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Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Trouble strikes a group of tourists in Italy: "Reginald Hill delivers literate, complex, and immensely satisfying thrillers" ( Orlando Sentinel ). Sarah and Michael Masson are on holiday in Italy, and their tour is making its way to Venice-Italy's most romantic city. But so far the trip hasn't been especially romantic. Michael has little patience for Sarah's sentimental nature or her stubborn insistence on socializing with their fellow travelers....
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From an award-winning author, a historical novel inspired by the life of a Croatian mercenary in seventeenth-century England. In the chaotic days of the early 1600s, Carlo Fantom, a Central European who spoke thirteen languages, would gladly accept payment to fight, no matter the country or the cause-battling and brutalizing his victims whether he was on the side of the king or his enemies in the English Civil War, for the Christians against the Turks...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A woman on the run from her husband encounters danger in a seaside town: "An eminently likable heroine . . a highly clever ending" ( Booklist ). Emily Salter is once again using her maiden name, living with her dog in a town along northern England's coast that she remembers fondly from childhood holidays. Her intention was to get far away from her controlling and threatening husband. Here, she's found some refuge, even met a nice gentleman, though...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A "particularly compelling" novel of brotherhood and brutality among a band of World War I deserters ( Publishers Weekly ). A small group of soldiers, led by an Australian named Viney, has fled the trenches of the Western front. Now they scavenge to survive in the desolate area known as no man's land. One of them, Josh, is shaken by the brutality he has witnessed. Another, Lothar, was a German aristocrat who had no desire to die as a supposed hero....
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book: A British detective plays God, literally, in this twisting crime thriller- "The climax is devastating" ( The Times London). Superintendent Andrew Dalziel, while drunk, has witnessed a woman being fatally shot-but her husband claims it was an accident, and everyone seems to be buying his story. His partner, Pascoe, meanwhile, is looking into chatty letters from an anonymous sender who says her resolution for the new year...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A novel of spies and suspense in Cold War Scotland from a Diamond Dagger-winning author known for delivering " immensely satisfying thrillers" ( Orlando Sentinel ) . William Blake Hazlitt is in hiding on Scotland's picturesque Isle of Skye, roughing it in a canvas tent and watching tourists from a distance through binoculars. His disappearance has not raised any alarms so far at the university where he works as an administrator. But Caroline Nevis,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the winner of Britian's prestigious Diamond Dagger Award, comes a beautifully written, multilayered psychological thriller Three times Yorkshire policeman Peter Pascoe has wrongly accused ex-con Franny Roote of a crime, only to have Roote walk free. Now Roote is sending out strange and threatening letters and Pascoe fears there is worse to come. This time he's determined to get his man. In a brilliant novel of psychological suspense, acclaimed...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
England has become an isolated wasteland ruled over by football hooligans in a thriller that "makes Clockwork Orange seem a gentle fantasy" ( Time Out ). The British Parliament has been dissolved. Now the nation is divided among four soccer clubs: City, United, Wanderers, and Athletic, constantly and violently at odds with one another. And the United Kingdom is on its own, alienated from the rest of Europe. Expatriate journalist Whitey Singleton escaped...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An international fugitive is faced with a vexing choice: "A first-rate espionage thriller . . nonstop action" ( Publishers Weekly ). Lem Stanhope-Swift, the sixth Viscount Bessacarr, has been living in Venezuela, keeping his distance from the British authorities ever since an embezzlement charge landed him in a spot of bother back home. Over the years he's been enjoying the tropical weather and an abundance of liquor and women. But he's just learned...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Dialogues of the Dead is a bridge that spans the classic English whodunit and the dark heart of contemporary crime fiction, the serial-killer novel ... .The fertility of Hill's imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality of his literary style never cease to delight." -- Val McDermid Normally, there would be nothing sinister about a death by drowning and a motorcycle fatality-had these tragic occurrences not been predicted before the fact...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Mystery stories by the Diamond Dagger Award-winning author, "one of the masters of the modern police procedural" ( The Sunday Telegraph ) A man whose wife has been missing for a year gets some strange phone calls-as well as a visit from Detective Inspector Pascoe-in a novella that pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe. A female journalist faces skepticism from the police when she reports an assault, and finds she may have to confront the attacker herself....
12) Born Guilty
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A British PI finds a body in a box in this mystery with "a nice twist waiting at the end" ( Kirkus Reviews ). As he leaves St Monkey's after choir practice, PI Joe Sixsmith makes a heartbreaking discovery in the church graveyard: the body of a boy in a cardboard box. The police think it's just another drug overdose, another homeless kid who's become a casualty of the streets. But Joe can't get this death out of his mind. Though his casebook is already...
13) Beyond the Bone
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A stolen skeleton leads to a web of mystery: "Those who treasure quirky characters, lively dialogue, and ingenious plots will be delighted" ( Booklist ). In England, a skeleton from Roman times goes missing from the site of an archaeological dig-as does the man overseeing the project. In Baghdad, a diplomat dies suddenly. And in California, a scientist commits suicide. These three events are in fact linked-and one tough, determined woman may be about...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A father and daughter are pursued by a dark past in this British spy thriller by an author who "never fails to shock and surprise" (Ian Rankin). Nigel Ellis lost his wife over a decade ago in Uganda. He is remarried now, and his grown daughter, once plagued by nightmares, has finally gotten over the trauma of her mother's death-or so it seems. Nigel has decided to write a memoir about his time in Britain's security service-and he intends to include...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The award-winning author of Captain Fantom returns with the origin story of the notorious seventeenth-century mercenary. Carlo Fantom spoke thirteen languages-a skill that proved useful as he traveled widely to sell his brutal services to any party who would pay him. This novel, written in the form of his personal memoirs, takes readers on a journey to his younger days-from the Croatian farm where he was born and raised to Venice, where he sails to...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From a Diamond Dagger winner: A dark tale of murderous conspiracies, secret societies, and a royal family in danger. After a series of hideous and gruesome crimes, Inspector Doug McHarg is asking questions-but some people don't want him to. That includes his boss on the local police force and Scotland Yard-not to mention whoever is sending him death threats. But McHarg is an unhappy man with little left to lose, and he intends to follow up on the...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Years after WWII, a pair of veterans believe they've spotted a Nazi in disguise, in a thriller with "more surprise turns than most novels twice its length" ( Kirkus Reviews ). In postwar England, Goldsmith and Templewood see each other once a year at reunions of their regiment. Goldsmith is a local politician now, while Templewood is a gregarious salesman with a taste for the ladies. They lead different lives but have one thing in common: They vividly...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Reginald Hill is quite simply one of the best at work today." - Boston Globe There is no end to the praise mystery writer Reginald Hill has already earned for his British police procedurals featuring Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe and Detective Superintendent "Fat Andy" Dalziel. Having recently bested Harlan Coben, Val McDermid, Michael Connelly, and James Patterson for the Crime Writers Association's Mystery and Thriller People's Choice Dagger, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Not for a second did Pascoe admit the possibility of death. Dalziel was indestructible. Dalziel is, and was, and forever shall be, world without end, amen . . Chief constables might come and chief constables might go, but Fat Andy went on forever. Barreling his way into an investigation of possible terrorist activities, Superintendent Andy Dalziel is caught in the blast of a huge explosion at a video shop-and only Fat Andy's" considerable bulk prevents...
20) Midnight Fugue
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Series
Language
English
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Reginald Hill, award-winning author of The Price of Butcher's Meat and Death Comes for the Fat Man , returns with Midnight Fugue , a riveting new crime novel featuring Yorkshire coppers Dalziel and Pascoe as they tackle the case of a detective who went missing seven years ago under suspicious circumstances. Taking place within the space of a single October Sunday and alternating between Mid-Yorkshire and London, Midnight Fugue is a riveting, complex...
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