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Where the Truth Lies, a neo-Dickensian
thriller by Rupert Holmes, is both funny
and frightening. A smart-mouthed young
journalist investigates an Odd Couple–like
comedy team from the sixties who split up
after a mysterious death in their past.

Could it be that one of the lodgers is a serial killer
who likes to strangle his prey and take a small token
from them, a necklace here, a lighter there? Find out
in The Rottweiler, by Ruth Rendell. The first victim
was discovered with a bite on her neck, and so
the name “The Rottweiler” stuck. Discover the
rest yourself.

In Firewall, Inspector Kurt Wallander must discover
the links between a man found dead at an ATM, two
teenage girls who have murdered a taxi driver, and a grisly
discovery at a malfunctioning power station. Henning
Mankell’s newest suspense novel is on shelves now.

Steven Bochco’s darkly comic novel Death by Hollywood tells the tale of a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who watches his neighbours with a
telescope. When he sees a beautiful woman bludgeon
her lover to death, he sneaks into the house and
steals the secretly recorded video of the murder
in order to insinuate himself into the murder
investigation.

Lindsey Davis’ The Accusers features Marcus Didius Falco,
a Roman trying to make good in his social climb, who must
discover the murderer of a rich Senator. And since Marcus
gave false evidence at the same Senator’s trial, he needs
to solve the murder before the consequences of his actions
catch up with him.

Anne Perry’s Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley discovers
that his parents have been killed in a car crash while trying to
deliver a secret document to the Intelligence Service — and then
he finds out that his own most promising student has just been
murdered. No Graves as Yet begins a new series set during
the early years of World War One.