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    Murder by the Book

    'If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a major character is a bookseller or a librarian.' Otto PenzlerA bookish puzzle threatens an eagerly awaited inheritance; a submission to a publisher...
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    The Lost Gallows

    As the thick, autumnal fog chokes the capital, within the fire-lit lounge of London's notorious Brimstone Club a bizarre tale is being spun for Inspector Bencolin and his friend Jeff Marle. A member of the club has been sent a model of a tiny gallows,...
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    The Port of London Murders

    When the San Angelo drifts into port in the Pool of London, telephones begin to ring across the capital and an intricate series of events is set in motion. Beset by dreadful storms in the Bay of Biscay, the ship, along with the 'mixed cargo' it carries,...
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    A Surprise for Christmas

    '"After all," said our host, "it's Christmas. Why not let the cat out of the bag?"'A Postman murdered while delivering cards on Christmas morning. A Christmas pine growing over a forgotten homicide. A Yuletide heist gone horribly wrong. When there's as...
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    The Spoilt Kill

    Staffordshire in the 1950s. Within the clay tanks at the pottery company Shentall's, a body has been found. Amid cries of industrial espionage and sabotage of this leader of the pottery industry, there is a case of bitter murder to solve for Inspector...
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    Crossed Skis

    In London's Bloomsbury, Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard looks down at a dismal scene. Here is the victim, burnt to a crisp. Here are the clues - clues which point to a good climber and expert skier, and which lead Rivers to the piercing sunshine...
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    The Chianti Flask

    "[Belloc Lowndes] brings to the making of a mystery a literary sense and an imagination that puts life into the tale and into the readers." The Observer An enigmatic young woman named Laura Dousland stands on trial for murder, accused of poisoning her...
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    Death of a Bookseller

    An honest policeman, Sergeant Wigan, escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and, seeing his fine book collection, slowly falls in to the gentle art of book collecting. Just as the friendship is blossoming, the policeman's...
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    Castle Skull

    'That is the case. Alison has been murdered. His blazing body was seen running about the battlements of Castle Skull.'And so a dark shadow looms over the Rhineland where Inspector Henri Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle have arrived from Paris...
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    Settling Scores

    "The detective story is a game between two players, the author... and the reader." Ronald Knox From the squash court to the golf links, the football pitch to the swimming pool and the race course to the cricket square, no court, grounds, stadium or stand...
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    Due to a Death

    "Her writing is moment by moment intense, and successful as such... What propels the reader through the pages is not the tug of 'who done it' nor the excitement of men with guns coming through doors, but the sheer excellence of the writing." H.R.F...
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    The Murder of My Aunt

    'I should be very much happier if she were dead.' Edward Powell lives with his Aunt Mildred in the Welsh town of Lywll. His aunt thinks Lywll an idyllic place to live, but Edward loathes the countryside - and thinks the company even worse. In face,...
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    Fire in the Thatch

    The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon - renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory Fitzjohn. Vaughan sets to work farming the land, rearing...
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    The Division Bell Mystery

    `Through the double clamour of Big Ben and the shrill sound of the bell rang a revolver shot.' A financier is found shot in the House of Commons. Suspecting foul play, Robert West, a parliamentary private secretary, takes on the role of amateur sleuth...
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    Somebody at the Door

    'The death was an odd one, it was true; but there was after all no very clear reason to assume it was anything but natural.' In the winter of 1942, England lies cold and dark in the wartime blackout. One bleak evening, Councillor Grayling steps off the 6...
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    Murder at the Manor

    The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. Short stories are an important part of this tradition, and writers from Agatha Christie to Margery Allingham became famous for the intricate cases which their...
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    Ashram Assassin

    Humorous cosy-crime caper in which a feisty, amoral book dealer uses her unique skills to catch a murderer, desperate to hide the secrets kept by the yoga-obsessed staff and students of a West London ashram.When a set of rare, impossible-to-find yoga...
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    Death Drops the Pilot

    Things get murky when a ferry captain is found dead in the water in this mystery starring Inspector Littlejohn, "the model of a calm, rational policeman" (Publishers Weekly).After a ferry to Falbright carrying forty people runs aground, the skipper is...
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    Intruder in the Dark

    A corpse in a country house brings Scotland Yard to an eerily quiet English village, in this tale by a master of British mystery.Cyril Savage has inherited the home of his wealthy and estranged aunt. But before Savage has the chance to discover her...
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    Death Treads Softly

    Two separate murders put CI Littlejohn on a devious killer's twisting path in this long-running British mystery series.Finlo Crennell, the former harbourmaster of Castletown, was reported missing one week ago. Now he's turned up in London, wandering the...
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    Conversations with an Octopus
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    Conversations with an Octopus

    An addictive and cozy crime novel about female rage.Diana Parks is a beautician with a temper, and she's not the only member of Ottersea WI who's had enough of bullies and slimeballs. When the body of lecherous landlord Raj Sumal washes up on the beach,...
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    Death in Room Five

    Inspector Littlejohn confronts a challenging case across the Channel in this classic mystery from the "venerable" British author (Kirkus Reviews).When Alderman Dawson is stabbed to death while visiting the Riviera with a group of English tourists,...
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  • How Can I Help You
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    How Can I Help You

    A razor-sharp psychological suspense about two librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined, How Can I Help You explores the dark side of human nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession. No one knows Margo's real name. Her...
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  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    One of the Guardian's novels everyone must read.This new edition ofStevenson's renowned gothicmasterpiece has a specially writtenintroduction by Denise Mina.In The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London lawyer Gabriel John Utterson investigates a...
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    Dark Encounters
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    Dark Encounters

    Tales of suspense for the twilight hour...Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic authenticity -...
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  • Of Judgement Fallen
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    Of Judgement Fallen

    Spring, 1523. Henry VIII readies England for war with France. The King's chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, prepares to open Parliament at Blackfriars. The eyes of the country turn towards London. But all is not well in Wolsey's household. A visiting...
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  • The Paperback Sleuth - Death in Fine Condition
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    The Paperback Sleuth - Death in Fine Condition

    Launching a new series, a cast of lovable rogues face fiendish puzzles and murderous villains in this love letter to Agatha Christie murder mysteries and classic whodunnits.Introducing a new series from the creator of the beloved, bestselling Vinyl...
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    A Lit Stick of Dynamite
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    A Lit Stick of Dynamite

    Dean Kingston Ellis is bank president with a legendary gunman's past and a suddenly missing ex-wife. When she leaves him a desperate message, Ellis dives back into the underworld of Boston to enlist the help of his brutal band of estranged enforcers...
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    Washboard Tales
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    Washboard Tales

    This sequel to Shadowy Tales opens with the brutal murder of Beverly St. John, the wife of the Piney Falls Chief of Police. Her death triggers fear among the women in this small rural community. Major changes are taking place in the lives of other...
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    Death of Television
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    Death of Television

    "This is a brilliant and sophisticated thriller. All the usual suspects feature in it: theft, murder, tragedy, drugs, deception, manipulation. There's also a dark and seedy cult (for want of a better word: the members are really just a bit deranged), and...
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    Get Bek
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    Get Bek

    Max Bek is a 1970s wunderkind and Philadelphia's answer to the nation's better-known gurus and transgressors who graduated from the free love and drugs of the sixties, to the cusp of Reagan era business and New Age values. He is highly intelligent,...
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    Campus Casualty
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    Campus Casualty

    Finding a dead body feels like Dj vu to Maggie McManus. Her first-semester teaching at PSU was already off to a "deadly start." While taking her students on a field trip to the River Town Hotel and Conference Center, Maggie discovers the dead body of the...
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    Cougar Claw
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    Cougar Claw

    In this outdoors mystery, special agent Sam Rivers investigates the unexplained-and very unlikely-cougar attack that killed a wealthy business owner.The sighting of a cougar in the Minnesota River Valley, outside the Twin Cities, is incredibly rare. A...
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    Poppy Takes the Lead

    Emily and Poppy are living happily in the quaint village of Ashton Mead, where every household is friendly - with one exception.Unlike the other villagers, Silas Strang and his mother have a bad reputation. Rude and aggressive, they terrorise their...
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    Connecticut

    The third novel in David Thomson's series inspired by movie genres - an enchanting yet haunting celebration of screwball romantic comedies. In 1985, with the acclaimed Suspects, and then in 1990 with the exhilarating Silver Light, David Thomson...
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    I Was a Teenage Slasher
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    I Was a Teenage Slasher

    1989, Lamesa, Texas. A community driven by oil and cotton - a town where everyone knows everyone else's business.Tolly Driver, seventeen, a good kid with more potential than application, exists on the outskirts with his best friend, Amber. They navigate...
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    Black Phoenix Omnibus HC
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    Black Phoenix Omnibus HC

    Black Phoenix magazine is, at its core, a contemporary comics magazine featuring original characters and stories of various comics genresall dreamed up by its sole author and illustrator, Rich Tommaso (Eisner Award winning creator of Clover Honey, Spy...
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  • The Venus of Sal
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    The Venus of Sal

    October 1944, in the Republic of Sal, a German puppet state in the north of Italy and the last fascist stronghold in the country. Colonel Martin Bora of the Wehrmacht must investigate the theft of a precious painting of Venus by Titian, stolen with...
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    Women and Children First
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    Women and Children First

    A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in a decaying town.Nashquitten, Massachusetts, is a coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries...
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    Malvineau Prison

    THE FIRST NOVEL FROM "THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH "TRILOGY! THIS INSTALLMENT IS SET IN 1931 IN THE STYLE OF CLASSIC CRIME WRITER, GEORGES SIMENON. 1931 - The body found in the gutter in France led the police inspector to the dead man's beautiful daughter - and...
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    The Corpse with the Diamond Hand

    Professor Cait Morgan and Bud Anderson have finally said 'I do'. To celebrate, they set sail on a romantic Hawaiian honeymoon cruise and, for nearly two weeks, the mystery solving newlyweds are worry-free. But then a man drops dead in the games room...
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    The Corpse with the Platinum Hair

    Welsh Canadian foodie and criminologist Cait Morgan takes off on a short break to the fabulous Tsar! Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas with her significant other, retired cop Bud Anderson. But before they can start celebrating Bud's birthday in style at the...
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    The Great Leader

    Rapturously received by critics and enthusiastically embraced by readers, The Great Leader is an enthralling, blackly comic take on the detective story that follows a retired detective in hilarious and bold pursuit of a sinister cult leader. Detective...
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    Secret Dead Men
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    Secret Dead Men

    A smart-talking supernatural noir, full of twists and turns, delivered at a whipalong pace about a dead investigative-journalist-turned-soul-collector on the trail of his nemesis and murderer. Perfect for fans of Ben Aaranovitch and Richard Kadrey.Del...
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  • Deliver Me
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    Deliver Me

    At a meatpacking facility in Missouri, Dee-Dee and her coworkers kill and butcher 40,000 chickens in a single shift.The work is repetitive and brutal, with each stab and cut a punishment to her hands and joints, but Dee-Dee's more concerned with...
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    Remain Silent
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    Remain Silent

    Erin McCabe's years as a criminal defence attorney have prepared her for almost anything - except for being on the opposite side of the interrogation table. A new client - a successful financial advisor - has been found stabbed to death on the...
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    These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart
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    These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart

    A Publishers Weekly Selection: Spring 2024 Top-10 SF Fantasy and Horror'In a queer, noir technothriller of fractured identity and corporate intrigue, a trans woman faces her fear of losing her community as her past chases after her. This bold,...
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  • Death at the Dress Rehearsal
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    Death at the Dress Rehearsal

    Two ageing actors attempt to solve a murder after a body is found on the set in this witty, fun whodunnit, perfect for fans of Thursday Murder Club and Death & Croissants.In 1970, on the set of downmarket sitcom 'Floggit and...
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Crime & Mystery Books

Delve into our Crime and Mystery section at BookLoop Books, featuring thrilling titles that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Whether you're a fan of gripping mysteries, heart-pounding thrillers, or intricate crime novels, we have something to satisfy every reader's craving for suspense and intrigue.

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  • Detective & Private Investigator: Follow daring detectives solving complex cases.
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  • Thriller & Suspense: Uncover fast-paced stories full of tension and plot twists.
  • Historical Crime: Immerse yourself in crime stories set in past eras, blending history with mystery.

No matter what you prefer, our collection offers both bestselling authors and emerging voices in the genre. Shop now and discover your next thrilling read!