Mystery & Detective - Traditional British

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Borrowed Time

Robert Goddard

This psychological thriller is narrated by Robin Timariot, a civil servant wondering if he should quit and join his family's cricket-bat manufacturing business instead. As he hikes along the Welsh borders in the summer of 1990, he enc...

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Published: Jan 2006

Garment of Shadows: A novel of suspen...

Laurie R. King

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLaurie R. King's New York Times bestselling novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, comprise one of today's most acclaimed mystery series. Now, in their newest and most thri...

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Published: Aug 2013

Original Sin

P. D. James

Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of seemingly impenetrable complexity. A murder has...

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Published: Jul 2009

Death of a Policeman (A Hamish Macbet...

M. C. Beaton

Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure. This presents the perfect opportunity for Detective Chief Inspector Blair, who would love nothing more than to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth...

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Published: Jan 2015

Driving Force

Dick Francis

At 35, Freddie Craft has retired as a steeplechase jockey and now runs a fleet of motor horseboxes transporting runners from their stables to the races, or brood mares to the stud farms. When a hitch hiker is picked up and someone die...

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Published: Jan 2010

Aunt Dimity and the Buried Treasure (...

Nancy Atherton

Nancy Atherton's twenty-first cozy mystery in the beloved, Nationally Bestselling Aunt Dimity series.While exploring the attic in her cottage near the small English village of Finch, Lori Shepherd makes an extraordinary discovery: a g...

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Published: May 2017

Death at St. James's Palace (John Raw...

Deryn Lake

London, 1761. Apothecary and amateur sleuth, John Rawlings, is accompanying his good friend John Fielding--the Blind Break--as he receives his knighthood at St James's Palace. Following the investiture, as the guests make their way do...

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Published: Feb 2004

Dishing the Dirt: An Agatha Raisin My...

M. C. Beaton

When therapist Jill Davent moved to the village of Carsely, Agatha Raisin was not a fan. Not only was this therapist romancing Agatha's ex-husband but she dug up details of Agatha's not-too-glamorous origins. Jill also counsels a woma...

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Published: Jun 2016

Coffin, Scarcely Used

Colin Watson

The owner of 'The Flaxborough Citizen' is found dead beneath an elecricity pylon, in his slippers, his mouth full of marshmallows. Is it accident, suicide or murder?

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Published: Feb 2008

Death of an Outsider (Hamish Macbeth ...

M. C. Beaton

The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes, or-more accurately-dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remain of the murdered victim are his bones. But after the lobsters are shipped ...

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Published: Apr 2013

The Grim Reader (Bibliophile Mystery)...

Kate Carlisle

San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright was hoping for a fun, relaxing weekend at a local book fair, but a murderer made other plans in the latest in this New York Times bestselling series.Brooklyn and her new hunky...

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Published: May 2021

A Necessary End

Peter Robinson

A peaceful demonstration in the normally quiet town of Eastvale ended with fifty arrests -- and the brutal stabbing death of a young constable. But Chief Inspector Alan Banks fears there is worse violence in the offing. For CID Superi...

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Published: Aug 1993

An April Shroud (Dalziel & Pascoe)

Reginald Hill

After he'd seen Inspector Pascoe off on his honeymoon with a few ill-chosen words, Superintendent Andrew Dalziel's holiday got off to a damp start. Rescued from a flood by a bunch of singularly cheerful mourners, he accompanied them b...

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Published: Jun 2009

River Deep

Priscilla Masters

Life in Shrewsbury is normally calm and uneventful. However, when the River Severn bursts its banks, a body is discovered floating in a flooded cottage. Coroner Martha Gunn is one of the first to be called to the scene. In the fetid c...

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Published: Jun 2005

Play to the End

Robert Goddard

Struggling actor Toby Flood, formerly of big and small screen but now seldom seen on either, arrives in Brighton on the first Sunday in December with the other cast members and reluctantly takes on a investigation into the sinister st...

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Published: Apr 2006

Death of a Cozy Writer: A St. Just My...

G. M. Malliet

From deep in the heart of his eighteenth century English manor, millionaire Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk writes mystery novels and torments his four spoiled children with threats of disinheritance. Tiring of this device, the portly patri...

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Published: Jul 2008

Hot Potato

JOYCE HOLMES

Solicitor Tam Buchanan and his friend and colleague Fizz Fitzgerald arrange to get away from it all on a hill-walking holiday in the beautiful Scottish Highlands. Unfortunately, their idyllic break is ruined when they witness a horrif...

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Published: May 2005

Death of a Travelling Man

M. C. Beaton

Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He has-horrors!-been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a self-proclaimed traveler named Sean and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the middle of t...

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Published: Apr 2013

Fear And Miss Betony (Rue Morgue Vint...

Dorothy Bowers

Emma Betony was living out her dignified, elderly, poverty-stricken life when an appeal for help from a former student brought her to the little town of Martinmas and a nursing home transformed into a girls' school. Set in 1940, he sc...

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Published: Nov 2005

Death of a Cad (Hamish Macbeth)

M. C. Beaton

When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiance home to Lochdubh, everybody in town is delighted . . . except for love-smitten Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet his affairs of the heart will have to wait. Vile, boorish...

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Published: Dec 2012

Hasty Death

M. C. Beaton

Eager to join the working classes, Lady Rose Summer has abandoned the comforts of her parents' home to become self-supporting. But life as a working woman isn't quite what Rose had imagined---long hours as a typist and nights spent in...

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Published: Jan 2013

Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin)

M. C. Beaton

HISS AND HERSM.C. BeatonAgatha Raisin is back and as feisty as ever—armed with her famous wit and biting sense of humor. This time, though, there's some biting of a whole other sort going on. She has fallen head over heels with Ge...

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Published: Jun 2013

Sherlock Holmes: The Will of the Dead...

George Mann

A young man named Peter Maugram appears at the front door of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's Baker Street lodgings. Maugram's uncle is dead and his will has disappeared, leaving the man afraid that he will be left penniless. Holmes ag...

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Published: Jun 2013

The Vanishing Thief

Kate Parker

Georgia Fenchurch appears to be an unassuming antiquarian bookseller in Victorian London, but the life she leads is as exciting as any adventure novel. For Georgia is a member of the Archivist Society, a secret association of private ...

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Published: Dec 2013

A Burial at Sea (Charles Lenox Myster...

Charles Finch

Charles Lenox, Member of Parliament, sets sail on a clandestine mission for the government.  When an officer is savagely murdered, however, Lenox is drawn toward his old profession, determined to capture another killer.1873 is a peri...

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Published: Aug 2012

Mycroft Holmes

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A new novel written by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar!Fresh out of Cambridge University, the young Mycroft Holmes is already making a name for himself in government, working for the Secretary of State for War. Yet this most British ...

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Published: Jun 2016

Our Lady of Pain

M. C. Beaton

divLady Rose Summer, the wayward Edwardian debutante who keeps getting mixed up in disreputable adventures, would swear she is not a jealous woman. After all, she knows her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is onl...

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Published: Feb 2013

The Mystery of the Blue Train: A Herc...

Agatha Christie

In this official authorized edition featuring exclusive content from the Queen of Mystery, robbery and brutal murder aboard a luxury transport ensnares the ever-attentive Hercule Poirot. When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice,...

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Published: Aug 2022

The Mystery of Three Quarters: The Ne...

Sophie Hannah

The world's most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot—the legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket—returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set...

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Published: Aug 2019

Game of Snipers

Stephen Hunter

NATIONAL BESTSELLER\r\n\"Bob Lee Swagger is a true American literary icon.\" —Mark Greaney, author ofMission Critical\r\n\r\nIn this blazing new thriller from Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, master sniper Bob Lee Swagger ta...

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Published: Jun 2020
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