Crimewave: an influx of crime fiction
From the greenwoods of medieval England to the mean streets of L.A, and from the country house drawing room to the dark Nordic forests, wherever crime is committed a writer is likely to have set a novel there. With crime fiction more popular than ever and our library members clamouring for more, we have started the new year with an influx of new crime novels to our collections. We have added shiny new copies of a wide range of crime fiction from Wilkie Collins to Phil Rickman. Whatever your taste in crime fiction we are bound to have something for you. Below we feature just some of the titles coming to your library.
SUZANNE ARRUDA – Jade del Cameron series
Mark of the Lion | Stalking Ivory | The Serpent’s Daughter
Our heroine solves mysteries in the Africa of the 1920s
DAVID ASHTON
A Trick of the Light | Shadow of the Serpent
Inspector McLevy in Victorian Edinburgh
M.C. BEATON
Agatha Raisin & the Busy Body | Death of a Valentine | The Skeleton in the Closet
Novels from the two ever-popular Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin series.
ANN CLEEVES – Inspector Vera Stanhope
Hidden Depths | Silent Voices | Telling Tales
North of England crime fiction featuring brilliant but erratic Vera Stanhope.
STEPHEN R. DONALDSON – Reed Stephens novels
The Man who Killed his Brother | The Man who Risked his Partner
Gritty mysteries from this author who also writes fantasy and science fiction
CAROLA DUNN
A Mourning Wedding | Anthem for a Doomed Youth | Die Laughing
Fall of a Philanderer | Gunpowder Plot | Mistletoe and Murder
The Bloody Tower | The Case of the Murdered Muckraker
The Daisy Dalrymple series of 1920s mysteries
JOANNE FLUKE
Apple Turnover Murder | Cream Puff Murder
Two of the adventures of Hannah Swenson, owners of The Cookie Jar and amateur sleuth
CHARLAINE HARRIS - Lily Bard mysteries
Shakespeare’s Champion | Shakespeare’s Christmas | Shakespeare’s Counsellor
Shakespeare’s Landlord | Shakespeare’s Trollop
The adventures of a small town cleaner from Shakespeare, Arkansas
DAVID HEWSON
A Season for the Dead | The Sacred Cut | The Villa of Mysteries
Three novels featuring Rome detective Nic Costa
H.R.F. KEATING
Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg | Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart
The Perfect Murder | Under a Monsoon Cloud
Mysteries featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay police department.
SHIRLEY McKAY
Fate & Fortune | Hue & Cry | Time & Tide
Excellent historical crime fiction set in late 16th century Scotland
DENISE MINA
Exile | Garnethill | Resolution
A darker Scottish trilogy from a rising star of British crime fiction
GLADYS MITCHELL
Come Away, Death | Death & the Maiden | Death at the Opera
The Mystery of a Butcher’s Shop | The Twenty-Third Man | Watson’s Choice
Golden Age crime fiction from a writer considered to be one of the "Big Three women detective writers" in the 1930s.
LOUISE PENNY
> Bury Your Dead
> The Brutal Telling
> The Cruellest Month
> The Murder Stone
Murder mysteries set in Canada and featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec
ANTHONY PRICE
> Other Paths to Glory
> The Labyrinth Makers
> The Old Vengeful
Dark doings in the intelligence world featuring Dr David Audley of the Ministry of Defence.
JOSEPHINE TEY
> A Shilling for Candles
> The Man in the Queue
> The Singing Sands
> To Love and Be Wise
Classic Golden Age crime fiction featuring Inspector Grant.
...and also
DANIEL D. VICTOR: The Seventh Bullet
ZOE FERRARIS: City of Veils
CONOR FITZGERALD: The Dogs of Rome
JED RUBENFELD: The Death Instinct
STEFANIE PINTOFF: In the Shadow of Gotham
SHERWOOD KING: If I Die Before I Wake
DARREN CRASKE: The Eleventh Plague
JOHN BOYNE: Crippen: a novel of murder
RAYMOND CHANDLER: The High Window
JAMES McCREET: The Vice Society
