Ruxton: The First Modern Murder
By: Tom Wood
4.47
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
Two dismembered bodies discarded in the borderlands of Scotland, hideously mutilated to avoid ident…
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1. They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A man is shot at in a juvenile reform home – but someone else dies… Miss Marple senses danger wh… read more
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"His eyes now were bright and beady with pleasurable anticipation."-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
"Into the Gothic gloom of the library, Gina brought an exotic glow."-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
"Her eyes were shining, and her long thin mouth was curved in a triumphant smile."-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
"Toată lumea se așteaptă ca educația să fie un drept fundamental și nu pun mare preț pe ea când o primesc!"-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
2. Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook (Discworld, #40.5; Discworld Companion Books )
By: Terry Pratchett
4.20
Format: 42 pages, Hardcover
Authorised by Mr Lipwig of the Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plains Hygienic Railway himself, Mrs Georgina B… read more
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3. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
By: Timothy Snyder
4.18
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In thi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
4. Rotherweird
By: Andrew Caldecott
3.69
Format: 98 pages, ebook
'Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn: a book with special and dangerous properties,' Hilary Mante… read more
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5. The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
By: Agatha Christie
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Wickedness...such wickedness...." The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes.… read more
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- crime
"After all, the stupidest child can set a house on fire quite easily."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"People are so proud of wickedness. Odd, isn't it, that people who are good are never proud of it? That's where Christian humility comes in, I suppose. They don't even know they are good."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something LESS than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
6. Beyond Evil: Inside the Twisted Mind of Ian Huntley
By: Nathan Yates
4.31
Format: 517 pages, Paperback
The horrific murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman shocked and sickened the nation, and the ma… read more
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7. Wise Children
By: Angela Carter
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dora and Nora Chance are a famous song-and-dance team of the British music halls. Billed as The Luc… read more
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8. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Angela Carter
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
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"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
9. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill
4.03
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
10. The One That Got Away (DI Heather Filson, #1)
By: J.D. Kirk
4.43
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
What if your worst enemy was your only hope? When a fifteen-year-old girl fails to make it home … read more
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- crime
11. From a Far and Lovely Country (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #24)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
The latest installment in Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully diverting No. 1 Ladies' Detective … read more
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12. Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.33
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Now in hardcover, the ninth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns t… read more
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"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
13. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
14. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
15. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
By: Mary Roach
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s classic, now with a new epilogue. For two tho… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room..."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
16. Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence
By: James Renner
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more
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- history
- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
17. A Caller's Game
By: J.D. Barker
4.13
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
DIE HARD meets TALK RADIO in this heart-pounding, relentlessly fast-paced thriller from the New Yor… read more
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18. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
By: Rosemary Sullivan
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered doc… read more
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- history
- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
"The fact that Otto survived the horror of the concentration camps demonstrated his profound will to live."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"While someone with the first person knowledge is still alive, while records are still available, while relatives of witnesses can come forward, the stories must be told."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"The Netherlands in 1940 was like a petri dish in which one can examine how people brought up in freedom react to catastrophe when it is brought to their door: It is a questions still worth asking tod…"-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
19. Where the Pieces Lie (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers Book 19)
By: J.D. Kirk
4.59
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
Experience the pulse-pounding new thriller from multi-million selling Scottish crime fiction author… read more
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- crime
20. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
By: Sue Black
4.31
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow.… read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
"Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut"-Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
21. 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
22. A Dead Man Walking (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers #18)
By: J.D. Kirk
4.35
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
A remote Highland castle. A dark and stormy night. A murder most haunting. It’s Halloween, and when… read more
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23. The Body in the Dales (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries, #1)
By: J.R. Ellis
4.02
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
An unpopular victim. An impossible crime. A murderer on the loose. A body is discovered deep in … read more
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24. Still Life (Inspector Karen Pirie, #6)
By: Val McDermid
4.21
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
From internationally bestselling author Val McDermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller th… read more
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"A cold case was a story, constructed piece by piece. Sometimes the pieces arrived in the wrong order so it made no sense at first...at the end, if you found all the pieces, you had a coherent tale. S…"-Val McDermid, Still Life (Inspector Karen Pirie, #6)
25. The Space Between Us
By: Doug Johnstone
3.86
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
When several people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake complete… read more
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26. Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America
By: Greg King
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Greg King and Penny Wilson turn the original crime of the century on its head in Nothing But the Ni… read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
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27. Ruxton: The First Modern Murder
By: Tom Wood
4.47
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
Two dismembered bodies discarded in the borderlands of Scotland, hideously mutilated to avoid ident… read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
28. Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force's Most Infamous Murder Cases
By: Simon Read
3.96
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A riveting true-crime history of London's first modern police force as told through its most notori… read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
29. Killing the Bordens: Lizzie Borden and the Unsolved 1892 Borden Murders
By: C. Cree
4.19
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
"Masterfully crafted tale of one of history’s greatest unsolved crimes.” - BookLife Reviews, Editor… read more
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- true crime
