 | The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.18 Another excellent into the burgeoning scandinavian crime genre. Pity its not in sequence.
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 | Promise Me by Harlan Coben
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £0.01 More escapades of Myron Bolitar. For me this one lacked the edge of earlier books.
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 | The Three Evangelists by Fred Vargas
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.10 Different, literate crime story with a curious mixture of 'detectives'
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 | Number9dream by David Mitchell
Buy used from: £1.20 Quirky, amusing tale of a Japanese teenager's search for his 'real' father. Expect Mitchell's typically episodic style.
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 | The Sculptress by Minette Walters
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Powerful and gripping tale from Ms Walters. Wouldn't mind seeing the old BBC serialisation now!
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 | Ice Moon by Jan Costin Wagner
Buy new: £2.36 / Used from: £0.96 Eerie, atmospheric thriller written by a German by set in Finland!
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 | Restless by William Boyd
Buy new: £1.20 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent and entertaining war time spy yarn.
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 | Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Buy new: £2.92 / Used from: £0.01 Interesting, allegorical tale from the Nobel laureate. More readable than some of his previous books.
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 | Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido
Buy new: £0.01 / Used from: £0.01 Interesting drama set in South Africa against the backdrop of the introduction of Apartheid in the 50s.
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 | The Man Who Walks by Alan Warner
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Hilarious and moving romp around the Highlands of Scotland looking for the eponymous man.
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 | The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Buy new: £4.24 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic first novel. Exciting and atmospheric in turns. The journey across the wilderness is incredible.
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 | A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Buy new: £6.61 / Used from: £0.01 Incredible saga which should be a must read for everyone. Don't let the length put you off.
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 | The Woods by Harlan Coben
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £0.73 Yet another did he or didn't he do it type of thriller from Harlan. As readable as ever.
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 | Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Buy used from: £0.01 Cracking read and a great film
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 | The Water Room by Christopher Fowler
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £2.24 Bryant and May make a great team and this story gives an interesting history of the culverted rivers under London's streets
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 | Redemption Ark (Gollancz S.F.) by Alastair Reynolds
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.36 Part 2 in the trilogy is as good as anything else Mr Reynolds has written.
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 | The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 First thriller in the Harry Bosch sequence is well plotted and the antihero, Bosch is likeable.
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 | The Return by Hakan Nesser
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £5.00 I think Nesser is Swedish but the story seems like its set in Holland. Anyway, its still very good
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 | A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £4.00 Moving, hearbreaking story set in the trouble country of Afghanistan. Buy it now
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 | The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks
Buy new: £12.41 / Used from: £9.99 A return to from for Iain Banks. Keep it up! I look forward to the new sci-fi book!
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 | The Bullet Trick by Louise Welsh
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 Gothic crime story set in the world of cabaret and magic. It has a similar feel to the Cutting Room
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 | Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Well written if a little dour tale of a Bangladeshi immigrant marring and living in London.
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 | Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.50 The debut book from Mitchells was the most recent I read but just as good as the others.
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