Our Books: Crime

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The Outsider
Stephen KingA compelling and chilling suspense novel, which will delight all readers of King’s bestselling Hodges Trilogy. When an eleven-year-old boy is found murdered in a town park, reliable eyewitnesses undeniably point to the town’s popular Little League coac …
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End of Watch
Stephen KingThe cell rings twice, and then his old partner in his ear . . . ‘I’m at the scene of what appears to be a murder-suicide . . . Come and take a look. Bring your sidekick with you.’ Bill Hodges, who now runs a two-person agency called Finders Keepers wit …
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Poison City
Paul CrilleyPoison City is the first in a fantastical new series perfect for fans of Ben Aaronovitch, Lauren Beukes, Sarah Lotz and Stephen King. The name’s Gideon Tau, but everyone just calls me London. I work for the Delphic Division, the occult investigative un …
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The Fourth Bear
Jasper FfordeThe Gingerbreadman – psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit – is loose on the streets of Reading. It isn’t Jack Spratt’s case. Despite the success of the Humpty Dumpty investigation, the well publicised failure to prevent Red Riding-Ho …
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The Big Over Easy
Jasper FfordeIt’s Easter in Reading and a bad time for eggs and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of to …
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Gun Machine
Warren EllisAn apartment full of guns. A hundred unsolved murders. An explosive, utterly unique crime novel from world-famous comics writer Warren Ellis. The room is full of guns. Old ones. New ones. Modified ones. Hundreds of them. This is a collection belonging …
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A Man Lies Dreaming
Lavie Tidhar‘A twisted masterpiece’ – Adam Roberts, Guardian Deep in the heart of history’s most infamous concentration camp, a man lies dreaming. His name is Shomer, and before the war he was a pulp fiction author. Now, to escape the brutal reality of life in Aus …
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Finders Keepers
Stephen KingA masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far – a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr Mercedes. ‘Wake up, g …
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Zodiac Station
Tom HarperA lone skier, half-dead with cold, emerges out of the deadly cold of the Arctic Circle. He’s nearly frozen to death, and there’s blood on his clothing, and what looks like a bullet hole though his jacket. But he hasn’t been shot… His name is Tom Ande …
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Mr Mercedes
Stephen KingA cat-and-mouse suspense thriller featuring a retired homicide detective who’s haunted by the few cases he left open, and by one in particular – the pre-dawn slaughter of eight people among hundreds gathered in line for the opening of a jobs fair when …
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Wolf in Winter
John ConnollyProsperous, and the secret that it hides beneath its ruins . . . The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children’s future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own. And at t …
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