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ISBN / ISSN:
9780571232031
Occupied City (#2 Tokyo trilogy)
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Author:
David Peace
Published by:
Faber and Faber
It's Tokyo, January 26th, 1948. As the third year of the US Occupation of Japan begins, a man enters a downtown bank. He speaks of an outbreak of dysentery and says he is a doctor, sent by the Occupation authorities, to treat anyone who might have been exposed. Clear liquid is poured into sixteen teacups. Sixteen employees of the bank drink this liquid according to strict instructions. Within minutes twelve of them are dead, the other four unconscious. The man disappears along with some, but not all, of the bank's money. And so begins the biggest manhunt in Japanese history. In "Occupied City", David Peace dramatises and explores the rumours of complicity, conspiracy and cover-up that surround the chilling case of the Teikoku Bank Massacre: of the man who was convicted of the crime, of the legacy of biological warfare programmes, and of the victims and survivors themselves.
This edition available June 2010
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780571231997
Tokyo Year Zero (#1 Tokyo trilogy)
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Author:
David Peace
Published by:
Faber and Faber
This book is set in August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors. Against this extraordinary historical backdrop, "Tokyo Year Zero" opens with the discovery of the bodies of two young women in Shiba Park. Against his wishes, Detective Minami is assigned to the case, and as he gets drawn ever deeper into these complex and horrific murders, he realises that his own past and secrets are indelibly linked to those of the dead women and their killer.
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9781849160155
The Merry Misogynist
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Author:
Colin Cotterill
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Quercus
Somebody in Laos is wooing and wedding country girls - and then killing them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to trees. The horror of what this monster does to his victims leaves a bad taste in the mouths of Dr Siri and his morgue team and they vow revenge. But they're distracted by the disappearance of itinerant Crazy Rajid. Siri has been getting premonitions that he's in danger. A trail of elaborate clues and remarkable disclosures about the Indian's past lead them to Vientiane's most ancient temple - and a terrible discovery. With the reappearance of Dr Siri's four-legged sidekick Saloop, you have to ask, does this series just keep getting better or what?
Review: 'Cotterill's novels have richer plots than Alexander McCall Smith's African detective stories, but the same comic charm' Sunday Times. 'Witty dialogue and engaging characters, especially the irrepressible Siri, who becomes more lovable with each appearance. The ...
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9781869792718
Blood Men
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Author:
Paul Cleave
Published by:
Black Swan Crime
Edward Hunter is a family man with a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future, and a very dark
past. Edward's father is a man of blood. He's been in jail for twenty years and he's never coming out. Edward
has struggled his entire life to put that all behind him, but it's hard, it's hard when everybody knows you're the
son of a serial killer. Then, a week out from Christmas, Eddie's world is turned upside-down. Suddenly he's
going to need the help of his father, a man he hasn't seen since he was a boy. Is Edward destined to be just
like his father, to become a man of blood?
First published 2010
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781846552588
The Man from Beijing
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Author:
Henning Mankell
Published by:
Harvill Secker
One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a crime unprecedented in Swedish history. When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved and decides to investigate. A nineteenth-century diary and a red silk ribbon found in the forest nearby are the only clues. What Birgitta eventually uncovers leads her into an international web of corruption and a story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years, linking China and the USA of the 1860s with modern-day Beijing, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and coming to a shocking climax in London's Chinatown. "The Man from Beijing" is both a gripping ...
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9781741756883
Dog On It: (A Chet & Bernie Mystery (#1))
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Author:
Spencer Quinn
Published by:
Allen & Unwin
I could smell him - or rather the booze on his breath - before he even opened the door, but my sense of smell is pretty good, probably better than yours.So begins this fabulous, funny new detective novel featuring Bernie, a slightly down-at-heel PI; and his offsider, Chet, a dog - and the captivating narrator of the story.Chet may have flunked out of police school ("I'd been the best leaper in K-9 class, which had led to all the trouble in a way I couldn't remember exactly, although blood was involved"), but he's just as much a detective as Bernie - superior, sometimes, in his insight into human foibles.In Dog On It, their first adventure, Chet and Bernie investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl who may or may not have been kidnapped, but who's definitely gotten herself mixed up with some very unsavoury characters. xed up with some very unsavoury characters.With genuine suspense and intrigue, combined with humour and deep ...
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9781741759358
Thereby Hangs A Tail (A Chet and Bernie Mystery (#2))
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Author:
Spencer Quinn
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Allen & Unwin(Australia) Pty Ltd
Bernie Little and his canine companion, Chet, are private investigators. Both have had some setbacks in life - Bernie in combat, Chet in K-9 dog-training school - but together they make up a team like no other. Bernie and Chet are hired to investigate threats made against an unlikely target - a pretty, pampered show dog named Princess. What seems like a joke turns serious when Princess and her owner are abducted. To make matters worse, Bernie's on-again, off-again girlfriend, reporter Susie Sanchez, disappears too. When Chet gets separated from Bernie, he tries to put the pieces together, find his way home, and save the day.
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9781921351419
Disco for the Departed
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Author:
Colin Cotterill
Published by:
The Text Publishing Company
In Vientiane's Mahosot Hospital morgue, 73-year-old Dr Siri Paiboun, national coroner of Laos, handles the fatalities at the state hospitals-and the odd murder.
His assistants - the gorgeous, clever, fat Nurse Dtui and the slow but irreplaceable Geung - have helped Dr Siri out of scrapes before in The Coroner's Lunch and Thirty-Three Teeth.
Leaving Geung guarding the morgue, Siri and Dtui land in a remote mountain village where a mummified arm is protruding from recently buckled concrete paving.
Just how is this arm connected to the President of the People's Democratic Republic of Laos? What will the autopsy reveal? Can Siri decipher the messages of the departed souls that fill his dreams? And will they lead him to discover the identity of the arm's owner and find the answer to the puzzle of his death?
With a great sense of fun and a lively, loveable cast of characters, Disco for the Departed will delight fans of The ...
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9781921145889
Thirty-Three Teeth
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Author:
Colin Cotterill
Published by:
The Text Publishing Company Pty Ltd
The highly anticipated sequel to
The Coroner's Lunch
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Laos, 1977. Something wild and evil has been let loose in the city of Vientiane and a series of mutilated corpses lands in the morgue of Dr Siri Paiboun - the reluctant national coroner.
Just as things in the capital start to get interesting, 72-year old Dr Siri is sent to the old royal capital Luang Prabang, where he becomes involved in the Communist Government's plot to rid the country of its king and all the royal spirits.
Meanwhile, back in Vientiane, Dr Siri's helpers-Mr. Geung, a mentally challenged lab technician, and Nurse Dtui, whose nickname means "Fatty", investigate the strange deaths. But is the killer man or beast? It'll take all the coronial team's powers to crack this gruesome mystery.
With a great sense of fun and a lively, loveable cast of characters,
Thirty-Three Teeth
will delight fans of
The Coroner's Lunch
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9781849160117
Curse of the Pogo Stick
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Author:
Colin Cotterill
Published by:
Quercus
Following a rash moment of insolence, Dr Siri Paiboun, Laos' reluctant national coroner, confused shaman and disheartened communist, is forced to go on a road trip with Judge Haeng and the Justice Department. While newly pregnant Nurse Dtui and Dr Siri's fiance Madame Daeng are left at the morgue to defend the staff against exploding corpses and geriatric gunslingers, Siri has his own problems. On a deserted jungle trail, Siri is kidnapped. His only route to freedom is to exorcise the local village of its demon - but that means lifting the curse of the pogo stick.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780330449557
The Chameleon's Shadow
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Author:
Minette Walters
Published by:
Pan Books
When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, especially his ex-fiancee who seems unable to accept that the relationship is over.After his injuries prevent his return to the army, he cuts all ties with his former life and moves to London. Alone and unmonitored, he sinks into a private world of guilt and paranoid distrust ...until a customer annoys him in a Bermondsey pub and he attracts the attention of local police investigating three murders which appear to have been motivated by extreme rage ...Under suspicion, Acland is forced to confront the real issues behind his isolation. How much control does he have over the dark side of his personality? Do his ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781846687075
Nineteen Eighty (#3 Red Riding quartet)
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Author:
David Peace
Published by:
Profile Books
"Nineteen Eighty" is set against an evolving backdrop of power, corruption and lies. The nightmare continues during the winter of 1980 when the Ripper murders his thirteenth victim and the whole of Yorkshire is terrorised. Assistant Chief Constable Hunter struggles to solve the hellish crimes and bring an end to the horror, but is drawn ever deeper into a world of bent coppers and sleaze. After his house is burned down, his wife is threatened and his colleagues turn against him, Hunter's quest becomes personal as he has nothing left to lose."Nineteen Eighty" is a compelling battle between two desperate men, each determined to destroy the other. This third volume of the "Red Riding Quartet" displays Peace's unique voice which places him as one of the UK's finest crime writers.
First published 2001.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781846687068
Nineteen Seventy Seven (#2 Red Riding quartet)
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author:
David Peace
Published by:
Profile Books Ltd
If you thought fiction couldn't get darker than David Peace's extraordinary debut, "Nineteen Seventy Four", then think again. "Nineteen Seventy Seven", the second instalment of the "Red Riding Quartet", is one long nightmare. Its heroes - the half decent copper Bob Fraser and the burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead - would be considered villains in most people's books. Fraser and Whitehead have one thing in common though, they're both desperate men dangerously in love with Chapeltown prostitutes.And as the summer moves remorselessly towards the bonfires of Jubilee Night, the killings accelerate and it seems as if Fraser and Whitehead are the only men who suspect or care that there may be more than one killer at large. Out of the horror of true crime, David Peace has fashioned a work of terrible beauty. Like James Ellroy before him, David Peace tells us the true and fearsome secret history of our times.
First published 2000.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781921520716
Truth
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Author:
Peter Temple
Published by:
The Text Publishing Company
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach. So begins the sequel to Peter Temple's bestselling masterpiece, The Broken Shore. Villani's life is his work. It is his identity, his calling, his touchstone. But now, over a few sweltering summer days, as fires burn across the state and his superiors and colleagues scheme and jostle, he finds all the certainties of his life are crumbling. Truth is a novel about a man, a family, a city. It is about violence, murder, love, corruption, honour and deceit. And it is about truth.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780752889528
The Complaints
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NZ$ 38.00 each
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Author:
Ian Rankin
Published by:
Orion
'Mustn't complain' - but people always do...Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their full title, but known colloquially as 'the Dark Side', or simply 'The Complaints'. Malcolm Fox works for The Complaints. He's just had a result, and should be feeling good about himself. But he's middle-aged, sour and unwell. He also has a father in a care home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship. In the midst of an aggressive Edinburgh winter, the reluctant Fox is given a new task. There's a cop called Jamie Breck, and he's dirty. Problem is, no one can prove it. But as Fox takes on the job, he learns that there's more to Breck than anyone thinks. This knowledge will prove dangerous, especially when murder intervenes. THE COMPLAINTS is the searing new novel from Ian Rankin, an inquiry into personal morality, private vice, friendship, ...
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