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Desert God - A Novel of Ancient Egypt (Paperback): Wilbur Smith Desert God - A Novel of Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
Wilbur Smith
R434 R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Save R70 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Chianti Flask (Paperback): Marie Belloc Lowndes The Chianti Flask (Paperback)
Marie Belloc Lowndes; Introduction by Martin Edwards
R397 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Christie Affair (Paperback): Nina de Gramont The Christie Affair (Paperback)
Nina de Gramont
R250 R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Save R55 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'Literally out-Christies Agatha' - Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a stunning novel which reimagines the unexplained eleven-day disappearance of Agatha Christie that captivated the world. In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days. Only I know the truth of her disappearance. I'm no Hercule Poirot. I'm her husband's mistress. Agatha Christie's world is one of glamorous society parties, country house weekends, and growing literary fame. Nan O'Dea's world is something very different. Her attempts to escape a tough London upbringing during the Great War led to a life in Ireland marred by a hidden tragedy. After fighting her way back to England, she's set her sights on Agatha. Because Agatha Christie has something Nan wants. And it's not just her husband. Despite their differences, the two women will become the most unlikely of allies. And during the mysterious eleven days that Agatha goes missing, they will unravel a dark secret that only Nan holds the key to . . . *A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK* *Instant New York Times bestseller* 'Storytelling at its very finest' - My Weekly 'Scintillating' - Daily Mail 'Romance, enigma and wit in bucketloads' - Elizabeth Macneal, bestselling author of The Doll Factory 'A genuine marvel' - Kristin Hannah, bestselling author of Firefly Lane 'Ingenious' - AJ Pearce, bestselling author of Dear Mrs Bird

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
R406 R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Save R65 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Extravagant Death - A Charles Lenox Mystery (Paperback): Charles Finch An Extravagant Death - A Charles Lenox Mystery (Paperback)
Charles Finch
R467 R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Save R81 (17%) 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
R421 R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Save R64 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Corpse in the Waxworks - A Paris Mystery (Paperback): John Dickson-Carr The Corpse in the Waxworks - A Paris Mystery (Paperback)
John Dickson-Carr; Introduction by Martin Edwards
R402 R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Lost Gallows - A London Mystery (Paperback): John Dickson-Carr The Lost Gallows - A London Mystery (Paperback)
John Dickson-Carr; Introduction by Martin Edwards
R397 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jumping Jenny (Paperback): Anthony Berkeley Jumping Jenny (Paperback)
Anthony Berkeley; Introduction by Martin Edwards
R408 R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Save R66 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Karolina and the Torn Curtain (Paperback): Maryla Szymiczkowa Karolina and the Torn Curtain (Paperback)
Maryla Szymiczkowa
R439 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R70 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Paperback): Stuart Turton The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Paperback)
Stuart Turton 1
R305 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R61 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day by way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror - the most inventive story you'll read this year.

'Utterly original and unique. I couldn't get it out of my head for days afterwards' Sophie Hannah

It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed.

But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden - one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party - can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot.

The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath...

The Blue Diamond - A Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Paperback): Leonard Goldberg The Blue Diamond - A Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Paperback)
Leonard Goldberg
R508 R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Save R76 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Widow of Bath (Paperback): Margot Bennett Widow of Bath (Paperback)
Margot Bennett; Introduction by Martin Edwards
R410 R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Save R65 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lovecraft Country (Paperback): Matt Ruff Lovecraft Country (Paperback)
Matt Ruff 1
R287 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R43 (15%) In Stock

Soon to be a new HBO Series from J.J. Abrams, Misha Green and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out)

Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George – publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide – and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite – heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’s ancestors – they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.

At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn – led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb – which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his – and the whole Turner clan’s – destruction.

A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism – the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.

Napoleon's Run (Paperback): Jonathan Spencer Napoleon's Run (Paperback)
Jonathan Spencer
R272 R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Save R43 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Turn a Blind Eye (Paperback): Jeffrey Archer Turn a Blind Eye (Paperback)
Jeffrey Archer
R250 R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Save R55 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In the third instalment in the life of Detective William Warwick, following on from Hidden in Plain Sight, international bestseller Jeffrey Archer once again displays his mastery at the art of storytelling. Detective Inspector William Warwick is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. His team focuses on Detective Sergeant Jerry Summers, a young officer living an extravagant lifestyle. But Summers develops a personal relationship with a WPC on William's team and the investigation hangs in the balance. As his undercover officers draw the threads together, William realizes that the corruption may go far higher than his initial assessment, and that more of his colleagues than he thought possible might be willing to turn a blind eye . . . 'If there was a Nobel Prize for storytelling, Archer would win' - Daily Telegraph

The Mitford Trial - A Mitford Murders Mystery (Paperback): Jessica Fellowes The Mitford Trial - A Mitford Murders Mystery (Paperback)
Jessica Fellowes
R485 R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Save R79 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nothing Ventured (Paperback): Jeffrey Archer Nothing Ventured (Paperback)
Jeffrey Archer 1
R265 R207 Discovery Miles 2 070 Save R58 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The incredible and thrilling first novel in a brand new series by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer.

William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father’s dismay, that rather than become a barrister like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister Grace, he will join London’s Metropolitan Police Force. After graduating from university, William begins a career that will define his life: from his early months on the beat under the watchful eye of his first mentor, Constable Fred Yates, to his first high-stakes case as a fledgling detective in Scotland Yard’s arts and antiquities squad. Investigating the theft of a priceless Rembrandt painting from the Fitzmolean Museum, he meets Beth Rainsford, a research assistant at the gallery who he falls hopelessly in love with, even as Beth guards a secret of her own that she’s terrified will come to light.

While William follows the trail of the missing masterpiece, he comes up against suave art collector Miles Faulkner and his brilliant lawyer, Booth Watson QC, who are willing to bend the law to breaking point to stay one step ahead of William. Meanwhile, Miles Faulkner’s wife, Christina, befriends William, but whose side is she really on?

Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer’s number one Sunday Times bestselling The Clifton Chronicles: telling the story of the life of William Warwick – as a family man and a detective who will battle throughout his career against a powerful criminal nemesis. Through twists, triumph and tragedy, this series will show that William Warwick is destined to become one of Jeffrey Archer’s most enduring legacies.

November Rain (Paperback): Maureen Jennings November Rain (Paperback)
Maureen Jennings
R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Death in Daylesford (Paperback): Kerry Greenwood Death in Daylesford (Paperback)
Kerry Greenwood
R439 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R70 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tales - Short Stories Featuring Ian Rutledge and Bess Crawford (Paperback): Charles Todd Tales - Short Stories Featuring Ian Rutledge and Bess Crawford (Paperback)
Charles Todd
R424 R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Save R79 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ashes in the Snow (Paperback): Oriana Ramunno Ashes in the Snow (Paperback)
Oriana Ramunno; Translated by Katherine Gregor
R340 R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Save R68 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A beautiful, moving detective story set in Auschwitz in the Christmas of 1943. A young Jewish prisoner... Auschwitz, 1943. It's snowing outside and Block 10 looks even bleaker than usual. Gioele Errera, a young Jewish boy imprisoned in the camp, finds the body of an SS officer. A detective with everything to prove... Hugo Fischer is sent to investigate the unexplained death of the renowned Nazi. But Hugo is hiding a secret - he is suffering from a degenerative disease. The only way for him to survive is to give his support to the Reich and hide his condition. A confrontation with pure evil... In Auschwitz, Hugo comes face to face not only with a complex murder, but with a truth - that of the Final Solution. And he is forced to decide what is most important to him - and who, if anyone, he should try to save...

The Midnight Hour - A Mystery (Paperback): Elly Griffiths The Midnight Hour - A Mystery (Paperback)
Elly Griffiths
R404 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R66 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Darkest Sin (Hardcover): D. V. Bishop The Darkest Sin (Hardcover)
D. V. Bishop
R541 R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Save R94 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Pretty much everything I want in an historical thriller - an absolutely terrific read' - Philip Gwynne Jones 'A great insight into Renaissance Florence. What I love about these books is the seamless weaving of factual history with a great story' - Abir Mukherjee Florence. Spring, 1537. When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the Renaissance city's northern quarter, he enters a community divided by bitter rivalries and harbouring dark secrets. His case becomes far more complicated when a man's body is found deep inside the convent, stabbed more than two dozen times. Unthinkable as it seems, all the evidence suggests one of the nuns must be the killer. Meanwhile, Constable Carlo Strocchi finds human remains pulled from the Arno that belong to an officer of the law missing since winter. The dead man had many enemies, but who would dare kill an official of the city's most feared criminal court? As Aldo and Strocchi close in on the truth, identifying the killers will prove more treacherous than either of them could ever have imagined . . . The Darkest Sin is an atmospheric locked-room thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Florence and is the sequel to City of Vengeance.

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill - The New Hercule Poirot Mystery (Paperback): Sophie Hannah The Killings at Kingfisher Hill - The New Hercule Poirot Mystery (Paperback)
Sophie Hannah; Created by Agatha Christie
R270 R216 Discovery Miles 2 160 Save R54 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot-legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile-returns to solve a fiendish new mystery. Hercule Poirot is travelling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate, where Richard Devonport has summoned him to prove that his fiancee, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. But there is a strange condition attached to this request: Poirot must conceal his true reason for being there. The coach is forced to stop when a distressed woman demands to get off, insisting that if she stays in her seat, she will be murdered. Although the rest of the journey passes without anyone being harmed, Poirot's curiosity is aroused, and his fears are later confirmed when a body is discovered with a macabre note attached... Could this new murder and the peculiar incident on the coach be clues to solving the mystery of who killed Frank Devonport? And if Helen is innocent, can Poirot find the true culprit in time to save her from the gallows?

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