Dead White Female
10 best books like Dead White Female (Lauren Henderson): Out of the Dark, Cider With Roadies, The Affair of the Blood-Stained Egg Cosy, Soldier Five: The Real Truth About The Bravo Two Zero Mission, Death Trick, Not the End of the World, The Silver Locomotive Mystery, Driftnet, Police, Crime & 999, Blood Lines
| Author | Linda Caine |
| ISBN | 0552148695 |
Life for Linda Caine should hold no fears. As a contented wife and mother, she should have everything to live for. Yet a blackness has started to leak into her thoughts. Images flash through her head leaving her stunned and breathless. On the face of it there is no rational explanation for the way she feels....
| Author | Stuart Maconie |
| ISBN | 0091897459 |
Cider with Roadies is the story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul; the radical effects of punk on his politics, homework...
| Author | James Anderson |
| ISBN | 0380019191 |
Oh, boy! This is a good one. Written in 1975 and reprinted by the Poisoned Pen Press, James Anderson's The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy, set in the 1930s, has it all, starting with a classical-era detective who warns everyone at the very start that he's no good at this job and has been promoted above...
SOLDIER FIVE is an elite soldier's explosive memoir of his time within the Special Air Service (SAS) and, in particular, his experiences during the 1991 Gulf War. As a member of the Special Forces patrol now famously known by its call sign Bravo Two Zero, he and seven others were inserted hundreds of kilometres...
| Author | Richard Stevenson |
| ISBN | 1560234709 |
A young man has been brutally murdered. The gay son of a wealthy family has disappeared. Now it's up to private dick Don Strachey to get to the bottom of this mess--even if he has to cruise every gay bar in the city to do it Don Strachey isn't exactly the most sought-after private eye in Albany, New York. In...
| Author | Christopher Brookmyre |
| ISBN | 0349109281 |
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A fundamentalist Christian TV mogul, an ex-pornstar, an awkwardly oversized Scottish photographer, a cop who doesn’t want the job, and a failed abortion clinic bomber walk into a foreign distribution event for American B-movies in Los Angeles at the tail end of...
The Silver Locomotive Mystery
| Author | Edward Marston |
| ISBN | 0749083972 |
This is the Railway Detective's puzzling new case. An exquisitely designed silver coffee-pot in the shape of a locomotive is on its way to Cardiff in the care of the young, talented silversmith, Hugh Kellow. It has been commissioned by wealthy ironmaster Clifford Tomkins for his acquisitive wife,...
| Author | Lin Anderson |
| ISBN | 1842820346 |
Driftnet is where it all began for police forensic examiner Dr Rhona MacLeod and was originally published in 2003. Fifteen-years later Lin Anderson and Rhona are still going strong with eleven books to date. Having read several books much further into the series I really enjoyed seeing how Rhona had...
| Author | John Donoghue |
| ISBN | 1848766858 |
Ever wondered what really happens behind the scenes in the police? What bizarre 999 calls are made to the emergency services? Why can wearing two pairs of socks make you a suspect? What is the link between police and vampires? Which Royal arrest never made news headlines? What covert sign do officers...
| Author | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles |
| ISBN | 0684800470 |
I've never read any Inspector Bill Slider mysteries before but I think I may be hooked. Author Cynthia Harrod-Eagles creates an interesting and believable group of characters, placing them in a background that is nicely rich and real without being overwhelming. A simple mystery grows larger as the...
| Author | Sparkle Hayter |
| ISBN | 0142000108 |
When a fire forces TV executive Robin Hudson to vacate her apartment, she and her cat, Louise Bryant, take shelter in the legendary bohemian hostelry the Chelsea Hotel. But then a smoky-eyed art dealer dies on her doorstep, and our ever-reluctant heroine is drawn into a homicide investigation. Is the...
| Author | Oliver James |
| ISBN | 0091901804 |
Dementia is a little understood and currently incurable illness, but much can be done to maximise the quality of life for people with the condition. "Contented Dementia" - by clinical psychologist and bestselling author Oliver James - outlines a groundbreaking and practical method for managing...
| Author | John Morgan Wilson |
| ISBN | 0553575325 |
Following the death of his lover and a scandal involving his Pulitzer Prize-winning article, crime reporter Benjamin Justice has fallen into a hazy, alcoholic reclusiveness, hiding out in the West Hollywood neighborhood known as the Norma Triangle. He is called back to the world of the living by an...
| Author | Stephen Booth |
| ISBN | 0751551716 |
A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire's criminal investigation department with a problem. They have discovered a man's body lying in shallow water, but torrential downpours have swollen the rivers and flooded the roads, making travel difficult and forensic...
Dr. Riley Blake left New York and moved to a small town in Maine after inheriting his uncle's house. Unfortunately, a disturbing part of his past follows him.
The last thing Sheriff Marcus Cameron really had time for was a new relationship. As the son of the alpha of the largest werewolf pack in...
| Author | Joseph Hansen |
| ISBN | 0030576415 |
An enjoyable entry in the Brandstetter series. Dave's father has passed away, his relationship with Doug is virtually over, and he is now working for a new insurance company. The case: did the porn shop owner really murder the militant Christian activist who destroyed his shop? Dave thinks he did....
| Author | June Hampson |
| ISBN | 0752879561 |
'As good as Martina Cole and Jessie Keane' Amazon review
IN A MAN'S WORLD, IT'S EVERY WOMAN FOR HERSELF.
Daisy Lane runs the family's cafe with her husband Kenny's older brother Eddie. While Kenny serves time in jail for robbery, Daisy looks out for pretty 16-year-old Suze and, with...
| Author | Michael Bond |
| ISBN | 0449209563 |
Monsieur Pamplemousse, inspector of food and detective extraordinaire, is delighted to have the chance to dine once more at the famed La Langoustine, a restaurant nestling in the hills of Provence. Life as an undercover researcher for a top-class culinary guide can be lonely, and Monsieur Pamplemousse...
| Author | Ann Budd |
| ISBN | 1931499438 |
Created for knitters who want standard sweater patterns in a variety of sizes and gauges, as well as those who want a template from which to develop their own designs, this book provides easy-to-follow charted instructions for 18 sweaters, three in each of the six most popular sweaters constructions....
| Author | David Mark |
| ISBN | 0399168206 |
Philippa Longman will do anything for her family.
Roisin McAvoy will do anything for her friends.
DS Aector McAvoy will do anything for his wife.
Yet each has an unknown enemy – one that will do anything to destroy them.
Sorrow Bound is a powerful police procedural thriller about...
| Author | Alan Hunter |
| ISBN | 1849014981 |
The last thing you need when you're on holiday is to become involved in a murder. For most people, that would easily qualify as the holiday from hell. For George Gently, it is a case of business as usual. The Chief Inspector's quiet Easter break in Norchester is rudely interrupted when a local timber merchant...
