Crime & mystery: police procedural

  • A Bad, Bad Place

    £16.99

    Everyone’s talking about Janey Devine. Glasgow, 1979. While walking her dog, twelve-year-old Janey finds a murdered woman on an abandoned railway – and her innocent childhood ends in a shocking moment of trauma. When the victim is named as daughter of a local hardman, Janey’s nana, Maggie, is distraught and deeply afraid. Janey claims she can’t remember what she saw that day, but the police think she’s hiding something, and they’re not the only ones interested. Maggie tries desperately to keep Janey safe but is battling long-buried secrets of her own. As fear and rumour stalk the streets of Possilpark, Maggie becomes convinced she will lose her beloved granddaughter forever – especially when Janey starts to remember exactly what happened in that bad, bad place.

  • A Deadly Inheritance

    £9.99

    Detective Caius Beauchamp is dispatched to a double murder in a South London townhouse. It looks like a simple botched burglary, until Caius gets a tip-off about the well-heeled family’s nefarious past. Which is worse: the body on the floor or the skeletons in the closet? Caius’ own family circumstances have changed recently: some complicated inheritance tetris means he is now in line to inherit a country estate. He’s still getting used to his new life in the upper echelons of society. And when he realises that he recognises the victims from a recent luxury train ride, it all starts feeling a little too close for comfort.

  • Stone and Sky

    £20.00

    When a body is found in a bus stop, fresh from the sea, the case smells fishy from the off. Something may be stirring beyond the bay – but there’s something far stranger in the sky.

  • The Wilds

    £9.99

    Out here, it’s easy to get lost. After the dark events that scarred her childhood, Kier Templer escaped her hometown and twin to live her life on the road. They’ve never lost contact until, on a trip to a Portuguese national park, Kier vanishes without a trace. Detective Elin Warner arrives in the same park ready to immerse herself in its vast wilderness – only to hear about Kier’s disappearance, and discover a disturbing map she left behind. The few strangers at the isolated camp close ranks against her questions, and the park’s wild beauty starts to turn sinister. Elin must untangle the clues to find out what really happened to Kier. But when you follow a trail, you have to be careful to watch your back.

  • The Drowned

    £9.99

    1950s, rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. Knowing he shouldn’t approach, but unable to hold back, he soon finds himself embroiled in a troubling missing person’s case, as a husband claims his wife may have thrown herself into the sea. Called in from Dublin to investigate is Detective Inspector Strafford, who soon turns to his old ally – the flawed but brilliant pathologist Quirke – a man he is linked to in increasingly complicated ways.

  • The Last Days of Kira Mullan

    £9.99

    The unputdownable new thriller from bestselling author Nicci French. 

  • Can You Solve the Murder?

    £14.99

    There’s been a murder at Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on the lawn – with a rose placed in his mouth. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death from the balcony above. But that balcony can only be accessed through a locked door, the key is missing, and everyone in Elysium is now a suspect. Gather the evidence and examine the clues. Choose who to interview next, and who to accuse as your prime suspect. But remember that every decision you make has consequences – and some of them will prove fatal. Do you have what it takes? Can YOU solve the murder?

  • Midnight and Blue

    £9.99

    John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals behind bars. Now, he’s joined them. As new allies and old enemies circle, and the days and nights bleed into each other, even the legendary detective struggles to keep his head. That is, until a murder at midnight in a locked cell presents a new mystery. They say old habits die hard. However, this is a case where the prisoners and the guards are all suspects, and everyone has something to hide. With no badge, no authority and no safety net, Rebus walks a tightrope – with his life on the line. But how do you find a killer in a place full of them?

  • Nightshade

    £22.00

    Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been ‘exiled’ to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found wrapped in plastic and weighed down at the bottom of the harbor. Crossing all lines of protocol and jurisdiction, he starts doggedly working the case. Soon, his investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big city.

  • Burying Jericho

    £16.99

    While Scott Jericho is tasked with investigating the most baffling case of his career, his partner Harry is set upon his own fateful path. In a rundown seaside town, the body of a missing man has been discovered, encased in the walls of a medieval church. How the corpse got there and why will unravel the lives of a group of old school friends, each with a terrible secret to keep. A secret hinted at by the paper men hanging from the trees in a nearby wood, by the ravings of the local ‘wisewoman’, and by the strange waxworks of a defunct fairground attraction. While fates collide and an impossible murder is executed, a twisted killer from his past is closing in on Harry and Jericho. But is it already too late for Scott to save himself and the man he loves?

  • The burial place

    £16.99

    ‘This series is irresistible’ LEE CHILD

    ‘An immersive, intelligent delight’ LUCY FOLEY

    ‘The Jake Jackson books get better and better’ ELLY GRIFFITHS

    ‘Highly recommend’ KARIN SLAUGHTER

    ‘A pleasure’ BERNARD CORNWELL

  • Death at the White Hart

    £16.99

    A picture-perfect village. A harrowing crime scene. A web of secrets. A victim who knew all of them. Introducing Detective Nicola Bridge, in the debut novel from Chris Chibnall.

Nomad Books