Mystery & Suspense

The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid

May 13, 2007

Rating: Book Description: You always remember the first time… This was the summer he discovered what he wanted – at a gruesome museum of criminology far off the beaten track of more timid tourists. Visions of torture inspired his fantasies like a muse. It would prove so terribly fulfilling. But the next time would be [...]

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With No One As Witness by Elizabeth George

April 18, 2007

Rating: Book Description: The police never suspected a serial killer was at large until they found the fourth murdered boy – the first white victim – his body draped over a tomb in a London graveyard. Suddenly a series of crimes and a potential public relations disaster have Scotland Yard on the defensive, scrambling to [...]

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A Traitor To Memory by Elizabeth George

April 18, 2007

Rating: Book Description: When Eugenie Davies is killed by a driver on a quiet London street, her death is clearly no accident. Someone struck her with a car and then deliberately ran over her body before driving off, leaving nothing behind but questions. What brought Eugenie Davies to London on a rainy autumn night? Why [...]

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Deception On His Mind by Elizabeth George

April 18, 2007

Rating: Book Description: Balford-le-Nez is a dying seacoast town on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town’s small but growing Asian community is found dead, the sleepy town ignites. Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers arranges to have herself assigned to the investigation, but this time, she’ll have to solve the crime without [...]

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A Share In Death by Deborah Crombie

April 18, 2007

Rating: Book Description: A week’s holiday in a luxurious Yorkshire time-share is just what Scotland Yard’s Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But the discovery of a body floating in the whirlpool bath ends Kincaid’s vacation before it’s begun. One of his new acquaintances at Followdale House is dead; another is a killer. Despite a distinct lack [...]

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