The Betrayal
Yvette Erskine
Bantam, PB, 9781742750187
Tasmania is in the grip of one of the longest, bleakest winters on record and it's particularly icy at the Hobart Police Station. Of the many golden rules in policing, one is especially sacred: what happens at work stays at work. So when a naive young constable, Lucy Howard, makes an allegation of sexual assault against a respected colleague, the rule ... More/Buy
Blue Monday
Nicci French
Penguin, PB, 9780141040752
Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed across newspaper front pages. His parents and the police are desperate. Can anyone help find their little boy before it is too late? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein just might know something. One of her patients describes dreams of seizing a boy who is the spitting image of Matthew. Convinced at first the ... More/Buy
Border Run
Simon Lewis
Profile, PB, 9780956308658
Bored of the 'mango smoothie' trail and keen to spice up their Facebook albums, and perhaps also their sex lives, Jake and Will take a tour into China's jungle borderland with Burma. Their guide, however, has his own agenda and gradually the two gap-year students slip into a nightmarish spiral of murder and moral decay; their chance of survival determined by ... More/Buy
The Chalk Girl
Carol O'Connell
Headline, PB, 9780755385386
The little girl appeared in Central Park: red-haired, blue-eyed, smiling, perfect - except for the blood on her shoulder. It fell from the sky, she said, while she was looking for her uncle, who turned into a tree. Poor child, people thought. And then they found the body in the tree. For NYPD detective, Kathy Mallory, there is something about the ... More/Buy
City of the Dead: A Claire DeWitt Mystery
Sara Gran
Faber, PB, 9780571259182
New Orleans, and Vic Willing, Assistant District Attorney for the prosecutors' office, has been missing since Hurricane Katrina hit. Called in from San Francisco is Claire DeWitt, a detective whose expertise and methods derive from some unique sources. What Claire discovers takes us into the heart of the crime-ravaged, deeply wounded city, where those who can afford it live behind fences ... More/Buy
The Day is Dark
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Hodder & Stoughton, PB, 9781444700107
When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the northeast coast of Greenland, Thora is hired to investigate. Is there any connection with the woman who vanished from the site some months earlier Why are the locals so hostile And could one of the team staying at the site with Th ra ... More/Buy
Deadlocked: A True Blood Novel
Charlaine Harris
Gollancz, PB, 9780575096585
Sookie has a murder investigation on her hands. A young girl has died at a vampire party - and it looks as though her lover, Eric, might be responsible. Eric swears he didn't do it, the police don't believe him, and even Sookie isn't so sure. Nor is she inclined to take his word for it, not having caught him enjoying ... More/Buy
Death Bed
Leigh Russell
No Exit, PB, 9781842435946
Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel relocates to London to take on another thrilling murder investigation. The bodies of two black girls are discovered in quick succession in North London. Concerned about a reaction from the local black community, the police are puzzled to learn that two teeth were extracted from both victims after they died. One of the girls worked in a ... More/Buy
Detective Piggott's Case Book: True Tales of Murder, Madness & the Rise of Forensic Science
Kevin Morgan
Hardie Grant, PB, 9781742702650
Welcome to hell, a world at war. The streets of Melbourne no longer a tidy grid but fractured with laneways like cracks in old varnish, a hotchpotch of chaos - of shanties and factories, woodpiles and chimneys - the city smouldering under its bludgeoned sky. Here, crime flourishes, the damaged fester and the wicked plot: a circle of the damned into ... More/Buy
Drawing Conclusions
Donna Leon
Arrow, PB, 9780099559764
When Anna Maria Giusti returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour Constanza Altavilla dead, with blood on the floor near her head, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene and it seems the woman has suffered a fatal heart attack. Patta, the Vice-Questore, is eager to dismiss the case as a death from natural causes, ... More/Buy
Fifteen Digits
Nick Santora
Hodder & Stoughton, PB, 9781444733891
The men who work in the print and post room at legal firm Olmstead and Taft are far too unimportant for anyone to notice. But the information that passes through their office is a goldmine: bank deals, mergers, acquisitions... everything you need to play the stock market and win big. All of them could use the money. None of them can ... More/Buy
Force of Nature: Joe Pickett 12
C J Box
Corvus, PB, 9780857890856
Joe Pickett's outlaw falconer companion, Nate Romanowski, faces the battle of his life and one he may very likely lose. His mysterious past comes back in the form of his former special forces colleague, an utterly ruthless soldier/homeland security official who knows his rise through the military and intelligence community will be derailed if Nate ever tells what he knows about ... More/Buy
Hit and Run
Doug Johnstone
Faber, PB, 9780571270453
Driving home from a party with his girlfriend and brother, all of them drunk and high on stolen pills, Billy Blackmore accidentally hits someone in the night. In a panic, they all decide to drive off. But the next day Billy wakes to find he has to cover the story for the local paper. It turns out the dead man was Edinburgh's ... More/Buy
Holy City
Guillermo Orsi
Maclehose, PB, 9780857050632
Welcome to the Holy City, where corruption is a calling and bent cops are ten a peso. One former Miss Bolivia. Two missing Colombian drug dealers. Three wealthy tourists taken hostage. A passenger liner runs aground on the muddy banks of the Rio del Plata. One by one, its passengers are abducted by the city's criminal classes.As the kidnapping of three ... More/Buy
The Hypnotist
Lars Kepler
Harper Collins, PB, 9780007359127
Tumba, Sweden. A triple murder, all the same family. The killer is at large, and it looks as if the elder sister escaped the carnage. But she is missing and it seems only a matter of time until she too is murdered. Detective Inspector Joona Linna demands to investigate the grisly aftermath - against the wishes of the national police. Where ... More/Buy
In Her Blood
Annie Hauxwell
Michael Joseph, PB, 9781921901171
It's not that easy to kick the money habit. After the world meltdown forces London's bankers to go cold turkey, people look elsewhere for a quick quid: the old fashioned East End. So when investigator Catherine Berlin gets an anonymous tip-off about a local loan shark, the case seems straightforward - until her informant is found floating in the Limehouse Basin. ... More/Buy
The Innocent
David Baldacci
Macmillan, PB, 9780230762879
Freelance hitman, Will Robie, has a mission which takes him first to Edinburgh and then to Tangier. His task is to eliminate suspected enemies of the US government. But back in DC, when government employee and mother of two, Denise Tamaron, is detailed as his next target, Robie fails to pull the trigger. She's an unlikely victim, and why does she ... More/Buy
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Edogawa Rampo
Tuttle Publishing, PB, 9784805311936
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination contains nine bloodcurdling tales by the author who is widely regarded as the father of Japanese mystery writing and Japan’s answer to Edgar Allan Poe. The chilling stories in this book present a genre of literature largely unknown to readers outside Japan and combine the quick tempo of Western fiction with the rich fantasy of ... More/Buy
The Killing
David Hewson
Macmillan, PB, 9780230761742
Sarah Lund is looking forward to her last day as a detective with the Copenhagen Police department as she's moving to Sweden to be with her fiance. But everything changes when nineteen-year-old student, Nanna Birk Larsen, is found raped and brutally murdered in the woods outside the city. Lund's plans to relocate are put on hold as she leads the investigation ... More/Buy
The Map of Time
Felix J Palma
Scribe Publications, PB, 9781921844751
London, 1896. Andrew Harrington's beloved has been murdered by Jack the Ripper. Claire Haggerty longs to escape the constraints of Victorian society. For both, time is the problem: to escape it, to change it, might offer them the hope they need. As their lives become entangled with that of H.G. Wells - who is basking in the success of his novel ... More/Buy
The Nightmare
Lars Kepler
Harper Collins, PB, 9780007414499
On a summer night the dead body of a woman is found on board an abandoned pleasure boat drifting around in the Stockholm archipelago. Her lungs are filled with brackish water, but there are no traces of this water on her clothes or other parts of her body. Detective Inspector Joona Linna takes up the case. Forensics state that it was ... More/Buy
Not Dead Yet
Peter James
Macmillan, PB, 9780230747272
For LA producer Larry Brooker, this is the movie that could bring the fortune that has so long eluded him... For rock superstar, Gaia, desperate to be taken seriously as an actor, this is the role that could get her an Oscar nomination... For the City of Brighton and Hove, the publicity value of a major Hollywood movie being filmed on ... More/Buy
Rare Earth
Paul Mason
No Exit, PB, 9781842438404
A washed up TV reporter stumbles into a corruption scandal in Western China. Pursued through the desert by a psychotic spin-doctor and a world-weary cop, he discovers the real China: illegal metal mines, a fashion-crazed gang of girl bikers, a whole commune of Tiananmen Square survivors and the up-market sleaze-joints of Beijing. Rare Earth is a story about love, journalism, ghosts, ... More/Buy
A Red Herring Without Mustard
Alan Bradley
Gollancz, PB, 9781409118169
'You frighten me,' the Gypsy said. 'Never have I seen my crystal ball so filled with darkness.' So begins eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce's third adventure through the charming but deceptively dark byways of the village of Bishop's Lacey. What the fortune teller in fact claimed to see was a vision of Flavia's mother, Harriet, who died on a mountainside in Tibet ... More/Buy
Removal
Peter Murphy
No Exit, PB, 9781842435984
President Steve Wade believes his latest affair with a beautiful Lebanese woman, Lucia Benoni, is a secret. When Lucia is murdered in mysterious circumstances, FBI Agent Kelly Smith is called in to investigate and uncovers links between Lucia, a hostile foreign power, a group of vicious white supremacists and a shadowy high-placed Washington figure known only as 'Fox'. There are demands ... More/Buy
Revenge of the Tide
Elizabeth Haynes
Text Publishing, PB, 9781921922558
GENEVIEVE has finally escaped the stressful and dangerous demands of her work - sales executive by day, pole dancer at the exclusive Barclay by nigh - and achieved her dream: to get out of London and start a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent. But on the night of her boat-warming party a body washes up beside the vessel, and ... More/Buy
Road to Hell: An Alice Rice Mystery
Gillian Galbraith
Polygon, PB, 9781846972256
When the body of a half-clothed woman is discovered in an Edinburgh park, a murder investigation is launched. The victim has not been reported missing and there are few clues to her identity. Soon after, the naked corpse of a rominent clergyman is found, also in a park. DS Alice Rice wonders if the same killer is at work, and if ... More/Buy
Scarecrow & the Army of Thieves
Matthew Reilly
Macmillan, PB, 9781742610870
Deep in the Arctic, a long-forgotten Soviet military base known only as Dragon Island enshrouds a weapon of unimaginable destructive force - a Cold War doomsday device with the power to obliterate the planet. When a mysterious and brutal terrorist group known as the Army of thieves seizes control of the island and unleashes the weapon upon an unsuspecting world, there ... More/Buy
Silent Valley
Malla Nunn
Macmillan, PB, 9781742610887
A remote town. A girl of rare and exquisite beauty. A murder that silences a whole community. The body of a seventeen-year-old girl has been found covered in wildflowers on a hillside in the Drakensberg Mountains, near Durban. She is the daughter of a Zulu chief, destined to fetch a high bride price. Was Amahle as innocent as her family claims, ... More/Buy
Summertime Death
Mons Kallentoft
Hodder & Stoughton, PB, 9781444721560
As the temperature in Sweden reaches a record-breaking 45 degrees, forest fires break out. All those who have failed to escape Linkoping for the summer take shelter indoors, shocked and paralysed by the heat. However, when a teenage girl is discovered naked and bleeding in the local park, it is clear that the raging heat is not the only plague affecting ... More/Buy
The Vault
Ruth Rendell
Arrow, PB, 9780099557357
'Don't forget,' Wexford said, 'I've lived in a world where the improbable happens all the time.' However, the impossible has happened. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead, belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. Wexford takes great pleasure in his books, but, for all the benefits ... More/Buy
The Voice of the Spirits
Xavier-Marie Bonnot
Maclehose, PB, 9780857050786
When Commandant Michel de Palma follows an anonymous tip-off to a gated mansion by the coast, he finds a body whose face is obscured by a fearsome tribal mask, beneath it a mysterious wound that could not have been caused by a bullet. Surrounded by scores of masks and painted skulls, de Palma hears the haunting strains of a primal flute ... More/Buy
Walking Into the Ocean
David Whellams
ECW Press, PB, 9781770411036
Veteran Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, semi-retired, is sent to the Jurassic Coast to solve what at first seems to be an ordinary domestic crime involving a local mechanic. At first glance the mechanic appears to have murdered his wife and then drowned in the English Channel. But Cammon soon learns that his case is a sideshow to a broader ... More/Buy
The Wind through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel
Stephen King
Hodder & Stoughton, PB, 9781444731712
This Russian Doll of a novel, visits Mid-World's last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.) Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt ridden year following his mother's death. ... More/Buy
Winter at Death's Hotel
Kenneth Cameron
Orion, PB, 9781409132714
New York, January 1896. Arthur Conan Doyle, the renowned creator of Sherlock Holmes, arrives at the Britannic Hotel with his wife, Louisa, ready to begin his first American tour. While he prepares his lectures, Louisa becomes mesmerised by this brash, vibrant, dangerous city, especially when a woman's brutally butchered corpse is found in a Bowery alley and Louisa is convinced from ... More/Buy
The Wrong Man
Jason Dean
Headline, PB, 9780755382699
Nine hundred and seventy three days. Thinking. Planning. Waiting for the perfect moment. Former Marine James Bishop will only have one opportunity to make his prison break. And one chance to prove that he isn't responsible for the murders that put him inside. Three years ago Bishop was the leader of an elite close protection team hired to protect a millionaire and ... More/Buy