Mystery & Detective - Traditional British

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A Stranger in Mayfair (Charles Lenox ...

Charles Finch

Returning from a continental honeymoon with his lifelong friend and new wife, Lady Jane Grey, Charles Lenox is asked by a colleague in Parliament to consult in the murder of a footman, bludgeoned to death with a brick. His investigati...

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Published: Jul 2011

The Water Room: A Peculiar Crimes Uni...

Christopher Fowler

They are detection's oddest couple: two cranky detectives whose professional partnership dates back half a century. Now Arthur Bryant and John May return in a case of multiple murder that twists through a subterranean course of the se...

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Published: Sep 2008

Silence in Hanover Close: A Charlotte...

Anne Perry

When Inspector Thomas Pitt is asked to reopen a three-year-old murder case that had taken place in London's luxurious Hanover Close, he is all too aware that his superiors want him to simply smooth things over. But penetrating the res...

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Published: Oct 2011

The Perfect Paragon (20th anniversary...

M. C. Beaton

Celebrating 20 Years of Agatha Raisin—Brand-New Bonus Story Included!/BDIV AGATHA RAISIN...AND THE CASE FROM HELL She's nosed in on murder investigations, annoyed law enforcement on two continents, and been targeted by everyone fro...

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Published: Jun 2006

The Walkers of Dembley (20th annivers...

M. C. Beaton

Celebrating 20 Years of Agatha Raisin—Brand-New Bonus Story Included!/B/PPAfter six months in London, Agatha Raisin returns to her beloved Cotswold village—and her dashing neighbor, James Lacey. Well, sort of. James might not be s...

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Published: Aug 2009

Five Roundabouts to Heaven

John Bingham

FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOHN LE CARRÉ'This novel comprises some of the best work of an extremely gifted and perhaps under-regarded British crime novelist....What gave John Bingham his magic was something we look for in every writer,...

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Published: Jul 2007

A Woman Unknown

Frances Brody

A Library Journal Best Book of 2014A winning combination of both intricate plotting and nostalgic post-WWI English country setting, Frances Brody's A Woman Unknown will appeal to fans of both classic murder mysteries in the vein of Ag...

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Published: Jan 2016

Murder in the Afternoon (A Kate Shack...

Frances Brody

An intricate plot in the post-WWI English countryside and Frances Brody's "refreshingly complex heroine" (Kirkus) combine in Murder in the Afternoon, an absorbing mystery. Dead one minute… Young Harriet and her brother A...

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Published: Feb 2015

Little Black Book (Bibliophile Myster...

Kate Carlisle

San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright is on the case when a rare edition of Rebecca leads to murder in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series. Brooklyn and her hunky...

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Published: Jun 2022

The Paper Caper (Bibliophile Mystery)...

Kate Carlisle

San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright loves a good book festival except when murder is the main event in this thrilling new addition to the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series. Brooklyn is ex...

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Published: Sep 2023

Ordeal by Innocence

Agatha Christie

Evidence that clears the name of a boy sentenced for killing his adopted mother arrives too late to save his life - so who did kill her? Dr. Arthur Calgary takes a ferry across the Rubicon River to Sunny Point, the home of the Argyle...

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Published: Feb 2011

The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stori...

Agatha Christie

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characte...

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Published: Jun 2012

Heron's Cry, The (The Two Rivers Seri...

Ann Cleeves

New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves returns with The Heron's Cry, the extraordinary follow-up to The Long Call, now a major TV series, alongside her two hit TV shows Shetland and Vera. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER!“I...

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Published: Jul 2022

The Old English Peep Show (Felony & M...

Peter Dickinson

Americans may have Colonial Williamsburg, but for the Brits, there's 'Old England,' an elaborate theme-park that pays homage to a similarly imaginary glorious past. At Old England, the woods are lush with game-birds, servants know the...

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Published: Jul 2007

Gunpowder Plot

Carola Dunn

A magazine assignment takes a murderous turn for that intrepid sleuth, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, in this delightful new addition to Carola Dunn's mystery series set in 1920s England... Late autumn in the Cotswolds, and ...

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Published: Nov 2007

The Corpse at the Crystal Palace: A D...

Carola Dunn

A casual outing to the Crystal Palace in London takes a mysterious and murderous turn in The Corpse at the Crystal Palace, the latest mystery in Carola Dunn's beloved Daisy Dalrymple series.April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is visi...

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Published: Aug 2019

Cipher Garden, The

Martin Edwards

Warren Howe is surprised by a hooded visitor while working in a garden in Old Sawrey, a lovely village in England's Lake District. Soon it is Warren who is deadmurdered with his own scythe. The police identify several suspects, but la...

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Published: Apr 2007

A Death in the Small Hours (Charles L...

Charles Finch

From the critically acclaimed author of A Beautiful Blue Death and A Burial at Sea comes an intriguing new mystery in what The New York Times calls "a beguiling series"  Charles Lenox is at the pinnacle of his political car...

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Published: Aug 2013

Never Go Back

Robert Goddard

In the spellbinding new mystery by the master of “the clever twist,” a group of ex-RAF comrades journey to a Scottish castle for a reunion. But by the time they reach their destination, two of them are dead.Harry Barnett i...

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Published: Aug 2007

What the Devil Knows (Sebastian St. C...

C. S. Harris

Sebastian St. Cyr thought a notorious killer had been brought to justice until a shocking series of gruesome new murders stuns the city in this thrilling historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who S...

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Published: Mar 2022

Castle Shade: A novel of suspense fea...

Laurie R. King

A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat—all await Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this chilling adventure. The queen is Marie of Roumania: the doubly royal granddaughter of Victoria, Empress of the British Empire...

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Published: Jun 2022

Prime Suspect 2: A Face in the Crowd

Lynda La Plante

The fast-paced followup to Lynda La Plante's first Prime Suspect thriller, Prime Suspect 2: A Face in the Crowd brings reunites readers with Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison as she hunts down a mysterious killer hidden amidst L...

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Published: Jan 2012

A Man Lay Dead

Ngaio Marsh

Ngaio Marsh was one of the queens (she has been called the empress) of England's Golden Age of mystery fiction. And in true Golden Age fashion, her oeuvre opens with, yes, a country-house party between the two world wars – servants ...

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Published: Sep 2011

Glass Houses: A Novel (Chief Inspecto...

Louise Penny

An instant New York Times Bestseller and August 2017 LibraryReads pick!“Penny’s absorbing, intricately plotted 13th Gamache novel proves she only gets better at pursuing dark truths with compassion and grace.” ―PEOPLE“Louise...

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Published: May 2018

A Morbid Taste for Bones (The Chronic...

Ellis Peters

On an expedition to acquire a saint's remains, Brother Cadfael instead finds intrigue and murder It is 1137, and the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey wishes to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for the glory of his Benedictine o...

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Published: Nov 2014

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Ho...

Daniel Stashower

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed, long out-of-print detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes' career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the 'Further...

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Published: Oct 2009

Tales: Short Stories Featuring Ian Ru...

Charles Todd

Now published together for the first time: Charles Todd's absorbing short stories—"The Kidnapping," "The Girl on the Beach," "Cold Comfort," and "The Maharani's Pearls"—featuring everyone's ...

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Published: Sep 2015

Ain't Myth-Behaving: Two Novellas

Katie MacAlister

A modern woman and a god from ancient legend? Surely an epic love mismatch...or maybe it's the 'myth match' of the century? The irrepressible Katie MacAlister brings us heroes who are more than mere mortals in two sparkling new novell...

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Published: Sep 2007

Death of a Village

M. C. Beaton

Local constable Hamish MacBeth is a bit confused when first approached by astrologer Elspeth Grant--she seems to think that her cosy village is dying. It turns out that her concern is over the sudden departure of a number of neighbors...

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Published: Jan 2004

Death of a Dormouse (Felony & Mayhem ...

Reginald Hill

Trudi Adamson has lived her life in fear - of strangers, of asking questions, of angering her husband, of leaving the house. When her husband dies in a car accident, she retreats even further into her cocoon of ignorance and incuriosi...

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Published: Dec 2006
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