Fiction

Jim Kelly / The Water Clock (Hardback)

 In the bleak, snowbound landscape of the Cambridgeshire Fens, a man's mutilated body is discovered in a block of ice. High up on Ely Cathedral a second body is discovered, grotesquely riding an ancient stone gargoyle. The decaying corpse, it seems,...

Loren D. Estleman / Something Borrowed, Something Black (Hardback)

 Peter Macklin, contract killer--retired--has found himself the perfect woman. He's convinced young, beautiful, innocent Laurie that he is simply a salesman from Detroit, and they're passionately honeymooning in Los Angeles. . . . until the phone...

Per Petterson / It's Fine by Me (Hardback)

 The moving story of a young man's life from an international literary master.On his first day of school, a teacher welcomes Audun to the class by asking him to describe his former life in the country. But there are stories about his family he would...

Norman Lebrecht / The Game of Opposites : A Novel (Hardback)

 From the author of The Song of Names (winner of the 2002 Whitbread First Novel Award), a powerful new novel that explores the reverberations of love and hate in the story of one man’s unlikely survival.In an unnamed country at the end of a...

Carol Shields / Dressing Up for the Carnival (Hardback)

 A new collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry's Party (winner of the Orange prize). In every town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife' s lace-trimmed night...

T. Jefferson Parker / L.A. Outlaws (Hardback)

 Los Angeles is gripped by the exploding celebrity of Allison Murietta, her real identity unknown, a modern-day Jesse James with the compulsion to steal beautiful things, the vanity to invite the media along, and the conscience to donate much of her...

Salman Rushdie / Quichotte (Hardback)

 A dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age--an epic tour de force that is as much an homage to an immortal work of literature as it is to the quest for love and family, by Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman...

Colin Forbes / This United State (Hardback)

 The Prime Minister has been assassinated and Britain is in danger. Is a giant power out to absorb Britain into its own system? The trail leads Tweed and his team to Switzerland and into the Black Forest. The climax takes place on Romney Marsh as a...

Rosellen Brown / Half a Heart (Hardback)

 When her biracial daughter appears suddenly after eighteen years searching for the mother who left her, former civil rights activist Miriam Vener begins a painful confrontation with her past     All of our books are second hand, and...

Salley Vickers / Dancing Backwards (Hardback)

 Violet Hetherington, recently widowed, has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend and long-ago lover. As she makes the six-day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to losing...

Lyndsay Russell / Fat Chance : Heaven Is a Plus-Sized World (Hardback)

Sad, lonely Sharon Plunkett is a size 18. She's tried every fad, every diet, every cream, but like a stain of grease on a pure silk blouse, her weightrefuse to budge. The man of her dreams is not interested, and her friend Debbee uses her to look good...

Billy Byrne / Foolish Notions (Hardback)

 Jeremy Brightside, a frustrated actor, decides to give his career a boost and carry his performance to a wider audience. Dressed in Elizabethan costume he accosts a policeman in London's Piccadilly Circus, which leads him to the courts where he...

George Dickerson / Selected Poems, 1959-1999 (Hardback)

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Richard Price / Freedomland (Hardback)

 When an injured woman claims that a carjacker has kidnapped her son, a shrewd police officer and an ambitious young reporter smell a hoax - could the woman have murdered her own child?     All of our books are second hand, and while...

Anthony Quinn / The Listeners (Hardback)

 A new crime series set in the brooding landscape of the Scottish borders from the author of the Celcius Daly series.   Not long out of the fast-track training course at Edinburgh's police college, Detective Sergeant Carla Herron is...

John Haylock / Touch of the Orient (Hardback)

 Witty, contemporary novel, set in England and Thailand. Nothing is quite as it seems, including all notions of sex, as Haylock's characters slip in and out of beds and fantasies, intricately entwining the lifestyles of East and West. By the author...

Philip Casey / The Water Star (Hardback)

 ‘Set in a post-war London still recovering from the Blitz, the novel follows the overlapping lives of five characters who inhabit the ruins of North London . . . Casey escorts his reader through the labyrinths of his character’s minds,...

Hank Phillippi Ryan / The First to Lie (Hardback)

 What happens when an undercover reporter gets in too deep? And when a practiced liar has to face off with her own truth—how does she choose her true reality?Who will be the first to lie?     All of our books are second hand, and...

Rosie Thomas / Constance (Hardback)

 Constance has made a new life for herself in a foreign land. She is a musician, a composer, a highly paid arranger of other people's music, living in a lively expatriate community in Bali. There the world is idyllic - beautiful beaches framed with...

Colette McBeth / Precious Thing (Hardback)

 Menacing, suspenseful and utterly compelling, this stunning novel throws the spotlight on the fine line between love and hate, and leaves you wondering just who you trust.Rachel and Clara promised their friendship would last for ever. They met when...

Sherry Sonnett / Restraint - A Novel of erotic obsession (Hardback)

 A fast-paced novel hailed by Entertainment Weekly as a "well-crafted, suspenseful thriller [which] offers sex, erotica, and more sex."In Sherry Sonnett’s compelling first novel, Vega Johnson, a successful L.A. investment counselor,...

Anna Quindlen / Blessings (Hardback)

 This powerful new novel by the bestselling author of Black and Blue , One True Thing , Object Lessons , and A Short Guide to a Happy Life begins when a teenage couple drives up, late at night, headlights out, to Blessings, the estate owned by Lydia...

Chris Stewart / The Third Consequence (Hardback)

 From the author of The Kill Box and Shattered Bone, comes Chris Stewart's next timely The Third Consequence. US Air Force pilot Ryan C. Cooney is sent to join an elite group of fighter pilots charged with protecting American tankers as they make...

Chris Stewart / Shattered Bone (Hardback)

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Hilary Norman / Shattered Stars (Hardback)

 Four children torn apart after an act of suicidal madness face different fates in different parts of the world, but a driving force urges three of them to search for their lost family.     All of our books are second hand, and while...

Maxim Jakubowski / The Best British Mysteries IV (Hardback)

 An exciting collection including new stories from previous BBM favorites and first appearances from Alexander McCall Smith, John Harvey, Lee Child and Robert Goddard. * Bite size chunks from Britain’s hottest crime writers * ‘An...

Kate De Goldi / The 10 P.M. Question (Hardback)

 Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons has a head full of questions. Only Ma takes him seriously, but unfortunately she is the cause of the most worrying question of all, the one Frankie can never bring himself to ask. Then a new girl arrives at school...

James W. Huston / Fallout (Hardback)

 Devastated at being reprimanded for a midair collision, TOPGUN instructor Luke Henry quits the Navy to start a private aerial combat school in the Nevada desert, where he and a number of his buddies, all former TOPGUN fliers -- part of the Old Bro...

Brian Chikwava / Harare North (Hardback)

 Caine Prize winner Brian Chikwava tackles the realities of life in London for Africa’s dispossessed in this fearlessly political and very funny story of an illegal Zimbabwean immigrant seeking a better life in England — with a past he...

Charlaine Harris / Dead in the Family (Hardback)

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Joseph Finder / The Zero Hour: A Novel (Hardback)

 When FBI Special Agent Sarah Cahill, a counterterrorism expert, begins pursuit of a South African terrorist-for-hire known as the Prince of Darkness, he turns the chase back on Sarah and her eight-year-old son. By the author of Extraordinary Powers...

Richard Steinberg / The 4 Phase Man (Hardback)

 A one phase man's a keeperTwo phase man's no sleeperA three phase man's of oldFour phase man's worth his weight in goldA Manchurian Candidate for the information age, The 4 Phase Man solidifies Richard Steinberg's growing reputation as a master of...

Tom Bale / Terror's Reach (Hardback)

 The brilliant new thriller by the author of Skin and Bones .Terror's an exclusive island on the south coast of England, home to rival business tycoons Valentin Nasenko and Robert Felton. On a sweltering weekend in May, the island is targeted by a...

M.F.W. Curran / The Secret War (Hardback)

   Daemons and angels, vampyres and knights clash for the future of mankind, and as the two sides wage war across the world, innocent people are caught up in the conflict—men like Captain William Saxon and Lieutenant Kieran Harte, two...

Ryan David Jahn / Low Life (Hardback)

 When Simon Johnson is attacked in his LA apartment, he knows he must defend himself or die. Turning on the lights afterwards, he discovers that his attacker is dead and the resemblance of the man to himself is uncanny. Soon his lonely life will...

Steven Hall / The Raw Shark Texts (Hardback)

 Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is. A note instructs him to see a Dr. Randle immediately, who informs him that he is undergoing yet another episode of acute memory loss that is a symptom of his severe...

Michael Crow / No Way Back (Hardback)

 Discuss. It takes only one word before Luther Ewing's mandatory six-month vacation from a Baltimore narc squad leaves him holed up in a D.C. spook house, prepping for a CIA mission. Nadya, a Russki vixen,is there to help him brush up on his...

James Byron Huggins / Cain (Hardback)

   A priest who has lost his faith, a grieving soldier who has lost his family to a terrorist's bullet, and a beautiful young scientist join forces to stop the ultimate evil, Cain, a remorseless, indestructible, and immortal murderer infected...

S.D. Tooley / Nothing Else Matters (Hardback)

 Detective Sergeant Samantha Casey is back after her debut in When the Dead Speak. Suspended from the force after her last case, Sam is having a difficult time adjusting to unemployment. But there are more unsettling changes in her life than...

J.D. Rhoades / The Devil's Right Hand (Hardback)

 The Devil's Right Hand is the story of Jack Keller, a man tormented by the nightmares he's had ever since a disastrous tour in Desert Storm. Destroyed by his experience, Keller now makes his living tracking bailjumpers for H&H, a North Carolina...

M.D. Lachlan / The Wolfsangel Cycle Book 2 - Fenrir (Hardback)

 The Vikings are laying siege to Paris. As the houses on the banks of the Seine burn a debate rages in the Cathedral on the walled island of the city proper. The situation is hopeless. The Vikings want the Count's sister, in return they will spare...

Christian Thompson / That Which Doesn't Kill You (Hardback)

 Introducing Chris O'Brien, Private Investigator.Bradford's answer to Philip Marlowe is not your run-of-the-mill private dick - an ex-psychiatric nurse trained in Chinese medicine, O.B. is a martial arts expert with a Philosophy degree and a mean...

Gordon Ferris / The Hanging Shed (Hardback)

 A read-it-in-one-sitting, action-packed, gritty, and atmospheric crime novel set on the tough streets of 1946 Glasgow The last time Douglas Brodie came home it was 1942 and he was a dashing young warrior in a kilt. Now, the war is over, but...

J.D. Rhoades / Good Day in Hell (Hardback)

 From a skillful writer rapidly becoming the master of engrossing, bullet-scarred redneck noir comes another thrill-a-minute Southern suspense novel full of atmosphere and action. Bail enforcement officer Jack Keller is doing a skip trace on a young...

Harry Hunsicker / The Next Time You Die (Hardback)

 How many ways can the past come back to haunt you? Hard-nosed Dallas detective Lee Henry Oswald is about to find out. When a bourbon-swilling Baptist preacher hires private detective Lee Henry Oswald to recover a stolen...

Tom O'Neill / Shark Tank (Hardback)

 The murders of some Camden, New Jersey, drug dealers who are killed by someone impersonating a cop leads investigators, including Sergeant Stacey Smith, to missing attorney James Sullivan, a lawyer who has turned vigilante to to avenge the death of...

Josh Bazell / Beat the Reaper (Hardback)

 Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he'd prefer to keep hidden. Whether it's a blocked circumflex artery or a plan to land a massive malpractice suit, he knows what...

Judith Lennox / Middlemere (Hardback)

 When a family is pushed from its home, the sense of injustice never dies... a spellbinding novel of love, loyalty and of the ties that bind. In 1942, after half a century of farming Middlemere, their isolated tenant farm, the Cole family are to be...

Timothy Watts / Grand Theft (Hardback)

 His profitable career as a high-end automobile thief abruptly thwarted when he is set up for the murder of a Philadelphia mob boss, Teddy Clyde finds himself struggling for survival while working to outmaneuver a mobster with a grudge, an assistant...

Barb Hendee & J.C. Hendee / Child of a Dead God ( A Novel of the Noble Dead) (Hardback)

 Any list of the best writers of vampire novels working today must include the dynamic duo of Barb & J.C. Hendee."    —Rambles“A mix of The Lord of the Rings and Buffy the Vampire Slayer,”*...

Marcus Wynne / Warrior in the Shadows (Hardback)

 Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs meets Richard Marcinko's Rogue Warrior in this thriller that races at breakneck pace--from the critically acclaimed author who gave Stephen Coonts "a nightmare for a week." Alfie Woodard always completes a...

Howard V. Hendrix / Empty Cities of the Full Moon (Hardback)

Howard V. Hendrix / Empty Cities of the Full Moon Magick, visions, dreamstates and shapeshifting -- they are old powers, suppressed and buried within the deepest recesses of the human unconscious by the social conventions of modern society. What would...