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Crime & horror
Impossible Dead
By Ian Rankin
Paperback
Published 24-May-2012
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Malcolm Fox returns in the stunning second novel in Ian Rankin's new series...
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Natural History of Ghosts
By Roger Clarke
Hardback
Published 01-Nov-2012
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What explains sightings of ghosts? Why do they fascinate us? What exactly did the haunted see? What did they believe? And what proof is there? This history of the evolution of the ghost in the west, examines the behaviour of the subject in its preferred environment: the stories we tell each other.
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Snowman
By Jo Nesbo
Paperback
Published 19-Aug-2010
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The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother's pink scarf.
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Greatcoat
By Helen Dunmore
Paperback
Published 30-Aug-2012
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In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call, Isabel finds herself isolated and lonely as she strives to adjust to the realities of married life.
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Shape of Water
By Andrea Camilleri
Paperback
Published 06-Feb-2004
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The first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series featuring Inspector Montalbano
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Man in the Picture
By Susan Hill
Paperback
Published 27-Sep-2012
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A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver's old professor in Cambridge. On this cold winter's night, an eerie secret is revealed by the ageing don. The dark art of the Venetian scene, instead of imitating life, has the power to entrap it.
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Phantom
By Jo Nesbo
Paperback
Published 03-Jan-2013
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Harry's in trouble... After the horrors of a case that nearly cost him his life, Harry Hole left Oslo and the police force far behind him. Now he's back, but the case he's come to investigate is already closed, and the suspect already behind bars.
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Honey Guide
By Richard Crompton
Hardback
Published 14-Feb-2013
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Alexander McCall Smith meets Ian Rankin - THE HONEY GUIDE is the first in a breathtaking new series starring detective Mollel
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Blood on the Altar
By Tobias Jones
Paperback
Published 07-Feb-2013
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One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. This book deals with this true crime case.
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Weirdo
By Cathi Unsworth
Paperback
Published 12-Jul-2012
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Twenty years ago, a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl named Corrine Woodrow was convicted of murdering one of her classmates. But now new forensic evidence indicates that Corrine didn't act alone, and Sean Ward - a private investigator - travels to the seaside town of Ernemouth, to try to discover what really happened all those years ago.
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