Books Crime Books Ex-journalist violet Brewster is keen to make a good first impression in her new community, having just moved to the small village of Merrywell. When violet hears about the mystery of Helen Slingsby, who disappeared from the village forty years earlier, she decides to help uncover what happened. But despite violet’s best efforts, she can find no trace of the missing woman. As violet talks to the other residents, it becomes apparent that something sinister is lurking beneath the village’s idyllic exterior. When a villager is found dead in their home, violet becomes convinced that the murder is connected to Helen. Did Helen ever really leave Merrywell? Who in the village is hiding something? & can violet finally solve this forty-year-old mystery before someone else gets hurt?   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780008589486 •†Author: Jane Bettany •†Publisher: HQ Digital •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 320 •†Dimensions:† 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm ...

An archaeologist’s wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq…

It was clear to Amy Leatheran that

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Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang night club in Soho. When Chief Inspector Wake of Scotland Yard enters the scene, he uncovers a tangled web of love affairs, a cynical Soho underworld, & a motive for murder. ...

Young Harriet & her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry where their stone mason father works.

So when

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Twenty years have passed since the Twentieth Legion defeated the Iceni & they are preparing to celebrate. The guest of honour is Julius Agricola, a former commander. On the eve of his arrival the Senior Centurion is found slumped over his desk. Agricola undertakes an investigation into the murder & discovers there is no shortage of suspects. ...

RCMP Corporal Paul Blakemore is jolted from his mundane policing duties in the small Monashee Mountain village of Bear Creek by the discovery of a frozen corpse on a snowy slope just outside of town There are no signs indicating how the body got there no footprints or drag marks nothing It s as if the victim has fallen from the sky ...

1866. On a train bound for Portsmouth, an elegant woman shares a compartment with the lecherous Giles Blanchard. It is a lucky encounter for her, as she steps off the train after picking his pocket & in possession of scandalous material for a potential blackmail. It is a less fortuitous meeting for Blanchard, who will never reach his home on the Isle of Wight alive. Detective Inspector Colbeck & Sergeant Leeming are swiftly dispatched to sift through the evidence. With Queen Victoria poised to spend the summer on the isl&, a speedy resolution to the case is imperative for their superiors. Tracing Blanchard’s killer is an endeavour freighted with difficulties, but will the fact that their inquiries lead them to the door of a royal residence be one complication too many? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780749030179 • Author: Edward Marston • Publisher: Allison & Busby Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.61 x 12.8 x 2.59 cm ...

Why are Scotland Yard murder detectives considered among the finest in the world? & why is so little known about how they truly work?  Take a look at what lies behind that success with someone who knows. DI Steven Keogh spent over half of his 30-year police career as a Scotland Yard detective, helping to hunt down terrorists & some of the worst murderers in London. Step inside the mind of an investigator in a never-before-seen look into what it takes to catch killers & bring them to justice. In a journey from crime scene to trial, you will witness the emotional highs & lows of cracking real-life murder cases & discover why people kill, while debunking the myths that surround this detective work. Are you ready to challenge everything you thought you knew about the world of murder investigations? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781789466423 • Author: Steven Keogh • Publisher: John Blake • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2cm ...

For Rose Mc Quinn the invitation to holiday at a luxury hotel on the isle of Bute is an unexpected delight until she discovers ...

In a cold, windswept field on the outskirts of Edinburgh, lies the brutally mutilated body of a young woman. As DI Rob Brennan looks at the tangled mass of limbs & blood, he feels his heart freeze. This girl has been strangled with her own stockings, sexually mutilated & her eyes have been gouged out. Is this the work of an Edinburgh Ripper? ...