Ashleys Must-Read Thrillers #2
Discover Ashley's must-read thrillers featuring Ruth Rendell, Josephine Tey, and Dorothy L. Sayers. Explore classic suspense, detective fiction, and gripping mysteries in this curated book list.
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The Last Detective
by Peter Lovesey
A nude female corpse has been found floating in a large reservoir just south of Bristol. Detective Peter Diamond must solve the mystery of the "lady in the lake", locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen, and save a woman unjustly accused of murder.
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A Judgement in Stone
by Ruth Rendell
On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family are murdered by their housekeeper in the space of 15 minutes. When Detective Chief Superintendent arrests Eunice Parchman two weeks later, he discovers a second tragedy: the key to the St. Valentine's Day massacre is a private humiliation Parchman has guarded all her life.
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Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers
“Gaudy Night stands out even among Miss Sayers’s novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself.” —Times Literary Supplement The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of mystery fiction’s most enduring and endearing protagonists. Acclaimed author Ruth Rendell has expressed her admiration for Sayers’s work, praising her “great fertility of invention, ingenuity, and wonderful eye for detail.” The third Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane, Gaudy Night is now back in print with an introduction by Elizabeth George, herself a crime fiction master. Gaudy Night takes Harriet and her paramour, Lord Peter, to Oxford University, Harriet’s alma mater, for a reunion, only to find themselves the targets of a nightmare of harassment and mysterious, murderous threats.
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The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
A hospitalized English policeman reconstructs historical evidence concerning Richard III's role in the murder of Edward IV's two sons.
