Crime/ Mystery/ Thriller
8 books
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The Bone Collector
Author: Jeffery Deaver
Their first case, their worst killer . . . New York City has been thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. Baffled, the cops turn to the one man with a chance of solving them - Lincoln Rhyme. Left paralysed by a debilitating accident, ex NYPD cop Rhyme has to dig deep into the only world he has left - his astonishing mind - to have any hope of solving the -
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles is rated as Arthur Conan Doyle's best full-length Sherlock Holmes story. Set in Devon it pits Sherlock Holmes and his faithful assistant, Dr. Watson, against a deadly adversary. The specter of the giant hound that is said to haunt the moor provides a sinister undertone to Holmes' investigations into the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville and his attempts to protect Sir Baskerville's heir, Sir Henry. Fast-paced and brilliantly plotted, The Hound of the Baskervil- Published on 1902
- 358 pages
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The Killing Floor
Author: Lee Child
Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure. -
The Strings of Murder
Author: Oscar de Muriel
'A hugely entertaining Victorian mystery' New York Times 'I enjoyed this - properly creepy and Gothic' Ian Rankin A spellbinding concoction of crime, history and horror - perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Jonathan Creek. The First Case for Frey & McGray. Edinburgh, 1888. A violinist is murdered in his home. The dead virtuoso's maid swears she heard three musicians playing in the night. But with only one body in the locked practice room - and no way in or out - the case makes no sense.- Published on 2015
- 304 pages
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The Sign of the Devil
Author: Oscar de Muriel
The Devil Has Come to Edinburgh... An ill-fated grave-robbery unearths a corpse with a most disturbing symbol on it. The very same sign is daubed in blood on the walls of Edinburgh's lunatic asylum, on the night that one of the patients is murdered. The mark in question? The mark of the devil. The prime suspect: Amy McGray, the asylum's most infamous inmate, a young woman who has grown up behind bars after she killed her parents many years ago. Her brother, Detective 'Nine-Na -
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Author: John Le Carré
A wonderful, classic le Carre now reissued in a stunning new package.- Published on 2009
- 422 pages
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The High Window
Author: Raymond Chandler
The High Window is a classic novel by the master of hard-boiled crime Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around- Published on 2011
- 288 pages
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Playback
Author: Raymond Chandler
Stalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler's hard-drinking, wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the world's most famous fictional detectives. Playback finds Marlowe mixing business with pleasure - getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red-head named Eleanor King.- Published on 2011
- 208 pages
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