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Original Sin by P.D. James
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies - a discarded mistress, a neglected and h ...Show more
Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas
$35.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries (Paperback)
A small mountain community in the French Alps is roused to terror when they awaken each morning to find yet another of their sheep with its throat torn out. One of the villagers thinks it might be a werewolf, and when she's found killed in the same manner, people begin to wonder if she might have been r ...Show more
The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
$23.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg Ser.
"Winner of the 2009 CWA International Dagger Award ean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme- he doesn t search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this ...Show more
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg Novel by Fred Vargas
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
'People will die,' says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She has been standing in blazing sunshine for more than an hour, and refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Norman ...Show more
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg novel by Fred Vargas
$28.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
'People will die,' says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Normandy. Since the middle ages there have been stories of murderers, r ...Show more
The Lighthouse by P. D. James
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visi ...Show more
The Private Patient by P. D. James
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Ser.
When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation and the beginning of a new life. But she was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and hi ...Show more
The Private Patient by P.D. James
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dor ...Show more
The War I Finally Won (#2 War) by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: Ada
Like the classic heroines, Ada conquers the homefront as her World War II journey continues in this sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning The War that Saved My Life. When Ada's clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she's not what her mother said she was-crippled mentally as well ...Show more
The War that Saved My Life (#1 War) by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: Ada
An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaimed author of Jefferson's Sons and for fans of Number the Stars. Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her li ...Show more
Thirteen (Adam Grant #1) by Tom Hoyle
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: Adam Grant
Born at midnight in London, on the stroke of the new millennium, Adam is the target of a cult that believes boys born on this date must die before the end of their thirteenth year. Twelve boys have been killed so far. Coron, the crazy cult leader, will stop at nothing to bring in his new kingdom. And no ...Show more
This Night's Foul Work by Fred Vargas
$30.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg 5
"On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. It is assumed that this is a drug-related incident of the kind so often uncovered in that area of town. But Adamsberg is convinced that there is more to it. Anxious to keep control of the case, he must call in a favour from the ...Show more