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The Botanist by MW Craven

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The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths

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Into The Dark by Fiona Cummins
Black Hearts by Doug Johnstone
Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
The It Girl by Ruth Ware

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The Murder Book by Mark Billingham
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
Bad Actors by Mick Herron
The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell
The Lost Man of Bombay by Vaseem Khan
The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh
All I Said Was True by Imran Mahmood
1989 by Val McDermid
The Heretic by Liam McIlvanney
Blue Water by Leonora Nattrass
May God Forgive by Alan Parks
Truly, Darkly, Deeply by Victoria Selman
Reputation by Sarah Vaughan
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Slough House by Mick Herron

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True Crime Story by Joseph Knox

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The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean
The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths
Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan
Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

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Tall Bones by Anna Bailey
Rabbit Hole by Mark Billingham
The Cut by Christopher Brookmyre
The Heron’s Cry by Ann Cleeves
Dead Ground by MW Craven
Girl A by Abigail Dean
Watch Her Fall by Erin Kelly
I Know What I Saw by Imran Mahmood
Blood Ties by Brian McGilloway
The Less Dead by Denise Mina
The Trawlerman by William Shaw
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
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We Begin At the End by Chris Whitaker

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The Last Crossing by Brian McGilloway

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The Lantern Men by Elly Griffiths
Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton
Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee
The Man on the Street by Trevor Wood

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Cry Baby by Mark Billingham
The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish
The Cutting Place by Jane Casey
Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh
Black River by Will Dean
Between Two Evils  by Eva Dolan
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
The Big Chill by Doug Johnstone
Still Life by Val McDermid
Our Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent
A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin
Remain Silent by Susie Steiner
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The Chain by Adrian McKinty

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My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Worst Case Scenario by Helen Fitzgerald
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
Joe Country by Mick Herron
Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee

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Fallen Angel by Christopher Brookmyre
Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver
Cruel Acts by Jane Casey
Blue Moon by Lee Child
The Long Call by Ann Cleeves
Red Snow by Will Dean
Platform Seven by Louise Doughty
How the Dead Speak by Val McDermid
Conviction by Denise Mina
The Whisper Man by Alex North
Blood and Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
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Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

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Snap by Belinda Bauer
London Rules by Mick Herron
Broken Ground by Val McDermid
The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney
East Of Hounslow by Khurrum Rahman

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Our House by Louise Candlish
Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves
This Is How It Ends by Eva Dolan
Take Me In by Sabine Durrant
The Dark Angel by Elly Griffiths
The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry
Hell Bay by Kate Rhodes
Salt Lane by William Shaw
The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan
Changeling by Matt Wesolowski​
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The Intrusions by Stav Sherez

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Spook Street by Mick Herron
Insidious Intent by Val McDermid
The Long Drop by Denise Mina
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
Persons Unknown by Susie Steiner

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Want You Gone by Christopher Brookmyre
The Seagull by Ann Cleeves
The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths
A Death at Fountains Abbey by Antonia Hodgson
He Said/She Said by Erin Kelly
Sirens by Joseph Knox
The Accident on the A35 by Graeme Macrae Burnet
You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood
Rather be the Devil by Ian Rankin​
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Black Widow by Christopher Brookmyre
 
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After You Die by Eva Dolan
Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant
Real Tigers by Mick Herron
Out Of Bounds by Val McDermid
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
 
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Die Of Shame by Mark Billingham
Night School by Lee Child
Tastes Like Fear by Sarah Hilary
The Last Confession Of Thomas Hawkins by Antonia Hodgson
The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood
Coffin Road by Peter May
Those We Left Behind by Stuart Neville
Even Dogs In The Wild by Ian Rankin
Murderabilia by Craig Robertson
Birdwatcher by William Shaw
The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Stasi Wolf by David Young
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I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
 
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Time of Death by Mark Billingham
Tell No Tales by Eva Dolan
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
Disclaimer by Renée Knight
Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty
 
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The Moth Catcher by Ann Cleeves
The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths
Black Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin
The Missing and the Dead by Stuart MacBride
Every Night I Dream of Hell by Malcolm Mackay
Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
The Nightmare Place by Steve Mosby
The Final Silence by Stuart Neville
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Death is a Welcome Guest by Louise Welsh
Stasi Child by David Young
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Someone Else’s Skin by Sarah Hilary
 
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The Facts of Life and Death by Belinda Bauer
The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin
The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths
The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson
Entry Island by Peter May
 
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Eeny Meeny by MJ Arlidge
The Ghost Runner by Parker Bilal
The Strangler Vine by MJ Carter
Personal by Lee Child
The Killing Season by Mason Cross
Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart by Christopher Fowler
The Telling Error by Sophie Hannah
Darkness, Darkness by John Harvey
Disappeared by Anthony J Quinn
Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
The Farm by Tom Rob Smith
A Lovely Way to Burn by Louise Welsh
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Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
 
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Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths
The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay
The Chess Men by Peter May
The Red Road by Denise Mina
Eleven Days by Stav Sherez
 
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The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
The Dying Hours by Mark Billingham
Like This, For Ever by Sharon Bolton
A Wanted Man by Lee Child
The Honey Guide by Richard Crompton
The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald
Until You're Mine by Samantha Hayes
I Hear the Sirens in the Street by Adrian McKinty
Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin
Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson
Weirdo by Cathi Unsworth
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Gods And Beasts by Denise Mina
 
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Rush Of Blood by Mark Billingham
Safe House by Chris Ewan
The Lewis Man by Peter May
Stolen Souls by Stuart Neville
A Dark Redemption by Stav Sherez
 
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The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne
Finders Keepers by Belinda Bauer
Dead Scared by SJ Bolton
The Affair by Lee Child
A Foreign Country by Charles Cumming
Not Dead Yet by Peter James
Siege by Simon Kernick
Prague Fatale by Philip Kerr
The Rage by Gene Kerrigan
Birthdays for the Dead by Stuart MacBride
The Dark Winter by David Mark
Sacrilege by SJ Parris
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The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina
 
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Now You See Me by SJ Bolton
Where the Bodies are Buried by Christopher Brookmyre
The Burning Soul by John Connolly
Black Flowers by Steve Mosby
Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson
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61 Hours by Lee Child
 
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From the Dead by Mark Billingham
Blood Harvest by SJ Bolton
Dark Blood by Stuart MacBride
The Holy Thief by William Ryan
The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor
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A Simple Act of Violence by RJ Ellory
 
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In the Dark by Mark Billingham
The Surrogate by Tania Carver
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
Dead Tomorrow by Peter James
Gallows Lane by Brian McGilloway
Doors Open by Ian Rankin
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
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Death Message by Mark Billingham
 
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The Accident Man by Tom Cain
Bad Luck And Trouble by Lee Child
Gone To Ground by John Harvey
Ritual by Mo Hayder
Garden Of Evil by David Hewson
A Cure For All Diseases by Reginald Hill
The Colour Of Blood by Declan Hughes
Dead Man’s Footsteps by Peter James
Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride
Beneath The Bleeding by Val McDermid
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
Friend Of The Devil by Peter Robinson
Savage Moon by Chris Simms
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The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
 
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The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett
Buried by Mark Billingham
A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil by Christopher Brookmyre
The Death of Dalziel by Reginald Hill
One Under by Graham Hurley
Not Dead Enough by Peter James
Relentless by Simon Kernick
Dying Light by Stuart MacBride
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
Piece of my Heart by Peter Robinson
Sovereign by CJ Sansom
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Two-Way Split by Allan Guthrie
 
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The Dead Place by Stephen Booth
All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye by Christopher Brookmyre
Blood and Honey by Graham Hurley
The Deathship of Dartmouth by Michael Jecks
Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride
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The Torment of Others by Val McDermid
 
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Strange Blood by Lindsay Ashford
One Last Breath by Stephen Booth
The Coffin Trail by Martin Edwards
The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill
Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin
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Lazybones by Mark Billingham
 
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The Murder Exchange by Simon Kernick
The Distant Echo by Val McDermid
A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin
The American Boy by Andrew Taylor
Disordered Minds by Minette Walters
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