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  • CRACK DOWN & CLEAN BREAK
    VAL MCDERMID
    Two novels starring a tough PI in Manchester, England, from an author known for "crime writing of the very highest order" ( The Times). There was only one reason Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan was prepared to let her boyfriend help out with the investigation into a car sales fraud: Nothing bad could happen. In  Crack Down, Kate learns once again that with Richard, ...

    $229.00

  • DEAD BEAT & KICK BACK
    VAL MCDERMID
    Diamond Dagger Award-Winning Author: Two mysteries introducing a Thai boxing, rock-and-roll female private detective from Manchester, England… As a favor to her rock journalist boyfriend, Kate Branningan agrees to track down missing song-writer Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realize that finding ...

    $251.00

  • BLUE GENES & STAR STRUCK
    VAL MCDERMID
    Two novels from "one of crime fiction's most eminent writers": A female PI in Manchester, England pokes around in some dangerous business ( Entertainment Weekly). In  Blue Genes, Kate Brannigan's not just having a bad day, she's having a bad week. The worst week of her life, if you really want to know. Her boyfriend's death notice is in the paper, her plan to catch a team of fr...

    $229.00

  • FINAL EDITION & UNION JACK
    VAL MCDERMID
    Two mysteries in one volume featuring the investigating journalist, from the Diamond Dagger Award-winning author. Final Edition When Alison Maxwell, a well-known Glaswegian journalist with an irresistible sexual attraction to both sexes, is found murdered, the police look no further than the owner of the scarf used to strangle her. Reporter Lindsay Gordon, however, suspects the...

    $249.00

  • BOOKED FOR MURDER & HOSTAGE TO MURDER
    VAL MCDERMID
    The fifth and sixth novels starring the self-proclaimed "cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist" from the internationally bestselling crime writer.   "The macho world of the whodunit has never seen a sleuth like Lindsay Gordon" and now she must investigate the murder of a bestselling author and a kidnapping with international implications ( Manchester Evening News).   Bo...

    $299.00

  • REPORT FOR MURDER & COMMON MURDER
    VAL MCDERMID
    In one volume, the first two mysteries featuring a journalist who investigates murder, from the Diamond Dagger winner known as "Britain's Queen of Crime" ( The Times).   From the Edgar Award-nominated author of the DCI Karen Pirie series, this two-in-one volume includes:   Report for Murder Self-proclaimed cynical socialist-lesbian-feminist and freelance journalist Lindsay Gord...

    $251.00

  • STRANDED
    VAL MCDERMID
    A must-read collection of stories by Scottish crime writer Val McDermid, "one of the bright lights of the mystery field" ( The Washington Post ).   Val McDermid's novels have won the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award and the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger and Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding achievement. Enjoyed by millions of fans worldwide, her in...

    $229.00

  • FEVER OF THE BONE
    VAL MCDERMID
    A criminal profiler races to catch a serial killer preying upon teenagers in this shocking crime thriller by the author of The Wire in the Blood. He is psychologist and criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill's worst nightmare—a killer driven by the most perverted hungers and unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer with a long shopping list of victims who leaves no trail. The murder-m...

    $249.00

  • FORENSICS
    VAL MCDERMID
    Bestselling author of Broken Ground "offers fascinating glimpses" into the real world of criminal forensics from its beginnings to the modern day ( The Boston Globe).   The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human trace...

    $251.00

  • NORTHANGER ABBEY
    VAL MCDERMID
    The internationally bestselling crime writer "offers a canny new twist on Jane Austen's early novel . . . a reimagined delight for Austen fans" ( Booklist ).   A homeschooled minister's daughter in the quaint, sheltered Piddle Valley in Dorset, Cat Morland loses herself in novels and is sure there is a glamorous adventure awaiting her beyond the valley's narrow horizon. So, ima...

    $179.00

  • RESISTANCE
    VAL MCDERMID
    A mysterious illness appears in Scotland while a reporter searches for the truth in this graphic novel by the bestselling author of the Karen Pirie series. The first graphic novel from Britain’s “Queen of Crime” (Scotsman) and gorgeously illustrated by up-and-comer Kathryn Briggs, Resistance is a chilling but incredibly moving and inspiring story of individuals pressed to rise ...

    $229.00

  • 1979
    VAL MCDERMID
    A Scottish journalist is drawn into a world of corruption, terror, and murder in the new novel by "one of crime fiction's most eminent writers" ( Entertainment Weekly).   The year started badly and only got worse—blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest were the norm. For investigative journalist Allie Burns, however, someone else's bad news was the unmistakable sou...

    $338.00

  • STILL LIFE
    VAL MCDERMID
    A Scottish police inspector deals with forgeries and false identities in a new murder mystery in the "superior series" ( The New York Times). When a lobster fisherman discovers a dead body in Scotland's Firth of Forth, DCI Karen Pirie is called into investigate. She quickly discovers that the case will require untangling a complicated web—involving a long-ago disappearance, art...

    $338.00

  • HOW THE DEAD SPEAK
    VAL MCDERMID
    Unmarked graves are found on the grounds of an old orphanage in this "riveting" British crime thriller by an Edgar Award finalist ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).   With profiler Tony Hill behind bars and Carol Jordan no longer with the police, he's finding unexpected outlets for his talents in jail and she's joined forces with a group of lawyers and forensics experts look...

    $251.00

  • BROKEN GROUND
    VAL MCDERMID
    A woman digs up a buried treasure—and a buried body—in the Scottish Highlands: "There are few other crime writers in the same league."—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post Six feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville's inheritance, buried by her grandfather at the end of World War II. But when Alice finally uncovers it, she finds an unwanted surprise—a body with...

    $251.00

  • INSIDIOUS INTENT
    VAL MCDERMID
    A killer targets single women at weddings: "[An] intense plot…McDermid keeps each twist believable." — The Washington Post In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: Someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away—only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations. P...

    $338.00

  • OUT OF BOUNDS
    VAL MCDERMID
    Forensic evidence leads to places a Scottish cop never expected in "a thriller as steely and superlative as its heroine" ( O, The Oprah Magazine). When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. Finding the answer to the cold case should be straightforward. But it's a...

    $251.00

  • SPLINTER THE SILENCE
    VAL MCDERMID
    The bestselling "Queen of Crime reigns again" when a profiler and an ex-cop investigate the suspicious deaths of women targeted by Internet trolls ( Independent, UK).   From the international bestselling author of The Mermaids Singing and The Wire in the Blood comes the ninth installment of her beloved series featuring psychologist Tony Hill and former DCI Carol Jordan . . .   ...

    $229.00

  • THE SKELETON ROAD
    VAL MCDERMID
    An Edinburgh detective encounters skeletal remains that may be connected to the brutal Balkan Wars of the 1990s in this "tightly paced mystery" ( Los Angeles Times). In the center of historic Edinburgh, Scotland, builders are preparing to demolish a disused Victorian Gothic building. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn'...

    $212.00

  • CROSS AND BURN
    VAL MCDERMID
    Psychologist Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan—the UK crime fighting partners from the TV series Wire in the Blood—face down a serial killer.   International bestselling crime writer Val McDermid's work speaks for itself: her books have sold millions of copies worldwide, won numerous accolades, and attracted a devoted following of readers around the globe.   Cross and Burn pick...

    $251.00

  • THE VANISHING POINT
    VAL MCDERMID
    "Marked by [McDermid's] trademark stunners, including a climax that packs a vicious punch. And readers are again left to marvel at her ingenuity." —Jay Strafford, Richmond Times-Dispatch   From one of the finest crime writers we have, The Vanishing Point kicks off with a nightmare scenario—the abduction of a child in an international airport. Stephanie Harker is in the screenin...

    $200.00

  • THE RETRIBUTION
    VAL MCDERMID
    A chilling, high-velocity thriller featuring psychologist Dr. Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan from the international bestselling crime writer.   Tony Hill has had a good run. He and detective Carol Jordan have put away scores of dangerous criminals at a rate that colleagues envy. But there is one serial killer who has shaped and defined their careers, and whose evil surpas...

    $189.00