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Donkey Punch    Donkey Punch
ISBN:9781904598855
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

With the barbed-wire leash of parole freshly clipped from his throat and his Private Investigation business an unpleasant memory, Cal Innes is looking forward to continuing his job as caretaker at Paulo’s Lads’ Club. But a prodigal boxer, Liam, needs someone to go with him to his first major amateur tournament in Los Angeles. That someone is Cal . . .

        
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Fall From Grace    Fall From Grace
ISBN:9781846970504
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: David Ashton
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

The second in a new series of McLevy books, Fall from Grace revolves around the terrible Tay Bridge disaster.


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Kiss Her Goodbye    Kiss Her Goodbye
ISBN:9781904598770
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: April 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

The explosive follow-up to Two-Way Split.

    
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Blood in the Water    Blood in the Water
ISBN:9781846970740
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Gillian Galbraith
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

The first exciting crime thriller book of the Alice Rice Mystery series by Gillian Galbriath, we are introduced to the implacable Alice Rice - intelligent, pragmatic and yet despite this is somehow disillusioned.


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Hard Man    Hard Man
ISBN:9781846970221
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

Has Pearce finally found his match? A time-served Edinburgh hard man, Pearce is still recovering from the recent loss of his mother in a stabbing incident in a post office robbery. He’s invited by the dysfunctional Baxter family to protect their pregnant 16-year-old daughter from Wallace, her 26-year-old husband, a man with a penchant for killing family pets.


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Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith, The    Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith, The
ISBN:9781841831138
Category: Crime, Scottish History
Author: Douglas MacGowan
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Douglas MacGowan’s vivid account of the celebrated murder case reads by turns like a thriller, a love story and a courtroom drama. He quotes extensively from contemporary sources, notably the correspondence between Madeleine and Emile, whose explicit content so shocked Victorian sensiblities. Ultimately he leaves it to the reader to judge Madeleine’s guilt or innocence.

    
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Where the Shadow Falls    Where the Shadow Falls
ISBN:9781846970757
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Gillian Galbraith
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: HB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

A new thrilling novel carefully laiden with mystery, deception and murder in which Alice Rice finds herself hunting a killer.


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Savage Night    Savage Night
ISBN:9781846970191
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: March 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis: Kidnapping and corpse mutilation are just a taste of what’s in store for Andy Park in Allan Guthrie’s violent fourth novel. Meanwhile Tommy Savage may not survive the night when he finds himself heading to a graveyard armed with a sword and a bag of cash to meet his masked blackmailer.
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Worms of Euston Square, The    Worms of Euston Square, The
ISBN:9781841831008
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: William Sutton
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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No More Heroes    No More Heroes
ISBN:9781846970139
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: February 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

A firebomb attack at a Plummer property thrusts Innes into the spotlight as he saves a child from the burning building. But when Plummer enlists his help to track down the arsonists, Innes finds himself dealing with more than the ENS and his rapidly overwhelming codeine addiction. Manchester needs a hero and Callum Innes is the closest it has.

    
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Fall From Grace    Fall From Grace
ISBN:9781846970078
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: David Ashton
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

The second in a new series of McLevy books, Fall from Grace, revolves around the terrible Tay Bridge Disaster.

            
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Shadow of the Serpent    Shadow of the Serpent
ISBN:9781904598701
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: David Ashton
Publication Date: April 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

The first in the McLevy series, this is wonderfully evocative detective fiction, based in dark, violent, Victorian Edinburgh.



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Hard Man    Hard Man
ISBN:9781846970047
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Has Pearce finally found his match? A time-served Edinburgh hard man, Pearce is still recovering from the recent loss of his mother in a stabbing incident in a post office robbery. He’s invited by the dysfunctional Baxter family to protect their pregnant 16-year-old daughter from Wallace, her 26-year-old husband, a man with a penchant for killing family pets.

        
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Blood on the Borders    Blood on the Borders
ISBN:9781862322875
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Judith Cook
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

Dr Simon Forman finds himself accused of harbouring enemies of the state after a night of revelry. In his haste to clear his name he gets caught up in a secret spying mission and death stalks him as he tries to discover the identity of a murderer.


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McGovan Casebook, The    McGovan Casebook, The
ISBN:9781841830506
Category: Crime, Literature
Author: James McGovan
Publication Date: October 2003
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis: In the 1870s there appeared a series purporting to be the autobiographical writings of an Edinburgh policeman, James McGovan. Honeyman, the real author, had created one of the first detectives in crime fiction.


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Kiss Her Goodbye    Kiss Her Goodbye
ISBN:9781846970054
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

When people in Edinburgh need to borrow money, they go to Cooper. When they don’t pay it back, they get a visit from Joe Hope.

            
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Donkey Punch    Donkey Punch
ISBN:9781846970214
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: February 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Failed PI businessman, Cal Innes, babysits prodigal amateur boxer, Liam, on his first major tournament in Los Angeles. It soon turns into something more sinister, as rumours of a rigged competition fly around. As Cal’s codeine habit and Liam’s temper grow out of control, the City of Angels doesn’t seem quite so heavenly.


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Shadow of the Serpent    Shadow of the Serpent
ISBN:9781846970085
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: David Ashton
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

The first in the McLevy series, this is wonderfully evocative detective fiction, based in dark, violent, Victorian Edinburgh.

                
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Saturday's Child    Saturday's Child
ISBN:9781904598787
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

It’s criminal up north ... Cal Innes is fresh out of Strangeways, playing PI and running from a past muddied with ties to local gang lord ‘Uncle’ Morris Tiernan. When Tiernan tells him to track down a rogue casino dealer ...


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Two-way Split    Two-way Split
ISBN:9781846970429
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

A-format edition of the first novel from Allan Guthrie, one of crime fiction’s toughest new writers.    

        
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Saturday's Child    Saturday's Child
ISBN:9781846970115
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

It’s criminal up north . . .  Cal Innes is fresh out of Strangeways, playing PI and running from a past muddied with ties to local gang lord ‘Uncle’ Morris Tiernan . . .

                
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Two-way Split    Two-way Split
ISBN:9781904598572
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: April 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This is the first edition of Allan Guthrie's debut novel which won The Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2007.


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Blood in the Water    Blood in the Water
ISBN:9781841831121
Category: Fiction, Crime
Author: Gillian Galbraith
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis: In this thrilling police-procedural from new crime writer Gillian Galbraith, we are introduced to Alice Rice, Edinburgh’s latest fictional detective.
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Savage Night    Savage Night
ISBN:9781846970962
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: March 2009
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis: Andy Park passes out at the sight of blood, but he thinks he’s discovered a way to make his family’s enemies pay. He isn’t prepared for the fall-out, though. Before long, his teenage son is in mortal danger, and his daughter and her fiance are knee-deep in corpses.
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Slammer    Slammer
ISBN:9781846970979
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: March 2009
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis: Young prison officer Nicholas Glass is finding the stresses of the job increasingly hard to handle. Bullied and abused by inmates and colleagues alike, every day is getting longer than the one before. When a group of cons use outside help to threaten his wife and daughter, Glass agrees to help them out with a ’favour’.
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Beast of Burden    Beast of Burden
ISBN:9781846970986
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: March 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis: The biggest race riot in Manchester’s history and his brother’s death have left PI Callum Innes a physical and emotional wreck. He’s about to leave his newly established agency to partner Frank Collier when the word comes through that his erstwhile nemesis Mo Tiernan has gone missing.
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Where the Shadow Falls    Where the Shadow Falls
ISBN:9781846971068
Category: Fiction, Crime
Author: Gillian Galbraith
Publication Date: April 2009
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis: When the body of a retired sheriff is discovered in his grand house in the New Town of Edinburgh, Detective Sergeant Alice Rice finds herself hunting his killer. This is linked with wind-farm developers - with millions of pounds at stake. When Alice thinks she's finally solved the mystery, the sheriff's wife is also killed - is it a double murder?
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Mr Wong Goes West    Mr Wong Goes West
ISBN:9781846971082
Category: Fiction, Crime
Author: Nury Vittachi
Publication Date: May 2009
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis: This adventure sees Feng shui master and sleuth CF Wong forced to go to the west, after a stationary deal went wrong and he ended up in debt to the Chinese Mafia. He must go to Buckingham palace to do a Feng Shui reading to end the awful happenings that have been going there. But a bomb on his plan cause the wheels to come off his plan.
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Feng Shui Detective's Casebook    Feng Shui Detective's Casebook
ISBN:9781846971099
Category: Fiction, Crime
Author: Nury Vittachi
Publication Date: May 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis: A murder in the Philippines, a kidnapping in Thailand, grand theft auto in Singapore; it's just another day at the office for CF Wong and his slacker assistant Joyce. More feng shui master than detective, Wong would much rather get paid, go home and put his feet up, but that's just not going to happen. They are in demand - all over Asia.
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Dying of the Light    Dying of the Light
ISBN:9781846971167
Category: Fiction, Crime
Author: Gillian Galbraith
Publication Date: April 2009
Format: HB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis: Partly inspired by the real-life killings of prostitutes in Ipswich, this third Alice Rice mystery sees the detective in the hunt for a serial prostitue murderer and explores the hidden world where sex is bartered for money and drugs.
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No More Heroes    No More Heroes
ISBN:9781846971181
Category: Fiction, Crime
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: May 2009
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis: Cal Innes evicts families on behalf of local slumlord Donald Plummer while the English National Socialists stir up racial tension. When the Plummer property is attacked, Innes saves a child from the fire, but when he has to help Plummer discover who started the fire, he ends up dealing with more than just the ENS and his codeine addiction.
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One City Casebook, The    One City Casebook, The
ISBN:9781846971242
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Various
Publication Date: April 2009
Format: HB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis: Presents a story which features crime and is set in Edinburgh. This title ranges from hard-boiled police procedural to historical whodunit and from the wildly comic to the spookily supernatural.
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Bay of Naples    Bay of Naples
ISBN:9781846971105
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Alan Clews
Publication Date: June 2009
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis: A Scottish noir thriller of love betrayed, set against the backdrop of World War Two.
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