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Wisecracking PI Helena Handbasket juggles a jewel theft, a freezer box full of hands, and a trail of handless corpses marked with scarlet fish. As she hunts a possible serial killer, she also battles life’s real mysteries: which shoes to wear, why her neighbour smells like cheese, which lover is ‘the one’, and whether there’s anything in the fridge.
A homecoming will shake this small town to its very foundations. A taut suspense novel about the desperate things people do when they’re on the edge, perfect for readers of Jane Harper.
The second in the charming and colourful Haveli Hotel mystery series, featuring unlikely crime solving partnership Sister Agatha and hotel owner Avtar.
From Edgar Award-winning author Henry Wise comes a decisive sequel where word is bond—until the past threatens to break it.this forceful sequel to Holy City …
When an isolated young woman finds herself struggling to cope with new motherhood in a new country, she begins to feel like things can’t get much worse – until her baby goes missing.
Detective Sergeant Max Lomax is back in the new novel by critically acclaimed Nick Triplow.
When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a derelict London theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes consumed by the case. The corpse is anonymous, ritually mutilated, and disturbingly symbolic. As Rex investigates, the inquiry fractures, drawing him into memories he has long suppressed. The search for the victim’s identity becomes inseparable from a darker question: who is Rex King himself?
In this gripping novel, master of impossible crime Paul Halter turns his lens on one of history’s most notorious killers: Jack the Ripper. Drawing on real events, Halter explores who the Ripper was, what drove him, and how he vanished amid the terror that gripped London in 1888.
But a year before the Ripper’s reign, an impossible murder in the quiet village of Blackfield shocked England. Could the two cases be connected?
CLOSE ENEMY – the twenty-fifth novel in Leigh Russell’s bestselling Geraldine Steel series – is a police procedural where the enemy is hiding in plain sight. A page-turning murder mystery set in York that combines careful detective work with a chilling portrait of obsession. Readers of Ann Cleeves and Val McDermid will love this series.
A collection of brand new crime stories based around Christmas, from authors published by Bedford Square.
The third novel in the 1920s Jemima Flowerday series takes our dressmaker/amateur sleuth to a house party that is also a murder mystery weekend which turns real.
S.E. Reynolds, once an investigative journalist and now a political ghostwriter, becomes ensnared in a lethal conspiracy after an affair turns fatal. Each move to free himself only tightens the net, drawing the gaze of government agents with hidden motives.
Pragmatic, amoral, yet bound by a conflicted love for his family, Reynolds navigates both sides of the political divide while his personal life unravels.