The Restraint of Beasts - A Comedic Novel by Magnus Mills
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction
Once upon a time in Scotland, there were three men who built high-tension fences, the kind that keep animals in and humans outOCoor maybe the other way around. Magnus Mills gives us a wiry novel of tensile strength that proves him a writer of ferocious talent. Eerie, resonant, spare yet rich in tones bo ...Show more
Collected Stories by Ruth Rendell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: good
This title features three classic Ruth Rendell stories: "Means of Evil", "The Fallen Curtain" and "The Fever Tree". Ruth Rendell is unequalled in her ability to weave stories that challenge our preconceptions and prejudices, from Wexford and Burden's investigation of a wife's apparent suicide, with all ...Show more
The Blue Noon by Robert Ryan
$8.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: good
East End chancer Harry Cole is consumed with a burning desire to transcend his social class and when World War Two breaks out he joins the British army in France and reinvents himself as the suave Captain Mason. He becomes involved with an attractive French nurse, who persuades him to set up and run an ...Show more
Signal Red by Robert Ryan
$12.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: good
Bestselling author Robert Ryan tells the story of the most ambitious robbery of the twentieth century, when seventeen men risked it all in their quest for adventure, success and fame 1963: an unarmed gang led by the dapper Bruce Reynolds hold up a Royal Mail train at a remote bridge in Buckinghamshire, ...Show more
American Blood by Ben Sanders
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
After a botched undercover operation, ex-NYPD officer Marshall Grade is living in witness protection in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Marshall's instructions are to keep a low profile: the mob wants him dead, and a contract killer known as the Dallas Man has been hired to track him down. Racked with guilt over ...Show more
By Any Means by Ben Sanders
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Sean Devereaux Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Friday rush hour, Auckland city. A lone shooter fires across a packed street and kills a man. Detective Sergeant Sean Devereaux is assigned the case. He's not complaining - his Friday nights are seldom better spent. But the inquiry is not straightforward. Witness accounts are conflicting. The dead man a ...Show more
The Dealer and the Dead by Gerald Seymour
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The arms dealer betrayed them. Now the survivors want revenge.SOMETIMES, surviving a war can almost seem worse than dying in it. In a Croatian village near Vukovar, no one who survived will ever forget the night they waited for the weapons they needed to make a last-ditch fight against the advancing Ser ...Show more
The Untouchable by Gerald Seymour
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Albert Packer is the supreme baron of London crime, ruling his domain with a ruthless fist and thinking of himself as the Untouchable. As yet another criminal case against him collapses, Packer turns his attention to expanding his heroin empire abroad, deciding to travel to Sarajevo himself in order to ...Show more
One Step Too Far by Tina Seskis
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Tina Seskis' stunning debut novel, One Step Too Far, is a gripping and haunting psychological thriller. 'It's funny how easy it is, when it really comes down to it, to get up from your life and begin a new one...' An apparently happy marriage. A beautiful son. A lovely home. Yet one morning Emily Colema ...Show more
One for My Baby by Tony Parsons
$8.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
New novel about men, love and relationships by the author of the Book of the Year, Man and Boy. Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend the rest of his life, and then lost her. He doesn't believe you get a second chance at love. Returning to the England he left behind during the brief, idy ...Show more
Cross Country by James Patterson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Alex Cross Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Alex Cross is drawn into a bitter personal battle against corruption, conspiracy and savage violence in a chase that takes him through a vast and uncompromising landscape. When Cross is called to investigate a massacre-style murder scene, he is shocked to find that the victim is an old friend. Angry, hu ...Show more
A Dead Man in Athens by Michael Pearce
$8.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This title is set in Athens, 1913, the capital of a country on the brink of war. The new Greek prime minister, Venizelos, tired of the Ottoman overlords, has what he calls the Great Idea - a vision of a new Greece which unites all the Greek people scattered around the Mediterranean. Not such a great ide ...Show more