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10 best books like The Dead Beat (Doug Johnstone): The Bird that did not Sing, A Lily of the Field, Island Wife: Living on the Edge of the Wild, Hour of Darkness, Wildcard, The Dark Frontier, Never Apologise, Never Explain, truecrime, Tell No Tales, Dead Line

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...
A Lily of the Field
AuthorJohn Lawton
ISBN0802119565
Vienna, 1934. Ten-year-old cello prodigy Méret Voytek becomes a pupil of concert pianist Viktor Rosen, a Jew in exile from Germany.The Isle of Man, 1940. An interned Hungarian physicist is recruited for the Manhattan Project in Los Alomos, building the atom bomb for the Americans.Auschwitz, 1944....
Island Wife: Living on the Edge of the Wild
AuthorJudy Fairbairns
ISBN1444759582
Island Wife tells the story of Judy, who, at 19, met her Wild Pioneer. He whisked her off into an adventure, a marriage of forty years, and a life on a remote Hebridean island, where the sea-birds fly, the weather is always changing and whales swim in the deep. Along the way she bears five children, learns...
Hour of Darkness
AuthorQuintin Jardine
ISBN0755357019
Quintin Jardine's new Bob Skinner novel sees the Edinburgh cop faced with a case that calls every part of his life into question.


The body of a murdered woman is found washed up on Cramond Island near the mouth of the River Forth. Days later detectives are called to a flat in Edinburgh; the...
Wildcard
AuthorKen McClure
ISBN0743440137
An engaging read, moved along at a smart pace, good suspense and mostly interesting and credible characters. A few leaps of plausibility required (our main man, the medical investigator Dr Dunbar, pulling a gun on a recalcitrant witness being one of them; a Member of Parliament knifing a chef for blackmailing...
The Dark Frontier
AuthorEric Ambler
ISBN0445408057
The Dark Frontier (1936) is Eric Ambler's first novel, about whose genesis he writes: "[…] Became press agent for film star, but soon after joined big London advertising agency as copywriter and "ideas man". During next few years wrote incessantly on variety of subjects ranging from baby food to...
Never Apologise, Never Explain
AuthorJames Craig
How much blood will have to be spilt before the past can be put to rest?

When Agatha Mills is killed in her home in the shadow of the British Museum, there is only one suspect - her husband Henry. For John Carlyle, it looks like a welcome chance for a quick win. But, much to the Inspector's annoyance,...
truecrime
AuthorJake Arnott
ISBN1569474079
“Funny, fast, witty, and brutal.”—David Bowie

Jake Arnott’s brilliant trilogy of criminal life in England forms a kind of Godfather-like history of Britain’s gangland, spanning 40 years. The first, The Long Firm (1999), caught everyone by surprise and was adapted into a TV series...
Tell No Tales
AuthorEva Dolan
ISBN0099584387
Ils ont été assassinés à coups de pied, dans la rue, sauvagement. Leur seule faute : être étrangers. Quant à leur agresseur, il n’a même pas songé à éviter les caméras de surveillance. Visage masqué, il s’est planté devant elles pour signer son acte barbare d’un salut nazi. Et comme...
Dead Line
AuthorChris Ewan
ISBN1250047072
And just as your plan is developing, so you're evolving, too. You're changing in ways you never would have thought possible before. But that's acceptable to you. You're prepared to do whatever it takes . . . Why? Because you're the specialist. And that's how you're going to succeed.
What do you do...
Old Enemies
AuthorMichael Dobbs
ISBN1847372899
A young woman is tossed from a helicopter in Switzerland and her boyfriend is taken captive. The kidnappers reach out to the family from an undisclosed location, putting out a demand followed by a hefty ransom. While devastating, it has little to nothing to do with Harry Jones, or does it? The young captive,...
Enter The Dark
AuthorChris Thomas
A chilling Dark Web thriller An anonymous website, a few clicks, and Joe Henderson’s life is changed forever. ‘The Red Room’ is the only place where the failings of a weak justice system are righted and where the line between good and evil becomes blurred. When the lights go up, viewers bid, criminals...
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...
Every Contact Leaves a Trace
AuthorElanor Dymott
ISBN0393239772
Elanor Dymott’s gorgeous debut tells the story of Alex, a solitary lawyer who has finally found love in the form of his beautiful wife, Rachel. When Rachel is brutally murdered one midsummer night on the grounds of their alma mater, Worcester College, Oxford, Alex’s life as he knows it vanishes.
He...
Fresh Blood
AuthorTony Parsons
ISBN1473535492
An exclusive short story featuring DC Max Wolfe from Tony Parsons, the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Murder Bag

The gruesome discovery of the body of an old man on Hampstead Heath leads DC Max Wolfe deep into gangland London. Could the dead man's connections to the Krays and the...
This Human Season
AuthorLouise Dean
ISBN1999856511
It is November, 1979. Kathleen's son Sean has just been transferred to Belfast's most notorious prison - Long Kesh, recently renamed the Maze. Kathleen knows that he will join the other prisoners on their non-cooperation protest, known as the Blanket. Rumours of a hunger strike are beginning to circulate.

John...
All the Days and Nights
AuthorNiven Govinden
ISBN0007580495
From the author of ‘Black Bread White Beer’


The East Coast of America, 1980.


Anna Brown, a dying artist, works on her final portrait. Obsessive and secretive, it is a righting of her past failures; her final statement.


John Brown, her husband and life-long...
The Preacher
AuthorSander Jakobsen
ISBN0751552372
An astonishingly clever, gripping debut with a killer hook, by an exciting new Danish talent

Thorkild Christensen stares down at his murdered wife, Karen, and realises he knows almost nothing about her. How did she fill her days? Where did she really go every Thursday? Detective Thea Krogh...
A Maigret Christmas: And Other Stories
AuthorGeorges Simenon
ISBN0241282152
Three seasonal stories set in Paris at Christmas, from the celebrated creator of Inspector Maigret.

It is Christmas in Paris, but beneath the sparkling lights and glittering decorations lie sinister deeds and dark secrets...

This collection brings together three of Simenon's...
Fortunes of War
AuthorGordon Zuckerman
ISBN1929774648
In this riveting amalgam of political intrigue, poignant romance, and bare-knuckled action, six friends risk everything to thwart an international Nazi conspiracy. In the financial devastation of the 1930s, a greedy, power-hungry group of German industrialists plot to usher in the National Socialist...
Booktaker
AuthorBill Pronzini
The Nameless Detective is called upon to find out how rare books and maps are being stolen from an antiquarian bookshop with a faultless alarm system. He goes undercover in the store, only to be foiled when a theft occurs right under his nose. Then, as he ponders the case (while on a date with the lovely Kerry),...
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