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ENVY THE DEAD: Iain McDowall’s classic contemporary crime thriller   - now in an exclusive new e-book edition from Sedge Publishing INSPECTOR JACOBSON: CRIME FICTION FOR THE COGNOSCENTI The 1980s. The Falklands War. The IRA. The Miners' Strike. Cruise Missiles. Anti-Nuclear...

Jimmy McTigue and the boys from Manhattan North Narcotics are doing “God’s work,” making collars and kicking down doors up above 96th Street in places like Harlem, Spanish Harlem, and Washington Heights—all the while having laughs. But when movie star Meg Cassidy, Artie Levin, her obnoxious agent,...

Two bodies, two similar causes of death . . . Harry Vicary and his team are plunged into a complex investigation where all is not as it seems. When the bodies of two murder victims are discovered within twenty-four hours of each other at the same location, each with a similar cause of death,...

A bizarre discovery at a Shrewsbury hospital sparks a coroner’s investigation in this “gripping” mystery (Publishers Weekly).   A middle-aged woman walks into the emergency room of a British hospital, cradling a baby in a pink blanket. It’s far too late—the child has been dead for years.   The...

The disappearance of two French girls in a Staffordshire beauty spot signals a tough new case for Detective Joanna Piercy. Cécile Bellange is a worried mother. Her eighteen-year-old daughter Annabelle and her friend Dorothée left Paris for a summer hitchhiking holiday in England, but it’s now...

Set in Nazi-occupied France, this is an “enthralling, character-propelled” police procedural (Kirkus Reviews). Before the war, the hotels of Vittel hosted the wealthiest members of French society. Now, in the winter of 1943, two of France’s most luxurious resorts have been converted into...

DCI Peach and DS Northcott investigate a murder at an exclusive tennis club Detective Sergeant Clyde Northcott – DCI Peach’s tall, black, powerful protégé – has no interest in joining the snooty Birch Lane Tennis Club. So it is unfortunate for him when committee member Olive Crawshaw...

This atmospheric and beautifully written police procedural is set in Florida where a murder of a young mother shook a small bayou town to its core. Twenty years later, the victim's daughter returns to the scene of the crime and learns that the tragedy of her past has very real consequences for her...

A riveting, sharply observed and thoroughly modern police procedural, Dead to Me features a stellar but unlikely female detective team. Detective Constable Janet Scott is subtle and reliable, a diplomatic thinker with a wry sense of humor. She's put in the time and seen it all, but has no desire...

The trucker who’d hit a Wrong Way sign lay hunched over the wheels of his semi—with his brains blown to bits, a revolver in his hand. Leo Jurczewsky had long talked of killing himself. So when Sheriff Karen Mehaffey and Detective Marek Okerlund are called to the Reunion, South Dakota, exit ramp...

"This is another entertaining, laugh-out-loud, mesmerizing, and completely original installment in an excellent series" Booklist Starred Review When a major drugs dealer seeks vengeance for the death of his family, policemen Harpur and Iles must do all they can to prevent a bloodbath Following...

Harpur and Iles juggle a new drug kingpin and a new chief in this hilarious police procedural from “the Elmore Leonard of Britain’s underworld” (Kirkus Reviews).   After his wife and son are gunned down in what appears to be a hit gone wrong, Local drug boss Mansel Shale turns to religion,...

A seemingly idyllic English holiday park turns into the scene of a grisly murder and a perplexing case for Lambert & Hook Twin Lakes is a tranquil place. It is a complex of holiday homes in a particularly beautiful part of England. 'Rest Assured', says the sign at its entrance. And the...

The critically acclaimed Seasons Myster Series debuted with Open Season in hardback and is now available in all e-book formats. Amid racial tensions and the deadly force controversy sweeping the city of Dallas, Homicide detectives Sarah Kingsly and Angel Johnson are unlikely and unwilling partners....