Quite Ugly One Morning (Jack Parlabane #1) by Christopher Brookmyre

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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things. Why is the body displayed like a slice of beef? How come his hands are digitally challenged? An d if it's not the corpse, what is that awful smell? A post-Thatcherite nightmare of frightening plausibility, QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING is a wickedly entertaining and vivacious thriller, full of acerbic wit, cracking dialogue and villains both reputed and shell-suited. 'Very violent, very funny. A comedy with political edge, which you take gleefully in one gulp' LITERARY REVIEW 'The dialogue is a joy throughout and the plot crackles along with confident gusto and intelligence...an assured debut by a talented writer' THE TIMES ...Show more

Cross Justice (Alex Cross #23) by James Patterson

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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Alex Cross Ser.

Detective Alex Cross is going home - to solve his most personal case yet. When his cousin stands accused of a terrible murder, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in thirty years. As he strives to prove his cousin's innocence amid small-town corruption and prejudice, Cro ss unearths a family secret that makes him question everything he thought he knew. Chasing the ghosts of the past, Cross is pulled into a case baffling local police: a grisly string of murders, all of socialites. Hot on the trail of a brutal killer as well as his own past, Cross knows the answers he finds might be fatal... ...Show more

Postcard Killers by James Patterson

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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good

James Patterson teams up with international number one bestselling author Liza Marklund to create the most terrifying holiday thriller ever written

Creation in Death by J. D. Robb

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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: In Death Ser.

When the body of a young brunette is found in a park, marked by signs of prolonged torture, Eve is catapulted back to nine years ago. A man the media tagged "The Groom" had the city on edge with a killing spree that took the lives of four women in 15 days. Now, The Groom has returned. Familiar with his methods, Eve knows that he has already grabbed his next victim. Time is running out. But, unbeknown to the police, The Groom is working up to the biggest challenge of his career - abducting a woman who will test his skills on every level: Eve Dallas... ...Show more

The Soul Catcher by Alex Kava

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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Maggie O'Dell Ser.

In a secluded cabin six young men stage a deadly standoff with FBI agents. In a wooded area near the FDR Memorial in Washington, the body of a senator's daughter is discovered. For FBI Special Agent Maggie O'Dell, there is nothing routine about being called in to work these two cases. As an expert crimi nal profiler, Maggie provides psychological insight on cases that involve suspected serial killers. She can't understand, then, why she has been assigned to two seemingly unrelated crimes. But as Maggie and her partner, Special Agent R. J. Tully, delve deeper into the cases, they discover there is a connection: Reverend Joseph Everett, the charismatic leader of a high-profile religious sect. The men holed up in the cabin were members of Everett's church, and the murder of the young woman took place following one of Everett's rallies. Is Everett a psychotic madman who uses his power to perform heinous crimes? Or is he merely the scapegoat for a killer more cunning than he? Maggie realizes the only way to find out is by using her own mother, a member of Everett's church, as a pawn in a deadly trap. ...Show more

BRENT OF BLEAK HOUSE by T ARTHUR PLUMMER

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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE

The Ladykiller by MARTINA COLE

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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

George Markham has a nasty little hobby, one that erupts into an orgy of viscous sexual depravity. Patrick Kelly is a hard man. His one soft spot is his daughter, and when she falls victim to the Grantley Ripper, Kelly wants revenge. The DI in charge of the case is Kate Burrows. She feels for Kelly but her growing involvement with a known villain is putting her career at risk... As the forces of law and order and London ...Show more

The Driftwood Girls (Cal Macgill - Sea Detective #4) by Mark Douglas-Home

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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: The\Sea Detective Ser.

Two missing women. Two decades apart. A gripping and atmospheric mystery that journeys from the dramatic lochs of Scotland to the icy depths of the North Sea... Kate and Flora Tolmie have always lived with a mystery: what happened to their mother, Christina? Twenty-three years ago, she vanished without trace from coastal northern France, leaving her young daughters orphaned and alone. Now Flora is also missing. In desperation, Kate searches her Edinburgh house, and finds a piece of notepaper with just one name: Cal McGill. Cal is a so-called sea detective, an expert on the winds and the tides, and consequently an exceptionally gifted finder of lost things - and lost people. Kate hopes that Cal might not only find her sister, but also unlock the mystery that has overshadowed both women's lives: what happened to their beloved mother all those years before? Unfortunately, Cal doesn't think he can help. But that's only because he hasn't yet realized that the dark undercurrents of the case will ultimately lead him back dangerously close to home . . . ...Show more

I Will Miss You Tomorrow (#1 Thorkild Aske Mystery) by Heine Bakkeid; Anne Bruce (Translator)

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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: A\Thorkild Aske Mystery Ser.

The first in a new Norwegian crime series featuring disgraced ex-Chief Inspector Thorkild Aske, a damaged man with a complicated past. Fresh out of prison and a stint in a psychiatric hospital, disgraced ex-policeman Thorkild Aske only wants to lose himself in drugged dreams of his beloved Frei. Wild, unknowable Frei. The woman he loved. The woman he has lost forever. Yet when Frei's young cousin goes missing off the Norwegian coast and Thorkild is called in by the family to help find him, dead or alive, Thorkild cannot refuse. He owes them this. Tormented by his past, Thorkild soon finds himself deep in treacherous waters. He's lost his reputation - will he now lose his life?   ...Show more

Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

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Category: Crime Fiction

Grace Park and Shawn Mathews share a city - Los Angeles - but seemingly little else. Coming from different generations and very different communities, their paths wouldn't normally cross at all. As Grace battles confusion over her elder sister's estrangement from their Korean-immigrant parents, Shawn tr ies to help his cousin Ray readjust to city life after years spent in prison. But something in their past links these two families. As the city around them threatens to erupt into violence, echoing the worst days of the early 1990s, the lives of Grace and Shawn are set to collide in ways which will change them all forever. Beautifully written, and marked by its aching humanity as much as its growing sense of dread, Your House Will Pay is a powerful and urgent novel for today.   ...Show more

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste

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Category: Crime Fiction

A beautifully written and utterly captivating novel about female strength and the power of belief, set during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King casts a light on the women soldiers who were written out of history.

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me by RUTH RENDELL

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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS