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If you’re a fan of just about any genre of crime fiction you’re sure to find something to your liking amongst our continuously growing list of titles. Enjoy browsing!

Monsoon Ghost Image

The gingerbread houses

Charlie Bars is back in London and has taken on a missing persons case....

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Monsoon Ghost Image

The Monsoon Ghost Image...

In the wake of 9/11, Detective Maier finds himself in Thailand, thrust into the heart of the...

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Three hours past midnight

Three hours past midnight

His last job a disaster, a professional thief teams with an old partner eager for one last score – a safe in the home of a wealthy Philadelphia...

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Riding shotgun and other american cruelties

Riding shotgun...

A unique collection of quirky, Tarantinoesque crime novellas. In the first story, "Easy-Peezy," a band of elderly Old West bank robbers...

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Return to Hiroshima

Return to Hiroshima

1995, Japan struggles with a severe economic crisis. In a confrontation with dramatic consequences...

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The Devil's Brew

The Devil's Brew

Take a break, they said. Get out in the fresh air, they said. Get away from it all, they said....

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The Curious Corpse

The Curious Corpse

When the body of a foreign woman is discovered at his busy temple in Bangkok during a monsoon downpour...

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Saigon Dark

Saigon Dark

Good and bad. Life and death. Some choices aren't black and white....

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The Man with the Golden Mind

The Man with the Golden Mind

Julia Rendel asks Maier to investigate the twenty-five year old murder of her father, an East German cultural attaché...

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Shank

Shank, Tool's Law I

David "Tool" Roney is a dangerous man with a moral code. Stuck in brutal Parchman Maximum Security Prison in Mississippi...

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A Straits Settlement

A Straits settlement

In the third instalment of the Le Fanu Mystery series, the intrepid superintendent is promoted to Inspector-General of Police...

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The German Messenger

The German Messenger

Late 1916. Europe is tearing itself apart in the Great War. Harry Draffen, part Greek, part Scottish, British secret agent, cosmopolitan...

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Heist

Heist, Tool's law II

Every outlaw has a dream – the last job, the one heist that will put an end to a life of crime. David "Tool" Roney has the perfect plan...

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The Kolkata Condumdrum

The Kolkata Condumdrum

The mysterious and alluring Pramila, resident of Avantika Heights, is brutally murdered. Sudhir Das, the security guard from the Golden...

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Into the Fire

Dead Men do Come Back

Why would someone kill a miner, freeze his body solid on a glacier and then drop it alongside the Juneau wharf...

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The Murder Boys

The Murder Boys

"It will stay with you for life boy. Either way you'll pay for it in your soul, but it's up to you if you want to pay for it with your time too." ...

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Into the Fire

Into the Fire

Ray Ellis is a Hollywood screenwriter on a roll. In his latest screenplay, he uses personal experience...

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Death Sentences

Death Sentences

Peter “Pop” Popovich is a 24-year-old unemployed glazier, anti-Semite and white supremacist...

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Ghost Money

Ghost Money

Cambodia, 1996, the long-running Khmer Rouge insurgency is fragmenting, competing factions of the unstable governm...

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Gaijin Cowgirl

Gaijin Cowgirl

Working Tokyo nightclubs is easy money for beautiful and troubled American Val Benson...

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The Devils Road to Kathmandu

The Devil's road to kathmandu

In 1976, four friends, Dan, Fred, Tim and Thierry, drive a bus along...

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Killer Karma

Killer Karma

Father Ananda, Buddhist monk and reluctant sleuth, is called to the temple of a small Thai fishing...

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The Gwousz Affair

The Gwousz affair

A genre-bender (think Animal Farm blended with The Big Sleep, spiced with a dash of...

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Mindfulness and Murder

Mindfulness and Murder

When a homeless boy living at the youth shelter run by a...

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The Madras Miasma

a Madras Miasma

Madras in the 1920s. The British are slowly losing the grip on the subcontinent. The end...

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Pennies for Charon

Pennies for Charon

Welcome to London - where the ferryman always has to be paid and the price is two shiny pennies...

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The Pallampur Predicament

The Pallampur Predicament

The second Superindentent Le Fanu Mystery sees our...

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Sister Suicide

Sister Suicide

A nun is torn apart by crocodiles in a Buddhist theme park. Is it a case of suicide...

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Salaryman Unbound

Salaryman unbound

Iwasaki Shiro, a 46 year old salaryman in Tokyo is having a midlife crisis. Unexceptional...

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The Blind Rooster

The Blind Rooster

When con-man Ralph does a runner on the check at a shabby diner in an unfamiliar town...

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Skewered and other London Cruelties

Skewered and other London Cruelties

Benedict J Jones’ novella Skewered takes us onto the mean streets of...

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Happy Hour and other Philadelphia Cruelties

Happy Hour
and other Philadelphia Cruelties

A young grifter steals an overcoat and discovers forty-thousand dollars in its inside pocket...

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A nose for trouble

A nose for trouble

Chicago PI Scanner Grant teams up with the charismatic Max Zwoelstra to travel to Hong Kong in search of Max’s adoptive father

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The Cambodian Book of the Dead

The Cambodian Book of the Dead

Cambodia 2001 - a country re-emerges from a half century of war, genocide, famine and cultural collapse. German Detective Maier...

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