The 500
Matthew Quirk
Headline, PB, 9780755387410
Mike Ford was following his father into a life of crime, when he chose to go straight and instead worked his way through Harvard Law School. Now he's landed the ultimate job with the Davies Group, a powerful political consulting firm run by the charismatic Henry Davies. Rubbing shoulders with Washington heavyweights and with more money and privileges than he's ever ... More/Buy
Back of Beyond
C J Box
Atlantic, PB, 9781848872974
Cody Hoyt, although a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his friend Hank Winters turns up dead in a reomte mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. As Cody digs deeper into the case, all roads lead ... More/Buy
The Black Path
Asa Larsson
Maclehose Press, PB, 9780857050328
A woman's body is found on a frozen lake, bearing the marks of grisly torture. Inspector Anna-Maria Mella knows she needs help with the case — the woman was a key player in a mining company whose tentacles reach across the globe. Lawyer Rebecka Martinsson is desperate to get back to work, to feel alive again after a case that almost ... More/Buy
Blackwattle Creek
Geoffrey McGeachin
Penguin, PB, 9780670075881
t's September 1957, two days before the VFL grand final, and Detective Sergeant Charlie Berlin finally has some time off. But there's no rest for this decent if damaged man, still troubled by his wartime experience as a bomber pilot and POW. A recently widowed friend asks a favour and he's dropped into something much bigger than he bargained for. When ... More/Buy
Broken Harbour
Tana French
H&S Fiction, PB, 9780340977644
In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a ... More/Buy
Cursed: An Alex Verus Novel
Benedict Jacka
Orbit, PB, 9780356500256
Things are going well for Alex Verus. He's on moderately good terms with the Council, his apprentice is settling in and his shop in Camden is gaining quite a reputation. But when a mysterious woman bursts into the Arcana Emporium one night with an assassin on her tail, Alex is thrown into a plot to revive a long-forbidden ritual. His old ... More/Buy
A Dark and Broken Heart
R J Ellory
Orion, PB, 9781409124153
It should have been so easy for Vincent Madigan. Take four hundred thousand dollars away from some thieves and who could they go to for help? No-one at all. For Madigan is charming, effective and knows how to look after himself. The only problem is that he s up to his neck in debts to Sandia; the drug kingpin of Harlem, ... More/Buy
Dark Angel
Mari Jungstedt
Doubleday, PB, 9780385617093
Inspector Anders Knutas is back in the sixth instalment of Mari Jungstedt's dark and compelling series of crime novels, set on the island of Gotland. This crime adventure builds on the already strong series, which combines chilling atmosphere, razor sharp plot twists and a brilliant cast of subtly crafted characters. In The Dark Angel, Jungstedt's writing is as thrilling and poignant ... More/Buy
The Dying Minutes
Martin O'Brien
Preface, PB, 9781848090613
Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot is on sick leave recovering from gunshot wounds when Isabelle Cassier, an old friend and sometime lover, pays him a visit. After working for the Judiciaire in Paris following the end of their brief affair, Isabelle has returned to Marseilles and rejoined the homicide squad. And her visit, she tells him, is official. Jacquot's name has appeared ... More/Buy
Explosive Eighteen
Janet Evanovich
Headline, PB, 9780755384983
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is used to danger and adventure; they follow her at every turn. But when international murder hits dangerously close to home, this could be more explosive than exciting... Once Stephanie steps on the plane from Hawaii to Newark, she hopes to put her hellish holiday behind her. But when her seatmate mysteriously disappears during the stopover in LA ... More/Buy
Fear in the Sunlight
Nicola Upson
Faber, PB, 9780571246281
Summer, 1936. The writer, Josephine Tey, joins her friends in the holiday village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal to film Josephine's novel, A Shilling for Candles, and Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the holiday party entertained - and expose their ... More/Buy
The Fear Index
Robert Harris
Arrow, PB, 9780099553267
Dr Max Hoffman is a legend. A physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider, he now uses a revolutionary and highly secret system of computer algorithms to trade on the world's financial markets. None of his rivals is sure how he does it, but somehow Hoffman's hedge fund - built around the standard measure of market volatility: the VIX or ... More/Buy
Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and 50s
David Goodis
Library of America, HB, 9781598531480
In 1997 The Library of America's Crime Novels: American Noir gathered, in two volumes, eleven classic works of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s - 'among them David Goodis's moody and intensely lyrical master-piece Down There, adapted by Francois Truffaut for his 1960 film Shoot the Piano Player. Now, LOA and editor Robert Polito team up again to celebrate the full scope ... More/Buy
The Foreign Country
Charles Cumming
Harper Collins, PB, 9780007337873
Six months before she is due to take up her position as the first female head of MI6, Amelia Levene vanishes without trace. Former MI6 officer Thomas Beck is called out of retirement and ordered to find her. With only days before the story leaks to the press, Beck must make his way to France and begin to piece together Levene's ... More/Buy
The Gallows Curse
Karen Maitland
Penguin, PB, 9780141047447
The thirteenth-century is just begun and King John has fallen out with the Pope, leaving babies to lie unbaptized in their cradles and corpses in unconsecrated ground. Across a fear-ravaged England, the people are dying in sin. And into the Norfolk village of Gastmere comes a new Lord of the Manor - the cruel and blood-thirsty Osborn, not long returned from ... More/Buy
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
W & N Fiction, PB, 9780297859390
Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A ... More/Buy
Heart-shaped Bruise
Tanya Byrne
Headline, PB, 9780755393046
I think of all the things I could have been... a music student, in love, happy. But then Juliet stabbed my father and shattered everything I thought I knew about myself. She turned me into someone else, into this hard, angry, miserable girl who did the most terrible things. Things that make people take a step back when I walk into ... More/Buy
Hour of the Wolf
Hakan Nesser
Mantle, PB, 9781447209010
A young boy is killed in a hit and run. Under the cover of rain and darkness, the driver escapes the scene. But the incident will change his life forever as he becomes the victim of blackmail... Meanwhile Van Veeteren, now retired from the Maardam police, faces his greatest challenge yet when a family member becomes the victim of a terrible ... More/Buy
I Am Pilgrim
Terry Hayes
Bantam, PB, 9780593064955
Pilgrim was the codename for a world class and legendary secret agent. The adopted son of a wealthy New York family, he was once head of a secret internal affairs force for US intelligence and held the title 'Rider of the Blue'. He wrote the definitive book on forensic investigation before disappearing into an anonymous retirement, taking the secrets of the ... More/Buy
The Impossible Dead
Ian Rankin
Orion, PB, 9781409136293
Malcolm Fox and his team are back, investigating whether fellow cops covered up for Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct, but what should be a simple job is soon complicated by a brutal murder and a weapon that should not even exist. A trail of revelations leads Fox back to 1985, a year of desperate unrest when ... More/Buy
Kingdom Of Strangers
Zoe Ferraris
Little Brown, PB, 9781408703656
Ibrahim Al-Brehm is a respectable husband a police inspector on Jeddah's murder squad. But for the past year, he has been having an affair with a woman named Maria. One day though, she disappears. Terrified and with nowhere else to turn, Ibrahim goes to Katya, one of the few women on the force. As she ventures into Saudi Arabia's underworld, she ... More/Buy
Last Will
Liza Marklund
Bantam, PB, 9780593064931
For the first time in her career, investigative reporter Annika Bengtzon is covering the glamorous Nobel Prize Dinner, traditionally held in Stockholm's City Hall. Some of the most notable scholars in the world are enjoying themselves on the dance floor, the wine is flowing, when gunshots suddenly break out. Bodies fall to the floor and Annika is pushed down by someone ... More/Buy
Mission to Paris
Alan Furst
W & N Fiction, PB, 9780297863939
Frederic Stahl, born of Viennese intelligentsia, ran away to sea at the age of seventeen. Embarking in America, his matinee idol looks and Old-World charm took him to Hollywood and a life of movies and women. But by autumn 1939, the unease in Europe has spread even to Stahl's glamorous enclave. War has been declared and though bullets and bombs are ... More/Buy
Namesake: An Alec Blume Novel
Conor Fitzgerald
Bloomsbury, PB, 9781408824498
When magistrate Matteo Arconti's namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the court buildings in Piazza Clodio, it's a coded warning to the authorities - a clear message of defiance and intimidation. Commissioner Alec Blume, all too familiar with Rome's criminal underclass, knows little of the Calabrian mafia currently under investigation by the magistrate. Handing control of the ... More/Buy
Niceville
Carsten Stroud
Bantam, PB, 9781742752082
Welcome to Niceville, a sleepy, old-fashioned hamlet in America's Deep South. But don't be fooled by its pleasant exterior. When ten-year-old Rainey Teague disappears on his way home from school, Detective Nick Kavanaugh and his team are baffled. CCTV shows Rainey staring into the window of a pawn shop - he's there one minute and simply gone the next. And that ... More/Buy
The Other Half of Me
Morgan McCarthy
Headline, PB, 9780755388745
Jonathan and Theo's childhood is one in which money is abundant but nurture is scarce. With a father who died when they were very young and a mother who starts drinking at lunchtime, the brother and sister are largely left to roam around their sprawling estate in rural Wales, looking after only themselves and each other. Until, that is, their grandmother ... More/Buy
Outrage
Arnaldur Indridason
Vintage, PB, 9780099549352
In a flat near Reykjavik city centre, a young man lies dead in a pool of blood although there are no signs of a break-in or any struggle. A purple woman's shawl, found under the bed, gives off a strong and unusual aroma. A vial of narcotics found in the victim´s pocket among other clues soon lead Erlendur's colleagues down a ... More/Buy
Rip Tide: A Liz Carlyle novel
Stella Rimington
Bloomsbury, PB, 9781408821930
When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames House. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how and why a young British Muslim could go missing from his well-to-do family in Birmingham and end up onboard a pirate ... More/Buy
Sidney Chambers And The Shadow of Death: The Grantchester Mysteries
James Runcie
Bloomsbury, PB, 9781408826416
Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester and Honorary Canon of Ely Cathedral, is a thirty-two year old bachelor. Tall, with dark brown hair, eyes the colour of hazelnuts and a reassuringly gentle manner, Sidney is an unconventional clergyman and can go where the police cannot. Together with his roguish friend Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a ... More/Buy
A Stranger in my Street
Deborah Burrows
Pan Macmillan, PB, 9781742611013
It's January 1943. Australia is at war and Perth is buzzing. US troops have permanently docked in the city in what local men refer to bitterly as the American occupation, and Perth women are having the time of their lives. The Americans have money, accents like movie stars, smart tailored uniforms and good manners. What's more, they love to dance and ... More/Buy
Theodore Boone: The Accused
John Grisham
H&S Fiction, PB, 9781444728897
Theodore Boone is the thirteen year old who knows more about the law than most adult lawyers. He certainly never expected to be the victim of crime himself. But then his bike is vandalised, he's attacked while doing his homework and, worst of all, framed for a robbery. When stolen computer equipment turns up in Theo's school locker, the police start ... More/Buy
A Trick Of The Light
Louise Penny
Sphere, PB, 9780751544138
In the green depths of spring, morning breaks on a woman splayed in a bed of flowers her eyes wide, her neck broken. Her death is a mystery; so is the woman herself. But as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team peer into the dark corners of the victim's past, they expose a secret that rots at the very heart ... More/Buy
An Uncertain Place
Fred Vargas
Vintage, PB, 9780099552239
Commissaire Adamsberg leaves Paris for a three-day conference in London. With him are a young sergeant, Estalere, and Commandant Danglard, who is terrified at the idea of travelling beneath the Channel. It is the break they all need, until a macabre and brutal case comes to the attention of their colleague Radstock from New Scotland Yard. Just outside the baroque and ... More/Buy
What You Don't Know
David Belbin
Atlantic, PB, 9781906994334
Sarah Bone's political career has lifted off and now she's a minister for prisons. Ex-drug-dealer Nick Cane is missing her but keeping his distance - working tutoring a gifted young teenager in care and in a drug-rehab centre, the Power Project. Strangely, the Power Project don't seem too interested in what work he's doing, but when he takes the initiative of ... More/Buy
Whispering Death
Garry Disher
Text Publishing, PB, 9781921922510
Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: carpeted by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas on a study tour. But there's plenty to keep his mind off his problems. A rapist in a police uniform stalks Challis's Peninsula beat, there is a serial armed robber headed in his ... More/Buy
Wicked Business
Janet Evanovich
Headline, PB, 9780755384938
Lizzy Tucker's once normal life as a pastry chef in Salem, Massachusetts, turns upside down as she battles both sinister forces and an inconvenient attraction to her unnaturally talented but off-limits partner, Diesel. When Harvard University English professor and dyed-in-the wool romantic Gilbert Reedy is mysteriously murdered and thrown off his fourth-floor balcony, Lizzy and Diesel take up his twenty-year quest ... More/Buy
XO
Jeffery Deaver
H&S Fiction, PB, 9780340937327
Kayleigh Towne is a beautiful and successful singer-songwriter, and Edwin Sharp is her biggest fan. When she replies to one of his fan letters with 'XO', Edwin is convinced she loves him, and that her latest hit song 'Your Shadow' was written for him. Nothing Kayleigh or her lawyers can say persuade him otherwise. Then the singer gets an anonymous phone ... More/Buy
The Yard
Alex Grecian
Michael Joseph, PB, 9780718176686
A year after Jack the Ripper claimed his last victim, Victorian London is in the grip of a wave of crime and murder, with its citizens no longer able to trust the police to protect them. The newly formed Murder Squad of Scotland Yard, made up of just twelve detectives, battles in vain against the tide of violence and cruelty. When ... More/Buy