A Guilty Thing Surprised (Inspector Wexford, #5)
By: Ruth Rendell
4.27
Format: 260 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense fore…
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1. Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)
By: None , P.D. James
3.90
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
The literary world is shaken when a murder takes place at the Peverell Press, an old-established pu… read more
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"Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one."-None, Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)
2. When the Music's Over (Inspector Banks, #23)
By: Peter Robinson
4.07
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
When the body of a young girl is found in a remote countryside lane, evidence suggests she was drug… read more
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3. Wycliffe and the Guilt Edged Alibi (Wycliffe, #3)
By: W.J. Burley
3.67
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Caroline Bryce came from the top of the social register in the tranquil town of Treen. So it was qu… read more
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4. The Wench is Dead (Inspector Morse #8)
By: Colin Dexter
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Inspector Morse, recovering from an ulcer in Oxford's Radcliffe Hospital, comes across an old book … read more
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"He was somewhat of a loner by temperament--because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people."-Colin Dexter, The Wench is Dead (Inspector Morse #8)
5. A Certain Justice (Adam Dalgliesh, #10)
By: None
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia … read more
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6. Death Of A Hollow Man (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #2)
By: Caroline Graham
3.88
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Actors do love their dramas, and the members of the Causton Amateur Dramatic Society are no excepti… read more
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7. Una lama di luce (Commissario Montalbano, #19)
By: Andrea Camilleri
3.97
Format: 570 pages, Paperback
A Lampedusa sono sbarcati migliaia di tunisini e il ministro degli Interni che ha deciso di fare un… read more
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8. Light Thickens (Roderick Alleyn, #32)
By: Ngaio Marsh
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Is this a dagger which I see before me..." Four murders. Three witches. A fiendish lady. A homicid… read more
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9. King Solomon's Carpet
By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine
4.00
Format: None pages,
King Solomon's magic carpet is the London Underground, running past the disused old school building… read more
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10. The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)
By: None , P.D. James
3.80
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing ho… read more
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"Benton had a strong interest in helping to ensure that Warren's home life wasn't greatly disturbed: his wife was Cornish, and that morning Warren had arrived with six Cornish pasties of remarkable fl…"-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)
"With the death of what Sydney Smith described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and uncertain messages, all civilised people have to be ethicists. We m…"-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)
"Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is ever possible, imposes it own compulsions as well as it's conventions. He doubted whether Macklefi…"-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)
"The city which lay below was a charnel house built on multi-layered bones centuries older than those which lay beneath the cities of Hamburg or Dresden. Was this knowledge part of the mystery it held…"-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)
11. A Guilty Thing Surprised (Inspector Wexford, #5)
By: Ruth Rendell
4.27
Format: 260 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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12. A Finer End (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #7)
By: Deborah Crombie
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his partner Sergeant Gemma James return i… read more
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13. The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (Inspector Morse, #3)
By: Colin Dexter
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
Nicholas Quinn is deaf, so he considers himself lucky to be appointed to the Foreign Examinations B… read more
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14. The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)
By: Colin Dexter
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
"Cunning...Your imagination will be frenetically flapping its wings until the very last chapter." -… read more
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15. The Minotaur
By: Barbara Vine
3.50
Format: 142 pages,
Kirstin Kvist is 24 wanneer ze Zweden verlaat om in Engeland te gaan werken. Via haar vriend komt z… read more
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16. A Mind to Murder (Adam Dalgliesh #2)
By: None
3.33
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
The second book to feature Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh, A Mind To Murder is a "superb… read more
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17. The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh #12)
By: None
4.57
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Commander Adam Dalgliesh returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and myst… read more
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18. A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh #7)
By: None
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double mur… read more
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19. The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh #5)
By: None
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Scotland Yard Inspector Adam Dalgliesh races to solve a twisted murder in bestselling author P.D. J… read more
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20. River of Darkness (John Madden, #1)
By: Rennie Airth
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
In a quiet and picturesque English countryside where people are still recuperating from the ravages… read more
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21. Another Man's Poison (George & Molly Palmer-Jones, #6)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.04
Format: 156 pages,
When she finds her beloved cats and some protected wildfowl dead of illegal poison, elderly Ursula … read more
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22. The Lighthouse (Adam Dalgliesh #13)
By: None
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A secure and secluded retreat for the rich and powerful becomes the setting for an unsettling serie… read more
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23. Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh, #11)
By: None , None
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
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24. Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh, #6)
By: None , P.D. James
3.94
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Dr. Lorrimer appeared to be the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his b… read more
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"I used to think that we can have almost anything we want from life, that it's just a question of organization. But now I'm beginning to think that we have to make a choice more often than we'd like. …"-None, Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh, #6)
25. An Advancement of Learning (Dalziel & Pascoe, #2)
By: Reginald Hill
3.88
Format: 192 pages,
Lecturers having it away with students, midnight romps among the sand dunes, these fit in pretty we… read more
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26. Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh, #8)
By: None , P.D. James
3.96
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in… read more
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"Success in moderation was no doubt better for the character than failure, but too much of it and he would lose his cutting edge."-None, Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh, #8)
27. The Horse You Came In On (Richard Jury, #12)
By: Martha Grimes
5.00
Format: 228 pages,
"Intricate and entertaining . . . A delicious puzzle." - The Boston Globe The murder is in America,… read more
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28. Murder At The Fort: A Double Homicide Cold Case And Cover Up!
By: Bob Marmion
4.37
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
Early one cold, wintry morning in late May 1942, the bullet-ridden body of Driver Roy Willis was fo… read more
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29. O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted
By: A.G. Russo
4.34
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
*Author "I have never used AI in my writing." A.G. RussoThe homefront, summer 1942, Brooklyn, New … read more
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"A uniformed cop around 6’4"-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted
"You can use all the hundred dollar words you want,"-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted
"She’s a cop’s wife. She understands what her husband does for a living,"-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted
"When those we care about are weakest, that’s when we must be strong for them."-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted
30. Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)
By: Behcet Kaya
4.37
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
A shocking murder has devastated the sacred walls of Kingsley University. A student discovers the b… read more
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"Swamp."-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)
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"Kowkosvki? You handling this?"-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)
31. Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue (Wycliffe, #14)
By: W.J. Burley
3.76
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
A mysterious death in the Cornish art world - and a murder investigation for Chief Superintendent W… read more
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