Ruth Rendell- The Monster In The Box

Inspector Wexford confronts a man from his past, Eric Targo, who he suspects is guilty of multiple murders. Years earlier, Targo stalked and taunted Wexford, daring him to press charges. A squat, creepy bully with a purple birthmark disfiguring his neck, Targo has graduated from smalltime thug to prosperous businessman, ensconced in a nouveau-riche spread complete with private zoo and lion in Kingsmarkham. When Targo apparently commits a murder affecting Wexford's own family, the inspector must re-examine how Targo consistently outsmarts the law. Trade pb,2009,275 pgs. ISBN- 9780091931490 Condition- C

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Ruth Rendell- Babes In The Wood

.A couple returns from a weekend in Paris to find their two teenage children and the baby-sitter have disappeared. With the area around the town of Kingsmarkham flooded, the mother and Chief Inspector Wexford's superior both think they have drowned — but when the "Subaqua" frogmen find nothing Wexford's intuitions are confirmed. Are the children babes in the wood or are they no innocents? Are they still alive? In any event, their disappearance will catalyse the breakup of several marriages. Trade pb,2002,323 pgs. ISBN- 0091794560 Condition- C

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Ruth Rendell- Adam And Eve and Pinch Me

A handsome con man with numerous aliases, including Jerry Leach and Jock Lewis, manipulates three vulnerable women into handing over large sums of money. After he supposedly dies in the Paddington train crash, they realise his deception and find themselves in serious debt. However, one of his many victims, ex-fiancée Minty, thinks she has seen his 'ghost' wandering around and begins carrying a knife so she can exact revenge on his 'spirit'... Trade pb,2001,375 pgs. ISBN- 0091794145 Condition- C

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Ruth Rendell- End In Tears

When a lump of concrete is thrown from a bridge and into passing traffic one dark night, the wrong motorist dies. The killer soon rectifies his mistake, however, and Inspector Wexford finds himself under attack from the local press because of his 'old-fashioned' policing methods. Meanwhile, the difficult relationship he shares with his daughter Sylvia takes on new dimensions, as the case makes him ponder the terrible possibility of losing a child... Trade pb,2005,328 pgs. ISBN- 0091796466 Condition-C

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Ruth Rendell- Portobello

One day Eugene Wren, owner of an art-gallery near the Portobello Road, finds a sum of money in the road near his house. Instead of handing it in to the police, he finds it easier to stick a note on a lamppost requesting that anyone who has lost a sum of money slightly above or below that which he has found (to wheedle out false claimants) contact him to retrieve it. It's this act that brings the lives of several different people - some harmless, some troubled, some malicious, some foolish - into orbit with one another, with sometimes devastating results. But whose lives, exactly, will be negatively touched? And who'll escape the bustle of Portobello's underbelly unscathed. Trade pb,2008,278 pgs. ISBN- 9780091925840 Condition- C

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Ruth Rendell- Thirteen Steps Down

Mix Cellini is a lonely, maladjusted young man who works for a company that repairs exercise equipment, and lives in the upstairs apartment of an old Victorian house on Notting Hill. While his reclusive landlady, Gwendoline Chawcer, spends her time reading and pondering lost loves, Mix grows dangerously obsessed with serial killer John Christie and a local model, Nerissa Nash, despite the fact that she hardly even acknowledges his existence. Trade pb,2004,314 pgs. ISBN- 0091800056 Condition- C

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Ruth Rendell- Not In The Flesh

Searching for truffles in a local wood, a man and his dog unearth a human hand. That hand eventually turns into an entire skeleton when the police dig up the surrounding ground. An entire skeleton robed in a decaying purple sheet, a cracked rib the only sign that the body might have met a death by violence. Investigations reveal that the body has been interred since a trench was dug eleven years ago in order to prepare to build houses the planning permission for which was later denied. However, the identity of the corpse remains a complete mystery. Then, a second body is found in a nearby abandoned house, and that has been there for many years as well… Trade pb,2007,266 pgs. ISBN- 9780091920609 Condition- C

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Shadow Man- Cody McFadyen

Nightmares that haunt her every sleeping hour,nightmares that leave her shivering and alone. An agent on the FBI's serial murder and child abduction team,Smoky is no stranger to the darker recesses of the human mind-but nothing could have prepared her for the day her husband and young daughter were slaughtered before her eyes. Trade pb,2006,406 pgs. ISBN- 0340840064 Condition- B

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Mission Flats- William Landay

Nothing much happens in Versailles,Maine-until a putrefying body is found in a cabin up by the lake.... Trade pb,2003,369 pgs. ISBN- 0593049330 Condition- C

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Harlen Coben- The Innocent

One slip was all it took to rob Matt Hunter of the life he had so well mapped out. A fight,a friend in trouble,a slippery pavement and the dull crack of someone's skull on the concrete cost him four years in jail and a small sliver of his soul....and now he's being followed... Trade pb,2005,584 pgs. ISBN_ 0752867849 Condition- B

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Quiver- Peter Leonard

A fatal hunting accident propels this disappointing debut set in Detroit and environs from Leonard, the son of legendary crime writer Elmore Leonard. Given that 16-year-old Luke McCall shoots an arrow that passes through a deer and kills his former race-car champion father, Owen, one might expect more focus on Luke's psychological torment than on the efforts of Owen's devastated widow, Kate, to contend with a string of unscrupulous suitors, starting with her old lover, Jack Curran, who once rescued Kate from a Peace Corps assignment in Guatemala turned ugly. Curran conceals not only his recent prison stint but also his continued association with a group of desperate and sadistic criminals. Trade pb,2008,276 pgs. ISBN- 9780571243891 Condition- C

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Jake Arnott- truecrime

Britain's criminal underbelly in the 90's. Trade pb,2003,338 pgs. ISBN- 0000091766 Condition- C

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Linda Fairstein- The Bone Vault

The body of a young woman is found in an ancient sarcophagus bound for exhibition abroad by customs agents. Trade pb,2003,376 pgs. ISBN- 0316860042 Condition- C

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Dianne Emily- Cut To The Quick

She'd been up close and personal with evil...too close....too personal. Trade pb,2008,323 pgs. ISBN- 9781863255820 Condition- B

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John Francome-Free Fall

Jockey Pat Vincent had ambitions to win big races and become a wealthy sporting hero. But when Pat realises his career is going nowhere he devises a scam to help fulfil his dreams. The problem is,if he is found out he will be 'warned off' for life. Trade pb,2006,314 pgs. ISBN- 0755326946 Condition- B

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Joseph Geary- Spiral

The execution of a genius... The incarnation of evil.... Trade pb,2003,418 pgs. ISBN- 0743232046 Condition- B

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Andrew Grant- Mesquite Smoke-Dance

A brutal,sadistic killer is stalking Texan cyberspace selecting victims for a death so bloody,it has earned the media sobriquet "The Gynecologist". Trade pb,2004,293 pgs. Condition- C

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Andrew Gross- Don't Look Twice

A drive-by shooting nearly kills detective Ty Hauck while out shopping with his daughter. It throws him back into the life he thought he'd left behind: alone and facing hidden enemies. With his estranged brother Warren also in danger, Hauck can't turn away. Now the good life he has made for himself must be put aside while Hauck tracks the shooter. But what he finds makes no sense no matter how many times he looks! Trade pb,2009,378 pgs. ISBN- 9780007242504 Condition- B

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P.D.James- The Lighthouse

Acclaimed novelist Nathan Oliver incurs the wrath of his fellow residents on Combe Island, a private property off the Cornish coast used as an exclusive retreat by movers and shakers in many fields. When Oliver is murdered, Scotland Yard dispatches Dalgliesh and two of his team to Combe, where the commander checks alibis and motives in his trademark understated manner. Trade pb,2005,323 pgs. ISBN- 0571229328 Condition- B

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Alex Kava- The Soul Catcher

When a Massachusetts standoff results in the deaths of five out of six young cult members holed up in a backwoods cabin, things are bad enough. But when a U.S. senator's daughter is found murdered in Washington, D.C., and her death seems to be related to the cult and its charismatic leader, Rev. Joseph . Trade pb,2002,400 pgs. ISBN- 1741160413 Condition- C

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Linda LaPlante- Trial And Retribution III

Fifteen year-old Cassie Booth is missing after her paper round.Then her bloodstained jacket is found in a boathouse belonging to Karl Wilding,but there is little evidence against him... Trade pb,1999,280 pgs. ISBN- 0333783301 Condition- C

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Harlen Coben- The Final Detail

Myron Bolitar feels culpable when he learns of the death of Clu Haid, a self-destructive New York Yankee pitcher with a history of drug and alcohol problems. Without telling Esperanza, the agent has run away to the Caribbean to recover from the pain of a previous murder case and is not there to help when Haid panics because he thinks his life and Bolitar’s are in danger. In jail, Esperanza is strangely uncommunicative. Hardback with dj,1999,357 pgs. ISBN- 0340751401 Condition- B

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William Lashner- Veritas

Lawyer Victor Carl finds himself caught in the middle of a bizzare murder,running from warring families ,and ensnared in the tangled history of one of Philadelphia's wealthiest and most secretive dynasties. Hardback with dj,1997,454 pgs. ISBN- 0002253089 Condition- B

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Nick Stone- Mr Clarinet

It was a job Miami privtae investigator Max Mingus found hard to refuse:$10 million to locate billionaire's son Charlie Carver-missing now for over 3 years. Trade pb,2006,561 pgs. ISBN- 071814872X Condition- B

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Ian Rankin- Exit Music

As Rebus ties up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes.... Softcover,2008,460 pgs. ISBN- 9780752893518 Condition- C

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Mario Puzo- The Godfather

Meet Don Corleone,family man.a reasonable man and...deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra. Paperback,1998,595 pgs. ISBN- 9780099527855 Condition-B

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Mario Puzo- Omerta

Omerta- the Sicilian code of silence...a relic of a bygone era but today can be bought for a price. Paperback,2000,410 pgs. ISBN- 0099296802 Condition- C-

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Mario Puzo- The Last Don

Don Domenico plans to create a life for his family fee from criminal activities... Paperback,1997,482 pgs. ISBN- 0749310901 Condition- C

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Mario Puzo- The Godfather's Revenge

The final piece of the puzzle... Paperback,2006,580 pgs. ISBN- 978099499480 Condition- B

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Richard Montanari- Broken Angels

A ruthless killer is preying the citizens of Philadelphia..and someone else is killing the suspects... Trade pb,2007,392 pgs. ISBN- 9780434016037 Condition- C

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DCI Banks Aftermath- Peter Robinson

Number 35 The Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street.But it is about to become infamous. Two police constables attend a call for domestic violence there but what they find leaves one of them dead and the other fighting for her life. Softcover,2001,501 pgs. ISBN-9780230750678 Condition- B

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The Insider- Ava McCarthy

Harry Martinez was a child hacker growing up in a loveless home. Her skills weren't confined to the computer side but also the manipulation of people themselves to give her the information she needed. Her father Sal was jailed for insider trading and her mother wasn't much of one. At the age of 13 a bit of fun got her a visit from an IT security agent. Now as an adult she works for him. Trade pb,2000,422 pgs. ISBN- 9780007285891 Condition- B

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Killing The Shadows- Val McDermid

A killer is targeting authors of crime novels,using their own plots to commit the crimes. Trade pb,2000,422 pgs. ISBN- 0002261103 Condition- B

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The Looking Glass War- John le Carre'

Once upon a time the distinction had been clear: the Circus handled all things political while the Department dealt with matters military. But over the years, power shifted and the Circus elbowed the Department out. Now, suddenly, the Department has a job on its hands. Evidence suggests Soviet missiles are being positioned close to the German border. Vital film is missing and a courier is dead. Lacking active agents, but possessed of an outdated mandate to proceed, the Department has to find an old hand to prove its mettle. Fred Leiser, German-speaking Pole turned Englishman -- once a qualified radio operator, now involved in the motor trade -- must be called back to the colors and sent East.... Softcover,1999,287 pgs. ISBN- 0340750340 Condition- B

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