Crime / Whodunit
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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
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
Breath of Corruption
The seventh in the highly popular Caper Court series of novels recounting the lives and loves of a group of London barristers. An absorbing blend of romance and professional intrigue with fascinating insights into London's legal world.
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 01/11/2007
Impeccable Sources
Cassandra Brown is determined to make it as a top-notch newspaper reporter, but after two years in London she has failed to get even one story on to the Posts' front page. But when a millionaire friend of the Prime...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 10/12/2007
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Those Who Leave
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Angelo Vargas was an enigma, a man from nowhere who had followed a perilous path through a restless and eventful life. The time had come to leave his ‘diplomatic activities’ behind and settle in England to search for his shrine....
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2005
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
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
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
The Elephant Tree
Reminiscent of Irvine Walsh's Trainspotting, this debut novel, The Elephant Tree challenges the reader's sense of morality with shocking plot twists and vivid characters. Mark Fallon is an overworked detective investigating a spate of attacks at a string of high...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2010
Chekyl and Ide
What to do if you turn out to have a doppelganger? Psychologist Clive ‘Rab’ Mewles, first curator of the Psychologists’ Hall of Fame Museum, is about to find out. Just remember: never ever clap eyes on your doppo for it...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 21/12/2006
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
Crawling Round South Oakwood
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Crawling Round?South Oakwood follows five friends - Malcolm, Alasdair, Tarquin, Joss and Blake - on a series of pub crawls round their home town. Alasdair is an ambulance driver who spends his spare time writing screenplays. Tarquin, a recently divorced...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/2012
Naked Justice
Lydia Wesley was twenty-two years old and only three days away from her dream wedding when her life changed irrevocably. While walking the family dog close to her parents' home she was brutally attacked, raped and defiled by a total...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/02/2009
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
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Buy NowAbout this genre
Crime fiction is in the middle of a golden age with the creations of PD James, Ruth Rendell or Ian Rankin, to name just a few, dominating the bestseller lists.
Now add to the list the Caper Court series of crime novels by Lovewriting author Caro Fraser, and the chilling novels of Robert Wood.
Lovewriting lets you discover new crime/whodunit authors, and allows you to download free opening extracts from their books to sample.
