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The Devil'sStar (Book Details)
On the cover Oslo is sweltering in the summer heat when a young woman is murdered in her flat. One finger has been cut off and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a pentagram—a five-pointed star—is found under her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole is assigned the case with Tom Waaler, a colleague he neither likes nor trusts. He believes Tom is behind a gang of arms smugglers—and the murder of his...

Nine Dragons (Book Details)
What it says on the cover: One thing you can say for the Triads: they know the importance of family. And they’re about to teach Harry Bosch a lesson. When Detective Harry Bosch catches the case of a gunned-down liquor =-store owner in downtown LA, it looks like a slam-dunk. The eldery Chinese man’s customers included plenty of gangbangers, and it just seemed like one day his luck ran out....

Nemesis (Book Details)
What it says on the cover: Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into a bank and putting a gun to the cashier's head. He tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn't get his money in time, she is executed. Detective Harry Hole, still mourning the death of his police partner, is assigned to the case. While his girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame gets in touch but when he...

Unspoken (Book Details)
On the Cover: Winter should be a quiet time on the holiday island of Gotland. But two crimes shatter the peace for Chief Inspector Anders Knutas. The first body found is Henry Dahistrom, an alchoholic photographer. He had just had a spectacular success at the races, winning eigthy thousand krona when his horse came home in the fifth race of the day. The next morning his body, badly beated,...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Book Details)
On the Cover Book 1 of the Millenium Triology. The Industrialist Henrik Vanger, head of the dynastic Vanger Corporation, is tormented by the loss of a child decades earlier and convinced that a member of his family has committed murder. The Journalist Mikael Bolmkvist delves deep into the Vanger’s past to uncover the truth behind the unsolves mystery. But someone else wants the past to...

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Book Details)
It is a summer’s night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least...

The Lovers (Book Details)
On the Cover: When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, a NYPD cop, killed a young couple, a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his own life. There was no explanation for his actions. Stripped of his private investigator's license, and watched by the police, Parker is working in a Portland bar, holding down a job and staying out of trouble. But in the background, he is...

A Visible Darkness (Book Details)
On the Cover: Hannoo Stiffeniis, the magistrate from the gripping thrillers Critique of Criminal Reason and Days of Atonement, is called to Prussia’s Baltic Coast, where the naked mutilated body of a young woman has been found by the shore. This is an area rich in amber, harvested mainly by women – to be transformed into priceless jewellery. The occupying French army has taken over the...

About Face (Book Details)
On the Cover: At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He’s charmed – perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola – by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As...

The Girl of his Dreams (Book Details)
On the Cover: One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti and Ispecttore Vianello respond to a 911 call reporting a body floating near some steps on the Grand Canal. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti's wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair, and he sees a small foot - tgether he an Vianello lift a dead girl from the water. But, inconcievably, no one has reported a missing child, nor...

The TWELVE (Ghosts of Belfast in the US) (Book Details)
On the Cover: Sooner or later, everybody pays - and the dead will set the price... Former paramilitary killer Gerry Fegan is haunted by his victims, twelve souls who shadow his every waking day and scream through every drunken night. Just as he reaches the edge of sanity they reveal their desire: vengeance on those who engineered their deaths. From the greedy politicians to the corrupt...

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Book Details)
The cover says: The Expose – Millenium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful figures who control this lucrative industry The Murder - When a young couple are found dead in their Stokholm apartment, it’s...

The Pyramid (Book Details)
On the Cover: When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him;he ate badly and drank alone at night. The Pyramid chronicles the events that led him to such a place. We see him in the early years, doing hours on the beat whilst trying to...

The Brass Verdict (Book Details)
What it says on the cover. When down-at-heel lawyer Mickey Haller gets the news that his old colleague Jerry Vincent has died, he also gets an unexpected windfall. Jerry has left instructions that Mickey should inherit all of hos clients – putting Mickey’s stalled career back on track at a stroke Not only that, but Vincent was about to go to bat for Walter Elliot, the Hollywood mogul accused...

The Reapers (Book Details)
What it says on the cover They are the Reapers, the elite among killers. Men so terrifying that their names are mentioned only in whispers. The assassin Louis is one of them. But now Louis, and his partner, Angel, are themselves targets. And there is no shortage of suspects. A wealthy recluse sends them north to a town that no longer exists on a map. A town ruled by a man with very personal...

The Associate (Book Details)
What it says on the cover It's a deadly game of blackmail. And they're making him play. Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation: he's good looking, has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career and, possibly, his entire life. One night that secret catches up...

The Serbian Dane (Book Details)
What it says on the cover LISE CARLSEN: A successful arts journalist trying to smooth over the cracks in a failed marraiage. PER TOFTLUND: A crack member of Denmark’s secret service, a lone wolf: unattached, without family and fanatically committed to his work. VUK: A highly skilled political assassin who has lost everything in the bloody collapse of the former Yugoslavia. Raised in...

The Innocent Man (Book Details)
What it says on the cover Ron Williamson was a star college baseball player in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma,USA. When he left to pursue his dreams he seemed destined for glory. But years of injury, drinking, drugs and women took their toll. He returned to Ada a lonely drifter. In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress was raped and murdered. After five years of fruitless investigation the...

The Appeal (Book Details)
What it says on the cover In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will...

Double Cross (Book Details)
What it says on the cover A PSYCHOTIC KILLER WHO CRAVES AN AUDIENCE Just when Alex Cross’s life is calming down, he’s drawn back into the game to confront the Audience Killer – a terrifying genius who stages his killings as public spectacles in Washington DC and broadcasts them live on the net. AND A MURDERING MASTERMIND WHO WORKS ALONE In Colorado, another criminal mastermind is planning...

The Man Who Went Up In Smoke (Book Details)
What it says on the cover A journalist has vanished without trace in Budapest. When Martin Beck arrives in the city to investigate, he is drawn into an Eastern European underworld in search of a man that nobody knows. What he discovers will put his life at risk. Swedish detective Inspector Martin Beck is a master of human nature and relentless in his pursuit of criminals. The Man Who Went...

The Oxford Murders (Book Details)
What it says on the cover Using rules and axioms, there will always be some propositions that can’t be proved either true or false. But can this apply to murder. Godel’s Theorem of Incompleteness is familiar territory to the young South American mathematician who arrives in Oxford. Murder, however, is not. Yet no long after he has greeted his elderly landlady – and her rather luscious...

Suffer the Little Children (Book Details)
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been fractured during a brutal attack, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men have burst into the doctor’s apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and taken away his eighteen month old son. What can have motivated such a violent assault? As he investigates,...

Voices (Book Details)
It is a few days before Christmas and Reykjavik doorman and occasional Santa Claus, Gudlageuger, has been found stabbed to death in his hotel room in a sexually compromising position. It soon becomes apparent that both staff and dead man who has the most shocking secret... Detective Erlendur quickly discovers that the placidly affluent appearance of the hotel covers a multitude of sins.