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  • Some Deaths Before Dying

    by Peter Dickinson ...
    The New York Times Book Review calls multiple-award winner Peter Dickinson "a stylist of subtle brilliance". Always surprising and incisive, the author of The Yellow Room Conspiracy and dozens of other unique novels returns with his first new book in five years; and proves again that in his masterful hands, powerful drama and devastating secrets can be found at the heart of even the smallest ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • A Summer in the Twenties

    by Peter Dickinson ...
    "A lovely smooth read."—The Washington Post"A witty, affectionately nostalgic masterpiece."—The Columbus Dispatch"As absorbingly readable, as well-written as anything Peter Dickinson has written."—The Times Literary SupplementPraise for Peter Dickinson's mysteries:"The works of British Mystery Writer Peter Dickinson are like caviar—an acquired taste that can easily lead to addiction. Dickinson . . ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Earth and Air

    Tales of Elemental Creatures

    by Peter Dickinson ...
    In these collection, you will find stories that range from the mythic to contemporary fantasy to science fiction. You will find a troll, gryphons, a beloved dog, the Land of the Dead, an owl, a minotaur, and a very alien Cat. Earth and Air is the third and final book in a trilogy of shared collections connected by the four classical elements. It follows previous volumes Water: Tales of Elemental ... Read more

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  • The Last Houseparty

    A Crime Novel

    by Peter Dickinson ...
    In this gripping novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, the survivor of a manor-house crime delves into the past to solve a mysteryAt the elegant English manor known as Snailwood, tourists come daily to hear decades-old gossip about the second wife of the sixth earl. Zena was a remarkable young woman whose scandalous reputation has been dimmed neither by time nor by her bizarre death. In ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sinful Stones

    by Peter Dickinson ...
    Series Book 3 - The James Pibble Mysteries
    Scotland Yard detective James Pibble travels to a remote Scottish island to free an old man from a dangerous cult of self-proclaimed saints and saviors in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter DickinsonNinety-two-year-old Sir Francis Francis summons James Pibble to an isolated island in the Hebrides to find out who pilfered the memoirs he was in the process of writing. The Nobel Prize ... Read more

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  • Sleep and His Brother

    by Peter Dickinson ...
    Series Book 4 - The James Pibble Mysteries
    A strange malady afflicts the children of McNair House in this British mystery featuring former Scotland Yard superintendent James Pibble, from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter DickinsonRecently given the sack by Scotland Yard, James Pibble arrives at McNair House on a private matter, only to find that this charitable institution is not at all what it seems. The children who live here have a rare ... Read more

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  • The Blue Hawk

    by Peter Dickinson ...
    In an ancient kingdom, a boy and his hawk challenge the godsAll his life, Tron has been destined to join the priests who rule his strange desert kingdom. When the old king grows sick, a ritual is called for to restore his health: the sacrifice of a blue hawk, the symbol of the god Gdu. For the first time, Tron is chosen to take part in the ritual. Just before the bird is sacrificed, the young ... Read more

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  • The Lively Dead

    A Crime Novel

    by Peter Dickinson ...
    In this mystery from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a landlady discovers a corpse beneath her crowded London boardinghouseA sturdy young woman with a knack for home repair and a practical sense of Marxism, Lydia is renovating her London townhouse while her husband finishes law school. To bring in extra money, she rents her upper floors to the exiled government of Livonia, a Baltic state ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Play Dead

    A Crime Novel

    by Peter Dickinson ...
    A London woman taking her grandson to the park finds her lonely life disrupted by murder in this award-winning author's "gripping thriller" (Reginald Hill).Poppy Tasker never imagined this would be her life at age fifty: divorced, living alone, and stuck caring for a tiny grandson while his mother is busy seeking public office. Sad and resentful, Poppy feels completely detached from the nannies ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • King and Joker

    A Crime Novel

    by Peter Dickinson ...
    Series Book 1 - The Princess Louise Mysteries
    In the cavernous halls of Buckingham Palace, a series of pranks lead to murder in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter DickinsonPrincess Louise and her father, King Victor II of England, agree that life has become painfully dull. When she's not in school, Louise spends her days roaming the palace and fulfilling her royal duties while her father fusses over budgets and attempts to keep his ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walking Dead

    A Crime Novel

    by Peter Dickinson ...
    This brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is set in the Caribbean, where a researcher becomes trapped like a rodent in a mazeWhen it comes to his rats, David Foxe is an expert. He decides when they eat, when they exercise, when they take their medicine—and when they die. For the sake of the Company, he performs all manner of experiments on his helpless subjects, testing ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tefuga

    A Novel of Suspense

    by Peter Dickinson ...
    In this evocative tale of suspense from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a British diplomat's wife in Nigeria inadvertently precipitates a senseless tragedy, and six decades later, her son becomes caught up in a maelstrom of violent political corruptionFilmmaker Nigel Jackland has come to northern Nigeria to work on a new project: a documentary based on the personal diary entries of his ... Read more

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