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The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White
William Shakespeare: His Life and Work by Anthony Holden
The Bank Holiday Murders: The True Story of the First Whitechapel Murders: Volume 1 (Jack the Ripper) by Tom Wescott
First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer
Ripper Notes: America Looks at Jack the Ripper by Wolf Vanderlinden
Ripper Notes: Suspects & Witnesses by Dan Norder
Ripper Notes: Madmen, Myths and Magic by Dan Norder
Ripper Notes: Death in London's East End by Dan Norder
Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Inspector Rebus Novels) by Ian Rankin
Ripper Notes: Murder by Numbers by Dan Norder
Hide and Seek (Inspector Rebus Novels) by Ian Rankin
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
Ripper Notes: How the Newspapers Covered the Jack the Ripper Murders by Dan Norder
The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
Gallows View: The First Inspector Banks Mystery by Peter Robinson
Tooth and Nail (Inspector Rebus) by Ian Rankin
Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse) by Colin Dexter
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium) by Stieg Larsson
Raven Black: Book One of the Shetland Island Quartet (Shetland Island Mysteries) by Ann Cleeves
Storm by Boris Starling
Ripper Confidential: New Research on the Whitechapel Murders (Jack the Ripper) by Tom Wescott
Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays by Lawrence Manley
Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse) by Colin Dexter
Being a Detective: An A-Z Readers' and Writers' Guide to Detective Work by Stephen Wade
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (Inspector Morse Mysteries) by Colin Dexter
The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing by Evan Marshall
A Disaffection by James Kelman
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
How the Dead Speak (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan) by Val McDermid
Let the Right One in
Sharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign, July 1809 by Bernard Cornwell
My Sister Rosa
Fever of the Bone by mcdermid-val
How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them--A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide by Howard Mittelmark
Frost at Christmas (Jack Frost) by R.D. Wingfield
A Meditation On Murder (A Death in Paradise Mystery, Book 1) by Robert Thorogood
The Retribution: An unforgettably thrilling novel from the Queen of Crime (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Book 7) by Val McDermid
The Sandman: Overture Deluxe Edition by Neil Gaiman
Under an English heaven by Donald E. Westlake
Cross and Burn: A Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Novel (Tony Hill Novels, 2) by Val McDermid
The Lovecraft Anthology Volume 1 (Eye Classics) by H P Lovecraft
It by Stephen King
A Study In Scarlet Women (The Lady Sherlock Series) by Sherry Thomas
Into The Woods by John Yorke
The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell
Trick Is to Keep Breathing (Scottish Literature) by Janice Galloway
Red Riding Nineteen Eighty Three (The Red Riding Quartet) by David Peace
Black Dog (Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, Book 1) by Stephen Booth
Strip Jack by Ian Rankin
Who Goes There?: The Novella That Formed the Basis of the Thing by John W. Jr. Campbell
Dead Simple by Peter James
Utopia For Realists: And How We Can Get There by Bregman Rutger
The Mermaids Singing (Dr. Tony Hill & Carol Jordan Mysteries) by Val McDermid
Service of All the Dead by Colin Dexter
Becoming Unbecoming by Una
Ripper Notes: The Hunt for Jack the Ripper by Dan Norder
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
White Nights: A Thriller (Shetland Island Mysteries) by Ann Cleeves
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium Trilogy) by Stieg Larsson
Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four (The Red Riding Quartet) by David Peace
Nineteen Eighty (The Red Riding Quartet) by David Peace
The Travelling Companion (Bibliomysteries) by Ian Rankin
Casino Royale (James Bond Novels) by Ian Fleming
A Touch of Frost by R.D. Wingfield
Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (Grantchester, 1) by James Runcie
Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush by Paul F. Boller Jr.
Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Seven (The Red Riding Quartet) by David Peace
The Complete Guide to Grammar by Rosalind Fergusson
TA Today: A New Introduction to Transactional Analysis by Ian Stewart
The Making of the President, 1968 by Theodore Harold White
The White Lioness: Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell
The Lovecraft Anthology: Volume 2 by H. P. Lovecraft
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Oxford World's Classics) by James Hogg
A Commodore 64 Walkabout by Robinson Mason
On crime writing (Yes! Capra chapbook series ; no. 11) by Ross Macdonald
In the Family (Salt Crime) by Christina James
Scaredy Cat by Mark Billingham
Queen's Head, The (Nicholas Bracewell Mysteries) by Edward Marston
The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins (The Adventure Zone, 1) by Clint McElroy
Shadows over Baker Street by Michael Reaves
Man Who Smiled: A Kurt Wallander Mystery by Henning Mankell
Remaking the Labour Party: From Gaitskell to Blair by Tudor Jones
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI by Robert K. Ressler
Honourable Friends?: Parliament and the Fight for Change by Caroline Lucas (author)
Eden: Biblical Fiction of the World's First Family (The Fall of Man Series) by Brennan McPherson
The story of the Commodore 64 in pixels by Chris Wilkins
The House on Half Moon Street (A Leo Stanhope Case) by Alex Reeve
Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham
America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President, 1956-1980 by Theodore H. White
I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Ripper Notes: Written in Blood by Dan Norder
Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk
Dragman: A Novel by Steven Appleby
MESSIAH by Starling
Splinter the Silence: (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 9): You won't be able to put this masterful psychological thriller down by Val McDermid
The Wire in the Blood (Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Mysteries) by Val McDermid
Slow Horses (Slough House Book 1) by Mick Herron
The Shining (Roman) by Stephen King
THE BLACK BOOK by Ian Rankin
Vita Nostra: A Novel by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko
The Matrix Games Handbook: Professional Applications from Education to Analysis and Wargaming by John Curry
Child Abuse in Freud's Vienna: Postcards from the End of the World by Larry Wolff
The Last Temptation: A Novel (Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Mysteries) by Val McDermid
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) by Suzette Boon
Sharpe's Gold (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #9) by Bernard Cornwell
Goliath by Tom Gauld
the earthquake room by Davey Davis
Little Fish by Casey Plett
Mooncop by Tom Gauld
The Chalk Circle Man (Commissaire Adamsberg #1) by Fred Vargas
5 Room Dungeons by Johnn Four
Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood by Qian Julie Wang
Insidious Intent by Val McDermid
For the Many ...: Preparing Labour for Power by Mike Phipps
Titan Shattered: Wrestling with Confidence and Paranoia by James Dixon
John Bercow: Call to Order by Sebastian Whale
Whisky from Small Glasses (DCI Daley, #1) by Denzil Meyrick
The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership from Wilson to May by Steve Richards
Tell Me I’m Worthless
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
The House by Tom Watson
How to Be a Minister: A 21st-Century Guide by John Hutton
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
Unspeakable: The Autobiography
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Ripper Notes: Jack the Slasher by Wolf Vanderlinden
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages by Saundra Mitchell
Stone Butch Blues: A Novel by Leslie Feinberg
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Red Bones (Shetland) by Ann Cleeves
The Thames Torso Murders by M. J. Trow
Long Way Home (DI Zigic & DS Ferreira Book 1) by Eva Dolan
Dead Space: Martyr (Dead Space Series) by Brian Evenson
Crime Uncovered: Detective by Barry Forshaw
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Devil and the Dark Water: The mind-blowing new murder mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author by Stuart Turton
Mortal Causes (Inspector Rebus Novels) by Ian Rankin
Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything by Oliver Bullough
Mindhunter by John,Olshaker Douglas, Mark
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A GUIDE AND MAP FOR RECOVERING FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMA by Pete Walker
Girl A by Abigail Dean
The Stranger Beside Me: The Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy (New Edition) by Ann Rule
Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts by Kathryn Harkup
The Boys of the Dark: A Story of Betrayal and Redemption in the Deep South by Robin Gaby Fisher
The Seventh Victim by Michael Wood
Ripper Notes: The Legend Continues by Dan Norder
Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It: A Mystery (The Finlay Donovan Series, 1) by Elle Cosimano
The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night duology, 1) by Kylie Lee Baker
I Am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. Holland
Trumpet: A Novel by Jackie Kay
Misery by Stephen King
Hamnet: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 by Maggie O'Farrell
The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead
Let It Bleed (Inspector Rebus Novels) by Ian Rankin
Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Wrestling With Pixels by Audun Sorlie
Normal People: A Novel by Sally Rooney
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
A Madness of Angels: Or The Resurrection of Matthew Swift by Kate Griffin
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall
Godot Engine Game Development in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself: The Official Guide to Godot 3.0 by Ariel Manzur
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Salt Lane: the superb first book in the DS Alexandra Cupidi Investigations by William Shaw
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World by Neil Gaiman
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
The Library of the Unwritten (A Novel from Hell's Library Book 1) by A. J. Hackwith
The Keeper: A Novel by Jessica Moor
Titan Sinking: The decline of the WWF in 1995 by James Dixon
The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess by Tom Gauld
The Princess Bride (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by William Goldman
Dan Leno & the Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd
THE WRONG BOY by Willy Russell
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell
Sidetracked by Henning Mankell
Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase
Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff
Laidlaw by William McIlvanney
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
The Political Animal: An Anatomy by Jeremy Paxman
The Colour of Magic (Discworld, #1) by Terry Pratchett
Can You Forgive Her? (Penguin Classics) by Anthony Trollope
Writing the Other (Conversation Pieces) by Cynthia Ward
Blue Lightning by Ann Cleeves
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
The Black Door by Richard Aldrich
Murder & Crime: Lincolnshire by Douglas Huke
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
Crime Scene Investigator by Paul Millen
The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene
The Unquiet Dead: A Novel (Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak Novels) by Ausma Zehanat Khan
The House of Commons: An Anthropology of MPs at Work by Emma Crewe
Mortal Mischief (Vienna Blood, 1) by Frank Tallis
Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime
The Iron Raven (The Iron Fey: Evenfall, 1) by Julie Kagawa
The Story of Silence: 2020’s extraordinary LGBTQ chivalric tale by Alex Myers
The Return of the King by Tolkien J. R. R.
Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices by Swapna Krishna
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye
Empireland by Sanghera Sathnam
Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain by Susie Dent
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle) by Tracy Deonn
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories by Mariana Enriquez
It Rides a Pale Horse by Andy Marino
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
The Drowned City: Daniel Pursglove 1 by K. J. Maitland
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories (A Rebus Novel) by Ian Rankin
A Necessary Evil: Wyndham and Banerjee Book 2 (Wyndham and Banerjee series) by Abir Mukherjee
The White House Boys: An American Tragedy by Roger Dean Kiser
Revolutionary by Alex Myers
Frankenstein
The Way of All Flesh (A Raven and Fisher Mystery, 1) by Ambrose Parry
The Bloodprint: Book One of the Khorasan Archives (The Khorasan Archives, 1) by Ausma Zehanat Khan
The Body in the Marsh (DCI Craig Gillard #1) by Nick Louth
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Witchlings by Claribel A. Ortega
Snowpiercer 1: The Escape by Jacques Lob
A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham, #1) by Abir Mukherjee
Detransition, Baby: A Novel by Torrey Peters
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Jews Don’t Count: A Times Book of the Year 2021 by David Baddiel
Elizabeth, The Witch's Daughter
The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures by Louis Theroux
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody
Naamah: A Novel by Sarah Blake
Metro 2033: First U.S. English edition (METRO by Dmitry Glukhovsky) by Dmitry Glukhovsky
How to be a Minister by Gerald Kaufman
Crime Writers: A Decade of Crime
Write It and Sell It by Allen Marple
Last Writes (Inspector Sloan #25) by Catherine Aird
Beginnings, Middles & Ends (Elements of Fiction Writing)
Fleabag: The Original Play by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
The Cthulhu Hack by Paul Baldowski
A Straightforward Guide to the Crime Writers Casebook: A Reference Guide to Police Procedure now and then (Straightforward Guides) by Stephen Wade
Borderline (The Arcadia Project, #1) by Mishell Baker
The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know by Shawn Coyne
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson
I'll Be Gone in the Dark : One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
Lancelot by Giles Kristian
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides) by Marshall B. Rosenberg PhD
Cain by José Saramago
The Midnight Sun: The Complete Stories of Kane by Karl Edward Wagner
Gods in Darkness: The Complete Novels of Kane by Karl Edward Wagner
Columbia & Britannia by Adam Chamberlain
CAIN: Poems by Luke Kennard
The Three-Body Problem 1 by Cixin Liu
The Last Man (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Shelley
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Non Violent Communication A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Romancing the Beat: Story Structure for Romance Novels (How to Write Kissing Books Book 1) by Gwen Hayes
Lancelot: The Betrayal by Giles Kristian
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