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Novels - Paperbacks

Here below is a list of paperbacks we have in stock priced at around R25.00 to R40.00 each.

Be sure to visit our store and view new paperbacks and hardcovers from authors like Harlan Coben, Marion Keyes, Robert Crais, Robin Cook and Tami Hoag.

Many others are available and below is just a short list.

Please note - some titles might be sold out - you are welcome to email us before visiting the store incase there is a specific title you are looking for or see below.


Basket Case - Carl Hiaasen

Jack Tagger has stumbled across a whale of a story that might just resurrect his career ...James Stomarti, infamous frontman of rock band Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, has died in a diving accident and Jack harbours suspicions that the glamorous pop starlet widow may have had a vested interest in her husband's death. Was Jimmy Stomarti murdered?

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Heart Sick - Chelsea Cain

When serial killer Gretchen Lowell captured her last victim, the man in charge of hunting her down, she quickly established who was really in control of the investigation. So why, after ten days of horrifying physical and mental torture, did she release Detective Archie Sheridan from the brink of death and hand herself in?

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Chris Ryan - Firefight

A veteran of the dangerous missions the Regiment could throw at him, former SAS captain Will Jackson's life was torn apart the day a terrorist attack killed his family. People higher up the chain of command have other plans, however. They make Jackson an offer he can't refuse. An offer that takes him straight back into a brutal theatre of war.

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Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larrson

A ski Salander is plotting her revenge against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.

But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign.

After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release.

With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence.

Once a victim herself, Salander is now ready to fight back.lful writer possessed of great sympathy and humour.

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Previous titles available

  1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - R104.00
  2. The Girl who played with Fire - R104.00

Raise the Titanic - Clive Cussler

A tidal wave of pounding excitement from the first page to the last ...Two and a half miles beneath the icy North Atlantic the mighty Titanic holds the key to the safety of the free world. The Americans want it. So do the Russians. Ace maritime troubleshooter Dirk Pitt faces one of the most stupendous tests of courage and ingenuity ever. Raise the Titanic is a spellbinding blockbuster of action and suspense.

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Night Probe - Clive Cussler

May 1914. Two top diplomats hurry home by sea and rail, each carrying a document of world-changing importance. Then the liner Empress of India is sunk in a collision, and the Manhattan-Line express plunges from a shattered bridge - both dragging their VIP passengers to watery oblivion.

Tragic coincidence - or conspiracy? Seventy-five years later, a chance revelation reopens the question. In the energy-starved fear-torn 1980s, those long-lost papers could destroy whole nations, and Dirk Pitt confronts his biggest challenge yet.

Racing against time, against hired killers - and the horrors of the sea bed - he launches his deep-sea search craft in the hunt for the documents. 'Night Probe' has begun ...

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Amazing Grace - Danielle Steel

On a warm May night in San Francisco, a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity event. Just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway.

Glass shatters, the lights go out, and people start to scream...In the earthquake's aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge: Sarah Sloane, the beautiful wife of a financial star, watches her perfect world fall to pieces; Melanie Free, award-winning singer, comes to a turning point in her career; Everett Carson, a former war correspondent whose personal demons have demoted him to covering society parties, finds new purpose amid the carnage; and, Sister Maggie Kent, a nun who does her best work in jeans and trainers, searches through the rubble - and knows instantly that there is much work to be done.

The city staggers back to life, and a chain reaction will touch each of the survivors as they find the amazing grace of new beginnings.

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Dante's Number - David Hewson

Allan Prime looked ready to die of fright, even before the bright, shining spear with the blood-soaked tip reached his head ...

The death mask of the poet Dante is to be exhibited at the premiere of a controversial new film, Inferno . But at the grand unveiling this priceless artefact is replaced by a macabre death mask of the film's star, Allan Prime. Minutes later the leading actress, Maggie Flavier, is threatened before her attacker is shot. Nic Costa and his team are sidelined from the investigation in Rome and follow the movie to its next showing in San Francisco, hoping to recover the stolen death mask. But in California confusing new clues suggest that there is more behind the killing than a crazed Dante fan.

With the authorities distracted by false leads, can Costa protect Maggie, find the truth and stop the killer - all before life imitates art?

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The Promised Land - David Hewson

Bierce was a happily married cop with a bright future. Then on one sunny day in July his wife and their young son were savagely beaten to death.

Bierce was convicted of their murders. Languishing on Death Row twenty-three years later, he still has no memory of the incident.

Unexpectedly, inexplicably released just seconds before his execution, he teams up with the beautiful, feisty, half-Chinese Alice Loong, who guides him through the confusing new world of the twenty-first century. But it soon becomes clear that Alice is hiding dark secrets of her own.

Pursued by mysterious enemies who are convinced that Bierce knows more than he is telling about his wife's death, the pair are forced into a dangerous race against time to uncover the truth about the events of that fateful day.

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Bonecrack - Dick Francis

At twenty to midnight Neil Griffon's home is broken into and he is roughly abducted by masked men.

He has no idea who they are, or what they want. But when Neil wakes up, hours later, he quickly discovers that unless he cooperates his kidnappers will destroy his father's precious horses, racing stable and ultimately Neil himself.

Returned to take charge of the stables, Neil can tell no-one about his ordeal. Vicious threats and horrible violence against his horses become a day-to-day reality and he is forced to comply with his blackmailer's wishes.

Trapped in a war of attrition, Neil realises he must find a way to stop these criminals before his nerve gives out. After all, a choice between his integrity and his life is no choice at all...

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Enquiry - Dick Francis

No jockey likes being labelled a cheat. Least of all by a Stewards' Enquiry. Kelly Hughes career looks doomed.

He knows he's been framed, but finding the reason could prove dangerous.

Especially with a killer on his tail...Hughes' own enquiry uncovers dynamite that could blow the racing world to smithereens. Only a few powerful - and violent - men know the sordid secret. And they'll go to extraordinary lengths to keep it that way. Murder is just one option... Highly ingenious

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Reflex - Dick Francis

Philip Nore is nearing the end as a jockey. George Millace is finished in photography. The difference is Millace is dead - and Nore has discovered his secret: a set of files which would blow the top off the racing world.

Hated by a dying grandmother he has never known, and abused by a trainer he knows only too well, Nore is no stranger to shabby morals.

And when he begins to decipher the dead man's photographs, he uncovers corruption on a scale he had never imagined

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Grave Doubts - Elizabeth Corley

'He was only a pupil, learning from a master who was uncompromising about the rules of the game he had invented. Normally he obeyed them, but with her the temptation had been too strong. Otherwise he was an adept pupil, becoming more skilled every time.

This one would be his best, he was certain. Perhaps tonight he might...even...kill her.' Having survived a terrifying attack as part of an investigation, Sergeant Louise Nightingale retreats to her remote family cottage to lick her wounds, comforted in the knowledge that her attacker is behind bars.

But when a serial killer starts terrorising the country, her colleague, DCI Andrew Fenwick, questions whether or not they have the right man. For Nightingale, the true nightmare has only just begun...

Spine-tingling suspense with a dark underbelly of psychological terror - this is a book you will not dare put down.

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Requiem Mass - Elizabeth Corley

'Someone had wanted her to die and had brought her to a twisted, broken death. Now he would kill for her - once, twice, three times - as many times as proved necessary - to avenge her death and finally let her rest in peace.

'Twenty years earlier a young woman falls tragically to her death. The only people with her are four schoolfriends. One - or maybe all of them - is responsible. And there's someone intent on letting them have their just desserts.

DCI Andrew Fenwick is soon caught up in a desperate race against time to find the murderer before he completes his bloody vendetta. As the death toll mounts, Fenwick stares failure in the face - unless he can draw the predator out of the shadows and into an unconventional and highly dangerous trap with the ultimate bait.

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Dead Run - Erica Spindler

When her sister Rachel, a pastor in Key West, mysteriously vanishes, and two murders occur, Liz is forced to team up with former Miami cop Rick Wells to unearth the dark secrets that lurk beneath the surface of this seemingly perfect community

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The Pursuit of Happiness - Douglas Kennedy

Preston, 1888: as the century draws to a close, the prostitute murders in London have made young Lydia Ketch's 'trade' a political issue.

Lydia, the tough but optimistic daughter of a former workhouse inmate, has spent a year working in the 'introduction house' of Kathleen Tanner, a job that has given her an income few others could match.

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Maximum Impact - Jack Henderson

In 1993, a legendary hacker brainstorms the ultimate terrorist attack in a members-only online chat room.

On September 11, 2001, he sees his dark vision materializing into a murderous reality. Jeannie Reese, lead designer in the US government's Total Information Awareness program, begins a high-tech pursuit of this mythical figure of the Internet underground.

But the hunt soon leads Jeannie down an alarming trail of revelations: the terrorists are gathering again and a massive follow-up attack is coming, designed by the most formidable mind she's ever encountered.

An exciting thriller debut with relentless pace and nonstop action, Maximum Impact will appeal to anyone who enjoys the novels of Tom Clancy.

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The Devils Labyrinth - John Saul

Teri McIntyre has enrolled her 15-year-old son at St Isaac's Catholic boarding school, hoping this venerable institution will have a calming influence on him.

But Ryan arrives to find the school awash with rumours of violent death, mysterious disappearances, and a growing incidence of disturbing behavior within its hallowed halls.

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Zoe's Tale - John Scalzi

How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history? I ask because it's what I have to do.

I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old. Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did - how I did what I had to do - not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you.

I'm going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes. It's a story you know. But you don't know it all.

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The Chinese Takeout - Judith Cutler

Streetwise Josie is one of the rare women who can keep a secret for twenty years, has gumption, bravado and a diet that works.

Any reader over forty will want to put up a poster of her?

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Life Sentence - Judith Cutler

An unidentified woman is found on a roadside - beaten into a coma and raped. The man who finds her, troubled by his inability to resuscitate her, spends hours at her hospital bedside, talking to the woman everyone calls Elise. Now months away from retirement, Chief Superintendent Frances Harman has been assigned to investigate Elise's case.

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I Saw You - Julie Parsons

For ten years, retired Policeman Michael McLoughlin has been haunted by the case of a young woman murdered and the affection he felt for the victim's mother, Margaret.

A favor for a friend leads him to another woman who has lost a child - her daughter has been found drowned in the same lake her stepfather died in years earlier. An accident?

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Twice - Lisa Miscione

Julian Ross, an acclaimed New York City artist, has been charged with brutally killing her second husband.

She was found at the scene, hysterical, over his bloody, lifeless corpse. She maintains her innocence, but the cops are having trouble believing her: ten years ago she was indicted of murdering her first husband in exactly the same way.

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The Charmer - Mandasue Heller

Maria Price has inherited a large house in the best part of Manchester and more money than she ever dreamed of.

An orphan since her mother died, she has survived the care system and thought she would never have a family or security again.Then, she meets a charming and wonderful lover, Joel. But Joel isn't what he seems to be.

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A Stranger is Watching - Mary Higgins Clark

Two years ago, magazine editor Steve Peterson lost his wife Nina to a vicious killer. Now he's trying to rebuild his life; providing for his troubled son, Neil, and allowing romance to blossom with journalist Sharon Martin.

In two days time, Ronald Thompson is to be put to death for the murder and Sharon believes she may be able to help the family move on. But there's a problem - they're executing the wrong man ...For the real murderer is still at large. A cunning psychopath who has been patient, very patient - but who can be patient no more. And as he sits, and waits, and watches, a terrible plan is forming ...

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The Blue Religion - Michael Connelly

From Hawaii at the turn of the twentieth century to the post-Civil War frontier, from smoggy Los Angeles to the woods of Idaho, these gripping stories trace the perils and occasional triumphs of lawmen and -women who put themselves in harm's way to face down the bad guys.

Some of them even walk the edge of becoming bad guys themselves.

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Wild Fire - Nelson Demille

A group of Vietnam Vets who still keep in touch: the Custer Hill Club. They are prepared to attack foreign countries if America is attacked and their current rule is that if an Islamic country attacks America, then all Islamic countries will be nuked - thus deterring Korea, China or other countries having similar ideas against the US.

The Custer Hill Club gets more ambitious and aggressive. The men decide to choose an American city to attack themselves, pretending it is an Islamic terrorist attack (either San Francisco or LA, the reader won't know) in order for them to be able to nuke Mecca, the Aswan Dam and many other places. America will rule the world!

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The Charm School - Nelson Demille

Deep in the heart of Russia, a group of casually dressed young men are learning a different kind of lesson. The undergraduates sprawled around a game board aren't chilling out on campus: the young KGB agents attending the Charm School are brushing up on their American.

When a young tourist goes to the aid of a stranger on a dark Russian road, he is astonished to find a fellow American on the run. The man has been missing for over a decade, plucked from the jungles of Vietnam to become an unwilling tutor at the institution.

Now his former students are poised to strike at the heart of America.

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The Reality Dysfuntion - Peter F Hamilton

In the 26th century the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential.

But on a primitive colony planet a renegade criminal's chance encounter with an alien entity unleashes the most primal of fears - the reality dysfunction .

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Dead-End Road - Richard Kunzmann

Detective Harry Mason is assigned to investigate the slaying of a minor politician and his family, in a township west of Johannesburg.

The case is abruptly saved by an enigmatic grassroots anarchist and soon the Serious and Violent Crimes unit is hot on the heels of one of the country's most violent groups, known as 'The Guardians'.

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Eclipse - Richard North Patterson

An American lawyer, Damon Pierce, attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West African leader of a protest movement, from execution by the country's corrupt and autocratic leader. Complicating matters further is Okari's wife, Marissa Brand, with whom Pierce had a relationship years before that he's never quite forgotten.

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Dying Flames - Robert Barnard

Graham Broadbent, a successful novelist, enjoys a quiet life of writing. On the evening of one such occasion, a rather intriguing surprise arrives at his door in the form of Christabel, a pretty 19-year-old. 'Hello Dad' are her first words as he opens the door to her.

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Foreign Body - Robin Cook

Jennifer Hernandez is a medical student at UCLA. While listening to a news report on medical tourism, where first-world citizens travel to third-world countries for surgery, she hears her beloved grandmother's name mentioned. The reporter says Maria Suarez-Hernandez had died, a day after undergoing a hip replacement in New Delhi.

 

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Through Violet Eyes - Stephen Woodworth

In a world where the dead can testify against the living, someone is getting away with murder. To every generation a select few souls are born with violet-coloured eyes - and the ability to channel the dead. Both rare and precious, and rigidly controlled by a society that craves their services, these Violets perform a number of different social duties.

But now the Violets themselves have become the target of a brutal serial murderer - a murderer who has learned how to mask his or her identity even from the victims.

Can FBI agent Dan Atwater, aided by Violet Natalie Lindstrom, uncover the criminal in time? Or will more of Natalie's race be dispatched to the realm that has haunted them all since childhood?

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