Mystery

Noir Book of the Month – March 2022

What price would you put on a second chance? When Alex Cassidy and Diane Alison meet by chance at a party in Princeton, New Jersey, there are instant sparks. Both are single parents living in wealthy suburbia, independent, highly competent and seemingly settled in their lives. She runs a successful catering business. He's part of a crew that robs banks, casinos and jewellery stores around the world. As Alex prepares for one final, daunting job, he discovers that he's not the only one with secrets - and that both of them are playing for the highest stakes imaginable.

The Marlow Murder Club

Robert Thorogood
The Marlow Murder Club
Paperback

Mystery Book of the Month – Feb 2022

In the traditions of two great but very different British writers, Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse, Waugh's hilarious and entirely original twist on the country house murder mystery comes complete with stiff upper lips, even stiffer drinks, and any stiffs that might embarrass the family getting smartly brushed under the carpet…  Longlisted for the Comedy Women In Print Award.

In the Crypt with a Candlestick

Daisy Waugh
In the Crypt with a Candlestick
Paperback

Repentance

Eloisa Diaz
Repentance
Paperback

Noir Book of the Month – Jan 2022

Do you like women who don’t take any sh*t? Then this book is definitely for you. Think Villanelle – but she’s on your side. Nikki Griffin, our bookseller-by-day, badass PI-by-night heroine, is back…

A Will to Kill

R.V. Raman
A Will to Kill
Paperback

Mystery Book of the Month – Dec 2021

One murder. Twelve suspects. Twelve motives for murder...   This Christmas, sit back and become a real armchair detective. This is a murder mystery told entirely through interviews. Private Investigator Elizabeth Chalice needs YOU to help her solve this case. It’s a beautiful Christmas day in Como, and the Caswell-Jones family are celebrating with their nearest and dearest in their Villa Janus. Merriment and limoncello abound.   That is, until Jonty Caswell-Jones is found dead in his study. 

Twelve Motives for Murder

Fiona Sherlock
Twelve Motives for Murder
Paperback

Noir Book of the Month – Nov 2021

A top ten New York Times bestseller. A compulsive debut novel that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small Texas oil town. When justice is as slippery as oil, and kindness becomes a hazardous act, sometimes courage is all we have to keep us alive… ’The very definition of a stunning debut’ – Ann Patchett. ’Brilliant, sharp, tightly wound, and devastating’ – Elizabeth Gilbert. Join the Crime reading group in Uppsala to discuss this book at the pub!
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