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Sarah Waters (2002) Fingersmith. Riverhead Trade; 1st edition This hypnotic suspense novel is a sumptuous slice of lesbian Victoriana, featuring pickpockets (finger smiths), grim prisons, lunatic asylums, and stolen fortunes. More... 
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Scott Phillips (2001) The Ice Harvest. Ballantine Books Charlie Arglista, a crooked lawyer, is marking time before an important meeting with his shady partner, Vic Cavanaugh. The plot involves organized crime, strippers, grumpy bouncers, a serious snowstorm, and a hero with a profound drinking problem in a frigid Wichita, Kansas setting. More... 
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Andrew Taylor (2001) The Four Last Things. (The Roth Trilogy) HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Horrific story about the daughter of a newly ordained deacon and her husband, a London policeman. The little girl is kidnapped by a pedophile and his female companion, Angel, a psychopathic serial killer. Not for the faint of heart! More... 
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Greg Iles (1998) Mortal Fear. Signet A serial killer stalks an erotic Internet service for victims. System operator, futures trader and online pornographer, Harper Cole, offers his help to the FBI, but becomes a prime suspect. The novel, full of horny sex and butchery violence, is remarkably well plotted with authentic characters and unbearably rising tension. More...
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Marquise de Sade (1996) Crimes of Love. Peter Owen Publishers Defiant, provocative and unconventional. De Sade's best collection of erotic crime. More... 
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Cornell Woolrich (1995) Waltz into Darkness. (First published in 1947) Penguin Middle-aged Louis Durand, whose fiance died 15 years ago, decides to take one more chance on love and marry a woman he knows only through correspondence. When she arrives, she's younger and more beautiful that he had expected - and far more deadly. A classical novel noire (French movie by Trancois Truffault). More... 
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Minette Walters (1993) The Ice House St. Martin's Paperbacks Walters' debut starts with a mysterious disappearance: Ten years ago, Phoebe's husband David vanished without a trace after his wife caught him in bed with their daughter Jane. When a male corpse is discovered in an Icehouse of the estate, the police suspect Phoebe and her two best friends. The investigation threatens to ruin the lives of the three women. More...
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James M. Cain (1989) The Postman Always Rings Twice. (Reprint Ed.) Vintage In 1934, Cain started a new genre: American noir fiction. It may be full of despair, sweltering greed, dark violence and raw sex, but the no-nonsense description of humanity heading towards destruction is impossible to resist. In his laconic style Cain tells the story of Frank, a tramp, who his attracted to Cora, the young wife of brutally violent Nick. When Frank and Cora start an affair behind her older man's back, the story is heading for disaster. More... 
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