Crime

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...

Edward Falco / The Family Corleone

   New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which...

Vikas Swarup / Six Suspects

   Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession. each of them...

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...

Sue Grafton / N is for Noose

 Sometimes I think about how odd it would be to catch a glimpse of the future, a quick view of events lying in store for us. Some moments we saw would make no sense at all and some, I suspect, would frighten us beyond our endurance . . . Early...

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...

Chris Brookmyre / Black Widow

 The seventh book in the Jack Parlabane series, from author Christopher Brookmyre.'A celtic Gone Girl... guaranteed to keep you guessing'Ian Rankin*****WINNER Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year**********WINNER Bloody Scotland McIlvanney...

Jefferson Parker / California Girl

 Stunning new thriller from the award-winning Jefferson Parker, author of The Blue Hour, Red Light, Black Water and Cold Pursuit.In 1968 Southern California was a tumultuous and at times seriously weird place to be. Jim Morrison was on the radio,...

Becky Masterman / Fear the Darkness

 Brigid Quinn has been shot at, stabbed in the spleen with a nail file and used as serial-killer bait. But she's always been able to trust her instincts and her FBI-training to help her out of danger.Now, retired from the Bureau and investigating...

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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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...

Kristina Ohlsson / Unwanted

 In the middle of a rainy Swedish summer, a little girl is abducted from a crowded train.Despite hundreds of potential witnesses, no one noticed when the girl was taken. Her mother, left behind at the previous station, alerted the crew immediately...

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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Liane Moriarty / Nine Perfect Strangers

 THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY SPRING BOOK CLUB PICK, FROM THE AUTHOR BEHIND AWARD WINNING TV SERIES BIG LITTLE LIES.'The suspense keeps building in an enjoyably zany thriller' GUARDIAN, BEST SUMMER READSNine perfect...

Simon Toyne / The Tower

 The much anticipated final instalment in the bestselling conspiracy thriller trilogy by Simon Toyne, author of SANCTUS: `Plenty of action, plenty of intrigue and wonderfully imaginative. The sort of novel to devour in one sitting' Kate Mosse. For...

Hakan Nesser / Hour of the Wolf

 A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . .Van Veeteren faces a chilling case in Hakan Nesser's Hour of the Wolf, the seventh book to feature Chief Inspector Van Veeteren.In the dead of night, in the...

Peter May / Blowback ( An Enzo Files Novel )

 THE FIFTH ENZO THRILLER, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF COFFIN ROAD, ENTRY ISLAND AND THE LEWIS TRILOGY. PUY-DE-DOME, FRANCE. A Silenced Man. Footprints in the snow lead to the murder scene of Marc Fraysse, France's most celebrated chef - brutally...

Matthew Hall / The Chosen Dead

   The Chosen Dead is the fifth gripping installment in Matthew Hall's twice CWA Gold Dagger nominated Coroner Jenny Cooper series, from the creator of BBC One's Keeping Faith.An unlikely suicide or a deadly conspiracy?When Bristol Coroner...

Carolann Copland / Summer Triangle

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Donald James / Monstrum

    Russia in the early twenty-first century: a civil war has subsided into an uneasy peace; police inspector Constantin Vadim is transferred from Murmansk to head an investigation in a crime-ridden Moscow district. His task: to solve a...

Tobias Jones / The Salati Case

   Castagnetti (informally known as 'Casta') is a private detective who doesn't do things by the book. When a pompous notary commissions him to verify that a missing person is "presumed dead" in order to dispose of a dead woman's estate to the...

Lynda La Plante / Tennison

   From the creator of the award-winning ITV series Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren, comes the fascinating back story of the iconic DCI Jane Tennison.In 1973 Jane Tennison, aged 22, leaves the Metropolitan Police Training Academy to be...

Austin Wright / Tony and Susan

   Many years after their divorce, Susan Morrow receives a strange gift from her ex-husband. A manuscript that tells the story of a terrible crime: an ambush on the highway, a secluded cabin in the woods; a thrilling chiller of death and...

Tom Bradby / Blood Money

   New York, 1929, a city of speakeasies, swells and hoodlums at the fag end of the roaring twenties. It's a hell of a time and place for a young cop to be trying to make his way in the world.Joe Quinn's first case is one that could put his...

Sarah Bailey / The Dark Lake

 A hot summer. A shocking murder. A town of secrets, waiting to explode...A beautiful young teacher has been murdered, her body found in the lake, strewn with red roses. Local policewoman Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock pushes to be assigned to...

Margart Yorke / Act of Violence

   Peaceful Mickleburgh is the perfect English market town - or so it seems. In fact, it is a perfectly constructed facade, having successfully hidden the secrets of its inhabitants for generations. But the casual murder of a man trying to...

Frank Delaney / At Ruby's

 Wealthy architect Nicholas Newman is again embroiled against his will in events beyond his control. The story opens in the boardroom as he looks on as the chairman ruthlessly faces down a mysterious challenge from another director. That night...

Edward Marston / The Trip to Jerusalem

 For Lord Westfield's Men, every high road leads to death.When the deathly horrors of the Black Plague decimate the audiences in London's theatres, the acclaimed troupe of players called Lord Westfield's Men take to the high road to seek out fresh...

Christopher Brookmyre / A Tale Etched In Blood And Hard Black Pencil

 We could tell you about the bodies. We could tell you their names, where they were found, the state they were in. We could tell you about the suspects too, the evidence, the investigators; join a few dots, even throw you a motive. But what would be...

Andrea Camilleri / The Terracotta Dog

 The Terracotta Dog, the second book in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series, opens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying words that lead Inspector...

Tess Gerritsen / Keeper of the Bride : Whistleblower

   KEEPER OF THE BRIDEHad she survived because of fate, coincidence or just luck?If Nina Cormier's wedding had taken place, she would be dead. But after the bride was left at the altar, the church stood empty when the bomb went off.It wasn't...

Denise Mina / The Last Breath

   A secret worth killing for - and she's next in line...Everything is going well for journalist Paddy Meehan. She finally has a flat of her own, and the job she always wanted, as one of Scotland's leading newspaper columnists.Then the police...

Peter Abrahams / A Perfect Crime

    Against the backdrop of an East Coast winter, menace and suspense build towards a chilling conclusion, as the lives of four people, linked by an illict love, are manipulated wth intricate and terminal precision.     All...

Ivy Pochoda / Visitation Street

   Summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue collar neighbourhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against tired housing projects, and the East River opens into the bay. Bored and listless, fifteen-year-old June and Val are looking for some...

Gerard O'Donovan / Dublin Dead

   A drug deal gone bad. A daughter gone missing. A hit man on the loose. And five days to find the answers.As journalist Siobhan Fallon embarks on a hunt for a missing girl, DI Mike Mulcahy uncovers a link between Ireland's largest-ever drugs...

Philip Davison / The Long Suit

    On the second green of a Long Island golf-course there are three golf balls and a corpse with a bullet-hole in his forehead. The call goes out for Harry Fielding to come in from the cold. With a new suit and a new partner, Harry is back...

Sam Eastland / The Beast in the Red Forest

   A soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Pekkala's charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead.On Stalin's orders, Pekkala's assistant Kirov...

Claire Kendal / The Second Sister

   The chilling psychological thriller from a top ten bestselling author.I'm the sister who got away.The lucky one. Until now.It is ten years since Ella's sister Miranda disappeared without trace, leaving her young baby behind. Chilling new...

J. Jefferson Farjeon / Mystery in White : A Christmas Crime Story

    'The horror on the train, great though it may turn out to be, will not compare with the horror that exists here, in this house.' On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers...