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The Bullet that Missed
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The Bullet that Missed
Richard Osman
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The Man Who Died Twice
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Richard Osman
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The Thursday Murder Club
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Richard Osman
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A Flicker in the Dark
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Stacy Willingham
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The Ink Black Heart
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Robert Galbraith
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Verity
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Colleen Hoover
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A Fatal Crossing
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Tom Hindle
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
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The Twyford Code
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The Twyford Code
Janice Hallett
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Apples Never Fall
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Apples Never Fall
Liane Moriarty
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A Slow Fire Burning
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A Slow Fire Burning
Paula Hawkins
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Silverview
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Silverview
John le Carré
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A Change of Circumstance
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A Change of Circumstance
Susan Hill
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The Jealousy Man
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Jo Nesbo
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Death and Croissants
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Death and Croissants
Ian Moore
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The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill
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C.S. Robertson
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The Locked Room
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The Locked Room
Elly Griffiths
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The Rising Tide
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Ann Cleeves
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Richard Osman
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The Ink Black Heart
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Robert Galbraith
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Act of Oblivion
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Act of Oblivion
Robert Harris
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Murder Before Evensong
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Murder Before Evensong
Reverend Richard Coles
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Marple: Twelve New Stories
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Marple: Twelve New Stories
Agatha Christie
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The Long Knives
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The Long Knives
Irvine Welsh
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Double or Nothing
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Double or Nothing
Kim Sherwood
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Daisy Darker
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Daisy Darker
Alice Feeney
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The Last Party
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The Last Party
Clare Mackintosh
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The Cliff House
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The Cliff House
Chris Brookmyre
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One Of Our Ministers Is Missing
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One Of Our Ministers Is Missing
Alan Johnson
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The Accomplice
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The Accomplice
Steve Cavanagh
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The Enigma of Room 622
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The Enigma of Room 622
Joel Dicker
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1989
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1989
Val McDermid
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The Twist of a Knife
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Anthony Horowitz
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Cold, Cold Bones
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Kathy Reichs
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The It Girl
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Ruth Ware
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The Family Retreat
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Bev Thomas
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The Bullet that Missed
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Richard Osman
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No Plan B
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No Plan B
Lee Child
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Double or Nothing
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Double or Nothing
Kim Sherwood
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A Heart Full of Headstones
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A Heart Full of Headstones
Ian Rankin
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Girl, Forgotten
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Girl, Forgotten
Karin Slaughter
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Run, Rose, Run
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Run, Rose, Run
Dolly Parton
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That Green Eyed Girl
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That Green Eyed Girl
Julie Owen Moylan
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Sundial
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Sundial
Catriona Ward
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Reputation
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Reputation
Sarah Vaughan
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Nine Lives
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Nine Lives
Peter Swanson
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Twelve Secrets
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Robert Gold
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Edith and Kim
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Edith and Kim
Charlotte Philby
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The Paris Apartment
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The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley
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A Slow Fire Burning
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A Slow Fire Burning
Paula Hawkins
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We Are Not Like Them
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We Are Not Like Them
Christine Pride
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Bad Apples
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Bad Apples
Will Dean
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The Second Woman
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The Second Woman
Charlotte Philby
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Good Cop Bad Cop
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Good Cop Bad Cop
Simon Kernick
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Tuesday Club Murders
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The Tuesday Club Murders
Agatha Christie
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The Woman in White
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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
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The ABC Murders
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The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
Agatha Christie
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Detective Stories
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Detective Stories
Peter Washington
£12.99
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The Appeal
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The Appeal
Janice Hallett
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And Then There Were None
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And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré
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The Tiger in the Smoke
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The Tiger in the Smoke
Margery Allingham
£10.99
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Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates
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Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Classic Locked Room Mysteries
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Classic Locked Room Mysteries
David Stuart Davies
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A Flicker in the Dark
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A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham
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A Change of Circumstance
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A Change of Circumstance
Susan Hill
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The Jealousy Man
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The Jealousy Man
Jo Nesbo
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The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill
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The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill
C.S. Robertson
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The Locked Room
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The Locked Room
Elly Griffiths
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Vanished
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Vanished
Lynda La Plante
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Billy Summers
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Billy Summers
Stephen King
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Lady Joker
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Lady Joker
Kaoru Takamura
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The Apollo Murders
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The Apollo Murders
Chris Hadfield
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Take Your Breath Away
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Take Your Breath Away
Linwood Barclay
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The Death of Remembrance
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The Death of Remembrance
Denzil Meyrick
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Lightseekers
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Lightseekers
Femi Kayode
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A Corruption of Blood
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A Corruption of Blood
Ambrose Parry
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Hostage
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Hostage
Clare Mackintosh
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The Heights
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The Heights
Louise Candlish
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The Shadows of Men
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The Shadows of Men
Abir Mukherjee
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All That Lives
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All That Lives
James Oswald
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Mercy
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Mercy
David Baldacci
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Murder Before Evensong
Murder Before Evensong
Reverend Richard Coles
£16.99
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Perfect for fans of The Thursday Murder Club, this brilliant crime debut from The Reverend Richard Coles sees the sleepy parish of Champton descend into unexpected chaos, setting Canon Daniel Clement on a hunt for a murderer.

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Festive Reads

Our pick of the best festive reads

Murder After Christmas
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Murder After Christmas
Rupert Latimer
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A Surprise for Christmas
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A Surprise for Christmas
Martin Edwards
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An Unfortunate Christmas Murder
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An Unfortunate Christmas Murder
Hannah Hendy
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Death and Papa Noel
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Death and Papa Noel
Ian Moore
£8.99
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Agatha Christie
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Murder On The Christmas Express
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Murder On The Christmas Express
Alexandra Benedict
£14.99
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A Maigret Christmas
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A Maigret Christmas
Georges Simenon
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A Christmas Party
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A Christmas Party
Georgette Heyer
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The Christmas Murder Game
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The Christmas Murder Game
Alexandra Benedict
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Blood on the Siberian Snow
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Blood on the Siberian Snow
C J Farrington
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Murder in the Falling Snow
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Murder in the Falling Snow
Cecily Gayford
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Death Comes to Pemberley
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Death Comes to Pemberley
P. D. James
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Death on the Trans-Siberian Express
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Death on the Trans-Siberian Express
C J Farrington
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Mrs Hudson and The Christmas Canary
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Mrs Hudson and The Christmas Canary
Martin Davies
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Christmas is Murder
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Christmas is Murder
Val McDermid
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No Plan B
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No Plan B
Lee Child
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Livid
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Livid
Patricia Cornwell
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A Heart Full of Headstones
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A Heart Full of Headstones
Ian Rankin
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Killing Moon
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Killing Moon
Jo Nesbo
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Desert Star
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Desert Star
Michael Connelly
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The Whispering Muse
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The Whispering Muse
Laura Purcell
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Murder Before Evensong
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Murder Before Evensong
Reverend Richard Coles
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Murder On The Christmas Express
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Murder On The Christmas Express
Alexandra Benedict
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A Winter Grave
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A Winter Grave
Peter May
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Death Comes to Marlow
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Death Comes to Marlow
Robert Thorogood
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Murder Most Royal
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Murder Most Royal
SJ Bennett
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The Cat Who Caught a Killer
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The Cat Who Caught a Killer
L T Shearer
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Agatha Raisin: Devil's Delight
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Agatha Raisin: Devil's Delight
M. C. Beaton
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Red Mist
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Red Mist
Ant Middleton
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Age of Vice
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Age of Vice
Deepti Kapoor
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Blood on the Siberian Snow
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C J Farrington
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Our Best Classic Crime

Murder on the Orient Express
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Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
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Marple: Twelve New Stories
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Marple: Twelve New Stories
Agatha Christie
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Lady Joker
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Lady Joker
Kaoru Takamura
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And Then There Were None
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And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
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The Edinburgh Mystery
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The Edinburgh Mystery
Martin Edwards
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Honjin Murders
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The Honjin Murders
Seishi Yokomizo
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Death of a Bookseller
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Death of a Bookseller
Bernard J Farmer
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The Venice Train
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The Venice Train
Georges Simenon
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie
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A Study in Scarlet
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A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Murder by the Seaside
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Murder by the Seaside
Cecily Gayford
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The Big Sleep
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The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The ABC Murders
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The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie
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The Decagon House Murders
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The Decagon House Murders
Yukito Ayatsuji
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Our Best Historical Crime

Act of Oblivion
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Act of Oblivion
Robert Harris
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Harlem Shuffle
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Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
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Triflers Need Not Apply
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Triflers Need Not Apply
Camilla Bruce
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A Corruption of Blood
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A Corruption of Blood
Ambrose Parry
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The Essex Serpent
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The Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry
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Mexican Gothic
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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Black Drop
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Black Drop
Leonora Nattrass
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The Shadows of Men
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The Shadows of Men
Abir Mukherjee
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The Devil and the Dark Water
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The Devil and the Dark Water
Stuart Turton
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Sunset Swing
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Sunset Swing
Ray Celestin
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Dissolution
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Dissolution
C. J. Sansom
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The Midnight Hour
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The Midnight Hour
Elly Griffiths
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The Bookseller of Inverness
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S.G. MacLean
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A Sunlit Weapon
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A Sunlit Weapon
Jacqueline Winspear
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The Axeman's Jazz
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The Axeman's Jazz
Ray Celestin
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The Doll Factory
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The Doll Factory
Elizabeth Macneal
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The Ashes of London
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The Ashes of London
Andrew Taylor
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The Unwanted Dead
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The Unwanted Dead
Chris Lloyd
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Crime in Translation

A selection of our favourite foreign language crime novels

The Honjin Murders
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The Honjin Murders
Seishi Yokomizo
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The Decagon House Murders
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The Decagon House Murders
Yukito Ayatsuji
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Hurricane Season
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Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
£12.99
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The Inugami Curse
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The Inugami Curse
Seishi Yokomizo
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The Chestnut Man
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The Chestnut Man
Soren Sveistrup
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The Godmother
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The Godmother
Hannelore Cayre
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Murder in the Crooked House
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Murder in the Crooked House
Soji Shimada
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The Old Woman With the Knife
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The Old Woman With the Knife
Gu Byeong-mo
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The Chalk Circle Man
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The Chalk Circle Man
Fred Vargas
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Babylon Berlin
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Babylon Berlin
Volker Kutscher
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Dregs
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Dregs
Jorn Lier Horst
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The Anomaly
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The Anomaly
Herve le Tellier
£14.99
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To Cook a Bear
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To Cook a Bear
Mikael Niemi
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A Question of Guilt
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A Question of Guilt
Jorn Lier Horst
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The Reunion
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The Reunion
Guillaume Musso
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People Like Them
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People Like Them
Samira Sedira
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Winterkill
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Ragnar Jonasson
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Agatha Christie Death on the Cards Card Game
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Kim Sherwood, author of Double or Nothing, reveals why everybody should be reading the works of the creator of 007.

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