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Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs by Seth Alexander Thevoz
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thevoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. In doing so he looks at cultural and political developments beyond the clubs, revealin ...Show more
Out of Bounds (Karen Pirie #4) by Val McDermid
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. Finding the answer to the cold case should be straightforward. But it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself. Meanwhile, Karen Pirie finds herself ...Show more
Past Lying (Karen Pirie Mystery #7) by Val McDermid
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime.Karen can't ignore the plot's chilling similarities to the unsolved case of an Edinburgh University ...Show more
Past Lying: The twisty new Karen Pirie thriller, now a major ITV series by Val McDermid
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime. Karen can't ignore the plot's chilling similarities to the unsolved case of an Edinburgh Universit ...Show more
Still Life by Val McDermid
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'The bodies never stay buried forever...'On a freezing winter morning, fishermen pull a body from the sea. It is quickly discovered that the dead man was the prime suspect in a decade-old investigation, when a prominent civil servant disappeared without trace. DCI Karen Pirie was the last detective to r ...Show more
The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Centre of WWII's Greatest Battle by Iain MacGregor
$37.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'Stunning. History at its very best.' James Holland The sacrifices that enabled the Soviet Union to defeat Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45 are sacrosanct. The foundation of their eventual victory was laid during the battle for the city of Stalingrad, resting on the banks of the river Vo ...Show more
The Skeleton Road: A chilling, nail-biting psychological thriller that will have you hooked by Val McDermid
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a crumbling, gothic building in Edinburgh, Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is faced with the unenviable task of identifying the bones. As Karen's investigation gathers momentum, she is drawn deeper into a dark world of intrigue and betrayal. Meanw ...Show more
The Sorcerer of Pyongyang by Marcel Theroux
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
In the most isolated country on earth, a chance discovery shapes a young man's destiny. Growing up amid the starvation and oppression of 1990s North Korea, 10-year-old Cho Jun-su stumbles upon a mysterious game, left behind in a hotel room by a rare foreign visitor. As Jun-su painstakingly deciphers the ...Show more
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