Item category 1: Crime Paperback

Maggie Stewart travels with friends Liz and Harry to the Ice Hotel, a surreal building in Swedish Lapland constructed from ice cut from the nearby river. During the day, it is a museum housing ice sculptures, but at night it becomes a novelty hotel. Shortly after their arrival, the holiday turns ...

Polish-born DS Dania Gorska is called upon to investigate a seemingly straightforward case of an RTA - a car has crashed into a tree, having first hit a deer on an icy road. But a witness has come forward to say he saw someone fleeing the scene and then the autopsy reveals vicious marks on the he...

Fact catches up with fiction when the secret of telepathic communication is discovered. The device at the centre of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and, whether they stole it or invented it, there are powerful interests who will kill to get hold of it. Albert Campion faces as d...

Will Albert Campion give up detection and turn respectable? Perhaps, but after a series of coincidences, culminating in a letter from Lugg's brother-in-law, Campion can no longer resist involvement in the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths.

When Albert Campion is called in by the fiancée of an old college friend to investigate the disappearance of her uncle, he does not expect the mysterious spate of death and dangers that follows amongst the bizarre inhabitants of Socrates Close, Cambridge. He and Stanislaus Oates must tread caref...

Jail-breaker and knife artist Jack Havoc is once again loose on the streets of London. Word goes around the furtive alleys and darkened pubs that the Tiger is back in town, more vicious and cunning than ever. It falls to Albert Campion to pit his wits against the killer and hunt him down before h...

As the spring warmth melts the ice, divers search the wreckage at the bottom of the Angermanland River - but the murdered man they recover was put there much more recently than the historic artefacts they were seeking. Local Detective Eira Sjodin, newly pregnant and not talking about it, is proud...

When a dead man is found locked in the basement of an abandoned house, deep in the woods, there is no evidence of what happened beyond his name - scratched into the wall before he died. The regional police can't find anyone who knew him. But no-one knows the locals like Detective Eira Sjödin. Wh...

The Persian War is over and wealthy Athenians are looking to expand alliances overseas. Popular playwright Philocles and his actors are hired to take his latest play to Corinth, to promote goodwill between the two cities. But on arrival, their guide and fixer Eumelos drops dead - a victim of pois...

Josef Vadassy decides to break his journey from Nice to Paris at the coastal town of St Gatien. His nightmare begins when a film he takes to the chemist turn out to hold top secret military information.