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  • So Many Doors
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    So Many Doors

    A man sits in a cell on death row, sentenced to die for the murder of the beautiful woman called V. But as we learn the story of her death - and of her troubled, torrid life - one question haunts us: why would any man kill the woman he craves more than...
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  • Help I Am Being Held Prisoner
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    Help I Am Being Held Prisoner

    JAILED FOR A JOKE It isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold Knt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low...
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  • The Triumph of the Spider Monkey
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    The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

    Unavailable for 40 years, this seminal novel of madness and murder is acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates' powerful trip into the mind of a maniac. Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention...
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  • Shills Can't Cash Chips
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    Shills Can't Cash Chips

    Has Donald Lam gone to the dark side? From the world-famous creator of Perry Mason, Erle Stanley Gardner - at his death the best-selling American writer of all time - comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency: Shills...
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  • The Blackbird Season
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    The Blackbird Season

    In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a thousand dead starlings fall onto a high school baseball field, unleashing a horrifying and unexpected chain of events that will rock the close-knit community.Beloved baseball coach and teacher Nate Winters and his wife,...
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  • A Baby's Bones
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    A Baby's Bones

    Archaeologist Sage Westfield has been called in to excavate a sixteenth-century well, and expects to find little more than soil and the odd piece of pottery. But the disturbing discovery of the bones of a woman and new-born baby make it clear that she...
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    Mike Hammer: Masquerade for Murder
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    Mike Hammer: Masquerade for Murder

    Mike Hammer is at a high society party when a wealthy and well-respected man, Colby, is hit by a car and badly injured. When all he expected was a night on the town, Mike is hired to find out who was driving the car. His search leads him on a...
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  • Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Dust
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    Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Dust

    London, 1883. Mrs Hudson begs Holmes and Watson to help her friend, a fellow landlady whose lodger has been found poisoned. The police suspect the landlady of murder, but Mrs Hudson insists that her friend is innocent.Upon investigating, the companions...
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    Modesty Blaise - The Killing Game
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    Modesty Blaise - The Killing Game

    Wedding bells are sounding for Guido the Jinx, but as always he's in over his head and Modesty and Willie must fight to save him, and the world, from bio-terrorists in 'The Last Aristocrat'.Modesty and Willie are forced to become quarry in a big game...
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  • A Treacherous Curse
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    A Treacherous Curse

    Members of an Egyptian expedition fall victim to an ancient mummy's curse in a thrilling Veronica Speedwell novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries. London, 1888.As colourful and unfettered as the butterflies she...
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  • Lawless and the Devil of Euston Square
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    Lawless and the Devil of Euston Square

    "Before Holmes, there was Lawless - Before Lawless, the London streets weren't safe towalk" - London, 1859.Novice detective, Campbell Lawless, stumbles onto the trail of Berwick Skelton, an elusive revolutionary,seemingly determined to bring London to...
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  • The Knife Slipped
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    The Knife Slipped

    Lost for more than 75 years, The Knife Slipped was meant to be the second book in the series, but was shelved when Gardner's publisher objected to (among other things) Bertha Cool's tendency to "talk tough, swear, smoke cigarettes, and try to gyp people...
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  • Quarry's List
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    Quarry's List

    NOW A CINEMAX TELEVISION SERIES!The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature ahitman as the main character, the Quarry novels tell the story of a paid assassin with a rebellious streak...
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  • Vinyl Detective - Victory Disc
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    Vinyl Detective - Victory Disc

    This time the search for a rare record ensnares our hero in a mystery with its roots stretching back to the Second World War.Three young RAF airmen played in a legendary band called the Flare Path Orchestra. When a precious record of their music turns up...
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  • The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes
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    The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes

    In the depths of her blue eyes, he glimpsed... murder. Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to...
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  • Hack (an F.X Shepherd Mystery)
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    Hack (an F.X Shepherd Mystery)

    It's a dog-eat-dog world at the infamous tabloid New York Mail, where brand new pet columnistF.X. Shepherd finds himself on the trail of a killer with a wicked sense of humour, who is hackingcelebrities to death.When a famous TV foodie's husband is...
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  • Raging Heat (Castle)
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    Raging Heat (Castle)

    In New York Times Bestselling author Richard Castle's newest novel, an illegal immigrant falls from the sky and NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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    Joyland (Illustrated Edition)
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    Joyland (Illustrated Edition)

    Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work in a fairground and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both...
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  • Ultimate Storm
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    Ultimate Storm

    Collected for the first time in paperback, A Brewing Storm, A Raging Storm and A Bloody Storm are... The Ultimate Storm!Four years after he was presumed dead, Derrick Storm--the man who made Richard Castle a bestseller is back, lured out of retirement to...
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    Mike Hammer - Kill Me, Darling
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    Mike Hammer - Kill Me, Darling

    The course of true love never did run smooth for PI Mike Hammer. His secretary and partner Velda has walked out on him without explanation, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then an old cop turns up murdered, an old cop who once...
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    Mandrake the Magician
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    Mandrake the Magician

    These are the further newspaper comic strip adventures of Mandrake The Magician and his ever-faithful companion and trusty side-kick, Lothar. Join them on their never-ending quest as they once again unravel mysteries, battle intrigue and lock horns with...
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    The First Kingdom, Vol 6
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    The First Kingdom, Vol 6

    The never-before-published conclusion to the six-volume First Kingdom saga! The incredible conclusion to Jack Katz's personal saga of science fiction and human achievement: forty years in the telling - begun in 1974 and concluded in 2014!Modelled on the...
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    Thieves Fall Out
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    Thieves Fall Out

    The lost pulp crime novel by great American novelist Gore Vidal! Hired to smuggle an ancient artefact out of Egypt, Pete Wells finds himself the target of killers and femme fatales - and just one step away from triggering a revolution that will...
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  • Borderline
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    Borderline

    THE SCORCHING PULP NOVEL BY LAWRENCE BLOCK, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 50 YEARS! On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide - with fatal results. You'll meet MARTY - the professional gambler who rolls...
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    Modern Japanese Short Stories
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    Modern Japanese Short Stories

    Modern Japanese Short Stories is a remarkable collection of Japanese stories from the pioneers of contemporary Japanese literature. This volume's twenty-five stories by as many authors display a wide range of style and subject matter - offering a...
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    Curse of the Reaper
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    Curse of the Reaper

    Decades after playing the titular killer in the 80s horror franchise Night of the Reaper, Howard Browning has been reduced to signing autographs for his dwindling fanbase at genre conventions. When the studio announces a series reboot, the aging thespian...
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    Scarecrow Has a Gun
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    Scarecrow Has a Gun

    Never trust other people's memories, and watch out for your own He knows he wept, but he cannot recollect a single other detail. Tormented by the tragedy, Sean relives the horror over and over again. As he struggles to recall what really happened, his...
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  • The Goldenacre
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    The Goldenacre

    The Goldenacre a masterpiece by the painter and architect Charles Rennie Mackintoshhas been given to the people of Scotland. The beautiful canvas, the last work by the artistic genius, enthrals the art world, but behind it lies a dark and violent mystery...
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    Daggers Drawn
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    Daggers Drawn

    NINETEEN CWA DAGGER AWARD-WINNING SHORT STORIES FROM THE BEST OF THE BEST IN CRIME FICTION Maxim Jakubowski has edited all the great names in crime fiction and stories from his anthologies have won the CWA Dagger six times. Now he has collected 19 Dagger...
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    The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland Omnibus
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    The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland Omnibus

    Gathering Tremblay's two classic noirs, The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland, watch Genevich unravel the mystery of missing people when the questions are, when did he fall asleep and who hired him in the first place?The Little Sleep is Paul...
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    Modesty Blaise
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    Modesty Blaise

    Continuing the only complete collection of Modesty Blaise adventures! The return of the 'ass-kicking femme fatale'. Full of classic action and adventure and dripping with '60's chic.
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    Anybody Home?
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    Anybody Home?

    What came first, the home or the desire to invade?A seasonedinvaderwith multiple home invasions undertheir belt recounts their dark victories while offering tutelage to a newgeneration of ambitious home invaders eager to make their mark on the annals...
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    The Complication
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    The Complication

    From the iconic houseboats of Seattle's Lake Union to the stunning San Juan Islands, The ComplicationBased on a shocking true story of medical wrongdoing, The Complication is Dr. DeathThe strong female protagonists-a brilliant but chaotic lawyer and a...
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    Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
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    Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body

    Book will have French flaps New title in Feminist Press's Amethyst Editions imprint: American LGBTQ+ books that present queer narratives beyond adolescent coming-out, curated by author and literary organizer Michelle Tea In some ways, this novel tells a...
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    A Coin for the Ferryman
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    A Coin for the Ferryman

    The story can now be told.The shocking details of Caesar's visit and its effect on subsequent events have been protected by draconian nondisclosure agreements....until now.
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  • Rizzio
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    Rizzio

    It's Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She's hosting a supper party, secure in her private chambers. She doesn't know that her Palace is surrounded - that, right now, an army of...
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  • Where Demons Hide
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    Where Demons Hide

    Something scared Nuala Flaherty to death. When her body is found in the centre of a pentagram on a lonely moor, Rebecca is determined to find out what. Was she killed by supernatural means, or is there a more down-to-earth explanation?Rebecca's...
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    Rizzio: Darkland Tales
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    Rizzio: Darkland Tales

    'a tour de force work of art' The Wall Street Journal, Best Books of the YearIt's Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She's hosting a supper party, secure in her private...
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  • A Rattle of Bones
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    A Rattle of Bones

    Longlisted for McIlvanneyScottish Crime Book of the YearIn 1752, Seamus a'Ghlynne, James of the Glen, was executed for the murder of government man Colin Campbell. He was almost certainly innocent.When banners are placed at his gravesite claiming that...
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  • The Blood is Still
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    The Blood is Still

    When the body of a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is discovered on the site of the Battle of Culloden, journalist Rebecca Connolly takes up the story for the Chronicle.Meanwhile, a film being made about the '45 Rebellion has enraged...
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  • Sherlock Holmes - Masters of Lies
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    Sherlock Holmes - Masters of Lies

    A brand-new, brilliantly twisty Sherlock Holmes mystery from 'best kept secret of British genre writing' - British Fantasy Society When investigating what seems to be a suicide, Holmes and Watson uncover a murderous forgery ring with...
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  • The Vinyl Detective - Attack and Decay
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    The Vinyl Detective - Attack and Decay

    The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of death metal in his sixth adventure. Expect laughs, LPs, cats and the return of fan favourites, Nevada, Tinkler, Stinky Stanmer and more.It starts with a perfectly normal evening in, except for the...
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  • Sherlock Holmes and the Great War
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    Sherlock Holmes and the Great War

    December 1917. An important visitor arrives at a field hospital not far from the front, who makes sharp deductions about the way the ward is run based on small details that he sees.Sherlock Holmes is apparently only present for a tour, but asks searching...
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  • Later
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    Later

    SOMETIMES GROWING UPMEANS FACING YOUR DEMONSThe son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mother urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no...
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  • A Bloody Business
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    A Bloody Business

    The real story, unvarnished and uncensored, of the Mob's rise to power during Prohibition. The Italian Mob...the Jewish Mob...you've read the stories, you've watched the movies, you know the names: Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Bugsy...
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  • Sinner Man
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    Sinner Man

    To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a...
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Crime & Mystery Books – Best Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Novels & Mystery Books in Australia

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