Crime and mystery: women sleuths

*A Times Best Book of the Year*From the author of The Ashes of London, comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII'Ten out of ten' The Times'A grand piece of work - a triumph and one of Taylor's best' MICK HERRON'A wonderfully unique novel from the master of historical crime fiction.

With haunting prose and deft psychological insight, Averil Dean spins a chilling story that explores the dark corners of obsession-love, pain, and revenge.

She didn't want to need him.

For former private investigator Dana Miller, there can be no peace of mind until she finds the person who killed her husband.

There are some things only a mother can feel.

THEY WEREN'T LOOKING FOR EACH OTHER.

Her dream of becoming a fashion model shattered by a car accident, Kaylee Benton has a successful career running a top Texas modeling agency.

Sheriff Tucker Spencer has seen some action.

Forbidden relationships are the most tempting.

Kara Galway thought moving home to Texas after years in New England would put her life back in perspective.

Closing the door doesn't always keep you safe.

A young woman's body is found with puncture marks on her neck, and soon the delicious word vampire is on everyone's lips.

Dreams come true with Susan WiggsKim van Dorn was living the dream.

Too much of a good thing.

Whiskey River is a quiet Arizona mountain town-until it's rocked by murder.

Dark family secrets can be murder .

'Waiting for her, he was on edge with expectation.

An inheritance comes with its own sinister dangers.

A child in danger, an isolated house - and a killer on the loose.

It should have been her sanctuary - until things got murderous.

A crime writer's family witnesses a real-life murder - the neighbourhood just got dangerous.

For the police it was an open and shut case: Stephen Lumley was guilty of taking part in the robbery at his uncle's jewellery shop.

When Evelyn Henshaw comes to Rosa Epton's office demanding that in the event of her disappearance her husband be investigated for murder, Rosa is more than a little doubtful.

No one knew what finally prompted a shy young schoolboy to walk out of Warren Hall School never to return.

Solicitor Rosa Epton has vowed never again to work on a case with Malcolm Palfrey.

Vernon Gray is the oldest and richest of the residents of the four flats on the sixth floor of a block in his small seaside town.

Her Honour Judge Celia Kilby does not suffer fools gladly.

It is extremely bad luck for Sarah Atkins that she is very slightly over the limit when she knocks down and kills a man in a patch of fog.

In the fourth Rosa Epton mystery, Underwood's protagonist, whom Mystery Magazine declared 'one of mystery fiction's most talented attorneys', is called upon to defend the scapegrace younger brother of an acquaintance.

The dog was old and unappealing - which may have been why Virginia Freer decided to adopt him; that and the fact that he had belonged to her mother's old friend Helen Lovelock, who had recently died.

Whenever Felix, Virginia Freer's estranged husband, reappears in her life, murder does too.

When Virginia Freer spends a weekend with her friends the Boscotts the last person she expects to meet is the lying, light-fingered charmer who was her husband.

While her faithful friend Virginia watched by the bedside, rich old Mrs Arliss passed away peacefully in her sleep - and left behind a legacy of violent death.

A very complex mystery develops in London's clubland and among the legal grandees who frequent the Old Bailey and the Inns of Court.

Television producer Laurie Moran has spent her career solving cold cases on-screen.

The RumourmeetsThe Holiday an addictive thriller with a toxic friendship at its heart that will keep you in the dark until the final breathless pages.

In a city where dreams really do come true, nightmares can follow .

THE SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLER I await the next Kathy Reichsthriller with the same anticipation I have for the new Lee Child or Patricia CornwellJAMES PATTERSON Over the course of twenty books, Kathy Reichs and Tempe Brennan have thrilled readers with pacey, mazey tales .

From the million-copySunday Times bestseller comes a thrilling novel about a woman with an extraordinary life, based on a true story.

AMERICA IS THREATENED BY CYBER ATTACKS ONLY ONE WOMAN CAN PUT A STOP TO THEM Running a double agent from inside the White House to spy on the Russians is not easy, but Hayley Chill has never backed down from a challenge.

The procedural details in this gripping murder story have the ring of truth but then the author is a detective in the Metropolitan PoliceSUNDAY TIMESCRIME CLUBThere were only ever two choices - your life or mine.

COMING SOON TO CHANNEL 5 as a six-part drama series starring Anna Friel!

* THE NEW ADDICTIVE THRILLER FROM THE MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE * ';Expertly paced, psychologically sharp, thoroughly enjoyableLouise Candlish ';Meticulously plotted, psychologically astute'Sarah Vaughan Confirms Nicci French as the giantof the genreErin Kelly ';A pure adrenaline rush'Jenny Colgan Neve Connolly looks down at a murdered man.

';He did kill.

**HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE 2021 CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD** She's a murderer.

Intense, insightful and impossible to put down CAZ FREAR When you go looking for a new start, make sure you dont find a nightmare instead.

A GRIPPING READ FROM THE DAGGER-AWARD WINNING AUTHOR Apowerful, thought-provoking story.

';Will suck you in from the first page'Stephen Booth, author ofFall Down DeadIn a small northern town, girls are disappearing.

Brilliant psychological suspense from the author of APPLE TREE YARD, now a major BBC drama.

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