The Abbey
Chris Culver
Sphere, PB, 9780751549119
Ash Rashid is a former homicide detective who can't stand the thought of handling another death investigation. That's until his niece's body is found in the property of one of the city's wealthiest citizens. The coroner calls it an overdose, but the case doesn't add up. Against orders, Ash launches an investigation to find his niece's murderer. But the longer he ... More/Buy
All My Enemies
Barry Maitland
Allen & Unwin, PB, 9781742376547
In one of the finest and most pivotal books in the critically acclaimed Brock & Kolla series, DS Kathy Kolla reports to New Scotland Yard and to DCI Brock's Serious Crime Division. Just before Kolla is to start her new job, a young woman is found viciously murdered in a leafy, well-heeled suburb, and the grotesque details of the slaughter appear ... More/Buy
Babylon
Camilla Ceder
W & N Fiction, PB, 9780297866701
Inspector Christian Tell and his team are called to the scene of a double murder. University lecturer Anne-Marie Karpov lies dead in her home, alongside her student and lover, Henrik. The crime appears straightforward: Henrik's girlfriend Rebecca, a woman in therapy for her violent jealousy, had been spotted outside Karpov's flat and her fingerprints are found on the door. But shortly ... More/Buy
The Baghdad Railway Club
Andrew Martin
Faber, PB, 9780571249619
Baghdad 1917. Captain Jim Stringer, invalided from the Western Front, has been dispatched to investigate what looks like a nasty case of treason. He arrives to find a city on the point of insurrection, his cover apparently blown - and his only contact lying dead with flies in his eyes. As Baghdad swelters in a particularly torrid summer, the heat alone ... More/Buy
Baptism
Max Kinnings
Quercus, PB, 9781780871813
07:45am: A monk lies dead in Snowdonia, a knife protruding from his throat. A young family is being held at gunpoint in a house in Wimbledon. The mission has begun. 08:56am: A London Underground train is stationary in a tunnel, four hundred passengers trapped inside. All efforts to communicate with it have been met with silence. 09:15am: DCI Ed Mallory has ... More/Buy
The Blind Goddess
Anne Holt
Atlantic, PB, 9780857897053
A drug dealer is found battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in central Oslo covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk. When he is informed that the woman who discovered the body, Karen Borg, is a lawyer, the young Dutchman demands her as his defender: he will speak to Karen ... More/Buy
Brighton Belle: A Mirabelle Bevan Mystery
Sara Sheridan
Polygon, PB, 9781846972287
1951. Brighton. With the war over and the Nazis brought to justice at Nuremberg, Mirabelle Bevan (Secret Service, retired) thinks her skills are no longer required. After her lover's death she retires to the seaside to put the past behind her and takes a job at a debt collection agency run by the charismatic Big Ben McGuigan. But when the case ... More/Buy
Creole Belle
James Lee Burke
Orion, PB, 9781409108979
Creole Belle begins where the last book in the Dave Robicheaux series, THE GLASS RAINBOW, ended. Dave is in a recovery unit in New Orleans, where a Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him and leaves him an iPod with the country blues song 'Creole Belle' on it. Then she disappears. Dave becomes obsessed with the song and the memory ... More/Buy
A Dark Place to Die
Ed Chatterton
Bantam, PB, 9781742753935
A pulsating psychological thriller that takes you from the dark heart of a cold English city to the searing white-heat of an Australian wilderness... By Merseyside standards it's been some time since a decent corpse arrived on his patch, but now, on a bone-cold October morning, Detective Inspector Frank Keane's wait is over. The son of Keane's old boss, the legendary ... More/Buy
A Death in Summer
Banjamin Black
Mantle, PB, 9780330509152
When newspaper magnate Richard Jewell is found dead at his country estate, clutching a shotgun in his lifeless hands, few see his demise as cause for sorrow. But before long Doctor Quirke and Inspector Hackett realise that, rather than the suspected suicide, Diamond Dick has in fact been murdered. Jewell had made many enemies over the years and suspicion soon falls ... More/Buy
The Devil's Cave
Martin Walker
Quercus, PB, 9781780870687
Springtime in St Denis. It's two weeks before Easter, and Satanism has reared its ugly head. A female body has been found on a boat, bearing the ghastly signs of a black magic ritual. The victim is unknown and nobody is coming forward. This is the last thing Bruno needs. The Chief of Police-come-culinary connoisseur has too much on his plate ... More/Buy
The Drop
Michael Connelly
Allen & Unwin, PB, 9781743311622
Harry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He's been put on the DROP - Deferred Retirement Option Plan - and given three years before his retirement is enforced. Seeing the end of the mission coming, he's anxious for cases. He doesn't have to wait long. First a cold case gets a DNA hit for a rape and murder which ... More/Buy
The Gap in the Curtain
John Buchan
Polygon, PB, 9781846972249
What begins as a straightforward holiday weekend for Sir Edward Leithen in a splendid stately home in the Cotswolds soon turns into something altogether different when one of Lady Flambard’s other guests, the enigmatic Professor Moe, enlists the help of Leithen and his companions in a bizarre experiment to glimpse the future. For those who take part, the consequences are dramatic ... More/Buy
The Girl on the Stairs
Louise Welsh
John Murray, PB, 9781848546608
Jane Logan is six months pregnant and has moved to Berlin to live with her long-term lover, rich banker, Petra. The women's chic new apartment is in a trendy part of the city but Jane finds herself increasingly uneasy there. She conceives a dread of the derelict backhouse across the courtyard and begins to suspect something sinister is happening in the ... More/Buy
Harry Curry: The Murder Book
Stuart Littlemore
Harper Collins, PB, 9780732293437
The renegade barrister Harry Curry and his elegant partner, Arabella Engineer, return with more thrilling spanner-in-the-works criminal trials, every one of them in defence of clients charged with murder. Meet the multiple murderer seeking a discounted sentence because he confesses to killings about which the police are clueless. Pity the fisherman who hated the sea, driven to let loose at his ... More/Buy
The Inca Prophecy
Adrian d'Hage
Michael Joseph, PB, 9781921518201
The end of the world awaits humankind if the Inca Prophecy cannot be found . . . An eerie clue to the Prophecy lies heavily guarded beneath the Vatican. Another is hidden near the famous Inca ruins at Machu Picchu. Archaeologist Aleta Weizman and rogue CIA agent Curtis O'Connor must unearth both clues if they are to decode the prophecy's meaning ... More/Buy
The Kings of Cool
Don Winslow
Heinemann, PB, 9780434022076
In his high-octane prequel, Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon and O (from Savages) became the people they are. Spanning fifty years, from 1960s Southern California to the recent past, it is a tale of family in all its forms - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, friends and lovers. As the younger generation ... More/Buy
The Milkman in the Night
Andrey Kurkov
Vintage, PB, 9780099548867
Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before. After waking to find his boots and overcoat damp on several mornings in a row, Semyon realises his excursions are a nightly occurrence. Concerned for his own safety and for the security of ... More/Buy
Norwegian by Night
Derek B Miller
Scribe Publications, PB, 9781921844881
Sheldon Horowitz – 82 years old, impatient, and unreasonable – is staying with his granddaughter's family in Norway when he disappears with a stranger's child. Sheldon is an ex-Marine, and he feels responsible for his son's death in Vietnam. Recently widowed and bereft, he talks to the ghosts of his past constantly. To Norway's cops, Sheldon is just an old man ... More/Buy
Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill: A new case for Precious Ramotswe
Alexander McCall Smith
Polygon, HB, 9781846972317
Well before Precious Ramotswe founded her Number One Ladies' Detective Agency, as an eight-year-old girl she was already solving mysteries. Here, in this delightful, new, enchanting tale for children, we see how the young Precious became the crafty and intuitive private investigator we all know and ... More/Buy
Redemption
Will Jordan
Century, PB, 9781780890395
Ryan Drake is a man used to finding people who don't want to be found. Once an SAS operative, he now works for the CIA as a 'shepherd' - an elite investigative team that locates and brings home lost, kidnapped or rogue agents. Dedicated to the point of obsession, Drake will do anything it takes to complete a mission but his ... More/Buy
The Saint Zita Society
Ruth Rendell
Hutchinson, PB, 9780091944056
Hexam Place in Pimlico is an elegant place to live. To own a property in this area requires not only a sizable income, but hired help. The people who work there don’t necessarily consider themselves to be servants. But a group of them decide to form The Saint Zita Society. (Zita was the patron saint of domestic servants, who gave her ... More/Buy
Say You're Sorry
Michael Robotham
Sphere, PB, 9781847445254
My name is Piper Hadley and I went missing on the last Saturday of the summer holidays three years ago. When Piper and her friend Tash disappeared, there was a huge police search, but they were never found. Now Tash, reaching breaking point at the abuse their captor has inflicted on them, has escaped, promising to come back for Piper. Clinical ... More/Buy
The Search for Anne Perry
Joanne Drayton
Harper Collins, PB, 9781869508883
In 1994, director Peter Jackson released the film Heavenly Creatures, based on a famous 1950s matricide committed in New Zealand by two teenage girls embroiled in an obsessive relationship. This film launched Jackson's international career. It also forever changed the life of Anne Perry, an award-winning, bestselling crime writer, who at the time of the film's release was publically outed as ... More/Buy
Sentinel
Matthew Dunn
Orion, PB, 9781409143987
Whatever happens, don't go to war.' The message received by MI6 and the CIA is clear. The reasons for it unknown. And so Will Cochrane, the West's most capable intelligence operative is despatched to infiltrate a remote Siberian submarine base to uncover the truth. The enemy, though, was warned of his arrival. Will is pitched against the most dangerous adversary he ... More/Buy
Sunshine on Scotland Street
Alexander McCall Smith
Polygon, HB, 9781846972324
Once more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith. With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another instalment in this popular series, now running in its eighth season in The Scotsman. Anything could happen to Bertie and the gang, especially with an invitation to one of Scotland's premier ... More/Buy
The Track of Sand
Andrea Camilleri
Picador, PB, 9780330507677
Inspector Montalbano rises one morning to find the carcass of a horse on the beach in front of his seaside home. But no sooner do his men arrive, than the body has mysteriously vanished, leaving only a track in the sand. Before long Rachele, a beguiling equestrian champion, turns up at police headquarters to report her horse missing. The horse had ... More/Buy
Tuesday's Gone
Nicci French
Michael Joseph, PB, 9780718156961
The rotting, naked corpse of a man is found amidst swarms of flies in the living room of a confused woman. Who is he? Why is Michelle Doyce trying to serve him afternoon tea? And how did the dead body find its way into her flat? DCI Karlsson needs an expert to delve inside Michelle's mind for answers and turns to ... More/Buy
Watching the Dark
Peter Robinson
H & S Fiction, PB, 9781444704884
When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered in the tranquil grounds of the St Peter's Police Treatment Centre, and compromising photographs are discovered in his room, DCI Banks is called in to investigate. It emerges that Reid's murder may be linked to the disappearance of an English girl in Tallinn, Estonia, six years earlier. While DI Annie Cabbot looks into ... More/Buy
Whispers Under Ground
Ben Aaronovitch
Gollancz, PB, 9780575097650
Peter Grant is learning magic fast. And its just as well - he's already had run ins with the deadly supernatural children of the Thames and a terrifying killer in Soho. Progression in the Police Force is less easy. Especially when you work in a department of two. A department that doesn't even officially exist. A department that if you did ... More/Buy