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A Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg Ser.
THE NEW INSPECTOR ADAMSBERG NOVEL. A woman is found dead in her bath. The murder has been disguised as a suicide and a strange symbol is discovered at the scene. Then the symbol is observed near a second victim, who ten years earlier had also taken part in a doomed expedition to Iceland. How are these d ...Show more
Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh 4) by P.D. James
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Amongst the blackmail, lies and hastily kept secrets of the Nightingale nursing school, another s ...Show more
The Black Tower ( Adam Dalgliesh 5 ) by P.D. James
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
Award-winning P.D. James, one of the masters of crime fiction, takes her best-known detective to the Dorset coast in this murder mystery. Awakening on his sick bed to a deepening sense of his own mortality, Dalgliesh fights with his illness and finds himself embroiled in a thrilling murder investigation ...Show more
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg novel by Fred Vargas
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery | 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 Private Patient by P. D. James
$16.00 NZD
Category: Classic 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 War I Finally Won (#2 War) by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
$24.00 NZD
Category: Young Adults | 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
$24.00 NZD
Category: Young Adults | Series: Ada | Reading Level: good-very good
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
This Poison Will Remain by Fred Vargas
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg Ser.
"Wry humor and offbeat plots blend with a subtly dangerous charm to make Fred Vargas the queen of French crime writers." -MARTIN WALKER, author of the Bruno, Chief of Police series A murder in Paris brings Commissaire Adamsberg out of the Icelandic mists of his previous investigation and unexpectedly in ...Show more
This Poison Will Remain: Adamsberg 9 by Fred Vargas
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg
Commissaire Adamsberg investigates the death of three men linked by their childhood at an orphanage in Nimes, all killed by the venom of the recluse spider, in the new novel by the #1 bestselling French crime writer"A wildly imaginative series."--The New York Times"Adamsberg is a terrific creation and h ...Show more
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