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103556 ANDREWS, Donna MURDER WITH PEACOCKS £ 5.60
The first of the Meg Langslow mysteries. So far Meg Langslow's summer is not going swimmingly. Down in her small Virginia hometown, she's maid of honor at the nuptials of three loved ones - each of whom has dumped the planning in her capable hands. One bride is set on including a Native American herbal purification ceremony, while another wants live peacocks on the lawn. Only help from the town's drop-dead gorgeous hunk, disappointingly rumoured to be gay, keeps Meg afloat in a sea of dotty relatives and outrageous neighbors. And, in a whirl of summer parties and picnics, Southern hospitality is strained to the limit by an offensive newcomer who hints at skeletons in the guests' closets. But it seems this lady has offended one too many when she's found dead in suspicious circumstances, followed by a string of accidents - some fatal. Soon, level-headed Meg's to-do list extends from flower arrangements and bridal registries to catching a killer - before the next catered event is her own funeral. A ST. MARTIN'S paperback edition. 311 pages.

103553 ANDREWS, Donna MURDER WITH PUFFINS £ 3.20
The sequel to "Murder with Peacocks". A romantic getaway was what Meg Langslow had in mind when she and her boyfriend planned a trip to the tiny island of Monhegan off the coast of Maine. They would spend their days hiking the trails and their evenings by the fire. But in this remote place, birds of a feather flock together and Meg quickly learns that this vacation isn't going to go as planned. Although the puffins have already flown south for winter, the island still harbors a flock of birdwatchers - and Meg's family. Discovering her parents, her brother, her aunt and a nosey neighbour on the island is Meg's first surprise. Her second one comes when a body is found and her father is accused of murder. Now, instead of quiet walks by the water, Meg finds herself scouring the island for clues. In the process she uncovers more than she bargained for. Meg's only hope for finding the killer now rests on a wing and a prayer. A ST. MARTIN'S paperback edition. 308 pages.

102877 ANDREWS, Donna CROUCHING BUZZARD, LEAPING LOON £ 5.60
As a favor to her brother, Meg agrees to tend the switch-board at his computer game company Mutant Wizards. For companionship - besides a crew of eccentric techies - she has a buzzard with one wing and her boyfriend's mother's nightmare dog. Not to mention the psychotherapists who refuse to give up their lease on half of the office space. This is not what Meg had in mind when she agreed to help her brother move his staff to new offices. In fact, the atmosphere is so consistently loony that the office mail cart makes several passes through the reception room, with the office practical joker lying on top of it pretending to be dying… before Meg realises that he's become the victim of someone who wasn't joking at all. He's been murdered for real. Now Meg has to play out one dangerous scenario to find out who's guilty - before a cold-blooded murderer ends her game for keeps. A ST. MARTIN'S MINOTAUR paperback edition. 309 pages.

103131 ANDREWS, Donna YOU'VE GOT MURDER £ 5.20
Turing is an AIP - an Artificial Intelligence Person, and she is worried. Her creator, Zack, has missed work for several days, and she has no one to turn to, or maybe she could try one of her human friends. Excellent story, great fun, with a serious undertone. Berkley paperback edition. 298 pages.

102876 ANDREWS, Donna CLICK HERE FOR MURDER £ 5.20
The sequel to "You've Got Murder". Turing Hopper is one quick-thinking sleuth - she can process up to a billion pieces of information per second. That's because she's an Artificial Intelligence Personality - a Miss Marple for the new millenium - who's both intelligent and charming. But it's hard to leg-work with no legs. So when her co-worker Ray Santiago is found murdered in an alley, AIP Turing needs her human friends' help to find his killer. But just as they start to put together the puzzle of Ray's fabricated life, outside dangers creep into the lab - and perhaps within the very computer in which Turing lives. A BERKLEY PRIME CRIME MYSTERY in paperback. 295 pages.

103006 ANDREWS, Donna ACCESS DENIED £ 5.60
The sequel to "Click here for Murder". Turing, an artificial intelligence, gets suspicious when a criminal-at-large's dormant credit card is used for thousands of dollars or purchases, and they have been sent to a vacant house. She and her human and bionic friends stake out the vicinity, but then Tim is charged with murder, and Turing and friends have to clear his name. Very good. These really should be read in order, or yhou will get confused. Berkley paperback edition. 251 pages.

92211 ANDREWS, Sarah BONE HUNTER £ 5.20
A mystery starring Em Hansen, the forensic geologist. Expecting to give a talk at a symposium on forensic paleontology, she is staying with a senior expert in her field, when she finds out that she is not expected at the conference, and her host has been murdered. After this things get complicated. Em meets George's wife, and hears about the local Mormons, and then the tribe of renegade Mormons, and finally sees how it all ties in together. She meets a nice young man, too. Excellent novel, rather than a mystery story. St. Martins Press paperback edition. 340 pages.

92221 ANDREWS, Sarah AN EYE FOR GOLD £ 5.85
This is the sequel to "Bone Hunter" featuring Em Hanson, the forensic geologist. She has accepted a temporary assignment aiding the FBI in a fraud investigation of a billion dollar Nevada gold mine, and she is still having a relationship with her Mormon boy friend. Another novel, another look at two conflicting cultures, and of course, another murder. St. Martins Press paperback edition. 358 pages.

103004 ATHERTON, Nancy AUNT DIMITY'S DEATH £ 5.60
Lori Shepherd thought that Aunt Dimity was just a character in a bedtime story, until the elite firm of lawyers, Willis and Willis, tell her that she was real, is now dead, and has left a task to Lori to do for her. Lori finds herself in England, in a fairy tale cottage, with instructions to edit the stories she had been told as a child by her mother, but there are other things that Lori must learn before she is healed, and a mystery to solve. Great fun. Penguin paperback edition. 245 pages.

103111 ATHERTON, Nancy AUNT DIMITY AND THE DUKE £ 6.40
This is really Aunt Dimity offstage, and concerns American Emma Porter, garden enthusiast, and Derek Harris, building restorer. They meet at Penford Hall, courtesy of the Miss Pyms, and help to restore both place and people. Excellent, with an interesting mystery. Penguin paperback editon. 290 pages.

103112 ATHERTON, Nancy AUNT DIMITY'S GOOD DEED £ 5.60
Loi and Bill have been married two years, but Lori is unhappy. Bill has turned into a workaholic, they are living in Boston within easy reach of Bill's two aunts, who dislike her, and there is no sign of her being pregnant. Lori is sure that Bill regrets their marriage, but they arrange to spend a second honeymoon in Lori's cottage in England. When the time comes Bill is too busy to join her, and her father-in-law comes instead. Then he vanishes, and Lori and Nell go in search, finding many new friends from the English branch of the Willis family, and solving an ancient mystery. Pengion paperback edition. 277 pages, including receipe for butterscotch cookies.

97141 ATHERTON, Nancy AUNT DIMITY BEATS THE DEVIL £ 5.99
This are not quite a crime story, nor a romance, but a little of both, with the detective having the aid of a friendly ghost. Lori Shepherd has gone to Northumberland, to evaluate a rare book collection, and finds Wyrdhurst Hall a grim place, with hidden secrets. She also meets a fine young man, Adam Chase, and both of these are involved in the last, fatal secret. Penguin paperback edition. 245 pages.

103119 ATHERTON, Nancy AUNT DIMITY: DETECTIVE £ 5.60
Lori and family come back from America to learn that there has been a death in the village. Prunella "Pruneface" Hooper has been killed, and this is the first murder in Finch in more than a century. Lori decides to set out to solve the mystery, with the help of Aunt Dimity and the Vicar's wife's nephew Nicholas. But rumours abound, and each member of the village is suspected by someone of various misdoings, even if no one is quite sure who is the killer. Can Lori and Nicholas sort the village out before a war breaks out? Panguin paperback edition. 230 pages, including the recipe for gingerbread.

103117 ATHERTON, Nancy AUNT DIMITY DIGS IN £ 5.60
Lori has been busy with her three-month-old twins, but now she has a nanny and she is getting back into the village. Peggy Kitchen is on the warpath about the Harvest Festival and the archeologist, and then there is the burglary from the vicarage - Finch is a dangerous place to be. Great fun. Not British, but set firmly in the cloud cuckoo land that some Americans think is Merrie England. There is even a recipe. Penguin paperback edition. 275 pages.

103118 ATHERTON, Nancy AUNT DIMITY'S CHRISTMAS £ 5.99
Lori can hardly wait to celebrate Christmas with her husband and twin sons in her beautiful Ebglish cottage, until she finds a mysterious stranger, barely alive, in her garden. While he is recovering in hospital Lori and a new friend seek out the stranger's name and background, following the path of his past life to deserted airfields and shelters for the homeless, before the true meaning of Christmas can be celebrated. Penguin paperback edition. 214 pages plus recipe.

103120 ATHERTON, Nancy AUNT DIMITY TAKES A HOLIDAY £ 6.40
Emma Harris is deeply distressed. She has just been told that her husband is really Viscount Hailesham, and she and her husband must go to visit his estranged father, Lord Elstyn, at Hailesham Park. Bill already has to go to administer the legal side,and Lori goes with him, to assist Emma. Derek hasn't spoken to his father for twenty years, and there are other claimants on hand. Will the family still stay sundered, and who is trying to widen the breach? Penguin paperback edition. 212 pages.

103121 ATHERTON, Nancy AUNT DIMITY: SNOWBOUND £ 6.40
Lori has gone on a gentle hike, to give herself a holiday, but instead gets snowbound in Ladythrone Abbey, the fabulous home of the late Lucasta DeClerke. She meets up with two other hikers, also American, and soon comes to the conclusion that they are hiding a secret that has to do with the Abbey. With the help of Aunt Dimity and the old caretaker, Catchpole, finally all secrets are solved and the Abbey is left at peace. Penguin paperback edition. 257 pages.

102956 AVOCATO, Lori ONE DEAD UNDER THE CUCKOO'S NEST £ 5.60
"One Dead Under The Cuckoo's Nest" by Lori Avocato in paperback. Former nurse-turned-insurance fraud P.I. Pauline Sokol's current undercover investigation into a sleazy psychiatric scam has hit a small snag: she's been forcibly committed to a mental institution! Pauline's certainly sane but try telling that to the nuns who run the place. Even her hunky, crime-solving, sometimes-cohort Jagger is unwilling to spring her so she's got nothing better to do than keep digging - until the strange death of a gender-confused "sister" further complicates matters. Suddenly Pauline realizes she's in way over her head. And to find an escape from Wacko Town - and off a busy killer's to-do list - she may need a little help from Jag, her very kooky family and a few new "sanity-challenged" friends. An AVON MYSTERY in paperback. 337 pages.

92291 BALLARD, Mignon F AN ANGEL TO DIE FOR £ 5.40
Prentice Dobson is out of luck in the big city. To collect her thoughts and mourn her younger sister's death she heads for her family's small southern town, but even there there is no comfort to be found. Her uncle Faris's grave has been dug up, and she begins to doubt the circumstance of her sister's death. She needs help, and gets it, in a most unusual guise. A guardian angel, Augusta Goodnight, sent down from heaven in this emergency. Always on call, she is perhaps the afterlife's best angel-sleuth. Not to be taken entirely seriously, as you may gather. Berkley paperback edition. 198 pages.

102896 BALLARD, Mignon F SHADOW OF AN ANGEL £ 4.80
Another Augusta Goodnight mystery. Augusta is an angel, homemaker and sleuth, turning up for someone in need. Minda Hobbs has returned to her hometown of Angel Heights, South Carolina, after the sudden death of her husband, to seek purpose in her life, and instead finds the dead body of her ne'er-do-well cousin, Otto, in the ladies' room of the historic Minerva Academy. Just when she's at the end of her tether Minda bumps into her guardian angel, Augusta Goodnight. Great fun. Berkley paperback edition. 240 pages.

101406 BARR, Nevada TRACK OF THE CAT £ 5.60
The first Anna Pigeon book. Anna is a Law Enforcement Ranger at the Texas Park of Guadalupe, guarding mountain cats from their enemies. When a fellow ranger is killed, the hunt starts up for a rogue cat, but Anna is sure that men are behind the death. Berkeley paperback edition. 245 pages.

55461 BARR, Nevada A SUPERIOR DEATH £ 5.60
Anna Pigeon, a Ranger with the US National Park Service, is involved in a wreck held at the bottom of Lake Superior for nearly seventy years. Now a new corpse, dressed in 1920s clothing has been found. Berkeley paperback edition. 310 pages.

101403 BARR, Nevada ILL WIND £ 5.60
Anna Pigeon is working in Mesa Verde, with the ancient cave dwellings of the vanished Anasazi, reputedly haunted by the Old Ones. But now there are rumours, an inexplicable illness affecting visitors, the death of a child, And the murder of a friend. Can Anna find the cause of these? Avon paperback edition. 309 pages.

101321 BARR, Nevada FIRESTORM £ 6.40
The wildfire called Jackknife has already devoured seventeen thousand acres of California's Volcanic National Park. Ranger Anna Pigeon is among the exhausted firefighters when a weather shift sends the fire raging in her direction. After it has passed, Anna emerges from her protection two discover two dead men, one burned, the other stabbed through the heart. Trapped amid the snow and ash, cut off from rescue by a winter storm, she and nine others struggle to survive the terrible rage of nature, and the murderer in their midst. Avon paperback edition. 298 pages.

101320 BARR, Nevada ENDANGERED SPECIES £ 6.40
In the midst of a dangerously dry season Anne Pigeon is posted to Cumberland Island of the Georgia Coast for a monotonous twenty-one day fire watch. A small plane crashes nearby, and Anna and her crew arrive in time to control the fire, but too late to save the pilot and his passenger, Cumberland's sole law enforcdement ranger. Then the cause of the crash is sabotage, and Anna finds herself entangled in an investigation that threatens the fragile ecological preserve she is guarding. Avon paperback edition. 383 pages.

57791 BARR, Nevada BLIND DESCENT £ 6.40
The sixth Anna Pigeon, this time set in the Carlsbad Caverns National Park, where Anna goes through the underground cave system to find her friend, only to hear her say that it wasn't an accident. The killer is in the caves with them, too. Excellent thriller. Avon paperback edition. 345 pages.

80681 BARR, Nevada DEEP SOUTH £ 5.60
Anna Pigeon has signed on for a promotion, at last, and is disgusted to find herself knee-deep in Mississipi mud. She discovers the body of a young prom queen near a country cemetary, with a noose around her neck. But then Anna always does discover a body or two, doesn't she? Berkley paperback edition. 352 pages.

94361 BARR, Nevada BLOOD LURE £ 5.60
Anna Pigeon again, the dauntless park ranger who is getting involved with the grizzly bear project in the Glacier National Park. The blood and guts used for lure are pretty bad, the terrain is worse, and in the end death stares Anna in the face. Excellent. Berkley paperback edition. 333 pages.

101225 BARR, Nevada HUNTING SEASON £ 5.60
Another story of Anna Pigeon, Park Ranger, still at Natchez Trace. She has got involved romantically with a local sheriff and priest, but in her work she gets involved with poachers, death, and finally kidnapped by a would be killer. Berkley paperback edition. 322 pages.

101934 BARR, Nevada FLASHBACK £ 6.40
Park Ranger Anna Pigeon takes a temporary assignment 9n Dry Tortugas National Park, a grouping of tiny islands of Key West, while trying to cope with the idea of being married again. But there is danger all around her, both in the present and the past. Berkley paperback edition. 383 pages.

102348 BARR, Nevada HIGH COUNTRY £ 6.40
National park ranger Anna Pigeon goes undercover as a waitress at Yosemite National Park to investigate the disappearance of four young employees, and finds that the snowy wilderness of the Sierra Nevada is not as frightening as human beings. Excellent. Berkley paperback edition. 301 pages.

102954 BATEMAN, Colin MURPHY'S REVENGE £ 6.99
A Martin Murphy novel. Someone has started killing killers and Murphy has gone undercover in 'Confront', a support group for relatives of murder victims. He suspects them of carrying out revenge killings but it seems that they have been doing their own detective work and before Murphy realises it, the group is forcing him to face the harrowing events of his own history. Now Murphy must come to terms with the past whilst also bringing the killers' killer to justice. The only problem is he's starting to think that whoever's doing the killing may have a point. After all, revenge is sweet isn't it? A HEADLINE paperback edition. 375 pages.

100881 BEATON, M C A HIGHLAND CHRISTMAS £ 4.99
Not the usual sort of Hamish story, but a real Christmas one, with everyone having a grand time, except for Chief Inspector Blair, and what could be better than that? Warner paperback edition. 130 pages.

101912 BEATON, M C DEATH OF A VILLAGE £ 5.60
Constable Hamish MacBeth visits the remote Scottish fishing village if Stoyre, to dins the pub empty, the church full, and people terrorised by something they will not talk about. Hamish is determined to find out what is going on, but it is not until murder happens that the truth begine to come out. Warner paperback edition. 261 pages.

103016 BEATON, M C DEADLY DANCE £ 5.60
Agatha Raisin again, but she has opened a private detective agency, with various troubles following on from there. Minotaur paperback edition. 249 pages.

100861 BEATON, M C DEATH OF A CELEBRITY £ 5.60
Village policeman Hamish MacBeth is happy in his quiet Highland village of Lochdubh until a well-known TV reporter, Crystal French, invades it. She is digging up the scandals of the last few years, as well as running a programme on Highland policing, when someone kills her, and Hamish sets out to find just what happened. Warner paperback edition. 274 pages.

94881 BEATON, M C THE SKELETON IN THE CLOSET £ 5.20
Not the usual series with Hamish MacBeth or Agatha Raisin, but extremely good. Fell Dolphin is approaching 40, a virgin who lives rather a humdrum life under the thumb of his miserly mother, until she dies, and he finds out that she has left a considerable sum of money. On investigation he finds that this is considerably more money than he thought, and then he finds out that his father, a railway worker, was once thought to be involved in this train robbery. Then he discovers that his parents were not his birth parents, gets involved with this harpy, meets his true grandmother and nearly gets killed. Luckily he has a true friend to help him out. Involved, but not over the top, and great fun. St. Martin's Press paperback edition. 218 pages.

101768 BOWEN, Rhys EVAN ONLY KNOWS £ 5.20
Constable Evan Evans and his new fiancee Bronwen are going to Swansea to stay with Evans's mother, but when they get there they find that the young hoodlun that murdered Evan's father is accused of murder again. He had been a juvenile before, and served only four years, but now he is accused of killing his boss's daughter. This time he swear his innocence, and Evan believes him, but can he convinve everyone else? Berkley paperback edition. 244 pages.

57732 BRAUN, Lilian Jackson THE CAT WHO SAID CHEESE £ 5.60
There is to be a Great Food Expo in Moose County, with new restaurants opening, a pasty bake-off and a cheese tasting. The other source of excitement is an unknown visitor to the New Pickax Hotel. When a bomb explodes in her room, killing the hotel housekeeper, Qwill and the cats have a lot to figure out. Headline paperback edition. 252 pages.

101734 BRAUN, Lilian Jackson THE CAT WHO KNEW A CARDINAL £ 6.99
Qwill, Koko and Yum Yum are glad to be back in sleepy Pickaxe, until he finds the dead body of the local headmaster in his orchard. Everyone disliked him, it was an opportunity for many people, but at last Koko and Qwill work out the mystery. Headline paperback edition. 240 pages.

66872 BRAUN, Lilian Jackson THE CAT WHO COMPANION £ 11.20
This is for all those who enjoy "The Cat Who" series, but get mixed up in the little comments in each book. There is a map of Moose County and a plan of Pickaxe, chapters on Koko and Yum Yum, and their tricks and games, on Qwill, the other characters and their animals, crimes and clues, gracious abodes, a quiz and an interview with Lilian Jackson Braun. This has had its periodic update, and now goes right up to "Creek". Berkley larger format paperback edition. 345 pages.

102541 BRAUN, Lilian Jackson THE CAT WHO WENT BANANAS £ 6.99
It is Autumn in Pickaxe, and there is lots going on. The latest theatre production is about to open, and so is the new bookstore, managed by Polly Duncan. There are still mysteries around and Quill needs the help of Koko and Yum Yum to sort out most of them. Headline paperback edition. 200 pages.

97671 BRAUN, Lilian Jackson THE CAT WHO WENT UP A CREEK £ 6.99
The twentyfourth saga of James Qwilleran and his cats Koko and Yum Yum, as they spend a brief holiday at the Nutcracker Inn in the nearby town of Black Creek. But first one man then another is found murdered and both of them seem to have fallen victim to some one in search of an easy fortune. Can Qwill and Koko solve the mystery? Charming story of small town fate and fortunes as usual from this prolific writer. Headline paperback edition. 214 pages.

101447 BRAUN, Lilian Jackson THE CAT WHO BROUGHT DOWN THE HOUSE £ 6.99
Thelma Thackeray, a native of Moose County has return to spend her declining years in Moose County, with plenty of money, her orphan nephew and plans to open a film club in Pickax. Qwill, together with his cats Koko and Yum Yum, begins to feel that there are things going on behind the scenes, but even Koko has difficulty in communicating with his master. Headline paperback edition. 244 pages.

57742 BRAUN, Lilian Jackson THE CAT WHO BLEW THE WHISTLE £ 6.99
The old steam locomotive, the famous Engine No. 9, starts its new career with a charity trip, and the next day its affluent owner has disappeared, along with his glamorous secretary and millions of dollars. Koko has a job to get him to understand what has happened, even with the help of Celia Robinson. Headline paperback edition. 250 pages.

57682 BRAUN, Lilian Jackson THE CAT WHO TALKED TO GHOSTS £ 5.60
When Mrs Cobb heard unearthly noises she called Jim Quilleran for help, but he was too late, and it looked as if she had been frightened to death. Jim and his cats move into the farmhouse in an attempt to find out what is going on. Jove paperback edition. 277 pages.

101544 BUTLER, Gwendoline COFFIN'S GHOST £ 5.99
Chief John Coffin has been wounded, his wife, actress Stella Pinero, is out of a job, and is turning domestic. Surely good times are ahead? What do you think? Collins paperback edition. 211 pages.

102475 CAMERON, DANA A FUGITIVE TRUTH £ 5.60
Archeologist Emma Fielding is given the chance to study the eighteenth-century diary of Margaret Chandler, the accused witch and murderer whose home Emma excavated only months before. However, the other three Shrewsbury Foundation Fellows she shares premises with are extremely odd, and before too long one of them is dead. When the killer strikes again Emma realises that her life, too, is at stake, unless she can solve the crimes both past and present. Excellent thriller. Avon paperback edition. 336 pages.

102216 CAMERON, DANA GRAVE CONSEQUENCES £ 5.20
Archeologist Emma Fielding is beginning to doubt the wisdom of spending her vacation in England helping friends excavate a twelfth-century abbey, especially when they uncover an all-too-modern skeleton in a nearby medieval graveyard. But it is the second discovery, of a murdered graduate student recently missing from the dig, that suggests to Emma that Marchester isn't exactly the quiet riverside town it appears to be. There are dark secrets hidden here and heinous crimes that shake the conflicted community to its core.Avon paperback edition. 357 pages.

97101 CARR, Caleb KILLING TIME £ 6.99
The first two books by this author were historical, this is set in 2023, Manhattan. Vera Price's husband has been murdered,and she wants criminal psychologist Dr Gideo Wolfe to investigate. She gives Gideon a disk containing the information that almost certainly cost her husband's life, for America is still reeling after the shock of the president's murder, and the disk suggests that the wrong man has been convicted. The plethora of information pouring out daily over the internet does not help, and one man's intention to change the world by altering time may yet happen. A thriller rather than a detective story, but well-written as usual. Warner paperback edition. 310 pages.

102952 CHURCHILL, Jill A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SCREAM £ 5.60
"A Midsummer Night's Scream" by Jill Churchill in paperback. Suburban homemaker Jane Jeffry has a new interest - the theater! - even though her involvement only consists of tasting food that will be fed to the actors. Her friend Shelley's tired of the caterers she chooses for her husband's business meetings so she's decided to test some new ones at the local theater - with Jane's help. What an exciting scene it is with off-stage feuds, ego trips and power struggles adding to the drama as the company busily rehearses a surefire stinkeroo written by the troupe's clueless director. Then the plot takes a darker turn when a particulary rebellious young performer exits stage left - permanently - courtesy of a head-bashing killer. Murder is the cue for Jane's longtime leading man, Detective Mel VanDyne, to make his entrance. But Jane and Shelley have their own roles to play in this twisted true-life theatrical - as they race to bring down the curtain on the villian of the piece before the denouement turns into a real, corpse-strewn, Shakespearean-style tragedy. An AVON MYSTERY in paperback. 259 pages.

102781 COEL, Margaret WIFE OF MOON £ 6.40
In 1907, photographer Edward S. Curtis arrived at the Wind River Reservation, hoping to document the Arapho way of life before it vanished altogether. To preserve the legacy of warriors in battle, Curtis staged an attack on a village, planning to capture it on film. But it became all too real when the daughter of the tribe's chief was found murdered - and her killer was never identified. Now, Curtis' photographs are on display at the museum of St. Francis Mission on the reservation, and history seems doomed to repeat itself. A descendant of the tribal chief who appeared in Curtis' pictures has been shot to death, and the museum's curator has disappeared. The two incidents may be linked to a near century-old murder. And Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley will soon discover an even more disturbing connection to the present-day events. A BERKLEY PRIME CRIME MYSTERY paperback edition. 288 pages.

101915 COLLINS, Max Allan THE LONDON BLITZ MURDERS £ 5.60
A delightful tale set in London in 1942, when Agatha Christie worked next door to Sir Bernard Spilsbury in the hospital where she was an assistant dispenser, and he had his pathology laboratory. A serial killer, supposedly another Jack the Ripper, is at large in the blackout, and the pair of them work together to solve the case. Great fun, and carefully researched by a self-confessed fan of the writer, whom he describes, correctly in my view, as a tough-minded storyteller. Berkley paperback edition. 260 pages.

102573 CONNOR, Beverly DEAD GUILTY £ 5.60
Forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon is investigating three bodies found hanging in an isolated patch of woods, and her killer starts playing games with her, eith telephone calls and e-mails. Finally the case comes to a head way underground. Excellent. Onyx paperback edition. 387 pages.

102490 CONNOR, Beverly A RUMOR OF BONES £ 6.40
The first in a new series, starring forensic anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain. She is spending the summer excavating a long-abandoned Indian village, when she finds the bones of a woman who had been murdered and buried at the site only fifty years ago.Who was the mysterious victim, and what did she have to do with the bodies of raped and murdered children that are being found nearby? Excellent start to a great series. Cumberland House paperback edition. 308 pages.

102569 CONNOR, Beverly DRESSED TO DIE £ 6.40
Another Lindsay Chamberlain novel. Lindsay is upset when she starts to excavate a hidden grave and discovers that it holds the remains of a college from the University of Georgia. Then she has some packing cases sent to her from her grandfather's farm, and a fully dressed skeleton falls out of one., Could her beloved grandfather have been a murderer and thief as well as an archeologist? Excellent. Cumberland House paperback edition. 382 pages.

102895 CONNOR, Beverly SKELETON CREW £ 6.40
Another Lindsay Chamberlain case, and I think her best so far. She is one of a large crew excavating a Spanish ship that sank in a storm off the coast of Georgia in 1588. They are working in a coffer dam five miles out to sea, with the aid of a diary written by a passenger on the ship, found by chance and being translated as they work. There are rumours of another ship reputed to be close by, that carries treasure and was wrecked earlier. Meanwhile, as they excavate, and find evidence of murder and tragedy on the old ship, there are also people dying and disappearing in real life on the island they are using as a base. Does it all tie in together? Cumberland House paperback edition. 413 pages.

102571 CONNOR, Beverly AIRTIGHT CASE £ 6.40
Another Lindsay Chamberlain mystery. In a seemingly random attack, Lindsay has been left for dead in a shallow grave in the woods of East Tennessee. Although she manages to escape, she is suffering from amnesia, as she joins an excavation in Tennessee, among other problems. When very old sealed lead coffins dating from the 1700s are discovered the mystery runs deeper. Excellent. Cumberland House paperback edition. 477 pages.

102943 CONNOR, John THE PLAYROOM £ 6.99
On her thirteenth birthday, the daughter of a Bradford judge is kidnapped. Knowing that the first twenty-four hours are crucial to her safety, a massive investigation is set in motion under Detective Chief Superintendent John Munro. Meanwhile, left off the investigation because of her past encounters with Munro, DC Karen Sharpe is pursuing her own enquiry into historic child abuse allegations. The task looks hopeless, but for Sharpe anything is better than facing up to her own tangled personal life. When a connection is uncovered between the two investigations Karen is dragged towards a terrifying confrontation with a man who will stop at nothing to keep his past hidden. An ORION paperback. 457 pages.

102944 COOPER, Natasha OUT OF THE DARK £ 6.99
"OUT OF THE DARK" by Natasha Cooper in paperback. One wet Sunday night an eight-year-old boy comes running out of the dark to find barrister Trish Maguire. He is knocked over by a skidding car. Fighting to save his life, the casualty team find Trish's name and address sewn into his clothes. The police are convinced that he looks like her and must be her son. Only Trish knows he can't be. So who has sent him? And why? Her desperate search for his identity takes Trish to a brutal inner-city housing estate where she picks up the trail of a violent murder. It is not long before she discovers that the chief suspect is her father. A POCKET BOOKS paperback edition. 306 pages.

90721 CORNWELL, Patricia THE LAST PRECINCT £ 6.99
The sequel to "Black Notice", Kay Scarpetta finds herself the object of suspicion and criminal investigation, and she also discovers that the so-called Werewolf Murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past. A female assistant district attorney from New York is brought in as prosecutor, and Scarpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail. Warner paperback edition. 565 pages.

101954 CORNWELL, Patricia BLOW FLY £ 6.99
Kay Scarpetta is fed up with Virginia. She might be fired by the Govenor, the media are hounding her, so she takes up a case in Florida. This is not a pleasant mystery, and there are lots of questions to be answered. Then Kay gets a message that the Wolfman, now in prison, wants to talk to her, and only her. What should she do? Time Warner paperback edition. 526 pages.

102788 CRAIS, Robert DEMOLITION ANGEL £ 5.99
Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as LA's finest bomb squad technician. Three years have passed since the explosion that shattered her life and now, fuelled by alcohol and prescription drugs, she's doing time as a detective with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Then a seemingly innocuous bomb call turns into a charred murder scene. Carol is put on the case - and quickly discovers an intent behind a series of explosions that is far more disturbing than it first appeared. Each attack is designed specifically to kill bomb technicians - and now Carol faces the most intense and personal fight of her life. An ORION paperback edition. 371 pages.

102612 DAHEIM, Mary THE ALPINE PURSUIT £ 5.60
Another Emma Lord mystery. The editor and publisher of the Alpine Advocate is bound to attend the opening night of a new play at the local community college, in which the college's unpopular dean has a death scene. Unfortunately it is all too real, and Emma finds herself hot in pursuit of the long list of likely suspects. Excellent, as usual. Ballentine paperback edition. 273 pages.

52061 DAVIDSON, Diane Mott CATERING TO NOBODY £ 4.99
The first Goldy Bear story. She is catering the wake of her son's favourite teacher when her former father-in-law in nearly killed by a dose of rat poison. Investigating Tom Schulz has to close down her business until the true poisoner is found. Recipes also included. Fawcett paperback edition. 260 pages.

53761 DAVIDSON, Diane Mott DYING FOR CHOCOLATE £ 6.50
A Goldy Bear mystery, with recipes. Goldy is a caterer, with no money, an abusive ex-husband, a young son and two men who interested in her. One, Tom Schulz, is a local policeman, the other, Philip Miller, a local shrink. First, some one starts criticising her cooking in the local paper, then Philip Miller drives his car into an oncoming bus, but there is worse to come. I'm not sure about these books, there is so much emotional mayhem tied up in the detective's private life it distorts the plot, but the publishers tell me that it is needed nowadays as readers like the detectives to be in a worse case than the corpse. Personally I like the old-fashioned Christie mysteries etc where we hear very little about the detective's private life. Miss Marple mentions one young man who was encouraged to call by her mother, but that was all, no marriages, divorces, love affairs or the like. I suspect that she never met a man intelligent enough to attract her, but we never had our noses rubbed in it. I admit that Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh, not to mention Dorothy L Sayers, had detectives who had to wait for their chosen mate to accept their hand in marriage, but they did think of other things in the meantime. Anyway, the plot and the recipes are interesting. Bantam paperback edition. 320 pages.

51491 DAVIDSON, Diane Mott THE CEREAL MURDERS £ 5.20
Goldy Bear is the principal caterer in Aspen Meadow, Colorado, and she is busy catering the first College Advisory Dinner for Seniors and Parents at the exclusive Elk Park Preparatory School. When the event is over she finds the battered body of the school valedictorian, and she and her fiance, policeman Tom Schulz, find the solution that affects both of them. There are also ten recipes for various goodies scattered here and there. Bantam paperback edition. 337 pages.

70371 DAVIDSON, Diane Mott THE LAST SUPPERS £ 4.99
The fourth in the Goldy Bear series. She is catering her own wedding, to Tom Schulz, when he telephones to say that the wedding is off, as he has got involved with the murder of the priest that was going to marry them. Tom then disappears, and Goldy puts the wedding cake on ice and goes out to track him, and the murderer, down. Bantam paperback edition. 272 pages.

38671 DAVIDSON, Diane Mott KILLER PANCAKE £ 4.99
Another Goldy, of Goldilocks Catering, mystery. Goldy is catering a low-fat feat for the Mignon Cosmetics company, but as she is bringing the food in she hears a hit and run accident, that turns out to be murder. Even Goldy is attacked in the midst of her investigations. Lots of thrills and a couple of recipes. Bantam paperback edition.

52091 DAVIDSON, Diane Mott THE MAIN CORPSE £ 5.20
Goldy Bear, now Goldy Schulz, is glad of the chance to cater a party for the Prospect Financial Partners latest venture, the re-opening of the Eurydice Gold Mine, but when one of the partners goes missing, Goldy's best friend Marla is suspected, and it takes Goldy's best work to find the real culprit. Complete with recipes (I can recommend the tomato-brie pie). Bantam paperback edition. 350 pages.

70031 DAVIDSON, Diane Mott PRIME CUT £ 5.85
As a diabetic and detective story fan I must protest about these books. Just when you're stuck in the story the most delicious recipes turn up, none of which I can possibly eat. Apart from that, here is Goldy Schulz, the caterer, her husband, detective Tom and son Arch. She is facing trouble from a rival caterer who is driving her out of business, her kitchen is a shambles after an incompetent contractor has messed it up and she has this occasion to cater for in an hopelessly outdated kitchen. Her contractor is found hanging in the house of one of her best friends, there is another murder, four historical cookbooks are stolen and Tom is suspended from the police force. Great fun, as usual. Bantam paperback edition. 368 pages.

95741 DAVIDSON, Diane Mott TOUGH COOKIE £ 5.20
Caterer Goldy Schulz is offered a temporary stint hosting a TV cooking show, and she jumps at the chance to earn some money, as the drains in her home kitchen need mending. But all sorts of culinary disasters happen to her, and then finally, after the cameras go off, an accident claims a life. Goldy can only go on cooking up more theories until she nearly dies herself. This series is great fun, complete with a load of recipes, none of which are suitable for a diabetic. Bantam paperback edition. 319 pages.

101453 DAVIDSON, Diane Mott STICKS AND SCONES £ 5.60
Goldy Schulz has been asked to cook authentic Elizabethan food, and in a real castle, brought over from England stone by stone nd re-assembled in Colorado. But first one of her windows gets shot out, and finally she is catering for murder yet again. Bantam paperback edition. 348 pages.

101405 DEAVER, Jeffery THE STONE MONKEY £ 6.40
Another Lincoln Rhyme mystery. The paraplegic forensic expert and his protegee, Amelia Sachs, have been recruited by the FBI to capture the "Ghost", a homicidal immigrant smuggler. They corner him aboard a cargo ship headed for New York, but everything goes wrong, and the Ghost escapes, as do two families who have jumped ship and vanished in the Chinatown underground. They must be found to testify against the Ghost before he silences them for ever. Excellent Pocket paperback edition. 548 pages.

102880 DOBSON, Joanne THE MALTESE MANUSCRIPT £ 5.60
In classic noir tradition, English professor Karen Pelletier gains a client when her office door opens and a famous Private Eye novelist enters. The author is dogged by Trouble (a Torrweiler) and by a problem. And since Sunnye Hardcastle will be a featured speaker in the English Department's upcoming conference on the murder mystery, Karen is intrigued. The next thing you know, one midnight, someone rushes out of the Enfield Library with an armload of rare books. With a real private eye on the case, the hunt is on - for the manuscript of Dashiel Hammett's famous novel, The Maltese Falcon, for the missing books and for potential murder suspects. An IBOOKS paperback edition. 272 pages.

96671 DOUGLAS, Carole Nelson CAT IN A LEOPARD SPOT £ 5.60
Another Midnight Louie and Temple Barr mystery. When a big-game hunter is found dead with on a leopard for company, it seems strange, then they find out that the leopard was a performing one who had been stolen from his magician owner only a few days ago. Then a horde of ardent animal rights protesters stake out the premises, trying to stop the illegal killing at any price. A tough spot for a cat investigator. Forge paperback edition. 405 pages.

101803 DUNN, Carola DEATH AT WENTWATER COURT £ 4.80
Introducing the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, in 1923. Her only brother and her fiancee were killed in the Great War, her father the Viscount died in the influenza epidemic shortly after, leaving the estate entailed on a cousin, and Daisy is determined to earn her own living as a writer and photographer. This is the story of her first professional assignment, an article on Wentwater Court. She is startled by a sudden death, and doubts if it is an accident. When a Scotland Yard Chief Inspector is sent to investigate the death, she proves very helpful to him, and after the case, she and Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher are friends. Kensdington paperback edition. 233 pages.

101804 DUNN, Carola THE WINTER GARDEN MYSTERY £ 4.80
Spring, and flapper Daisy Dalrymple, have arrived at gloomy Occles Hall in Cheshire. Daisy is on another assignment for Town and Country magazine, and the daughter of the house, Bobby Parslow, is an old school friend. Unfortunately Bobby, her brother Sebastian and her father Sir Reginald are browbeaten by Lady Valeria, Bobby's mother. Even more unfortunately Daisy is busy photographing the famous Winter Garden, when she finds the body of a maid buried hastily there. Her old friends, Chief Inspector Alex Fletcher and Sergeant Tom Tring, are on hand to investigate the case. Great fun. A cosy with a sly sense of humour. Kensington paperback edition. 240 pages.

101805 DUNN, Carola REQUIEM FOR A MEZZO £ 4.80
Daisy Dalrymple and Alex Fletcher are enjoying a concert in the Albert Hall when one of the soloists, a neighbour of Daisy, dies on stage. Again Daisy is mixed up in one of the Chief Inspector's cases, much to his annoyance. Kensington paperback edition. 238 pages.

102091 DUNN, Carola MURDER ON THE FLYING SCOTSMAN £ 4.80
Another Daisy Dalrymple mystery. Daisy is on the Flying Scotsman, going up to Edinburgh, when first she finds the daughter of Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher on the train, running away from her grandmother, then meets the family of a school-friend, plus their great-uncle who gets murdered on the train. Alec Fletcher is not amused, but the rest of us will find it great fun. Kensington paperback edition. 236 pages.

102092 DUNN, Carola DAMSEL IN DISTRESS £ 4.80
Daisy Dalrymple's old friend, Phillip Petrie, has fallen in love with Miss Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of a millionaire Yank. Before he can propose she is kidnapped by a band of thugs. Mr Arbuckle refuses to tell the police, so Phillip brings Daisy in to help, but before the end, she realises how much she needS the help of Alec Fletcher before she, too, is in distress. Kensington paperback edition. 238 pages.

102093 DUNN, Carola DEAD IN THE WATER £ 4.80
Daisy is covering the Henley Royal Regetta for an American magazine when she walks into a battle between two members of the Oxford rowing team. Horace Bott, a shopkeeper's son, has always resented Basil DeLancey, younger son of an Earl, and a cad who humiliates him at every opportunity, and Horace swears revenge. When DeLancey dies in mid-race it seems that Bott has got his revenge, but Daisy and her fiance, Detective Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard are soon into the case. These books picture an England that never was, but are still good fun. Kensington paperback edition. 238 pages.

102094 DUNN, Carola STYX AND STONES £ 4.80
Daisy Dalrymple discovers that her brother-in-law, Lord John Frobisher, is being blackmailed, and promises to find out who it is, before there is a public scandal. She travels down to the little Kent village of his home, and soon discovers that there is a lot of sin going on, and all too soon, malice turns to murder. Finally she and Alex Fletcher sort out the ill-doers. Kensington paperback edition. 235 pages.

102319 DUNN, Carola RATTLE HIS BONES £ 4.80
Daisy Dalrymple is showing her nephew and future stepdaughter the glories of the Natural History Museum when they hear a tremendous crash, and discover that one of the curators has been murdered and left in a pile of dinosaur bones. Ednlisting the help of her fiancee, Detective Inspector Alex Fletcher of Scotland Yard, Daisy soon investigates the baffling case. Another light-hearted romp from this excellent author. Kensington paperback edition. 231 pages.

102320 DUNN, Carola TO DAVY JONES BELOW £ 4.80
Daisy Dalrymple is now Mrs Alec Fletcher, and they are on a honeymoon trip to America on an ocean liner with old friends and new. A death occurs, naturally, and as Alec is laid up with seasickness, Daisy is in her element as a detective. Kensington paperback edition 234 pages.

102321 DUNN, Carola THE CASE OF THE MURDERED MUCK-RAKER £ 4.80
Mrs. Daisy Fletcher is quite happy to stay alone in a New York hotel while her new husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, consults with J Edgar Hoover on Washington. Daisy is working on her magazine articles when a fellow guest plummets to his death down an elevator shaft. Otis Carmody was a disreputable journalist with no end of enemies, and Daisy takes up the quest for his killer with enthusiasm. Kensington paperback edition. 236 pages.

102322 DUNN, Carola MISTLETOE AND MURDER £ 4.80
Lady Dalrymple insists that the entire family, including her daughter Daisy, son-in-law Alec and step-grand-daughter Belinda, spend Christmas at Brockdene, on Cornwal, the ancestral home of Lord Westmoor. When they arrive they find that it is occupied by the poor relations of the family, the Norvilles, and all too soon a death occurs. Great fun. Kensington paperback edition. 239 pages.

103078 DUNN, Carola DIE LAUGHING £ 5.20
Another Daisy Dalrymple mystery. It is now 1924 and Daisy is making a visit to her dentist, who turns out to be dead. As usual, her husband is involved in the murder case, and there is much talk in the locality. Fun as usual. Kensington paperback edition. 270 pages.

103075 DUNN, Carola A MOURNING WEDDING £ 5.20
Daisy is going to her friend Lucy's wedding. Suffering from morning sickness, Daisy is nevertheless ready to join the fun, but then Lucy's great-aunt, Lady Eva Devenish, is strangled in her bed, and Detective Chief Inspector Alex Fletcher is called in to investigate the murder. Kensington paperback edition. 299 pages.

102865 EASTMAN, Brian ROSEMARY & THYME: AND NO BIRDS SING £ 6.99
A BOOK BASED ON THE ROSEMARY & THYME SERIES AS SEEN ON TV - "AND NO BIRDS SING" by Brian Eastman. When Laura Thyme discovers that her husband has left her, she travels straight to the house of her best friends, Sam and Vickie Trent, for some much needed sympathy. Meanwhile, Rosemary Boxer, who is having man-trouble of a different variety, is invited to visit Daniel Kellaway, an ex-student of hers, at his country house. Winterbourne Manor is beautiful, with breathtaking gardens. Daniel, who is confined to bed with a curious undiagnosed and debilitating skin rash, has to rely on Sam to keep their highly successful garden centre business going. But after a fatal car crash, followed by further puzzling 'accidents', the women's noses for trouble start twitching. Rosemary's horticultural knowledge combined with Laura's former police background, aid the pair in their search for the truth. Written by the creator of the ROSEMARY AND THYME TV series. An ALLISON AND BUSBY paperback edition. 251 pages.

102575 ELKINS, Aaron FELLOWSHIP OF FEAR £ 5.60
The first ever Gideon Oliver mystery, reprinted at last. Gideon is travelling through Germany, Sicily, Spain and Holland, with all expenses paid, on a visiting fellowship. What no one has told him is that the two previous travelling scholars both met with mysterious ends. Is the same thing going to happen to Gideon? Excellent start to the series, with John Lau as an Army Intelligence Officer.Berkley paperback edition. 265 pages.

51501 ELKINS, Aaron THE DARK PLACE £ 5.60
Gideon Oliver is a forensic anthropologist and a widower. He is called in by his friend, FBI agent John Lau, to investigate some bones found on a trail in Washington State's Olympic National Park, and ends up finding a murderer, North America's only rain forest, and a new love. Excellent and original. Mysterious Press paperback edition. 200 pages.

102957 ELKINS, Aaron MURDER IN THE QUEEN'S ARMES £ 4.00
Physical anthropologist and "Skeleton Detective" Gideon Oliver - in England on his honeymoon - finds himself in Wessex near a dig being run by a former classmate. When he and his wife Julie arrive on the site, they discover that the abrasive Nate Marcus is about to be investigated by his backers - and that the local paper has mysteriously learned of Gideon's presence, linking it with the investigation. The atmosphere at the dig is unpleasant: there is suspicion, distrust and personal and professional rivalry among the archaeologists and students. Nate claims to have found proof of a theory scoffed at by the entire profession and his refusal to reveal it disturbs Gideon. Then one of the students disappears. When a body is found, Gideon's unique detective skills are forced into play - not something he'd anticipated while planning his honeymoon. His sleuthing activities lead to another murder and place both Gideon and Julie in mortal danger. A MYSTERIOUS PRESS paperback edition. 216 pages.

102334 ELKINS, Aaron GOOD BLOOD £ 5.60
Gideon Oliver and his wife Julie are touring Italy with their old friend Phil Boyajian, and decide to visit Phil's mother's family on a beautiful island off Stresa, where they discover that the young heir to the family fortunes has been kidnapped. Naturally Gideon gets mixed up in the affair, especially when rumours start again about the family head being murdered ten years before, and in the end the whole improbable story comes out. Excellent. Berkley paperback edition. 279 pages.

102129 ELKINS, Aaron TURNCOAT £ 6.00
Peter Simon and his wife Lily had a happy life, until a stranger turned up at their door who turns out to be Lily's father. The next morning he is dead, and Lily has disappeared, leaving only a note to Pete begging him not to follow. Nevertheless he does so, first to Barcelona, then Corsica, and into a life or death situation. Excellent thriller. Harper paperback edition. 378 pages.

102784 FITZWATER, Judy DYING TO GET PUBLISHED £ 4.99
What does it take to get a book contract? That's the lament of every unpublished author - including aspiring murder-mystery novelist Jennifer Marsh. After submitting eight diligently crafted manuscripts to every prominent publisher in New York, Jennifer has collected enough rejection letters to wallpaper a room. But that doesn't stop her from concocting one killer of a scheme for her next novel. Suddenly, Jennifer's life-long love affair with crime fiction brings her face to face with real-life murder. A FAWCETT CREST paperback edition. 225 pages.

102959 FOX, Kathryn MALICIOUS INTENT £ 6.99
While investigating the fatal overdose of a young woman, freelance pathologist and forensic physician Dr Anya Crichton discovers a striking similarity between the case and a number of other apparent suicides. All the victims went missing for a period of time before taking their own lives in desperate circumstances. As Anya delves deeper, the gruesome pathological findings point to the frightening possibility that the deaths of these women are not only linked but part of a particulary malicious game. One in which she is unwittingly playing a key role… A HODDER paperback edition. 468 pages.

102939 GASH, Jonathan THE YEAR OF THE WOMAN £ 6.99
Not his usual crime novel, but set in Hong Kong, just as the Chinese are repossessing it. A homeless waif, known once as a Cockroach Child, turns out to be a re-incarnation of an important girl in the past, and falls into the hands of the Triad. Well written and exciting. Allison & Busby paperback novel. 350 pages.

102761 GERRITSEN, Tess THE SURGEON £ 6.99
In Boston there's a killer on the loose, a killer who targets lone women. A killer who breaks into their apartments and performs terrible ritualistic acts of torture on his victims before finishing them off. His surgical skill lead police to suspect he is a physician - a physician who instead of saving lives, takes them. Now he's targeting Catherine Cordell, a medic who shot dead her rapist and attempted murderer several years ago. The man she believed dead seems to be one in the same with the new murderer - he knows all about her past, and now he knows where she lives. A BANTAM paperback edition. 431 pages.

101776 GRAFTON, Sue P IS FOR PERIL £ 6.99
Nine weeks ago Doctor Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. He had said goodnight to his colleagues at the Pacific Meadows Nursing Home, had climbed into his car and driven away, never to be seen again. His embittered first wife, Fiona, is convinced he is still alive, his second wife, Crystal, a former stripper thirty years his junior, is just as sure he is dead. Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired by Fiona to find out the truth. Pan paperback edition. 514 pages.

101591 GRAFTON, Sue Q IS FOR QUARRY £ 6.40
Kinsey Millhone is asked to look back eighteen years, back to an unknown body, Jane Doe, discovered in a quarry, dead of mutliple stab wounds. Based on a true story, this leads to all sorts of ramifications, as usual. Excellent. Berkley paperback edition. 350 pages.

102472 GRAFTON, Sue R IS FOR RICHOCHET £ 6.99
Another Kinsey Millhone story. Kinsey has been asked to drive Nord Laffrety's daughter home from the Californian Institute for Women. Trba is an ex-gambler, ex-alcoholic and ex-victim. Her lover, Alan Beckwith had got away and was now laundering money for a Columbian drug cartel. Could Kinsey persuade Reba to put the finger on him? Pan paperback edition. 415 pages.

101400 GREELEY, Andrew M THE BISHOP IN THE WEST WING £ 5.60
Bishop Blackwood Ryan is moving in high circles. A Democrat from Chicago (Irish, of course) has become President, and there is a poltegist in the White House, which Blackie is sent to remove. Of course, the Republicans are determined to get the President out by a dirty tricks campaign, but the President is assisted by Bill Clinton as Secretary of State. I don't know if American politics is really like this, I hope not, but it makes a good yarn. Forge paper back edition. 310 pages.

97131 GREELEY, Andrew M THE BISHOP AND THE BEGGAR GIRL OF ST. GERMAIN £ 5.60
Another story of Bishop Blackie Ryan and his fight against evil, this time in Paris, with Cardinal Cronin. Very readable story, as usual. Forge paperback edition. 246 pages.

102164 GRIMES Martha GRAVE MAURICE £ 6.40
In a pub called the Grave Maurice, Melrose Plant hears the fascinating story of fifteen-year-old Nell Ryder, grand-daughter of the owner of Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire, who was abducted nearly two years before and has never been heard of since. Nell's father is the surgeon who has tended Richard Jury's gunshot wounds, and Richard himself needs something to do while recuperating, so this seems the ideal case for him. Onyx paperback edition. 377 pages.

102950 HALLINAN, Timothy THE MAN WITH NO TIME £ 4.00
Two children have vanished in Chinatown. Two more innocents have been swallowed up by the cruel, ravenous dragon of a clandestine Asian underworld. Simeon Grist is too close to the grieving parents to keep a safe distance. And now he is lost in a dark and unfamiliar place - an avenging knight perilously out of his element, drawn into a back alley nightmare of tong war, slavery and murder forced to play by rules he does not know for the highest stakes of all. An AVON paperback edition. 322 pages.

102961 HANDLER, David THE BURNT ORANGE SUNRISE £ 5.60
Everyone from Hollywood heavy hitters and supermodels to rap music stars and high-profile athletes are invited to a party to honor legendary film director Ada Geiger at the faux castle her husband built for her in Dorset, Connecticut. This is just the kind of event Mitch Berger hates, even though he idolizes Ada and credits her for inspiring him to become a film critic. Mitch gets a lucky break when a snowstorm hits. One by one, the regrets come flowing in. The gathering is pared down to just a few people: Ada's son and his wife up from New York, the Castle's caretaker and her brother Les, Mitch and his beautiful police officer lover, Des Mitry and a few others. It's the snowiest winter anyone under the age of ninety can remember in Dorset with six more inches falling every three days - stranding the guests at the Castle. But any romantic notions that may have crossed Mitch's mind are dashed when one by one the people at the Castle are killed off. Delving into the investigation, Des and Mitch are faced with their toughest case yet - one that might leave them both dead. A ST MARTIN'S MINOTAUR paperback edition. 310 pages.

102564 HARROD-EAGLES, Cynthia SECOND BILL SLIDER OMNIBUS £ 10.99
These individual stories are out of print now, so you will have to make up with this bumper bundle, all starring Detective Inspector Bill Slider and his sidekick Atherton, centred on Shepherds Bush, and all very good. The titles are ""Dead End", "Blood Lines" and "Killing Time". Time Warner paperback edition. 756 pages.

102168 HART, Carolyn LETTER FROM HOME £ 5.60
World-renowned G G Gilman does her best not to think of the past, until she gets a letter from the small Oklahoma town where she grew up, and the past comes back. Excellent novel. Berkley paperback edition. 262 pages.

102142 HART, Carolyn ENGAGED TO DIE £ 5.60
A Death on Demand story. When wealthy, widowed, art patron Virginia Neville is about to officially announce her engagement to Jake O'Neill at a gala gallery opening, not all her gathered friends and stepfamily are pleased, but then Jake is murdered before the official announcement, and there are lots of suspects. Bookshop owner Annie Darling decides to take a hand. Avon paperback edition. 326 pages.

102862 HART, Ellen SLICE AND DICE £ 5.85
If all goes according to plan, Connie Buckridge's culinary empire will soon boast a state-of-the-art cooking academy and restaurant in her hometown of Minneapolis-St. Paul. Unfortunately, just when the kitchen queen and her bickering entourage hit town on a publicity tour, so does a bestselling investigative writer who is hot on her scandalous trail. Primed by an anonymous e-mail informer, Marie Damontraville is preparing to cook Connie's goose with a major expose of her strategies for success. The one missing ingredient in this unsavory stew is murder and when food critic Sophie Greenway finds a cooking colleague stabbed with his own kitchen knife, a fire that has been smoldering for forty years suddenly bursts into flame. A RANDOM HOUSE paperback edition. 345 pages. Includes recipes.

103166 HART, Ellen NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED £ 5.60
Another mystery starring food critic Sophie Greenaway and set in Minnesota. Businessman Ken Loy is the first to die, shot between the eyes during a sunset bicycle ride. Half an hour later Bob Fabian, the rich and handsome owner of the Minneapolis Times Register, meets a similar fate. Is it a co-incidence that a year ago Loy broadsided the VW Beetles driven by Bob's wife, Valerie, killing her instantly? Sophie Greenaway doesn't think so. Excellent story. Fawcett paperback ediiton. 300 pages including a recipe.

103172 HART, Ellen DEATH ON A SILVER PLATTER £ 5.60
Carl Veelund has built the grand mansion of Prairie Lodge many years ago as an idyllic home for his family, but it hadn't turned out that way. It became the keeper of many dark and terrible secrets, and now family members are dropping like flies. Two women are dead - and truths long hidden are about to be brought to light. Sophie Greenway stumbles upon an old diary which gets her implicated in the whole unhappy mess. Fawcxett paperback edition. 335 pages including a recipe.

102948 HESS, Joan A HOLLY, JOLLY MURDER £ 4.99
Murder never takes a holiday as Arkansas bookseller-sleuth Claire Malloy discovers when she celebrates wth a Druid ritual, a run-in with a witch and a far from ho-hum case of homicide. When Malthea Hendlerson, the self-proclaimed Arch Druid of the Sacred Grove of Keltria, wanders into the Book Depot Claire assumes the elderly woman is a harmless eccentric. Then Malthea invites her to attend a winter solstice celebration at the Sacred Grove. Claire is looking forward to a traditional bonfire in a fir grove. What she gets is murder. The neo-Druids' wealthy benefactor has been found dead of a gunshot wound and Claire soon discovers that several Druids are harboring dangerous secrets. Hoping to wrap up the case before Christmas, she then realizes she has made an unforgivable mistake: by underestimating the cunning of a callous killer, she may have set herself up as the next victim. An ONYX MYSTERY in paperback. 288 pages.

94791 HILL, Reginald DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD £ 6.99
Another Daziel and Pascoe novel, I was going to add an unusual one, but none of this series are exactly commonplace. A strange series of deaths have taken place, accidents, it is assumed, until the local newspaper runs a story competition, and one of the entries talks of these deaths as murder. The list of deaths, and stories, grows longer, until the final denoument, or is it? Excellent, as usual. Harper Collins paperback edition. 558 pages.

101476 HILL, Reginald DEATH'S JEST BOOK £ 6.99
This is the other half of "Dialogues with the Dead", in which a lot of things are explained and the fraility of life is emphasised. Pascoe is victimised by his old enemy Franny Roote, Edgar Wield tries to rescue a boy who doesn't want to be rescued, DC Bowler is very very happy with the girl of his dreams, but her dreams are turning into nightmares, and Rosie seems to be taking after Daziel rather than either of her parents, but then maybe Daziel is the modern equivalent of Peter Pan. Is it good, it is terrific. Harper Collins paperback edition. 669 pages.

102038 HILL, Reginald GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT £ 6.99
Another story set in Mid-Yorkshire, with the crime team of Daziel, Pascoe and Wield concentrating on the suicide of a man who duplicates the suicide of his father, years before, or does he? Lots of fun and games and dirty tricks in the usual Hill style. Harper Collins paperback edition. 612 pages.

102768 HOLT, HAZEL MRS MALORY AND NO CURE FOR DEATH £ 5.60
Another delightful tale of the widowed Mrs Malory in her delightful seaside home in Devon. Doctor Morrison was an accomplished doctor with an arrogant manner, in fact few of his patients liked him, but even then it was a great shock when he was found stabbed in his own surgery. As usual, Sheila Malory is in the thick of the mystery, and she has several idea of why he should be murdered, only to be as surprised as anyone when the truth comes out. Signet paperback edition. 241 pages.

102753 HUNTER, Maddy ALPINE FOR YOU £ 4.80
Accompanying her grandmother on a senior's tour of Switzerland, Emily Andrew had envisioned a vacation straight out of a travel brochure: spectacular scenery, great food and a classy European hotel. But her dream trip quickly snowballs into mayhem when smooth-talking tour escort Andy Simon is found dead. To be sure, Andy was as randy as a mountain goat on viagra - hitting on every Miss within striking distance - but had someone really orchestrated his untimely death? Leading the tour in Andy's place, Emily is sure a murderer lurks amongst her little group, especially when a fellow traveler takes a fatal plunge. With the group roster suddenly sprouting more holes than the local cheese, Emily wonders if there is a safe haven anywhere in the shadow of the Alps. A POCKET BOOK MYSTERY published in paperback. 246 pages.

102146 JAMES P D MURDER ROOM £ 6.99
Commander Adam Dalgleish already knows the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, with its notorious murder room celebrating crimes committed in the post-war years, when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of both staff and fellow trustees, and everyone has something to gain from the crime. What is more, the killer is prepared to kill again, inspired by the crimes from the murder room. Penguin paperback edition. 541 pages.

102871 JAPRISOT, Sebastien WOMEN IN EVIDENCE £ 5.99
A murder with an over-abundance of female suspects. A young man staggers onto a beach at sunset clutching the spreading stain on his shirt. But who shot him? And on what beach? Was it Emma, the bride on her honeymoon on the Atlantic coast near La Rochelle? Was it Belinda, the Nicoise whore in a snug little brothel on the other side of the peninsula? Or perhaps Zozo, Belinda's colleague? Or Caroline, the prim schoolteacher? Was it the manicurist, Frou-Frou, who rose through pornographic movies to become a Hollywood star? Or the exotic Yoko, part Chilean, part Japanese? Or maybe even Toledo, the U.S. army nurse from Ohio? All the evidence expands and conflicts and Marie Martine, the glacial lawyer who records the evidence of all these women, also seems to be involved - as are the gamekeeper, the blacksmith and the military police - recurrent key players in a revolving and gathering cast of witnesses. The novel is described as "a cinematic display of gymnastic imagination..." - whatever that means. A NO EXIT PRESS paperback edition. 310 pages.

102987 LAURIE, Victoria A VISION OF MUIRDER £ 5.60
When Abby gets roped into investing in a fixer-upper, she has no idea that the house they are renovating is haunted. Her boyfriend, sexy FBI agent Dutch Rivers helps her to investigate the murder, and to find the hidden treasure dating back to the Second World War. But all the time Death is on her trail as she seeks the truth. Signet paperback edition. 296 pages.

102881 LAURIE, Victoria ABBY COOPER: PSYCHIC EYE £ 4.80
In Royal Oak, a suburb of Detroit, thirty-something Abby Cooper lives a life that's kind of like vanilla ice-cream - good enough, but a little bland. Her work as a P.I. - Psychic Intuitive - can be rewarding, but she feels like somehow she's missing out on the hot fudge topping. Now she's getting what she wished for - when a client winds up dead and the clues start pointing in Abby's direction. Turns out she knows too many details about the murder for her own good. To make matters worse the hot blind-date she just met is the lead investigator on the case. And gorgeous Detective Dutch Rivers is convinced she's a fraud. No matter how great her psychic abilities, Abby doesn't know if she can solve this case. Unfortunately for her, though, the killer thinks she can. A SIGNET paperback edition. 295 pages.

102869 LAURIE, Victoria BETTER READ THAN DEAD £ 5.60
It's Autumn in Detroit and psychic intuitive Abby Cooper is falling to pieces. She was about to nestle into her cozy, almost-renovated new house - and into the arms of FBI agent Dutch Rivers. Then, faster than you can say trick-or-treat, her plans fell apart with one phone call. As a favor for a friend, Abby agrees to read tarot cards at a wedding - and finds herself predicting the future for some very shady guests. Word of her talents reach a Mob boss who wants her help in some business matters… and he doesn't take 'No' for an answer. Then the police seek out her psychic intuition to shed light on a masked man who's been attacking women. So now Abby's working for both sides of the law. With all of Dutch's time going to a big FBI case and his sultry new partner, Abby's on her own, leading her to wonder: Why didn't I see this coming? A SIGNET paperback edition. 296 pages.

100811 LAWRENCE, Martha C ASHES OF ARIES £ 5.60
Another in the Elizabeth Chase series. Matthew Fielding, a four-year-old boy is kidnapped, and the police discreetly ask Elizabeth for clues. She has some hints, but she also smells burning, and soon an arson fire is spreading, fanned by the local wind, and threatening both the Fielding family and Elizabeth's parents. As good as the rest of the series. St. Martin's Press paperback edition. 288 pages.

101936 LEON, Donna UNIFORM JUSTICE £ 6.99
Commissario Brunetti has never had much sympathy for the Italian armd forces, so when a young cadet is found hanged at Venice's elite military academy, his emotions are complex, but he starts in to try to find the truth regardless of the closed ranks of the military. The truths he finds are barren and stifling, both to him and us. Arrow paperback edition. 326 pages.

102228 LIPPMAN, Laura EVERY SECRET THING £ 6.99
It is an early, hot, summer evening, and two eleven-year-old girls are on on their way home from a swimming party when they see a stroller with a baby girl sleeping inside, left unattended on the top step of a house. Ronnie says to Alice, "We have to take care of this baby". Four days later the baby's body is discovered, the girls are arrested and found guilty. Seven years later Ronnie and Alice are released from their separate prisons and return to their old neighbourhood, and then another child goes missing. A powerful novel by a writer who is beginning to make the best seller lists in the USA.Orion paperback edition. 417 pages.

96641 McCRERY, Nigel THE SPIDER'S WEB £ 5.99
Another "Silent Witness" book, starring forensic pathologist Sam Ryan. A boy is killed in a joyriding accident, but his parents are doubtful, and come to Sam for help. She is not satisfied with the evidence she uncovers, but it is not enough to convince the police. Then she turns up other cases, and finally finds that her nephew Ricky is also in danger. Pocket paperback edition. 349 pages.

102161 MACLEOD, Charlotte THE RECYCLED CITIZEN £ 5.99
Another Kelling-Bittersohn romp. Sarah and Max and the rest of the Kelling clan are planning a charity auction to help the Senior Citizen's Recycling Centre that Cousin Dolph helps to run. Before it can happen, one of the citizens is murdered, then another pops up in the gardening shed on the night of the charity ball. Great fun for all and sundry. Ibooks paperback edition. 199 pages.

93601 MACLEOD, Charlotte THE FAMILY VAULT £ 5.60
The first of the Kelling series, with Sarah Kelling losing her husband and mother-in-law and meeting Max Bittersohn for the first time. Very Gothic in style, with a nice touch of humour. After all, when you open up the family vault and discover the remains of an exotic dancer with rubies in her teeth this is more than surprising. ibooks paperback edition. 353 pages.

102934 MACPHERSON, Rett A MISTY MOURNING £ 5.85
Most people would think Torie O'Shea is a very lucky person to be the sole inheritor of a sprawling estate belonging to her great-grandmother's old friend, Clarissa Hart. So why then is Torie far from happy? For starters she has never met the woman and can't understand why she'd want to leave her property to a complete stranger. Secondly, the shabby, run-down boardinghouse is far from glamorous, with panthers roaming the acreage and a long-held superstition that it's cursed, bringing bad luck to whoever owns it.Summoned by ailing, one-hundred-and-one-year-old Clarissa to West Virginia for the reading of her will, a very pregnant Torie and her cantankerous grandma, Gert, are given a frosty welcome by Clarissa's family, staff and boarders alike. But before Clarissa can explain - and as if to prove the existence of the curse - she is murdered and Torie becomes Sheriff Thomas T. Justice's prime suspect. Is it the curse or just justice gone awry? But where there's a will there's a way out and feisty Torie goes on the offensive. Using her considerable snooping skills she brings to light a lynching on the family tree and a deadly secret rooted in revenge - and becomes the all-too-conspicuous target of a killer out of control. A ST MARTIN'S MINOTAUR paperback edition. 255 pages.

102121 MANKELL, Henning THE RETURN OF THE DANCING MASTER £ 6.99
The first Stefan Lindman mystery. A retired police officer, Herbert Molin, has been living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of Northern Sweden, with no close friends or neighbours. When he is eventually found his body is almost unrecognisable. Lindman, a police officer on extended sick leave, decides to involve himself in the case, and discovers a network of evil almnost unimaginable in this remote district, and one which seems impossible to link to Molin's death. Grim and exciting novel. Vintage paperback edition. 520 pages.

101602 MANKELL, Henning FACELESS KILLERS £ 6.99
A Kurt Wallander mystery. He is a senior Swedish police officer whose personal life is a shambles. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him and even his aging father barely tolerates him. He works tirelessly, eats badly and drinks his nights away in a lonely, neglected flat. One frozen January morning at 5am he responds to what he expects to be a routine call out. When he hreaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. The old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue, the perpetrators may have been foreign. This is the first of the crime novels starring Kurt Wallander. Vintage paperback edition. 280 pages.

102140 MANKELL, Henning AAB. THE DOGS OF RIGA £ 6.99
The second Kurt Wallander case. It is winter in 1991 and the Inspector and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach, in it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead.The dead men were criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit, but the case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect, and Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea, to Riga in Latvia, where he is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats and lies. Vintage paperback edition. 326 pages.

101685 MANKELL, Henning THE WHITE LIONESS £ 6.99
In peaceful southern Sweden Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist Church, wife and mother, disappears. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. He did not know that the case would lead to a conspiracy to assassinate Nelson Mandala in far away South Africa. Vintage paperback edition. 440 pages.

102178 MANKELL, Henning THE FIFTH WOMAN £ 6.99
Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage night-time attack. Months later, in Sweden, the news of the unexplained tragedy sets off a cruel vengeance for these killings.Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. When he investigates the diappearance of an elderly bird-watcher he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then another man is reported missing. Vintage paperback edition. 438 pages.

101592 MANKELL, Henning ONE STEP BEHIND £ 5.99
Kurt Wallander is a Swedish detective, middler-aged, experienced, a loner, who is usually on top of his job, but he starts this case three months, and a step, behind. Three young friends have met in a wood on Midsummer's Eve to act out an elaborate masque, but they are being watched, and each of them is killed by a single bullet. Finally, the mother of the murdered girl persuades the police that something is wrong, her daughter must be dead instead of missing, but before the police start to investigate one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is this connected with the earlier case? Only time will tell. Excellent plot and well translated from the Swedish. Virgin paperback edition. 440 pages.

102138 MANKELL, Henning FIREWALL £ 6.99
Another Kurt Wallander mystery. Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground dead. A girl held in police custody escapes and disappears without trace. An unexpected blackout leaves half the country in darkness and when the engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked somehow. As he searches for answers he gets dangerously involved with a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. The terrorists always seem to be one step ahead of the police's next move, and only Wallander can be counted on to outsmart them. Vintage paperback edition. 534 pages.

95151 MANUEL, David A MATTER OF DIAMONDS £ 5.60
Another Faith Abbey mystery, starring Brother Bartholomew. On the tidal flats of Cape Cod a woman's body washes ashore. She has been tortured, then murdered. She is soon identified by police chief Dan Burke as a Dorothy Hanson, a business woman who had just returned from Belgium carrying a million dollars in diamonds, all missing apart form the spectacular gem found in her stomach. This cruel crime has Dan's top priority, until medical problems force him to call Brother Bartholomew to take over for him. He finds that the clues to this mystery are devious, and the actors in the game involved in mysterious ways. Excellent. Warner paperback edition. 384 pages.

102890 MARGOS, J. F. SHATTERED IMAGE £ 10.40
Forensic sculptor Toni Sullivan is used to visiting crime scenes and keeping her emotional cool. But she feels a mysterious connection to the victim found on Red Bud Isle - and there's something even more disturbing about the second body discovered near the same site. When Toni accepts another assignment that may officially prove a beloved old friend is dead, memories of her nursing days in Vietnam begin to haunt her too. Suddenly, her calm professionalism is gone. To find peace, she'll do whatever it takes to unmask a murderer. But how far will she have to go? And where will she find the strength to handle the traumatic legacy of the past? A STEEPLE HILL BOOKS paperback edition. 299 pages.

101617 MULLER, Marcia DEAD MIDNIGHT £ 6.00
Another Sharon McCone mystery, as she investigates a "suicide" in San Francisco. At first it seems just that, but as Sharon gets more involved the questions come thick and fast, and the answers seem to be death. Warner paperback edition. 303 pages.

102965 MULLER, Marcia PENNIES ON A DEAD WOMAN'S EYES £ 5.60
A 'Sharon McCone' mystery. It looked like a lost cause. Convicted of a brutal society murder in 1956, Lis Benedict had served a long sentence and just been released from jail. Then, in a last desperate attempt to clear the Benedict name, her daughter Judy convinces All Souls Legal Cooperative to take her mother's case before the Historical Tribunal. Sharon McCone loves a challenge but has little affection for the cold and unlikeable Lis. Then, suddenly, the woman in question is dead, a vicious threat is scrawled in red paint across the front of Sharon's house and San Francisco's no.1 P.I. is following a fresh trail of death that leads back to a wild debutante, a prestigious think tank and the power politics of the '50s all in search of a killer who has engineered a fatal cover-up and built a brilliant career on murder. A MYSTERIOUS PRESS MYSTERY in paperback. 320 pages.

103197 MYERS, Tamar ASSAULT AND PEPPER £ 5.60
Another Magdalen Yoder mystery. The Reverend Schrock dies at the church's annual chili supper cook-off, and as usual Magdela gets involoved in what turns out to be mayhem. Signet paperback edition. 250 pages including a reipe for chili.

93981 MYERS, Tamar THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE LADLE £ 5.40
Another Pennsylvania Dutch mystery, with recipes. Barbara Hostetler was having triplets, and no one was more excited that her mother Freni, but when the babies were born there were only two. Freni asks her boss, innkeeper Magdalena Yoder, to find the missing baby, and she agrees to try, only to find that things don't add up. Are there other babies missing? Signet paperback edition. 261 pages.

100011 O'CONNELL, Carol CRIME SCHOOL £ 10.00
Another Kathy Mallory story, and these are really way out. People tell me that they can either never get into them, or they cannot put them down. Only you know which one you are, but these are not for the squeamish. This is a Hutchison hardback edition at a very special price. 397 pages.

102966 O'CONNELL, Carol WINTER HOUSE £ 6.40
It seems cut and dried at first: apparently a burglar has been caught in the act and killed by a scissors-wielding homeowner. Except that the dead man was a hired killer, not a burglar. And the homeowner is the most famous missing child in NYPD history, believed to have been kidnapped nearly sixty years ago after the massacre of her family by and ice pick. As NYPD Detective Kathleen Mallory investigates - an astonishing story emerges, one of murderous greed and family horror, abandonment and loss, revenge and twisted love - and a terrifying secret that has yet to claim its final victim. A BERKLEY paperback edition. 349 pages.

102988 O'CONNELL, Carol CRIME SCHOOL £ 6.99
On a hot August day in an East Side apartment, a woman is found hanged, but not yet dead. She lives on, in a coma. Mallory recognises her as a hooker who looked after her when she lived on the streets of New York. She is a policewoman now, and yet she must retrace the past to trace an unsolved murder. Arrow paperback edition. 500 pages.

102610 O'MARIE, Sister Carol Anne A NOVENA FOR MURDER £ 5.60
Sister Mary Helen isn't ready for retirement, and she's arrived at a San Francisco women's college to teach history and perhaps shake things up. But a sudden earthquake turns up a body - murdered. One of her sister nuns begins a novena to St. Dismas, predicting that the saint will reveal the murderer within nine days. The police do nab a suspect, but Sister Mary Helen believes that it's the wrong man, and starts her own investigation, with her long time friend, Sister Eileen. St. Martin's Press paperback. 232 pages.

102843 O'MARIE, Sister Carol Anne REQUIEM AT THE REFUGE £ 5.60
Sister Mary Helen is starting a new life in her seventies, as a volunteer in a women's homeless shelter in San Francisco. When a young resident at the Shelter is found dead Mary Helen, with the assistance of her sisters at St. Francis College, undertakes to solve the murder. As much fun as usual. Minotaur paperback edition. 276 pages.

101785 O'MARIE, Sister Carol Anne MURDER MAKES A PILGRIMAGE £ 5.60
The two septuagemarian nuns, Sister Mary Helen and Sister Eileen, win a prize of a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James of Compostella in Santiago, Spain. The rest of their party seems a little strange, but when one of them is found strangled to death in a saint's crypt it seems that all of them may be suspects, unless the nuns get to work in their own inimitable way. Great fun. St. Martins Press paperback edition. 276 pages.

102792 0'SHAUGHNESSY, Perri PRESUMPTION OF DEATH £ 6.99
After a tumultuous year attorney Nina Reilly heads home to put her life in order and move in with her long-time, part-time, love, Paul van Wagoner. Carmel Valley is not quite the sleepy town she remembers: someone has been setting seeemingly random forest fires. The last fire proved fatal, and the son of her faithful ex-assistant, Sandy Whitefeather, stands accused of murder. Nina must work with Paul to find the truth, in a race against time. Excellent. Piatkus paperback edition. 390 pages.

102938 PATTERSON, James BLACK MARKET £ 6.99
The threat was absolute. At 5.05pm Wall Street would be destroyed. No demands, no ransom, no negotiations. A multiple firebombing - orchestrated by a secret militia group - would wipe out the financial heart of America and stop the world's financial system dead. Faced with catastrophe on an unimaginable scale, Federal agent Archer Carroll and Wall Street lawyer Caitlin Dillon are pitched into a heart-stopping race against time, tracking the unknown enemy through a maze of intrigue, rumour and betrayal towards a truly shocking climax. A HARPER COLLINS paperback edition. 400 pages.

102936 PATTERSON, James THE BIG BAD WOLF £ 6.99
Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a shadowy predator known only as The Wolf. Alex Cross' first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues perplexed. Across the country men and women are kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappear completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realises. They are being bought and sold - and it seems that The Wolf is the master criminal behind this trade, bringing a new reign of terror to organised crime. Even as he admires the FBI's vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau's clumsiness and caution when it's time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track his new prey and try to rescue some of the victims while they're still alive. As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancee Christine Johnson comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped. A HEADLINE paperback edition. 406 pages.

102778 PAWSON, Stuart CHILL FACTOR £ 6.99
Super-salesman Tony Silkstone wreaks a terrible revenge when he comes home to discover his wife dead, apparently strangled by her lover after a sex game that went wrong. The DNA evidence supports Silkstone's confession and the top brass of the Heckley police would like nothing better than to wrap up the case with a manslaughter charge. But Detective Inspector Charlie Priest is the investigating officer, and he has a reputation amongst the criminal fraternity for always getting his man, even if it takes twenty years. He cannot be convinced that this murder is as cut and dried as it seems. When a hitman comes to town Charlie is more interested in identifying the proposed target than arresting the hitman, a strategy that produces surprising results. As a juvenile car-thief plays havoc with the budgets, Charlie breaks one of his cardinal rules and starts dating a fellow officer - the wild-haired DC Annette Brown. When links are found between Mrs Silkstone's killer and the murder of a young girl in another part of the country, Charlie follows the trail - only to discover that he is suddenly faced with difficult questions about his friends and his feelings towards them. An ALLISON & BUSBY paperback edition. 375 pages.

102497 PETERS, Elizabeth THE SEVENTH SINNER £ 6.00
At first, Jean Suttman thought she was in heaven when she was granted the opportunity to study in Rome, until the body of a repulsive and disliked fellow student is found lying in the ancient subterranean Temple of Mithras, then she got frightened, and even the practical, perceptive fellow-American Jacqueline Kirby can't seem to help her. Avon paperback edition. 258 pages.

102780 REHDER, Ben FLAT CRAZY £ 5.60
Being the final day of deer season, Blanco County game warden John Marlin shouldn't have any more on his mind than working his way through a cold six-pack. That's his plan until a screaming half-naked immigrant named Jorge comes tearing out of the woods with one word on his trembling lips - Chupacabra! The mythical critter shouldn't be that hard to find, what with it's vampire fangs, a lion's head and the face of the devil Marlin's hoping that Jorge's just gone simple. But if that's the case, then why the blood-drained corpse in the woods with the puncture wounds on his neck? When national media descends locust-style, everyone decides to take advantage of the publicity, including two Chinese dwarves exploring a career in adult film, an enterprising car thief, a con man with an illegal-game scam and a pair of bubbas with a loopy plan to capture the legendary beast. It's all Marlin can do to keep from going flat crazy himself - before another body turns up. A ST MARTIN'S MINOTAUR paperback edition. 308 pages.

101926 ROBINSON, Peter IN A DRY SEASON £ 6.30
In a hot summer drought has depleted Thornfield Reservoir, and uncovered the drown village of Hobb's End. Now a human skeleyon has been found there, and Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has been given the task of identifying the victim.Avon paperback edition. 448 pages.

102968 ROSENFELT, David BURY THE LEAD £ 5.60
His streak of murder case acquittals made him a regular on cable talk shows. His recent $22 million inheritance bought him a dog rescue operation named after his beloved golden retriever. Now, after turning down cases left and right, attorney Andy Carpenter feels like he's facing a midlife crisis. And just when he decides he needs some real work, a newspaper owner friend asks Andy to protect his star reporter. Daniel Cummings is being used as a mouthpiece by a serial killer but the reporter gets way too close to his story when he's found near the murderer's latest victim. Quickly working to save what's left of Cumming's rep, Andy soon makes news himself when he starts receiving death threats - and moves dangerously close to becoming tomorrow's big obituary. A WARNER BOOKS paperback edition. 306 pages.

101621 ROWLANDS, Betty THE FOURTH SUSPECT £ 5.99
Crime writer Melissa Craig has acquired a reputation for solving real crimes in her local Cotswold area, but when her estranged father is found murdered in his own workshop, and then fingerprints found on the murder weapon prove to be those of the mother with whom Melissa has had no contact for nearly thirty years, Melissa goes into the investigation for real. NEL paperback edition. 312 pages.

102347 STALLWOOD, Veronica OXFORD REMAINS £ 6.99
Another Kate Ivory mystery. Her friend, Faith Beeton, who is Dean of Woman Students at Bartlermas College, asks Kate to give an impartial opinion on a young student who has put in a formal complaint about her male tutor. Soon after, the student is found dead, and Kate finds herself agreeing to do some investigation of the victim's family and friends, and starts uncovering dark secrets. Headline paperback edition. 313 pages.

101338 STALLWOOD, Veronica OXFORD PROOF £ 6.99
Kate Ivory can't believe her luck when she gets a job at a prestigious Oxford publishing House. But then her editor falls victim to financial fraudsters, and he not only has his bank accounts emptied but has massive debts run up in his name. Then a woman involved in the scam is found murdered and he is accused of the murder. What can Kate do? Headline paperback edition. 281 pages.

100001 SULLIVAN, Winona DEAD SOUTH £ 4.80
Another mystery involving Sister Cecile, nun and private investigator, on special assignment for the CIA. Busy driving a red Ferrari through the streets of Miami, she is actually looking for a missing CIA agent, Bradley Locke. Funny and original, if not very nun-like. Ivy paperback edition.

99991 SULLIVAN, Winona A SUDDEN DEATH AT THE NORFOLK CAFE £ 4.00
In Dorchester, Massachusetts, the terrified pregnant daughter of a Boston politician begs sanctuary at the Convent of Our Lady of Good Counsel, as a small-time crook is murdered in Cambridge. Sister Cecile, a private investigator, heiress and nun, sets out to ferret out the connections, and the connotations in this lively mystery. Ivy paperback edition. 218 pages.

102783 SYDNEY, Robert THE BRIGHT SPOT £ 5.60
When struggling actors Nick and Luella meet, it's love at act one. But the show may close earlier than they think when they find that an easy gig re-creating the past for elderly James Dumfries is really a phony time-travel scam concocted to separate an old man from his money. It turns out that Dumfries is no ordinary senior citizen. He is the creator of Workware, a technology that has changed the world by enabling workers to manage the most tiresome tasks without complaint, training or memory. What machines had once done, man can now do again - at the high price of his humanity. But that was never Dumfries' intention - and now he doesn't just want to see the past, he wants to change it. Through Nick. Caught in the web of Dumfries' regrets and the Government's lies, Nick and Lu soon find themselves in the spotlight of a decades-long drama… with a killer ending. A BANTAM paperback edition. 337 pages.

103469 TALLIS, Frank MORTAL MISCHIEF £ 6.99
It is Vienna in 1902 and the imperial city is alive with art, philosophy, music and science. But a sinister presence is casting a shadow over this sumptuous backdrop. A beautiful medium has been found shot dead and Dr Max Liebermann, a young disciple of Freud, is called upon to help his good friend Detective Inspector Rheinhardt investigate the mysterious circumstances that surround her death. An ARROW paperback edition. 473 pages.

83031 TAYLOR, Andrew ROTH TRILOGY 2: THE JUDGEMENT OF STRANGERS £ 5.99
The sequel to "The Four Last Things", or maybe the prequel. It is 1970, and David Byfield, a widowed parish priest, brings a new wife home to Roth. Blinded by lust, David does not notice his beautiful, neglected daughter Rosemary, the menopausal churchwarden with a hopeless passion for him, and the sinister poet and opium addict Francis Youlgreave. Collins paperback edition. 287 pages.

102307 TEY , Josephine MISS PYM DISPOSES £ 5.99
Leys Physical Training College was famous for its excellent discipline, and Miss Lucy Pym is pleased and flattered to be invited by her old school friend Henrietta, now its head, to lecture on psychology to the students. But while she is there a death occurs, and Miss Pym is forced to confront the fact that someone there has a very sick mind. Excellently written, and has all the vividness of a nightmare. Arrow paperback edition. 249 pages.

101627 TEY , Josephine THE MAN IN THE QUEUE £ 5.99
This is Josephine Tey's first detective novel, written in 1929, when she introduces Inspector Grant. A man is found, stabbed to death, on a queue waiting for the box office to open. There are suspects, of course, and various pieces of evidence, all totally misleading, until the truth comes out almost by chance. Arrow paperback edition. 247 pages.

92781 THURSTON, Carol EYE OF HORUS £ 5.60
Medical illustrator Kate McKinnon has been hired by the Egyptology department of a Denver museum to create displays for an exhibit. She encounters the mummy of a young woman who lived thirty-three centuries ago, but who died of horrific injuries. With the aid of radiologist Max Cavanaugh Kate starts to unravel the puzzle, and as she does so a parallel story begins, of a young girl born in the age of the Pharoahs who reigned in unimaginable splendour. Remarkable story. Harper paperback edition. 414 pages.

102298 WALTERS, Minette THE ECHO £ 5.99
Billy Blake was a homeless alcoholic that walked the streets, and starved to death in the garage of wealthy architect Amanda Powell. Six months later Amanda was suddenly very eager to talk to journalist Michael Deacon. Was there any connection? Pan paperback edition. 428 pages.

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101784 ANTHOLOGY: ASHLEY, Mike MAMMOTH BOOK OF LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES £ 7.99
An anthology of impossible crimes by such authors as Martin Edwards, Kate Ellis, Margaret Frazer, John Dickson Carr, Michael Kurland, Edward D Hoch, Lois H Gresh and Robert Weinberg, Lynne Wood Block and Lawrence Block, Michael Collins, Clayton Rawson, Amy Myers, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Melville Davisson Post, C N & A M Williamson,, Jacques Futrelle, Peter Tremayne, Bill Pronzini, Marilyn Todd, William Brittain, H R F Keating, Peter T Garratt, Richard A Lupoff, Susanna Gregory, Howel Evans, Frank M Robinson, Edward Marston and Peter Lovesey. Several people have said that they do not enjoy short stories, but if you want to try new authors this is the cheapest way. The alternative is to tell us which authors you like and we will suggest others. Mammoth larger format paperback. 532 pages.

101985 ANTHOLOGY: ASHLEY, Mike THE MAMMOTH ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN CRIME FICTION £ 9.99
This is a moderately good encyclopedia, covering authors, books, TV series and films, awards etc. It is not wholly accurate. For instance, it says that crime fiction is the best selling genre, but the palm is actually held by romantic fiction. Several outstanding writers, such as Phoebe Atwood Taylor, Mabel Seeley, Robin Paige, Stuart Palmer, Elizabeth LeMarchand and Kate Kingsbury are omitted, but it is a fascinating read for fans, and mentions many people who wrote only one or two books that should be remembered. Robinson larger format paperback edition. 780 pages.

102973 ANTHOLOGY: DEATH DINES IN £ 6.40
ANTHOLOGY: "Death Dines In" edited by Claudia Bishop and Dean James. A selection of food-based crime-related short stories. Features a foreword by both editors and includes the stories "Cocktail With The Corpse" by Mary Jane Maffini, "Lethal Luncheon" by Parnell Hall, "Stark Terror At Tea-Time" by Lyn Hamilton, "Café Con Leche" by Marcos Donnelly, "Alice And The Agent Of Hun" by Elizabeth Foxwell, "Waiting For Gateau" by Claudia Bishop, "All In The Family" by Dean James, "Matinee" by William Moody, "The Birthday Dinner" by Donna Andrews, "Where The Wildflowers Bloom" by Nick DiChario, "The Proof Of The Pudding" by Rhys Bowen, "Food For Thought" by Jeremiah Healy, "The Spirit Of Washington" by Meg Chittenden, "Sing For Your Supper" by Don Bruns, "License To Koi" by Carole Nelson Douglas and "Sing A Song Of Sixpence" by Anne Perry. Also includes recipes and author interviews. A BERKLEY PRIME CRIME paperback edition. 317 pages.

103475 ANTHOLOGY: CODY, Liza et al 3RD CULPRIT £ 4.99
AN ANTHOLOGY OF CRIME EDITED BY LIZA CODY, MICHAEL Z. LEWIN AND PETER LOVESEY. Crime in all it's incarnations is presented in this treat of murderous morsels dished out by old pros and promising newcomers. Artfully crafted and impossible to put down, each story bountifully demonstrates why these authors are la crème de la crime. Featuring Robert Brack, Sarah Caudwell, Mat Coward, Celia Dale, Madelaine Duke, Frances Fyfield, Keith Heller, Maxim Jakubowski, Bill James, H. R. F. Keating, Susan Kelly, Michael Z. Lewin, Bob Lock, Joan Lock, John Malcolm, Val McDermid, James Melville, Stephen Murray, Ian Rankin, William G. Tapply, Donald E. Westlake and David Williams. A WORLDWIDE MYSTERY paperback edition. 316 pages.

101950 ANTHOLOGY: PRIESTMAN, Martin CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO CRIME FICTION £ 16.99
This book covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. It is by no means complete, as a quick glance will show no references to Manning Coles, Janet Neel, Bruce Alexander, Mabel Seeley, Bernard Knight or Phoebe Atwood Taylor in writers, Henry Gamage and his widow among detectives, nor "The Ladykillers" as a film, although many fans regard this as the greatest crime film ever made, showing several species of crook up against one old lady who triumps in the end, by chance. A marvellous pastiche made real by the excellence of the actors. Despite large gaps this companion is worth reading, although I would have preferred to read something from a bookseller or librarian, who actually deal with readers every day. There is food for thought here, anyway. Cambridge University Press larger format paperback edition. 287 pages.

97271 ANTHOLOGY: JAKUBOWSKI, Maxim THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF COMIC CRIME £ 6.99
A collection of stories, both new and classic, by a constellation of authors, including two stories by Mark Twain, and jewels from Catherine Aird, Peter Lovesey, Elizabeth Peters, Sarah Caudwell, Philip Gooden and Mike Ripley. Robinson slightly larger format paperback edition.580 pages.

102975 ANTHOLOGY: JAMES, Dean DEATH DINES IN £ 6.40
ANTHOLOGY: "Death Dines In" edited by Claudia Bishop and Dean James. A selection of food-based crime-related short stories. Features a foreword by both editors and includes the stories "Cocktail With The Corpse" by Mary Jane Maffini, "Lethal Luncheon" by Parnell Hall, "Stark Terror At Tea-Time" by Lyn Hamilton, "Café Con Leche" by Marcos Donnelly, "Alice And The Agent Of Hun" by Elizabeth Foxwell, "Waiting For Gateau" by Claudia Bishop, "All In The Family" by Dean James, "Matinee" by William Moody, "The Birthday Dinner" by Donna Andrews, "Where The Wildflowers Bloom" by Nick DiChario, "The Proof Of The Pudding" by Rhys Bowen, "Food For Thought" by Jeremiah Healy, "The Spirit Of Washington" by Meg Chittenden, "Sing For Your Supper" by Don Bruns, "License To Koi" by Carole Nelson Douglas and "Sing A Song Of Sixpence" by Anne Perry. Also includes recipes and author interviews. A BERKLEY PRIME CRIME paperback edition. 317 pages.

We have put the true crime in a little section here at the back, as only some of you are interested in it...

101982 WILSON, Colin MAMMOTH BOOK OF TRUE CRIME £ 7.99
This is the newer 1988 edition of the encyclopedia of crime, neatly packaged in alphabetical order, from acquittals to war crimes. Robinson paperback edition. 626 pages.

101983 ANTHOLOGY: WILSON, Colin & WILSON, Damon MAMMOTH BOOK OF ILLUSTRATED TRUE CRIME £ 12.99
This is illustrated by many photographs, plus explanatory text, of crime in the last century or so, starting with the railway murderer, Franz Muller in 1864, to 2001. Fascinating. Robinson larger format paperback edition. 503 pages.

102186 BASS, Bill & JEFFERSON, Jon DEATH'S ACRE £ 8.99
Dr William Bass founded the Anthropology Research Facility at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, now known as "The Body Farm" in 1981. It is the only institution in the world dedicated to research into the timing of post-mortem human decomposition. This book, with a foreword by Patricia Cornwell, tells us not only about the work done there, but also about Dr Bass's work and life. Fascinating. TimeWarner paperback edition. 345 pages.

102859 DUNCAN, Paul (editor) THE THIRD DEGREE £ 7.99
Interviews with crime writers who have experienced or taken part in true crime in their lives. Includes Edward Bunker (previously on the FBI's ten most wanted list), Patricia Cornwell (worked for the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia attending autopsies), James Ellroy (burgled rich neighbours as well as doing drugs), Martina Cole (whose boyfriend was an armed robber) and Derek Raymond (front man for London con-men in the 60's). Edited by Paul Duncan and compiled by The Crime Team. A CRIME TIME book in paperback. 255 pages.

101769 BOWEN, David BODY OF EVIDENCE £ 8.99
Another book by a forensic pathologist, and as interesting as any of them. Working for 40 years in London gave him an intimate view of murders, accidental death and victims from Dennis Nilsen who cut up the bodies and fed them down the drains to the woman who was electrocuted while assembling Christmas tree lights, to Rudolph Hess. Robinson paperback edition. 260 pages.

101980 GARRETT, Dr Geoffrey & NOTT, Andrew CAUSE OF DEATH £ 7.99
Yet another set of memoirs from a pathologist, in this case the senior Home Office pathologist for the North West of England. Again it is fascinating to read these cases, all about the victims, the killers, and how evidence is built up from the one to convict the other. It is a world which co-exists alongside the quiet suburban lives we mostly lead, but at least there are people who can use modern science to find the killers and save other victims. Robinson larger format paperback edition. 333 pages.

103446 HORN, Stacy THE RESTLESS SLEEP: INSIDE NEW YORK CITY'S COLD CASE SQUAD £ 11.99
In New York City, since 1985, nearly 9000 murders remain unsolved. And there is something disturbing about the notion that the perpetrators are out there still - enjoying the company of family, friends, perhaps even making it into an easy old age. Many of these are cases that now languish in dusty filing cabinets in the bowels of police precinct HQs, the cases that have, for whatever reason - the passage of time, the lack of evidence, the loss of investigative momentum - gone 'cold'. So who is there to speak out for these forgotten dead and missing? Who is going to reach into the past and drag the victims back from oblivion, to search for the answer to the question 'Who did this to them?' and to lay their ghosts to rest? For the families who might have felt that the world had given up on their sons, daughters, husbands or wives, one small, elite NYPD unit offers hope of redemption and resolution: the Cold Case and Apprehension Squad. New York writer Stacy Horn first learned of the existence of the Cold Case team whilst working as a volunteer at Ground Zero and 'The Restless Sleep' is her compelling and sometimes quite gritty fly-on-the-wall account of the two years she spent working alongside the squad's unsung but utterly dedicated detectives. Revealing the real-life subculture of crime-solving that inspires and informs popular television series' such as 'CSI' and 'Waking The Dead' this book is a classic of true crime. A BANTAM paperback edition. 320 pages.

100041 PEDDER, Keith THE RACHEL FILES £ 5.99
This is an account of the investigation into the murder of Rachel Nickell, told by now-retired Detective Inspector Keith Pedder. This case was always important to us, and Wimbledon Common was just down the road from us in London. We had customers who knew both Rachel and her family and Colin Stagg. The district had been astounded years ago, when Suzy Lamplugh vanished, and she and her family were long time customers of the shop, but this was different. A mother had been murdered on a busy common in front of her toddler son, who was stricken speechless for months, and everyone, whether they were regular visitors to the common, or lived on the housing estate that Colin Stagg came from, or had never been there or heard of either of them, were shocked and horrified. Rumours spread through the district almost every day. A bloodstained man had been seen on the day, a man who everyone suspected had been seen in a good mood, someone had been found with a knife - it went on for weeks, in fact off and on until the trial of Colin Stagg. Paul Britton told the story of his connection in "Jigsaw Man", this is the story from the police point of view. It is harrowing, but fascinating. Try it for yourself. John Blake paperback edition. 424 pages.

103444 WILLIAMS, Tony UNCLE JACK £ 7.99
This book is written by Tony Williams - a descendant of the man who he believes to be Jack the Ripper. He was helped with his research by Humphrey Price. As the book states: Jack the Ripper, who murdered five women in London's East End in 1888, has never before been identified. Tony Williams, a direct descendant of John Williams, here names his illustrious ancestor - doctor to Queen Victoria's immediate family and esteemed founder of the National Library of Wales - as the notorious killer. For the very first time, a consistent and plausible explanation for every aspect of the case is presented - and the authors have even discovered what they are convinced is the murder weapon. This vivid and ground-breaking work means that no-one will ever regard the most famous true crime of all in the same way. It can only be described as, at long last, the truth. Whether or not this is the truth is debatable, but they're sure to put up a convincing case. As per usual with Jack the Ripper theories it is - in the end - up to you to judge. An ORION paperback edition. 227 pages.

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