AUTHOR
TITLE
PUBLISHER
PRICE
A
ADAMS.
BROUGHT TO BOOK.
Virago
£2.75
Bronte,
When Aphra finds the body of her new boss, she realises she is the Prime Suspect. With the aid of a group of women, she sets out to clear her name, by finding the real Killer...
Good 1992
ADAMS.
BIRD
Pan
£2.95
Jane,
A chilling tale of a young woman's search to uncover the demons haunting her grandfather.
After six years of separation, Marcie has come to the bedside of her dying grandfather to make her peace...
Good / VGood 1998
ISBN: 0-330-35138-9
B
AUTHOR
TITLE
PUBLISHER
PRICE
BADENDOCH
DRIVEN.
Pan
£2.95
Andrea,
On a hot city night, Jaz is celebrating her twenty-first birthday with her friends Trace and Harm. Across town her boyfriend, Fat Andy, is lying dead on thier bed, his throat savagely cut.
Jaz is convinced that the murder was down to Vinny, a crooked car dealer for whom Fat Andy worked. And she's not prepared to let him get away with it...
Good / V Good 2000
ISBN: 0-330-36926-1
BANNISTER.
NO BIRDS SING.
Pan
£2.95
Jo,
Making no progress by cinventional means, Detective Inspector Liz Graham and Detective Sergeant Cal Donovan go undercover in the search for leads, involving a forty-eight-hour crime fest, including a ram-raid, a hostage crisis, a shocking rape, and more...
V Good / Good 1997
ISBN: 0-330-35044-7
BARNES.
COLD CASE.
Hodder & Stoughton
£2.95
Linda,
Carlotta Carlyle, the gutsy six-foot, red-haired taxi-driving private investigator, is catapulted into a new case as she searches for the truth about the disappearance of a brilliant, precocious young author...
Good 1997
ISBN: 0-340-64022-7
BARNES.
COYOTE.
Coronet
£2.50
Linda,
A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery.
Carlotta enters the world of illegal aliens. The world of the "Coyote", who smuggles them in and dumps them with no papers, and who will kill without compunction...
Fair / Good
1992
BARNES.
HARDWARE.
Hodder & Stoughton
£3.75
Linda,
A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery.
Carlotta investigates a series of incidents at the G&W Cab Company, where her occasional lover gets seriously wounded...
£1.75 P&P (UK)
Fair / Good 1995
BARNES.
STEEL GUITAR.
Coronet
£2.50
Linda,
A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery.
Carlotta is asked to help her old friend Dee, now a star, who hurt her in the past and is now in trouble, but the investigation opens up old wounds...
V Good 1993
BARNES.
THE SNAKE TATTOO.
Coronet
£2.50
Linda,
A Carlotta Carlyle Mystery.
Carlotta is looking for a woman with a snake tattoo, who had witnessed a barroom fight, which ended up with a man in a coma...
Fair / Good
1990
BARNES.
SNAP SHOT.
Coronet
£2.75
Linda,
Carlotta Carlysle's garbage has been stolen. Two full wheelie-bins, jammed into the trunk of a midnight-raiding Pontiac Firebird. Which was why she didn't throw out the snapshot of the new-born baby. No letter, nothing written on the back, posted from a place where she knew no one.
Then, next week, a second photograph. A one-year-old. the third, fourth, fifth. All th same little girl. Only after the sixth did she get the psychiatrist's call...
Good / Fair 1994
ISBN: 0-340-60823-4
BARR.
A SUPERIOR DEATH.
Headline
£2.50
Nevada,
An environmental Mystery featuring Park Ranger Anna Pigeon. A routine application for a diving permit reveals a grisly deep Water murder&ldots;
Fair 1995
BARR.
MOUNTAIN OF BONES.
Headline
£2.50
Nevada,
An Anna Pigeon Mystery.
Murder strikes at an archaeological site in Mesaverde National Park in Colorado.
Fair 1995
BELL.
THE PORT OF LONDON MURDERS.
Pandora
£2.50
Josephine,
Murder Mystery Set in London.
Mary Holland was discovered horribly dead - suicide?
But, why would she submit herself to the agony of Lysol poisoning...
Poor / Fair 1987
BETCHERMAN.
SIDE EFFECTS.
Tudor
£1.00
Barbara,
A Jessica Canby Mystery.
They had a technology more powerful than the sun&ldots;
But she knew they were merchants of death&ldots;
Poor / Fair 1989
BOWERS.
LADIES' NIGHT.
Seal
£3.50
Elisabeth,
Ladies' night introduces Meg Lacey, divorced mother and savvy private eye.
On this case, the search for a missing teenager takes her to Vancouver's backe alleys and nightclubs, where hundreds of runaway kids sell sexual favours to survive on the street.
Meg soon finds herself embroiled in the expose of a child pornography and prostitution ring-and a murder she hadn't bargained for...
Good 1988
ISBN: 0-931188-65-2
BOWERS.
NO FOWARDING ADDRESS.
Virago
£3.50
Elisabeth,
Why did Sherry Hovey desert her secure home and supportive husband for a fugitive existance with her young son?
Was it Sherry's fragile mental health that had finally crumbeld, or was there something far more menacing behind the domestic facade?
Lacey, middle-aged and mercurial private eye, engaged by Sherry's sister to find her, saw the terror on Sherry's face-a few days later she was found dead, her head brutally beaten.
Good 1993
ISBN: 1-85381-587
BRADFORD.
FOOTPRINTS.
The Crossing Press.
£3.25
Kelly,
When three-week-old Patrick James is boldly kidnapped from his grandmother's backgarden, the police assume he's being used as a pawn in a pending divorce action and they do little to discover his whereabouts.
Derek Thompson, a gay private eye from San Francisco, has reason to believe that more is involved in Patrick's disappearance and he undertakes an all-out search for the infant...
Good / Fair
1988
BRADY.
SUDDEN BLOW.
Second Story Press
£4.25
Liz,
Real estate baron Charles Durand is found murdered in his coporate tower, his skull shattered by one of his own collectibles.
Durand's gay son William quickly becomes the prime suspect in what looks to the police like an open-and-shut case.
Then Wiliiam's skeptical aunt hires irreverent business writer Jane Yeats to discover who really killed the much-hated tycoon.
Good / V Good 1988
ISBN: 1-896764-05-3
BRAND.
GREEN FOR DANGER.
Pandora
£3.50
Christianna,
During London's war-time blitz, a patient in an operating theatre is murdered, but which out of the five friends there did it, and why?
Good / V Good 1987
ISBN:
0-86358-208-7
BRAND.
LONDON PARTICULAR.
Pandora
£3.50
Christianna,
A car crawls through fog bound London. it's passengers, a middle-aged doctor and his anxious female friend are responding to a desperate call from a dying man.
Their journey is complicated by the pea soup fog which engulfs them, and turns from liquid to solid in front of thier eyes. Are they going to get to the injured man in time?
Good / V Good 1988
BRINDELL.
THE SEEKER.
BCA
£3.75
Jane,
An unforgettable tale of haunting suspense.
She is known as the woman on Bluebell Hill. To the drivers who have seen her, she is a mystery, a ghostly figure, searching for something or someone, yet never seeming to find them.
One minute the road is clear and suddenly she appears from nowhere; there's a squel of brakes, a sickening thud and a spash of blood on the windscreen. When the driver rushes out, horrified, she is nowhere to be seen. Others take her ot her destination, onnly to find when they arrive that she's vanished as mysteriously as she appeared.
Dave Walters is a contented family man - until she singles him out. From the moment his life and that of his loved ones is turned upside down. Vowing to find out about this beautiful, troubled creature, he stumbles on an age-old secret.
There are others involved: the old woman who teaches his daughter to play piano: the strange couple who nurse a sick old man, keeping him prisoner, keeping him alive for sinister reasons known only to themselves. And what of Dave's enigmatic new secretary? Who is she?
All of them know, and all are afraid.
The Seeker - the story of one man's quest to find the truth. But the truth is elusive. And nothing is as it seems.
Good / V Good 1997
Hardback
ISBN-
BUSHELL.
THE ENUMERATOR.
Serpent's Tail
£3.50
Agnes,
Alex investigates the murder of Lamont Bliss after she meets Sean the enumerator...
Enumerators are sex surveyors who track the spread of HIV in San Francisco, but when someone told an enumerator too much about their sex life - that's when the killing started...
V Good 1997
C
AUTHOR
TITLE
PUBLISHER
PRICE
CHAN.
ONE TOO MANY.
Artemis
£2.50
Melissa,
Feminist Detective Francesca Miles teams up with Police Inspector Joe Barney to find a killer in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs&ldots;
V Good 1993
CHRISTMAS.
DEATH AT FACE VALUE.
Fawcett
£1.50
Joyce,
A Betty Trenka Mystery.
A seemingly perfect job... and a very model murder has Betty tracking down a killer...
Fair 1995
CLARK.
WE'LL MEET AGAIN.
Pocket Books.
£2.50
Mary, Higgins
After serving six years in prison for the manslaughter of her husband, Molly Carpenter Lasch emerges to face the media a changed, acn damaged woman.
The evidence against her for the death of the influential Dr Lasch was irrefutable, but she has no memory whatsoever of the night she apparently crushed his skull with a valuable bronze sculpture...
V Good 1999
CODY.
BACKHAND.
Arrow.
£2.50
Lisa,
Starting as merely a saleswomean of burglar alarms, with no gaps in her diary for any surprises.
Until, she meets an american client for a game of tennis, Lara. Lara then employs Anna to trace some missing knitwear- and then the missing daughter of its designer.
Glad to leave the muddle of her life in London, she finds herself in Florida, playing a dangerous game whose rules she does not know, and where, under the glitter and the suntans, evil intent flourishes.
Good / Fair 1992
CODY.
BACKHAND.
Chatto & Windus.
£2.75
Lisa,
See above. (HARDBACK)
Poor / Fair 1991
CODY.
BAD COMPANY.
Warner
£1.75
Liza,
An Anna Lee Mystery.
P.I Anna Lee is abducted when she investigates the kidnapping of a young girl. Anna plans on escape, whilst fighting for her life&ldots;
Poor/Fair 1982
CODY.
BUCKET NUT.
Arrow.
£2.50
Lisa,
SHE'S BIG, with the ambitions to be the women's heavyweight wrestling champion of Great Britain.
SHE'S UGLY, and works as a security guard in a London breaker's yard with two mad, bad dogs for company.
SHE'S BAD, performing odd jobs for a sinister Chinese restaurant owner.
SHE'S SIMPLY A 'BUCKET NUT', to her fans, thriving on insults and blindly puruing her goals. But, will Eva come unstuck when she lands heavily on the all too dangerous side of a couple of warring racketeers?
Good 1992
CODY.
DUPE
Arrow
£2.50
Liza,
An Anna Lee Mystery.
The parents of Deirdre Jackson demand an explanation for the car accident that killed their daughter, Anna is assigned to the case. But what seems a dead-end task is anything but...
V Good / Mint 1993
CODY.
HEAD CASE
Arrow
£3.00
Liza,
An Anna Lee Mystery.
Thea Hahn had been missing for a week before anyone contacted the police. According to her well-bred, disinterested parents the gifted sixteen-year-old had never caused anyone a moment's anxiety, nor had she any reason to leave home...
Good 1986
COLE
THE JUMP.
Headline
£2.50
Martina,
The story of Donna, who is requested to help her supposedly innocent husband when he is jailed for 18 years for armed robbery&ldots;
The story of one woman’s exploits in London’s under-world and of betrayal and awakening.
V Good 1996
COOPER.
FAULT LINES.
Pocket Books.
£3.00
Natasha,
When social worker Kara Huggate fails to turn up at court as star witness for a crucial case, barrister Trish Maguire knows something is very wrong. And sure enough, the police are waiting for her in chambers with the news that Kara has been brutally murdered...
V Good / Good 2000
CORNWELL
ALL THAT REMAINS.
Warner
£3.50
Patricia, D.
When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodland areas, Dr Kay Scarpetta's task as Chief Medical Examiner is made more difficult by the effects of the elements.
Eight times she must write that the cause of death is undetermined...
V Good / Good 1993
CORNWELL
THE BODY FARM
Warner
£2.50
Patricia,
Dr Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of an 11 year old girl in a sleepy little town in North Carolina...
Good / V Good 1995
CORNWELL.
BODY OF EVIDENCE.
Warner
£3.75
Patricia,
Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls.
Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West- but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites the killer in..
Thus begins the case for Dr Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre...
Good / V Good 1992
CORNWELL
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Warner
£1.95
Patricia,
The 7th Dr Kay Scarpetta Mystery.
Kay investigates the death of a reporter who was murdered whilst diving in the Elizabeth river&ldots;
Fair / Good 1997
CORNWELL.
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL.
Warner
£3.25
Patricia, D.
A Dr Kay Scarpetta Mystery.
At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair.
At the morgue, Dr Kay Scarpetta waits for Wadell's body. Preparing to perform a post mortem before the subject is dead is a strange feeling, but Scarpetta has been here before.
And Wadell's death is not the only newsworthy event on this freezing night; the grotesquely wounded body of a young boy is found propped against a rubbish skip.
To Scarpetta, the two cases seem unrelated, until she recalls that the body of Wadell's victim had been arranged un a strikingly similar position...
Good / Fair 1994
ISBN - 0-7515-0168-9
CORNWELL
FROM POTTER'S FIELD.
Futura
£1.95
Patricia,
A Dr Kay Scarpetta Mystery.
Dr Kay Scarpetta must face a psychopathic killer in a game of cat and mouse that leads her to his terrifying home in the subway tunnels beneath New York...
Good 1996
CORNWELL
HORNET'S NEST.
Bca
£3.95
Patricia,
A Virginia West Mystery. Violence is swarming in Charlotte...
Deputy Chief Virginia West has a mood to match...
Another out-of-town businessman has been found murdered in his hire car, and a wise-ass detective has taken her parking slot...
Good 1997
Hardback
CORNWELL.
ISLE OF DOGS
Quality Paperbacks Direct
£2.95
Patricia,
Chaos breaks loose when the Governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be installed on all streets and highways, and warns that motorists will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead.
But the eccentric inhabitants of Tangier, and island fourteen miles off the coast of Virginia in Chesapeake Bay, respond by threatening to secede and set up and independant state, claiming that their independance lies in the history of America's first settlers, those who set sail from London's Isle of Dogs in 1607...
V Good 2001
CORNWELL.
THE LAST PRECINCT.
BCA
£3.50
Patricia,
Cheif Medical Examiner, Kay Scarpetta, has the nightmare perpetuated on her doorstep contiued, when she discovers that the so-called 'werewolf' murders may have extended to New York City, and into the darkest corners of her past...
Good / V.Good 2000
Hardback
CORNWELL.
POINT OF ORIGIN.
Little, Brown and Company
£3.95
Patricia,
Dr Kay Scarpetta is called out to an isolated farmhouse which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house, she discovers a body telling the story of a violent and grisly murder...
Good / Fair 1998
CORNWELL.
POINT OF ORIGIN.
Little, Brown & Company
£4.25
Patricia,
See Above. Hardback
Good / V.Good
CORNWELL.
UNNATURAL EXSPOSURE.
Little, Brown and Company.
£3.95
Patricia,
Dublin, Ireland, and Richmond, Virginia : seperated by thousands of miles, linked by murder...Dr Kay Scarpetta investigates the case of five, dismembered, beheaded bodies that were found in Ireland years ago - now four have been found in Virginia...
Good / Fair 1997
CROMBIE.
LEAVE THE GRAVE GREEN.
Pan
£3.50
Debroah,
Early one rain-soaked November morning, the body of Connor Swann- son-in-law of operatic conductor Sir Gerald Asherton and celebrated soprano Dame Caroline Stowe - is found floating in a Thames river lock.
Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are quickly summoned from Scotland Yard, for the prints on the corpse's neck suggest the death was no accident...
V Good 1996
CROSS.
A DEATH IN THE FACULTY.
Virago
£0.75
Amanda,
A Kate Fansler MysteryKate is called in to assist her friend Janet Mandelbaum, who has been appointed professor of English at Harvard, but who has been set up by someone and has now turned up dead.... Ex-Lib
Fair 1988
CROSS.
A TRAP FOR FOOLS.
Virago
£2.95
Amanda,
A Kate Fansler Mystery.
Kate is called in to Investigate the death of a University Professor, whose body is found on the pavement 7 Storeys below...
Good 1990
CROSS.
IN THE LAST ANALYSIS.
Virago
£3.50
Amanda,
A Kate Fansler Mystery.
A student Kate has sent to psychoanalyst Emmanuel Bauer is found dead - on his couch and with one of his knives - and it's up to Kate to find out who did it...
Poor / Fair 1994
CROSS.
NO WORD FROM WINIFRED.
Virago
£3.50
Amanda,
Kate Fransler, Professor of English, is called once more from academic life to investigate when Winifred Ashby vanishes mysteriously after meeting with the man she has approved as her novelist 'aunt's' official biographer.
Can this mean that Wininfred is dead?
Following a trail from Oxford to New York, the novel explores riddles of friendship, inheritance, illegitimacy, and passion...
Good / Fair 1987
CROSS.
THE QUESTION OF MAX.
Virago
£3.50
Amanda,
Kate is on the case of a drowning of one of her graduate students, tragic accident? or murder? Kate's trail leads her to Somerville Library, Oxford, where clues seem to lie buried in books and in the lives of leading women novelists and feminists...
Good / Fair 1989
CROSS.
POETIC JUSTICE.
Virago
£3.50
Amanda,
Kate Fansler becomes involved in a struggle between 2 Colleges, one of which is striving to have the other eliminated.
Events come to a head when a Professor collapses and dies...
V Good 1991
CROSS.
THE James Joyce MURDER.
Virago
£2.75
Amanda,
A Kate Fansler Mystery.
Kate is spending the summer in the country sorting out James Joyce's letters to his publisher, when a neighbour is murdered. Kate a suspect sets out to solve the mystery...
Good 1989
CROSS.
THE THEBAN MYSTERIES.
Virago
£2.95
Amanda,
Kate Fansler has returned to Theban School for the summer, where a Student's Mother is found - dead of fright...
Good 1990
CROSS.
SWEET DEATH, KIND DEATH.
Virago
£3.50
Amanda,
Patrcia Umphelby, renowned historian and successful novelist, was and object both of great admiration and utter disdain at Clare College for women - until her death in the campus lake.
The verdict is suicide.
However, the College president grows suspicious and calls in Kate Fransler. But only when puzzling facts about Patricia's views on death emerge can Kate dig up the evidence she needs to solve the intriguing mystery...
Good / V Good 1988
CROSSLEY.
CANDYFLOSS COAST.
Virago
£3.50
Barbara
An Anna Knight Mystery.
Reporter Anna Knight hears of the deaths of 2 important men and realises she has seen both men with a beautiful rent boy just minutes before each death...
Fair 1991
CUTLER.
DYING FALL.
Piatkus
£2.50
Judith,
Sophie Rivers investigates the death of a student and one of her friends only to find herself in the way of a killer&ldots;
Fair 1996
D
AUTHOR
TITLE
PUBLISHER
PRICE
DANKS.
FRAME GRABBER.
Allison & Busby
£1.50
Denise,
Georgina had sex with an interviewee in a hotel room. But what could have been a forgettable quickie becomes a shaming obsession and worse: a deadly stimulus for an ice-cold killer
V Good 1993
DANKS.
WINK A HOPEFUL EYE.
Allison & Busby
£1.50