Mammoth book of best British mysteries
Publisher: Running Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9780762440962
Subjects: English Detective and mystery stories
Description: This eighth annual edition includes the very best of modern British crime fiction, featuring 35 stories from top contemporary writers such as Christopher Fowler, Alexander McCall Smith, Reginald Hill and Colin Dexter.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Maxim Jakubowski; title: The very last drop  -- Ian Rankin; title: Dolphin junction  -- Mick Herron; title: Chris takes the bus  -- Denise Mina; title: The madwoman of USK  -- Edward Marston; title: Dead and breakfast  -- Marilyn Todd; title: Affairs of the heart  -- Kate Atkinson; title: The ballad of Manky Milne  -- Stuart MacBride; title: The circle  -- David Hewson; title: A goose for Christmas  -- Alexander McCall Smith; title: An arm and a leg  -- Nigel Bird; title: The lover and lever society  -- Robert Barnard; title: Dead close  -- Lin Anderson; title: The turnip farm  -- Allan Guthrie; title: As God made us  -- A.L. Kennedy; title: Robert Hayer's dead  -- Simon Kernick; title: Another life  -- Roz Southey; title: The woman who loved Elizabeth David  -- Andrew Taylor; title: Hungry eyes  -- Sheila Quigley; title: Homework  -- Phil Lovesey; title: No thanks, please  -- Declan Burke; title: The same as she always was  -- Keith McCarthy; title: Out of the flesh  -- Christopher Brookmyre; title: Hard rock ; title: Gerard Brennan --; title: Art in the blood  -- Matthew J. Elliott; title: Unhappy endings  -- Colin Bateman; title: Run, rabbit, run  -- Ray Banks; title: Slow burn  -- Simon Brett; title: Finders, weepers  -- Adrian Magson; title: The hard sell  -- Jay Stringer; title: Parson Pennywick takes the waters  -- Amy Myers; title: Sucker punch  -- Nick Quantrill; title: Top hard  -- Stephen Booth; title: Cop and robber  -- Paul Johnston; title: Off duty  -- Zoë Sharp; title: Guns of Brixton  -- Paul D. Brazill; title: The deadliest tale of all  -- Peter Lovesey; title: The best small country in the world  -- Louise Welsh; title: Mr Bo  -- Liza Cody; title: Foxed  -- Peter Turnbull; title: Murder  -- Nicholas Royle; title: Driven -- Ian Rankin-- Acknowledgements.