Mystery / Thriller
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Bin Laden's Nemesis
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In 1990, the underground industry of importing arms to Ireland, from countries such as Libya, has gone into reverse. Arms are being exported to the highest bidder; one of whom is largely unknown in the West, a fledgling terrorist organisation...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2012
Murder on Page One
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A serial killer is targeting London literary agents...Led by the old-fashioned and slobbish 'Inspector No' and aided by crime author Lavinia Lenehan, DS Flick Fortune and DC Bagawath Chandavarkar ('Baggo') narrow down their suspects, all entrants in the Debut Dagger...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Wig Begone
Charles Courtley, a newly qualified lawyer without a penny to his name, plunges into the archaic world of the Bar as it was thirty-five years ago. After a stroke of beginners' luck - and a taste of good living...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/12/2009
That Terrible Shadowing
This highly original art historical faction novel probes the mystery of Caravaggio's death in the context of a rivetingly told time travel adventure. We meet face to face with the great 16th-17th century Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi, known as...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2009
Voices Past
Fee Hunter, a young widow, becomes increasingly captivated and obsessed with events from the past when she moves to an old house in the fictional historic village of Whittlesham in rural Buckinghamshire. She finds evidence of her ties with previous...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
Power in Mind Defying an Evil That Would Control the Mind of Man
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Power in Mind is a romantic thriller about justice and human rights. Protagonists Alesandre and Lina, lovers and soulmates, are forced into a dangerous journey from which there is no turning back. They must discover who she really is before...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2013
The Pregnant Mule
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Deep recession brings to power a racist government that administers a vaccine against ADHD to all new-born male Non-EU babies to reduce street crime. The vaccine is contaminated with a life-shortening gene. When Mensah is appointed Consultant Cardiologist he learns...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/03/2013
Badger, Boomer and Bathroom Bob
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The befuddled and beleaguered dean of a small, struggling law school is confronted by the apparent embezzlement of financial aid funds, the murder of two students under bizarre circumstances, the rape of a young secretary, declining applications for admission (no...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/02/2013
Perdition's Daughters A Dan Temple Adventure
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Daniel Temple is a retired SAS officer and the silent partner in Mead Associates, a security advisory service established with his old CO and friend Richard Mead. All he wants is a normal life - but, unbeknown to Daniel, Richard...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2013
Gauntlet of Fear
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When Professor Giles Dawson, historian of magic and the great illusionists, visits the Circus Tropicana, wintering at a former RAF airfield in Devon, he is not there to be entertained. He is there at the request of the circus boss,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2012
The Cruel Peak
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The glacier on the virtually unclimbable peak of Mt Vogel in the southern alps of New Zealand has yielded a secret, a notebook which casts doubt on the achievement of Ernest Ashton a wealthy landowner who has for many years...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2012
The Operation
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In the early hours of a Saturday morning in October part of a living human being is found outside a Dublin hospital. It is little more than a torso, just the trunk and head of a man, without arms or...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2012
Nine Days to Armageddon The End is Nigh!
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It’s twelve days to Christmas… but only nine days to Armageddon. Beneath the Greenlandic ice cap a geological time bomb is about to explode – an ancient piece of tectonic plate is pushing towards the Earth’s surface, threatening to displace...
Format: Hardback - Released: 23/02/2012
Paradox Lost
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Two people from different places and different times have one common destiny...Caittie and Andrew are dragged into a world of secrets. They must struggle to uncover the truth and find out what, or who, is behind it all. As they...
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/12/2011
Down in the Woods Not a Nice Place to Die
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Down in the Woods is a fast moving crime thriller with an interesting blend of human struggle, murder and licentiousness. It revolves around the lives of two women from different countries, and at opposite ends of the social spectrum, but...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2011
Cosimo's Room A Murder Mystery
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The murder of a disabled woman in an overgrown copse and obstruction by police colleagues motivates Detective Inspector Laura Baxter as never before. A conspiracy by influential people surrounds the planning approval for a hotel on the murder site, and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2011
The Statue of Three Lies
When Jack Ramsden, a cabinet-maker and designer of stage props for magicians, was preparing his annual illusion for his wife's birthday, he was killed by a shot from a rifle on a stand. The problem was - he was alone...
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2011
Salt of Their Blood
Stuart's feckless life suddenly comes into sharp focus as he begins a sweeping, illicit love affair with Kathy. The lovers are reckless, indiscreet and hopelessly in love. But all the time Stuart is haunted by events from twelve years earlier....
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2011
Princes Gate
Princes Gate is the first in a new series of crime thrillers that involve DCI Frank Merlin. These atmospheric books are set in wartime London and blend historical characters with a charismatic and intriguing half-Spanish detective. When a brilliant emigre...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/06/2011
The Teleios Ring
In a quiet corner in rural Kent, a 75 year old spinster is found dead at the bottom of her stairs, apparently killed while disturbing a burglary. Within days, two more people have been brutally murdered, triggering a race against...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2011
Casa Di Segreto
At the top of a hill in Baracchella, Calabria, settled among the trees and overlooking a lake, stands a formidable looking house. It dates back to a time long before the Roman ruins which now lie beneath it. It is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2011
I am Dead
Peter Smith is dead. No getting away from that. Or is there?An asocial misanthrope undermines his own initial opinions in the search for his perfect partner and his battle with a mysterious definition-dodging giver and taker of life...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2011
Lilian Snipe
Is a little madness really so bad? Do we all possess that certain something that can try our patience to the point of menace? Look inside the secret mind of a woman scorned, dejected and teetering on the edge of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2010
The Spanish Hotel Where Crime Can be More Than a Little Naughty
Alice Evans mysteriously falls from her fifth floor balcony. Unable to prove her fall was not suicide, DCI Collins knows that there is much more to the case. Alice's mysterious final words, and what turns out to be a liberal...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2010
Present Tense A Story of Rape and Revenge
Karen Stamford is a happily married woman with twin adopted daughters. She lives with her husband in a prosperous town in upper New York State. She’s a high-flying finance executive. The Stamfords have a comfortable life. Into this scene comes...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
David Penance List
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Cunningham’s provocative David Trilogy is a graphically violent examination of the indiscriminate nature of evil, the abuse of power, sex and trust. It’s a brave, terrifying and pulsating read fuelled by Cunningham’s first rate storytelling; a skilled mix of romance,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2009
Run
To love someone so much that you would die for them is a commonly used phrase, but not one that Shay and Ruby ever imagined would become a reality for them. Their lives become entwined when Shay begins a lucrative...
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/03/2011
Ghosts and Femmes Fatales - A collection of supernatural tales
This book consists of eleven highly original short stories of the supernatural. Each one consists of a sumptuous mix of history and folklore, combined with such human emotions as lost loves, betrayal and loneliness. The stories are set in the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/11/2009
Chasing Stone
Exploding straight into the action we find Tom Stone a world class assassin in the middle of a gun fight trying to shoot his way out of a private jet that has just landed at Heathrow. Stone has been double...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
A Dangerous Man
Michael Jones, a young gay artist and part-time prostitute will do anything to stage his first exhibition. When he falls in love with rich financier, Jack Hutchinson, he seems set to achieve his goal. But as Mikey becomes caught between...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2007
Maloney's Law
Paul Maloney, a small-time private investigator from London, reluctantly accepts a case from his married ex-lover, Dominic Allen. Before he knows it, Paul finds himself embroiled in the dark dealings of big business and the sordid world of international crime....
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/06/2008
Paper Dreams
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Take a recipe for disaster...Start with an illicit love affair in 1952, add a painful parting and three deaths in 1953. Leave to settle until 2009. Then add a crumbling mansion (Epton Hall), which harbours a scandalous secret...Gradually combine young...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/11/2011
The Synchronicity Factor
Following his wife’s death and his dismissal from the Argento Corporation, micro engineer Dr Andrew King undergoes a cathartic mid life crisis. Working at night and driven by unknown forces, he creates a remarkable timepiece of unimaginable beauty and powerfully...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2010
And All The Rest Of It
An elderly writer, driven by fear, guilt and loneliness, seeks an alternative existence to that which he fails to understand. At odds with an ever-changing world, and unsure of his place within that world, he sets out on a journey...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/12/2007
The Blood Purge
Trapped in a world where the female of the species is dominant, domestic drudge Peregrine Farouche longs to escape his dreary hometown Rampick and the prospect of marrying violent, miserly publican Avoirdupois Alecost.Then one day, he meets dashing rogue Amoret...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 01/11/2007
Kabul Gold A Dan Temple Adventure
It’s perhaps the perfect crime, undetected and untraceable, or is it? Oblivious to what he knows, Daniel Temple lives a quiet, simple life. A life shattered by Salim Oma Asgari and the assassination squad hired by Abbas Abdul Malik, multi...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2011
A Disturbed Girl's Guide to Curing Boredom
Hannah Harker is bored. Her tedious job as a local newspaper reporter is grinding her soul to dust and she cannot find anything to interest or excite her. Refusing to accept an average life of anonymity, she decides to tear...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/06/2011
The Rebel Legionnaire
I have written what I call factual fiction, which is gripping fiction made up of authentic historical events and personal experience. Set in Paris at a time of near civil war when the underground OAS was fighting the government it...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2010
Blue Lantern
Set in Hong Kong at the time of the Cultural Revolution riots in 1967, Blue Lantern is a story of sex and police corruption. Mike Brodie a young police inspector from Glasgow is caught between two women. Helen is a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/10/2009
Surreal-ism
A varied collection of fiction, short stories and poetry in four parts.Catch-22-SAS is set in the summer of 1987. With the fictitious John Parker having upset everyone in the village in East Anglia, where he lives and works,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/04/2009
The Big Story
With the nation’s most respected broadcaster now exposed for cheating, The Big Story comes as a timely and highly topical satire on the television industry, where the words 'truth' and 'reality' can have quite different meanings. Written by an insider,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/12/2007
Police Surgeon - Lethal Deception
Dr Barry Greenwell, senior partner of a medical practice by day, Nerrithshire’s most highly qualified Police Surgeon by night, is caught in a web of deception when an elderly patient turns to murder, a drugs baron fears that he knows...
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/06/2008
One Step To Danger
It was simple to arrange - a fraud that led to a meltdown in world financial markets. Ruinous for many highly regarded names in the world of finance, it was the foundation of the multi billion dollar Rossi Empire.In the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/12/2007
Chemical Wedding
Julian Doyle and Bruce Dickinson
Jack Parsons was a brilliant chemist, member of Cal Tech propulsion unit that invented of the rocket fuel used for the US space flight to the moon. He was also a fanatical believer in the Magyck...
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/05/2008
In Cold Daylight
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UK fire-fighters are dying long after they’ve reached the safety of cold daylight from the burning darkness of a blaze. Why? Pauline Rowson, a fire-fighter’s wife, wrote the thriller In Cold Daylight after hearing that several fire-fighters from one watch...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2006
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Buy NowAbout this genre
“I love to lose myself in a mystery” said the 17th century writer Sir Thomas Browne, and he’s in good company.
In a world beset by problems and issues which often seem out of control, mystery stories provide escapism and a sense of wonder.
Lovewriting offers you the chance to discover the bizarre parallel society created by Xeno Glitz, or embark on a quest for meaning along with the Theo Hendricks' protagonist.
Lovewriting lets you discover new mystery/thriller authors, and allows you to download free opening extracts from their books to sample.
