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Dead Centre

Dead Centre
  • Author(s): Andy McNab
  • Location(s): Somalia, Banda Aceh
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

January 2005: Nick Stone is in tsunami hit Banda Aceh on a job to retrieve incriminating evidence of an oil deal. When looters arrive a fight breaks out and a man, Mong, is killed. Nick makes a promise to...

DEAD CERTAINTY

DEAD CERTAINTY
  • Author(s): Bud Craig
  • Location(s): Salford
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Social worker turned Private Eye Gus Keane returns in this gripping murder mystery If something happens in Salford, Manchester, it is generally bad news and when two dead bodies turn up within a few hours of one another, it...

Dead Drop

Dead Drop
  • Author(s): Tom Dawn
  • Location(s): Valletta
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY: “He was a criminal who sold weapons illegally, purchased sex slaves and had people whacked. In every other respect, I liked the guy.” In order to begin moving on with his life, former pro diver...

Dead Eyed

Dead Eyed
  • Author(s): Matt Brolly
  • Location(s): Bristol, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

DCI Michael Lambert thought he’d closed his last case… Yet when he’s passed a file detailing a particularly gruesome murder, Michael knows that this is no ordinary killer at work. The removal of the victim’s eyes and the Latin...

Dead Ground in Between

Dead Ground in Between
  • Author(s): Maureen Jennings
  • Location(s): Ludlow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

It’s late 1942; the war is still raging and the upcoming Christmas season looks bleak. Detective Inspector Tom Tyler is settling into his placement in Ludlow, Shropshire, a small town jammed with people sent there by the conflict. On...

Dead Heat

Dead Heat
  • Author(s): C J Carver
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Georgia Parish was glad to leave behind the damp heat, the bugs and the deadly wilderness of Nulgarra, in Far Northern Queensland. But after a plane crash she finds herself back there, struggling to comprehend a sinister fact –...

Dead in a Mumbai Minute

Dead in a Mumbai Minute
  • Author(s): Madhumita Bhattacharyya
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

As a private detective in Calcutta she had impressed maverick security expert Shayak Gupta with her sleuthing skills, leading to a new job with his firm Titanium. Now in Mumbai, Reema is given the case of the year –...

Dead in Devon

Dead in Devon
  • Author(s): Stephanie Austin
  • Location(s): Ashburton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Juno Browne is a self-appointed Domestic Goddess. From cleaning to dog-walking to caring for the elderly, she flits around the picturesque village of Ashburton in her trusty van ready to turn her hand to anything. Despite warnings to the...

Dead in the Water

Dead in the Water
  • Author(s): Simon Bower
  • Location(s): Europe, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Was it murder, suicide or an accident? Who will be next to die? Six international friends all appear to be successful, albeit to different levels. A human rights’ lawyer, an IT geek, a businessman, a waitress, a phone guy...

Dead In The Water

Dead In The Water
  • Author(s): Mark Ellis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1942

Summer, 1942. The Second World War rages on, but Britain now faces the Nazi threat with America at its side. In a bombed-out London swarming with gangsters and spies, DCI Frank Merlin continues his battle against rampant wartime crime....

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