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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery

Girl, 11 (Paperback): Amy Suiter Clarke Girl, 11 (Paperback)
Amy Suiter Clarke
R468 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
None Of This Is True (Paperback): Lisa Jewell None Of This Is True (Paperback)
Lisa Jewell
R275 R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Save R29 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins.

A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.

Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.

But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat.

Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?

Cuthbert's Way - A DCI Ryan Mystery (Paperback): Lj Ross Cuthbert's Way - A DCI Ryan Mystery (Paperback)
Lj Ross
R256 R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Save R21 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A SECRET KEPT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS... After the dramatic theft of a priceless artefact from Durham Cathedral, the rest of the world believes that DCI Ryan and his team were able to recover and return St. Cuthbert's cross to its rightful home. But Ryan knows the cross he recovered was a fake-far from being over, their problems are only just beginning... Just as Ryan and his team begin to unravel the truth behind the spate of mysterious thefts, something even more priceless is stolen-something that can never be replaced. As the nationwide manhunt continues without success, Ryan is thrust into despair-until he realises the answer lies not in modern policing but in an age-old secret known only to a chosen few. To recover what's been lost, he must first crack 'Cuthbert's Code', following the trail of a long-dead saint across the wild, unpredictable hills and valleys of the borderlands. Can Ryan find what he's looking for, before it's too late? He's going to need a miracle... Murder and mystery are peppered with romance and humour in this fast-paced crime whodunit set amidst the spectacular Northumbrian landscape. "LJ Ross keeps company with the best mystery writers" - The Times "A literary phenomenon" - Evening Chronicle

Red Ink (Paperback, New Edition): Angela Makholwa Red Ink (Paperback, New Edition)
Angela Makholwa
R250 R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Save R23 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Red Ink is a gripping thriller, originally released in 2013. Set in present-day Johannesburg, it has a distinctly local flavour and brings the city to life through all its contrasts and contradictions.

When public relations consultant and ex-journalist Lucy Khambule – young, beautiful and ambitious – receives an unexpected call from Napoleon Dingiswayo – a convicted serial killer, nicknamed The Butcher by the media – her life takes a dramatic turn. Dingiswayo wants Lucy to tell his story. Intrigued by Dingiswayo’s approach, Lucy decides to take this opportunity to fulfil her life-long dream of writing a book, but it comes at a cost she could never have imagined.

After their initial contact, Dingiswayo becomes an all-too-obliging subject and Lucy soon discovers that her choice of topic is not for the faint-hearted. Soon after meeting him in Pretoria’s notorious C-Max Prison, Lucy’s world is turned upside down by a series of violent and disturbing events.

Dingiswayo is behind bars, but Lucy begins to suspect that the brutal attacks may have something to do with him. Who is this frightening man, and what motivates him? As Lucy learns that there is more to Dingiswayo’s story than the police have uncovered, she is forced to decide what price she is willing to pay to pursue her dream.

Red Ink is a gripping thriller. Set in Johannesburg, it has a distinctly local flavour and brings the city to life through all its contrasts and contradictions.

Widow of Bath (Paperback): Margot Bennett Widow of Bath (Paperback)
Margot Bennett; Introduction by Martin Edwards
R390 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R21 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Murder's a Swine - A Second World War Mystery (Paperback): Nap Lombard Murder's a Swine - A Second World War Mystery (Paperback)
Nap Lombard; Introduction by Martin Edwards
R386 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R21 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Chianti Flask (Paperback): Marie Belloc Lowndes The Chianti Flask (Paperback)
Marie Belloc Lowndes; Introduction by Martin Edwards
R377 R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Save R23 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Killer Potential (Paperback): Hannah Deitch Killer Potential (Paperback)
Hannah Deitch
R395 R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Save R85 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A scholarship kid with straight As and massive potential, Evie Gordon always thought she was special, that she'd be someone.

But after graduating from an elite university, she finds herself drowning in debt and working as a private tutor to the children of Los Angeles's super-rich.

Everything changes when Evie arrives at the Victor family's lavish mansion for her weekly lesson to discover, not the bored teenager she excepted, but pure carnage: the bloody remains of Mr and Mrs Victor sullying their beautiful back garden, and a woman crying for help from within the walls of the house.

Within moments, Evie and the woman go from bystanders to suspects to fugitives.

Suddenly at the heart of a nation-wide manhunt, Evie finds that her mysterious companion, who refuses to speak, has quickly become the most important person in her upside-down life. Meanwhile, the press runs wild with Evie's story - anointing her the new Charles Manson, a blood thirsty ninety-nine percenter looking to start a class war.

Evie is - finally and disastrously - someone.

Droll, dark and deeply insightful, Killer Potential is an edge-of-your-seat break-neck ride, a queer love story, and a darkly funny critique of the horrors of late capitalism and how the stories we're sold about our potential can shape the course of our lives.

The Pride (Paperback): Tony Park The Pride (Paperback)
Tony Park 4
R340 R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Save R32 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Ex-mercenary Sonja Kurtz is out for revenge after her daughter Emma is assaulted by an abalone poacher while on a beachside holiday near Cape Town.

When the poacher is murdered, Sonja is targeted by a violent local gangster and must flee the country. As Sonja leaves a trail of destruction in her wake – from the threatened wilderness of Zimbabwe to the treacherous beaches of northern Mozambique – a concerned Emma must find the courage to rescue her mother.

But is Sonja a cold-blooded killer? Or is there a darker conspiracy taking place in southern Africa’s underworld – one that will change their lives forever?

They Disappeared (Paperback): Joy Ellis They Disappeared (Paperback)
Joy Ellis
R253 R232 Discovery Miles 2 320 Save R21 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A GRIPPING CRIME THRILLER FULL OF STUNNING TWISTS Orla Cracken, IT whizz has disappeared. Detectives Rowan Jackman and Marie Evans soon suspect foul play. Cracken, known as Orac, is no ordinary techie; she was once a field agent traveling abroad undercover, working for the government. Meanwhile two urban explorers have mysteriously disappeared while out exploring abandoned buildings. One went missing at a disused airfield, but was it a military base, or was it civilian? The gruesome discovery of their decaying bodies in ancient church ruins bursts the case wide open, and Jackman and Evans are under pressure to find the killer. It soon becomes clear that the murderer is targeting urban explorers, but why is he determined to track down and torture these people, and how is the case connected to Orac's mysterious past?

Past Lying (Paperback): Val McDermid Past Lying (Paperback)
Val McDermid
R311 R284 Discovery Miles 2 840 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In this superb new addition to Val McDermid’s masterful crime series, DCI Karen Pirie returns in a propulsive thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against the disquiet of a global pandemic.

Britain’s reigning “Queen of Crime” (The Scotsman), Val McDermid is the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of over thirty novels. The long-awaited seventh novel in the acclaimed series that has captivated audiences for twenty years, both on the page and now in the Edgar Award–nominated ITV/BritBox show, Past Lying is a full tilt novel of ego, retribution, deceit, and just how far one will go to settle the score.

It’s April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot—the streets all but empty, an hour’s outdoor exercise the maximum allowed—but a mere pandemic doesn’t mean crime takes a holiday. When a source at the National Library contacts DCI Karen Pirie’s team about documents in the archive of a recently deceased crime novelist, it seems it’s game on again. At the center of it, a novel: two crime novelists facing off over a chessboard. But it quickly emerges that their real-life competition is drawing blood. What unspools is a twisted game of betrayal and revenge, and as Karen and her team attempt to disentangle fact from fiction, it becomes clear that their investigation is more complicated than they ever imagined.

A tense, atmospheric page-turner, Past Lying reaffirms McDermid as one of the most talented crime writers of her generation.

We Solve Murders (Paperback): Richard Osman We Solve Murders (Paperback)
Richard Osman 1
R395 R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Save R42 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A brand new series.

An iconic new detective duo.

And a thrilling new murder to solve . . .

Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favourite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now.

Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. As a private security officer, she doesn’t stay still long enough for habits or routines. She’s currently on a remote island keeping world-famous author Rosie D’Antonio alive. Which was meant to be an easy job . . .

Then a dead body, a bag of money and a killer with their sights on Amy have her sending an SOS to the only person she trusts. A breakneck race around the world begins, but can Amy and Steve stay one step ahead of a deadly enemy?

The Darkest Game (Paperback): Joseph Schneider The Darkest Game (Paperback)
Joseph Schneider
R443 R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Save R23 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ryan's Christmas - A DCI Ryan Mystery (Paperback): Lj Ross Ryan's Christmas - A DCI Ryan Mystery (Paperback)
Lj Ross
R250 R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Save R21 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Christmas can be murder... After a busy year fighting crime, DCI Ryan and his team of murder detectives are enjoying a festive season of goodwill, mulled wine and, in the case of DS Phillips, a stottie cake or two-that is, until a freak snowstorm forces their car off the main road and into the remote heart of Northumberland. Their Christmas spirit is soon tested when they're forced to find shelter inside England's most haunted castle, where they're the uninvited guests at a 'Candlelit Ghost Hunt'. It's all fun and games-until one of the guests is murdered. It seems no mortal hand could have committed the crime, so Ryan and Co. must face the spectres living inside the castle walls to uncover the grisly truth, before another ghost joins their number... Murder and mystery are peppered with romance and humour in this fast-paced crime whodunnit set amidst the spectacular Northumbrian landscape. "LJ Ross keeps company with the best mystery writers" - The Times "A literary phenomenon" - Evening Chronicle

The Sanctuary Sparrow - The Seventh Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at... The Sanctuary Sparrow - The Seventh Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury (Paperback)
Ellis Peters
R633 R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Save R62 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries (Paperback): Martin Edwards A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries (Paperback)
Martin Edwards
R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Shadow Hill (Paperback): Thomas Kies Shadow Hill (Paperback)
Thomas Kies
R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Die Beweging Van Bloed (Afrikaans, Paperback): Pieter Stoffberg Die Beweging Van Bloed (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Pieter Stoffberg
R320 R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Save R34 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Professor Nino Everhard word op sy kombuisvloer wakker met bloed oral. Iemand het ingebreek en hom en sy vrou, Willemien, aangeval, maar niks gesteel nie. Wat wou die aanvaller hê? Nino weet dit was nie toeval nie. Hy is uitgekies. Iemand wou vir hom ’n boodskap stuur. Op sy speurtog na antwoorde lei die leidrade hom op ’n kronkelpad deur sy verlede na die skadukant van die samelewing. Elke tree nader aan die waarheid is ook ’n tree nader aan lewensgevaar. Sal Nino die antwoorde kry waarna hy soek? En hoeveel van sy eie duiwels gaan hom langs die pad inhaal? Die beweging van bloed is ’n naelbytspanningsverhaal wat jou laat raai tot die einde.

In The Shadow They Cast (Paperback): Paul Graham In The Shadow They Cast (Paperback)
Paul Graham
R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Murder Most Festive - A Cozy Christmas Mystery (Paperback): Ada Moncrieff Murder Most Festive - A Cozy Christmas Mystery (Paperback)
Ada Moncrieff
R383 R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Save R22 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Medusa (Paperback, English Edition): Rudie van Rensburg Medusa (Paperback, English Edition)
Rudie van Rensburg
R365 R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Save R23 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Kassie has never had to cope with a case like this before, and his emotions are getting the better of him. As a rookie cop he learned to keep his distance from a case, not get emotionally involved, because that’s when mistakes happen. But this case makes distance impossible . . . children’s lives are at stake. And every time he and Rooi seem to be making progress with the case, it slithers out from under them, like a venomous snake.

Die Rooi Angelier (Afrikaans, Paperback): Eleanor Baker, Alex Muller Die Rooi Angelier (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Eleanor Baker, Alex Muller
R270 R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Save R35 (13%) Pre-order

Speurder Adriaan Kruger is op die spoor van ’n moordenaar wat só pynlik netjies te werk gaan dat hy oënskynlik geen leidrade agterlaat nie. Boonop lyk dit asof die moordenaar doelbewus kat-en-muis met hom speel. Sal hy die moordenaar kan vastrek voordat dié weer toeslaan?

Dié senutergende misdaadondersoek waarin Adriaan gewikkel is, sal die leser aan die raai hou tot en met die heel laaste bladsy.

Sewe-en-Veertig (Afrikaans, Paperback): Irma Venter Sewe-en-Veertig (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Irma Venter
R320 R300 Discovery Miles 3 000 Save R20 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Sarah Fourie kry halfvier op ’n koue wintersoggend ’n oproep van Mosela Mosholi, ’n ou vriendin uit haar tronkdae. Sarah moet nóú kom, Kaapstad toe. Datameester Mosi se rekenaars voorspel ’n vierde moord op ’n toeris binne die volgende paar dae en Sarah met haar kuberkrakerkennis moet kom help.

Sarah kan nie nee sê nie. Sy ken Mosi al jare lank, en haar skuld is groot. Sy sleep haarself uit die bed, gryp ’n oornagsak, en bel vir Jaap. Want Jaap Reyneke moet saam – sy jare as polisieman is al raad wat sy het indien ’n moordenaar in die moederstad skuil.

Dit is ’n onvoorspelbare, donker Kaapstad wat op Jaap en Sarah wag. ’n Stad waarin misdadigers die toutjies trek, waar hommeltuie bokant jou stilweg tred hou van goeie én minder goeie dade, en toeriste salig onbewus is van dit wat in Clifton en Kampsbaai broei.

Nog ’n verbluffende roman deur die meester-krimiskrywer Irma Venter.

Single Minded (Paperback): Marina Auer Single Minded (Paperback)
Marina Auer
R385 R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Save R24 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

When Murphy Meyer arrives at Eden State Hospital on the first of January 2001, driven to solve a small, personal mystery, the young doctor has no idea she’s deposited herself into something larger and darker than she could ever have imagined; something that has a life of its own.

Few at Eden State Hospital can claim to be single minded where duplicity is standard operating procedure.

Truth Truth Lie (Paperback): Claire McGowan Truth Truth Lie (Paperback)
Claire McGowan
R283 R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Save R43 (15%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Everyone here has killed someone.

There is no way off this island.

You will all either kill or be killed here.

One of these statements is a lie. But which one?

Amira’s less than thrilled to be spending the weekend with her husband’s university friends. Two of them are hosting a joint fortieth on a private Scottish island, with vintage champagne, expensive gifts, and soaks in the wood-fired hot tub. Despite the luxury, Amira knows she’s going to feel left out, not to mention freezing cold and cut off.

When they decide to play ‘two truths and a lie’, anonymously posting three statements about themselves into a box, years of resentment start bubbling to the surface. And then an extra slip of paper emerges, scrawled with three chilling threats. Who wrote it? And are two of the statements really true―have they all been responsible for someone’s death?

With no phone reception and no way off the island, the group are trapped here until the end of the weekend. And as tension rises and secrets are spilled, they can’t shake the feeling that they’re not the only ones here. Is someone watching them? Someone who wants them dead? Or is it one of them who has murder in mind?

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