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Dead of Night

Dead of Night
  • Author(s): Simon Scarrow
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

BERLIN. JANUARY 1941. Evil cannot bring about good . . . After Germany’s invasion of Poland, the world is holding its breath and hoping for peace. At home, the Nazi Party’s hold on power is absolute. One freezing night,...

Dead Pretty

Dead Pretty
  • Author(s): David Mark
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

No. 5 in the DS McAvoy series. Hannah Kelly has been missing for nine months. Ava Delaney has been dead for five days. One girl to find. One girl to avenge. And DS Aector McAvoy won’t let either of...

Dead Rich

Dead Rich
  • Author(s): G W Shaw
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Thriller

PARADISE CAN BE MURDER Super yachts are secretive, like their owners. Like castles, they are created to inspire awe. Like castles too, they are defended. They are an entire world, separate from the rest of us. Kai, a carefree...

Dead Simple (Roy Grace 1)

Dead Simple (Roy Grace 1)
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank. A few hours later four of his best friends are dead and Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Grace – a man...

Dead Sweet

Dead Sweet
  • Author(s): Katrín Júlíusdóttir, Quentin Bates (Translator)
  • Location(s): Iceland, Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Police Procedural, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

A murder is just the beginning… When Óttar Karlsson, a wealthy and respected government official and businessman, is found murdered, after failing to turn up at his own surprise birthday party, the police are at a loss. It isn’t...

Dead Wood

Dead Wood
  • Author(s): Chris Longmuir
  • Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In a grim Dundee of urban decay and criminal deprivation what happens when the cold, calculating world of gangland retribution collides with the psychosis of a serial killer? Kara has a debt to gangster Tony and takes to the...

Deadly Harvest (#4 Detective Kubu)

Deadly Harvest (#4 Detective Kubu)
  • Author(s): Michael Stanley
  • Location(s): Gaborone, Mochudi
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The fourth mystery in the beloved and critically acclaimed Detective Kubu series tracks a series of murders and the mysterious witch doctor whose nefarious potions might hold the key to a web of missing persons. A young girl goes...

Death and the Conjuror

Death and the Conjuror
  • Author(s): Tom Mead
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1936

1936, London. A celebrity psychiatrist is discovered dead in his locked study. There seems to be no way a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by...

Death and the Dolce Vita

Death and the Dolce Vita
  • Author(s): Stephen Gundle
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

On 9 April 1953 an attractive twenty-one-year-old woman went missing from her family home in Rome. Thirty-six hours later her body was found washed up on a neglected beach at Torvaianica, forty kilometres from the Italian capital. Some said...

Death At Eden’s End

Death At Eden’s End
  • Author(s): Jo Allen
  • Location(s): The Lake District, Eden Valley
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2019

When one-hundred-year-old Violet Ross is found dead at Eden’s End, a luxury care home hidden in a secluded nook of the Lake District’s Eden Valley it’s tragic, of course, but not unexpected. Except for the instantly recognisable look in...

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