear that Catherine and her enigmatic...
86) Payback
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Returning home is never easy. Not when there is a serial killer at work… A completely unputdownable crime thriller full of authentic detail.
DI Charley Mann left Yorkshire for the Met and a fast-track career – but now she's back, she's in charge and the area's first young, female DI. Her hometown, the Yorkshire countryside, and her old friends all seem unchanged.
But appearances can be deceptive.
When a brutal murder is discovered, Charley...
87) Condemned
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An old house. A fire. Two corpses… DI Charley Mann returns in this gripping crime thriller.
West Yorkshire DI Charley Mann is called for what seems a routine job. Prior to demolition a deserted manor house appears to have been the target of an arson attack.
But something isn't right.
The house has a dark history – and a dark present. When the remains of two bodies are discovered hidden inside, it soon emerges they were murdered decades apart....
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Uncover the past. Survive the present. Save the future.
Fourteen years ago, the police caged a notorious serial killer who abducted and butchered two victims every February.
But, in the present day, when another body is discovered, they soon realise that the culprit is still at large.
Neuropsychologist Kyra Sullivan, still traumatised by the murders, wields a new technology that accesses the minds of the witnesses, working with the police to...
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Lock your windows. Lock your door. And don't look outside...
At the local university a series of incidents is raising alarm. Someone is breaking into students bedrooms through the windows.
But things get even more serious when a corpse is discovered on the outskirts of town. DI Charley Mann, dealing with her own problems, is drafted in to investigate. At first there doesn't seem to be a connection, but Charley suspects otherwise.
Following the evidence...
90) Vengeance
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A terrible act of violence. A chance occurrence – or something more sinister?
On a beautiful summer afternoon, Stacey Sullivan is getting married to Mark James. But then screams smother the laughter, police sirens drown out the church bells. Out of nowhere, a drug-fuelled gunman opens fire on the wedding party.
The shooter is beaten, disarmed and detained by the guests. No one knows who the gunman is… or if they do, they're not admitting it....
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To love and to cherish, till death did them part...
'A brilliant thriller' The Sun
Two desiccated bodies are found in each other's arms in the bricked up room of a derelict Victorian warehouse. After six months of work, the police have nothing and Ridpath is finally called in to investigate. Dubbed the Romeo and Juliet murders by the press, so many questions remain unanswered.
Who are they? Why were they there? Who killed them? And why was the...
92) Time To Go
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Caelan Small is leading a quiet life, lying low and off the force until her old boss calls. A woman is in trouble, threatened with kidnap or worse.
Back in the Met, she goes undercover with the vicious dealer Mulligan, entering a dark underworld of drugs, scammers and thieves. Nobody can be trusted.
As Caelan gets drawn into the investigation, she starts to uncover a shocking trade in human flesh. Tensions reach boiling point and the search becomes...
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'There was a history in this house, secrets he hadn't even got close to scratching the surface of…'
Something peculiar is going on at The Lloyd Estate.
The enormous house and its vast grounds are rarely seen by outsiders. Only Audrey Lloyd – the cantankerous elderly owner and only daughter to the famed movie mogul who built the mansion – knows of the suffocating darkness that has settled on the place.
Property developers have come to Audrey...
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One chance encounter, one street side murder, will change everything… The extraordinary new Ridpath crime thriller
Manchester has been at peace for twenty years. Not anymore.
DI Ridpath is in the process of getting his life back together when everything goes wrong.
Driving to meet his daughter, he his caught in a horrific motorway accident, in which a near-naked man is rundown by a lorry, while fleeing from a lone gunman. As Ridpath closes Manchester's...
95) Bad Terms
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Dark deeds in the Peak District refuse to stay buried…
When a skeleton is unearthed at a building site in the village of Meresham, the police immediately link the case to a notorious missing persons investigation. Jayne Arnold was sixteen when she disappeared in the long, hot summer of 1976, and has not been seen since.
Soon after the bones are found, a tragic accident occurs at an elite boarding school nearby. The young victim fell to her...
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Can DI Clare Mackay unravel a dead man's secrets?
Harry Richards, a local solicitor, is found in his car, throat slit.
DI Clare Mackay is on the case. She soon learns that Harry was not the upstanding man he seemed to be. Finding the killer should be easy.
Then the wife of one of Harry's colleagues is discovered dead in her car, and Clare realises there is something more sinister at play…
Can she find out who's behind the murders before...
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There are no easy choices when the dark clouds gather
DI Shona Oliver's past and present collide when James McGowan, her ex-classmate – now a famous actor – comes to the area to make a Robert Burns biopic. Shona is tasked with keeping him safe during filming on an isolated island in the Solway Firth, and her job is made much harder when a dead man wearing James's coat is found on the beach in suspicious circumstances. It seems someone wanted...
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Small town justice comes with a price.
'Full of tension and suspense, I couldn't put this down. The twists and turns kept me on the edge of my seat. Brilliant!' Simon McCleave
'Dark, gut-punching and satisfying all at once. Expert handling of characters and pace, and a glorious evisceration of moral duty!' Rachel Lynch
Ten years ago, in the pine-shaded town of Savage Ridge, Nick, Emmy, and Pete murder their high school classmate, Sammy Saint...
99) Silent Bones
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The discovery of a skeleton in Thirlmere Reservoir has shaken the tight-knit community of Pooley Bridge.
For DI Kelly Porter, the case quickly becomes personal when the bones are revealed to be the remains of an old classmate. Brian Miller was just seventeen when he went missing over twenty years ago.
A day later, another body is found in a caravan park, its head broken and bloody. Jason Cooper had been a friend of Brian's, and one of the last...
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