 | A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley Mysteries) by Elizabeth George
Buy used from: £0.01 Often first novels are the best.
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 | The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Not one of her best-known, but beautifully crafted.
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 | Grasshopper by Barbara Vine
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Rendell-Vine goes from strength to strength. I can't help shuddering each time I see one of those pylons.
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 | The Wood Beyond (Dalziel & Pascoe Novel) by Reginald Hill
Buy used from: £0.01 The historical twist makes this my favourite Reginald Hill.
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 | The Marx Sisters (Brock & Kolla Mystery) by Barry Maitland
Buy used from: £0.98 An excellent beginning, lots of the ingredients I enjoy.
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 | The Ice House by Minette Walters
Buy new: £4.52 / Used from: £0.01 Walters best followed by The Sculptress and The Dark Room. Since The Shape of Snakes, the output is mediocre.
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 | In A Dry Season: An Inspector Banks Mystery by Peter Robinson
Buy new: £4.86 / Used from: £0.01 The past again. His most satisfying novel to date with Aftermath as runner-up.
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 | Original Sin by P.D. James
Buy used from: £0.43 No list is complete without this one. The Thames is brilliantly portrayed.
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 | The Nature of the Beast by Frances Fyfield
Buy used from: £0.01 Fyfield is not consistently good, but sometimes, as here, very clever.
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