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A Man's Enemies by Bill James
September/October 2003 - £15.99/£7.99
The follow-up to Split sees Simon Abelard (his intelligence section's 'token black') teamed up with a raw woman recruit to solve the murder of one of the section's own officers.
Spys & Adventure |
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White Arrest by Ken Bruen
October
1998 - £6.50
The first part of Bruen's landmark White trilogy, set in South London and featuring less than clean cops
Brant and Roberts.
Crime & mystery
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Audacious
Perversion by Mark Sanderson
September 1998 - £6.50
"An
elegantly written and stylish black comedy - a new Kind Hearts and
Coronets set among the cocaine-snorters of the late Nineties." -
Evening Standard
Crime & mystery
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Blitz
by Ken Bruen
August 2002 - £6.99/£15.00
The
fast moving follow-up to the ‘White Trilogy’: The Brixton-based
police squad is suffering collective burn out
and to make matters worse, there's a serial killer on the loose,
targetting cops.
Crime
& Mystery
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Charlie's
Choice by Brian Freemantle
November 1997- £9.00
The First Charlie Muffin Omnibus:
Charlie Muffin / Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie / The Inscrutable
Charlie Muffin.
The first three stories of the down-at-heel spy collected in one
volume.
Thriller
& Adventure
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Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer by Miles Gibson
January 2004- £7.99
On the death of a minor league writer, a mysterious woman is called in to investigate his life and to find his lost memoirs, lest they incriminate people in high places. She is hardly prepared for what she stirs up...
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Double
Take by Mike Ripley
April 2002 - £6.99/£15
The
scam is alive and well and about to depart from Heathrow Airport…
The
first hilarious stand-alone novel from the creator of the best-selling
Angel series, Double Take tells how to rob Heathrow Airport and
get away with it.
Crime
& Mystery
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End
of the Line by KT McCaffrey
August/September 2003 - £6.99/£15
A
tough case of multiple murder for Irish investigative reporter Emma
Boylan. 'A
really good read, this thriller gripped my attention from page
one and held it until the end.' – Books Ireland
Crime & Mystery |
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Fresh
Blood - Combined Set
edited by Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski
June 2001 - £10
All three landmark anthologies collected in one set for only £10.
Not available for sale outside the European Union.
Crime & Mystery
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Fresh
Blood 2 edited by Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski
November 1997- £8
Second landmark anthology of top British crime writers. Features
original stories from John Baker, Christopher Brookmyre, Ken Bruen,
Carol Anne Davis, Lauren Henderson,
Charles Higson, Phil Lovesey, Iain Sinclair, RD Wingfield and more.
Crime & Mystery
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Green For Danger edited by Martin Edwards
October 2003 - £7.99/£15.00
The official Crime Writers' Association Anthology 2004 featuring stories from Andrea Badenoch, Robert Barnard, Carol Anne Davis, Reginald Hill, Michael Jecks, Ruth Rendell and more.
Crime & Mystery |
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Grief
by John B Spencer
June 2003 - £7.99/£15
The
final novel, completed just weeks before John B Spencer's tragic death
in March 2002 and his best. Again, set in the West London he'd lived
in all his life, 'Grief' is a potent mix of drama, humour and tragedy
that will stay with you long after the final page is turned.
Fiction / British
Noir |
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The
Hackman Blues by Ken Bruen
November 1997 - £7
Ken Bruen's powerful second novel is a gritty and grainy mix of crime
noir and Urban Blues that greets you like a mugger stays with you
like a razor-scar.
Crime & Mystery |
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Hissing
of the Silent Lonely Room by Paul Charles
September
2001 - £7.50/£15
When a woman’s body is discovered in a gas-filled flat in Primrose
Hill, north London, it looks like just another suicide. But Detective
Inspector Christy Kennedy isn’t so sure. The fifth Kennedy mystery.
Crime & Mystery |
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I've
Heard the Banshee Sing by Paul Charles
September 2002 - £7.50/£15
After
the butchered and dismembered body of an elderly man is discovered
in Camden Town’s Black Cat Building, DI Christy Kennedy's
sixth case takes him back to his Northern Ireland home-land to investigate
a mystery with roots in the past.
Crime & Mystery |
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The
Jook by Gary Phillips
July 2002 - £6.99/£15
LA's
Zelmont Raines has slid a long way since those winning touchdowns
brought him lucrative endorsement deals. Crack, booze, a paternity
suit and some shady investments in gangsta rap. Can things get any
worse?
Crime & Mystery |
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Judas Pig by 'Horace Silver'
February 2004- £7.99
An explosive first novel from a former career criminal, Judas Pig comes with authenticity stamped all the way through. Dark and vivid, bleak, yet often funny and always beautifully-written, it is a book that will stay with you forever.
Crime & Mystery |
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The Justice Factory by Paul Charles
January 2004- £7.99/£16.99
The seventh Detective Inspector Christy Kennedy mystery. When attending a funeral in a rain-drenched churchyard, Kennedy is as shocked as anyone by the surprise that awaits them and which leads to his most difficult case to date.
Crime & Mystery |
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Kiss it Away by Carol Anne Davis
July/September 2003 - £15/£6.99
Nick is an angry young man with a steroid dependency. Filled with chemical rage, he arrives alone in Salisbury and rapes Ben, a stranger. Then, less than an hour later, he brutally murders a woman. But it is Ben the police are looking for... |
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London Boulevard by Ken Bruen
October 2001 - £6.99/£15
“The unforgettable Hollywood noir of Sunset Boulevard moves to London, transmuted by the savage pen of Irish noir king of the hill, Ken Bruen” – Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian columnist & owner, Murder One.
Crime & Mystery |
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The
McDead by Ken Bruen
October 2000 - £7.50/£15
This final segment of Ken Bruenÿs masterful ¬Whiteÿ Trilogy is a potent
tale of revenge, double-dealing and violence, combining black humour
with nail-biting tension and characters ¬The Sopranosÿ and Guy Richie
would kill for.
Crime & Mystery |
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Middleman
by Bill James
July 2002 - £6.99/£15
Times are tough for ‘middleman’ Julian Corbett. He is a
half-crooked businessman in what was once the rough dockside of the
Welsh capital. But a multi-billion pound redevelopment is transforming
the seafront. Big money; bigger danger.
Crime & Mystery |
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Noise
Abatement by Carol Anne Davis
November 2000 - £6.99/£15
The Scottish writer's third novel is a taut psychological thriller
set in a quiet, typically British street. Stephen
and Caroline are an active young couple until the neighbours from
hell move into the flat above. Suddenly each day becomes a nightmare.
Then Stephen snaps and takes increasingly inventive and extreme revenge
on his tormentors...
Crime & Mystery |
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On
Tenderness Express by Maxim Jakubowski
May 2000 - £7.50/£15
Maxim Jakubowski's long-awaited private eye novel. Dark, erotic and
gripping. When
you're a private detective and life's dealing you all the wrong cards,
you can never afford to say 'no' to a case. Suddeny things start to
turn very sour indeed...
Crime & Mystery |
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Painting
in the Dark by Russell James
November 2000 - £7.50/£15
Painting in the Dark is Russell James's most controversial
novel - a modern crime novel that also explores some of the darkest
secrets of our recent history.
Crime & Mystery |
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Perhaps
She'll Die by John B Spencer
September 1996- £5.99
Set amidst the boom and gloom of '80s Britain, Perhaps She'll Die!
is classic noir with a centre as hard as toughened diamond.
Giles
could never say no to a woman, but when he tangled with Celeste he
made a mistake. Celeste was married to Harry and Harry walked a dark
side of the street that Giles could only imagine.
Crime & Mystery |
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Pick
Any Title by Russell James
April 2002 - £7.50/£15
A
magnificent crime caper involving sex, humour, sudden death and double-cross.
‘Lord Clive’ bought his lordship at a ‘Lord of the
Manor’ sale where titles fetch anything from two to two hundred
thousand pounds. Why not buy another cheap and sell it high? Why stop
at only one customer? A glorious caper novel, set between the USA
and England.
Crime & Mystery |
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Safe
as Houses by Carol Anne Davis
New Edition: June 2003- £6.99
Women
are vanishing from the streets of Edinburgh and only one man knows
the answers. David is a sadist with a double life. He divides his
time between the marital home – shared with devoted wife, Jennifer
and young son – and his Secret House.
With new author's introduction.
Crime & Mystery |
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Shrouded
by Carol Anne Davis
April 1997 - £7
The
taut and enthralling début. Douglas likes women - quiet women
- the kind he deals with at the mortuary where he works. Douglas meets
Marjorie, unemployed, gaining weight and losing confidence.
Crime & Mystery |
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Small
Change by Jerry Raine
September 2001 - £6.99/£15
The
long awaited follow up to “SMALLTIME”. Chris Small has been
lying low for seven years, then he meets Edie, a waitress with a talent
for blackjack. Together they hatch a plan to outwit London’s
casinos.
But things don't go at all to plan…
Crime & Mystery |
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Smalltime
by Jerry Raine
October 1996 - £5.99
Taut, psychological crime thriller, set among the seedy world of petty
criminals and no-hopers. In this remarkable début, Jerry Raine
shows just how easily curiosity can turn into fear amid the horrors,
despair and despondency of life lived a little too near the edge.
Crime & Mystery |
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Split
by Bill James
September 2001 - £6.99/£15
Simon
Abelard – black 'redbrick' graduate from Cardiff’s dockland
– was recruited by British Intelligence as a spy. But since the
Berlin Wall came down he finds that he’s working as a glorified
cop.
Then Abelard is given the dangerous job of ‘bringing back’
a colleague who’s turned bad…
Crime & Mystery |
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Stitch
by John B Spencer
September 1999 - £7.50
A Runyonesque tragedy of manners set in a west London populated by
a cavalcade of users, abusers and three-time losers. 'Stitch' is John
B Spencer at his very best.
Crime & Mystery |
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Taming
the Alien by Ken Bruen
October 1999 - £7.50
Second part of the ground-breaking White Trilogy, featuring Detective
Sergeant Brant and his boss, Inspector Roberts of the Metropolitan
Police – as sleazy and as ruthless as the villains they are out
to get.
Crime & Mystery |
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That
Angel Look by Mike Ripley
November
1997 - £8
A chance encounter (in a pub, of course) lands street-wise, cab-driving
Angel the ideal job as an all-purpose assistant to a trio of young
and very sexy fashion designers. The 8th and possibly best Angel book.
Crime & Mystery |
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Tooth
& Nail by John B Spencer
February
1998 - £7
A dark, Rackmanesque tale of avarice and malice-aforethought in West
London from one of Britain's most exciting and accomplished writers.
Crime & Mystery |
