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A Case of Spirits: The Sixth Sergeant Cribb Mystery

By Peter Lovesey

The Body in the Boat: A gripping murder mystery for fans of Antonia Hodgson

By A. J. MacKenzie

The Lock-Up: A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery

By John Banville

The Scarlet Papers: The Times Thriller of the Year 2023

By Matthew Richardson

As Meat Loves Salt

By Maria McCann

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Penguin Essentials)

By Suskind, Patrick

Die A Little: Suspenseful and evocative novel of Hollywood's sleazy underbelly

By Megan Abbott

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Penguin Classics)

By Conrad, Joseph, Newton, Michael

The Glass Woman

By Caroline Lea

The Death of Achilles: Erast Fandorin 4

By Boris Akunin

Once Upon a River: The spellbinding Sunday Times bestseller

By Diane Setterfield

Gone Girl

By Gillian Flynn

Lord Peter: a Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories.

By Sayers, Dorothy L

The Attenbury Emeralds: Return to Golden Age Glamour in this Enthralling Gem of a Mystery

By Jill Paton Walsh

The Covent Garden Murder: The compelling wartime murder mystery

By Mike Hollow

Flags on the Bayou

By James Lee Burke (Author)

Blood & Sugar

By Laura Shepherd-Robinson

Conversations with Spirits

By E. O. Higgins

Domini Mortum

By Paul Holbrook

On The House

By Helen Maskew

Innocents to the Slaughter

By Helen Maskew

The Pumilio Child

By Judy McInerney

City of the Horizon: v. 1

By Anton Gill

Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man: A gripping WWII espionage thriller by a former special forces officer

By Edward Wilson

NO NAME (PENGUIN CLASSICS)

By Collins, Wilkie, Wilkie Collins

Le clé de Salomon: Roman

By Dos Santos, José Rodrigues, Pereira, Adelino, Gassan, Cécile

Case Study

By Graeme Macrae Burnet

Pantheon

By Sam Bourne

Sharpe's Prey (The Sharpe Series, Book 5)

By bernard cornwell

See What I Have Done: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

By Sarah Schmidt