Thanks John but don't forget that we're UK based so can't get that model yet. There is a new Kindle here - check out the Amazon home page. Looks to be a budget version with no keyboard.
'The City & The City' - China Mieville, is one of the strangest crime novels you will ever come across.
And I cannot recommend the 'Aurelio Zen' series by Michael Dibdin highly enough. The recent mini-series on TV didn't do it justice (but do they ever?).
Although not crime, have a browse over Bent Steeple by the same author, its along the lines of Saloms Lot but in a way that S King wouldn't get away with.