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Listing books from publisher: Quercus
Author: Daniel Kehlmann
Price: £25.00
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 15 May 2007
Synopsis
Towards the end of the eighteenth century, in the heyday of the German Enlightenment, two brilliant young Germans set out to measure the wo ... read more
Author: Elena Forbes
Price: £12.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 07 August 2008
Synopsis
When a young woman's naked body is discovered deep in the snowy undergrowth of Holland Park, ritualistically bound and gagged, the only clu ... read more
Author: Elena Forbes
Price: £29.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 05 July 2007
Synopsis
For fifteen year old Gemma it is already too late. Her body is found in the nave of a church in Ealing, west London. At first all the signs w ... read more
The Redemption of Alexander Seaton
Author: Shona MacLean
Price: £14.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 03 July 2008
Synopsis
Is the young man merely drunk or does his tottering walk suggest something more sinister? When he collapses, vomiting, over the two whores who ... read more
Author: Bernard Beckett
Price: £10.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 07 May 2009
Synopsis
Anax is about to face her examination for the Academy, the institution which safeguards her society. The subject is close to her heart: Adam, a ... read more
Author: John Ajvide Lindqvist
Price: £200.00
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 02 August 2007
Synopsis
A terrifying supernatural story yet also a moving account of friendship and salvation...Lindqvist's dark fable would be gratuitously violen ... read more
Author: Laura Wilson
Price: £20.00
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 02 September 2010
Synopsis
It is winter, 1949. London is cold and grey, and pock-marked everywhere with the scars of war. When John Davies confesses to killing his wife a ... read more
Field Grey: A Bernie Gunther Mystery
Author: Philip Kerr
Price: £17.99
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 28 October 2010
Synopsis
It's 1954 and Bernie has tired of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky for Cuban Intelligence. He secretly buys a boat an ... read more
Author: Philip Kerr
Price: £24.99
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 10 September 2009
Synopsis
Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some unpleasant changes. As the city prepares t ... read more
Author: Stef Penney
Price: £79.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 07 September 2006
Synopsis
1867, Canada - As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy disappear ... read more
Author: Andrea Maria Schenkel
Price: £9.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 05 June 2008
Synopsis
A whole family has been murdered with a pickaxe. They were old Danner the farmer, an overbearing patriarch; his put-upon devoutly religious wif ... read more
Author: Peter Temple
Price: £12.99
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Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 21 June 2006
Synopsis
Broken by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city and returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while h ... read more
Author: Martin Walker
Price: £45.00
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 03 April 2008
Synopsis
Captain Bruno Courreges goes by the grand title of Chief of Police, though in truth he's the only municipal policeman on staff in the small ... read more
Author: Michael Walters
Price: £12.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 06 September 2007
Synopsis
In Ulan Baatar, a high-profile criminal prosecution collapses as police evidence is revealed to have been faked. The female judge, Radnaa, thro ... read more
Author: Michael Walters
Price: £12.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 02 November 2006
Synopsis
Set in a country struggling to come to terms with the legacy of its past and the promise of its future, "The Shadow Walker" is a grip ... read more
Author: Michael Walters
Price: £18.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 06 November 2008
Synopsis
As Mongolia bakes in the sweltering summer heat, the country is preparing to celebrate the eight hundredth anniversary of Genghis Khan's ri ... read more
Author: Elena Forbes
Price: £20.00
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 29 July 2010
Synopsis
Bestselling20. novelist Joe Logan walks out into a hot summer's evening in central London. The next day his body is found dumped in a disus ... read more
The Natural Disorder of Things
Author: Andrea Canobbio
Price: £12.99
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 10 January 2008
Synopsis
Claudio Fratta is a garden designer, a naturally solitary and gentle man. He lives along, taking care of his nephews at weekends, keeping a ... read more
Author: Sarah Prineas
Price: £55.00
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 04 September 2008
Synopsis
In a city that runs on a dwindling supply of magic, a young boy is drawn into a life of wizardry and adventure. Conn should have dropped dead t ... read more
Author: Sarah Prineas
Price: £34.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 07 May 2009
Synopsis
Conn's quest to save his city's magic has become urgent: his power stone is lost and Shadowmen, ruthless assassins, are stalking the ci ... read more
Author: Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom
Price: £50.00
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 21 September 2010
Synopsis
Pie Hoffman is the best undercover operative in the Swedish police force, but only one other man is even aware of his existence. When an amphet ... read more
Author: Daniel Kehlmann
Price: £12.99
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Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 02 September 2010
Synopsis
In the first of Fame's nine stories, the technician Ebling whose high point of the week is the Wiener Schnitzel on the office canteen menu, ... read more
Author: John Ajvide Lindqvist
Price: £50.00
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Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 30 September 2010
Synopsis
50 COPIES NUMBERED BY THE AUTHOR, THIS IS NUMBER 1. It was a beautiful winter's day. Anders, his wife and their feisty six-year-o ... read more
Author: Colin Cotterill
Price: £24.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 07 June 2007
Synopsis
In Laos in the year 1976, the monarchy has been deposed, and the Communist Pathet Lao have taken over. Most of the educated class has fled, but ... read more
Love Songs From A Shallow Grave
Author: Colin Cotterill
Price: £16.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 29 April 2010
Synopsis
As usual, all is abnormal in Dr Siri Paiboun's morgue in downtown Vientiane. Siri and his team are investigating the case of the Three Epee ... read more
The House at Sea's End: A Case for Investigator Ruth Galloway, Forensic Archaeologist
Author: Elly Griffiths
Price: £21.99
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Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 06 January 2011
Synopsis
Ruth Galloway has just returned from maternity leave and is struggling to juggle work and motherhood. When a team from the University of North ... read more
Author: Shona MacLean
Price: £20.00
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Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 04 August 2011
Synopsis
It is Midsummer, 1631. While Alexander Seaton and his fellow masters enjoy the holiday with their students, Robert Sim, librarian of Marischal ... read more
Dying Fall: A Ruth Galloway Investigation
Author: Elly Griffiths
Price: £16.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 08 February 2013
Synopsis
Ruth's old friend Dan Golding thinks he has made a discovery that will change archaeology forever - but he needs Ruth's help. Then, Dan ... read more
Author: Patrick Easter
Price: £14.99
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Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 31 March 2011
Synopsis
In the dark and slimy streets of Wapping a prostitute is beaten half to death, a not uncommon fate in late 18th century London. So begins this ... read more
Author: Craig Russell
Price: £20.00
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Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 01 July 2010
Synopsis
Glasgow in the 1950s - not somewhere you'd choose to be unless you were born to it. Yet Lennox, a private investigator, finds it oddly cong ... read more
Watermen - SIGNED, LINED & DATED
Author: Patrick Easter
Price: £24.99
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 31 March 2011
Synopsis
In the dark and slimy streets of Wapping a prostitute is beaten half to death, a not uncommon fate in late 18th century London. So begins this ... read more
The Dead Won't Sleep - SIGNED, LINED & DATED
Author: Anna Smith
Price: £20.00
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 26 May 2011
Synopsis
The body of a young teenage hooker is found washed up on the beach near Glasgow. This stark event barely captures a headline in the cynical wor ... read more
Author: Colin Cotterill
Price: £16.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 03 March 2011
Synopsis
When crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to follow her family from Chiang Mai to a fishing village on the Gulf of Siam, she's convinced her ... read more
Prague Fatale: A Bernie Gunther Novel (Bernie Gunther Mystery 8)
Author: Philip Kerr
Price: £17.99
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 27 October 2011
Synopsis
Philip Kerr's sequence of historical thrillers featuring private detective Bernie Gunther forms a body of work comparable to the great seri ... read more
Author: Stef Penney
Price: £18.99
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 01 September 2011
Synopsis
Small-time private investigator Ray Lovell veers between paralysis and delirium in a hospital bed. But before the accident that landed him ther ... read more
Author: Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom
Price: £19.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 06 October 2011
Synopsis
John Meyer Frey rots on Death Row in Utah for murdering a girl when he was seventeen. His victim's father is desperate for revenge, while h ... read more
Little Star - SIGNED, NUMBERED (100/100) & PUBLICATION DATED
Author: John Ajvide Lindqvist
Price: £29.99
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 03 October 2011
Synopsis
One autumn day in 1992, former pop singer Lennart Cederstrom finds something unexpected in the forest: a baby girl in a plastic bag, partially ... read more
Lost Christmas - SIGNED & PRE-PUBLICATION DATED
Author: David Logan
Price: £8.99
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 27 October 2011
Synopsis
When Goose's parents are killed in a car crash on Christmas Eve, his life changes utterly. Living with his increasingly senile Nan, his dog ... read more
The Crowded Grave: A Bruno Courrèges Investigation (Bruno Chief of Police 4)
Author: Martin Walker
Price: £17.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 09 September 2011
Synopsis
Life in south-west rural France is not the sleepy idyll you might suppose. Local duck and goose farms are being attacked by animal rights prote ... read more
A Room Full of Bones: A Ruth Galloway Investigation
Author: Elly Griffiths
Price: £24.99
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 23 January 2012
Synopsis
It is Halloween night, and the local museum in King's Lynn is preparing for an unusual event - the opening of a coffin containing the bones ... read more
Author: David Mark
Price: £12.99
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 20 April 2012
Synopsis
Hull, northern England. Two weeks before Christmas, an elderly man - the only survivor of a fishing trawler tragedy 40 years before - is found ... read more
The Demi-Monde: Spring - SIGNED/LINED/DATED & STAMPED
Author: Rod Rees
Price: £29.99
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 05 January 2012
Synopsis
The Demi-Monde is a high-realism computer simulation, designed to train the military for operations in places like Iraq and Afghanistan without ... read more
Author: Mikhail Shishkin
Price: £16.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 19 March 2013
Synopsis
Picture two people, young and in love. Picture them being separated from one another. Picture them keeping their love alive through letters. So ... read more
The Lewis Man (Part 2 of the Lewis Trilogy)
Author: Peter May
Price: £12.99
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 05 January 2012
Synopsis
A MAN WITH NO NAME An unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog; the only clue to its identity being a DNA sibling match to a lo ... read more
Author: William Nicholson
Price: £16.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 14 February 2013
Synopsis
You come from a long line of mistakes,' Guy Caulder tells his daughter Alice. 'My mother married the wrong man. Her mother did the same ... read more
Dead Men and Broken Hearts: A Lennox Thriller
Author: Craig Russell
Price: £14.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 07 June 2012
Synopsis
November 1956. The world is in turmoil. While the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Uprising boil away in the background, Lennox has more immediate ... read more
George Washington: Gentleman Warrior
Author: Stephen Burgen
Price: £30.00
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 07 June 2012
Synopsis
'I am a warrior.' These were the uncompromising words that George Washington chose to describe himself in May 1779, at the height of th ... read more
A Private Business: A Hakim and Arnold Mystery - SIGNED, LINED & DATED
Author: Barbara Nadel
Price: £24.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 05 July 2012
Synopsis
2012: London is hosting the Olympics and the East End is at the centre of the world. Yet surrounding the glamorous Olympic Park are some of the ... read more
The River of Fire - SIGNED, LINED & DATED
Author: Patrick Easter
Price: £24.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 06 March 2012
Synopsis
Wapping, London: March 1799. A sunken lugger in the Pool of London at last reveals its shocking secret. River Surveyor Tom Pascoe of the Marine ... read more
The Resistance Man: A Bruno Courrèges Investigation (Bruno Chief of Police 6)
Author: Martin Walker
Price: £16.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 07 June 2013
Synopsis
Bruno, chef de police, can't get a moment's peace. He's uncovered a cache of old bank notes and is also dealing with ... read more
Dodger - SIGNED, LINED & DATED
Author: James Benmore
Price: £18.99
Published by: Quercus
Synopsis
London, 1850s. After five years in an Australian penal colony, the Artful Dodger returns to London in search of a hidden fortune. Unaware of th ... read more
Original Skin (DS Aector McAvoy 2) - SIGNED & DATED
Author: David Mark
Price: £14.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 11 April 2013
Synopsis
Simon and Suzie are two pleasure seekers defined by their flamboyant tattoos. Peter Tressider is a politician on the fast track to the top. DS ... read more
Sleepwalkers - SIGNED, LINED & PRE-PUBLICATION DATED
Author: Tom Grieves
Price: £16.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 02 August 2012
Synopsis
Ben is your average married man: wife, two kids, steady job. Toby is your average schoolboy: fifteen years old, sweet-natured and shy. Two peop ... read more
Author: John Ajvide Lindqvist
Price: £16.99
out of stock
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 30 August 2012
Synopsis
*** PLEASE NOTE: AUTHOR NOT VISITING UK TO SIGN, ALL PRE-ORDERS WERE CANCELLED.*** & ... read more
A Man Without Breath: A Bernie Gunther Novel
Author: Philip Kerr
Price: £18.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 14 March 2013
Synopsis
It is winter, 1943. Bernie Gunther has left the Criminal Police and is working for the German War Crimes Bureau based in Berlin. Reports have b ... read more
The Devil's Recruit (Alexander Seaton 4) - SIGNED & DATED
Author: S.G. MacLean
Price: £18.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 14 March 2013
Synopsis
1635, and Europe is in the grip of the brutal territorial and religious struggle of the Thirty Years' War. Fear stalks the town of Aberdeen ... read more
Author: Roberto Costantini
Price: £14.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 28 March 2013
Synopsis
On 11 July 1982, Elisa Sordi was beautiful. Commissario Michele Balistreri was fearless. Italy was victorious. A killer was waiting... On 9 Jul ... read more
Author: James Benmore
Price: £12.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 11 April 2013
Synopsis
London, 1850s. After five years in an Australian penal colony, the Artful Dodger returns to London in search of a hidden fortune. Unaware of th ... read more
Two Soldiers - SIGNED & PRE-PUBLICATION DATED WITH A QUOTE/SALUTATION IN SWEDISH & ENGLISH
Author: Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom
Price: £16.99
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 25 April 2013
Synopsis
José Pereira heads the police's Organized Crime and Gang Section in Råby, a southern suburb of Stockholm. Here, juvenile gang ... read more
The Devil's Recruit - SIGNED, LINED & DATED
Author: S.G. MacLean
Price: £24.99
Published by: Quercus
Synopsis
1635, and Europe is in the grip of the brutal territorial and religious struggle of the Thirty Years' War. Fear stalks the town of Aberdeen ... read more
Death at the Clos du Lac
by Adrian Magson
Synopsis
Picardie, France 1964. Midnight at the exclusive and mysterious Spa St Jean des Eaux, near Poissons-les-Marais. A man is standing in the therap ... read more
Release 26 August 2013
Publisher Allison and Busby Publishers
ISBN 978-0749040161
The Other Typist
by Suzanne Rindell
Synopsis
The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell is a thrilling tale of the intoxicating and dark side of friendship. New York Cit ... read more
Release 06 June 2013
Publisher Fig Tree
ISBN 978-0241002889
The Black Guard (The Long War)
by A.J. Smith
Synopsis
The Duke of Canarn is dead, executed by the King's decree. The city lies in chaos, its people starving, sickening, and tyran ... read more
Release 01 August 2013
Publisher Head of Zeus
ISBN 978-1781855621
Young Sherlock Holmes1: Death Cloud - Goldsboro Exclusive Hardback
by Andrew Lane
Synopsis
The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officer’s son: boarding school, good ... read more
Release 06 June 2010
Publisher Macmillan
ISBN 978-0-230751965
The Afrika Reich
by Guy Saville
Synopsis
1952. It is more than a decade since the Dunkirk fiasco marked the end of Britain’s war and an uneasy peace with Hitler. In Africa, ... read more
Release 11 February 2011
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 978-144471064L
The Dying Hours
by Mark Billingham
Synopsis
A cluster of suicides among the elderly. Such things are not unknown to the police and the deaths are quickly dismissed by the p ... read more
Release 23 May 2013
Publisher Little, Brown
ISBN 978-1847444233