Hour of Darkness

10 best books like Hour of Darkness (Quintin Jardine): The Bird that did not Sing, House of the Hunted, The Dead Beat, A Dangerous Fiction: A Mystery, 813 / Les Trois Crimes d'Arsène Lupin, What's Left Behind, They Danced by the Light of the Moon, Tre Hundes Nat, Jigsaw Man, A Ticket to Oblivion

The Bird that did not Sing
AuthorAlex Gray
2014: The Commonwealth Games is coming to Glasgow and security is extra tight, particularly after a mysterious bomb explodes in nearby rural Stirlingshire. As the opening ceremony for the Games draws ever closer, the police desperately seek the culprits. But Detective Superintendent Lorimer has...
House of the Hunted
AuthorMark Mills
ISBN1400068193
Mark Mills, bestselling author of Amagansett, The Savage Garden, and The Information Officer, is renowned for blending riveting history, rich atmosphere, and thrilling suspense. Now, in House of the Hunted, Mills deftly unfolds a story of betrayal, love, and the inescapable pull of the past as an...
AuthorDoug Johnstone
ISBN0571308856
If you're so special, why aren't you dead?

Meet Martha. It's the first day of her new job as intern at Edinburgh'sThe Standard. But all's not well at the ailing newspaper, and Martha is carrying some serious baggage of her own.

Put straight onto the obituary page, she takes a call from...
AuthorBarbara Rogan
ISBN0670026506
A romp of a publishing mystery that introduces Jo Donovan, literary agent-cum-detective, that will delight fans of Janet Evanovich, Lisa Lutz, Alan Bradley, and ABC's Castle

Jo Donovan always manages to come out on top. From the backwoods of Appalachia, she forged a hard path to life among...
813 / Les Trois Crimes d'Arsène Lupin
AuthorMaurice Leblanc
ISBN2253067822
Arsène Lupin en prison ! Tandis que la nouvelle fait la une de tous les journaux, le plus célèbre des voleurs se morfond dans sa cellule. Hé oui, Lupin enrage, Lupin bouillonne. Ridiculisé et maintenant isolé, comment pourra-t-il prouver qu'il n'a pas commis les crimes dont on l'accuse ? Le mystérieux...
What's Left Behind
AuthorGail Bowen
ISBN0771024037
From the "Queen of Canadian crime fiction" (Winnipeg Free Press) comes the 16th instalment of the much-loved Joanne Kilbourn series.
The latest novel in the Joanne Kilbourn Shreve series opens in the month of May, a time of beginnings when all things seem possible. Joanne's husband, Zack, recently...
They Danced by the Light of the Moon
AuthorTempa Pagel
ISBN1432827995
Andy Gammon, a former Detroit social studies teacher living in (but not always fitting into) a quaint New England town with her Yankee husband and two children, can't help getting involved whenever history meets mystery. Add in a couple of prime specimens of 19th century architecture-Andy's other...
Tre Hundes Nat
AuthorElsebeth Egholm
ISBN8756799144
På årets første nat, i isnende kulde, forsvinder 18-årige Nina Bjerre fra en nytårsfest i Grenå. Dagen efter - ved sin bopæl på en klint 13 kilometer derfra - finder Dictes Svendsens søn, Peter, liget af Ramses Bulai, en gammel kending af politiet. Til stede på klinten den dag er også Peters...
AuthorElena Forbes
ISBN1487000235
Mark Tartaglia of the London murder squad investigates a bizarre and brutal series of murders in this gripping thriller—the fourth in this bestselling series by Elena Forbes.
Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia has spent the night in a west London hotel with a woman he has just met. When he is...
A Ticket to Oblivion
AuthorEdward Marston
Young Imogen Burnhope and her maid Rhoda board a non-stop train to Oxford to visit her Aunt Cassandra, who waits on the platform at Oxford station where the train terminates, to greet them. Only they never arrive. All the passengers alight but the two women are nowhere to be seen. The train is searched...
A Little More Free
AuthorJohn McFetridge
ISBN1770412646
Constable Eddie Dougherty returns in this gripping police procedural

Montreal, Labour Day weekend, 1972. The city is getting ready to host the first game in the legendary Summit Series between Canada and the USSR. Three men set fire to a nightclub and Constable Eddie Dougherty witnesses...
AuthorMaureen Jennings
ISBN0771043295
From the well-known author whose books inspired the wildly popular Murdoch Mysteries TV series, comes the third WWII-era DI Tom Tyler mystery; for fans of Foyle's War, wartime dramas, and, of course, Maureen Jennings!
     It's summer, 1942, and after a tough couple of years, DI Tom Tyler...
AuthorKate Ellis
ISBN0349403139
Detective Wesley Peterson investigates another mysterious and deathly case on his 19th adventure in Kate Ellis's captivating crime series

When a middle-aged man is found dead in a hotel room, it seems like a routine matter—until it becomes clear to DI Wesley Peterson that it is a case of...
AuthorAnne Emery
ISBN1770411674
It’s 1989. The Troubles are raging in Ireland, bombs exploding in England. In this prequel to the Collins-Burke series, Father Brennan Burke is home in New York when news of his sister’s arrest in London sends him flying across the ocean. The family troubles deepen when Brennan’s cousin Conn...
AuthorSam Eastland
A soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Pekkala's charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead.

On Stalin's orders, Pekkala's assistant Kirov travels deep into the forests of Western Russia, following...
The Corpse Bridge
AuthorStephen Booth
The old Corpse Bridge is the route taken for centuries by mourners from villages on the western fringes of Derbyshire to a burial ground across the River Dove, now absorbed into the landscaped parkland of a stately home. When Earl Manby, the landowner, announces plans to deconsecrate the burial ground...
AuthorJess Lourey
ISBN0738749699
A troubled codebreaker faces an epic plot reaching back through centuries of America's secret history

Salem Wiley is a genius cryptanalyst, courted by the world's top security agencies ever since making a breakthrough discovery in her field of quantum computing. She's also an agoraphobe,...
AuthorF. Paul Wilson
ISBN0812531248
Like F. Paul Wilson's other books, this one is full of suspense and compelling characters. Kara travels to New York City to try to understand her twin's apparent suicide. Kelly was engaged in a threesome and jumped or was thrown out the window of a high rise. Kara can't believe this behavior fits with her...
The Two Sisters of Borneo
AuthorIan Hamilton
ISBN1770892443
The sixth installment in the wildly popular Ava Lee series from Arthur Ellis Award winner, Ian Hamilton.

Ava has been in Hong Kong looking after Uncle. She has also set up an investment company with May Ling Wong and her sister-in-law, Amanda Yee. One of their first investments — a furniture...
What You See
AuthorHank Phillippi Ryan
ISBN0765374951
Hank Phillippi Ryan weaves another taut and surprising tale in What You See, the fourth Jane Ryland novel of suspense

Why would a father abduct his own child? A wedding is planned in Jane Ryland’s family, but there’s a disaster instead. Nine-year-old Gracie—supposed to be the flower...
AuthorMichael Stanley
ISBN0062221523
Deadly Harvest in Michael Stanley’s beloved Detective Kubu series tracks a series of murders and a mysterious witch doctor whose nefarious potions might hold the key to a web of missing persons.

When young girls start to go missing, Samantha, a new detective on the Botswana police force...
Tokyo Kill
AuthorBarry Lancet
ISBN1451691726
In the second thriller of this new series from “a fresh voice in crime fiction” (Kirkus Reviews), antiques dealer-turned-P.I. Jim Brodie matches wits with an elusive group of killers chasing a long-lost treasure that has a dangerous history.

When an elderly World War II veteran shows...
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