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The Templar Detective and the Code Breaker (Hardcover): J. Robert Kennedy The Templar Detective and the Code Breaker (Hardcover)
J. Robert Kennedy
R749 Discovery Miles 7 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Midnight Man (Hardcover, Main): Paul Doherty The Midnight Man (Hardcover, Main)
Paul Doherty
R847 R735 Discovery Miles 7 350 Save R112 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A 'Canterbury Tales' medieval mystery As Chaucer's pilgrims shelter for the night in a well-stocked tavern, it's the physician's turn to enthral his fellow travellers with a terrifying tale of mystery and intrigue. When Brother Anselm and his novice Stephen are summoned to the Church of St Michael's, Candlewick, to perform an exorcism, little are they prepared for the horror that awaits. The demons and apparitions that plague the church would appear to have been summoned by an infamous sorcerer known as the Midnight Man. But what has he unwittingly unleashed - and why? Is someone using the haunting as the perfect cover for their murderous intent? And is there any link with the sudden disappearances of a number of young women in the area? The answers lie in the past and an unresolved wickedness from many decades before. But before Anselm can get to the truth, he must uncover the identity of the mysterious Midnight Man.

The Auschwitz Detective (Hardcover): Jonathan Dunsky The Auschwitz Detective (Hardcover)
Jonathan Dunsky
R776 Discovery Miles 7 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Only Way Out - A Grand Manan Murder Mystery (Hardcover): R K MacDonald The Only Way Out - A Grand Manan Murder Mystery (Hardcover)
R K MacDonald
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Family Of Strangers (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Barbara Willis Family Of Strangers (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Barbara Willis
R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Marsala Maroon - A Private Investigator Comedy Mystery (Hardcover): Traci Andrighetti Marsala Maroon - A Private Investigator Comedy Mystery (Hardcover)
Traci Andrighetti
R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Gatsby Gambit (Paperback): Claire Anderson-Wheeler The Gatsby Gambit (Paperback)
Claire Anderson-Wheeler
R425 R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Save R100 (24%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The world's most beloved literary characters. The gilded opulence of the Roaring Twenties. A murder that scandalises high society. And a clever young woman of unusual persistence... Be ready to re-think the world of Gatsby.

1922: You are cordially invited to summer at the Gatsby Mansion in West Egg, with the most illustrious - and the deadliest - guest list.

Freshly twenty-one and sporting a daring new bob, Greta Gatsby - younger sister to the infamous Jay - is finally free of finishing school. An idyllic summer stretches ahead of her at the Gatsby Mansion, the jewel of West Egg. But when Greta arrives at the secluded white-stone estate bathed in the late-afternoon light, she finds she isn't the only visitor. Jay is hosting an intimate gathering of New York's fashionable set: Daisy and Tom Buchanan, along with his brother Edgar, Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker.

That evening, the guests enjoy a candelabra-lit dinner party. That night, they dance to the lilt of the gramophone. The next morning, one of them is missing.

Murder has come to West Egg, the warm breeze tainted by scandal, betrayal and secrets. Turning sleuth isn't how Greta meant to spend her summer - but what choice does she have when one of them could be next?

A deliciously unputdownable whonunnit perfect for fans of The Christie Affair and Miss Austen Investigates.

A Debt of Death (Hardcover): Jonathan Dunsky A Debt of Death (Hardcover)
Jonathan Dunsky
R778 Discovery Miles 7 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Murder Under Her Skin - an irresistible murder mystery from the acclaimed author of Fortune Favours the Dead (Hardcover):... Murder Under Her Skin - an irresistible murder mystery from the acclaimed author of Fortune Favours the Dead (Hardcover)
Stephen Spotswood
R621 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R69 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The perfect murder mystery for fans of Richard Osman and Robert Thorogood. 'Spotswood understands that [...] spending time with unforgettable characters is paramount.' - New York Times 'A loving, intricately plotted tribute to the great days of American noir.' - Daily Mail New York, 1946: The last time Will Parker let a case get personal, she walked away with a broken face, a bruised ego, and the solemn promise never again to let her heart get in the way of her job. But she called Hart and Halloway's Travelling Circus and Sideshow home for five years, and Ruby Donner, the circus's tattooed ingenue, was her friend. To make matters worse the prime suspect is Valentin Kalishenko, the man who taught Will everything she knows about putting a knife where it needs to go. To uncover the real killer and keep Kalishenko from a date with the electric chair, Will and Ms. Pentecost join the circus in sleepy Stoppard, Virginia, where the locals like their cocktails mild, the past buried, and big-city detectives not at all. The two swiftly find themselves lost in a funhouse of lies as Will begins to realize that her former circus compatriots aren't playing it straight, and that her murdered friend might have been hiding a lot of secrets beneath all that ink. Dodging fistfights, firebombs, and flying lead, Will puts a lot more than her heart on the line in the search of the truth. Can she find it before someone stops her ticker for good? Praise for Stephen Spotswood: 'Razor-sharp, tons of flair. A really good noir novel.' Tana French 'Spotswood's stellar debut puts a modern spin on classic hard-boiled fiction. . . The deep and sensitive characterization of the two protagonists, coupled with rich description and tonally spot-on humour, make this a novel to remember. Spotswood is definitely a writer to watch.' Publishers Weekly 'This novel not only offers fun, offbeat characters and an exceptional flavour of the time, it's utterly charming too.' Woman's Weekly 'This hugely enjoyable debut is a deft melange of Agatha Christie-style locked-room murder mystery and 1940s Chandler-esque pulp crime fiction with a feisty narrator' Irish Independent Review 'Persuasive in its attention to period detail and dialogue, with well-constructed set piece scenes deftly staged, this is a highly accomplished, auspicious first entry in what we must hope will be a long-running series' The Irish Times

A New Tomorrow (Hardcover): Belle Estep A New Tomorrow (Hardcover)
Belle Estep
R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sunset Swing (Hardcover): Ray Celestin Sunset Swing (Hardcover)
Ray Celestin
R531 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Save R46 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Here ends one of the finest achievements of recent crime fiction' - Sunday Telegraph 'Outstanding' - The Times *Winner of the 2022 CWA Historical Dagger and Gold Dagger* Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A devil is loose in the City of Angels . . . A young nurse, Kerry Gaudet, travels to the City of Angels desperate to find her missing brother, fearing that something terrible has happened to him: a serial killer is terrorising the city, picking victims at random, and Kerry has precious few leads. Ida Young, recently retired Private Investigator, is dragged into helping the police when a young woman is discovered murdered in her motel room. Ida has never met the victim but her name has been found at the crime scene and the LAPD wants to know why . . . Meanwhile mob fixer Dante Sanfelippo has put his life savings into purchasing a winery in Napa Valley but first he must do one final favour for the Mob before leaving town: find a bail jumper before the bond money falls due, and time is fast running out. Ida's friend, Louis Armstrong, flies into the city just as her investigations uncover mysterious clues to the killer's identity. And Dante must tread a dangerous path to pay his dues, a path which will throw him headlong into a terrifying conspiracy and a secret that the conspirators will do anything to protect . . . Completing his American crime quartet, Ray Celestin's Sunset Swing is a stunning novel of conspiracy, murder and madness, an unforgettable portrait of a city on the edge.

The Midnight Hour - A Mystery (Paperback): Elly Griffiths The Midnight Hour - A Mystery (Paperback)
Elly Griffiths
R384 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R22 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Shadowed Evil (Hardcover, Main): Alys Clare A Shadowed Evil (Hardcover, Main)
Alys Clare
R851 R740 Discovery Miles 7 400 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A Hawkenlye medieval mystery February, 1212. Sir Josse d'Acquin and Helewise are summoned to Southfire Hall, where Josse's elderly uncle, Hugh, lies dying, surrounded by his children. But the pair soon discovers that Hugh's ill health is not the only cause of distress in the house: for Hugh's son and heir, Herbert, has taken an unpleasant new wife, the widowed Lady Cyrille. Josse and Helewise are distracted by the discovery of an injured young man on the road outside on the evening of their arrival, but the longer they remain in the house, the more they feel that something is very wrong. What happened to Josse's cousin Aeleis, who no one speaks of? Where is Lady Cyrille's small son? And why do they both feel as if the house itself is alive - and threatened by approaching evil?

The Scorpion's Tail (Paperback): Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child The Scorpion's Tail (Paperback)
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
R495 R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Save R32 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Practicum in Perjury (Hardcover): Stephanie K Clemens A Practicum in Perjury (Hardcover)
Stephanie K Clemens
R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Mystery of Ruby's Stiletto (Large Print) (Hardcover, Hardback ( ) ed.): Rose Donovan The Mystery of Ruby's Stiletto (Large Print) (Hardcover, Hardback ( ) ed.)
Rose Donovan
R610 Discovery Miles 6 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Black Drop - SUNDAY TIMES Historical Fiction Book of the Month (Paperback, Main): Leonora Nattrass Black Drop - SUNDAY TIMES Historical Fiction Book of the Month (Paperback, Main)
Leonora Nattrass
R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

***A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR*** 'A joy from start to finish' - ANDREW TAYLOR 'Thrilling... Deserves to be huge' - EMMA STONEX This is the confession of Laurence Jago. Clerk. Gentleman. Spy. July 1794, and London is filled with rumours of revolution. The war against the French is not going in Britain's favour, and negotiations with America are on a knife edge. Laurence Jago, Foreign Office clerk, is ever more reliant on opium - the Black Drop - to ease his nightmares. A highly sensitive letter, whose contents could lead to the destruction of the British Army, has been leaked to the press and Laurence is a suspect. Then he discovers the body of a fellow clerk - a supposed suicide - and it seems clear where the blame truly lies. But Laurence is certain both of his friend's innocence, and that he was murdered. But after years of hiding his own secrets from his powerful employers, can Laurence find the true culprit without ending up on the gallows himself?

Grave Intervention (Hardcover): Shira Shiloah Grave Intervention (Hardcover)
Shira Shiloah
R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Auschwitz Violinist (Hardcover): Jonathan Dunsky The Auschwitz Violinist (Hardcover)
Jonathan Dunsky
R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Turn a Blind Eye (CD, Unabridged edition): Jeffrey Archer Turn a Blind Eye (CD, Unabridged edition)
Jeffrey Archer; Read by George Blagden
R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Turn a Blind Eye is the third instalment in the gripping story of Detective Inspector William Warwick, by the master storyteller and Sunday Times number one bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles. William Warwick, now a Detective Inspector, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. His team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle appears to exceed his income. But as a personal relationship develops with a member of William's team, it threatens to compromise the whole investigation. Meanwhile, a notorious drug baron goes on trial, with the prosecution case led by William's father and sister. And William's wife Beth, now a mother to twins, renews an old acquaintance who appears to have turned over a new leaf, or has she? As the undercover officers start to draw the threads together, William realizes that the corruption may go deeper still, and more of his colleagues than he first thought might be willing to turn a blind eye. 'Peerless master of the page-turner' - Daily Mail

The Cross (Hardcover): B. R. Bentley The Cross (Hardcover)
B. R. Bentley; Edited by Sally Jennings
R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After nearly 400 years, an emerald-encrusted gold pectoral cross belonging to the Catholic Church is discovered by two salvage divers off the coast of Bermuda. Carried by an Augustinian friar on the ill-fated Spanish galleon San Pedro, which sank in 1596, the cross contains a priceless hidden key. The divers want it for the money. The Bermuda government wants it for its historical value. A group of cardinals known as the "Silenti" want it for the key hidden inside. Only one of the divers and the cardinals are aware of the key. Only the cardinals know of its significance to the Papacy. Displayed in the Bermuda Maritime Museum since its discovery, it is not until Queen Elizabeth's visit to the island nine years later that the cross in the museum is found to be a fake. Who made the forgery and who stole the original cross? Who has the key and what is its significance to the Church? Inspired by real events, the crime on which The Cross is based remains one of Bermuda's greatest unsolved mysteries. Fact and fiction are skilfully woven together throughout this debut novel from author B. R. Bentley as the characters conspire to achieve their aims.

The Rose of the World (Hardcover, Main): Alys Clare The Rose of the World (Hardcover, Main)
Alys Clare
R848 R736 Discovery Miles 7 360 Save R112 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The thirteenth book in the ever-popular Hawkenlye medieval mystery series Autumn, 1210. A year ago, King John was excommunicated - and now his men have come to Hawkenlye Abbey to take it over. Abbess Caliste, Helewise's successor, worries how she is to feed the nuns under her care, let alone conduct her usual good works. Meanwhile, Helewise has moved into Hawkenlye Manor with Josse, and their lives are full of family and warmth. But after a visit to St Edmund's Chapel, Helewise's eleven-year-old granddaughter, Rosamund, goes missing - and soon all that they hold dear is threatened . .

An Endless Exile - The love story of Torfrida and Hereward the Wake (Hardcover): Mary Lancaster An Endless Exile - The love story of Torfrida and Hereward the Wake (Hardcover)
Mary Lancaster
R1,003 Discovery Miles 10 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Librarian of Crooked Lane (Hardcover): C. J. Archer The Librarian of Crooked Lane (Hardcover)
C. J. Archer
R679 R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Save R39 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Necessary End (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Diana Rubino A Necessary End (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Diana Rubino
R773 Discovery Miles 7 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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