Cops & Crime Sale 2020

Meet DI HILLARY GREENE, a policewoman struggling to save her career and catch criminals. Flo Jenkins is found murdered inher armchair, a paperknife sticking out of her chest. The old woman was well liked and nothing seems to have been stolen fromher home. And it was common knowledge that she only had weeks to live. Why kill a dying woman?

Fourth title in the gripping medieval mystery series set in Chesterfield

Staffordshire in the 1950s. Within the clay tanks at the pottery company Shentall's, a body has been found. Amid cries of industrial espionage and sabotage of this leader of the pottery industry, there is a case of bitter murder to solve for Inspector Hedley Nicholson.

In London's Bloomsbury, Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard looks down at a dismal scene. Here is the victim, burnt to a crisp. Here are the clues - clues which point to a good climber and expert skier, and which lead Rivers to the piercing sunshine and sparkling snow of the Austrian Alps to crack the case.

Few other Cambridge Fellows have quite Felix's experience of life, or of death. Now he takes a break from his unofficial role as assassin of choice to the British Establishment to right some wrongs and eliminate some rival killers on his own account.

Talented sportsmen inexplicably go absent without leave, crafty gamblers conspire in the hope of making a killing, and personal rivalries and jealousies come to a head on fields of play... The classic stories in this new British Library anthology show that crime is a game for all seasons.

DI Hillary Greene is called out to attend a suspicious death at Three Oaks Farm in the picturesque village of Steeple Barton. The large farmhouse is filled with music and revellers, but when she steps into the farm's cowshed, Hillary finds the bride - dead.

Meet DI Hillary Green, a detective in the Oxfordshire Constabulary fighting to save her career. Not only has she lost her husband, but his actions have put her under internal investigation for corruption. Then a bashed and broken body is found floating in the Oxford Canal.

Police detective Carter McLean is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills his four best friends. He returns to work but he is left full of guilt and terrible flashbacks.

He''s guarding a dark secret, but so is she.Lizzie Burdett was eighteen when she vanished. Noah Carruso has never forgotten her: she was his first crush; his unrequited love. She was also his brotherΓÇÖs girlfriend. Tom Carruso hasnΓÇÖt been home in over a decade. He left soon after Lizzie disappeared, under a darkening cloud of suspicion. Now heΓÇÖs coming home for the inquest into LizzieΓÇÖs death, intent on telling his side of the story for the first time.As the inquest looms, Noah meets Alice Pryce while on holiday in Thailand. They fall in love fast and hard, but Noah canΓÇÖt bear to tell Alice his deepest fears. And Alice is equally stricken, for she carries a terrible secret of her own.Featured in the Big W Top 100''Dark, compelling and truly memorable.'' Dervla McTiernan, author of The Ruin''A propulsive, dark and mysterious thriller.'' Christian White, author of The Nowhere Child''A compelling mystery and heart-stopping pace.'' Natasha Lester, bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress

Summer, 1962. A scorching heat wave is suffocating L.A.PI Jim Keegan is offered a small fortune to find a beautiful woman.He refuses.The job seems suspicious.The next day the same woman turns up on his doorstep.Eve fears for her safety. She is being watched. Before Keegan knows it, someone has been killed with KeeganΓÇÖs own gun, and he gets sucked into a world of suspicion and betrayal where heΓÇÖs never quite sure where the truth lies. Before long heΓÇÖs the prime suspect in a murder he didnΓÇÖt commit, and all the evidence seems to point in his direction.ItΓÇÖs almost like someone planned it that way.ΓÇÿTerrificΓÇÖ Publishers WeeklyΓÇÿA very cleverly written bookΓÇÖ @mrsfegfictionΓÇÿI knew what was going on until three pages before the end when I was proven HORRIFICALLY wrongΓÇÖ @nobooksgivenΓÇÿA truly exciting, punchy and interesting readΓÇÖ @reading_for_my_mindΓÇÿIt pulls you inΓÇÖ BooklovelifeΓÇÿClassic mystery lovers this novel is highly recommended for youΓÇÖ @nightfallmysteries

Two mysteries of the kind John Bude does best, with well-drawn and authentic period settings and a satisfying whodunit structure, following the traditional rules and style of the Golden Age of the genre.

A gripping murder mystery set in a time of violent civil war and featuring commoner-turned-earl's man, Edwin Weaver

''A cracking read.'' Val McDermid''One of the yearΓÇÖs best urban crime stories. Topical, gripping and perfectly paced, you wonΓÇÖt be able to put it down.'' Better Reading''The Rip pulls you under and tosses your emotions around like flotsam bobbing up and down on the waves.'' Queenland Reviewers CollectiveA young woman living on the street has to keep her wits about her. Or her friends... but when the drugs kick in that can be hard.Anton has been looking out for her. She was safe with him. But then Steve came along.He had something over Anton. Must have. But he had a flat they could crash in. And gear in his pocket. And she can''t stop thinking about it. A good hit makes everything all right.But the flat smells weird.There''s a lock on Steve''s bedroom door.And the guy is intense.The problem is, sometimes you just don''t know you are in too deep, until you are drowning.Praise for Mark Brandi:Winner of the CWA Debut DaggerWinner of the 2018 Indie Debut Fiction Award''A bold new voice in fiction'' Louise Jensen''Devastating, breathtaking, and effortless'' Sarah Schmidt''An unforgettable story'' Sarah Bailey

A Polish psychological thriller which has been made into a successful HBO TV series.

Entreated by the Belgian financier D'Aunay to investigate the gruesome and grimly theatrical death of actor Myron Alison, the Inspector Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle find themselves at the imposing hilltop fortress Schloss Schadel, in which a killer lurks amongst a small group of suspects.

A brand new DS Thoroughgood thriller from Award Nominated crime fiction author RJ Mitchell. Set in Glasgow in 1990, The Blood Acre follows DS Angus Thoroughgood as he explores a tangled web of lies, deceit within a corrupt police force leading him to uncover an explosive terrorist plot and a fabled piece of Glasgow criminal folklore.

This classic country house mystery, first published in 1933, contrasts the splendours and frivolities of the English upper classes with the sombre overhang of the First World War and the irresistible complications of deadly familial relationships.

Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes find the body of Princess Olga Karukhin, who fled from Russia at the time of the Revolution. Taking place in the three days leading up to Christmas, Nightingale's enquiry takes him to a gramophone shop and a jewellers, culminating in the wrapping of the mystery on Christmas Eve.

The detectives in this collection are masters of scientific deduction, whether they are identifying the perpetrator from a single scrap of fabric, or picking out the poison from a sinister line-up. The Measure of Malice collects tales of rational thinking to prove the power of the human brain over villainous deeds.

We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital featuring Inspector Bencolin. Also includes the short story 'The Shadow of the Goat'.

First published in 1944 Fell Murder sees E.C.R. Lorac at the height of her considerable powers as a purveyor of well-made, traditional and emphatic detective fiction. The book presents a 'return of the prodigal' mystery set in the later stages of the Second World War amidst the close-knit farmerfolk community of Lancashire's Lune valley.

This British Library anthology uncovers the best mysteries set below the surface and atop the waves, including stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, William Hope Hodgson and R. Austin Freeman.

Everyone says that Sister Monica, warden of a children's home in rural Devon, is a saint - but is she? When her body is found drowned in the mill race, Chief Inspector Macdonald faces one of his most difficult cases in a village determined not to betray its dark secrets to a stranger.

Superintendent Littlejohn is summoned to Surrey to investigate murder by explosion in Bellairs' novel of small-town grudges with calamitous consequences.

A masterful and atmospheric mystery combining high stakes courtroom drama with a search for evidence in a war-torn Europe, where the roots of the central deadly crime lie buried.

Fab looks back on a past in which he and his friend Ben attempted a kind of pre-teen normalcy despite Fab's abusive father and Ben's neighbour's abrupt death, and the new character - striking with evident strength - who came into this dynamic and cast a shadow on the lives to come. Winner of the CWA 2018 Debut Dagger.

When the mutilated body of a police officer is found in a derelict factory, the Hamptonshire police force is shocked to the core.