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244 pages You can buy The Maltese Falcon... here You can find out more about Dashiell Hammet... here Our Rating...4⭐s The Blurb... Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on…
Our Rating 3 ⭐s You can buy Pilgrims by M.R. Leonard ... Here You can find out more about M.R. Leonard... Here The Blurb... Out-of-work Latin teacher and borderline alcoholic Austin DeSantis is determined to spend his final days in the arms of a prostitute—that is if the aliens don’t exterminate humanity first. But when the aliens land at the Vatican, begin speaking Latin, and reveal themselves to…
Our Rating 3⭐s 401 pages Published 2016 You can find out more about Maggie O'Farrell here The Blurb... A reclusive former film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells thinks nothing of firing a gun if strangers get too close to her house. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out on her career at the height of her fame? Her husband Daniel, reeling…
Our Rating 5⭐ 401 Pages First published 2023 You Can Find Out More About Steve Cavanagh... here The Blurb... One dark evening in New York City, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realise they have so much in common. They both feel alone. They both drink alone. And they both desperately want revenge against the two men who destroyed their families. Together, they have the…
You Can Buy Sleepyhead... here Our Rating 4.5 ⭐s 436 pages first published in 2001 You can find out more about Mark Billingham ... here The blurb... It's rare for a young woman to die from a stroke and when three such deaths occur in short order it starts to look like an epidemic. Then a sharp pathologist notices traces of benzodiazepine in one of the victim's blood samples and just traceable…
Our Rating 4 ⭐ You Can Buy Pagan Rite... here You Can Find Out More About Leslie Scase... here 280 Pages First published 2026 The Blurb... 1897 Inspector Thomas Chard is sent to investigate the discovery of a mutilated corpse feared to be the work of Jack the Ripper. His investigation leads him to a ‘Festival of the Unknown’ and when a second murder occurs, rumours of demons and hell-hounds flood…
You Can Buy "The Last Murder At The End Of The World... Here Rating 3⭐ First published 2024 432 words (paperback) You Can Find Out More About Stuart Turton... Here The Blurb... The small group of villagers who live on the tiny island lead simple, but happy lives. There is no world beyond their shores, but they're content with what they have. Only Emory feels frustrated. Unlike everyone else on the…
437 Pages: First Published 2011 Our Rating 4.5⭐s You can find out more about Belinda Bauer... Here The Blurb... THE QUESTION IS: WHO IS HUNTING WHO? In a small village where no stranger goes unnoticed, a local woman has been murdered in her bed. This is PC Jonas Holly's first murder investigation. But he is distracted by anonymous messages that seem to come from the killer . . . Is Jonas going to…
Rating 3⭐s You can buy The Picture of Dorian Gray... here You can find out about the author... here 253 pages The Blurb... Oscar Wilde's alluring novel of decadence and sin was a succès de scandale on publication. It follows Dorian Gray who, enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a…
208 pages Our Rating 5 ⭐s You can buy The Quiet American... Here You can find out more about the author... Here The Blurb... Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Saigon comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As Pyle's naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds…
