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Gumshoe Books is your independent mystery and crime fiction specialist. We stock a wide range of murder mysteries, from the classics and Golden Age, historical mysteries, international crime fiction, some thrillers and espionage novels and more...

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Gumshoe Book of the Month September 2025

The Killer Question

By Janice Hallett.

Published on .
Viper, 416 pages.
Hardcover, ISBN: 9781800817197

Can you solve the mystery of the local village pub? Janice Hallett's latest whodunnit is told in her trademark epistolary format, using WhatsApps and pub quiz sheets to tell the story...

Mal and Sue Eastwood were once the kindly landlords of a local village pub, The Case is Altered. They ran a weekly pub quiz and were well liked by their customers and colleagues alike, always happy to lend a helping hand.

But now The Case stands empty, its windows boarded up. What could have happened to Mal and Sue?

£16.99 GBP £18.99

Coming Soon - new mystery and crime fiction

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The best new mystery and crime fiction books, due to be published over the next six weeks or so in the UK, and available to pre-order from Gumshoe Books.

Coming Soon Catalogue

2025 Christmas Mysteries

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It'll be here before you know it...

Get a head-start on your Christmas TBR with this year's new Christmas and winter-themed murder mysteries.

2025 Christmas Mysteries

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    Yrsa Sigurdardottir

    The Wake

    Black Ice 2

    £20.00 GBP
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    Lilja Sigurdardottir

    Black As Death

    Arora 5

    £9.99 GBP
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    Satu Ramo

    The Shadow of the Northern Lights

    Hildur 3

    £9.99 GBP
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    Snowblind

    Ari Thor Arason (Dark Iceland) 1

    £16.99 GBP £18.99
  • The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer by Ragnar Jonasson - Hardcover

    Ragnar Jonasson

    The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer

    £20.00 GBP

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Bibliomysteries - Gumshoe Books exclusive

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Bibliomysteries


The Bibliomysteries Series is published for and by the legendary Mysterious Bookshop in New York. These short stories feature books and those who write them, buy them, read them, collect them, sell them or are in some way involved with them.

Most are in now stock at Gumshoe Books.

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  • The Book of Virtue by Ken Bruen - Paperback

    Ken Bruen

    The Book of Virtue

    Bibliomysteries 1

    £7.99 GBP
  • The Book of Ghosts by Reed Farrel Coleman - Paperback

    Reed Farrel Coleman

    The Book of Ghosts

    Bibliomysteries 2

    £9.99 GBP
  • The Scroll by Anne Perry - Paperback

    Anne Perry

    The Scroll

    Bibliomysteries 3

    £9.99 GBP
  • The Book Case by Nelson DeMille - Paperback

    Nelson DeMille

    The Book Case

    Bibliomysteries 4

    £9.99 GBP
  • Pronghorns of the Third Reich by C. J. Box - Paperback

    C. J. Box

    Pronghorns of the Third Reich

    Bibliomysteries 5

    £7.99 GBP
  • Death Leaves a Bookmark by William Link - Paperback

    William Link

    Death Leaves a Bookmark

    Bibliomysteries 6

    £9.99 GBP