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The Shivering Turn - Sally Spencer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Shivering Turn - Sally Spencer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Introducing Oxford-based private investigator Jennie Redhead in the first of a brand-new mystery series. Oxford, 1974. Seventeen-year-old Linda Corbet is missing. She disappeared a few nights before when she was supposed to be visiting a schoolfriend. Linda''s mother Mary doesn''t think her daughter has run away as the police and her husband believe. She is convinced Linda was murdered - and she has hired private investigator Jennie Redhead to find out what really happened to her.The only clue Jennie has to go on is a fragment of an obscure 17th century poem she finds in Linda''s bedroom: Or will you, like a cold and errant coward/Abandon all and make a shivering turn. But from that one clue Jennie''s investigations will lead her to a secret Oxford society - and a hidden world of violence, excess and desire which lies behind the city''s dreaming spires.

DKK 257.00
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The Shivering Turn - Sally Spencer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Shivering Turn - Sally Spencer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Introducing Oxford-based private investigator Jennie Redhead in the first of a brand-new mystery series. Oxford, 1974. Seventeen-year-old Linda Corbet is missing. She disappeared a few nights before when she was supposed to be visiting a schoolfriend. Linda''s mother Mary doesn''t think her daughter has run away as the police and her husband believe. She is convinced Linda was murdered - and she has hired private investigator Jennie Redhead to find out what really happened to her.The only clue Jennie has to go on is a fragment of an obscure 17th century poem she finds in Linda''s bedroom: Or will you, like a cold and errant coward/Abandon all and make a shivering turn. But from that one clue Jennie''s investigations will lead her to a secret Oxford society - and a hidden world of violence, excess and desire which lies behind the city''s dreaming spires.

DKK 182.00
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A Deadly Turn - Claire Booth - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A Deadly Turn - Claire Booth - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Branson county sheriff Hank Worth struggles to uncover the truth behind a fatal car crash in this absorbing mystery. Hank Worth thinks he''s performed a good deed when he pulls over the car of six teens caught speeding on a Saturday night and lets them off with a warning and instructions to go home. When he responds to an urgent call minutes later, he realises he made a fatal error of judgement - every teen is dead.Struggling to come to terms with his role in the crash, Hank begins to suspect foul play. While notifying the parents of the children involved, his suspicions grow when an unidentified body is discovered in one of their homes and a teenage girl is found after apparently attempting to commit suicide. Hank believes the incidents are connected, but those around him disagree.Is Hank right, or is his guilt making him search for answers where there are none?

DKK 185.00
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Murder Takes a Turn - Eric Brown - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Murder Takes a Turn - Eric Brown - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

"It''s time to let bygones be bygones. Water under the bridge, right? What happened . happened a long time ago."When Langham''s literary agent receives a cryptic letter inviting him to spend the weekend at the grand Cornish home of successful novelist Denbigh Connaught, Charles Elder seems reluctant to attend. What really happened between Elder and Connaught during the summer of 1917, nearly forty years before - and why has it had such a devastating effect on Charles?Accompanying his agent to Connaught House, Langham and his wife Maria discover that Charles is not the only one to have received a letter. But why has Denbigh Connaught gathered together a group of people who each bear him a grudge? When a body is discovered in Connaught''s study, the ensuing investigation uncovers dark secrets that haunt the past of each and every guest - including Charles Elder himself .

DKK 185.00
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Murder Takes a Turn - Eric Brown - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Murder Takes a Turn - Eric Brown - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

"It''s time to let bygones be bygones. Water under the bridge, right? What happened . happened a long time ago."When Langham''s literary agent receives a cryptic letter inviting him to spend the weekend at the grand Cornish home of successful novelist Denbigh Connaught, Charles Elder seems reluctant to attend. What really happened between Elder and Connaught during the summer of 1917, nearly forty years before - and why has it had such a devastating effect on Charles?Accompanying his agent to Connaught House, Langham and his wife Maria discover that Charles is not the only one to have received a letter. But why has Denbigh Connaught gathered together a group of people who each bear him a grudge? When a body is discovered in Connaught''s study, the ensuing investigation uncovers dark secrets that haunt the past of each and every guest - including Charles Elder himself .

DKK 292.00
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The Lost Time Accidents - John Wray - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Lost Time Accidents - John Wray - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets, Waldemar ''Waldy'' Tolliver wakes one morning to discover that he has been exiled from the flow of time. The world continues to turn, and Waldy is desperate to find his way back. In his ambitious and fiercely inventive new novel, John Wray takes us from turn-of-the-century Viennese salons buzzing with rumours about Einstein''s radical new theory to the death camps of the Second World War, from the golden age of post-war pulp science fiction to a startling discovery in a modern-day Manhattan apartment packed to the ceiling with artefacts of contemporary life.

DKK 110.00
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The Big Steep - Sandra Balzo - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Big Steep - Sandra Balzo - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Wisconsin coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen attempts to solve a mystery steeped in shocking family secrets, tragedy and murder. Maggy Thorsen''s new neighbours, Philip and Vivian Woodward, are forging ahead with their plans for The Big Steep tea shop. Philip''s enthusiasm to turn the neglected cottage once owned by Vivian''s reclusive grandparents, the Koepplers, into a tea lover''s paradise is infectious, but Vivian seems less excited. And when Maggy''s sheepdog Frank arrives at Uncommon Grounds coffeehouse bearing a ''gift'' he discovered in the Woodwards'' compost heap, the tea shop project takes a chilling turn . . .As the Woodwards'' backyard becomes a crime scene, a deadly chain of events is set in motion. Can Maggy dig up the truth of what happened at the cottage many years ago before further tragedy strikes?

DKK 167.00
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The Big Steep - Sandra Balzo - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Big Steep - Sandra Balzo - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Wisconsin coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen attempts to solve a mystery steeped in shocking family secrets, tragedy and murder. Maggy Thorsen''s new neighbours, Philip and Vivian Woodward, are forging ahead with their plans for The Big Steep tea shop. Philip''s enthusiasm to turn the neglected cottage once owned by Vivian''s reclusive grandparents, the Koepplers, into a tea lover''s paradise is infectious, but Vivian seems less excited. And when Maggy''s sheepdog Frank arrives at Uncommon Grounds coffeehouse bearing a ''gift'' he discovered in the Woodwards'' compost heap, the tea shop project takes a chilling turn . . .As the Woodwards'' backyard becomes a crime scene, a deadly chain of events is set in motion. Can Maggy dig up the truth of what happened at the cottage many years ago before further tragedy strikes?

DKK 225.00
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A Marriage of Convenience - Janet Woods - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A Marriage of Convenience - Janet Woods - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

To avoid a terrible fate, she agrees to a marriage of convenience. But can it turn into a true love match . . .? 1815. Having fallen on hard times, doctor''s daughter Grace Ellis serves as a lady''s companion. But on Lady Florence''s death, Grace discovers that she''s been left an unexpected legacy by her former mistress. There''s just one catch. In order to claim her inheritance, Grace must wed Lady Florence''s disreputable nephew, a gruff army brigadier more than three times her age. She is offered a way out by family friend Dominic LeSayres, who determines to marry Grace himself in order to save her from a grim fate. But just as the proposed marriage of convenience looks set to turn into a true love match, others step in to crush Grace''s happiness . . .

DKK 212.00
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Dead Reckoning - Glenis Wilson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Dead Reckoning - Glenis Wilson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Once again, jump jockey Harry Radcliffe is forced to turn reluctant sleuth in the third of this fast-paced, highly entertaining racing mystery series. When he stumbles across the body of local prostitute Alice Goode, champion jockey Harry Radcliffe is once again forced to turn reluctant sleuth. The prime suspect for Alice''s murder is ex-con Jake Smith. If Harry doesn''t find out who really killed Alice, and gets Jake off the hook, Jake will be coming after Harry - and his estranged wife, Annabel.As Harry begins to question Alice''s former clients, he uncovers some surprising secrets in her past. But, as determined as Jake is to ensure that Harry tracks down the real killer, a series of increasingly disturbing incidents makes it clear that someone else is equally determined to stop him finding out the truth. Will Harry survive long enough to race ride again?

DKK 182.00
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Other Countries - Jo Bannister - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Other Countries - Jo Bannister - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Police Constable Hazel Best''s latest assignment takes an unexpected turn in the compelling new Gabriel Ash mystery. Returning to work after an extended leave of absence, PC Hazel Best''s first task is to shadow TV historian Oliver Ford, who has arrived in Norbold to open a new museum. What should have been a routine assignment takes a decidedly dramatic turn however when Hazel saves Ford from a murderous attack that would appear to be an act of jihad. But why would someone fly thousands of miles to firebomb an obscure little museum in a quiet English village? Hazel can''t help thinking there''s more to this case than meets the eye. Meanwhile, Hazel''s friend Gabriel Ash and her lodger Saturday are growing increasingly uneasy at Hazel''s developing relationship with Oliver Ford. Though neither of them can guess the real danger that Hazel - and not only Hazel - faces, nor the direction from which it comes.

DKK 252.00
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The Mummy of Mayfair - Jeri Westerson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Mummy of Mayfair - Jeri Westerson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Private investigators Timothy Badger and Benjamin Watson take on another unusual and baffling case in Victorian London when a mummy unwrapping party takes a chilling turn. London, 1895. Although their last high-profile case was a huge success, private detectives Tim Badger and Benjamin Watson know they can''t afford to turn down any work, despite financial assistance from their mentor, Sherlock Holmes.So when the eminent Doctor Enoch Sawyer of St Bart''s Hospital asks Badger if the duo will provide security for a mummy unwrapping party he is hosting, Badger doesn''t hesitate to take the job. After all, how hard can guarding the doctor''s bizarre Egyptian artifacts be? But with Doctor Sawyer running late for his own party, the ''genuine'' ancient sarcophagus of Runihura Saa is unravelled to reveal the remains of . . . Doctor Sawyer! Suddenly, the pair are drawn into a case that''s stranger and twistier than they could ever have imagined.

DKK 167.00
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The Mummy of Mayfair - Jeri Westerson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Mummy of Mayfair - Jeri Westerson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Private investigators Timothy Badger and Benjamin Watson take on another unusual and baffling case in Victorian London when a mummy unwrapping party takes a chilling turn. London, 1895. Although their last high-profile case was a huge success, private detectives Tim Badger and Benjamin Watson know they can''t afford to turn down any work, despite financial assistance from their mentor, Sherlock Holmes.So when the eminent Doctor Enoch Sawyer of St Bart''s Hospital asks Badger if the duo will provide security for a mummy unwrapping party he is hosting, Badger doesn''t hesitate to take the job. After all, how hard can guarding the doctor''s bizarre Egyptian artifacts be? But with Doctor Sawyer running late for his own party, the ''genuine'' ancient sarcophagus of Runihura Saa is unravelled to reveal the remains of . . . Doctor Sawyer! Suddenly, the pair are drawn into a case that''s stranger and twistier than they could ever have imagined.

DKK 233.00
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Love and Murder in the Time of Covid - Qiu Xiaolong - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Love and Murder in the Time of Covid - Qiu Xiaolong - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Former chief inspector Chen faces a tricky serial murderer case at the height of the Covid pandemic - and risks everything he has to expose the deadly effects of the Chinese Communist Party''s so-called zero Covid policy to the world. Over two million copies of the Inspector Chen series sold worldwide. The Covid crisis is at its height in China. Ex-chief inspector Chen Cao is horrified by the way the Chinese Communist Party are using the pandemic as an excuse to put the Chinese people under blanket surveillance and by the soaring number of deaths caused not by Covid, but by the CCP''s inhuman ''zero Covid'' policy.Chen is debating whether to translate the ''Wuhan File'' - a diary of life during the Wuhan disaster smuggled to him by a close friend - and expose the CCP''s secrets to the world when to his surprise he is summoned by a high-level party cadre to help investigate a series of murders near a local Shanghai hospital.Under pressure from the Party to reach a quick conclusion and help maintain political stability, Chen investigates, aware that he too has been placed under omnipresent, omnipotent surveillance. And as he works, determined to uncover the truth, no matter what, he risks everything by deciding to translate the Wuhan Files. For one thing is true in China: you must be absolutely loyal to the Party. Otherwise, you are considered absolutely disloyal, and the consequences are dark indeed . . .

DKK 185.00
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Love and Murder in the Time of Covid - Qiu Xiaolong - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Love and Murder in the Time of Covid - Qiu Xiaolong - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Former chief inspector Chen faces a tricky serial murderer case at the height of the Covid pandemic - and risks everything he has to expose the deadly effects of the Chinese Communist Party''s so-called zero Covid policy to the world. Over two million copies of the Inspector Chen series sold worldwide. The Covid crisis is at its height in China. Ex-chief inspector Chen Cao is horrified by the way the Chinese Communist Party are using the pandemic as an excuse to put the Chinese people under blanket surveillance and by the soaring number of deaths caused not by Covid, but by the CCP''s inhuman ''zero Covid'' policy.Chen is debating whether to translate the ''Wuhan File'' - a diary of life during the Wuhan disaster smuggled to him by a close friend - and expose the CCP''s secrets to the world when to his surprise he is summoned by a high-level party cadre to help investigate a series of murders near a local Shanghai hospital.Under pressure from the Party to reach a quick conclusion and help maintain political stability, Chen investigates, aware that he too has been placed under omnipresent, omnipotent surveillance. And as he works, determined to uncover the truth, no matter what, he risks everything by deciding to translate the Wuhan Files. For one thing is true in China: you must be absolutely loyal to the Party. Otherwise, you are considered absolutely disloyal, and the consequences are dark indeed . . .

DKK 233.00
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Getting it in the Head - Mike Mccormack - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Getting it in the Head - Mike Mccormack - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Prepare to enter a world where the infatuation with death, ruin and destruction is total. Set in locations from New York to the west of Ireland, and to the nameless realms of the imagination, it is a world where beautiful but deranged children make lethal bombs, talented sculptors spend careers dismembering themselves in pursuit of their art, and wasters rise up with axes and turn into patricides.McCormack''s celebrated debut collection is richly imaginative, bitterly funny, powerful and original.

DKK 119.00
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Glasgow Girls - Jude Burkhauser - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Glasgow Girls - Jude Burkhauser - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

At the turn of the 20th century, Glasgow was the centre for an avant-garde movement of art and design innovation in Europe, which we now refer to as The Glasgow Style. While the "Glasgow Boys" group of painters has been widely written about, their female contemporaries have received far less attention. In this work, the editor redresses this imbalance, bringing together research from 18 scholars on the work of an astonishing number of female artists from this period.

DKK 439.00
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The Best Mistake - Nora Roberts - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Best Mistake - Nora Roberts - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A classic tale about finding the man of your dreams right under your nose. Ex-model Zoe Fleming is now a hardworking single mom - and she wouldn''t have it any other way, though she would like a tenant to share household expenses. What she gets is confirmed bachelor J. Cooper McKinnon. Coop quickly befriends her son and in no time has the reluctant Zoe charmed, too. But she has zero room in her life for a man. Could this be a recipe for disaster, or the best mistake she''s ever made? This is a first-time regular print hardcover edition of a title previously available as a mass market paperback.

DKK 167.00
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Sugar and Spice - Ruth Hamilton - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Sugar and Spice - Ruth Hamilton - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

An absorbing tale of the strength and heartbreak of family ties Winter, 1940 . Anna MacRae is only five years old when her mother dies in childbirth and she is left with twin baby sisters. Anna is a gifted child, with a warm personality to match, but not so her sisters - and as, through the years, their pranks turn to stealing, bullying and worse, Anna must learn to cope with them if she is ever to find happiness of her own.

DKK 261.00
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No Precious Truth - Chris Nickson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

No Precious Truth - Chris Nickson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The first in a brand-new WWII historical thriller series introduces Sergeant Cathy Marsden - a female police officer working for the Special Investigation Branch - who risks her life to protect the city of Leeds from an escaped German spy! Leeds, 1941 . As the war rages across Europe, Police Sergeant Cathy Marsden''s life since she was seconded to the Special Investigation Branch has remained focused on deserters and home-front crimes. Until now. Things take a chilling turn when Cathy''s civil servant brother, Dan, arrives from London with a dark secret: he is working for the XX Committee - a special MI5 unit set up to turn German spies into double agents. But one of these agents has escaped and is heading for Leeds, sent to destroy targets key to the war effort. Suddenly Cathy and the squad are plunged into an unfamiliar world of espionage and subterfuge.With the fate of the country and the war in the balance, failure is not an option, and Cathy must risk everything, including her own life, to stop a spy. This fast-paced World War II thriller is perfect for fans of Kate Quinn, Rhys Bowen and Kelly Rimmer!

DKK 233.00
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The Chosen Ones - Scarlett Thomas - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Chosen Ones - Scarlett Thomas - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

THERE IS MAGIC BEYOND THE REALWORLD . . . When Effie and Maximilian both mysteriously vanish, friends Raven, Lexy and Wolf don''t know where to turn for help. Effie is in deep danger and she''s running out of time. To make things worse, Raven''s mother is caught up in a plot with the ruthless billionaire Albion Freake, who will stop at nothing to become invincible.Can the school-friends save Effie and Maximilian and stop Albion Freake''s deadly plan, before it''s too late?

DKK 107.00
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