Murder Under the Sun
By: Cecily Gayford
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From beneath the beach umbrella, all might seem idyllic - children playing, sunbathers relaxing, ic…
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1. Summer
By: Edith Wharton
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's "Summer" created a sensation when first p… read more
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2. Tour de Force
By: Christianna Brand
3.69
Format: None pages, Paperback
The vacationing Inspector Cockrill is on the job again when a fellow tourist is stabbed to death on… read more
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- crime
3. Death and the Penguin
By: Andrey Kurkov , George Bird
4.33
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefe… read more
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- crime
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5. The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1)
By: Josephine Tey
3.77
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the… read more
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- crime
6. The Lady Vanishes
By: Ethel Lina White
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE WORLD-FAMOUS SUSPENSE NOVEL FROM WHICH ALFRED HITCHCOCK CREATED HIS MOVIE MASTERPIECE, REDISCOV… read more
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7. Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"Gaudy Nightstands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class b… read more
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8. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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- crime
9. Fourteen Days
By: Margaret Atwood
3.23
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more
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- short stories
10. Murder on Lake Garda
By: Tom Hindle
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more
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- crime
- murder mystery
11. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
By: Hwang Bo-Reum
4.02
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, sh… read more
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"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
12. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
13. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
14. Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles
By: Martin Edwards
3.91
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
‘If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a… read more
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- crime
- short stories
15. The Woman on the Ledge
By: Ruth Mancini
3.93
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
A woman falls to her death from a London bank's twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace. You're arreste… read more
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- crime
16. The Murder Game
By: Tom Hindle
3.57
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
One house. Nine guests. Endless motives for murder...In the seaside town of Hamlet Wick, guests ass… read more
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- crime
- murder mystery
17. The Night in Question
By: Susan Fletcher
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, an… read more
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"So walk into your life. Do what you want to do, Florrie, always – because a timid, obedient woman is quite the tragedy… Life. What a shame we only get one shot at it."-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
".. they discussed what they wanted from this life- this brief, single dance in the sunlight of life. "Adventures," she told him... "I've always wanted them." from the moment that Bobs drew the world …"-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
"… how on earth had it come to this; how was she looking at care homes for the elderly when she still felt twenty years old inside, still believed she could do headstands, and when there was still so …"-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
"We think, for so long, that old age will never find us. We feel that we, as individuals, might somehow be exempt from it, that we might be given some sort of ticket that allows us to sidestep death, …"-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
18. The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1)
By: Katy Watson
3.77
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Three rival actresses team up to solve a murder at the stately home of the author who made them fam… read more
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- crime
- murder mystery
"It's not for us to say what is motive enough for a person. what might be a minor annoyance to us could mean murder to someone else..."-Katy Watson, The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1)
19. Someone from the Past
By: Margot Bennett
3.39
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Nancy Graham's friend from the past -- a former roommate -- appeals to her for help when she receiv… read more
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- crime
20. Murder on the Menu
By: Alex Coombs
3.43
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
'An irresistibly delicious mix of cooking and murder' Trisha Ashley 'Takes two of the world's gr… read more
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- crime
21. Notes on Heartbreak
By: Annie Lord
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a b… read more
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"Why suffer for something ordinary?"-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"That's the thing about pain: we forget it."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
22. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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23. Murder at Madame Tussauds (Museum Mysteries, #6)
By: Jim Eldridge
3.94
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
London, 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague … read more
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24. Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries
By: Martin Edwards
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
'Dr Greeby was found lying dead there, with his lecture-notes scattered all round him and brickbat … read more
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- crime
- short stories
25. Too Many Cooks: Prudence Bulstrode 3
By: Rosemary Shrager
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Prudence Bulstrode has fond memories of St Marianne's School for Girls, the beautiful Cornish schoo… read more
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26. Shy Creatures
By: Clare Chambers
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more
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27. The Examiner
By: Janice Hallett
4.06
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more
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- crime
28. Murder Under the Sun: Classic Mysteries for Summer
By: Cecily Gayford
3.63
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
From beneath the beach umbrella, all might seem idyllic - children playing, sunbathers relaxing, ic… read more
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- short stories
- murder mystery
29. Small Bomb at Dimperley
By: Lissa Evans
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But ‘home’ is Dimperl… read more
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30. Murder in a Heatwave: Classic Crime Mysteries for the Holidays (Vintage Murders)
By: Various
3.28
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
As the days get longer, escape your troubles and take a trip to the desperately hot towns where nig… read more
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- short stories
31. The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural
By: Agatha Christie
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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