The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason
29.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy communication device is attac ...Show more
White Jazz (#4 L.A. Quartet) by James Ellroy
27.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: L.A. Quartet
Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect.
The Black Dahlia: The first book in the classic L.A. Quartet crime series by James Ellroy
27.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: L.A. Quartet | Reading Level: General Adult
Los Angeles, 15th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish jou ...Show more
The Big Nowhere (#2 L.A. Quartet) by James Ellroy
27.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: L.A. Quartet
1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own pers ...Show more
LA Confidential: Classic Noir by James Ellroy
27.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: L.A. Quartet
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L. A. P. D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers. ...Show more
Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason
29.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a straightforward case of suicide; Maria had never recovered from the death of her mother two years previously and she had a history of depression. But then the friend who found her body a ...Show more
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
26.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Harry Hole | Reading Level: good
SOON THE FIRST SNOW WILL COME. A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Their house is empty but outside in the garden he sees his mother's favourite scarf - wrapped around the neck of a snowman. AND THEN HE WILL APPEAR AGAIN. As Harry Hole and his team begin their investigation they discover that ...Show more
Vault by Ruth Rendell
39.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Wexford Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Wessex is retired - or would be, if murder and danger would only leave him alone. The impossible has happened. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. For all the bene ...Show more
The Preacher (Patrik Hedstrom #2) by Camilla Lackberg; Steven T. Murray (Translator)
19.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falck Ser.
Hot on the heels of her phenomenal American debut, The Ice Princess, Camilla L ckberg brings readers back to the quiet, isolated fishing village in Sweden where dangerous secrets lie just beneath the community's tranquil surface. During an unusually hot July, detective Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falc ...Show more
The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg
19.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck | Reading Level: General Adult
The psychological thriller debut of No.1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. Returning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her ...Show more
The Floating Admiral by Agatha Christie
36.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years ago. Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But ...Show more
The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
38.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
HE WILL TRAP YOU IN A WORLD OF TERROR The groundbreaking first novel in the bestselling Joona Linna thriller series. Perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo. A TRAUMATISED WITNESS Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. Detective Inspector Joona Linna is faced with a boy who witnessed the gruesome murder of his family. He ...Show more