Crime

Tom Vowler / That Dark Remembered Day

 LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN NOT THE BOOKER PRIZE One family, one town, devastated by one tragic event.Can you ever know what those closest to you are really capable of?When Stephen gets a phone call to say his mother isn't well, he knows he must...

John Gardner / Moriarty

 Bestselling British novelist John Gardner published two books purporting to be the true history of Professor James Moriarty, archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, the Napoleon of crime. The books - The Return of Moriarty and The Revenge of Moriarty - were...

Sarah Bailey / The Dark Lake (Large Paperback)

 A tight-knit community is shocked by revelations from decades past in this enthralling (Associated Press) literary mystery that will keep you racing toward the end (Lisa Gardner).The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant...

Erin Kelly / The Skeleton Key (Large Paperback)

 Moody, propulsive, and one of the most intriguing set ups I've read in years' GILLIAN McALLISTER'I completely lost myself to this book for a few days' LUCY FOLEY'Unputdownable' HEAT'There's layer upon layer of mystery in this frankly brilliant...

Zoe Ferraris / The Night of the Mi'raj (Large Paperback)

 Among the well-to-do families of Jeddah, Palestinian-born desert guide Nayir is an outsider. But when Nouf ash-Shrawi, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy Saudi dynasty, disappears just before her arranged marriage, Nayir is the man the...

John Le Carre / Silverview (Large Paperback)

 Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a couple of months into his new career, Edward, a Polish emigre, shows up at his door with a very...

Clara Salaman / The Boat (Large Paperback)

 It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime... Johnny and his new bride Clem have arrived in Turkey for a year's honeymoon. Young, blissfully happy but poor, they are surviving on love, luck and a spirit of adventure.So when a boat appears out of...

James Patterson / Blowback (Large Paperback)

 He's America's most brilliant president ever. He's also a psychopath. US president Keegan Barrett swept into office on his success as director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with a deadly motive:...

Paula Hawkins / A Slow Fire Burning (Large Paperback)

 Shocking, moving, full of heart . . . Laced with humour and packed with moments of sheer horror, A Slow Fire Burning shows a writer at the height of her powers.' Observer (Thriller of the Month)'What is wrong with you?'Laura has spent most of her...

Swinfen, Ann - The Bookseller's Tale ( An Oxford Medieval Mystery) PB - BRAND NEW

The death of a scholar, the birth of a detective...Oxford, Spring 1353. When young bookseller Nicholas Elyot discovers the body of William Farringdon floating in the River Cherwell, all the signs point to suicide.Soon, however, Nicholas discovers...

Cruz Smith / Tatiana (Large Paperback)

 In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created one of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko. In Tatiana, Smith delivers his most ambitious and politically daring novel since. When the brilliant and fearless...

Domingo Villar / Death On A Galician Shore (Large Paperback)

 One misty autumn dawn in a quiet fishing port in northwest Spain, the body of a sailor washes up in the harbour. Detective Inspector Leo Caldas is called in from police headquarters in the nearby city of Vigo to sign off on what appears to be a...

Izzo, Jean-Claude - Kíor Thuathail - PB - As Gaeilge

Scéinséir crua fileata suite ar bhruach na Meánmhara. Seo é scéal triúr comrádaithe a d’fhás suas in éindí ar shráideanna grianlasta Mharseille — Ugo, Manu agus...

Stuart Neville / The Twelve (Large Paperback)

 Sooner or later, everybody pays - and the dead will set the price ...Former paramilitary killer Gerry Fegan is haunted by his victims, twelve souls who shadow his every waking day and scream through every drunken night. Just as he reaches the edge...

Alan Glynn / Under the Night (Large Paperback)

 Under the Night is Alan Glynn's masterpiece ... if you liked Limitless, you will love this.' STAV SHEREZ, author of The IntrusionsIn 1950s Manhattan, the CIA carry out a covert study of psychoactive drugs. When they dose ad man Ned Sweeney with...

James Patterson / The President's Daughter (Large Paperback)

 James Patterson and Bill Clinton - the 'dream team' (Lee Child) - return with a thriller even more compelling than global number one bestseller The President is Missing.____________Every detail is accuratebecause one of the authors is President...

Nancy Tucker / The First Day of Spring (Large Paperback)

 'Tense, addictive and powered by an unforgettable narrative voice' PAULA HAWKINS 'A darkly dazzling debut, a harrowing story of neglect and cruelty written with a delicate touch and a big heart. As gripping as the tensest of thrillers and as...

Daniel Cole / Ragdoll (Large Paperback)

 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Superb thriller writing.' Peter Robinson'A brilliant, breathless thriller' M.J. Arlidge'A high concept solution to a mystery' Sophie HannahA body is discovered with the dismembered parts of...

Ross Armstrong / Head Case (Large Paperback)

 'Quirky, offbeat, stylish and original. I loved it.' Mick Herron Tom Mondrian is the last person you want on your case. And the only one who can solve it, in this quirky psychological thriller.Tom Mondrian is watching his life ebb away directing...

Sinead Crowley / The Belladonna Maze (Large Paperback)

 From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinead Crowley, gripping dual timelines entwine in this heart-stopping story of old secrets and forbidden passion. An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of...

Koethi Zan / The Never List (Large Paperback)

 There were four of us down there for the first thirty-two months and eleven days of our captivity.And then, very suddenly and without warning, there were three.Even though the fourth person hadn't made any noise at all in several months, the room...

Ruth Hogan / Madame Burova (Large Paperback)

 Madame Burova - Tarot Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant was retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront after fifty years.Imelda Burova was a woman who knew where the bodies were buried. She had spent a lifetime keeping other people's...

David Mark / Original Skin (Hardback)

 From the author of the breakthrough crime debut of 2013, Dark Winter. Simon and Suzie are two pleasure seekers defined by their flamboyant tattoos. Peter Tressider is a politician on the fast track to the top. DS Aector McAvoy is a policeman with...

Barbara Erskine / The Ghost Tree (Hardback)

 Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.The past is about to become the present...Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile...

David Baldacci / The Christmas Train (Hardback)

 Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, was banned from flying in the U. S. when an overly probing search wand caused him to blow his top at LaGuardia Airport. Now, the train is his only option to get to Los Angeles for Christmas to be...

Abigail Dean / Girl A (Hardback)

   LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTONS CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR'The year's best debut' SUNDAY TIMES'The best crime novel of the year' INDEPENDENT'Sensational. Gripping, haunting, and beautifully written' RICHARD OSMANCHOSEN AS A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY...

Peter Grimsdale / Perfect Night (Hardback)

   When ambitious young documentary film-maker Nick witnesses the death of a notorious arms dealer in Sri Lanka, he's lucky to escape with his own life. He was on his way to interview him on his yacht when it was blown to smithereens. But the...

Frank Gardner / Ultimatum : The explosive thriller from the No. 1 bestseller (Hardback)

 Authentic, unnervingly current and action-packed, Ultimatum is the explosive new thriller from BBC security correspondent and No.1 bestseller Frank Gardner.Deep within a cave system at a military complex south-east of Tehran, hidden from the prying...

Stuart Macbride / All That's Dead : The New Logan Mcrae Crime Thriller (Hardback)

 The stunning new thriller from No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Stuart MacBride.One down...A dark night in the isolated Scottish countryside. Nicholas Wilson, a prominent professor known for his divisive social media rants, leaves the house with his...

Lori Rader-Day / Under A Dark Sky : A Novel (Hardback)

 From the critically-acclaimed author of The Day I Died comes a terrifying twist on a locked-room mystery that will keep readers guessing until the last page Only in the dark can she find the truth . . .Since her husband died, Eden Wallace's life...

Amanda Craig / The Golden Rule (Hardback)

 Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021A Times, Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Mail and Financial Times Best Book of 2020 Pick'A highly enjoyable story about female resilience and finding fulfilment on your own terms' Sunday Times'An irresistible...

Christy Kenneally / Sons of Cain (Large Paperback)

 The year is 1953. As the Cold War divides the world into East and West, childhood friends and old foes - Karl Hamner and Fr Max Steiger - live their lives. Karl, haunted by the past and a devastating truth he discovered about his old friend,...

Ruth Rendell / Thirteen Steps Down (Large Paperback)

 A classic Rendellian loner, Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also...

Andrew Hughes / The Coroner's Daughter (Large Paperback)

 Just brilliant.' DONAL RYAN 'An exceptionally good book.' C. J. SANSOM1816 was the year without a summer. A rare climatic event has brought frost to July, and a lingering fog casts a pall over a Dublin stirred by zealotry and civil unrest, torn...

Allie Reynolds / Shiver (Large Paperback)

 They don't know what I did. And I intend to keep it that way.How far would you go to win? Hyper-competitive people, mind games and a dangerous natural environment combine to make the must-read thriller of the year. Fans of Lucy Foley and Lisa...

Michael Koryta / Those Who Wish Me Dead (Large Paperback)

 This "heart-thumping backwoods adventure" (New York Times Book Review) from bestselling author Michael Koryta will soon be a major motion picture starring Angelina Jolie and Nicholas Hoult.When fourteen-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal...

Jo Spain / The Boy Who Fell (Large Paperback)

 THE FIFTH TOM REYNOLDS MYSTERY FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PERFECT LIE 'Fiendishly clever...' - Irish Sunday IndependentKids can be so cruel.They'll call you names.Hurt your feelings.Push you to your death.In the garden of...

Sharon Bolton / Like This For Ever

 'Nail-biting!' TESS GERRITSEN 'Spine-tingling!' LISA GARDNERTwelve-year-old Barney Roberts is obsessed with a series of murders.He knows the victims are all boys, just like him.He knows the bodies were found on river banks.And he's sure the killer...

Karen Hamilton / The Ex-Husband

 She's safe from him, a thousand miles from harm. Or so she thought. 'Immediately gripping. Once I started I couldn't stop' REAL READER REVIEW'Perfect holiday reading' REAL READER REVIEW'Absolutely brilliant. Can't put it down!' REAL READER...

John Edgar Wideman / God's Gym : Stories

 In God's Gym, the celebrated author John Edgar Wideman offers stories that pulse with emotional electricity. The ten pieces here explore strength, both physical and spiritual. The collection opens with a man paying tribute to the quiet fortitude of...

Dan Rhodes / Little Hands Clapping

 Once upon a time, in a room above a German museum, there lived an old man . . . A caretaker by day, by night he enjoys the sound of silence, broken only by the occasional crunch of a spider between his teeth.However, the old man's solitude is...

Janet Evanovich / Full Blast

   Treat yourself to FULL BLAST by Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes. Praise for the FULL series: 'A fine romance with plenty of kisses' Mirror; 'A wild mix of intrigue, sex and pyrotechnics' The Times Dating can be murder...Jamie Swift is...

Anna Smith / End Game

 THE WHITE-KNUCKLE FOLLOW UP TO FIGHT BACK - GRIPPING FROM START TO FINISH! 'MARTINA COLE FANS WILL LOVE THIS' SUNDAY MIRRORPhysically and emotionally battered after the shocking events of Fight Back, Glasgow gang leader Kerry Casey must pick...

Roth, Holly - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955)

Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the man’s character, but the authorities come to believe...

Susanna Gregory / A Wicked Deed

 Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be...

Reginald Hill / The Wood Beyond

 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One...

Symons, Julian - The Immaterial Murder Case - Vintage Penguin PB 1954 ( Originally 1945 )

American-born John Wilson and his troop of distinguished friends were well known in the fashionable parts of London. And at their social gatherings the very latest fad was 'Immaterialism', and the quest for the perfect immaterial work of art - but what...

Byrom, James - Or be he dead ( Vintage Penguin Crime ) 1964 ( Originally 1958)

Author Raymond Kennington researches a murder from the distant past as the theme for a new book, but finds his own life in danger as publication day approaches. Just before publication day he realises that one of the men acquitted due to lack of evidence...

Gardner, Eric Stanley - The D.A Calls a Turn - Vintage Penguin Crime 1954 ( Originally 1947)

District Attorney of Madison County, California, Doug Selby entered politics to reduce local corruption. Though his job is prosecuting criminals, he is equally interested in solving mysteries and identifying murderers. His job is a natural extension of...

Paul, Elliott - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 )

Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and...

Dodge, David - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948)

The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable information to their Japanese allies off the West Coast...

Hornung, Ernest William - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 )

Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and...