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K Is For "King".
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You can't think horror without thinking of Stephen King. He is the master of weaving the ordinary with the supernatural to create the truly spine-chilling.

Stephen is of Scots-Irish ancestry and stands 6'4". He is blue-eyed, fair-skinned, occasionally he wears a moustache and has worn glasses since he was a child.

Check out our range of Stephen King novels below - I'm sure there's a sleepless night or two amoungst them !!

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J Is For "Jack".
Mystery Ink's A To Z Of Mystery & Crime

So we've got Jack Reacher, Jack Higgins, Jack Carr, Jack Caffery, Jack Ryan, Jackson Brodie, Jack Parlabane, Jack West Jr, Jack McEvoy - all amazing authors and characters!!

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I Is For "International Dublin Literary Award".
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The International Dublin Literary Award is presented each year for a novel written or translated into English. It promotes excellence in world literature and is solely sponsored by Dublin City Council, Ireland.

At €100,000, the award is one of the richest literary prizes in the world. If the winning book is a translation (as it has been nine times), the prize is divided between the writer and the translator, with the writer receiving €75,000 and the translator €25,000. The first award was made in 1996 to David Malouf for his English-language novel Remembering Babylon.

Nominations are submitted by public libraries worldwide – over 400 library systems in 177 countries are invited to nominate books each year – from which the shortlist and the eventual winner are selected by an international panel of judges (which changes each year).

So very many of my favourite books, across many genres, appear on this list that I really rate it as a reliable source for my ever-growing TBR pile!! Hope it adds to yours too !!

Check out my great range of "International Dublin Literary Award Nominees & Winners" below and remember all orders of four or more books have free delivery within NZ.

H Is For "Horror".
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Horror fiction is intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since the 1960s, any work of fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, or exceptionally suspenseful or frightening theme has come to be called "horror".
We have a great collection of horror novels, several by Mr Stephen King - the King of horror. There has been many a night spent reading a great SK that I have found myself too terrified to turn the light out, and being unable to master the "sleeping with one eye open" strategy, have kept reading well past the wee hours - even with work the next day, but hell, I can sleep when I'm dead, right ??
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H Is For "Horror".
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Horror fiction is intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since the 1960s, any work of fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, or exceptionally suspenseful or frightening theme has come to be called "horror".

We have a great collection of horror novels, several by Mr Stephen King - the King of horror. There has been many a night spent reading a great SK that I have found myself too terrified to turn the light out, and being unable to master the "sleeping with one eye open" strategy, have kept reading well past the wee hours - even with work the next day, but hell, I can sleep when I'm dead, right ??

Check out my great range of "Horror" Fiction below and remember all orders of four or more books have free delivery within NZ ...... If you dare, bahhaaa.

G Is For "Guardian 1000".
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In 2009 The UK Guardian Newspaper created a list of "The 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read".

Selected by the Guardian’s Review team and a panel of expert judges, this list includes only novels – from any decade and in any language. Grouped into sections; Love, Crime, Comedy, Family & Self, State Of The Nation, Science Fiction & Fantasy and War & Travel.

Now I can imagine you all saying "no-one's telling me what I should or should not read", and believe me, I hear you - I'm one of the original "Don't Tell ME What To Do" people .... BUT, I must admit that I have read 40 or so of the 147 books listed under Crime and almost all would have received 4 or 5 stars from me. So maybe, just maybe they're onto something!!

This is a link to the full list so you can decide for yourself: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction.

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F Is For "Fantasy".
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Who doesn't need to escape the confines of reality from time to time and delve into the world of fantasy - rhetorical question there as I believe we all do !!!

Dr Suess has this to say of Fantasy; “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.” And I would have to say that once you see something differently ... you never see it the same again so your world has changed.

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three (collectively known as speculative fiction or science fiction/fantasy).

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E Is For "Edgars".
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The prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, have been presented every year in New York City by the Mystery Writers of America since the 1940s.

Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, the awards honour the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theatre published or produced in the previous year. Mystery works are eligible for Edgar Awards in their respective category if they were published or produced for the first time in the USA during the calendar year.

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D Is For Dead Good
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Dead Good is a UK based website that has been dedicated to discovering, sharing and recommending thrilling crime in books, drama and film since 2012.

They hold annual awards with most entertaining categories; The Nosy Parker Award for Best Amateur Detective, The Jury’s Out Award for Most Gripping Courtroom Drama and The Dish Served Cold Award for Best Revenge Thriller.

In 2020 they published the "Dead Good -100 Best Crime & Thriller List" which includes Golden Age classics to modern detective novels and game-changing psychological thrillers. This list of thrilling novels is the perfect place to find inspiration for your next read.

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C Is For Cozy
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Cozy mysteries, also referred to as "cozies", are a subgenre of crime fiction in which s*x and violence occur off stage, the detective is an amateur sleuth, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community. The amateur sleuth is usually a very likeable person who is able to get the community members to talk freely about each other. There is usually at least one very knowledgeable, nosy, yet reliable character in the book who is able to fill in all of the blanks, thus enabling the amateur sleuth to solve the case. Cozies thus stand in contrast to hard-boiled fiction, in which more violence and explicit s*xuality are central to the plot. The term "cozy" was first coined in the late 20th century when various writers produced work in an attempt to re-create the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.

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B Is For Booker
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The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.

Although we specialize in Mystery and Crime Fiction, we do have a wonderful range of literary fiction including these Booker Prize Winners and more, so come on in and have a browse.

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A is for Action - who doesn't like a bit of action, especially in a good book. Gripping story lines that have your heart racing, and have you bent over, greedily devouring each new word off the page - check these out and see if they do it for you !!

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Price: $11.00 + Delivery (Delivery Within NZ Free For Orders Of 4 Or More Books)
Title: The Burden Of Proof
Author: Scott Turow
Series: Kindle County Legal #2
Tags: Crime, Legal, Mystery, Thriller, USA
Format: Hardback - Large, 16 x 24cm
Condition: Very Good
Originally Published: 1990
Related Movies: The Burden of Proof (1992 | IMDb)
Awards & Honours: 1990 New York Times Bestseller (Fiction), GoodReads Rating 4.06

Blurb: The Burden of Proof follows the story of defense attorney Sandy Stern in the aftermath of his wife's death and the growing realization that there is much about his marriage that he has never understood. Stern's bereavement coincides with his latest case, defending commodities broker Dixon Hartnell.

Price: $12.00 + Delivery (Delivery Within NZ Free For Orders Of 4 Or More Books)
Title: Taking Eve
Author: Iris Johansen
Series: Eve Duncan #16
Tags: Crime, Forensics, Mystery, Romance, Suspense, Thriller, USA
Format: Hardback - Large, 16 x 24cm
Condition: Very Good
Originally Published: 2013 - First Edition
Awards & Honours: GoodReads Rating 4.05

Blurb: Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan's mission is to bring closure to the families whose loved ones have vanished. She knows their anguish—her own beloved daughter, Bonnie, was taken from her when Bonnie was just seven years old. It is only recently that this mystery was resolved and Eve could begin her journey to peace. Now, Jim Doane wants the same kind of answers that Eve always longed for. His twenty-five-year old son may or may not be dead and he has only burned skull fragments as possible evidence. But he cannot go to the police for answers without risking his own secrets and dark past, so instead he chooses a bold step to find the truth—a truth that takes Eve down a twisted path of madness and evil and into the darkest heart of her own history. Doane needs Eve Duncan's skills and he'll do anything to get them.

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Title: Reign In Hell
Author: William Diehl
Series: Martin Vail #3
Tags: Crime, Horror, Law, Mystery, Psychological, Suspense, Thriller
Format: Hardback - Large, 16 x 24cm
Condition: Very Good
Originally Published: 1997 - First Edition
Awards & Honours: 1997 New York Times Bestseller Fiction, GoodReads Rating 3.60

Blurb: William Diehl stunned readers with Primal Fear and Show of Evil, the national bestsellers featuring Chicago lawyer Martin Vail. Now, in his gripping new novel of suspense, Diehl enters uncharted territory, pushing Vail and the legal system he represents to the brink of destruction.

After an ultra-right-wing militia seizes truckloads of highly volatile weapons, the president turns to Illinois attorney general Martin Vail. His job: nail the terrorists in their tracks. Vail plunges into his new, near-impossible mission, one that soon explodes into a personal nightmare as his most chilling adversary, Aaron Stampler, returns--seemingly from the dead--to exact a vengeance that could bring Vail to his knees. . . .

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Title: The Vendetta Defence
Author: Lisa Scottoline
Series: Rosato and Associates #6
Tags: Crime, Legal, Mystery, Romance, Suspense, Thriller, USA
Format: Trade Paperback - Large, 16 x 24cm Very
Condition: Good
Originally Published: 2001
Awards & Honours: 2001 New York Times Bestseller (Fiction), GoodReads Rating 4.03

Blurb: Philadelphia lawyer Judy Carrier couldn’t be less like Ally McBeal – Post-it size skirts and makeup are alien territory where she’s concerned. But she’s smart, feisty, and packs a mean punch. In short, just the woman to turn to if you’re charged with murdering the head of a particularly vicious family of crooks.

With the aid of a posse of octogenarian pigeon fanciers, Judy takes on the mob and proves that there is justice after all.

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Title: Standing In Another Man's Grave
Author: Ian Rankin
Series: Inspector Rebus #18
Tags: Crime, Detective, England, Murder, Mystery, Scotland, Suspense, Thriller
Format: Trade Paperback - Large, 16 x 24cm
Condition: Excellent
Originally Published: 2012
Awards & Honours: Finalist 2014 MWA Edgar Award For Best Mystery, Finalist 2014 International Dublin Literary Award, Finalist 2014 Barry Award For Best Novel, Finalist 2014 Macavity Award For Best Mystery, Finalist Theakston's Crime Novel Of The Year, GoodReads Rating 4.07

Blurb: John Rebus returns to investigate the disappearances of three women from the same road over ten years.

For the last decade, Nina Hazlitt has been ready to hear the worst about her daughter's disappearance. But with no sightings, no body, and no suspect, the police investigation ground to a halt long ago, and Nina's pleas to the cold case department have led her nowhere.

Until she meets the newest member of the team: former Detective John Rebus.

Rebus has never shied away from lost causes - one of the many ways he managed to antagonize his bosses when he was on the force. Now he's back as a retired civilian, reviewing abandoned files. Necessary work, but it's not exactly scratching the itch he feels to be in the heart of the action.

Two more women have gone missing from the same road where Sally Hazlitt was last seen. Unlike his skeptical colleagues, Rebus can sense a connection - but pursuing it leads him into the crosshairs of adversaries both old and new.

Rebus may have missed the thrill of the hunt, but he's up against a powerful enemy who's got even less to lose.

On the twentieth anniversary of Ian Rankin's first American publication comes a novel bursting with the vitality and suspense that made its author one of crime fiction's most dazzling stars. Standing in Another Man's Grave is the triumphant return of John Rebus, and a riveting story of sin, redemption, and revenge."

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Title: Kiss Of The Angel
Author: Stuart White
Tags: Crime, Detective, Murder, USA
Format: Hardback - Large, 16 x 24cm
Condition: Good
Originally Published: 1994
Awards & Honours: GoodReads Rating 4.0

Blurb: In Hollywood someone is killing movie stars. With their bodies, he leaves a wooden angel and in exchange, he takes their heads. Solving the grisly crimes falls to Flavor Cartouche and Rory McCall. Soon they face their biggest battle ever, for their careers, their sanity and for their lives.

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Title: Silent In The Sanctuary
Author: Deanna Raybourn
Series: Lady Julia Grey #2
Tags: 1800s, England, Historical, Mystery, Romance, Victorian
Format: Trade Paperback - Large, 16 x 24cm
Condition: Good
Originally Published: 2008
Awards & Honours: Finalist 2009 Dilys Award, GoodReads Rating 4.05

Blurb: Fresh from a six-month sojourn in Italy, Lady Julia returns home to Suss*x to find her father's estate crowded with family and friends— but dark deeds are afoot at the deconsecrated abbey, and a murderer roams the ancient cloisters.

Much to her surprise, the one man she had hoped to forget—the enigmatic and compelling Nicholas Brisbane—is among her father's houseguests… and he is not alone. Not to be outdone, Julia shows him that two can play at flirtation and promptly introduces him to her devoted, younger, titled Italian count.

But the homecoming celebrations quickly take a ghastly turn when one of the guests is found brutally murdered in the chapel, and a member of Lady Julia's own family confesses to the crime. Certain of her cousin's innocence, Lady Julia resumes her unlikely and deliciously intriguing partnership with Nicholas Brisbane, setting out to unravel a tangle of deceit before the killer can strike again. When a sudden snowstorm blankets the abbey like a shroud, it falls to Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane to answer the shriek of murder most foul.