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The Killer’s Christmas List

The Killer’s Christmas List
  • Author(s): Chris Frost
  • Location(s): Gateshead, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the picturesque village of Kibblesworth, DI Tom Stonem is dreaming of a quiet Christmas alone. But in the shadow of the Angel of the North, a body lies waiting. The dead man is posed with a child’s Christmas...

The Killing Forest

The Killing Forest
  • Author(s): Sara Blaedel
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Following an extended leave, Louise Rick returns to work at the Special Search Agency, an elite unit of the National Police Department. She’s assigned a case involving a fifteen-year-old who vanished a week earlier. When Louise realizes that the...

The Killing Hour

The Killing Hour
  • Author(s): Lisa Gardner
  • Location(s): Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

Each time he struck, he took two victims. Day after day, he waited for the first body to be discovered—a body containing all the clues the investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited… prey to a slow...

The Killing II

The Killing II
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

David Hewson’s The Killing 2 is the novelization of the second series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing. It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left Copenhagen...

The Killing III

The Killing III
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A family in turmoil. A country in crisis. All debts must be settled. As gripping as Søren Sveistrup’s TV series, David Hewson’s crime thriller The Killing 3 is inspired by the Danish hit The Killing.

The Killing Lessons

The Killing Lessons
  • Author(s): Saul Black
  • Location(s): California, Colorado
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper’s isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it’s the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it’s just another stop on a long...

The Killing Line

The Killing Line
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Crime novel The Killing Line is published by The Book Folks and tells how a schoolgirl is found dead after taking drugs, the second death in a few weeks. DCI Jack Harris suspects that there is more to the...

The Killing of Butterfly Joe

The Killing of Butterfly Joe
  • Author(s): Rhidian Brook
  • Location(s): Catskill Mountains, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): 1980s

‘I killed Joe once, in a manner of speaking. But not twice. Not in the way you mean.’ Llew Jones wanted to see the States and write about the experience. Then he met Joe Bosco, a butterfly salesman as...

The Killing Pool

The Killing Pool
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective Chief Inspector Billy McCartney discovers a headless corpse in the scrubland close to Liverpool docks. The slaying carries all the hallmarks of a gangland hit — a message from the underworld to snitches, cops and rival gangs. One...

The Killing Room

The Killing Room
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In the third of the critically acclaimed China thrillers, Li Yan and Margaret Campbell travel to Shanghai: where a new ally, and a new enemy, await. THE NEW CASE When a mass grave containing eighteen mutilated female corpses is...

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