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The historic city of Granada is vibrant with the spectacle of its Easter processions; its bars and streets brimming with life. But high in the adjacent Alhambra hills, gypsy guitarist Paco is found dead in a Sacromonte cave.Sub-Inspector Max Romero is brought in to...
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C & r Crime
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2010-07-29
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The extremely aristocratic but extremely thick Blotto and his extremely brainy sister Twinks are attending a weekend house party when the inevitable happens. Their hostess, the Dowager Duchess of Melmont, is murdered. An amateur detective, conveniently staying for the...
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Constable
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2010-07-29
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Blotto Twinks
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Sub-inspector Max Romero is asked to help investigate the death of Leila, a beautiful Muslim postgraduate student, researching the impacts of the Spanish Civil War on Max's home village in the Sierra Nevada. The prime suspect, Hassan, has links to a supposed terrorist...
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C & r Crime
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2010-07-29
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Since the murder of his eight-year-old son, George Gates has written local stories for the town paper. A former travel writer, once he specialized in writing about places where people disappeared, sometimes individuals, sometimes whole societies.Since the tragedy, he...
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Quercus
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2010-07-29
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A gruesome discovery at an old children's home lays bare terrible secret's from Norwich's past in the second gripping mystery for Dr Ruth Galloway.'The setting is enticingly atmospheric . . . a really intelligent murder story' IndependentDr Ruth Galloway's forensic...
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Quercus
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2010-07-29
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The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries
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Breslau, 1919: the hideously battered, naked bodies of four sailors are discovered on an island in the River Oder. As he pieces together the elements of this brutal crime, Criminal Assistant Mock combs the brothels and drinking dens of Breslau and is drawn into an...
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Maclehose Press
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2010-07-29
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Small time America...a college student...organised crime - and murder. A brilliantly dark tale from the noir master'The best suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMES'My favorite crime novelist - often imitated but never duplicated' Stephen King'The master of the...
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Orion
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2010-07-22
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Classic crime novel by acclaimed author Jim Thompson - 'the best suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMESThe story of a bank robbery and its aftermath, of cross and double-cross, told with the unflinching eye of America's greatest crime writer.When it comes to...
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Orion
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2010-07-22
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Reissue of a true classic - 'One of the toughest crime novels ever' (Newsweek).'Jim Thompson is the best suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMESRoy Dillon is young, good-looking and devastatingly charming. He's also a completely amoral con man. Lily, his mother,...
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Orion
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2010-07-22
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'A blisteringly imaginative crime novelist...violent, amoral, terse and fast-moving . . .a classic American novelist' Kirkus ReviewsJoe Wilmot is a smooth operator. He runs the picture house in Stoneville and he knows how to deal with everyone, from the movie...
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Orion
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2010-07-22
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'The toughest crime novels ever' NewsweekThe Manson looked like a respectable hotel; Dusty Rhodes looked like a selfless young man working as a bellhop; and the woman on the tenth floor who arrived on the midnight train looked like a slumming angel. But appearances can...
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Orion
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2010-07-22
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A major, stand-alone thriller from Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Lawrence Block, author of the acclaimed Matt Scudder books.A beautiful young woman called Marilyn picks up a stranger in a bar and takes him home to her Manhattan apartment. The next morning her...
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Orion
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2010-07-22
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'A blisteringly imaginative crime novelist . . . violent, amoral, terse and fast-moving . . . a classic American novelist' Kirkus ReviewsA HELL OF A WOMAN is Jim Thompson's version of an American CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.In a novel completely devoid of sentiment, 'Dolly'...
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Orion
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2010-07-22
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A superb thriller from the writer ofA WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES.Scudder is a witness to a heist in an illegal drinking den, and the owners would like him to find the culprits, while another witness wants him to investigate the murder of his wife....
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Orion
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2010-07-22
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Sequel to Block's previous work, Hit Man, a gripping insight into the life of a paid assassin who finds his way on to someone else's hit list.Superficially, John Keller - the urban lonely guy of assassins - leads a normal life despite his profession. He has an office...
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Orion
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2010-07-22
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A blistering Matt Scudder novel.Matt Scudder is well and truly off the booze, but he still spends time with some of his old drinking pals including Mick Ballou - an Irish American who operates more often than not on the wrong side of the law.Mick is worried - a garage...
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Orion
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2010-07-22
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Corruption and danger are rife in Lawrence Block's incredible Matt Scudder thriller.Staying alive is never easy; not for the prostitute who is slashed to ribbons, nor for the pimp named Chance who is betting his life that the broken down investigator Matt Scudder can...
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Orion
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2010-07-22
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A gripping Matt Scudder novel from the author ofA WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES.Nine long years have passed since the killer last struck. Nine years since eight helpless young women were hideously slaughtered by an ice-pick wielding maniac. Now hard-drinking ex-cop and...
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Orion
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2010-07-22
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'NIGHTMARE': WHEN FACT AND FICTION COLLIDEDetective Inspector Hazel Micallef is recovering from a bad year, and a traumatic back operation that has left her in the care of her ex husband and his new wife. But Hazel is lured back to work when a body is pulled from a...
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Transworld Digital
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2010-07-22
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'A blisteringly imaginative crime novelist...violent, amoral, terse and fast-moving...a classic American novelist' Kirkus ReviewsBill Collins is young, good looking, agile and strong, but he's a drifter with mild multiple neuroses, in and out of institutions, and...
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Orion
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2010-07-22
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