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Title: When the Bough BreaksAuthor: Jonathan KellermanPublished by: Penguin, Random HousePublication date: April 1st 1985Genre: Crime/ThrillerPages: 432Format: PaperbackSource: Private Collection Blurb/Synopsis In the first Alex Delaware novel, we meet Dr. Morton Handler who practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered…
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Title: The Thursday Murder ClubAuthor: Richard OsmanPublished by: Viking – PenguinPublication date: 3rd Sept 2020Genre: Crime/ThrillerPages: 400Format: HardbackSource: Private Collection Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep,…
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Title: The SilkwormAuthor: Robert GalbraithPublished by: SpherePublication date: June 19th 2014Genre: Crime/ThrillerPages: 592Format: HardbackSource: Bury Library Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days – as…
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Title: Last One to DieAuthor: Cynthia MurphyPublished by: ScholasticPublication date: January 7th 2021Genre: Young Adult/MysteryPages: 294Format: PaperbackSource: Bury Library Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis Young, brunette women are being attacked in the city of London. 16-year-old, Irish-born Niamh has just arrived for the summer, and quickly discovers that the girls being attacked look…
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Title: No Good MenAuthor: VariousPublished by: Black LibraryPublication date: Genre: Crime/Science FictionPages: 1st Sept 2020Format: PaperbackSource: Personal Collection Content Aberrant by Chris WraightExit Wound by Darius HinksThe View from Olympus by Gareth HanrahanImpurities by Graham McNeillNo Use for Good Men by Guy HaleyCold Cases by Marc CollinsAgainst the Grain by Nick Kyme Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book…
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Title: The Year Before the EndAuthor: Vidar HokstadPublished by: Hokstad PublishingPublication date: 19th Nov 2020Genre: Science-FictionPages: 232Format: eBookSource: Author Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis Forty years ago humanity found out we were not alone. The Centauri offered us the galaxy.With one year to go before the gate is ready, Captain Zara Ortega learns…
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Title: SacrilegeAuthor: Barbara AvonPublished by: Independently PublishedPublication date: 26th Oct 2020Genre: Psychological FictionPages: 115Format: eBookSource: Personal Collection Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis Wayward priest Cris Corelli rids himself of the sacred collar and leaves town, boarding the midnight train with no destination in mind. Satan is following him – lurking in the shadows. Corelli…
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Title: The Outcast DeadAuthor: Graham McNeill Published by: Black LibraryPublication date: 10th November 2011Genre: Science Fiction/WarPages: 464Format: PaperbackSource: Personal Collection Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis The galaxy is burning. The Emperor’s loyal primarchs prepare to do battle with Warmaster Horus and his turncoat Legions on the black sand of Isstvan. Such dark times herald…
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Title: Dead WrongAuthor: Helen H. DurrantPublished by: Joffe BooksPublication date: 3rd July 2015Genre: Crime/ThrillerPages: 206Format: PaperbackSource: Private Collection Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis First a shooting, then a grisly discovery on the common . . . Police partners, D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss race against time to track down a killer before the whole…
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Title: Runaway TrainAuthor: Lee Matthew GoldburgPublished by: Wise WolfPublication date: 29th April 2021Genre: Young Adult/Coming of AgePages: 296Format: eBookSource: Author Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis They told me I was an out-of-control train about to crash… Everything changed when the police officer knocked on the door to tell me – a 16-year-old –…
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