Crime

Mari Strachan / The Earth Hums in B Flat

   Gwenni Morgan is not like any other girl in this small Welsh town. Inquisitive, bookish and full of spirit, she can fly in her sleep and loves playing detective. So when a neighbour mysteriously vanishes, and no one seems to be asking the...

Rob McCarthy / The Hollow Men

   A new must-read crime series for fans of Mark Billingham and Sarah Hilary: introducing Harry Kent, a police surgeon working with the Met, determined to help those the world would rather brush aside.Dr Harry Kent: former Army medic, hospital...

Mary Willis Walker / Under the Beetle's Cellar

    A chilling, only-too-topical thriller from the award-winning author of THE RED SCREAM and ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN. Eleven Texan schoolchildren and their bus driver are captured by a fundamentalist cult, taken to a fortified compound and...

Thomas H. Cook / Breakheart Hill

    'This is the darkest story that I ever heard ' It is a story that began with love and led to the destruction of a young woman's life. It is a story that has not ended, even thirty years after the afternoon Kelli Troy's battered body was...

Andy Oakes / Dragon's Eye

    Shanghai, The People's Republic of China. Eight bodies chained together and horribly mutilated are found in the mud of the Huangpu River. Sun Piao, a Senior Investigator with the Homicide Squad of the PSB, has drawn the short straw . . ...

Keith Baker / Lunenburg

    Near the town of Lunenberg, Novia Scotia, a young boy witnesses an horrific crime. Years later, Scottish journalist John Taggart is headed for Canada to cover one of the biggest stories of his career, haunted by the mystery of his...

Patrick Redmond / All She Ever Wanted

    Only the weak fall in love. The strong survive on their own. Tina was weak once: a scrawny, vulnerable child, deserted by her father, bullied at school, an object of derision and fun. Not any longer. Now she's Chrissie. Bold,...

Bryan Forbes / The Twisted Playground

    Departing from the spy formula of his bestselling thrillers, Bryan Forbes tells a contemporary story in which the hero is propelled into a chase of terrifying proportions. Violent death stalks his footsteps, and the image of a girl he...

David Young / Stasi Wolf

   How do you solve a murder when you can't ask any questions?The gripping new thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of Stasi Child.East Germany, 1975. Karin Muller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance...

Leigh Russell / Killer Plan

  Caroline's husband is killed, but she can't turn to the police without implicating herself in his murder. When one of her 10-year-old twins is kidnapped, the desperate mother is forced to resort to drastic measures to get him back. As time runs...

Michael Frayn / The Russian Interpreter

    The Russian Interpreter is a story about Raya, a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a visiting British businessman who speaks no Russian. They need an...

Steve Dunne / The Disciple

   DI Brook thought the nightmare was over- but the Reaper has left behind a horrifying legacy...A nail-shredding thriller for fans of Stuart MacBride and Thomas Harris.When an accidental drowning is found to be murder, Brook's past...

Harry Brandt / The Whites

   NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE 2015 IN THE MYSTERY/THRILLER CATEGORYEvery cop has a personal 'White': a criminal who got away with murder - or worse - and was able to slip back into life, leaving the...

Lynn S. Hightower / The Debt Collector

    Home invasion - the kind of call every homicide cop dreads. Cincinnati detective Sonora Blair is called to a small house at the end of a cul-de-sac, and finds the brutal decimation of an average American family - deeply in dept. A...

Richard Burke / Frozen

    When his childhood friend, Verity, is found at the foot of Beachy Head, barely alive, Harry's life is thrown into turmoil. He can't accept that the happy-go-lucky girl he grew up with would try to kill herself. He should know. He was...

Rob Kitchin / The Rule Book

    A young woman is found dead. Accompanying her body is Chapter One of "The Rule Book" - a self-help guide for serial killers. The case is assigned to Detective Superintendent Colm McEvoy. With the pressure from his superiors, the press,...

John Niven / Kill Your Friends

   Meet Steven Stelfox.London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine, searching...

Philip Kerr / Gridiron

   Los Angeles, 1988Ray Richardson, a brilliant architechnologist, has created a dazzling new building: 'The Gridiron', in the heart of L. A.The Gridiron represents the state-of-the-art in smart buildings: every aspect of the building, from...

Peter Haining / Television Crimebusters Omnibus

    This collection includes some of the best-loved and most notorious detectives from both sides of the Atlantic. The detectives featured include Taggart, Spender, Columbo and Kojak and the authors include Lynda La Plante, Ed McBain and...

Elizabeth Corley / Grave Doubts

    'He was only a pupil, learning from a master who was uncompromising about the rules of the game he had invented. Normally he obeyed them, but with her the temptation had been too strong. Otherwise he was an adept pupil, becoming more...

Robert Barnard / Dying Flames

    Graham Broadbent, a successful novelist, enjoys a quiet life of writing and occasionally meeting up with old friends. On the evening of one such occasion, a rather intriguing surprise arrives at his door in the form of Christabel, a...

Reginald Hill / An Advancement of Learning

   All is not well at Holm Coultram College.All is not well at Holm Coultram College: lecturers having affairs with students, witches' sabbaths, a body buried under a statue.Detective Superintendent Dalziel, despite his cynical view of...

Harry Bingham / Dead Simple

   A woman reports a crime to the police, with unexpected resultsThe grieving widow who finds that she's about to lose more than just her husbandWhen a man attempts the perfect murder, it's not quite as easy as he thinksTwo men in prison play...

Anne Holt / Punishment

    A serial killer is on the loose - a killer of the worst kind. Abducting children and murdering them in an undetectable way that confounds the police, he then returns the child's body to the mother with a desperately cruel note: You Got...

Maggie Gibson / First Holy Chameleon

    Cash Ryan's life is a mess. A property developer has made her homeless, her boyfriend has decided to lead the celibate life, and her big acting break in a TV soap has just fizzled out like a damp squib. She gets sympathy and support...

Reginald Hill / Ruling Passion

    'One of the modern masters of the police procedural' Sunday Telegraph Peter Pascoe is in shock. A weekend in the country with old friends turns into a nightmare when he finds three of them dead and the missing fourth a prime suspect in...

Victor Canning / The Python Project : A Rex Carver Mystery

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B M Carroll / The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy

   'Intriguing, compelling. Impossible to put down and irresistibly good' Liane MoriartyShe's the victim.But is she so innocent?Sophie McCarthy is known for her determination, ambition and brilliance at work. She's tough, but only because she...

Anders De La Motte / The Silenced

   WINNER SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR.The adrenaline-charged and suspenseful thriller set in a ruthless world where all means are permitted in the fight for power.When a savaged body is found in the waters outside the governing party's...

Alafair Burke / The Wife

   In our age of accusations, blurred lines, and shifting allegiances, what would you do?When Angela meets Jason Powell, a brilliant university professor, she assumes their romance to be a fling. But when they marry the following summer and...

Louise Phillips / Last Kiss

   He thought he was in control. But he was wrong. And after the final blows of the knife, she stole his last breath with a kiss...Will criminal psychologist Dr Kate Pearson uncover the identity of this vicious killer before it is too late?At...

Luke Jennings / Codename Villanelle

   The basis for KILLING EVE, now a major BBC TV series, starring Sandra Oh'Gloriously exciting' MetroShe is the perfect assassin.A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal revenge she took on her gangster father's killers...

Louise Welsh / A Lovely Way to Burn

 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at BedtimeIt doesn't look like murder in a city full of death.A pandemic called 'The Sweats' is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill with the dead and dying, but Stevie Flint is...

Arnaldur Indridason / Outrage

 Reykjavik, Saturday nightHe offered her another margarita, and, as he returned from the bar, he carefully slid the pill into her glass. They were getting along fine, and he was sure she would give him no trouble...48 hours laterA young man is found...

Donald James / Vadim

 In this, the third appearance of Inspector Constantin Vadim leaves his native Russia for New York. Vadim finds himself caught up in the middle of a presidential election where the victory of the leading candidate is threatened by the outrageous...

Karin Slaughter ( Editor) / Like A Charm

 Desire leaves a man destroyed - a young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden - an accidental encounter on a train ends violently - ambition leads to a curious exchange - an uncanny likeness changes two lives forever.A novel in...

Evelyn Anthony / No Enemy But Time

   A thriller about a girl who returns to Ireland and is besieged by memories as she contends with the fact that her brother, her dearest and closest friend, has gone missing, possibly kidnapped and maybe even murdered. From the author of THE...

Mary Willis Walker / All the Dead Lie Down

 Tremendous new thriller from the award-winning author of UNDER THE BEETLE'S CELLAR and THE RED SCREAM, and once again featuring indomitable Molly Cates as the feisty, funny, flawed heroine.Chilling, convincing, powerfully entertaining, this is...

Gemma O'Connor / Following the Wake

 The fallout from Evangeline Walter's murder touched everyone who knew her, as if her venom had insidiously leached into their lives and poisoned their happiness. Even her cousin, Murray McGraw, who had a genuine affection for her, was not immune,...

Jack Curtis / The Confessor

 The caller has killed many times and now he wants to talk about it, and he'll only confess to DI Joe Morgan. And once he's started talking to Joe he can't stop...nor can he stop the killings. Every waif and stray is potential bait for The...

Susan Isaacs / Magic Hour

    The Hamptons is a film-maker's dream, a stretch of beach where deals are made and games are played all day long. When a cold, debonair movie mogul is murdered, Detective Steve Brady, former local bad boy, discovers that his prime...

John Ralston Saul / Baraka

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Susan Lewis / Silent Truths

    Secrets can be deadly...When journalist Laurie Forbes turns up on Beth Ashby's doorstep, minutes after Beth's husband, political high-flier Colin Ashby, has been arrested for murder, neither can even begin to guess the shocking...

William Diehl / Eureka

   Young Thomas Culhane grows up in the small Californian town of Eureka. But, although he is adopted by one of the town's wealthy families, he knows he must escape Eureka to make his own way in the world. Then World War I intervenes and...

Fannie Flagg / I Still Dream About You

 Meet Maggie Fortenberry. Her life seems pretty much perfect - she's beautiful, charming and successful, just as you'd expect of a former Miss Alabama. But in fact, Maggie is perfectly miserable. By now she should have been living in an elegant...

Guillaume Musso / Where Would I be Without You?

    Parisian cop Martin Beaumont has never really got over his first love, Gabrielle. Their brief, intense affair in San Francisco and the pain of her rejection still haunt him years later. Now, however, he's a successful detective - and...

Nick McDonell / Twelve

   Waterstones' Books of the YearNick McDonell's electrifying novel tells the story of a fictional drug called Twelve and its devastating effects on the beautiful rich and desperate poor of New York City.From page one, this novel pulsates...

Nelson Demille / The Cuban Affair

 Nelson DeMille is a true master'Dan BrownStrap in for the ride of a lifetime with the blistering new novel from America's greatest living thriller writer, Nelson DeMille.Daniel 'Mac' MacCormick has a good life. Aged thirty-five and a decorated US...

David Downing / Zoo Station

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Elisabeth Herrmann / The Cleaner

 An unforgettable heroine. An unforgivable past.For fans of Child 44, The Lives of Others and Stasi Child, The Cleaner is a gripping thriller that will chill and intrigue as the sins of the past catch up with the secrets of the present.Pools of...

G.W. Dahlquist / The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

 G.W. Dahlquist's The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, the first in the series of adventures of Miss Temple, Cardinal Chang and Dr Svenson and followed by The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage, is a rip-roaring tale like no other.In The Glass...

Michael Robotham / Bombproof

 Sami Macbeth is not a master criminal. He's not even a minor one. He's not a jewel thief. He's not a safe-cracker. He's not an expert in explosives. Sami plays guitar and wants to be a rock god but keeps getting side-tracked by unforeseen...