Bad Debts: Jack Irish Tie-in
Peter Temple
Text Publishing, PB, 9781921758812
Meet Jack Irish, criminal lawyer, debt collector, football lover, turf watcher, trainee cabinetmaker, and one of the best crime characters ever created. Then Jack receives a puzzling message from a jailed ex-client he's too deep in misery over Fitzroy's latest loss to take much notice. Next thing Jack knows, the ex-client's dead and he's been drawn into a life-threatening investigation ... More/Buy
Black Echo: 20th Anniversary edition
Michael Connelly
Allen & Unwin, PB, 9781743312452
LAPD detective Harry Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. One Sunday he gets a call out on his pager. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel off Mulholland Drive, Hollywood. At first sight, it looks like a routine drugs overdose case, but the one new puncture wound amidst the scars of old tracks leaves Bosch unconvinced. To make matters ... More/Buy
Black Hornet
James Sallis
No Exit Press, PB, 9781842437049
In a time of anger, activism, and bitter racial tensions, a sniper has appeared to heat up an already sweltering New Orleans summer–by tearing up innocent people like paper targets. The shooter's sixth fatality is cut down while she is walking at Lew Griffin's side–a reluctant young P.I. whose poet's heart has already been hardened by amoral injustice and heavy drink. ... More/Buy
Black Skies
Arnaldur Indridason
Harvill Secker, PB, 9781846555404
A man is making a crude leather mask with slits for eyes and mouth, and an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a 'death mask', once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves. He has revenge in mind. Meanwhile, with Detective Erlendur absent, his baseball-loving colleague Sigurdur Oli is in the spotlight. A school reunion has ... More/Buy
Black Tide: Jack Irish Tie In
Peter Temple
Text Publishing, PB, 9781921758829
Black Tide is the second of Peter Temple's Jack Irish thrillers and was first published in 1999. Jack Irish - lawyer, gambler, part-time cabinetmaker, finder of missing people - is recovering from a foray into the criminal underworld when he agrees to look for the son of an old workmate of his father's. It's an offer he soon has cause to ... More/Buy
Bluebottle
James Sallis
No Exit Press, PB, 9781842437124
As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he has just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes to, Griffin discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who was the ... More/Buy
The Bull of Mithros
Anne Zouroudi
Bloomsbury, PB, 9781408819388
It is summer, and as tourists, drawn by the legend of a priceless missing artifact, disembark on the sun-drenched quay of Mithros, the languid calm of the island is broken by the unorthodox arrival of a stranger who has been thrown overboard in the bay. Lacking money or identification, he is forced for a while to remain on Mithros. But is ... More/Buy
Burned
Thomas Enger
Faber, PB, 9780571272259
A brutalised victim in the wilds - A solitary tent is found to contain the body of a half-buried woman. She's been stoned to death. There are lash marks across her back. One of her hands has been cut off. A lone voice - Two years earlier internet reporter Henning Juul lost his son, Jonas, in a domestic fire. As he ... More/Buy
The Child Thief
Dan Smith
Orion, PB, 9781409142621
December 1930, Western Ukraine. Luka is a veteran of the First World War and the Russian Civil War. All he wants now is a quiet life with his wife, twin sons and young daughter. Their small village has, so far, managed to remain hidden from the advancing Soviet brutality and labour camp deportations. But everything changes the day the stranger arrives, ... More/Buy
Cold Grave
Kathryn Fox
Macmillan, PB, 9781742610344
Forensic physician Dr Anya Crichton needs a break. Cocooned from the world aboard a luxury cruise ship, nothing can interrupt time with her precious six year old son. Peace is shattered when the body of a teenage girl is discovered shoved in a cupboard, dripping wet. With no obvious cause of death and the nearest port days away, Anya volunteers her ... More/Buy
Criminal
Karin Slaughter
Century, PB, 9781846057977
1974: In the blistering heat of an Atlanta summer, a killer prowls the street, searching for the weak, the vulnerable and the lost. 40 years later, a young woman is found brutally murdered in a sordid high-rise apartment. The specifics of her death are detailed and macabre, but for Special Agent Will Trent they are startingly familiar, and can only mean ... More/Buy
The Cut
George Pelecanos
Phoenix, PB, 9780753827819
Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defence attorney. He's good at it and he has carved out a niche: recovering stolen property, no questions asked. His cut is 40%. A high-profile crime boss who has heard of Lucas' speciality hires him to find ... More/Buy
The Dead Season
Christobel Kent
Atlantic, PB, 9781848871526
Every August, Florence shimmers in the summer heat. But this year the heatwave is fiercer than usual, and the city's inhabitants have fled to the cool of the hills and beaches of the surrounding countryside. So it is no surprise that amidst the shrubbery of a normally busy roundabout, a corpse lies unnoticed, bloating in the humid air. Sandro Cellini will ... More/Buy
Death in the Sun
Adam Creed
Faber, PB, 9780571274970
In Almagen, a small village in the Andalucian mountains, Staffe nurses himself back from the brink of death. His idyllic new life in Spain appeals and Staffe is becoming a part of the community. One day his friend, Manolo, takes Staffe to visit Almeria and tells him about a body that has been found buried in an old greenhouse by the ... More/Buy
Disgrace
Jussi Adler-Olsen
Michael Joseph, PB, 9780718156893
Kimmie's home is on the streets of Copenhagen. To live she must steal. She has learned to avoid the police and never to stay in one place for long. But now others are trying to find her. And they won't rest until she has stopped moving - for good. Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q, the cold cases division, has received ... More/Buy
Double Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
Orion, PB, 9781409117872
A witness. Such a simple concept - and yet for Dexter Morgan, a perfectly well-disguised serial killer, the possibility of a witness is terrifying. As an upstanding blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Police, Dexter has always managed to keep the darker side of his life out of the spotlight. An expert at finding truly bad people - murderers who've long escaped ... More/Buy
Driven
James Sallis
No Exit Press, PB, 9781842438374
Seven years have passed since Driver ended his campaign against those who double crossed him. He has left the old life, become Paul West and founded a successful business back in Phoenix. But walking down the street one day, he and his fiancee are attacked by two men and, while Driver dispatches both, his fiancee is killed. Sinking back into anonymity, ... More/Buy
An Evil Eye
Jason Goodwin
Faber, PB, 9780571239900
When the body of a Russian agent is found down a monastery well, Yashim knows exactly who to blame. Fevzi Ahmet Pasha, commander of the Ottoman fleet. Years ago, when Yashim first entered the sultan's service, Fevzi Ahmet was his mentor. Ruthless, cruel, and - in Yashim's eyes - ultimately ineffective, he is the only man who makes him afraid. And ... More/Buy
Eye Of The Cricket
James Sallis
No Exit Press, PB, 9781842437087
A derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men. Lew Griffin's investigation is the hero's journey, ... More/Buy
Ghost Of A Flea
James Sallis
No Exit Press, PB, 9781842437162
Through five previous novels, James Sallis has enthralled and challenged readers as he has told the story of Lew Griffin, private detective, teacher, writer, and a black man moving through a white man's world. And now Lew Griffin stands alone in a dark room, looking out. Behind him on the bed is a body. He thinks if he doesn't speak, doesn't ... More/Buy
The Girl In Berlin
Elizabeth Wilson
Profile Books, PB, 9781846688263
Summer 1951. The Cold War is at its height. Burgess and Maclean have just disappeared, and the nation is obsessed with the story of their probable defection. Colin Harris, a member of the Communist Party, who has been exiled in Germany for several years, arrives back in England with news: he has fallen in love with a girl in Berlin and ... More/Buy
Gods and Beasts
Gods and Beasts Denise Mina
Orion, PB, 9781409140696
Just one week before Christmas, Martin Pavel cowers on the floor of a busy Glasgow post office under the barrel of an AK47, his eyes locked on those of the terrified child next to him. Head pressed to the ground, Martin watches in shock as the boy's grandfather calmly helps the robber fill a bag with of money. Then shock turns ... More/Buy
Gone in Seconds
A J Cross
Orion, PB, 9781409142683
When the skeleton of a young woman is found near a West Midlands motorway, evidence suggests that it is that of teenager Molly James, who went missing five years ago. Forensic psychologist Dr Kate Hanson and the Unsolved Crime Unit are called in to re-investigate Molly's case. The deeper they dig the dirtier the clues get and when a second set ... More/Buy
Harry Lipkin, PI: The Oldest Detective in the World
Barry Fantoni
Polygon, PB, 9781846972270
He might not be the fastest PI in Miami, but octogenarian Harry Lipkin is definitely the oldest. Harry’s specialty is taking on the cases the police just aren’t interested in — and his latest case is a doozy. Someone on the staff of wealthy widow Norma Weinberger is stealing from her. Nothing fancy, no diamond-encrusted teapots or anything, but enough to ... More/Buy
A Lily of the Field
John Lawton
Atlantic, PB, 9781611855913
Vienna, 1934. Ten-year-old cello prodigy Meret Voytek becomes a pupil of concert pianist Viktor Rosen, a Jew in exile from Germany. The Isle of Man, 1940. An interned Hungarian physicist is recruited for the Manhattan Project in Los Alomos, building the atom bomb for the Americans. Auschwitz, 1944. Meret is imprisoned but is saved from certain death to play the cello ... More/Buy
The Long-Legged Fly
James Sallis
No Exit Press, PB, 9781842436967
There are those who vanish into the steaming New Orleans night - and it is part time Private Investigator, Repo-man and blues afficionado Lew Griffin's job to find them. A prisoner of the bottle, his past and his skin, Griffin knows every hidden corner of Hell, and is on intimate terms with the demons who dwell there. But the disappearance of ... More/Buy
The Lost Girls of Rome
Donato Carrisi
Abacus, PB, 9780349000305
The Italian literary thriller sensation from the author of the bestselling, prize-winning THE WHISPERER. A young girl has mysteriously disappeared in Rome. As rain lashes the ancient streets, two men, Clemente and Marcus, sit in a cafe near the Piazza Navona and pore over the details of the case. They are members of the ancient Penitenzeri - a unique Italian team, ... More/Buy
The Mandrake File: A novel
Cedric Bannel
Scribe Publications, PB, 9781921844867
In a Kabul ravaged by violence and corruption, Murder Squad boss Osama Kandar still believes in integrity, a code of honour, and loyalty to old friends. But the apparent suicide of a businessman called Wali Wadi changes everything. As Kandar's routine investigation starts to suggest murder, the Minister for Security attempts to foil his every move, motivating him even more to ... More/Buy
Masters of True Crime: Chilling Stories of Murder and the Macabre
R Barri Flowers
Prometheus Books, PB, 9781616145675
In February 1975, nine-year-old Marcia Trimble left her house in Nashville to deliver Girl Scout cookies in the neighborhood. She never returned. After a massive but fruitless search, her body was discovered on Easter Sunday. Outrage and horror gripped the community of Nashville, but the murder investigation was frustrated at every turn. The case went cold for three decades until it ... More/Buy
Moth
James Sallis
No Exit Press, PB, 9781842437001
One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin's dark and violent past has flickered out. His one-time lover, La Verne Adams is dead - and her daughter, Alouette, has vanished into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers... leaving behind a crack-addicted infant and a ... More/Buy
The Nervous System
Nathan Larson
Akashic, PB, 9781617750793
After a series of large-scale terrorist attacks, and the total collapse of Wall Street, New York City is reduced to a shadow of its former self. As the city struggles to dig itself out of the wreckage, a nameless, obsessive-compulsive veteran with a spotty memory, a love for literature, and a strong if unique moral code, has taken up residence at ... More/Buy
Night Watch
Linda Fairstein
Little Brown, PB, 9781408702444
The gripping new Alex Cooper thriller. Linda Fairstein follows up her 13th bestselling Alexandra Cooper thriller with another taut, fascinating foray into the dark side of New York City, this time centred around the city's most glamorous and storied restaurants. With the help of NYPD's Mike Chapman, Alex is set to uncover the shocking secrets that have lurked just beneath the ... More/Buy
The Raven's Gift
Don Rearden
Text Publishing, PB, 9781921922862
Lured north to a Yup'ik village on the Alaskan tundra in search of adventure, John Morgan and his wife Anna can barely contain their excitement. But something is about to go terribly wrong. What happens when an epidemic strikes - and no one comes to help? Shifting from contemporary Eskimo village life to a gripping post-apocalyptic nightmare, The Raven's Gift dares ... More/Buy
The Richmond Conspiracy
Andrew Grimes
Text Publishing, PB, 9781921922664
Victor Radcliffe, prominent Melbourne businessman, on the committee of the Carlton Football Club, lies murdered in a deserted warehouse - the bayonet wound suggests a trained killer, but Police Inspector James Maclaine, and his smart-talking sidekick Harry Devlin, are having trouble tracking down the killer. Why do the members of Radcliffe's household seem strangely offhand about his murder? Was there a ... More/Buy
Rotten Gods
Greg Barron
Harper Collins, PB, 9780732294342
A new wave of terror threatens a world torn by inequality, conflict, economic disaster and environmental chaos. Heads of state gather in Dubai in an attempt to bring society back from the brink of global catastrophe. But when extremists hijack the conference centre, the clock starts ticking: seven days until certain death for presidents and prime ministers alike, unless the terrorists' ... More/Buy
Shelter
Harlan Coben
Orion, PB, 9781409135364
The first in an exciting new series of thrillers from the master of the hook-and-twist. When tragic events tear him away from his parents, 15-year-old Mickey Bolitar is sent to live with his estranged uncle, Myron. For a while, it seems his train wreck of a life is finally improving - until his girlfriend, Ashley, goes missing without a trace. Unwilling ... More/Buy
Strindberg's Star
Jan Wallentin
Atlantic, PB, 9781848879881
Taklamakan desert, 1895 - A new Pompeii has come to light and, with it, two remarkable artefacts, found in a hidden burial chamber. A metal ankh and star - covered in strange inscriptions, feather-light and cool to the touch. Svalbard, 1897 - On the skerried islands of Svalbard, a hydrogen balloon is readied for a polar voyage. Publicly, it is a ... More/Buy
When The Devil Drives
Christopher Brookmyre
Little Brown, PB, 9781408703427
Is the devil merely the name we give the worst in ourselves? When private investigator Jasmine Sharp is hired to find Tessa Garrion, a young woman who has vanished without trace, it becomes increasingly clear that there are those who want her to stay that way. What begins as a simple search awakens a malevolence that has lain dormant for three ... More/Buy
When the Thrill is Gone
Walter Mosley
Phoenix, PB, 9781780220123
The economy has hit the PI business hard and Leonid McGill is getting job offers only from the criminals he's worked so hard to leave behind. So how can he say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? She's an artist, she tells him, who's escaped poverty via marriage to a rich ... More/Buy
The Woman Before Me
Ruth Dugdall
Text Publishing, PB, 9781921922893
They came for me, just like I knew they would. Luke had been dead for just three days. Rose Wilks' life is shattered when her newborn baby Joel is admitted to intensive care. Emma Hatcher has all that Rose lacks. Beauty. A loving husband. A healthy son. Until tragedy strikes and Rose is the only suspect. Now, having spent nearly five ... More/Buy