Mystery & Detective - Traditional British

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Rules of Murder

Julianna Deering

Downton Abbey Meets Agatha Christie in This Sparkling MysteryDrew Farthering loves a good mystery, although he generally expects to find it in the pages of a novel, not on the grounds of his country estate. When a weekend party at Far...

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Published: Aug 2013

Behold a Fair Woman

Francis Duncan

Beware murder in paradiseMordecai Tremaine's hobby of choice –crime detection– has left him in need of a holiday. A break away from that gruesome business of murder will be just the ticket, and the picturesque island of Moulin d'O...

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Published: Jan 2019

The Shining Skull (The Wesley Peterso...

Kate Ellis

An archaeological dig provides DI Wesley Peterson with a secret that may help him unveil the culprits behind a string of kidnappingsMarcus Fallbrook was kidnapped in 1976 and when he never returned home, his grieving family assumed ...

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Published: Nov 2010

The Laws of Murder: A Charles Lenox M...

Charles Finch

It's 1876, and Charles Lenox, once London's leading private investigator, has just given up his seat in Parliament after six years, primed to return to his first love, detection. With high hopes he and three colleagues start a new de...

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Published: Aug 2015

Ten Second Staircase: A Peculiar Crim...

Christopher Fowler

IIt's a crime tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit: a controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence–it's business as usual for the Unit's cantanker...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Case of the Baited Hook: A Perry ...

Erle Stanley Gardner

The bait is half of a $10,000 bill, delivered to Perry Mason by a man who promises the second half of the note should his companion, a silent masked woman, ever require the lawyer's services. When a dead body is discovered soon after,...

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Published: Jun 2020

The Case of the Careless Kitten: A Pe...

Erle Stanley Gardner

Perry Mason seeks the link between a poisoned kitten, a murdered man, and a mysterious voice from the pastHelen Kendal's woes begin when she receives a phone call from her vanished uncle Franklin, long presumed dead, who urges her to ...

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Published: Mar 2019

The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule...

Sophie Hannah

Since the publication of her first novel in 1920, more than two billion copies of Agatha Christie's books have been sold around the globe. Now, for the first time ever, the guardians of her legacy have approved a brand-new novel featu...

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Published: Jun 2015

A Good Death

Elizabeth Ironside

At once a suspenseful mystery and a heartfelt tale of a man's attempts to sort out the tangled remains of a life torn apart by war . . . Ironside's landscapes are rich, if decimated, and her characters extraordinarily intriguing--'Bir...

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Published: Nov 2008

The Stone Wife (A Detective Peter Dia...

Peter Lovesey

Book 14 in the Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond series, one of Soho's bestselling and most critically acclaimed series, this time including a Chauceresque twist. At a Bath auction house, a large slab of carved stone is up for s...

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Published: Aug 2015

Pagan Spring: A Mystery

G. M. Malliet

"There are certain things you want in a village mystery: a pretty setting, a tasteful murder, an appealing sleuth . . . Malliet delivers all that." —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times  G. M. Malliet has charmed mystery lo...

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Published: Sep 2014

Persons Unknown

Susie Steiner

In this brilliant crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed, a detective investigates her most personal case yet: a high-profile murder in which her own family falls under suspicion.“[Susie] Steiner populates this hot-button ...

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Published: Mar 2018

Remain Silent: A Manon Bradshaw Novel...

Susie Steiner

An immigrant’s mysterious death sets off a chilling hunt for the truth in this gripping crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed“Brilliantly gripping.”—Lucy Foley, author of The Guest Lis...

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Published: Mar 2021

Lethal Pursuit: A Barker & Llewelyn N...

Will Thomas

"The true star power comes from its compatibly mismatched leads. Joy to those who discover Mr. Thomas’s latest novel this holiday season." —The Wall Street Journal London, 1892—Cyrus Barker is brought into...

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Published: Dec 2020

Death in the Clouds: A Hercule Poirot...

Agatha Christie

From his seat, Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. To his right sat a pretty young woman; ahead, a Countess with a cocaine habit; and across the gangway, a detective writer. What Poirot didn't realize was t...

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Published: Jul 2011

A Prize for Princes (Stout, Rex)

Rex Stout

Aline Solini has an angelic face that hides a demon's soul. But wealthy American Richard Stetton is captivated when he rescues Aline from a Turkish attack on a Balkan convent. He then enables Aline to escape the husband she's tried to...

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Published: Jul 2001

Surfeit of Suspects

George Bellairs

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"At 8 o'clock in the evening on the 8th of November, there was a terrific explosion in Green Lane, Evingden."The offices of the Excelsior Joinery Company have been blo...

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Published: Jul 2019

Hag's Nook

John Dickson Carr

"Martin Starberth stands to inherit his family's estate provided he can fulfill a certain condition. Part of the estate is an old prison where the Starberths had been wardens for generations. From a balcony off the Governor's Room, St...

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Published: Aug 2011

Murder at Midnight (A Rex Graves Myst...

C. S. Challinor

Ringing in the New Year turns deadly at Rex's Hogmanay celebration When barrister Rex Graves and his fiancee Helen d'Arcy host a New Year's Eve party at Gleneagle Lodge in the Scottish Highlands, an oncoming storm threatens to ruin t...

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Published: Aug 2014

Murder Is Easy

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild all...

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Published: Jul 2011

The Mirror Crack'd: A Miss Marple Mys...

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's audacious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie i...

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Published: Apr 2011

Closed Casket: A New Hercule Poirot M...

Sophie Hannah

The world's most famous detective – and Agatha Christie's most famous creation – returns in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders: a diabolically clever mystery soaked in period atmosphe...

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Published: Jun 2017

The Necropolis Railway: A Jim Stringe...

Andrew Martin

Moving to London in 1903 in his endeavor to become a railway man, ambitious young Jim Stringer takes a graveyard shift moving coffins to cemeteries outside of the city and struggles with his predecessor's untimely disappearance and hi...

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Published: Jan 2007

Cards on the Table: A Hercule Poirot ...

Agatha Christie

Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about ac...

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Published: Apr 1987

Sick of Shadows

M. C. Beaton

From New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton: Imagine if the rebellious sister from Downton Abbey and her maid got mixed up in murder Captain Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose Summer have entered into an engagement of convenience-convenien...

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Published: Feb 2013

A Caribbean Mystery: A Miss Marple My...

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: Apr 2011

Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby (Spen...

Ace Atkins

Boston PI Spenser takes on a new case in this installment in Robert B. Parker's iconic New York Timesbestselling series. Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressiv...

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Published: Dec 2022

Bitter Rain: A Kate Fox Novel

Shannon Baker

A missing Lakota girl. A gutsy woman sheriff. Lies. Secrets. Deception.When a Lakota girl goes missing from the rez, no one cares...except Sheriff Kate Fox.After dodging her meddling family's efforts to pair her off, Kate is settling ...

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Published: Sep 2018

A Spoonful of Poison (20th anniversar...

M. C. Beaton

Celebrating 20 Years of Agatha Raisin—Brand-New Bonus Story Included!/B/PPAgatha Raisin's detective agency has become so successful that now all she wants is some RR. But as soon as she cuts back her hours, Agatha remembers that whe...

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Published: Aug 2012

Busy Body: An Agatha Raisin Mystery (...

M. C. Beaton

Agatha Raisin has always been ambivalent about holiday cheer, but her cozy little village of Carsely has long prided itself on its Christmas festivities. But this year Mr. John Sunday, a selfimportant officer with the Health and Safet...

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Published: Oct 2011
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