Crime

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...

Michaels Russell / The City of Strangers ( Stefan Gillespie Novels - Book 2 )

   The SUNDAY TIMES top 20 bestseller!Shortlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger AwardNew York, 1939: A city of hope. A city of opportunity. A city hiding dark secrets ...A brutal murder in an affluent suburb of Dublin and the...

Karen Rose / Edge of Darkness

   The fourth book in Karen Rose's nail-biting Cincinnati Series revisits your favourite characters battling crime in the city's dark underbelly. Fans of Tess Gerritsen, James Patterson and Karin Slaughter will not be able to tear themselves...

Nele Neuhaus / Ice Queen

   Some secrets remain buried forever . . .When holocaust survivor, Jossi Goldberg, is found dead near his house in Frankfurt, a five-digit number is discovered scrawled in blood at the scene of his murder. The autopsy shows the victim has an...

Glenn Cooper / The Devil Will Come

   A terrifying secret.A shocking discovery has been made deep within Rome's ancient catacombs. One that the Vatican is determined must never be made public - for the sake of all mankind.A deadly conspiracy.But there are others who want to...

Owen Laukkanen / The Professionals

   Four friends, caught in a terrible job market, joke about turning to kidnapping to survive. And then, suddenly, it's no joke. For two years, the strategy they devise works like a charm - until they kidnap the wrong man.Now two groups are...

Lionel Shiver / The New Republic

   A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk about Kevin.`A superbly witty political satire' THE TIMESEdgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. Leaving his lucrative career as a lawyer for...

Conor Fitzgerald / The Namesake : An Alec Blume Novel

   When it comes to murder it's all in a nameWhen magistrate Matteo Arconti's namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the court buildings in Piazzale Clodio, it's a coded warning to the authorities - a clear message of...

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...

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...

Kamila Shamsie / Home Fire

   SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A NEW...

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...

John Bude / The Cornish Coast Murder

    'Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature - himself in one arm-chair, a police officer in another, and between them - a mystery.' The Reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of...

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...

John Francome / Inside Track

 Inside Track is another jaw-dropping racing thriller from ex-jockey and TV broadcaster John Francome, with all the drama and colour of the racing world. The perfect read for fans of Felix Francis' Pulse and Triple Crown.'There are some genuinely...

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...

Rhys Bowen / In Like Flynn

 Molly's sixth sense is warning her - danger and death lie ahead!A woman private eye in a man's world, Molly Murphy is having a hard time succeeding in running her detective agency in New York. That's why she agrees to go undercover for the NYPD to...

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,...

Freeman Wills Crofts / The Hog's Back Mystery

 Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog's Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When Dr Earle disappears from his cottage, Inspector French is called in to investigate. At first he...

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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Steven Saylor / The Venus Throw

   Steven Saylor's historical mysteries set in ancient Rome and featuring investigator Gordianus the Finder enjoy a widespread following in America. Robinson is publishing the whole series - five novels to date - in the UK. The Venus Throw is...

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...

Jim Williams / Recherche

    Set in the south-west of France, this tale sees a lawyer and his young lover, Lucy, getting away from it all. Their new neighbour is Harry, a fabulous character who enchants them with tales of his past. But is Harry all he seems? Events...

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...

Carola Dunn / To Davy Jones Below

   With the peal of wedding bells still ringing in their ears, Daisy Dalrymple and her new husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, take an ocean trip to America. On board they are joined by a coterie of acquaintances, including...

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...

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...

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...

Martin Amis / Time's Arrow

 In this novel a man's life is portrayed backwards, from death to birth, as are some of the scenes - for example, sex begins with climax, moves through foreplay and exhausts itself on flirtation. The plot is about a doctor whose story begins with...

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...

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...

Roberta Kray / Survivor

   Only the strongest will survive...NO ONE KNOWS CRIME LIKE KRAY'A cracking good read!' Jessie Keane'Martina Cole territory' Independent'A compelling mystery' Heather Burnside'Gripping' Daily Express***The sequel to SURVIVOR - STOLEN - is...

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...

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...

Nuala Ellwood / My Sister's Bones

 RIVALS THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN AS A COMPULSIVE READ' The GuardianIf you can't trust your sister, then who can you trust?Kate Rafter has spent her life running from her past. But when her mother dies, she's forced to return to Herne Bay - a place her...

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...

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...