Murderous Great Britain and Ireland
A tour of the British Isles, featuring mystery and mayhem -- exploring each country through its famous literary detectives. |
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 | ENGLAND |
| A Great Deliverance |
| Introduces Elizabeth George’s aristocratic Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley (aka Lord Ashton) and his partner Sgt. Barbara Havers, who are assigned to a murder in Keldale, where they uncover a shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through their own lives as well. |
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 | ENGLAND |
| Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage |
| M. C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin, a blunt former public relations powerhouse who left London for a simpler Cotswold village, is about to marry her handsome next-door neighbor, when the ceremony is halted by the arrival of the husband she fervently hoped was dead -- when he turns up dead in a ditch, she’s on the suspect list. |
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 | ENGLAND |
| Death Watch |
| First the corpse is found in a high-tech hospital incinerator, then a homeless shelter is torched, and more bodies whose organs have been surgically removed are found in the West Norfolk area, leading Jim Kelly’s Det. Peter Shaw and his team to reopen a cold case that had ended his father’s career. |
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 | ENGLAND |
| Gallows View |
| Peter Robinson’s former London policemen, Alan Banks, has relocated to Yorkshire, seeking some small measure of peace -- but the quaint little village of Eastvale seems to have a brazen Peeping Tom, and then an elderly woman is found brutally slain in her home. |
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 | ENGLAND |
| Murder on Monday |
| Ann Purser introduces us to Lois Meade, a devoted wife and mother who cleans houses in the quaint village of Long Farnden -- when a local spinster is murdered, Lois finds herself poking around her clients’ houses for clues, and uncovering some surprising secrets about this seemingly peaceful village. |
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 | ENGLAND |
| Remains to be Seen |
| J. M. Gregson’s Inspector (Percy) Peach and Det. Sgt. Lucy Blake take on the drug-dealing London underworld -- following months of undercover work, a drugs raid at a large manor is successful, but after a fire at the same house, a body is found, and an unusual and unexpected case of murder unfolds. |
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 | ENGLAND |
| The Coffin Trail |
| Daniel Kind, best known for a TV series that tries to solve historical mysteries using classic Holmesian deductive methods, retreats from academia to the Lake District with his new love, Miranda, in Martin Edwards’ debut -- unfortunately, the cottage they choose had once been the scene of a gory ritualistic murder. |
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 | ENGLAND |
| The Last Detective |
| Peter Lovesey introduces corpulent, cynical Chief Supt. Peter Diamond, who attributes Britain’s decline as a world power to the abolition of capital punishment in 1964 -- the case of a naked woman’s body found floating in a lake poses a supreme challenge, since he’s anxious to clear his name of a recent charge of brutality. |
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 | ENGLAND |
| The Torment of Others |
| Val McDermid introduces forensic psychiatrist and criminal profiler, Dr. Tony Hill, relieved to leave academia for a real case -- the Bradfield Metropolitan Police seek his advice regarding two missing children, a murdered 7-year-old kidnapped 15 months earlier, and a newly kidnapped 8-year-old. |
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 | ENGLAND |
| The Water Clock |
| Introduces Jim Kelly’s Philip Dryden, a reporter for a weekly newspaper in Cambridgeshire -- to help a policeman in trouble, he writes a not-quite-true news atory, in exchange for the official report of the auto accident who years earlier that nearly killed him, and left his wife in a coma. |
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 | ENGLAND |
| The Water Room |
| How can an elderly reclulse drown in a chair in her otherwise dry basement? -- that’s what Christopher Fowler’s detectives, John May and Arthur Bryant of London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit, set out to discover, in a city rife with shady real estate developers, racist threats, dodgy academicians, and someone dangerously obsessed with Egyptian mythology. |
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 | IRELAND |
| Christine Falls |
| A young woman has died in childbirth -- when Benjamin Black’s Irish pathologist, Garret Quirke, discovers that his adoptive brother has altered the autopsy records, he begins an investigation that drives him to trace Christine’s last days, and brings him into conflict with the Catholic Church. |
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 | IRELAND |
| Haunted Ground |
| Erin Hart introduces Irish archaelogist Cormac Macguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin -- summoned from Dublin to help identify the perfectly-preserved head of a beautiful red-haired woman, discovered in a countryside bog. |
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 | IRELAND |
| In the Woods |
| Tana French tells the tale of a 1984 summer evening, in a Dublin suburb, when three 12-year-old best friends disappeared -- two were never seen again, and the lone survivor is, 20 years later, a homicide detective, assigned the case of a murdered girl found in the same wood. |
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 | IRELAND |
| The Ghosts of Belfast |
| In the first of Stuart Neville’s series, Gerry Fegan, a former IRA hitman haunted by the ghosts of the 12 people he killed, realizes the only way these specters will give him rest is to systematically assassinate the men who gave him his orders. |
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 | IRELAND |
| The Wrong Kind of Blood |
| Declan Hughes’ P.I., Edwary Loy, returns to Dublin from California to bury his mother, and lands himself in a knotty thicket of iniquity -- retained by a profligate lady friend to find her missing husband, he also finds long-buried connections to his own family. |
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 | SCOTLAND |
| A Small Death in the Great Glen |
| In A. D. Scott’s 1950s Highlands, a boy is found dead in a canal lock, and 2 young girls tell such a fanciful story of his disappearance that no one believes them -- Joanne Ross, a part-time typist, and her boss, a seasoned journalist determined to revamp the paper, set out to investigate the crime. |
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 | SCOTLAND |
| Cold Granite |
| Stuart MacBride introduces DCI Logan McRae, who returns to his job in Aberdeen CID after recuperating from a knife attack, and finds himself assigned to a brutal serial killer case. |
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 | SCOTLAND |
| Death of a Cad |
| M. C. Beaton’s Hamish Macbeth is the sole police constable in a small village where ther’s not much to do, so he uses his time to scrounge free food and drink, and raise chickens -- when Priscilla Hallburton-Smythe’s new fiance is found dead, his superiors declare the death an accident, but Hamish produces evidence of murder. |
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 | SCOTLAND |
| Knots and Crosses |
| Ian Rankin’s Det. Inspector John Rebus, once a member of Britain’s elite SAS, is now an Edinburgh cop, hiding from his memories, missing promotions, and ignoring a series of crank letters -- when his City is terrorized by a baffling series of murders, he may be the only man who’s got all the pieces to the puzzle. |
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 | SCOTLAND |
| The Burning Glass |
| Lilian Stewart Carl’s sleuthing couple (reporter Jean Fairbairn and ex-cop Alasdair Cameron)head to the hills of the Scottish border, he as security guard at haunted Ferniebank Castle, and she to do a story about its history -- when 3 people die in quick succession, the lovers dive into a dangerous and intriguing investigation. |
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| SCOTLAND |
| The Sunday Philosophy Club |
| Alexander McCall Smith introduces Isabel Dalhousie, the editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, who has been accused of getting involved in problems that are, quite frankly, none of her business -- when she witnesses a man fall from a balcony, she can’t help but wonder if it was mischance or mischief. |
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 | SHETLAND ISLANDS |
| Raven Black |
| Ann Cleaves’ introspective Det. Insp. Jimmy Perez investigates the murder of a teenager, found strangled on a snowy hillside shortly after New Year’s -- while the police and citizens alike are quick to lay the blame on a local eccentric, Perez has his doubts. |
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 | WALES |
| Evans Above |
| Rhys Bowen’s Evan Evans, a young, unattached North Wales police constable assigned to the village of Llanfair, resents the intrusive new vacation lodge as much as anyone, but now two men have fallen to their deaths in separate mountain "accidents" the same day, putting everyone under suspicion. |
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 | WALES |
| Swansea Terminal |
| Robert Lewis’ Robin Llewellyn, a private eye in Bristol, has little time for sleuthing, what with the round-the-clock boozing and manic gambling -- wen a woman hires him to set her husband up for blackmail, all he has to do is find a hooker and collect his money....if only life were that simple. |
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 | WALES |
| The Cold Light of Mourning |
| Elizabeth J. Duncan’s Penny Brannigan, a transplanted Canadian who owns the Happy Hands Nail Care shop in Llanelen, is hired to do the nails of the bridal party for a local wedding -- when the bride turns up dead, she realizes that the woman whose nails she did that day was not the bride. |
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