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Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Following Susan Cox's Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel award-winning debut, The Man in the Microwave Oven is her next delightfully quirky mystery featuring San Francisco transplant Theo Bogart. Fleeing from a murder and family tragedy in her native England, where she was the scandal du jour for the tabloid press, Theo Bogart changed her name and built an undercover life in a close-knit San Francisco neighborhood. She didn't...
Author
Series
Collected Muriel Spark novels volume 22
Publisher
Polygon
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Centenary edition.
Language
English
Description
3 new deluxe editions of Spark's classic novels, published to mark her centenary, each with specially commissioned introductions by today's leading writers, including Louise Welch and Kirsty Gunn. The series editor is Alan Taylor.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Gemma Doyle, manager of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and her best friend Jayne Wilson discover a rare manuscript and a dead body in Elementary, She Read, the charmingly clever series debut by nationally bestselling author Vicki Delany.
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Seasoned obituary writer Eve Mallow has a new assignment: to tell the life story of famed musician Bernard Fitzpatrick. A chance to spend a few days in the sweet little village of Saxford St Peter, walking the country lanes with her beloved dachshund Gus and meeting new people sounds like a dream. But it turns out that Bernard’s life was much less interesting than his death. On the day she arrives, news breaks that the charismatic cellist was the...
8) Symposium
Author
Series
Collected Muriel Spark novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
Modelled on Plato's book, this book uses dialogue to reveal the mysteries of each guest at a north London dinner party. It reveals tales of the guests' pasts and futures.
Author
Series
Collected Muriel Spark novels volume 21
Language
English
Description
Published to mark Muriel Spark's centenary, these deluxe editions include specially commissioned introductions from some of contemporary literature's leading writers, such as Ian Rankin and Ali Smith.
10) Old sins
Author
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
On cold, clear, moonlit night in late October, DCI Kelso Strang stepped outside the bothy on Suilven and heard, faint but unmistakable, the howl of a wolf. An unsettling sound - but it isn't the only unsettling thing about the remote township of Inverbeg in Sutherland, where he's taking a break with an old army friend.
Author
Publisher
C & R Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Everybody in Lochdubh knew about the Macho Man, a bully who claimed to be a professional wrestler. His insults and sneaking around caused concern. So when he challenged PC Macbeth to a public fight, it triggered an epidemic of bookmaking.
12) The dark angel
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Celebrating ten years of the Dr Ruth Galloway mysteries, for which Elly has won the CWA Dagger in the Library, Ruth travels to Italy after a group of bones is discovered in a tiny hilltop village. 'Griffiths supplies proof that thrillers can increase the pulse rate while tackling more serious issues' }Guardian{
Author
Series
Dr Ruth Galloway volume 3
Publisher
Quercus
Language
English
Description
Ruth Galloway has just returned from maternity leave and is struggling to juggle work and motherhood. When a team from the University of North Norfolk, investigating coastal erosion, finds six bodies at the foot of the cliff, she is immediately put on the case.
14) The takeover
Author
Series
Collected Muriel Spark novels volume 14
Publisher
Polygon
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Centenary edition /
Language
English
Description
Italy, the setting an enchanted lake southeast of Rome, and American heiress Maggie - famed for her beauty, wealth and steely will - is the target for an assortment of con men, jewel thieves, counterfeiters, adulterers, and spongers.
15) Not to disturb
Author
Series
Collected Muriel Spark novels volume 11
Publisher
Polygon
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Centenary edition /
Language
English
Description
Geneva. As a ferocious thunderstorm rages outside, behind the locked doors of the library the aristocratic Klopstocks are 'not to be disturbed'. In the attic, Baron Klopstock's lunatic brother rants and raves. But in the staff quarters, all is under control. The butler and servants are makingtheir own preparations for the long night that follows.
Author
Series
Collected Muriel Spark novels volume 13
Publisher
Polygon
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Centenary edition /
Language
English
Description
An election has been held at the Abbey of Crewe. Alexandra, the new Lady Abbess, moves serenely among her followers, lofty, cool, discreet. She has style. And she expected to win the election - one way or the other.
Author
Publisher
Piatkus
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The twelfth murder mystery in the enthralling Kate Shackleton series set in 1930s Yorkshire. When a dead body is discovered during a garden party at a Yorkshire brewery, indomitable sleuth Kate Shackleton has a complex murder on her hands to solve . . .
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Scotland, 1934. Fair is foul and foul is fair as aristocratic private detective Dandy Gilver heads off to Castle Bewer to solve a mystery of a missing ruby necklace and a tragic family curse. She arrives as the residents are preparing to stage a production of Macbeth, yet sinister goings on seem to be more than amateur dramatics.
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