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When the Flemings--designer Helena and architect Daniel--move into a remote community in the north of Shetland, they think it's a fresh start for themselves and their children.

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Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey - and his tw…
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The Bookseller (A DS Cross Thriller #7)
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THE SETTING
The body of a bookseller is discovered, lying in a pool of blood in his Bristol bookshop. Police have one question: how did the man meet such a violent, murderous end in this peaceful place…
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Devil’s Delight (Agatha Raisin, #33)
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Beloved New York Times bestseller M.C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin—the star of her own hit T.V. series—is back on the case again in Devil's Delight.

Agatha and her assistant, Toni, are drivin…
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Killer on the Moors (DI Joanna Piercy #1)
A missing nurse who no one seemed to like.

It’s Detective Joanna Piercy’s first day back at work after her promotion. You could cut the tension with a knife. The rest of the team are more than a little…
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From the Ashes (DI Nick Dixon Crime, #14)
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Long lives are being cut short in this thriller from the bestselling DI Nick Dixon crime series.

A retired teacher is found dead in her Somerset home on a cold January night. At first glance, it is a r…
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Hidden on the Moors (DI Joanna Piercy #7)
Something is amiss at the local village school.

A man is seen lingering outside the gates — and parents and teachers are getting worried . . .

Joshua Baldwin doesn’t think he’s doing any harm. With no f…
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The Berlin Sisters
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· 8959 Ratings
From the bestselling author of The Secret Midwife comes a story of bravery, sacrifice and resilience in war-torn Berlin―and two sisters who will risk it all to make a difference. Berlin, 1943: Ava Mül…
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Night Comes Falling (DCI Bone #6)
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Keep your enemies close, but the dead closer.When a morning jogger discovers a dead body on the outskirts of Cullenbrae, a remote hamlet deep in the heart of the Campsie Fells, DCI Bone and his team a…
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Revenge on the Moors (DI Joanna Piercy #9)
This book was previously published as Grave Stones.

Tanned and relaxed after a holiday in Spain, Detective Joanna Piercy is brought back to reality with a bump thanks to Staffordshire’s appalling weath…
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The Trial
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An unputdownable murder mystery by Britain's best-loved criminal barrister Rob Rinder.

ONE MURDER. ONE IMPOSSIBLE CASE. WHO IS GUILTY?

When hero policeman Grant Cliveden dies from a poisoning in the Old…
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Rock with Wings (Leaphorn  & Chee, #20)
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Book #2 from the series: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

An AudioFile Best Voice “engages the listener” in this New York Times bestseller! (AudioFile)

Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manue…
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Blue Lightning (Shetland, #4)
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· 13625 Ratings
Murder can strike more than once...

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair Isles to introduce his fiancée, Fran, to his parents. It’s a commu…
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Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7)
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Val McDermid returns with DCI Karen Pirie in a new thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against the disquiet and investigative challenges of a global pandemic.

It’s April 2020 and Edinburgh is in loc…
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The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)
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As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and on TV, this stunning eleventh book explores the web of secrets surrounding a young man's death.

The ma…
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The Complete Detective Joanna Piercy Mysteries Books 1–15 (DI Joanna Piercy #1-15)
Included in this 15-book box set:

BOOK 1: KILLER ON THE MOORS
It’s Detective Joanna Piercy’s first day back at work after her promotion. You could cut the tension with a knife. But there’s a missing nur…
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The Suspect
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**THE GRIPPING SECOND NOVEL FROM ROB RINDER AND FOLLOW-UP TO NO. 1 BESTSELLER THE TRIAL**When Hannah Holby, darling of UK morning TV, dies live on screen in front of millions of viewers, the nation is…
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Taken on the Moors (DI Joanna Piercy #14)
Please note this book was previously published as Blood on the Rocks.

Detective Joanna Piercy is seven months pregnant and hating every second of it. Everyone wants to wrap her in cotton wool and her b…
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Trapped on the Moors (DI Joanna Piercy #13)
Please note this book was previously published as Crooked Street.

‘ My husband hasn’t come home. ’

It’s a miserable March evening when Eve Glover calls the Leek police. Her husband Jadon is good-looking…
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The List of Suspicious Things
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'What if we decided to try and find him?'

'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are we going to catch the Yorkshire Ripper, when the police haven't even managed to?'

I sighed. Her questioning…
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The Creek (Summer Suspense Mysteries, #2)
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YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE...

Kate Irving arrives at her grandfather’s cottage at Frenchman’s Creek in the dead of night with her young son, a small suitcase and little else. Its scattered communi…
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Still Life (Inspector Karen Pirie, #6)
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From internationally bestselling author Val McDermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller that delves into a historic missing persons case, fake identities, and art forgery.

When a lobster fishe…
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The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)
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For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five y…
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A Darker Domain (Inspector Karen Pirie, #2)
1984, Fife. Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant & her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom payoff goes horribly wrong. She is killed while her son disappears without trace. 2008, Tuscany. A jogger stumbles…
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Burn it All Down (DCI Bone #7)
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· 3131 Ratings
If you play with fire...

When fire crews are called to a blaze at the home of a Kilwinnoch GP they make a grisly the charred remains of the doctor and his entire family. But is this a tragic accident o…
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The Bookseller of Inverness
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After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobi…
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The Killing Code (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, #3)
Wie fängt man einen Mörder, den es nicht gibt?

Nach zwanzig Jahren bei der Polizei glaubt Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan, schon alles erlebt zu haben.

Doch er irrt sich.

Als eine Krankenschwester a…
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All The Rage (DI Adam Fawley, #4)
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From Cara Hunter, the New York Times bestselling author of Murder in the Family, comes the fourth novel in her DI Fawley detective series, one of Britain’s most enduringly popular and mega-selling cri…
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Thicker than Water (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, #2)
Not all monsters are make-believe.

When a badly mutilated body washes up on the shores of Loch Ness, DCI Jack Logan's dream of a quiet life in the Highlands is shattered.

While the media speculates wild…
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The Whole Truth (DI Adam Fawley, #5)
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When an Oxford student accuses one of the university's professors of sexual assault, DI Adam Fawley's team think they've heard it all before. But they couldn't be more wrong.

Because this time, the pre…
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